Chapter 25
After Gu Bainian told Gu Zhinian, it took several days before Gu Zhinian asked his assistant to contact Mr. Pei. After telling him the time and place, he hung up the phone. Mr. Pei was so angry that he was shaking, and Pei Shichen stood by and watched.
On the appointed day, Mr. Pei and his family were waiting in the private room early. Ruan Leyi was very reluctant to come, but under the pressure of Mr. Pei, she sat there quietly. Pei Shijin was also unwilling to come. His current acting career was hindered, and for the sake of his own image, he did not dare to ask Xue Tianrui for resources. He could only grit his teeth and wait for the storm to pass!
Anyway, the Internet has no memory. After a while, his affairs will naturally be forgotten when other revelations are made. However, there are always new male celebrities in the entertainment industry. If he is not exposed, he will be really finished. Now he has to rely on the Pei family and has to come here with a pinch of his nose. If the Pei family is really gone, he will never be able to get up again.
"I'm so annoyed. Is Shi Wan coming or not? Does he know how to keep time? He's really uneducated as a kid from an orphanage." Pei Shiyu's voice was loud, his impatience overflowing. After all, he was still young, and before coming here, he was repeatedly told to be polite to Shi Wan, and it would be best to get closer to her and play the emotional card. Anyway, he was young, and Shi Wan seemed to be a soft-hearted person.
"Shut up." Old Master Pei glanced at Pei Shiyu coldly. Pei Shiyu shrank his neck, and his hatred for Shi Wan intensified. Pei Shijin patted Pei Shiyu considerately. Pei Shiyu wondered why Pei Shijin was not his biological brother. If it weren't for Shi Wan, how could so many things happen.
They waited from ten o'clock until twelve noon before Shi Wan and Gu Zhinian finally arrived. Gu Zhinian took Shi Wan to sit in the main seat, with two bodyguards standing behind them. Zhou Cheng asked the waiter to serve the dishes.
Shi Wan felt somewhat familiar with this private room, as it was the one where he and Gu Zhinian first met. During the intervals between serving dishes, Shi Wan secretly glanced at Gu Zhinian. Gu Zhinian had been picking up food for Shi Wan, not giving the Pei family any chance to speak.
Shi Wan was also hungry, and he knew that the Pei family was not looking for him, so he ate his food obediently. Pei Hongyuan and Old Master Pei had been suppressing their anger. Ruan Leyi wanted to poke her chopsticks into Shi Wan's eyes. He had no sense of respect and didn't even know to call for help when he entered the door. It was true that they shouldn't have brought Shi Wan back. What an uneducated person.
"No more, I'm full." Shi Wan put down his chopsticks and whispered to Gu Zhinian that his stomach would feel uncomfortable if he ate too much or was hungry, and being eight-tenths full was the most suitable.
"Yunhai's dessert today is snow skin plum blossom cake, but you can't eat too much." Shi Wan likes this, but eating too much will make his stomach uncomfortable. It is rare for Shi Wan to lack self-control in this matter. Gu Zhinian also discovered by chance that Shi Wan had a stomachache after eating too much.
Shi Wan's eyes lit up, and he nodded obediently, "Yeah."
Shi Wan still looked very reserved on the surface, but his fingers were so happy that they were about to fly up. Gu Zhinian of course saw it too. He was so happy just eating a snack. If someone didn't know better, they would think he was abusing Shi Wan.
Shi Wan couldn't eat ice cream, so this snow skin dessert had a cool texture, a bit like ice cream, which Shi Wan liked very much. The only difference was that the skin was made of glutinous rice, which made it uncomfortable to eat too much, so Shi Wan only ate the filling, but Shi Wan didn't want to waste it.
The result of eating it is stomach pain, but it’s still bearable!
Shi Wan wanted to be willful for a rare occasion, so of course he ate it only after asking the doctor and being told it was okay.
"Do you want to go out and play for a while? I'm sure you will like the paintings collected by the boss here." Gu Zhinian asked Shi Wan softly with his head lowered.
Pei Shijin clenched his fists so tightly that his nails dug into his flesh without him feeling any pain.
"No need." Shi Wan shook his head.
"Shameless thing." Ruan Leyi's voice was full of malice and disgust, and her voice was not small, as if she wanted Shi Wan to hear it. Seeing Shi Wan in pain, Ruan Leyi felt physically and mentally comfortable.
But this was all she thought. She felt that Shi Wan had admiration for her, and she had an inexplicable self-confidence. She didn't even look at what she had done, nor did she consider whether she was worthy of it.
"It seems that Mr. Pei doesn't really want to talk." Gu Zhinian slowly wiped Shi Wan's hands with a hot towel, his voice cold, and he didn't even glance at Ruan Leyi.
"What nonsense are you talking about! Why don't you apologize to Shi Wan!" When Mr. Pei said this, his cloudy eyes were staring at Shi Wan, as if he was sure that Shi Wan would not dare to accept it.
There was silence in the private room.
"Didn't you say you would compensate me?" Shi Wan's voice was not loud, but it fell clearly into everyone's ears.
Shi Wan had no feelings for his biological mother. She gave birth to him but did not raise him. To him, she was just a stranger with some blood relationship. How could he use this to check and balance him?
"Brother, it was just an unintentional mistake. Don't be like this. It's Mommy." Pei Shijin looked at Gu Zhinian with tears in her eyes and said, "Brother Zhinian, Mommy is also Brother's mother."
"Yes, Shi Wan, your mother didn't mean it. Just forgive her this time. She is doing this for your own good. After all, she is your mother." Pei Hongyuan advised with the earnestness of a good father, as if Shi Wan was a child who was being unreasonable.
"Shi Wan, stop being so willful." Pei Shichen also reproached.
"Do I know you well enough? Do I need you to teach me how to do this?"
"Is it my mother? The mother who called me deaf? She is such a 'good mother'. I can't have her as my mother, right, Mr. Pei?" Shi Wan looked at Mr. Pei's old face with a smile. To play the family card, one must have this thing.
When Gu Zhinian heard Shi Wan's words, he glanced at Ruan Leyi coldly, and dropped the cup in his hand heavily on the table with a "bang". Ruan Leyi was so scared that she fell off the stool.
"Apologize." Short and crisp.
"Yes... I'm sorry..." Ruan Leyi stood up without caring about her manners, and apologized tremblingly, not daring to raise her head at all.
Old Master Pei and Pei Hongyuan looked unhappy, but they had experienced a lot and soon restrained themselves. Pei Shiyu was different, as hatred was clearly visible on his face.
"Mr. Gu, please be merciful and let my Pei family go. After all, my Pei family gave birth to Shi Wan and it will not be good for Shi Wan's reputation if you do this." Old Master Pei stopped talking.
"Okay." Gu Zhinian nodded indifferently.
Shi Wan looked up at Gu Zhinian without saying a word, then quickly lowered her head and continued playing with her fingers.
"After today, I don't want to hear anything about the Pei family being involved with Shi Wan. You should apologize for what happened online and explain the whole process clearly. I want to see it before two o'clock, otherwise everything we've discussed now will be null and void."
"Mr. Pei, I understand."
"Only this time." After saying that, Gu Zhinian took Shi Wan's hand and walked away. The bodyguards followed closely behind, and Zhou Cheng walked to the end.
"The bill has been settled. The gentleman asked me to tell Mr. Pei that it will be void after 2 o'clock in one minute." After Zhou Cheng went out, he asked someone to close the door to block out the sound in the private room.
"Dad, he—"
"What do you mean by 'he'? Didn't you hear the two points I said? Why don't you just go and write it? Why do you want me to write it myself?" His old face was thrown to the ground and stepped on, and he took out all his anger on Pei Hongyuan and the others.
"I tell you, write well and think it through. You only have this one chance." Old Master Pei said this, but his eyes were fixed on Pei Shijin.
"Grandpa...Brother Tianrui..." Pei Shijin brought out his backer aggrievedly. The old man wanted him to take the blame. Impossible. If this got out, he would never be able to make a comeback in the entertainment industry in his life. Absolutely not!
Old Master Pei didn't say anything, but glanced at Pei Shichen and Pei Hongyuan. The two of them understood and showed what they had written to Old Master Pei before two o'clock. All the mistakes were put on Ruan Leyi. Pei Hongyuan and others were just a good husband, father, son and brother who doted on his wife, mother, children and younger brother.
Old Master Pei didn't say anything, and Ruan Leyi didn't even know what the content was. After she saw it, everything became a foregone conclusion. In fact, it was almost the same, because Ruan Leyi was the first to rush to target Shi Wan.
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