☆、113、Watching a Play (2136 words)

Just as Feng Zihao had said, they hired a caregiver for Zhou Yang and never visited him again.

Li Yaxi skipped class before it was even over, thanks to Feng Zihao.

"What? Are you trying to escape a comet crashing into Earth? You're dragging me to skip class, and if I fail, you're doomed!"

"Ruwei asked us to meet; it seems something tricky has happened."

Li Yaxi was taken aback. "Xu Jie'er?"

Feng Zihao shook his head. "I don't know, we'll find out when we get there."

As soon as we entered the private room, we heard Lu Wei's wailing and howling.

Zhan Xiaoyu was crouching in a corner, eating a fruit platter by himself. When he saw Feng Zihao and Li Yaxi, he immediately pounced on them.

"You guys finally arrived! I haven't eaten breakfast or lunch. I just woke up and he dragged me to karaoke. He hogged the microphone and wouldn't let me sing. I was starving, bored, and my ears were ringing!"

Li Yaxi smiled as she looked at the two empty fruit platters on the table.

I'm going out to order something.

Li Yaxi ordered a huge amount of snacks and fruit platters, but didn't order even half a bottle of wine.

Upon entering the private room, I saw four people sitting quietly.

"Zhao Yi, you're here. Have you eaten? I ordered some cooked food; you can have some later if you haven't."

Zhao Yi smiled and nodded, while Lu Wei, holding the microphone, wanted to press the start button to continue singing.

Zhan Xiaoyu snatched the remote control

"Stop torturing us! Tell us what's wrong, brothers will stand up for us even if the sky falls!"

Lu Wei sighed. "Xu Jie'er is pregnant."

"your?"

Whose is it?

Li Yaxi's discordant voice rang out at the same time as the other two's, and Feng Zihao looked at him silently.

Lu Wei glanced at Li Yaxi

"You knew this would happen, which is why you said those things to me that night."

Li Yaxi opened the snack bag and started eating.

"Ya Xi, now both my family and the Xu family think that child is mine and are pressuring us to get married. That woman thinks I don't know and is eager to marry me. Do you have any way to help me?"

"Go and kill him to silence him, you can go with the ghost."

A group of people stared blankly at Li Yaxi, while Zhan Xiaoyu nearly choked on a potato chip.

Are you serious or not?

"Of course it's fake, you idiot."

Li Yaxi rolled her eyes at the group of people. "There are many ways. One is to run away, another is to wait until her child is born to get a paternity test and then extort money from her, and yet another is to find evidence and break up before the marriage. There are many more!"

Lu Wei shook his head. "If only it were that simple. The person who got Xu Jie'er pregnant comes from a poor family. He's a poor painter. His father knows this and is using the Yan family's influence to pressure our family and force me to marry her. So, there's no way to escape and find evidence!"

Zhan Xiaoyu frowned as he looked at Zhao Yi and Feng Zihao, then turned to look at Li Yaxi, who was still eating.

"So what are your plans? After what happened with the Feng and Han families, the Yan family is now in a dominant position and cannot be offended."

"Of course I know that! You don't need to tell me, I only came to you for advice because I had no other choice!"

"What's so difficult about that? The Xu family wants to cover up their shameful deeds, and the Yan family is protecting them out of consideration for their past relationship. But if the scandal is exposed in front of everyone, the Yan family won't be able to protect them no matter what. Try to avoid dealing with the Yan family in the future. Send them gifts during holidays and give them more benefits. They won't disregard their own interests for the sake of so-called friendship."

Everyone was stunned; they were all wary of the Yan family's power and therefore dared not act rashly.

After Li Yaxi said that, things weren't so complicated. It was hard to tell whether Li Yaxi was too smart and saw things clearly or whether they were overcomplicating things.

Ruwei nodded; things seemed to be making some progress.

"So how exactly do I do it?"

Li Yaxi rolled her eyes at him. "Didn't you guys ever prank someone and embarrass them in front of others when you were kids? It's the same thing. Use your brain and think about it yourself."

Lu Wei stroked his beardless chin, while Feng Zihao took the snacks from Li Yaxi's hand.

"Eat less, we'll go eat later."

"Oh, I ordered a lot of food, I wasn't planning on going to eat."

Feng Zihao looked at him helplessly, "You just don't like to eat!"

"If I had known things were this simple, I wouldn't have said anything. It was a real mistake to cause you all so much trouble."

Feng Zihao chuckled and pinched Li Yaxi's nose. "You're so clever! Come on, let's go eat."

"But what are we going to do with so many snacks? It's such a waste!"

"Just take it to go!"

Zhan Xiaoyu asked the waiter for a few bags, packed up a table full of snacks, and took them away.

Li Yaxi jumped onto the bed and hugged Feng Zihao. "I definitely have to go on our wedding day! It'll be such a lively and exciting event. Just thinking about it makes me so excited I can't sleep!"

Feng Zihao smiled and covered him with the blanket.

"The painter hasn't been found yet, things might not go so smoothly."

Li Yaxi chuckled, "Everything is under control!"

"What's the meaning?"

"Leave the search to me! How could I miss such a great show!"

They didn't know that the painter was hired by Li Yaxi at her own expense.

In his past life, Lu Wei fell into Xu Jie'er's gentle trap, and he didn't realize that the child was not his until the child was a year old.

Xu Jie'er even took his money to give to the painter, and Lu Wei, in a fit of anger, argued with Xu Jie'er and accidentally killed her.

The Xu family was embroiled in a bitter feud over Xu Jie'er, while the Lu family was fighting tooth and nail over the cuckoldry and their son's life.

The final outcome was predictably tragic.

Zhan Xiaoyu, Zhao Yi, and Feng Zihao are his brothers, so naturally they wouldn't abandon him.

This incident almost bankrupted them. Not long after, Han Weiming's affair was exposed, and he was pushed out to take the blame.

In short, it was a series of events, a chain reaction!

So in this life, Li Yaxi paid to find that person, so that he could get close to Xu Jie'er while also revealing his true colors to Lu Wei.

Fortunately, as Lu Wei gradually saw through Xu Jie'er, his love for her slowly faded away.

After much anticipation from Li Yaxi and meticulous planning by Zhan Xiaoyu and Zhao Yi, this day finally arrived.