"Your wife?"
The woman on the bed also caught on. She sat up languidly, looked the woman before her up and down, then said casually, "So you're the first wife. I'm so sorry I can't get up to greet you."
[Huh???]
[This is modern society, not some household with a principal wife and concubines!!! How can she be so calm about this!]
Wu Chenshi was nearly mad with rage. At those words, she marched up and slapped the woman. "Who are you calling the first wife? You think just because I hit my husband, I won't hit you too, you home-wrecking vixen!!!"
Her chest heaved. "Neither of you is any good!"
Wu Chenshi's curses gave Kang Mingyu a new direction. Wrapped in the blanket, he jumped up. "Yes, exactly, honey! This vixen seduced me! I was discussing business with a client last night and had a couple too many drinks. I'd already called a designated driver and was planning to come home, but this vixen just wouldn't leave me alone."
"Really?" Wu Chenshi asked coldly.
"Yes, honey, you have to believe me. How could I ever cheat on you?"
[Wow, how shameless. Everyone knows you can't get it up when you're drunk. Are you saying that when you did that with her afterward, she was seducing you then too?]
His words made the woman named Ning Yexin explode as well. She lunged at him, slapping him left and right as she cursed, "You were all sweet talk while we were doing it, but now your wife's here, I'm a vixen? You bastard, I'll beat you to death!"
Ning Yexin didn't just slap him. She pulled his hair and bit his face. If the police hadn't come over and pulled them apart, she could have bitten him to death.
Kang Mingyu looked at Ning Yexin with venom in his eyes. "Officers, you have to lock this vixen up. Look, she didn't just seduce me, she hit me too! She's a complete lunatic!"
"Kang Mingyu, you really have no fear of death, do you? Fine, fine, fine. Since you're burning the bridge after crossing the river, I'll tell your wife every last thing you've been doing behind her back. Aren't you supposed to be fearless?"
Kang Mingyu visibly panicked at her words. "Don't you dare."
"What, now you're scared? The police are right here. Are you going to kill me?"
Ning Yexin wasn't afraid of Kang Mingyu at all.
Ning Yexin looked at Wu Chenshi. Kang Mingyu had called her a vixen, and she couldn't wait for him to die. Naturally, she held nothing back and told everything she knew.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk. You have no idea, first wife. I'm not the only woman he has on the side. There's a fourth, a fifth, a sixth, and a seventh. Why stop at seven? You think he's satisfied, or doesn't have the energy for more? Of course not. He made a schedule for the five of us, along with you. He's worked out exactly whose turn it is today and whose it is tomorrow. And because you're his wife, you get more days than we do."
After saying her piece, Ning Yexin felt refreshed from head to toe. She might be a mistress, but she had principles too.
This sort of thing took two willing parties. Kang Mingyu had approached her first, and now that his wife had found out, he wanted to wash his hands of everything? He could forget it!
Unable to take any more, Kang Mingyu broke free of the police and charged at Ning Yexin, clamping his hands around her throat. "How dare you spread lies in front of my wife! I'll kill you!" he snarled.
Although Kang Mingyu was quickly pulled away, he had still choked Ning Yexin until her veins bulged. She clutched her throat and coughed for a long while before recovering.
"I'm spreading lies? Should I give your fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh women a call? Didn't you say your wife had already tacitly accepted us? What are you panicking for?"
Ning Yexin kept up her barbed remarks. Seeing that he could do nothing to her, Kang Mingyu began pleading desperately with Wu Chenshi. "Honey, she's lying to you! She's trying to drive a wedge between us... Honey..."
[Not necessarily.]
[Actually, Ning Yexin wasn't supposed to come over yesterday. It was the fourth woman's turn. But because Kang Mingyu had been angered by Wu Chenshi yesterday, he changed his mind and called Ning Yexin over at the last minute. Ning Yexin bore some resemblance to Wu Chenshi, and he urgently needed to vent, needed to subdue Wu Chenshi, so...]
*[Good grief,*
a stand-in
*romance too? You really are steeped in every vice.]*
Hearing this, Wu Chenshi turned to look at Ning Yexin. Sure enough, there was some resemblance between their eyes and brows.
Seeing her reaction, Kang Mingyu thought she believed him and had decided to turn her attacks on Ning Yexin. Before he could even feel pleased, two more slaps from Wu Chenshi left him seeing stars.
"Go to hell, Kang Mingyu! To think I believed you were a good man because you took my dad to the hospital. Who would have thought? Who would have thought!"
[He certainly isn't a good man.]
Wu Chenshi froze. Was there more to what had happened back then?
*[Back then, Wu Chenshi's father accidentally discovered Kang Mingyu's true colors. He went to talk to Kang Mingyu and told him to leave his daughter. Who knew that Kang Mingyu would not only refuse, but even mock the old man, saying that once he died, Wu Chenshi would fall into his hands and he could do whatever he wanted with her.*
[Kang Mingyu angered the old man into having a heart attack, then watched him topple backward without any intention of calling an ambulance. He stood there admiring the sight of the old man struggling on the brink of death. Only later, worried he would be held responsible if the old man really died, did he take him to the hospital.]
What!!!
Although her father had eventually been taken to the hospital, he had arrived too late and died in the end.
When Wu Chenshi went to see her father for the last time, Kang Mingyu was standing right behind her. By then, her father could no longer speak. He pointed a trembling finger at Kang Mingyu, and Wu Chenshi mistakenly thought he wanted to entrust her to him. She had even told her father not to worry.
Looking back now, she had been utterly wrong.
Wu Chenshi's eyes nearly split with fury. She rushed up to Kang Mingyu in a few strides and grabbed his collar. "I'll kill you."
It wasn't until two days later that the matter reached a resolution.
Through their investigation, the police discovered that Kang Mingyu really had delayed taking him to the hospital. He would probably spend a long time in prison.
Bai Yaxin relayed this to Lin Tingyue, filling in an explanation along the way for how the police had discovered what happened back then.
But Lin Tingyue paid no attention to that. All she cared about was whether Kang Mingyu would pay the price.
Hearing Bai Yaxin say this, Lin Tingyue let out a sigh of relief.
After Bai Yaxin went upstairs, Fan Qing arrived.
"Yueyue, I heard your whole family went on a trip together. How was it? Did you have fun?" Fan Qing asked.
[I don't know about fun, but I certainly ate my fill of melons.]
Fan Qing: "..."
She quickly asked, "Did anything really interesting happen?"
Lin Tingyue told her about the two juicy melons at the guesthouse.
Fan Qing munched on sunflower seeds as she listened with relish. Once Lin Tingyue finished, she pressed, "Any more? Any more?"
Lin Tingyue looked at Fan Qing, then suddenly reached out and pinched her face.
Fan Qing: "?"
Lin Tingyue kneaded and squished her face like a lump of dough. Fan Qing bristled at once. "Lin Tingyue, what are you doing?"
[Qingqing is so cute.]
Fan Qing's cheeks reddened. Honestly, even if she was cute, why pinch her face?
Oh well. Her best friend was hers to spoil!
Having finally pinched her fill, Lin Tingyue asked, "Right, what did you come over for this time?"
"Oh, I was having so much fun eating melons that I almost forgot what I came for."
Fan Qing clapped her hands and handed Lin Tingyue an invitation.
Lin Tingyue opened it and found an invitation to a banquet named Reborn.
"What's this?"
"My mom finally divorced that old geezer Fan Wei. He was in such a hurry to marry Tang Xiao back then that he was dead set on divorcing my mom. Then Tang Xiao turned out to be a scammer, and he changed his mind and came looking for my mom again, hoping to get back together. As if! This banquet is to celebrate my mom being reborn and escaping the sea of suffering. Yueyue, you, Aunt Bai, Uncle Lin, and both your older brothers all have to come."
After hearing Fan Qing out, Lin Tingyue looked at the invitation again and felt that it suddenly shone brilliantly. Her eyes curved into crescents. "Okay, we'll all be there."
"Oh, it looks like your eldest brother's back."
Fan Qing lowered her voice. "There's a handsome guy with him too."
[A handsome guy!!!]
Lin Tingyue turned around with Fan Qing. Sure enough, she saw Lin Yuhuan and an unfamiliar man walking in one after the other.
Lin Tingyue stood up. "Big Brother, you're back."
"Mm."
Seeing Fan Qing, Lin Yuhuan said, "You're here too, Fan Qing."
Fan Qing had always been sweet-tongued. She followed Lin Tingyue's lead and called, "Big Brother."
Although both of them were addressing him, their gazes had long since strayed to the person beside him.
Left with no choice, Lin Yuhuan introduced him to the two girls with shining eyes. "This is Song Qi. He's the trainee the company is putting its main backing behind in this talent competition."
Fan Qing made no attempt to hide anything, expressing her feelings right away. "No wonder you're the trainee they're backing. You really are handsome! Hello, I'm Fan Qing."
Fan Qing held out her hand to Song Qi.
"You're far too kind, Miss Fan," Song Qi said modestly.
But just as Song Qi's hand was about to touch Fan Qing's, Lin Tingyue took her hand first.
Lin Tingyue smiled. "I'm more impatient, so let me shake hands first."
"Uh, please go ahead, miss."
Fan Qing: "?"
Was there a melon about this man?
There wasn't just a melon. It was a huge one.
Chapter 45
[Song Qi looks courteous and refined, but he's actually a pervert.]
Fan Qing froze. What kind of pervert?
Lin Tingyue wouldn't even let her shake his hand. Was his perversion that serious?
[Back when Song Qi was at school, he shared a two-person dorm room with his roommate. Every night, after his roommate fell asleep, he would lick his...]