Mrs. Ji's Suspicion

In this confrontation, neither Qiu Baizhen nor Mrs. Ji came away satisfied. Mo Xiang was the only beneficiary, gaining a bracelet worth over a hundred thousand.

Chu Xiyue watched with lingering interest as the Ji family and Qiu Baizhen went their separate ways. She swept her gaze over the banquet hall, but perhaps there were simply too many people inside—she did not spot the other pair at the center of the gossip right away.

Chu Xiyue had drunk a few extra glasses of juice while enjoying the gossip earlier, and now her bladder was about to burst. She asked a waiter where the restroom was, then left the banquet hall.

However, the hotel's layout seemed rather complicated. Chu Xiyue searched for quite a while before finally finding the restroom.

After taking care of nature's call, Chu Xiyue was about to head back when she suddenly heard a brief cry of surprise from a fire escape as she passed by.

Chu Xiyue stopped and pressed her ear against the fire door, but she could not hear anything.

But that sound from just now had not been an illusion.

Brimming with curiosity, Chu Xiyue pushed the fire door open a crack. This time, she heard voices drifting down from the rooftop.

"You devil, you suddenly hugged me from behind. I thought it was someone else—you scared me!"

"Baby, you're so silly. Who else could it be besides me?"

So it was a young couple having a tryst on the rooftop.

Just as Chu Xiyue was about to leave, the system suddenly said:

[Wait, Host! The couple on the rooftop is Shen Hui and Chen Jiayu!]

Chu Xiyue: !

Chu Xiyue stuck her head back in. How could she possibly miss out on the excitement of a pair of illicit lovers meeting on a rooftop?

Chen Jiayu's voice drifted down from upstairs as she asked in a low voice, "They didn't notice when you came out, did they?"

Shen Hui answered quietly as well, "I told them I was coming out to make a call. Don't worry, this place is secluded. No one will find us. Let's hurry!"

Chu Xiyue was infected by their tense, thrilling atmosphere, even slowing her breathing. Just as she wondered what exactly they needed to hurry with, she suddenly heard a zipper being pulled down, followed by a string of moans.

Even if Chu Xiyue had never eaten pork, she had at least seen pigs run. She was instantly stunned and said to the system, "Those illicit lovers actually slipped out of the banquet in public to do this on the rooftop! Isn't that a little too bold?"

"Where is their morality? Where are their limits? And where is the live broadcast?"

Mrs. Ji's Suspicion

The system could not broadcast such censored content tonight, but it could provide verbal commentary.

[Shen Hui pinned Chen Jiayu against the wall. Wow! Shen Hui seems a little impatient...]

[Chen Jiayu seems to be enjoying it. They changed positions again. Oh my god, that position! Is Chen Jiayu's waist really that flexible? She can actually twist herself like that...]

Listening to the system's live commentary and Chen Jiayu's moans, Chu Xiyue remarked with a flushed face, "Shen Hui is already in his fifties, isn't he? And he's still going strong. It sounds pretty intense—much better than certain men who are short, small, and need medication."

She absolutely was not taking a jab at some Ji-surnamed man who had stolen someone else's place.

[Although Shen Hui is in his fifties, he takes good care of himself and works out regularly. He looks like he's only in his early forties. He really is better than some men over thirty with bald heads and beer bellies, or Chen Jiayu wouldn't have been able to bring herself to sleep with him.]

But Shen Hui's age was still there. A man's capabilities declined after thirty, and Shen Hui was already in his fifties. After only a few minutes, the sounds upstairs gradually quieted down.

Then Chen Jiayu's voice rang out. "Brother Hui, does Mom still disagree about me joining the company?"

Shen Hui replied, "Don't worry. It's not her place to meddle in company matters. I'll arrange for you to join the company in a few days. You're far more capable than Shen Zhi."

That conversation came out of nowhere, but fortunately, the system explained:

[Chen Jiayu is ambitious too. When she married Shen Zhi, her goal was to enter the Shen Corporation. Now that she has hooked up with Shen Hui, she has skipped right over Shen Zhi and gotten Shen Hui to arrange a position for her at the company.]

[Shen Hui has fallen head over heels for her. He does whatever Chen Jiayu says, and lately he has been plotting to strip his own son of his position and let Chen Jiayu take it.]

Chu Xiyue gave a soft wow. Was this the power of a beauty's schemes and pillow talk?

Before Shen Hui and Chen Jiayu came downstairs, Chu Xiyue quietly left.

It took Chu Xiyue a little more time to finally find the banquet hall. She swept her eyes across the party and discovered that Shen Hui and Chen Jiayu had already returned. Chen Jiayu had changed into another outfit and stood beside Shen Zhi, keeping a deliberately distant space from Shen Hui. Shen Hui was chatting with other business partners, and he and Chen Jiayu did not interact at all. No one could have guessed that ten minutes earlier, the two had been having intimate contact on the rooftop.

[Host, let me tell you—don't be fooled by how proper Shen Hui looks right now. He loves excitement the most. He still has Chen Jiayu's stockings tucked in his suit pocket!]

Chu Xiyue: !

That bold?

Chu Xiyue looked at Shen Hui's suit pocket, but perhaps the stockings were too thin; she could not see anything.

She clicked her tongue. "Keeping a safe distance in public, but being husband and wife in bed behind closed doors. I have to say, they really know what they're doing."

Chu Xiyue was still not quite satisfied after witnessing two rounds of gossip, but just then, Mrs. Shao walked over. "Sweetheart, I'll take you to meet a few aunties."

Mrs. Shao brought Chu Xiyue to a corner where the wealthy ladies had gathered. The first person Chu Xiyue spotted was the walking jewelry display rack—Mrs. Ji. The person Mrs. Shao wanted her to meet was a beautiful, gentle, quiet auntie in an apricot-colored qipao not far from Mrs. Ji.

Shao Suqiu pointed at the beauty in the qipao. "Xiyue, this is one of Mom's old classmates. Just call her Auntie Li."

Chu Xiyue looked at the beauty. Her full name was Li Yusheng. Young people nowadays might not have heard her name, but twenty years ago, she had been an award-winning actress beloved across the country, delivering countless classic scenes in films. However, Li Yusheng had retired from acting twenty years ago, so few people remembered her now.

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