Night Fire Lingering

Chapter 153 Threatening me? It won't work.

"threaten me?"

Luo Bei understood what he meant and turned to look at the man in the driver's seat.

“Bei Qing, I’m just analyzing the pros and cons with you,” He Tingchuan said sincerely.

Luo Beiqing rested her chin on her right hand and tilted her head to look at him. Her charming face showed a hint of coquettishness, but there was no smile in her eyes.

"He Tingchuan, this kind of trick is not suitable for me."

Coercion and bribery, once it happens, it will happen again, and countless times afterward.

She doesn't buy it!

"Is being Mrs. He such a disgrace to you?" He Tingchuan's expression darkened slightly, but his emotions remained relatively stable.

Over this period of time, he has developed a certain immunity to it and is able to calmly accept the reality of Luo Beiqing's departure.

"Mrs. He is of noble status, how can this be considered a grievance?" Luo Beiqing said casually, "It's just that I don't like it."

He Tingchuan blurted out almost immediately: "Do you dislike this title, or do you dislike me?"

Luo Beiqing looked at him with a smile.

They didn't say anything, but they conveyed the same message: Is there a difference?

I don't like this title.

I don't like you either.

-

Wen Yan waited at a nearby coffee shop.

Seeing Luo Beiqing arrive in He Tingchuan's car, he couldn't help but raise an eyebrow.

"Don't be picky, it's just a car ride," Luo Beiqing said directly.

He Tingchuan: "..."

Wen Yan shrugged, indicating that she understood.

"Miss Wen seems to be in good condition," He Tingchuan said politely.

Wen Yan smiled and said, "After all, it's not illegal for mentally ill people to kill, so my margin for error is much higher than that of ordinary people."

He Tingchuan wasn't very interested in talking to Wen Yan either, so he simply stopped talking to her.

"Yan Yan..." Luo Beiqing looked at Wen Yan with heartache.

"I'm fine, I was prepared for this."

What has happened is etched in time, indelible, and will always be brought up again someday.

She just didn't expect that so many people would find out about it at this time and call it a weapon to attack her.

……

Wen Yonghai was overjoyed to receive Wen Yan's call that she was coming home, and immediately left the company to go home.

He hung up the phone with Wen Yan and immediately called Gu Yanci.

"My dear son-in-law, you should have dinner before you leave tonight, right?" Wen Yonghai asked solicitously.

Gu Yanci had drunk too much last night and had only just woken up. His head was still a little dizzy. Hearing Wen Yonghai's words, he was silent for a second before quickly reacting and saying, "It depends on what Yan Yan wants."

Is Wen Yan going to find Wen Yonghai? Is she going to the Wen family?

why?

"Oh oh oh, okay!"

Wen Yonghai called Gu Yanci in case only his daughter returned, and was overjoyed to hear this.

Gu Yanci sensed something was wrong. He hung up the phone and went out immediately without even having his clothes ironed.

Zhou Qi was waiting outside. When he saw Gu Yanci come out, he immediately went up to him with a serious expression: "Sir, there's been a problem with Madam..."

-

When Wan Ying received a call from Wen Yonghai asking her to prepare more of Wen Yan's favorite foods, she was extremely reluctant and planned to just do a haphazard job while pretending not to. However, the doorbell rang soon after, and Wen Yan arrived so quickly.

Wan Ying opened the door and saw only Wen Yan and Luo Beiqing outside. She rolled her eyes in annoyance—her husband wasn't home and her son-in-law hadn't come, so she couldn't be bothered to pretend!

"What are you here for?"

"What do you say?"

Wen Yan's tone was very authoritative.

Wan Ying cursed under her breath, calling him a lunatic. She glanced at Luo Beiqing and said sarcastically, "Bringing people to our door without saying a word, and the guests are like mute people. It's true that all ill-mannered people are a bunch of the same!"

"Who is Mrs. Gu calling ill-mannered?"

A male voice suddenly broke in.

Wan Ying was startled, and then she saw that there was a man standing outside her blind spot.

He Tingchuan looked at her expressionlessly, his handsome and deep face carrying a fierce and arrogant air rarely seen in a noble young man.

"Young Master He..." Wan Ying wanted to ask why you were here, but then she looked at Luo Beiqing and roughly understood.

But what she understood even less—

Luo Beiqing and He Tingchuan are already divorced, and they've even signed the divorce agreement. How come they're standing together again now?

He Tingchuan's attitude is quite protective of Luo Beiqing!

Are all these men out of their minds?!

Wen Yan had been observing Wan Ying and found that she looked normal and seemed unaware of the rumors circulating outside.

"Where is Wen Muzhi?" Wen Yan felt that the chances of this matter being related to Wan Ying were slim.

Wan Ying sensed something was wrong: "Wen Yan, what's with this accusatory attitude? What are you planning to do to my daughter again?"

"That's a question I should be asking your daughter!"

After the previous clashes, Wen Muzhi suffered heavy losses, and Wan Ying subconsciously protected Wen Muzhi, preventing Wen Yan from contacting him.

"Xiaoyan!"

Wen Yonghai never expected that he would run into his son-in-law Gu Yanci on the way, and then bump into Wen Yan right at his doorstep, with Luo Beiqing and He Tingchuan also nearby!

"Young Master He, your presence is an honor! I am so sorry to have failed to welcome you!" Wen Yonghai was all smiles, feeling that today was truly a great day for him. With two golden opportunities in front of him, he had to seize them, and the company was sure to reach new heights!

He Tingchuan nodded slightly.

He found Wen Yonghai quite amazing. He and He Zihan were enemies, yet Wen Yonghai was genuinely happy about his appearance.

"Xiao Yan, why didn't you come with Yan Ci? Why did you come by yourself first?" Wen Yonghai asked, his face full of disapproval.

Wen Yan was wondering why Gu Yanci was also here by such a coincidence, but upon hearing this, she immediately guessed the reason.

It was simply that Wen Yonghai curried favor with Gu Yanci, contacted Gu Yanci, and the latter took advantage of the situation and came over.

Nougat!

Wen Yan didn't even look at the man, and said to Wen Yonghai, "Dad, I came back to find Wen Muzhi."

Before he finished speaking, the window on the second floor was opened.

"Looking for me?" The woman's voice still held a hint of laughter.

Wen Muzhi rested his hands on the edge of the bed, a smile playing on his lips. He seemed to be in a very pleasant mood.

Five minutes later, at Wen Yonghai's request, Wen Muzhi leisurely went downstairs.

"How lively!" She glanced around the living room, her gaze settling on Luo Beiqing. "Miss Luo, despite being pregnant, has come to stand up for Yan Yan. She's more like her sister than I am. But what if something happens to the baby? Won't we be blamed?"

These words were tantamount to a curse, and just as Wen Yan was about to retaliate, someone spoke first—

"I can guarantee you won't give birth to anything before my child is born," He Tingchuan said in the most nonchalant tone, uttering these vicious words.

But he's a reckless person; he's the kind of person who does what he says!

Wen Muzhi, Wan Ying, and Wen Yonghai's expressions instantly turned ugly.

Luo Beiqing took a sip of water, showing no reaction to He Tingchuan's actions, as if the man's behavior had nothing to do with her.

Wen Yan could tell that Luo Beiqing really didn't want any further relationship or connection with He Tingchuan, and instinctively went straight to the point: "It was you who did it, Wen Muzhi."

Wen Muzhi sat down on the sofa, saying with a hint of schadenfreude, "This time it really wasn't me! Thanks to you, with my current reputation, how many people would believe what I say?"

"Who is it?" Gu Yanci asked.

Even though it was impossible for the two of them to be together, Wen Muzhi's heart still skipped a beat when Gu Yanci spoke to her.

She quickly recovered and smiled, "Well, I wouldn't know then. Wanting Wen Yan isn't good—uh!"

Before Wen Muzhi could finish speaking, Gu Yanci suddenly strode over, grabbed her by the neck, and silenced all the words that were about to come out of her throat.

Everyone stood up in shock—except for He Tingchuan.

"Yanci, what are you doing!"

"Gu Yanci, let go of my daughter!"

Wen Yonghai and Wan Ying rushed over. Wan Ying tried to pry Gu Yanci's hands off, but to no avail.

"Who is it?" Gu Yanci asked calmly, yet his words carried a silent madness.

It was as if he was giving her one last chance.

Wen Muzhi looked terrified, but his eyes were fixed on Gu Yanci. There seemed to be a hint of a smile of reminiscence on his lips, and his face grew redder and redder as he suffocated.

"I have no idea."

"Gu Yanci! Don't frame my daughter for everything!" Wan Ying cried, almost collapsing. "Let go! Let go!"

Here, in terms of physical strength, the person most likely to stop him is He Tingchuan, but he leans back on the sofa leisurely, showing no intention of stopping him at all.

They even wanted to watch a play.

"Who?"

"I...really...don't..."

Just when Wen Muzhi thought he was about to faint from suffocation, a delicate hand rested on Gu Yanci's arm.

The woman's hands were gentle yet firm, but her voice was cold: "She probably really doesn't know."

It is difficult for a person to lie when threatened with death.

Gu Yanci looked at her, but the latter's gaze remained fixed on Wen Muzhi's face, meeting her eyes which were filled with a sense of satisfaction.

A moment later, Gu Yanci loosened his grip.

"Cough, cough, cough!"

Wen Muzhi collapsed to the ground, coughing violently. The smile on his face was gone, replaced only by the lingering fear of surviving a near-death experience.

In that final moment, she genuinely suspected that Gu Yanci wanted to kill her!

“Wen Muzhi, it wasn’t a glorious thing for you to send me to a mental hospital back then. Very few people know about it. When your hand was injured, your mother didn’t want to miss such a good opportunity to smear me, and your father wanted to save face, so the reason given to the outside world was very vague. But now, that post clearly says it was a slash injury. How do outsiders know so clearly? Only a few of us who were here know these things.”

Since that's the case, then the matter is inevitably related to the person involved!

“Wen Yan, there are no secrets that stay hidden forever…cough cough…” Wen Muzhi covered his neck with both hands, still coughing incessantly. “Those things aren’t just known to us, Junming…cough…knows them too. Who knows if he’ll tell others something when he’s drunk?”

"Snapped!"

Wen Yonghai slapped Wen Muzhi across the face, "Wen Muzhi, how could you drag your brother into this at a time like this!"

Wen Muzhi was slapped so hard he fell to the ground, looking completely unconcerned: "Anyway, it wasn't me, hahahahaha! Wen Yan, there are too many people who wish you were dead!"

"President Wen, how about we settle our old and new scores together?" Gu Yanci immediately changed his strategy.

The primary goal now is to solve the problem and protect Wen Yan.

Wen Yonghai's mind raced through the events of the past few months—Wen Muzhi had plotted against Wen Yan, causing her to suffer severe injuries to both hands and nearly die from excessive bleeding. This incident had become common knowledge in the industry, with irrefutable evidence. Gu Yanci could use this incident to retaliate against Wen Muzhi, and even turn around and bite the entire Wen family!

The reason I didn't do it was simply because I didn't want to cause Wen Yan further harm.

Wen Yonghai glanced at Gu Yanci, then at He Tingchuan beside him, who seemed indifferent yet had a strong presence. His mind raced: "I can clear up some misunderstandings! The hand injury is all a misunderstanding!"

"Dad!" Wen Muzhi exclaimed in disbelief.

"You unfilial daughter, shut up!" Wen Yonghai shouted angrily.

Wen Yonghai returned in high spirits, but now he is as if he has lost his parents. He originally thought that the God of Wealth had come to visit, but it turned out that he came to cause trouble.

Wen Yan found this scene both laughable and absurd; the term "rebellious daughter" was previously only used to describe her.

However, it is an indisputable fact that Wen Yan was admitted to a mental hospital. Someone has already found her hospitalization records, and the cause of her illness at that time was: bipolar disorder!

She has bipolar disorder; when she's irritable, she risks harming others, and when she's depressed, she risks suicide. Her classmates and school leaders wouldn't easily agree to her returning to school.

The four people left the Wen family villa.

“Yan Yan, I don’t think you had any mental issues at the time,” Luo Beiqing suddenly said.

Wen Yan and Gu Yanci both looked at Luo Beiqing in shock.

When Wen Yan had her accident, Gu Yanci was still young and abroad and couldn't return for the time being, so he was unaware of the specific situation.

But Luo Beiqing is different.

Luo Beiqing and Wen Yan were originally classmates and had a very good personal relationship. They spent a lot of time together, and Luo Beiqing was very clear about Wen Yan's mental state.

“You told me that you often forgot what happened during that period and even experienced auditory hallucinations, but apart from that, you did not show any tendency to harm others or commit suicide.”

Because of her pregnancy, Luo Beiqing read a lot of books on psychology.

"Besides mental illness, another reason why people experience hallucinations is—medication!"