Jun Chen hung up the phone. Amidst the strange looks from the people around him, he stormed out of the cafe.
At that moment, Jun Chen had entirely lost any desire to take a stroll down the street. His own child was about to call another man Dad. He hailed a taxi by the roadside and headed straight home.
Upon reaching home, Jun Chen went inside to take a shower and change his clothes. When he came back out, there was an unread message on his phone, sent by the person he had spoken with earlier—the one he had asked to investigate Shen Liuli.
Jun Chen opened the message to review the files. They were extremely detailed, chronicling everything about Shen Liuli from her birth up to the present day without omitting a single thing.
After finishing the report, Jun Chen put down his phone, lay back on the sofa, and slowly closed his eyes, murmuring in a low voice, "The Modu Shen Family, Shen Liuli, president of Shengxin Group..."
Night!
In a villa in the suburbs of Modu, a man dressed in black stood reporting to a man lounging on the sofa: "Young Master, Miss Shen went to see that man from the other night today. She told him about her pregnancy and that she would be marrying you tomorrow. She didn't say anything else."
Hearing this, the man on the sofa nodded and let out a sigh. His expression turned gloomy and he remained silent. Things had reached this point; he had nothing left to say.
The man in black turned to leave after speaking, but before he had taken a few steps, he turned back. He had been holding matters regarding Miss Shen in his heart for a long time and simply could not hold it in any longer. He had to speak his mind, even if it meant facing the Young Master's punishment.
Seeing him return, the man on the sofa asked, "A-Long, is there something else?"
A-Long replied, "Young Master, there are some things I want to say."
Without waiting for the man's permission, A-Long continued, "Young Master, I feel that you will definitely regret this. You and Miss Shen grew up together since childhood. Even if you weren't childhood sweethearts, you were at least as close as brother and sister! Your marriage to Miss Shen was decided jointly by the Shen and Chen families. Even if the two of you lack that kind of romantic feeling and both resisted this marriage, you shouldn't have left Miss Shen to face the pressure of both families all by herself. Nor should you have condoned Miss Dongfang's scheme to taint Miss Shen's purity and reputation, ruining her good name while she alone bore the consequences of breaking the alliance between the Chen and Shen families."
The man lowered his head, heartbroken, and said in a low voice, "I already regret it. It is I, Chen Qingdi, who has failed Shen Liuli!"
"My original plan was to have Liuli bring that man to the wedding tomorrow. That way, I could cooperate with Liuli to make the guests believe that she and that man had long been deeply in love, and that we were forcefully paired up only due to family pressure. At that time, I would also declare that my heart has long belonged to another. Liuli's purity would be ruined, but her reputation would at least be preserved. When the time comes, truth becomes fiction and fiction becomes truth; who could ever sort out what is real and what is fake..."
"Even if the Shen and Chen families took action against that man in private for the sake of their pride, I have the confidence and strength to protect him."
Having said this, Chen Qingdi paused slightly, then laughed at himself, "Ha! What on earth am I even saying? If I truly had the confidence and strength to resist the two great families, things would never have evolved to this current state."
Chen Qingdi waved his hand, signaling A-Long to leave, and said, "Tomorrow, I will do everything in my power to stop Zijin and won't let her hurt Liuli again."
Chen Qingdi stood up and walked upstairs, his back stooped.
Cloud Peak, the premier entertainment club in Modu.
A crowd of Modu's top young elites had gathered together. Chen Qingdi was one of them, but since Modu's Young Master Chen was holding his wedding tomorrow to marry Shen Liuli, the foremost beauty in the Modu business world, he certainly couldn't come out carousing with them tonight.
Meng Liang, the son of the Secretary of the Modu Municipal Committee and a core figure of the crown prince party, walked back in after taking a call outside, his expression instantly changed.
Luo Yu, the son of the commander of the Modu Garrison Command, a military man holding the rank of major, was also one of the core members of the crown prince party.
Seeing Meng Liang return from taking a call with a drastically altered expression, Luo Yu walked over and asked, "Old Meng, what's wrong? What happened?"
Meng Liang gave a bitter smile and said, "It looks like we won't be able to drink Young Master Chen's wedding wine tomorrow."
Luo Yu asked, puzzled, "Why is that?"
Meng Liang said, "We have a mission tomorrow!"
Then he shouted loudly, "Everyone hold on a second, I have an announcement. Ning Hao, turn off the music first; you can turn it back on after I finish talking."
The music stopped, and everyone looked at Meng Liang in confusion.
Meng Liang cleared his throat with a couple of dry coughs, then said in a loud voice, "I have something to tell you all. I need some manpower tomorrow. What for? To crash a wedding! Everyone can volunteer to sign up; participation is voluntary, no pressure."
Someone laughed and asked, "Young Master Meng, whose wedding are we crashing? And who are we snatching the bride for? Don't tell me it's for you? If so, brothers, we'll really have to put our backs into it. Right, guys?"
The remark sent everyone into a roar of laughter.
Meng Liang smiled and said, "Li Zifeng, when you get married, I will definitely come to crash your wedding. Don't go crying with a runny nose when the time comes."
Meng Liang's words provoked another round of laughter from the crowd.
Li Zifeng declared, "There is absolutely no way I'd cry. At most, I'd drop to my knees and beg for mercy."
"Count Li Zifeng in for the wedding crash!"
"Count Ma Fei in!"
"Count Liu Shiyu in!"
"Count Cheng Qian in!"
...
Almost all the young elites present signed up. Crashing Young Master Chen's wedding—how could anything be more thrilling than that?
Everyone's faces blossomed with smiles, yet Meng Liang could not manage a smile at all, because the wedding they were crashing tomorrow belonged to Young Master Chen himself.
Meng Liang wasn't worried that some of them might defect at the last minute out of brotherhood with Chen Qingdi. Tomorrow, the moment they laid eyes on that man and learned his true identity, they would all obediently fall in line. No matter how reluctant they felt, they would have to swallow it, because none of them—himself included—could possibly afford to offend him.
Luo Yu was more cautious. He pulled Meng Liang aside and asked, "Old Meng, tell me the truth: is tomorrow's wedding crash actually targeting Young Master Chen?"
Meng Liang rolled his eyes and said, "Since you already know, why ask?"
Luo Yu asked, "Is Young Master Chen directing this himself? Or is it..."
Both Meng Liang and Luo Yu had an extremely close relationship with Chen Qingdi and knew that the person Chen Qingdi had loved from beginning to end was always Dongfang Zijin. Even the incident back then where Dongfang Zijin schemed to taint Shen Liuli's purity was something the two of them had heard about directly from Chen Qingdi. They were the only two who knew.
Meng Liang shook his head and said, "No! This is a real wedding crash."
"That accident involving Shen Liuli back then—do you know who the other person was?"
Luo Yu asked with curiosity, "Who was it?"
Meng Liang hadn't intended to keep it a secret anyway; they would have to be told sooner or later, and telling them early made no difference.
Lowering his voice, Meng Liang said, "Jun Chen, the young master of the Kyoto Jun Family!"
Luo Yu's expression changed drastically, and he was struck with utter shock!
"No way?"
Meng Liang said in a deep voice, "How could it not be! My cousin told me this himself over the phone just now. Besides, Shen Liuli is already pregnant. You should know what that implies, right? Otherwise, why would Young Master Jun go to such extraordinary lengths?"
Luo Yu remarked, "Doesn't that mean Dongfang Zijin is... completely finished?"
Meng Liang sighed. "Who knows! In any case, she's definitely going to suffer a massive disaster."