Shen Banxia glanced at her second brother. She hadn't expected him to be even nosier than she was!
He really shouldn't have become a CFO. He should have become a paparazzo instead-he would definitely have earned far more than he did now.
Resigned, Shen Banxia put on her hat and pulled her coat tightly around herself.
She didn't want to catch a cold just for the sake of watching some drama. That wouldn't be worth it.
"So this is how women fight! They just yank each other's hair and clothes instead of throwing punches!" Shen Jinyan marveled.
"That's because you've never been beaten up by a woman. Otherwise, you'd know this kind of fighting is practically disfigurement. Let someone yank your hair like that once, and there's a good chance you'll end up bald!" Shen Banxia replied, dropping her sunflower seed shells into the bag beside her.
"Who says I've never been beaten up by a woman-" Shen Jinyan blurted out, only to hastily stop himself.
"You've been beaten up by a woman?" Shen Banxia turned toward him, her eyes suddenly lighting up.
"Of course not! You misheard me!" Shen Jinyan denied with an awkward laugh, then changed the subject. "What are they fighting over? Too bad we're so far away. I can't hear what they're yelling."
Shen Jinyan reached into the bag beside him and grabbed a handful of sunflower seeds too. As he cracked them open, he offered a running commentary.
"They've stopped pulling hair and started tearing at clothes. Too bad they're wearing too many layers to rip anything!"
Shen Banxia glanced at her second brother, speechless. If he recognized the people involved, he probably wouldn't be watching so enthusiastically.
"Huh? Doesn't the woman on the left look a little like our younger aunt?"
Shen Banxia nodded calmly without saying anything and continued eating her sunflower seeds.
"Finally, someone's come to break it up. Otherwise, who knows how long those two would keep clawing at each other."
"This looks like a wife confronting a mistress, with the man rushing back to break up the fight after getting word!"
"We should've brought our fourth brother along to watch so he could learn what real acting looks like. His acting is honestly painful to watch."
Shen Banxia ate her sunflower seeds while listening to her second brother's commentary. It felt like watching scrolling viewer comments-more entertaining than the actual show.
Our fourth brother's whole selling point is being a pretty young face. What acting skills can you expect from eye candy?
Hearing his seventh sister's thoughts, Shen Jinyan laughed, suddenly feeling he'd found a kindred spirit. Just as he was about to offer his own brilliant opinion, he froze, then asked in astonishment,
"S-Seventh Sister, don't you think that man looks more and more like Dad?"
"Mm-hmm," Shen Banxia answered casually.
Meanwhile,
Shen Shuyi received a live update from the private investigator, accompanied by some spectacular photos and videos.
Xu Yanni had stormed over to Lin Xiyue's home to confront her. Before long, the two women had started fighting, and then Xu Junshan had hurried over to break it up.
"Please have a helpful neighbor call the police. We wouldn't want anyone getting killed."
Shen Shuyi sent back that "helpful" reminder.
If Xu Junshan had kept avoiding contact with his mistress during this time, she really wouldn't have found any evidence anytime soon, leaving her unable to do anything about him.
Who would have thought Xu Yanni would show up that afternoon and hand her an assist? All the wholehearted kindness she'd once shown her sister-in-law hadn't gone to waste after all!
"Ha! The guy got scratched!" Shen Jinyan pointed in their direction, then suddenly caught a full view of the man's face and exclaimed, "Holy shit, that really is my dad!"
"Keep your voice down unless you want people staring at us!" Shen Banxia reminded him with an eye roll.
"..." Shen Jinyan looked around, embarrassed, then quickly withdrew his hand and settled back into the driver's seat. "Did our uncle cheat, and Aunt came to catch him in the act?"
"I never would've thought someone as honest-looking as our uncle would keep another woman on the side!"
"Aunt actually called Dad along to catch her husband cheating, and he really came! Isn't this the sort of thing you bring your best friend along for?"
"Wait, Dad doesn't seem to be breaking up the fight. He's protecting the mistress! Seventh Sister, look-" Shen Jinyan suddenly grabbed her arm in excitement.
"If you keep getting this worked up, I'm going to scream!"
"Scream what?" Shen Jinyan looked away from the scene and asked his seventh sister in confusion.
"That you're molesting me!" Shen Banxia replied expressionlessly.
Shen Jinyan froze for a moment, then laughed.
"You're my sister! What do you mean, molesting?"
Despite saying that, Shen Jinyan obediently let go.
"The police are here. Now it's getting even more exciting!"
Once the police arrived, the two women finally released each other, glaring at one another with disheveled hair and rumpled clothes.
The curtains closed just then, blocking their view of what was happening inside.
"Damn it, why did they close the curtains? The fight's already over! What's the point-taking a curtain call?" Shen Jinyan was instantly disappointed.
The next second, he turned toward his youngest sister and asked,
"Seventh Sister, should we go upstairs and see what's going on? Could that really be Dad and our second aunt?"
"The police are already here. Why would you go up there and get involved?" Shen Banxia replied, dusting off her hands.
She'd finished her sunflower seeds, and her mouth was dry.
"Are we really not going up to take a look?" Shen Jinyan asked again, unwilling to give up.
"What would you say when you got upstairs?
'We spent ages downstairs enjoying the show, and now that you've stopped fighting, we've come up to break it up'?
Or would you ask Dad and Aunt, 'Why were you fighting?'" Shen Banxia fired off a string of questions.
His seventh sister's questions left Shen Jinyan speechless. Then he offered a defense.
"I'm just worried something might happen to them!"
"Do you even understand what's going on?
Why was Aunt fighting that woman? And why was Dad protecting that woman instead of our second aunt?
You don't know anything, yet you want to rush up there and make it awkward for everyone?
If you're here to watch the drama, just watch. Don't meddle, or you might end up caught in it yourself!" Shen Banxia warned him, somewhat exasperated.
If he rushes up there and discovers Xu Junshan's secret with his mistress, would Xu Junshan let him live? My second brother really has no idea what he's getting himself into!
Shen Jinyan stared at his seventh sister, dumbfounded. What had he just heard?
"I'm hungry!" Shen Banxia said with an innocent air.
"Let's get a late-night snack!" Shen Jinyan snapped out of his daze and quickly replied.
He closed the convertible roof and shook out his frozen hands, only then realizing that he'd been so engrossed in watching the drama, he'd nearly frozen solid.
But now he couldn't spare a thought for the cold, because the inner voice he'd just heard had shocked him even more.
That woman was Dad's mistress?
Hadn't Dad and Mom always been deeply in love? Dad had never even been involved in a scandal. How could he have a mistress???
Yet the drama he'd just witnessed seemed to confirm his seventh sister's thoughts, forcing him to consider the possibility.
His seventh sister must have already learned or discovered something. Otherwise, she wouldn't have taken him here to watch after that roundabout drive.
It seemed like a coincidence, but the more he thought about it, the harder it was to believe such a coincidence could happen unless something unseen had arranged it.
"Seventh Sister, is that woman really Dad's mistress?"
Over their late-night snack, Shen Jinyan looked at his seventh sister and pressed her again, unable to let it go.
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