Maybe I'm just too sexy, but seeing someone come to their senses like this makes me want to cry

Xiao Yao had appeared at some point.

Ji Nanxian's expression changed. He flung Xiao Yao's hand away and turned to face him.

Ji Nanxian said, "Brother Xiao, what are you doing?"

Xiao Yao replied flippantly, "Sticking my nose in. Can't you tell?"

Ji Nanxian ground his back teeth.

He really had no way of dealing with Xiao Yao.

Nor did he want to provoke Xiao Yao.

The Xiao Family of Capital City wielded power that local families like theirs could not afford to provoke.

That was why Ji Nanxian had been avoiding Xiao Yao throughout the show.

He tried to avoid conflict as much as possible.

Who knew Xiao Yao would insist on getting right in his face?

And for Shen Yunzhi, at that?

Ji Nanxian's expression grew even darker. "Brother Xiao, this is our family business."

With one hand in his trouser pocket, Xiao Yao calmly asked Shen Yunzhi, "Are you and he family?"

Ji Nanxian's impotent rage actually made Shen Yunzhi laugh.

"Family? Enemies would be closer."

Shen Yunzhi looked at Ji Nanxian. "Haven't you been pressuring me to break off the engagement? Then I'll give you what you want."

As she spoke,

Shen Yunzhi actually dialed Ji Nanxian's father's number.

Ji Nanxian had spent the past few years pressuring Shen Yunzhi to break off the engagement.

Now that Shen Yunzhi was actually calling to end it, however, Ji Nanxian was the one panicking.

Ji Nanxian was losing his mind.

That damned woman!

What on earth was she trying to do?!

A ringing tone came from Shen Yunzhi's phone.

It only rang a few times.

Then the call connected.

Ji Nanxian's father's voice came through Shen Yunzhi's phone, putting on a hypocritical show of kindness.

"Yunzhi? Is something the matter?"

Ji Nanxian hurriedly called out, "Dad! Nothing's wrong. Hang up!"

Hearing the panic in Ji Nanxian's voice, his father paused in confusion.

Shen Yunzhi dropped a bombshell on him.

"Why hang up, Uncle Ji?" Shen Yunzhi said with a smile that did not reach her eyes. "Ji Nanxian just tried to hit me."

Ji Nanxian's father: "?"

He did indeed dislike Shen Yunzhi, who had returned from the village.

Apart from her status, nothing about her was fit for polite society.

But he took a longer view than Ji Nanxian did.

His thinking was that once Shen Yunzhi married into the family and their interests were firmly tied to the Jiang Family's, Ji Nanxian could pursue whatever woman he wanted.

No matter how much of a fuss Shen Yunzhi made, they could ignore her. After all, their interests would be bound together by then, and whether they divorced would have nothing to do with Shen Yunzhi's wishes.

So when it came to his attitude toward Shen Yunzhi, Ji Nanxian's father had always kept up appearances well enough.

He could only ask sternly, "What happened?"

Shen Yunzhi kept it brief. "People were criticizing Jiang Yunli online, and Ji Nanxian suspected me without any evidence. He insisted that I apologize to Jiang Yunli in front of the entire internet. I refused and said I wanted to break off the engagement, and he swung a slap at me. I can't take this anymore. Let's end the engagement."

Ji Nanxian's eyes widened into circles. He simply could not believe that after chasing after him and fawning over him for so many years, Shen Yunzhi would actually dare to bring up ending the engagement.

Even the live comments filled with strings of "6666."

[Holy shit!]

[Shen Yunzhi actually brought it up??]

[I thought she was just putting on an act earlier.]

[Use your brain. There's no way. Ji Nanxian's palm was practically on her face.]

[I thought Xiao Yao would just keep watching from the sidelines. Didn't expect him to actually man up here.]

[Can't criticize him for this. Xiao Yao might get hated on by everyone, but compared with a moron like Ji Nanxian, there's really no contest.]

[Boohoo, I knew Shen Yunzhi would come to her senses. What's so great about Ji Nanxian that she has to fawn over him? There are plenty of good men in the world. Even fawning over Xiao Yao wouldn't have gotten her dragged this badly.]

[Boohoo, that's what I think too. Maybe I'm just too sexy, but seeing someone come to their senses like this makes me want to cry.]

[...You mean sensitive, not sexy.]

On the livestream.

Ji Nanxian hurried to explain.

"That never happened! Dad! It's not how Shen Yunzhi says it is!"

Shen Yunzhi said, "We're livestreaming everything right now. Uncle Ji, if there's anything you want to know, just watch the replay yourself. Anyway, I can't live like this anymore. Your Ji Family can arrange a marriage with whoever you want. I'm done."

It was only an engagement. The Ji Family had not even secured its ties to the Jiang Family yet, and Shen Yunzhi was already demanding to end it.

Ji Nanxian's father certainly would not agree.

Shen Yunzhi had always fawned over Ji Nanxian before.

Even after Ji Nanxian humiliated her like that, Shen Yunzhi had never brought up ending the engagement.

Just what idiotic thing had Ji Nanxian done now to make Shen Yunzhi, who had always liked him so much, throw caution to the wind?

Ji Nanxian's father was nearly furious enough to die over his son's inability to see what mattered. He immediately questioned Ji Nanxian through Shen Yunzhi's phone.

"What did you do to bully Yunzhi?"

Ji Nanxian panicked and hurriedly shifted the blame. "It wasn't me... She was the one bullying Yunli all along. I was just..."

His father said, "Shut up! You unfilial son! Who exactly is your fiancée?!"

Those words from Ji Nanxian's father were tantamount to officially confirming Shen Yunzhi's status.

Then came the funniest part.

-The Jiang-Yunli and Ji-Nanxian CP fans had been defending Jiang Yunli all along, saying that she was the daughter-in-law the Ji Family acknowledged.

They said Shen Yunzhi had usurped her place, and if not for the matter of the real and fake heiresses, Jiang Yunli would have been the fiancée Ji Nanxian openly acknowledged.

Yet from what Ji Nanxian's father said,

he did not take Jiang Yunli seriously at all.

It was nothing like what people had been saying online.

The netizens were feasting on so much gossip they were practically turning into melon-munching badgers.

[Didn't the Jiang-Yunli and Ji-Nanxian fans say this engagement was originally between Jiang Yunli and Ji Nanxian?]

[Yeah, didn't they say that after the real and fake heiress thing came out and Shen Yunzhi was brought home, she took a fancy to Ji Nanxian, then cried, made a scene, and threatened suicide to steal the engagement?]

[They even said Jiang Yunli was the daughter-in-law the Ji Family had chosen.]

[Hahahaha-hic! As if I'd believe them. How many rumors has Shen Yunzhi already cleared up just by appearing on a reality show? Anyway, I'm not believing those shippers anymore.]

[Looks like Shen Yunzhi's been taking the blame for quite a lot.]

[Unbelievable. I'm never trusting these online rumors again.]

Ji Nanxian's father told him, "Hurry up and apologize to Yunzhi!"

Ji Nanxian's entire face was as dark as a gathering thundercloud, his nostrils flaring with fury.