Chapter 65 How can happiness be tiring?
The Wu family's dramatic ethical saga quickly surpassed Wu Nian's in popularity.
Soon, someone dug up the fact that this wasn't Wu Guo's first offense; he had blood on his hands over the years, and this was the first time he had failed.
A single mistake could be fatal.
His father, Wu Liang, is a well-known entrepreneur. He is a typical example of a man who becomes bad when he has money. He has countless mistresses on the side, while on the other hand, he maintains a true love persona with his wife.
One doesn't care about youth or beauty, but about kindness; the other doesn't care about wealth or power, but about personal charm.
Wu Guo deserves the most credit for maintaining this loving couple persona for so long. After all, every time Wu Liang gets pregnant outside the marriage, it's Wu Guo who's there to have an abortion.
Netizens affectionately call him "Abortion Bro".
Whether it was practice makes perfect or crime can be addictive, the abortion guy may have become numb to bloodshed over the years, and his methods became increasingly ruthless.
Wu Liang's previous mistress lost her baby in a car accident at an advanced stage of pregnancy, which also damaged her uterus, requiring a hysterectomy. Unable to bear the blow, she committed suicide by jumping off a building not long after.
This matter was once circulated on social media, but it was quickly suppressed.
Wu Liang had suspected from that time that Wu Nian was not the one who did it. Although Wu Nian took the initiative to come to him and admit it, Wu Nian was so poor, where would she get the money to suppress the heat? However, he was ruthless to his daughter but quite soft-hearted to his son, and in the end he did not expose the truth.
Unexpectedly, this matter was brought up immediately after Wu Nian became a sensation.
First, the woman's family made a scene online, and now it's clear that Wu Nian's team orchestrated their rise to the top of the trending topics. Once the public outcry had subsided, Wu Nian directly submitted Wu Guo's criminal evidence to the police station.
With irrefutable evidence and fueled by public opinion, Wu Guo is highly likely to face a ten-year prison sentence for intentionally causing serious injury and death.
"Did you already know this?"
When Meng Yanxi returned from his business trip, Jin Zhao asked him about it.
"Which part are you referring to? If it's a ten-year prison sentence, then I certainly knew that a long time ago; I studied law."
Jin Zhao: "..."
Meng Yanxi hadn't seen his girlfriend for a week while on a business trip, and he missed her terribly. After saying just one sentence, he took off his coat, casually threw it on the ground, and then hugged and kissed her.
Jin Zhao missed him too, and soon had no time to think about anyone else. Meng Yanxi pushed her towards the bedroom.
"You haven't showered yet," Jin Zhao whispered a reminder.
Meng Yanxi paused for a moment, then pushed the person directly into the bathroom.
Compared to Meng Yanxi's spacious bathroom, this place felt rather cramped. But even in this small bathroom, Meng Yanxi enthusiastically tried out seven different positions.
Jin Zhao was amazed by President Meng's pioneering and exploratory abilities.
But that was just the beginning.
Jin Zhao knows him well; he only truly exerts his physical strength when he returns to his bedroom.
But tonight is a little different.
Before, no one lived downstairs or next door, so it didn't matter what he did. But these past two days, a new teacher moved in downstairs.
The transitional housing provided by the school, while quite good, still suffered from the common problem of modern housing: poor sound insulation. On the day the downstairs neighbors moved in, Jin Zhao could hear things being moved around even from his bedroom.
When Meng Yanxi went in, she hugged him, her fingers instinctively clenching tightly, her fingertips pressed against the man's hard muscles. Tightening, relaxing, her blood surged.
Her voice trembled as she whispered in his ear, "Someone lives downstairs, you...you have to control yourself..."
Under the bright light, Meng Yanxi stared intently at her, his dark eyes filled with desire.
I can't control myself at all.
"Back to the bathroom?" The voice was hot and hoarse.
The bathroom is too exciting, Jin Zhao immediately shook his head.
The man chuckled softly, bit her lip, and kissed her tenderly, saying, "Okay, then don't make a sound."
...
Jin Zhao was still wondering, was this something she could control? Why didn't he try to control himself?
But she soon realized that he had control, and was very good at it.
His mouth was completely covered by him, and Jin Zhao's scalp tingled. Every time he wanted to scream, he ended up kissing him deeply.
The feeling of being unable to live and unable to die.
That night, the bedroom was more exciting than the bathroom.
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Afterwards, Jin Zhao would fall asleep almost immediately. Meng Yanxi, full of energy, would often want to be intimate with her afterward, but by then his girlfriend was already asleep like a kitten.
Meng Yanxi was both annoyed and amused, and kept kissing her. Sometimes he kissed her hand, sometimes her eyebrows and eyes, and sometimes her lips.
Jin Zhao was woken up by him and, with a bit of morning grumpiness, pushed him away, shoving his face to prevent him from nuzzling her.
Meng Yanxi pulled her hand away and said, "It's winter break now, don't you have to go to class?"
She gets tired even if she doesn't have to go to class, okay? She's not a doll.
"Aren't you tired?" Jin Zhao forced her eyelids open a crack and barely managed to give her boyfriend a look.
The man thought about it seriously for a moment and asked in return, "How can happiness be tiring?"
Jin Zhao: "..."
Too much fun and excitement can be tiring!
Meng Yanxi chuckled softly, "Please understand, I've probably been holding it in for too many years, so I couldn't quite control myself at first, but it should get better later."
Jin Zhao felt that this was just empty talk.
How long after that? How much better?
Is it to do it differently or not? Or is it to deliberately use your mouth in a less malicious way?
Jin Zhao ignored him and quickly drifted into a sweet dream.
Meng Yanxi kissed her again, this time without waking her up. After he'd had his fill of tender affection, he contentedly cuddled his girlfriend, turned off the lights, and went to sleep.
The phone screen on the bedside table lit up, its dim light illuminating the couple embracing in the darkness.
Meng Yanxi picked up her phone with one hand; Meng Shixu was calling.
He then released Jin Zhao from his arms and tiptoed to the living room.
Meng Shixu: "Wu Guo came looking for you?"
Meng Yanxi: "Yeah, I ignored him."
Meng Shixu: "Someone took a picture of him meeting with you."
Meng Yanxi: "I know, it's been taken care of."
Meng Shixu's tone was very serious: "Yanxi, why would you make such a basic mistake? Where did things go wrong? Did you not realize the potential consequences, or did you not receive any information at all? If it's the latter, Zhuang Yu doesn't need to come to work tomorrow."
The reason why the rich are rich is largely because they are exceptionally well-informed. From major international events to the slightest whispers within their own circles, they always know everything before others do.
The truth is, Meng Yanxi sensed the rumors even earlier than Wu Guo himself.
He wasn't unaware that the Wu family was about to face a great calamity; otherwise, Wu Guo wouldn't have been unable to find him anywhere in the world during that period.
Meng Shixu was silent for a moment, then suddenly thought of something and asked, "Did he follow your WeChat Moments to find him?"
The WeChat Moments post about skiing on New Year's Day.
Meng Yanxi said calmly, "Don't worry, it was just a chance encounter. I'll handle it."
Public opinion is the most uncontrollable force. Coupled with deliberate manipulation by certain individuals, it can quickly spread like wildfire. The Wu family had always been high-profile, and their reputation was so-so, that once trouble struck, everyone turned against them, and countless eyes were watching to dig deeper. There were onlookers and those condemning them.
Not only was the Wu family thoroughly investigated, but even Wu Guo's recent meetings and meals with others were also revealed.
These people were either Wu Guo's friends or even wealthier and more powerful than the Wu family, and they were all subjected to scrutiny and even malicious speculation from all sides.
Friends were accomplices, and those with money and power protected Wu Guo; they were all reported, and none escaped unscathed.
Meng Yanxi was the only exception.
Wu Guo chased after him to the hotel during that extremely sensitive period. Although Meng Yanxi only saw him for three minutes, he was naturally intuitive and always thorough in his work. Before leaving that day, he dealt with all possible hidden dangers, including surveillance and photos.
He knew perfectly well who had taken the photo.
When Wu Guo's plea for help failed, he tried to get Meng Yanxi to join him. But Meng Yanxi found this tactic rather naive.
Meng Yanxi never took Wu Guo seriously. In fact, Wu Guo's visit to him did not pose any threat to him.
What he really didn't expect was that his father's girlfriend, whom he had broken up with years ago, would seize this opportunity to resurface.
Ten years ago, a rising starlet quickly faded from the spotlight without Meng Shixu's involvement. She later retired from acting, got married, had children, and completely lost her popularity. Her Weibo posts now receive very few comments. But when Wu Guo's crimes were hotly debated online, Ms. Xu suddenly posted her own experience with the hashtag—
My condolences. That's just how their circle is; they treat human life like dirt. My experience isn't just similar to Ms. Liu's, it's exactly the same. I had a miscarriage years ago and haven't had any children since. The person who hurt me was more cunning and powerful than Wu Guo. He just didn't expect that I was so worthless and survived.
This Weibo post quickly went viral thanks to Wu Guo's controversy, with everyone speculating about who the person in question was.
It wasn't hard to guess; the internet always leaves traces. Who had she dated? Who had a son? And who was more powerful than the Wu family? Soon, someone left a comment asking if it was Meng Yanxi.
The blogger immediately liked the comment.
Soon, someone dug up some old stories from many years ago. The female celebrity had an unexpected miscarriage, and at the time, it was rumored that it was done by Meng Shixu's son, but the matter was eventually dropped.
But with Wu Guo's ship capsizing, old stories were immediately brought up again.
At this point, public opinion shifted from the Wu family to the Meng family.
Meng Yanxi's high profile is an objectively excellent one; he himself is actually quite mysterious, and his reputation was previously quite good. Because of this incident, overnight, a barrage of criticism against him appeared online.
Netizens' emotions are never reasonable; you can't imagine what kind of vicious and filthy words a complete stranger might utter.
Yunsheng's stock price also plummeted.
Meng Yanxi himself did not respond. Only Meng Shixu, through the public relations team of Yunsheng Group, released a surgical record proving that he had undergone tubal ligation ten years ago. Meng Yanxi's situation is different from Wu Guo's; he had no need to take action.
However, this surgical report failed to appease the outraged netizens; instead, it was accused of being well-connected and colluding with the hospital to falsify the report.
Even the hospital was reported.
It was late February, the end of winter break, and Jin Zhao had just started classes.
She overheard students discussing this during break and interrupted them with a detached expression.
Meng Yanxi didn't seem to be affected by her mood, but whether he was afraid of getting her scolded or was simply busier, he hadn't come to see her for many days. She went to Shanshui City, but he wasn't there either.
I video chatted with him that night, and he seemed normal, but just before hanging up, he suddenly asked, "Lingling, do you believe me?"
Jin Zhao's eyes suddenly felt hot.
In fact, he didn't suppress any of the comments about him online. That's just how Meng Yanxi is; he never tries to prove his innocence, and he never cares about other people's opinions. He only explains things to people he cares about.
"Yes, I believe you."
Never doubted it.
During those days, Jin Zhao would spend all his free time scrolling through Weibo on his phone, even during breaks between classes. As soon as get out of class ended, he would open his phone.
Ms. Xu seemed to have tasted the sweetness of online traffic and quickly started live-streaming e-commerce, using it as a topic of conversation each time, attracting many viewers to tip her. Jin Zhao never watches live streams, but she watches every single one of Ms. Xu's streams without missing a single one. When the platform doesn't allow replays, she pays people on Xianyu (a second-hand marketplace app) to record them for her.
She has always believed that too much talk leads to mistakes, and that saying too much will inevitably result in loopholes.
During a live stream, someone asked when the incident occurred.
The time Ms. Xu mentioned caught Jin Zhao's eye, and he pressed pause.
July 20th.
July 20th of my senior year of high school.
July 21st is her birthday.
Jin Zhao immediately contacted Zhuang Yu.
It happened eight years ago. So much time has passed that Zhuang Yu wasn't with Meng Yanxi at that time, and Meng Yanxi herself probably doesn't even remember it. But with Jin Zhao's insistence, Zhuang Yu went through many twists and turns and finally found a boarding pass.
A boarding pass from Suiyi to London Heathrow Airport dated July 19th of that year, stamped with the seals of the airline and the airport.
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Author's Note: Forget about Meng Shixu's girlfriend, go back and read Chapter 16. The male lead, a green tea b*tch, gets his father and girlfriend broken up~
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