"Secretary Zheng, call a meeting and have Vice Mayor Xue come to the conference room immediately!"
Secretary Tong of the Municipal Party Committee arrived at the office early in the morning. As soon as he opened the door, he found a photo on the ground. He picked it up and looked at it. His face changed on the spot, and he urgently notified all senior officials to hold a meeting.
At this moment, the other leaders all had a photo in their hands. They were picked up on the floor of the office and someone had stuffed it in through the crack in the door.
Peng Yuni also had one in her hand. After just one look, she was so angry that she fell to the ground.
She had known for a long time that Xue Hailin was having an affair outside, and she had dealt with the women he had hooked up with behind his back over the years, but she had never seen the one in the photo. When she saw the boy in the photo who looked so much like him, she was so angry that she was about to explode.
"Director Peng, Secretary Tong has called a meeting. Please come here immediately."
Peng Yuni had just gotten up from the ground when Secretary Zheng came over to inform her. Seeing that she also had a photo in her hand, her face turned ashen, which was enough to prove the authenticity of the photo.
Xue Hailin was the only one who did not receive the photo. He had just arrived at the office and made tea when he saw his assistant notifying him of an emergency meeting, so he rushed over immediately.
He rushed to the meeting room and saw everyone looking at him with condemning eyes. His heart skipped a beat. "What's wrong? What happened?"
“Bang!”
The answer he got was a slap from Peng Yuni.
Xue Hailin was stunned by the slap. When he came to his senses, he glared at her with angry eyes: "Peng Yuni, what are you crazy about?"
"See for yourself what I am mad about."
Peng Yuni was so angry that she lost her mind and threw the photo in her hand at him, hitting him right in the face.
The photo fell to the ground, with the "family portrait" of a family of three on the front.
Xue Hailin looked down, his pupils shrank sharply, and his heart felt as if it was pierced by an iron nail, and he was so frightened that his whole body froze.
However, he had been immersed in the officialdom for so many years that his psychological qualities had long been tempered. In just a few seconds, he forced himself to calm down, bent down and picked up the photo on the ground, and smiled casually: "Yuni, did you take this photo? It's quite good."
When Peng Yuni saw that he was still smiling, she was so angry that she almost spread to another place.
She was about to speak when Xue Hailin looked at her with deep eyes and said, "This is Wen Qian and her son. I went to visit them yesterday. Dad called me and said that Wen Qian's son turned six yesterday and asked me to buy some things for the child and send them over."
Having slept in the same bed for over twenty years, how could Peng Yuni not understand the deep meaning in his eyes? She had to force herself to calm down, suppressing her anger and cooperating: "Wen Qian? Why does this name sound familiar?"
"The daughter-in-law of my third uncle from my hometown, and the daughter-in-law of my cousin Xiang Ping."
"I've told you this before. My cousin Xiang Ping died in an accident. My third uncle and his elder brother also passed away from illness not long after. Before they died, they entrusted their parents to take care of them."
"My parents didn't take them to Kyoto. They arranged for them to live in Seoul. I found a house for them. I subsidized their living expenses for the first two years when they were still young. Now that Wen Qian has a job at school, I no longer provide them with money or food. I only visit occasionally."
Peng Yuni had her back to Secretary Tong and the others at this time, staring at the man in front of her who was making up stories fluently with eyes full of resentment, and she wished she could strangle him to death right here.
This is the man who sleeps in the same bed with her. He is full of lies. He has had affairs with other women outside and even has an illegitimate child. Now he is forcing her to cooperate.
The anger and hatred in Peng Yuni's heart solidified into something real, but for the sake of her three children, she had no choice but to grit her teeth and go along with the act, lashing out at him, "Since they're cousins, why didn't you bring them home? And why did you let people take these photos and cause me to misunderstand?"
"I invited them before, but Wen Qian didn't want to cause us any trouble and didn't want to go. I'll go over there again after get off work today and invite them and their son to have dinner at my house."
Xue Hailin told a lie, and in order to make the lie continue and make the story seem more realistic, he had no other choice but to do this.
Seeing that he was going to bring the bastard's illegitimate child home to stop everyone's suspicion, Peng Yuni was so angry that her body was shaking, but she could only cooperate: "Okay, after get off work, I will go with you to pick them up and invite them to dinner at home."
These words were squeezed out from between Peng Yuni's teeth, mixed with anger and hatred. Xue Hailin, who was standing in front of her, could sense them clearly.
He knew Peng Yuni's temper and she would definitely attack Wen Qian and her son, but he couldn't care less about that now. The most important thing now was to maintain his reputation at work and not let anyone find any fault with him.
In the end, because the couple worked together to make up a story, the matter was dropped with much ado about nothing.
Secretary Tong and others only asked about the specific situation in the end, and Xue Hailin made up a story to answer them. It seemed that the matter was over, but in fact, many cadres had already become suspicious.
Gong Linglong remained invisible at the side the whole time. Seeing Xue Hailin resolved the crisis with just a few words, a sarcastic smile appeared on the corner of her mouth. She turned and left the meeting room, distributing another stack of romantic stories that the mother and daughter had written and copied overnight to each office.
On this day, all the offices of the Seoul Municipal Party Committee were bustling with activity, and almost everyone was talking about Xue Hailin's romantic affairs behind his back.
Xue Hailin and Peng Yuni held a meeting in the conference room in the morning. After the meeting, they went to deal with work matters. It was not until lunch that they learned that the matter that was suppressed in the morning had spread. The two immediately ran to various departments to warn and explain.
For some things, explanation is just a cover-up. Although Xue Hailin explained that the mother and son were his cousin's wife and nephew, few people really believed it.
Xue Hailin also went to the Civil Affairs Department to explain. After he left, Gong Linglong quietly asked everyone, "Do you believe it?"
"Whether we believe it or not is not important. What matters most is Peng Yuni's attitude."
Director Yang's lips curled up slightly, a rare moment. She had seen the photo this morning. The child really looked like Xue Hailin, more like him than the two sons born to Peng Yuni. Anyone with a common sense would know whether this was a cousin or not.
Gong Linglong's lips curled slightly. She was looking forward to Peng Yuni's next performance. The scene of the confrontation between the wife and the mistress would definitely be very lively.
It’s a pity that she couldn’t go to watch it in person.
Bai Shuixian was in the space, and Gong Linglong promptly passed the first-hand information to her. She was also quietly waiting for the subsequent development of the matter. She believed that Peng Yuni would not let them down.
Peng Yuni had been suppressing her anger from morning till now and hadn't eaten a single grain of rice at noon. She had just accompanied Xue Hailin to explain things everywhere, but when she returned to the office, she couldn't control herself anymore and slapped Xue Hailin in the face again.
Xue Hailin was beaten again and was furious, but it was a fact that he had betrayed his marriage and he still needed Peng Yuni's cooperation to get through this crisis, so he had to grit his teeth and endure it, letting her vent her anger and beat him.
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