He picked up a fork and fed Bie Yunzong a slice of toast.
As he picked up his fork, he noticed an open brown paper envelope on the table. Curiosity led him to pick it up and examine it.
"What is this?" Su Yanxi casually pulled it out, and all the photos fell out and scattered all over the ground.
He looked at one candid photo after another of him and Cheng Zhuo, and was so frightened that he quickly got up.
"How can there be so many...?"
He was absolutely innocent and had absolutely no intention of having two minds! But these photos were captured so perfectly that they somehow managed to make his everyday interactions with Cheng Zhuo, which were just colleagues, seem like a romantic, ambiguous relationship. He was afraid that Bie Yunzong, unaware of the situation, would misunderstand him because of these photos!
"Honey, where did these things come from?" Su Yanxi asked Bie Yunzong in a panic, holding up the photos. "You...you don't believe these things, do you?"
After his initial panic, he realized that he shouldn't have acted that way. The more flustered and helpless he appeared, the more it seemed like he was guilty and afraid of being exposed.
And was it just his imagination? He sensed that Bie Yunzong's expression was getting increasingly off. How could that bright, energetic dog face, which had been smiling just moments before, suddenly collapse like that?
"Husband? Husband?" Su Yanxi was speechless, anxiously trying to explain. "These photos are candid shots—they're fake! The man in the photo with me is the second male lead in the drama. I have many scenes with him, so our daily interactions are—"
"Stop talking." Bie Yunzong interrupted Su Yanxi in a gloomy voice, "If you have anything to say, say it later..."
Bie Yunzong rarely spoke to Su Yanxi in such a somber and ruthless tone. Therefore, Su Yanxi's first reaction was that her dog was angry and she had to coax him quickly!
But Bie Yunzong's dark face turned increasingly red. Su Yanxi looked for a while before realizing that he was pointing to his throat.
Throat? ...Water?
Su Yanxi rolled her eyes helplessly, quickly poured a glass of water, and patted the guy's back to feed him water.
"Will eating slower affect your reincarnation? Eating so rudely, aren't you afraid of choking to death!"
After swallowing the food stuck in his throat with water, Bie Yunzong finally breathed easier. He drank water while panting slightly and said matter-of-factly, "You're the one who fed me such a big mouthful!"
"Of course I have to eat all the food my wife feeds me in one go!"
"I hope you choke to death." Su Yanxi wiped the stinky dog's mouth speechlessly. "You always think you're right!"
"I'm right, so what?" Bie Yunzong said smugly, pulling his wife onto his lap. "Who told me to have a wife? A man with a wife is like a treasure!"
"I don't treat you like a treasure at all. Look at how clingy you are, it's sickening." Su Yanxi pretended to be disgusted, but actually breathed a sigh of relief.
Judging from Bie Yunzong's reaction, he didn't take the photos seriously at all, did he?
Where did the photos come from?
"I found it in the entryway when I went back to your room last night. I guess someone slipped it under the door." With his beautiful wife in his arms, Bie Yunzong was incredibly relaxed and carefree, his tone as casual as if he were talking about someone else's business. "There was also a note inside, didn't you see it?"
Su Yanxi found a flattened note at the bottom of the envelope. It read: "[As agreed last time, transfer 50,000 yuan.]"
Su Yanxi frowned: "Who did you make an appointment with? Who brought these photos in? This is so strange!"
"Judging from the content of the text, it seems that the other party has something on you and is using it to threaten you into paying money." Bie Yunzong had already carefully examined the photos and notes yesterday. "Obviously, the evidence used to threaten you is these photos."
"You're quite the imagination?" Su Yanxi probed the dog. "You... don't believe in this nonsense, do you?"
Bie Yun chuckled and snuggled against his wife again, trying to please her: "Just kidding, would I believe in such a thing? Pah, only a fucking idiot would believe that!"
"This guy isn't even a third as handsome as me, why would my wife fall for him?"
Su Yanxi was both amused and exasperated: "Is this the basis for your judgment of whether it's true or false?"
"Isn't that enough? The fact that my wife is attracted to me proves that her taste is absolutely top-notch! I've seen this guy in person before; he's not as tall as me, not as handsome, and definitely not as rich or worldly-wise as me. If my wife were attracted to him, it would mean her aesthetic sense has gone backwards—at least a hundred years!"
Su Yanxi found it amusing, feeling both that her dog was being smug and deserved a beating, and that her husband's twisted logic was somewhat endearing.
The fact that he could still joke around shows that Bie Yunzong's trust in him was truly unbreakable. If there were even a hint of doubt or distrust, Bie Yunzong wouldn't have been able to say such things so lightly.
"And here you are, praising yourself again?"
Pinch the dog's cheek, give it a light kiss, and Su Yanxi props herself up on the table.
"You eat, I'll brush my teeth and wash my face first. I'll call Sister Tong and Xiao Hai over in a bit, we need to discuss something together."
Zong hope and Su Yanxi acted quickly; one finished his brunch in no time, and the other quickly washed up. After Zhou Tong and Lin Xiaohai arrived, Su Yanxi went through all the available intelligence from beginning to end.
Chapter 78
After learning about the disgusting things Cheng Zhuo said to Su Yanxi last night, Bie Yunzong was so angry he was about to explode. If Lin Xiaohai hadn't stopped him and Su Yanxi hadn't held him back, he probably would have stormed into Cheng Zhuo's room and given that disgusting slob a good beating!
"Damn it, how shameless!" Bie Yunzong slammed his fist on the table, venting his anger on the poor table. "How can there be such a self-deluded and shameless man?"
"Honey, you only spilled a glass of juice, you should have thrown boiling water in his face!"
"Calm down. The more I think about it, the more I feel that Cheng Zhuo was acting strangely last night." Zhou Tong rested his chin on his hand, pretending to be deep in thought. "Excluding the possibility of drug use and the explanation of his arrogant nature, I think he was somewhat instigated by someone last night."
Lin Xiaohai poured tea for everyone, puzzled, and asked, "What's the point? Besides disgusting the young mistress, what else can that guy surnamed Cheng do?"
Su Yanxi sneered: "Perhaps it serves to—delay the production schedule?"
This was what Su Yanxi was worried about during her conversation with Cheng Zhuo last night; it was also what she kept scheming and pondering during the time of confusion and helplessness before returning to the hotel to see her nemesis husband.
Because of Xiang Mingyue, the production schedule of "Red Flower" is already more than a week behind schedule. From the production team's perspective, they really cannot afford another actor's scandal, forcing them to suspend filming.
"To put it more bluntly, the biggest purpose of instigating Cheng Zhuo is to disgust me. It's not that I can't use public opinion to bring down Cheng Zhuo like I did with Xiang Mingyue, but I have to swallow my anger for the sake of the filming schedule."
“The other party easily grasped my mindset, and thus found the second male lead, Cheng Zhuo, whose role was second only to mine and who would never be replaced unless absolutely necessary.”
"I've thought about that too. The fact that the other person can grasp your thoughts so accurately shows that he really knows you very well."
"But the problem is, who exactly is 'the other party'? Who has such a deep grudge against you that they would cause you trouble every ten days or half a month?"
Su Yanxi rubbed her temples, feeling a headache coming on: "Qi Xiang'an?"
"I suspect that the photos that were put in my room were also prepared by him. But we have no evidence and cannot easily conclude that it was him."
"Tsk, this Qi Xiang'an." Zhou Tong also had a headache. "He can be implicated in everything, but he always stays out of it and has very little contact with us."
"The matter of his former name has not yet been explained, and the mastermind behind the Xiang Mingyue incident has not yet been found. Now there is another Cheng Zhuo? If all of the above incidents are related to Qi Xiang'an, then this person is more cunning than a fox."
Bie Yunzong listened listlessly, and halfway through, he started playing with his wife's free left hand.
My wife's hands are so beautiful! They're white, soft, and smooth. She likes to apply hand cream from time to time; her hands are long, slender, and fragrant, making everyone adore them.
Don't let your wife act like an Alaskan Malamute, only wanting to be petted. First, touch her with your hand, then rub her face against you. After that, rub the back of her hand with your lips, wondering how to suck on her fingers so that she won't get angry and beat you up.
Just as the three people at the table were talking and doing their own thing in two groups, Lin Xiaohai, who had been quietly waiting for orders, suddenly let out a scream of sudden realization.
"Young Master, Madam, Agent, I think I understand!" Lin Xiaohai slammed his fist on the table excitedly. "I understand their motive for orchestrating all of this!"
"What do you understand?" Su Yanxi looked at her young male assistant with a puzzled expression. "You've figured out who's behind it all?"
"It's Qi Xiang'an, no doubt about it!" Lin Xiaohai nodded firmly, pointing at Bie Yunzong, "Everything Qi Xiang'an is doing now is to break you two up—to make the young master cheat on you!"
Author's Note:
Dog: What position should I use to suck my wife's fingers so that she won't get angry and beat me up?
Su Su: No matter what position you're in, you'll get hit.
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Still couldn't reach 10,000 views a day, sob~ (covers face and runs away) qwq
#36 Husband who's cheating, just pretend you're cheating!
Lin Xiaohai can be really dull when he's in a daze, but his brilliant ideas can be quite insightful.
Under his reorganization, Su Yanxi and others gained a new understanding of Qi Xiang'an's motives.
"Didn't the young mistress say that the perfume Qi Xiang'an used smelled the same as the one on the young master's clothes the night he got drunk? Then let's make a bold assumption: this Qi Xiang'an is the one who sneaked into the young master's room that night!"
"You could even be bolder. Qi Xiang'an attended the celebration party just to get closer to the young master!"
Su Yanxi glanced at Bie Yunzong beside her, her eyes filled with disdain.
Don't let him droop his ears pitifully and complain unjustly: "Wife, why are you looking at me like I'm trash again? According to him, I'm actually a victim too!"
"Victim?" Su Yanxi snorted. "Nothing would have happened if you hadn't attended the party."
Zhou Tong listened most attentively, but still couldn't help interrupting to ask a question: "When Young Master Bie graduated and held his celebration party, Qi Xiang'an, who was in the same year as Su Su, had already graduated for two years, right? If you include the senior year internship, that's three years."
"It's been three years, isn't it a bit much for him?"
“Absolutely, absolutely!” Lin Xiaohai said with certainty. “How much trouble has Qi Xiang’an caused along the way? From the moment the young mistress joined the crew until now, he hasn’t stopped at all. Just think about it, how much he must hate and despise the madam, how could it not be this bad?”
Zhou Tong nodded, seemingly understanding, "You're right, let's continue."
"At the celebration party, Qi Xiang'an took advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention and drugged the young master's drink. He originally wanted to stage a drunken escapade to take the opportunity to advance his position, but the young master had extraordinary self-control and held firm to his position! Helpless, Qi Xiang'an could only settle for second best and leave a mark on the young master's clothes to make the young mistress misunderstand that the young master was having an affair!"
Chapter 79
Bie Yunzong chuckled, completely missing the point: "Well said, I like the phrase 'extraordinary self-control'!"
"Honey, did you hear that? Xiao Hai knows I have amazing self-control!"
"Shut up." Su Yanxi clicked her tongue and pinched Bie Yunzong under the table. "Let Xiao Hai speak properly."
Lin Xiaohai spoke clearly and eloquently: "Qi Xiang'an had been instigating Xiang Mingyue to target the young mistress, using Xiang Mingyue as a pawn. After learning that the young mistress was preparing for a comeback, Qi Xiang'an pulled out his trump card: a video he secretly filmed during their university years!"
"By relying on the young mistress's words about a 'long-term meal ticket,' she successfully sowed discord between the young master and the young mistress."
"It didn't work, it didn't work," Bie Yunzong waved his hand, patting his wife's thigh to explain and make amends, "It was just a small misunderstanding, I made up with my wife a long time ago. Now, I'm proud to be my wife's long-term meal ticket!"
Zhou Tong chuckled and teased Su Yanxi, "The way you two get along is really interesting, isn't it?"
Su Yanxi kicked the stinky dog under the table again, squinting her eyes menacingly as a warning.
He steered the conversation back on track, asking, "If you put yourself in Qi Xiang'an's shoes, everything does make sense. For example, his instigation of Cheng Zhuo could both sow discord between me and Yun Zong and make me dislike Cheng Zhuo, thus indirectly hindering our filming schedule."
"But despite what I've said, I still don't understand the logic behind it."
Su Yanxi tilted her head, her brows furrowed, unable to fathom the situation.
"Since he knows that Yunzong and I have been dating for many years, he should be able to guess that our relationship is deep, right? Where does he get the confidence that he can definitely break Yunzong and me up?"
Bie Yun nodded vigorously, like a chicken pecking at rice: "Exactly! Where does this confidence come from?"
"That's where our preconceived notions lie!" Lin Xiaohai snapped his fingers, getting excited. "Young Madam, please put yourself in Qi Xiang'an's shoes and re-examine your relationship with the young master. Then, what will you discover?"
Su Yanxi was taken aback: "Put yourself in Qi Xiang'an's shoes...?"
After a sudden realization, Su Yanxi understood.
"That's right, Qi Xiang'an didn't know!"