Ji Chu and Chu Ningxuan were already seated in the private room, and the rest were a few pretty girls dressed in revealing outfits.
Chu Ningxuan leaned lazily against the back of the sofa, a cigarette dangling from his lips, his eyes half-closed as he looked at the cards in his hand, while two sexy women next to him kept pressing against him.
Upon seeing Shi Wan enter, he quickly stubbed out his cigarette, handed the playing cards to the girl who was sticking them to his body, and then walked towards Shi Wan.
"Little Wanwan, I heard that guy surnamed Feng is causing you trouble?" Chu Ningxuan's usual playful demeanor vanished. "Do you want me to help you deal with him?"
With one arm around Shi Wan's waist and the other hand blocking Chu Ningxuan's handsome face from approaching, Lu Jingyan coldly said without even looking at him, "Get lost!"
"Ha! Ning Xuan, you? Take care of Feng Yunzhou? Don't go looking for trouble for your brother." Ji Chu glanced at Chu Ning Xuan with schadenfreude.
"Damn! Aren't you guys still here?!" Chu Ningxuan resumed his playful grin and winked shamelessly at Lu Jingyan.
"Hasn't Mengmeng arrived yet?" Shi Wan looked around the room but didn't see Ji Meng. On the way here, Ji Meng had texted her saying that she was already at the door.
Just as she finished speaking, the door to the private room was pushed open. Ji Meng, clutching her chest heaving from heavy breathing, saw Shi Wan and her eyes lit up. She hurriedly went over and pulled Shi Wan to the sofa.
Lu Jingyan, who was standing next to her, pursed his lips in dissatisfaction at the sudden emptiness in his arms and gave Ji Meng a cold glance.
Ji Meng pretended not to see anything, angrily pulled Shi Wan to sit down, and gestured to the scantily clad beauty sitting next to Chu Ningxuan to leave.
Seeing that only familiar faces were left in the room, Ji Meng took out her phone and handed it to Shi Wan. Shi Wan frowned slightly as she stared at the contents of the phone.
"Who sent this?" Her beautiful face showed a hint of coldness.
"Our ID has been hidden and we can't find it. If this news gets out, it will have a huge impact on you. And what kind of rubbish is this! Only the name is correct; the rest is all made up! Which bastard posted this!" Ji Meng cursed angrily.
"If it weren't for the company's news department employees intercepting the news, those reporters would be camped out in front of your and Lu Jingyan's house right now!"
Shi Wan didn't reply, her eyes lowered as she stared thoughtfully at the photos on her phone.
The first photo shows Lu Jingyan holding Shi Wan in a hospital setting, where large patches of bright red blood can be clearly seen under Shi Wan's white dress.
The second photo is a hospital certificate for the patient, Shi Wan. Amidst a bunch of illegible words describing the cause of her illness, the four characters "natural miscarriage" can be seen.
Lu Jingyan glanced at the contents of his phone, a flash of hostility in his eyes, and the atmosphere around him instantly cooled down.
Shi Wan's soft little hand squeezed Lu Jingyan's palm, which was slightly cool. Lu Jingyan held the girl's soft hand in return, and the tenderness in his palm spread to his cool fingertips, bringing him a sense of peace.
"Ye Jiajia!"
"Feng Yunzhou!"
Ji Meng and Chu Ningxuan spoke up almost simultaneously, expressing their doubts.
Ji Meng felt that Ye Jiajia was almost obsessed with marrying into the Lu family. Now the whole capital was watching her make a fool of herself. The Ye family would definitely not let go easily. The only way was to smear Shi Wan and make her unable to hold her head up in the Lu family.
Chu Ningxuan believed that Feng Yunzhou released the information out of a man's mentality of "if I can't have it, I'll destroy it".
At this moment, Ji Chu leisurely toyed with a golden lighter with his well-defined fingers, his eyes behind his gold glasses revealing no emotion. "The Lin family."
"The Lin family?!" Ji Meng and Chu Ningxuan turned to look at Ji Chu in confusion.
At the same time, Lu Jingyan and Ji Chu both thought of the Lin family, and a hint of gloom appeared in his dark eyes.
"Lin Yue? Does she have the guts? Last time, her father's branch companies all went bankrupt after Old Lu dealt with them." Chu Ningxuan sneered disdainfully.
“No, not the Lin family of Kyoto, but the Lin family of the capital.” Shi Wan’s voice was soft, but unlike usual, it carried a hint of indifference.
“The Lin family, Lin Zhiyu.” Lu Jingyan gently rubbed Shi Wan’s fingertips, his expression slightly regaining its indifference as he added, “The wedding date between the Feng and Lin families has been set, but this guy surnamed Feng has been frequently traveling to the capital lately.”
"The Lin family is desperate and might do something rash, fearing that Feng Yunzhou will break off the engagement. Without the support of the Feng family, the Lin family would truly be ruined." At this moment, Lu Jingyan's suppressed voice was lazy and carried a hint of coldness.
Chu Ningxuan jumped up in anger, “Damn it! The Lin family is planning to expose that Shi Wan cheated on Feng Yunzhou with Lu Jingyan and even had an abortion for him?!”
Chu Ningxuan had learned from conversations with several friends that Shi Wan and Feng Yunzhou had a past, and seeing the other party's malicious slander made him even more upset.
"These people are treating Feng Yunzhou like a hot commodity, even at the cost of ruining my little Wanwan's reputation? And what kind of lousy certificate is this? It's so falsified, which hospital still issues handwritten medical certificates these days!"
Ji Meng knew that the photo was taken the night Lu Jingyan saved Shi Wan and took her to the hospital, but the content alone confirmed that the other party did not know that the child was Feng Yunzhou's.
"But Wanwan, they probably don't know the child is Feng Yunzhou's..."
"Ji Meng, sit down!" Ji Chu's icy gaze swept over Ji Meng, startling her into immediately shutting up, abandoning her previous aggressive demeanor, and obediently returning to sit on the sofa.
Shi Wan knew what Ji Meng was going to say. If this news hadn't been intercepted by Ji Meng but had been exposed, she would rather it be like the fake news said, that she had cheated on Feng Yunzhou with Lu Jingyan and was pregnant with Lu Jingyan's child.
Her past with Feng Yunzhou couldn't be kept secret sooner or later, but that didn't mean she could accept that this information would be maliciously used by outsiders to smear her and Lu Jingyan.
During her time in the capital, Old Madam Feng already knew of You Wan's existence and would send people to look for her from time to time. At first, she thought that the Feng family simply disliked her because she had no background.
Later, every time he was called to the old house, the elders of the Feng family would either praise Lin Zhiyu in a sarcastic way or accuse him of hindering Feng Yunzhou for no reason.
It wasn't that they disliked her because she had no connections; they simply disliked her being the daughter-in-law of the Feng family.
But what overwhelmed her wasn't the elders of the Feng family, but the countless lonely days and nights after returning to China. She couldn't see Feng Yunzhou. After returning from the Feng family's old house, she tried to confide in him, but his phone was either busy or unanswered.
Every time Chen Xing called Feng Yunzhou's phone, the other party would only give a few cold replies and then nothing would come of it.
She often thought back to the time she spent in Country Y, and how his gentleness, care, and love for her always warmed her heart.
So after returning to China, faced with his cold attitude, Shi Wan always reflected on whether she was too clingy and whether she was affecting his work. Therefore, she endured all kinds of humiliation from the Feng family elders.
At that time, Shi Wan always believed that Feng Yunzhou loved her and never thought that his cold violence against her was just to get rid of her and marry her white moonlight.
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