Shen Fangli: "???"
What substitute? What plot?
She looked at Yan Xianjue and saw him lowering his eyes to stare at his phone, as though he wanted to make flowers bloom from the screen.
She hesitated, just about to speak.
Then Yan Xianjue suddenly said in realization,
[So that's how it is. From what Big Brother meant, it seems Lin Lang has been making some pretty big moves lately.]
[The original plot didn't seem to say who lured Second Brother into the casino, but it definitely had something to do with Lin Lang.]
He thought it over.
[Maybe it was Li Yang.]
Shen Fangli did not know who Li Yang was. The name was rather unfamiliar to her.
But she understood what a casino was.
She had seen firsthand how crazed Fang Zhiyuan became over money.
She immediately grew tense. Was Yan Xianjue planning to take Yan Ci's place in this part of the plot?
The next second, Yan Xianjue confirmed her guess.
[Hey, this might work too.]
[But Lin Lang is making such big moves. Doesn't Lin Shi have any reaction?]
He suddenly recalled that Lin Shi had called him from the ancestral hall over the weekend and seemed to have mentioned wanting to test how effective it was to ask for help.
Yan Xianjue suddenly clicked his tongue in disgust.
Lin Shi's side was really troublesome too.
Of course Lin Shi had reacted.
Yan Xianjue's information was already far too outdated.
Not only had Lin Shi reacted—even Old Master Lin had reacted.
While Lin Shi was gnawing on a chicken leg in the ancestral hall, he received another message from the butler.
This time, Old Master Lin directly agreed to let him visit his mother at the psychiatric hospital.
But on the condition that he join Lin