Chapter 43 Support [VIP]

Aunt Luo came back after a while, pulled a stool and sat next to them, listening to them talking and laughing, a smile on her face.

"Auntie Luo, give us another plate of sugar-coated tomatoes. This is not enough!" Tang Yuan looked up and shouted.

"Okay." Aunt Luo nodded with a smile, stood up and took a plate of beef and tomatoes.

She looked at Fu Shengyan, "Auntie remembered that you don't like sweet food, so I brought you a plate of braised beef."

Fu Shengyan responded, picked up the chopsticks and picked up the beef ribs. At this time, another bowl of stew was placed in front of him.

He raised his eyes and met Aunt Luo's loving gaze, "This is the black chicken soup I made this morning."

"Auntie Luo, we want to drink soup too." Tang Yuan sniffed the sweet aroma and looked at Auntie Luo eagerly.

Aunt Luo smiled and agreed: "I'll bring it to you."

"I'll get another serving of rice." Chen Zhong showed his empty bowl and got up to get the rice.

Yan Jie nudged him with her elbow and said, "Look at the rice dumplings, then look at yourself. All you do is eat. Go get them yourself."

Tang Yuan stood up angrily and walked towards the kitchen. "I can do it myself. You take a rest."

Lin Zhihua took a sip of the soup with Fu Shengyan's spoon. The chicken was already stewed till soft and her mouth was filled with the sweet and fresh soup. It was indeed very delicious.

"It's really delicious. I'll get a bowl too." Her eyes curved as she followed Tang Yuan into the kitchen.

After dinner, they chatted with Aunt Luo for a while. More and more people came to the street, and many neighbors gathered around their car to take pictures. Considering that Yan Jie is now a public figure, in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, they prepared to say goodbye.

"I'm already very happy that you can come to eat, so why should I charge you money? I haven't even paid for the lawyer's fees and the money for this shop..."

Aunt Luo refused to take the money, but Fu Shengyan insisted on accepting it.

"How can you eat and dine for free?" The change arrived in the store. Fu Shengyan put away his phone and laughed playfully. "I was just a fledgling lawyer at the time. How could I dare to charge you any legal fees?"

Aunt Luo shook her head. "If you hadn't been busy running around and arrested those murderers, Qianqian would still be—"

"Aunt Luo." Fu Shengyan interrupted her, looking seriously at the woman in front of him. "If it weren't for Du Qian's recording, I wouldn't have been able to conjure up evidence to convict Zhou Zhengyang. It was Du Qian who helped himself. From now on, just treat me as Du Qian's friend, okay?"

Aunt Luo nodded with tears in her eyes.

Fu Shengyan put on his smiling face again, "How can you do business without charging money? We don't dare to come here if you act like this."

Aunt Luo burst into laughter and escorted the man out the door. "But I have to pay the rent for this shop."

Fu Shengyan pretended not to hear and walked out of the store without looking around.

"Have you paid?" Lin Zhihua looked up at him.

Tang Yuan came over with a smile, "Thank you, Brother Fu, for the meal."

Fu Shengyan was about to open the car door and get into the driver's seat when Yan Jie suddenly grabbed Lin Zhihua.

"Captain, can you ride with me? I have something I want to talk to you about in private."

"Sure." Lin Zhihua agreed readily.

"That's perfect. The four of us can share a car." Xue Zeyu clapped his hands and winked at Fu Shengyan. "Sister Yan told me that she's going back and won't be with us for the second half."

Tang Yuan put his hand on Fu Shengyan's shoulder and said, "The squad leader has released us. Brother Fu, I will take you to experience the world of a single man."

The emphasis was placed on the four words "single man". Tang Yuan deliberately made his words very ambiguous, and Fu Shengyan's heart skipped a beat when he heard it.

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Fu Shengyan frowned, slapped his hand away, and looked at Lin Zhihua's face nervously.

But his wife didn't pay any attention to them at all. She had already gotten into the car with Yan Jie. The Maybach quickly left them and disappeared into the narrow alley.

Fu Shengyan: “…”

"The old place?" Xue Zeyu raised his eyebrows at Tang Yuan.

The two men exchanged a knowing look, and one carried Fu Shengyan on the left and the other on the right as they walked towards the car. A trace of struggle flashed across Fu Shengyan's face, and he looked like a good boy who was kidnapped by robbers.

"Stop looking, get in the car!"

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Lin Zhihua was sitting in the passenger seat next to her and chatted with her in a natural tone: "Where are we going?"

"Let's go to my house." Yan Jie pursed her lips.

Lin Zhihua was a little surprised. "Didn't they say you're not allowed to enter your neighborhood?"

"I don't live there often. The community is close to the movie studio, and I only go back to live there occasionally when I'm filming." She explained casually, intentionally bringing the topic to daily trivial matters.

The car drove smoothly out of the bustling city and headed towards the high-end villa area on the edge of the city, and stopped in front of a villa with a garden.

"We're here." Yan Jie got out of the car first, walked up the stairs and entered the password. The heavy dark gray door opened silently.

The cold colors of the other materials are mainly gray and white, simple and low-key, and full of luxury. It is not the warm and comfortable feeling that Lin Zhihua imagined.

Lin Zhihua subconsciously thought, style.

“Woo-woof!”

Accompanied by an excited and slightly aggrieved whimper, a group of people rushed over from the depths of the living room.

"Glutinous rice!" Yan Jie squatted down, opened her arms, and smiled widely.

"What a cute Samoyed." Lin Zhihua rubbed its big furry head.

Nuomi seemed to understand that someone was praising her. She looked at Lin Zhihua curiously with her bright black eyes, and even rubbed her leg with her big head.

"Ms. Yan." A woman, about fifty years old, walked out of the house. She nodded politely at Lin Zhihua, asked a few questions, and went to the kitchen to prepare drinks.

There was a wraparound leather sofa in the living room. Yan Jie casually threw her bag on it. Nuomi followed her closely and put his furry head on Yan Jie's legs.

She smiled and rubbed Nuomi's soft ears and neck hair, "Auntie Wang, please accompany Nuomi to the garden to play for a while."

"Okay." Aunt Wang placed the coffee and juice gently on the coffee table and left with Nuomi.

Lin Zhihua could tell that Yan Jie had deliberately sent the servants away. After they left, she lowered her voice and asked, "Did something happen in your circle? Or do you want to confess your new relationship to me?"

Yan Jie paused holding the silver spoon. She gently stirred the unmelted sugar cube in the cup and lowered her eyes. "You saw it at the Lingxi banquet before. Li Yingqi and I were quite close. This is also his villa."

Lin Zhihua also took a sip of coffee and said with a smile, "Big stars are really good at keeping secrets. They're really tight-lipped. How long have you been talking to Mr. Li? I was really shocked that day."

"Squad leader, stop teasing me." She looked a little helpless, took a sip of the coffee in the cup, and frowned because of the bitterness.

Lin Zhihua was sensitive to her distress and irritability, and frowned slightly: "Did Li Yingqi bully you?"

Yan Jie shook her head, looking a little embarrassed to speak. After hesitating for a moment, she took out a paper contract from her bag and handed it to Lin Zhihua.

"We're not boyfriend and girlfriend. To put it bluntly, I'm just a celebrity he keeps. It's just a sexual transaction between him and me. He gives me resources and money, and I sleep with him. We each get what we need." Shame crossed her face as she spoke of this in front of her friends. She closed her eyes and confessed everything. "I know he kept me because I looked like his first love, his white moonlight."

Lin Zhihua was somewhat glad that she had just put the coffee on the coffee table.

She looked down at the contract in her hand. The words "Keeping Agreement" written in large letters on the cover made her forehead throb.

Yan Jie glanced at her expression and coughed lightly. "I was ignorant when I signed it. Later I realized that this kind of agreement has no legal effect. I want to end this relationship and draw a clear line between us."

Lin Zhihua gave her a strange look and said, "You know this contract is invalid. If you want to end it, just leave. These breach of contract clauses won't bind you."

Yan Jie touched the tip of her nose. "It's true that he can't restrain me, but he can't restrict him either! In addition to resources and money, Li Yingqi has given me a lot of things over the years. But we're not boyfriend and girlfriend. What if he sues me in court and asks me to return all the jewelry I've taken from him over the years at a discount?"

"I've never met a man as fussy and stingy as him." Thinking of his penny-pinching nature and the breach of contract compensation in the contract, Yan Jie couldn't help but curl her lips. "He gave it to me voluntarily. I can't sleep with him for five years for nothing, right?"

Lin Zhihua opened her mouth and said, "Sister, I was afraid that you were just in love."

"I'm not Lawyer Fu." Yan Jie rolled her eyes slightly.

She knew too well how fragile a relationship based solely on money was. The relationship between her and Li Yingqi was simply an exchange of desire and profit, without something as ethereal as love. She envied the relationship between Lin Zhihua and Fu Shengyan, but she also knew that a man like Fu Shengyan, obsessed with his wife, was incredibly hard to find in this era of fast-food love.

"Why do you suddenly want to break up? There are only two months left before the contract expires. Just be patient and it will be over." Lin Zhihua flipped through the terms and conditions page by page.

"I already have connections, reputation, and strength. There's no need to maintain this relationship." Yan Jie's voice was indistinguishable from sadness or joy. "Last week, his first love came back. Of course, I, as a substitute, have to make room for the Queen."

Lin Zhihua saw through her stubbornness and shook the contract in her hand: "So it turns out that his first love has returned, and he can't bear to let her go?"

Yan Jie nodded subconsciously, then shook her head vigorously, "I just can't bear to leave Nuomi! I raised this little guy from childhood. I heard that it was his first love who placed him here for foster care. I want to take Nuomi with me, but Li Yingqi will definitely be reluctant to let him go."

Lin Zhihua looked at the agreement in her hand carefully. After listening to her words, she had a rough idea in her mind and returned the contract to her.

"So you asked me to come here to take away the glutinous rice and the property he gave you over the years?"

Yan Jie nodded hurriedly, "It's mainly glutinous rice! I have a deep affection for it!"

Lin Zhihua spread his hands and said, "You have to ask him if he's willing to sell the dog. I can't do anything else. I can only bet on Li Yingqi's character."

Yan Jie was about to say something when Nuomi's voice suddenly came from outside the door.

Aunt Wang knocked on the glass door of the floor-to-ceiling window.

"Ms. Yan, Mr. Li is back."