The White Lotus Revealed

"Your family hid it well, but an impostor is still an impostor. No matter how much she studies, she'll always be an impostor." Yang Qi held up his phone, showing the information he had asked his older brother and the others to find.

Wu Yuan looked at the photo on the phone. She could no longer keep her expression steady.

Wu Yuan forced a smile. "Who's that? Why does she look so much like me? Then again, plenty of people look alike in this world. Hahaha..."

"Yeah, plenty of people look alike. And even if they don't, there's always plastic surgery. Right, Wu Yuan?"

[Exactly! That fool just handed Wu Yuan the perfect excuse. It even fits what she said about plenty of people looking alike.]

Fang Yao shook her head. He might as well have delivered the gift right to her door.

Hearing Fang Yao's thoughts, Bo Hanmo looked down at Yang Qi as if he were an idiot. Luckily, the Yang Household had an older son and a daughter. If Yang Qi inherited the family business, it probably wouldn't last a year.

Yang Qi's parents: No, we'll have another child. We're not that old.

Yang Qi: ...

~(´ー｀~)

The Yang siblings: Hey, little brother, how about something to boost your brainpower?

Yang Qi: ... >:( Get lost... :'( I was wrong.

"Plastic surgery?" Wu Yuan's hands trembled as she picked up her phone. "Yang Qi, are you saying this woman had surgery and snuck into my family? What does she want? I'm calling the police. I'm calling right now."

Gong Yong was completely lost. "What are you talking about? Yang Qi, what did you find? Look how badly you've scared Wu Yuan. And what's with that look?"

Seeing Gong Yong still in the dark, Yang Qi gave him a look of pity. It made Gong Yong's skin crawl.

Just as Gong Yong was about to lose his temper—You've gotten too cocky, punk. If I don't knock your head off, my name isn't Gong Yong—

"Yang Qi, why do you have a photo of Xiao Chan? I knew you were up to something! I'll beat you to death!"

"No, I... Gong Yong, calm down."

"You've got those kinds of thoughts about her, and you want me to calm down? How am I supposed to?"

The sounds of their fight drew all the nearby guests over. They stared at the two men.

"Aren't those the younger sons of the Yang Household and the Gong Household? What happened? Why are they fighting?"

"They are! I have no idea. Aren't they both future sons-in-law of the Wu Household? Old Wu, your two sons-in-law are fighting."

"From what the younger Gong son said, it sounds like the younger Yang son has designs on the Wu Household's youngest daughter, Wu Chan, and got caught."

"That's what it sounded like. Should someone tell the Yang family? Huh? Wasn't the eldest Yang son just here?"

Mr. Wu and Madam Wu came hurrying over amid the guests' chatter and found Yang Qi and Gong Yong fighting.

"Yang Qi, Gong Yong, can't you talk this through? Why are you fighting?" It took every ounce of Mr. Wu's strength to pull them apart.

Seeing the bruises on both their faces, he didn't know what to say. Hadn't they always gotten along?

After taking that beating, Yang Qi had no desire to tell the bastard the truth just yet. Let the fool be deceived a while longer. He spat blood onto the ground.

Gong Yong was furious. If Mr. Wu hadn't held him back, Yang Qi's contemptuous look would have sent him charging in again.

"You silly girl! You were standing right there. Why didn't you stop them?" Madam Wu lightly smacked Wu Yuan's arm.

Wu Yuan leaned close to Madam Wu's ear and told her everything that had just happened.

Madam Wu's face turned as pale as Wu Yuan's had when she first heard the news.

Her foot slipped, and she nearly fell. Wu Yuan hurried to catch her mother.

"Is what you said true?"

"Mom, when have I ever joked about something like this? The question now is how we cover it up. We can't let Yang Qi expose us, or we'll face retaliation from the Yang and Gong families."

"Our family can't withstand that right now."

Wu Yuan was so anxious she nearly forgot her refined young-lady manners and started biting her nails. Seeing her mother look as though she'd seen a ghost only pushed her impatience to its limit.

Madam Wu said, "That's easy. Didn't Gong Yong just say Yang Qi had designs on Wu Chan? Then we make it true."

Wu Yuan smiled, but a moment later, she hesitated. "But..."

"What is there to hesitate over? Would you rather the family go bankrupt and have to work like those paupers?" Seeing Wu Yuan waver made Madam Wu furious. If they lost one, they could find another later.

Once Wu Yuan stopped hesitating, Madam Wu took Mr. Wu's arm. "Oh, come on. Whatever it is, talk it through. Old Wu, you should have talked to them properly."

A flicker of panic crossed Mr. Wu's eyes.

[Well, I never saw that coming. That's ruthless! No wonder those two cannon fodder, Yang Qi and Gong Yong, die less than a year apart. Tsk, tsk. Just accept your fate. Any random member of the Wu Household is smarter than the two of you.]

Thrilled by the drama, Fang Yao stamped her feet, her eyes shining. Bo Hanmo looked down at the foot she had stepped on and silently moved it a step away.

Old Master Bo and his wife had also been called over to watch the drama from a corner.

Yang Qi: ...Can you stop lumping me in with that other cannon fodder? And I'm not stupid.

Gong Yong: ...That voice appeared again.

"Did any of you hear a voice?" Gong Yong looked around, but he couldn't pick out the woman's voice he had just heard from the surrounding chatter.

The guests thought he had overheard them talking and shook their heads.

"Were you...?" Gong Yong wanted to ask whether they had been insulting him in their heads. He'd heard every word. But he couldn't get it out.

Gong Yong stood frozen. (O_O)

"Don't try to pin this on me. Everyone knows what kind of person I am. Wu Chan is my sister-in-law, but even if she weren't, I'd never two-time anyone."

"If I wanted two women at once, I wouldn't be with Wu Yuan. I caught you doing something filthy, and now that you can't hide it, you want to frame me? Not a chance."

Yang Qi was no meek lamb. The moment he realized Mr. Wu meant to make Gong Yong's accusation—that he had designs on his sister-in-law—stick, he refused to let it happen.

Did they think he was easy to bully?

The three Wus went pale. They hadn't expected Yang Qi to react so quickly. Instead of defending himself, he had brought what he'd uncovered out into the open.

Mr. Wu's eyes reddened with rage. He wanted to tear Yang Qi apart, but he managed to hold himself in check. Madam Wu could not.

"You bastard! I'll tear you apart for slandering us!"