Chapter 25

Fu Huaiyan's expression cooled slightly. He cast an indifferent glance across from them and explained who the other party was.

Their surname was Chen, and they were another wealthy family in high society. The woman was Liu Yue, and the man was Chen Zheyuan. Supposedly, the two were deeply in love and were a well-known model couple in their circle.

Chen Zheyuan doted on his wife as though his life depended on it, and his treatment of her was held up as an example in their circle. But his indulgence had also made Liu Yue arrogant and contemptuous of everyone.

She looked down on everyone and frequently sneered at and mocked the wealthy wives around her who had married into money or whose marriages were not as good as hers.

Now Su Wanqiao finally understood why Liu Yue had looked at her that way.

She thought she had a wonderful relationship with her husband and was mocking Su Wanqiao in a roundabout way.

Su Wanqiao did not particularly mind, because their names sounded incredibly familiar. Suddenly, it came to her.

[In the original novel, the background female supporting character heard mocking the female lead, Jiang Ruoning, at the ball seemed to be this woman named Liu Yue.]

[At Jiang Ruoning and Gu Yubai's engagement banquet, Liu Yue was one of the cannon-fodder wealthy wives who mocked the couple.]

[After Gu Yubai became the richest man, he took revenge by destroying the family businesses of those wealthy wives who had mocked Jiang Ruoning. The Chen Family was among the companies he swallowed up.]

The male lead halo let him easily get hold of operational loopholes in other companies, buy off their top talent, and even snatch their patented projects out from under them. Such unfailingly successful moves made the male lead's company bigger and stronger. If this continued, even if Fu Huaiyan did not die, he could never compete with a male lead running on cheats.

[Fu Huaiyan doesn't have all those lucky opportunities, much less such a miraculous male lead halo. On the contrary, if he opposes the male lead as a villain, he'll have terrible luck, too. So he'll definitely fail in the end.]

Su Wanqiao sighed at the thought. The more she looked at Fu Huaiyan, the more she felt this man's days were numbered. For the sake of the money he gave her, she would burn more joss paper for him after he died.

"..."

Fu Huaiyan held in a breath of frustration until his face nearly turned red. Why did Su Wanqiao have so little faith in his abilities?

She must never have seen him negotiate a deal. Otherwise, why would she doubt his ability to beat the male lead and be so certain he would lose, be framed, and die young? Now that he knew the plot in advance, he would never let that happen.

He would definitely let her see what he could do when the time came.

He was just about to say something.

Then he heard Su Wanqiao's thoughts take a turn.

[If Fu Huaiyan got those fortuitous encounters meant for the male lead, wouldn't that change the ending? I despise the male and female leads' dirty tricks anyway. I wouldn't object if Fu Huaiyan became the male lead. Chen Zheyuan showers his wife Liu Yue with endless affection on the surface, but he actually keeps a second, third, and fourth mistress outside their marriage. His lovers could fill a mahjong table. His corporation has also been running illegal businesses all along, and the sources of many of its goods are murky. He also bribed quite a few officials to obtain legal paperwork. He hid that list in a safe at one of his lovers' homes.]

[The male lead eventually found that list, which was how he brought down Chen Zheyuan and swallowed up the Chen Family's resources and businesses. If Fu Huaiyan found that letter first instead of the male lead and let the Fu Family swallow up the Chen Family, wouldn't that expand their business territory again and take the Fu Family's business another step forward? They might even become a force capable of contending with the male lead, and they wouldn't be schemed into bankruptcy in the end.]

Once the thought occurred to Su Wanqiao, she found it increasingly tempting.

Beside her, towering waves surged through Fu Huaiyan's heart, and the look he gave Su Wanqiao grew wildly delighted.

Su Wanqiao was simply his lucky star!

Of course Fu Huaiyan knew what Su Wanqiao's thoughts meant. They were a treasure trove worth enough to rival a nation!

If he truly secured evidence of the Chen Family's illegal dealings, the Fu Family's business could easily expand several times over!

Fu Huaiyan looked at Su Wanqiao with enthusiasm. She truly never ceased to surprise him.

Some time later, elsewhere, Fu Siyao was surprised when Gu Minghan actually contacted her on his own, saying he wanted to apologize to her in person over this matter.

Although Fu Siyao had long been prepared for something bad to happen, she had not expected him to be so direct. Besides, her sister-in-law had already worked out a solution for her.

All she needed to do was play along and invite the gentleman into the urn.

After having her bodyguards investigate the time, place, and contact details for her kidnapping, she arrived punctually for the meeting and waited for Gu Minghan to drug her.

Fu Siyao directly ordered her bodyguards to force the drugs they were holding down Gu Minghan's and his lover's throats.

She had the bodyguards deliver Gu Minghan and his lover to the agreed location and hand them over to the leader, Third Master.

Third Master did not know who was making the handoff, but they gave the correct code phrase and delivered both the money and the people on time, so naturally there was no problem.

As for whether they were men or women, that did not matter.

The less he knew about his employer's affairs, the better.

The bodyguards made one special request.

They were to take photos and post them online.

Fu Siyao did this because, in the plot, she was the one who had been photographed, humiliated, and persecuted. If she had not learned of his scheme in advance, considering how Gu Minghan had wanted to humiliate her, nothing she did to him would be excessive. The thought made her hate the two of them to the bone, so much that she wished she could tear them into ten thousand pieces. Of course, what she needed now was to let them bind themselves in their own cocoons and suffer this pain.

In any case, she had to thank Gu Minghan for handling this so cleanly that no investigation could trace it back to them. Now that their roles were reversed, there was no trace of her involvement, either.

A heart bent on harming others had ultimately harmed its owner.

Fu Siyao quietly drank her tea. After waiting for about two hours, she heard from her subordinates that everything had been taken care of, and only then did she smile in satisfaction.

Her charming smile was like a beautiful yet dangerous poppy, sending a chill down one's spine.

Then, in less than a single day.