Chapter 19
Hearing Su Wanqiao banging loudly on the door, Fu Huaiyan hurried out of bed to open it.
The sight that greeted Su Wanqiao was a set of beautiful, exceptionally strong, muscular abs. Her vision swam and her breath caught, but she quickly shook her head to calm herself down.
[Damn it, stop looking. A man's beauty really can lead you astray. I need to calm down, or Gu Yubai is going to con Fu Qingshu until not even scraps of her bones are left.]
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Fu Huaiyan, who had just been woken up, instantly became fully alert too.
What on earth was going on in the middle of the night?
How had Fu Qingshu gotten dragged into this again?
Su Wanqiao said directly, "Let's hurry and take the bodyguards to the bar. Fu Qingshu is drinking there with her friends, and those girls have been surrounded by thugs. We need to get over there and save them."
[What a clichéd, dog-blood plot! In the book, Fu Qingshu was harassed by thugs at a bar, and Gu Yubai suddenly appeared to play the hero saving the beauty. Who knows how the male lead just so happened to arrive in time to save her? Afterward, Qingshu fell deeply in love with him, and that love took root. Later, because she couldn't have him, she turned into a vicious female supporting character who repeatedly made things difficult for the female lead, creating conflicts and misunderstandings in the main couple's relationship. They hated her to the core. In the end, Fu Qingshu met a miserable fate: the heartless male lead sold her off into the mountains.]
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Chapter 19
After hearing this news, Fu Huaiyan was truly shocked. He had never imagined that something like this could happen to Fu Qingshu.
As a daughter of the Fu Family, Qingshu had grown up with a golden spoon in her mouth and had never suffered the slightest grievance. Now he was being told that her ending in the plot was to be sold into the mountains. He simply could not accept that outcome.
The other members of the Fu Family had similar fates, all ending in tragedy.
At present, apart from Fu Zhinian, whose ending he did not know, virtually all his other younger siblings met terribly painful ends.
It seemed as though some kind of ill fortune kept clinging to the Fu Family, or as though they had been cursed or afflicted with gu, leaving them utterly unable to escape their predetermined fate as villains.
Take Fu Qingshu's ending, for example. It made very little logical sense. If Gu Yubai sold her into the mountains, then he had committed human trafficking.
Why should a criminal get to have a male lead halo in a novel? It simply defied all reason.
Did being the male lead mean Gu Yubai could use his halo to hurt others however he pleased?
Did being the male lead mean everyone else had to be livestock?
Not only did someone like that never go to prison, he even got a perfect happy ending.
It really was impossible to let go of that injustice!
Fu Huaiyan felt that although he could hardly be called a good person, abiding by the law had to be a matter of principle. Yet Gu Yubai had so many opportunities and so much good luck in the plot, making him who knew how many times more fortunate than ordinary supporting characters, while his character was so despicable. It truly made him lament the unfairness of fate. Scum like that did not deserve it.
From now on, he would snatch every opportunity meant for Gu Yubai that he came across. Since this plot setting dictated that it was either their deaths or his, why should the Fu Family die instead of the male and female leads?
He would ensure that every decision the Fu Family made benefited the Fu Family, that they became an existence in control of everything, refusing to become tools in someone else's story. He would reverse every tragedy and make every opportunity belong to the Fu Family and serve their purposes. The Fu Family would be the protagonists of their own story, unafraid of hardship, and win in the end.
This time, he had to keep Fu Qingshu from being influenced by Gu Yubai and reduce their emotional entanglement.
He simply could not understand it. It was not as though his second younger sister had never seen other outstanding men, so how had her love for Gu Yubai taken such deep root?
Besides, Fu Qingshu was not a jealous woman. She really should not have done the things a vicious female supporting character did. But even if she really did something reprehensible, the law was there to punish her. Who did the male lead think he was? What standing did he have to engage in human trafficking?
And this human trafficker, who deserved death by a thousand cuts, was actually the book's male lead blessed with fortune.
Fu Huaiyan was so angry he could barely speak. His expression was as dark as water, and he could hardly suppress his fury.
This was the first time Su Wanqiao had seen Fu Huaiyan so angry. Lately, this man had always been pleasant when he was with her, and it had been a long time since his expression had been this dark, so she could tell that he was truly angry this time.
[In this incident, Fu Qingshu is a tool controlled by the plot. First of all, normal people rarely go out drinking at two in the morning, right? Second, the Fu Family's strict upbringing doesn't allow Fu Qingshu to stay out all night. Yet with the plot controlling things, even the impossible becomes possible. It needs a hero-saving-the-beauty incident at the bar, waiting for the male lead to rescue her and kick off the harem wish-fulfillment route. Still, the second and third brothers' love-brain symptoms were much worse than Qingshu's. If those two kids could be cured, there's no need to worry too much about Qingshu either.]
Fu Huaiyan saw these words.
Thinking about how Fu Yunqi and Fu Yichu's love brains had reached the point of killing their older brother and digging out his kidneys, Fu Qingshu's case did not amount to much. It was just that Gu Yubai was far too vicious. If he dared hurt his younger sister, Fu Huaiyan absolutely could not let him off.
The most important and urgent thing was to bring Fu Qingshu to her senses and keep her from falling into a love brain.
With that thought, Fu Huaiyan and Su Wanqiao changed clothes, went downstairs, and hurried to the bar address Fu Siyao had sent.
Along the way, Su Wanqiao noticed that Fu Huaiyan was unconsciously holding her hand tightly the whole time.
Perhaps Fu Huaiyan himself did not even realize what he was like when he was nervous, but Su Wanqiao took it all in. His strong fingers, the scorching warmth of his palm, and his rapid heartbeat all revealed his anxiety for his family.
Su Wanqiao gently held his hand in return, thinking she could comfort him.
[Don't worry. Everything will be fine.]
Fu Huaiyan nodded almost imperceptibly, hoping in his heart that Qingshu would be safe and sound.
By the time the two arrived at the bar, Fu Siyao had already gotten there ahead of them with the bodyguards she had brought.
Actually, Fu Qingshu had bodyguards of her own too, but strangely, she had not brought anyone to protect her today.