Lin Tingyue burst out laughing. Feng Qin was furious, but his exaggerated facial movements tugged at his wound, and he grimaced in pain.
[Oh my, five-star hotels really are great. You can even watch monkeys for free.]
Bai Yaxin couldn't hold back either and lowered her head to stifle her laughter.
Wu Qianyun walked out with her chin held high. Lin Tingyue and Lin Xiawan followed at the very end.
Seeing that it was over, everyone else wanted to leave. They had been itching to go for ages, but Wu Qianyun's two slaps had been a powerful deterrent.
If they hit Feng Qin, she couldn't hit them too.
So they had been forced to stay until now.
Lin Xiawan stepped outside, then turned around. "Could I trouble everyone to wait a moment?"
Ding Zhuo asked blankly, "Wait for what?"
"For the police," Lin Xiawan said. "You do know that what you've done is soliciting prostitution, which is illegal, right?"
[Ahhh, Sister Xiawan is so cool!]
[It's not just soliciting prostitution, either. This could even count as an orgy.]
Out of the corner of her eye, Lin Tingyue spotted the police arriving. She took Lin Xiawan's arm, and the two of them obediently stood to the side. Lin Tingyue even secretly made a "please, go ahead" gesture.
Lin Xiawan looked at how adorable Lin Tingyue was and chuckled softly.
Afterward, when Wu Qianyun got home, she repeatedly urged Taotao not to get worked up. Only after Taotao agreed did she show her the video.
Feng Qin's affair was now backed by ironclad proof. Taotao's father, Xiang Hui, was so furious he wanted to go to the detention center and beat Feng Qin up again.
Taotao agreed to divorce Feng Qin. They just had to wait for him to get out of the detention center, and then they could go to the civil affairs bureau to complete the paperwork.
Who knew that before Feng Qin was even released, his parents, who lived out of town, would arrive in City A first?
They went to the Xiang Family's villa. Wu Qianyun and Xiang Hui took an extremely firm stance, saying that they had to divorce Feng Qin. Wu Qianyun emphasized that she would also make Feng Qin leave with nothing.
As if they could stand for that! Out of their love for their son, they immediately took a banner to the Xiang Family's company, accusing the Xiang Family's daughter, Xiang Taotao, of using every trick in the book to marry into their family, only to kick their son to the curb now. Even rich people couldn't behave like that!
When Bai Yaxin and Lin Tingyue arrived, they happened to see them weeping before the cameras as they made their accusations.
[Good grief, that's some absolutely shameless blame-shifting!!!]
Wu Qianyun and Xiang Hui watched coldly as a male reporter pointed his camera at them and narrated, "The Xiang couple are being incredibly arrogant. Their daughter hasn't shown her face at all."
[Could this guy be a plant hired by the Feng Family?]
Hearing someone call him a plant, the male reporter looked extremely displeased. He turned the camera toward himself. "Let me reiterate: I don't want the Feng Family to get into trouble. I absolutely, absolutely haven't taken any money. Everything I say is for the sake of justice."
[Ah, so speaking up for men who solicit prostitutes can be called justice now?]
Solicit-men who solicit prostitutes?
The male reporter nearly lost his balance. Was that what he thought it meant?
Just then, Wu Qianyun spoke. "Everyone, actually, we didn't want to make this a big deal. We were trying to leave Xiao Qin a little dignity. But since his parents have brought people here to twist the truth, Old Xiang and I have no choice but to step forward."
Wu Qianyun took out her phone with a pained expression. Xiang Hui, his face full of reluctance, put a hand on his wife's shoulder.
The people behind them couldn't see anything, but that didn't stop them from hearing a series of indescribable sounds.
Feng Tan and Guo Lan looked at each other.
[Eh, why do Feng Qin's parents look like they already knew?]
[Oh, so before they came to make a scene, they went to the detention center to see Feng Qin and learned what he'd actually been locked up for. No, they knew and still had the nerve to cry foul?]
[And Feng Qin was the one who told them to find a reporter. Ha, he's the one who's really full of schemes and tricks. Back then, Taotao was adored by everyone and had no idea who Feng Qin was. Feng Qin kept making advances, and even hired a private detective to follow Taotao just to learn where she was going. Taotao mistakenly thought she'd met her true love, and that's how she ended up marrying Feng Qin.]
He hired a private detective to follow Taotao?
No wonder Taotao had kept saying she felt like someone was watching her from the shadows back then. So that was what had happened.
Wu Qianyun clenched her hands and said tearfully, "Justice is in the hearts of the people."
Xiang Hui followed right after her. "The innocent have nothing to fear, and the guilty will be exposed."
"So that's how it was."
"We were all fooled by the Feng Family!"
"Let me point something out: a simple affair and booking a hotel room wouldn't get you detained. Since Feng Qin is still in the detention center, that can only mean..."
Everything turned around in an instant. The furious reporters closed in on Feng Tan and Guo Lan.
As Feng Tan and Guo Lan stood there at a loss, Feng Tan chose to shove Guo Lan forward. He shouted, "It's all her! She spoiled the child too much!"
"Feng Tan, you..."
Before Guo Lan could finish, the camera flashes stung her eyes so badly she couldn't open them. She choked out, "He's the son I carried for ten months and gave birth to! My son is my life!"
Feng Tan added, "That's right, our Old Feng Family has had only one son for three generations. The boy's mother was weak, and it took everything she had to give birth to Feng Qin. Besides, Taotao was pregnant, so she couldn't, couldn't... You can't blame our Feng Qin for that!"
Wu Qianyun had never imagined there could be people with no bottom line whatsoever. So now it was their Taotao's fault, was it?
Seeing Feng Tan and Guo Lan like this, some of the male reporters weren't as angry as before. They even thought the Feng couple made a lot of sense.
A female reporter called out loudly, "Anyone who thinks they make sense must be just like Feng Qin! Everyone, please join me in calling the tip-off hotline and sending them to the detention center too!"
As soon as she said that, the male reporters who had agreed with them tucked their tails between their legs and scurried away.
[I approve of that girl's attack power. And what's this about three generations with only one son? Feng Qin isn't Feng Tan's child at all. He has nothing to do with the Feng Family.]
What???
[Back then, Feng Tan's parents went to Guo Lan because she was pregnant, while their own son was infertile and had no hope of ever having children. To keep their son from discovering the secret, they were willing to raise a child in Guo Lan's belly who wasn't their flesh and blood.]
[That secret stayed buried until Feng Tan's parents passed away.]
[Eh, it seems Feng Tan's biological father is right here!]
Bai Yaxin and Lin Tingyue both looked up and glanced around. This gossip really did get juicier by the minute.
As they searched, a middle-aged man suddenly squeezed through the reporters and made his way to Guo Lan. "A-Lan."
Guo Lan raised her head in a daze. The middle-aged man said excitedly, "A-Lan, it really is you! I thought I was seeing things. It's been over twenty years since we parted. Have you been well?"
Guo Lan said angrily, "Why is it you? You abandoned me back then. I thought we'd never have anything to do with each other again."
[Huh?]
[No one told me this had turned into a melodramatic prime-time soap opera.]
[Could the two of you spare a thought for Feng Tan's feelings?!]
Feng Tan: ?
What was happening?
At that moment, another man appeared.
[Ding Zhuo? What's he doing here? Oh, he and Feng Qin got released today.]
Ding Zhuo grabbed the middle-aged man. "Dad, didn't I tell you not to wander off? Uncle Feng, Auntie Guo, what are you doing here..."
Lin Tingyue was dumbstruck.
[So Ding Zhuo and Feng Qin are actually biological brothers?]
[An older brother taking his younger brother to hook up... No wonder you're brothers, bound by blood.]
Chapter 30
"Dad, Mom."
Feng Qin, who was a step behind Ding Zhuo, walked up to Feng Tan and Guo Lan. In front of the cameras, Feng Tan and Guo Lan immediately launched into a performance.
"Feng Qin, my poor son! How did you get so thin?"
"Did they mistreat you in there?"
The couple acted with such tears and heartfelt anguish that anyone who saw them would be moved to tears.
Lin Tingyue didn't understand.
[How could anyone be mistreated in a detention center?]
Ding Chuan looked at Feng Qin in disbelief. He said excitedly, "A-Lan, Feng Qin is your son?"
Guo Lan sensed that something was terribly wrong and hurriedly said, "What does it have to do with you whether he's my son or not?"
"A-Lan, how could it not have anything to do with me? He..."
Guo Lan suddenly burst out, "Ding Chuan, stop talking!"
Ding Chuan was stunned by Guo Lan's shout. When he came to his senses, he suddenly steeled his resolve. "No, A-Lan. You won't let me say it, so I'm going to say it anyway. It was because I was a coward back then that you and Xiao Qin... I'm not the same man I was then!"
Ding Chuan took Feng Qin's hand. His eyes filled with tears as he said, "Xiao Qin, my biological son, you've suffered all these years."
[Ding Zhuo isn't your biological son?]
[Good heavens, it can't get any more explosive than this.]
Feng Qin looked completely bewildered. "Uncle Ding, what are you talking about? My dad is right here."
[You got out of the detention center with an extra dad. Tell me, aren't you happy?]
Lin Tingyue had had her fill of making snarky comments, but the people who heard her thoughts were suffering. They wanted to laugh and follow the gossip at the same time; they were practically splitting into two personalities!
Feng Tan strode over and roughly slapped Ding Chuan's hand away from Feng Qin. "What are you doing?"
"What am I doing?" Ding Chuan's lips trembled. "Feng Qin is my son. You've let my son call you Dad for over twenty years. Haven't you heard enough?"
[What kind of deranged thing is that to say?]
Feng Tan slapped Ding Chuan. "What nonsense are you spouting?"
"Nonsense?" Ding Chuan pushed away Ding Zhuo, who had come to support him. "Xiao Qin, is your birthday in May?"
Feng Qin, still dazed, said, "Yes."
"Then that settles it. Xiao Qin, you and Ding Zhuo were both born in May. If you're not my son, then whose son could you be?"
[Wait, wait, wait, so what's the logic here?]
[And how could biological brothers be born in the same month? Even if they'd split up and married other people, there wouldn't have been time. Could this Ding Chuan have gotten two women pregnant at the same time?]