Gu Yijin Gets Slapped

On the sofa, Gu Yijin, his eyes bloodshot, was pinning down a woman and making out with her.

Hearing that familiar voice, Gu Yijin finally regained a shred of reason.

The moment he turned around, Sheng Xia rushed over and slapped Gu Yijin across the face, then grabbed the woman on the sofa by the hair and slapped her twice.

When women were angry, they could unleash three times their usual strength.

A delicate young lady like Sheng Xia had been pampered since childhood. After just those few blows, her own hand hurt. Rubbing her wrist, she cried as she questioned Gu Yijin.

"What are you doing?! How could you fool around with another woman behind my back?! In my own home, no less!"

Gu Yijin finally came to his senses.

No matter how awful he felt, he had to explain himself to Sheng Xia first. He could not afford to lose her support now.

He took Sheng Xia's hand and explained, "Xiaxia, listen to me. It isn't what you think."

Sheng Xia shoved him away. "You're filthy! If you want to talk, then talk. Don't touch me."

Sheng Xia was heartbroken, yet she could not help wanting to deceive herself.

She did not dare believe that the man she had loved for so many years was nothing like the person she had imagined.

She could not bear that outcome. Otherwise, all those confident words she had said before Sheng Mo would become a joke.

"Earlier, someone gave me a drink. After I drank it, something felt wrong with my body. I came to the restroom to wash my face and clear my head, and then this woman came in."

"It was her! She seduced me! After that, I lost control. If you hadn't come, Xiaxia, I might really have done something to betray you. If that had happened, I wouldn't have had the face to see you again."

Gu Yijin was not stupid. In this situation, he quickly found the angle most favorable to himself and used it to explain things to Sheng Xia.

It was true that he had realized he had been drugged, but it was also true that he had intended to have his way with this woman.

This woman was hot and sexy, passionate and uninhibited—completely unlike a spoiled little princess like Sheng Xia, who always needed to be coaxed. Sheng Xia would not even let him touch her. No man could endure that for years.

Sheng Xia had also noticed that Gu Yijin's hand had been burning hot when he held hers. Looking at him now, his face did seem very red.

She wiped away her tears and choked out, "You're saying someone drugged you? Then arranged for this woman to be here?"

Gu Yijin nodded with a frown. "Yes, that's what I mean. I suspect that you being able to find this place so easily was also arranged. The purpose was to make you catch us in the act and drive us apart."

Sheng Xia's eyes widened in shock. "Who could be so vicious?!"

Gu Yijin lowered his gaze, his expression darkening. "Who told you I was here?"

Sheng Xia murmured, "Fang Qingran. But why would she do this? She couldn't possibly do something like that. She doesn't have the brains for it."

Gu Yijin was in too much discomfort to concern himself with that now. With a pained expression, he said, "Xiaxia, could you call Doctor Qin for me? I feel terrible."

Although Sheng Xia knew Gu Yijin had not intentionally wanted to betray her, she still could not calm down after witnessing that scene.

She pursed her lips, her expression still unpleasant. "Fine. Wait here. And keep an eye on this woman too."

After Sheng Xia left, Gu Yijin slapped the woman outright. Grabbing her by the throat, he demanded, "Talk! Who sent you to set me up?! Was it Fang Qingran?!"

The woman cried, "N-no one set you up. I saw that you weren't in the right state, and I liked you so much that I just couldn't help myself... I'd be satisfied as long as I could be with you just once. Young Master Gu, I really do like you. I only wanted to help you..."

She put on an innocent act, recalling what that person had told her earlier.

"Gu Yijin is narcissistic. As long as you tell him that you like him, that you're sincere and willing, he won't suspect you anymore."

Sure enough, Gu Yijin paused. When he saw the woman's full breasts, the fire inside him became even harder to suppress.

After releasing the woman, he kicked over the coffee table beside him.

Damn it!

Shen Qingling had vanished, his plan had failed, and he had instead fallen into someone else's trap and been caught by Sheng Xia. What a loss!

He could not help wondering whether Shen Qingling had done it.

But Shen Qingling had gotten drunk and gone upstairs. He had no chance to arrange all this—unless he could see the future and had somehow guessed what Gu Yijin would do to him.

Besides, Shen Qingling still knew nothing about his identity. What reason would he have to target him?

In the end, Fang Qingran was still the more suspicious one.

Could she have found out about how he and Xu Xiangshan had used her?

That had to be it!

Gu Yijin clenched his fists until they cracked. Fang Qingran... how dare you do this to me. Just wait.

Gu Yijin was quite something. When he harmed others, it was only natural; when others harmed him, they were vicious bitches. Pure villain logic—the narrow-minded kind of villain, at that.

Gu Yijin walked up to the mirror. When he saw the marks on his face, he hated Sheng Xia even more.

If not for the fact that she was the Sheng Family's young lady, he would never have tolerated and coaxed her for all these years.

Once he got everything he wanted, Sheng Xia would not get a good ending either!

Sheng Xia called Doctor Qin over. Only after he confirmed that Gu Yijin had indeed been drugged did her expression soften slightly.

Doctor Qin found it strange, though. Why were there so many people drugged today? In just this short while, he had already seen two.

But as a private doctor, he would not utter a single word he should not.

After prescribing medicine for Gu Yijin, he left.

Gu Yijin had thought Sheng Xia would stay and apply medicine to his face, but she had no such intention.

After questioning the woman, she prepared to leave right away.

Gu Yijin grabbed her hand. "Xiaxia, aren't you going to stay with me? I can't go out looking like this."

Sheng Xia sneered. "Gu Yijin, your performance today has disappointed me too much. You lost at the piano to that handsome guy, then got drugged by who knows whom and did something like this. How can you face the trust I placed in you?"

Gu Yijin: ...

Fine, saying his piano skills were inferior was one thing, but why did she have to emphasize that Shen Qingling was handsome? What was that supposed to mean?

Gu Yijin gave a bitter laugh. "Xiaxia, I told you, I was drugged. Doctor Qin said so too. Since you know that, why do you still care? I didn't mean for this to happen."

Sheng Xia frowned. "Couldn't you have endured it for my sake? Does that mean any woman would do for you?"

"And as a young master of the Gu Family, your thinking is actually this shallow. I really don't know how you're supposed to protect me in the future."

"You should go home. I don't want to see you. If you go out looking like that, I'll be the one people laugh at."

Gu Yijin:?

What happened to the woman who had said that no matter what happened, even if he lost everything, she would stay by his side? The woman who had said she needed nothing as long as they could be together forever?

Now she was saying she did not know how he could protect her in the future?

She used to cling to him and never want him to leave. Now she was actually telling him to leave and go home.

"What about you? What are you going to do?"

"I'm going to find Ruan Mingyi."

"Really? Are you looking for Ruan Mingyi, or are you going to see that man?"

"Gu Yijin, have you lost your mind? Forget it, I don't want to argue with you about this. Go home and reflect on yourself properly."

Sheng Xia had no intention of indulging him. She suddenly began to wonder whether she could truly live such a hard life with Gu Yijin.

The Gu Yijin from before had been smart, considerate, and sensible. He had been willing to spoil her and coax her in everything. Now, he seemed like an entirely different person.

More importantly, he had actually lost to the man Ruan Mingyi had brought! How could her man possibly be inferior to Ruan Mingyi's man?

Sheng Xia left with an irritated expression.

Gu Yijin was so angry that his chest hurt. He felt as though he were the one who had been betrayed.

What was even more ridiculous was that Shen Qingling had not deliberately done anything to her, yet she could not stop thinking about him.

Did she think he could not tell? She had taken a liking to Shen Qingling.

That was not good news for him. Once she learned that Shen Qingling was the marriage alliance partner being switched to, would she still stand so firmly on his side?