When they went upstairs, Feng Shuiyun was still in the hallway. Seeing them, she greeted them first and asked, "What brings you upstairs?"
Only then did Lin Tingyue realize there were so many people behind her!
Bai Yaxin said, "Maybe I had too much wine. I'm feeling a little dizzy, so I wanted to come up and rest."
Feng Shuiyun understood. "The lounge is over there. I'll take you."
Meanwhile, Lin Tingyue was looking for the right room.
[Found it. It's the room at the very end on the left.]
Feng Shuiyun exchanged a glance with Bai Yaxin and immediately decided to designate the last room as the lounge. The entire villa belonged to the Feng family anyway, so she had the final say.
But when the mighty procession headed over, a mother and daughter beat them to it.
Feng Shuiyun paused. Why did that person up ahead look like her younger cousin?
Feng Xiurong shoved the half-open door wide. As the Lin family reached the doorway, they heard panicked voices from inside.
"Honey, what are you doing here?"
"Mom, honey, what are you doing here?"
[Good grief, is this a father-in-law and son-in-law getting caught in bed by the mother-in-law and daughter???]
Chapter 47
"Fang Jiancheng!!!"
Feng Xiurong's face twisted with rage. She shrieked as she strode over and slapped Fang Jiancheng. "How could you do this to me? How could you do this to Yichun? Of all the people you could find, you had to pick your own son-in-law!"
With so many people at the door and his wife exposing such a disgrace, Fang Jiancheng paled. He grabbed Feng Xiurong's hand and said quietly, "Xiurong, whatever it is, let's discuss it at home. We shouldn't air our dirty laundry in public."
Feng Xiurong pulled her hand free and spared him no mercy. "So you know it's dirty laundry! Why didn't you think of that when you were getting involved with your own son-in-law? Never mind doing it here-this is my cousin's party! Couldn't you hold back for even this little while?"
"I..."
Feng Xiurong's words came like machine-gun fire, leaving Fang Jiancheng utterly defenseless. Just as he was at his wits' end, sobbing rang out.
Fang Yichun cried, "Dad, why? When I brought A-Wen to meet you, you even said you were very happy with this son-in-law and would always support us. But A-Wen and I have only been married a year, and you... Dad, what have I ever done to you for you to torment Mom and me like this?"
The onlookers understood. So the father-in-law and son-in-law had taken a liking to each other at their very first meeting.
Feng Shuiyun stepped forward and put an arm around Feng Xiurong. Her expression was cold as she said, "He was very happy with this son-in-law. Look, they ended up in bed together, didn't they?"
Fang Jiancheng nearly wished the ground would swallow him whole. He looked up, saw Feng Shuiyun, and frowned. "Cousin, this is between Xiurong and me. Don't you know better than to meddle in someone else's family affairs?"
"Hah?"
Fan Qing laughed outright. She stepped forward with her arms folded. "Aren't you and your son-in-law the only outsiders here?"
Fan Qing supported her mother blindly, and Lin Tingyue supported her just as blindly. Lin Tingyue said, "Qingqing's right."
[I hate it when anything that happens between a married couple gets called a family affair. Family affair, my ass! Does getting married put you beyond the bounds of the law?]
Exactly!
Fan Qing linked arms with Lin Tingyue.
With Feng Shuiyun's support, Feng Xiurong felt even more confident. Holding her daughter close, she said, "So many people have seen it. Fang Jiancheng, just wait for your reputation to be ruined."
Only then did Fang Jiancheng remember that Feng Xiurong and her daughter weren't the only ones who had witnessed this. There were so many people present, all prominent figures. Even if he wanted to silence them, he probably couldn't.
Fang Jiancheng gritted his teeth and prepared to shift the blame. Pointing at Yuan Wen's nose, he snapped, "It was all him! I only let him join the company for Yichun's sake, but he stopped at nothing to climb the ladder. Xiurong, Yichun, I'm a victim too!"
[Hmm... if opening the door with the key card his son-in-law handed him, discovering his son-in-law inside dressed as a woman, and still choosing to fool around with him counts as being a victim, then Fang Jiancheng really has been wronged.]
There was even more to it?
He had recognized him and still gone ahead with his son-in-law...
This President Fang really was shameless.
[That's not all. Fang Jiancheng also found sneaking around with his son-in-law like this exciting. He demanded that his son-in-law dress as a woman every time he came to see him from then on, or he wouldn't be in the mood.]
How was this just an affair?
This was practically perversion.
Fang Jiancheng still had no idea that all his secrets had already leaked out. He kept signaling Yuan Wen with his eyes, hoping Yuan Wen would understand his painstaking intentions and shoulder the blame for now.
After all, if Yuan Wen went down, he would still have Fang Jiancheng. If Fang Jiancheng went down, there would be nothing left.
Unfortunately, Yuan Wen couldn't understand.
"What did you say?"
Fine, fine, fine. Since Fang Jiancheng had flipped the table first, he couldn't blame Yuan Wen for smashing the bowls and chopsticks too.
Yuan Wen sneered, "You say you're a victim? What about the others at the company? And you bought an entire building specifically to house all those lovers you keep on the side. Were you a victim in that too? Did someone hold a gun to your head and make you pay?"
[Wow.]
[As expected of the person closest to him. That backstab really packs a punch.]
Fang Jiancheng was nearly beside himself with rage. He slapped Yuan Wen outright. "And you're any better? Don't think I don't know you've been hooking up with other people besides me!"
"I have been hooking up with people, but not enough to fill a whole building!"
"Not a whole building, sure, but only because you couldn't land that many."
"You...
..."
Yuan Wen lunged straight at Fang Jiancheng, looking so vicious that he seemed ready to devour him alive and strip off his skin.
Pulling hair and biting faces, the two stopped at nothing.
[Tsk, tsk, tsk.]
Feng Shuiyun said furiously, "Throw these filthy things out!"
[Lest they sully this empress dowager's eyes!]
[Sorry, that was a conditioned reflex!]
At Lin Tingyue's inner voice, Feng Shuiyun's expression went from stormy to merely cloudy. "Sorry you all had to witness that."
Fang Jiancheng and Yuan Wen were both thrown out by the security guards, their upper bodies bare and only a pair of underpants covering their lower halves. Feng Shuiyun hadn't instructed anyone to give them something to cover up with, so the guards didn't bother.
And so Fang Jiancheng and Yuan Wen made the next day's headlines in that very attire.
But that was a story for later.
Only after Feng Shuiyun had more or less settled everything did Feng Xiurong's father finally arrive.
As soon as he arrived, he took Feng Xiurong's hand and asked anxiously, "Xiurong, are you all right?"
Patting Feng Xiurong's shoulder, Feng Shuiyun said, "Don't worry, Uncle. Xiurong and Yichun are both very clever. They haven't suffered much of a loss."
"That's good, that's good." Feng Junchu lowered his voice again and asked, "But Xiurong, are you and Yichun really going to get divorced?"
Feng Shuiyun: "?"
"Uncle, if they don't divorce over this, when should they?"
"I know, I know," Feng Junchu said. "But Shuiyun, you don't understand. These days, once a woman is divorced, it'll be hard for her to marry again. Surely she can't come back to her parents' home?"
Fan Qing: "?"
Was he taking a veiled jab at her mother?
Feng Shuiyun pressed down Fan Qing's hand, which was itching to move, and lowered her brows. "Uncle, whatever happens, Xiurong and Yichun are still members of the Feng family. Even if they divorce, they won't be mistreated."
Feng Junchu stopped even pretending. "Do you think everyone is like you? Do you know how much the Feng family's stock fell because you divorced Fan Wei?"
Fan Qing said sarcastically, "Surely not lower than the Fan family's? I heard their stock is almost at its lower limit."
"You..." Feng Junchu said impatiently, "You're just a child. Why are you butting in when adults are talking?"
Fan Qing was furious. She raised her fists and wanted to rush up and hit him, but Feng Shuiyun and Lin Tingyue held her back.
Looking at Feng Junchu in front of her, Lin Tingyue sank into thought.
[Hmm...]
[Is Feng Junchu acting so fearlessly because Fang Jiancheng didn't give up his father-in-law just now?]
What???
Feng Shuiyun and Feng Xiurong were shocked in unison.
[Yuan Wen is a repeat offender when it comes to handing out room keys. Not just his father-in-law-even his father-in-law's father-in-law wasn't spared.]
So her own father was among the people Yuan Wen had hooked up with?
And her father had known about this, yet hadn't said a word to her or her daughter?
Feng Xiurong had discovered Yuan Wen and Fang Jiancheng's affair by accident. That was when she had planned all this out. She wanted both Fang Jiancheng and Yuan Wen utterly disgraced.
She hadn't expected even her father to be involved.
Fighting back the urge to vomit, Feng Xiurong said coldly, "You should worry about yourself first."
Feng Junchu froze, then belatedly realized his daughter was defying him. He snapped, "Feng Xiurong, are you trying to rebel?"
"Dad, if I went to Yuan Wen for a list right now, as long as I promised him enough, do you think he'd give it to me?"
A list?
Feng Junchu immediately fell as silent as a cicada in the cold.
Feng Xiurong clenched her hands. It was actually true...
Just as Feng Xiurong stood there distraught, reeling from the enormous blow, Fang Yichun took her mother's hand and said softly, "No matter what happens, I'll stay by your side, Mom."
Feng Xiurong nodded.
The sight made Lin Tingyue unable to resist nuzzling Bai Yaxin's cheek. "Mom's the best."
Bai Yaxin hugged Lin Tingyue and Lin Xiawan. Honestly, if something like this happened to her two precious darlings, she really wouldn't be able to stop herself from fighting the other party to the death.
Bai Yaxin stroked Lin Tingyue's and Lin Xiawan's heads. "What's all this talk of your parents' home? As long as Mom and Dad are there, it'll always be your home."
Lin Rusong added, "That's right."
Lin Tingyue looked thoughtful.