31: Chapter 31 In my past life, I was down on my luck and he treated me to Longjiang braised pork trotters!

Chen Xingyue devoured the food like a whirlwind.

She finished three large bowls of rice, two braised pork knuckles, and half a roast chicken.

She slammed her bowl heavily onto the table and let out a loud, resonant burp.

"Burp——"

"I'm alive again."

The members of the Chen family looked at the stack of empty bowls and collectively swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

"Is this someone who just broke up?"

"Did she just finish a triathlon???"

However, seeing that Chen Xingyue had completely walked out of the gloom, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and their hanging hearts finally dropped securely into place.

Wang Xiaoyun reached out, pulled out a tissue, and gently wiped the rice grains from the corner of her daughter's mouth.

Her tone carried a hint of exasperation mixed with care as she comforted:

"Yueyue, it's good that you can let it go."

"But when you look for a boyfriend in the future, you must keep your eyes open and not be fooled by a few sweet words from a scumbag again."

"You're in the entertainment industry, which is a giant dye vat, after all. Stop being so naively foolish!"

"……"

Chen Xingyue was picking her teeth with a toothpick. Hearing this, her pretty face collapsed.

"Mom! Can you blame me for this?"

"Who would have known he was such a beast in human clothing!"

"Back then, he risked his life to jump into the water and save me!"

"With the grace of saving my life preceding it, I naturally had a filter for him."

"Who would have thought..."

"……"

The more she spoke, the angrier she became. She threw away the toothpick, feeling so wronged that her eye sockets turned red again.

"The grace of saving your life?"

Sitting to the side, Chen Fan stopped peeling melon seeds, his eyes revealing a look of doubt.

Wang Xiaoyun sighed and turned to explain to him:

"Xiaofan, you don't know, but half a year ago, your fourth older sister was filming by the seaside."

"I don't know who gave this dead girl the courage, but relying on her cat-scratch swimming skills, she dared to run off to play wildly in the deep sea area."

"As a result, she almost drowned!"

"She was saved by someone at the critical moment of life and death, otherwise you might not even be able to see your fourth older sister now."

"……"

Chen Fan suddenly understood.

"So, it was Niu Feihang who risked his life to save people and pulled the fourth older sister up?"

"……"

He frowned, his expression somewhat complex.

"I didn't expect that such a heroic figure would secretly be a scumbag..."

"It really is true that you can know a person's face but not their heart."

"……"

Just as he was sighing with emotion, Chen Jianguo frowned deeply.

As the helm of the Chen family, he thought more deeply.

"Xingyue, are you sure it was Niu Feihang who saved you?"

"Now that I think about it, that pretty boy looks physically weak, short of breath, and frail, looking like he even pants just from walking."

"Where would he get the physical strength and boldness to save an adult from the treacherous deep sea?"

"No matter how you think about it, it's just not possible?!"

"……"

Chen Xingyue was stunned. Subconsciously recalling the scene back then, she said with a hint of bewilderment:

"Dad, what do you mean?"

"I choked on water and passed out back then. When I woke up, the only one by my side was Feifei... only that bastard Niu Feihang was guarding me."

"If it wasn't him, who else could it be?"

"……"

Everyone's brows were tightly locked, feeling vaguely in their hearts that something was wrong, but they couldn't put their finger on the crux of the matter.

The private room quieted down for a moment, save for the crunching sound of Chen Fan cracking melon seeds.

Just at this moment.

A certain cold, arrogant, and infinitely sarcastic imperial voice of the Immortal Venerable exploded right on time in everyone's minds.

Every single word was mocking and high-and-mighty!

[Heh.]

[Idiots.]

[You've all been fooled by someone for half a year, and you're still acting like fools now.]

Chen Fan's hand cracking melon seeds paused.

"Brother Hao, you know again?"

[Of course This Immortal Venerable knows.]

The immortal venerable voice pack sneered, its tone full of supreme disdain.

[This love-brain actually managed to get her savior wrong. She's hopelessly blind.]

[She doesn't even think about it—not to mention courage, just look at that pretty boy's weak-chicken physique.]

[Does he have the physical strength to drag someone all the way from the deep sea area to the shore? He pants after running two steps, and he's going to save someone?]

[Does she really think the deep-sea undercurrents are child's play?]

[That pretty boy going down there would only result in them both being buried together. Overestimating his capabilities.]

[The one who saved her was someone else.]

The melon seeds in Chen Fan's hand dropped.

What?! Σ(⊙▽⊙"a"

Is this for real?!

Fourth older sister's savior isn't Niu Feihang?!

Then who could it be?

The immortal venerable voice pack continued to sneer.

[Come to think of it, that man's character is not bad.]

[In her past life, after this love-brain hanged herself, he even came to offer condolences.]

[And he cried.]

[A grown man, standing in the mourning hall, crying his eyes out.]

[It was also him who ran back and forth to help bury the love-brain's corpse.]

[He even personally wiped her face, changed her clothes, and tidied up her remains to look pretty.]

[Allowing this little idiot who loved beauty the most during her lifetime to leave with at least a bit of dignity.]

[To be honest, her remains looked much better than when she was alive.]

Chen Xingyue: "……"

What the heck???

What do you mean they looked much better than when she was alive?!!!

She took a deep breath, telling herself to calm down! Calm down!

Damn it! (╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻ Calm my ass ahhhhhh!!!!!!

Her savior was someone else?!

That person even cried for her?!

And helped handle her funeral arrangements?!

Then what has she been doing for the past half year?!

Attributing all the savior's credit to a scumbag who was going to sell her?!

And pouring her heart and soul out to that scumbag?!

If not for the Chen family ancestral precept that children must not engage in premarital sex, she probably would have even thrown herself into it?!

Realizing this, Chen Xingyue looked as if she had been struck by lightning, dumbfounded.

And at this moment.

Everyone else wasn't doing much better.

Chen Jianguo and Wang Xiaoyun looked at each other, their eyes filled with shock.

The three Chen sisters pricked up their ears even more, holding their breath and concentrating.

They never expected that their fourth younger sister's "savior" back then was actually fake!

The one who saved her? Someone else?

That person even handled her funeral after Chen Xingyue died!!!

Who is he???

[Later, when he saw This Immortal Venerable was down and out, he even treated Me to a full meal.]

[Longjiang pork trotter rice!]

[Mhm, the taste wasn't bad.]

The Immortal Venerable smacked his lips, seemingly reminiscing about the past.

[It could be considered a rare bit of warmth during that dark period of This Immortal Venerable's past life.]

[This Immortal Venerable can tell that he genuinely likes this love-brain.]

[What a pity.]

[Man proposes, heaven disposes.]

[The foolish fourth older sister failed to recognize people clearly, stubbornly missing a good man and being deceived by a trashy scumbag until both her body and mind were ruined.]

[This life-saving grace was shamelessly intercepted by a pretty boy, picking up a lifetime's worth of emotional filter for free.]

[He is——]

The voice came to an abrupt halt.

The entire villa living room fell into a dead silence.

Including Chen Fan, everyone's minds were tightly hooked.

Madly shouting and urging in their hearts.

Who is it?! Who on earth is it?!!

Cutting off sentences at a critical moment?

"Haven't you heard that speaking halfway cuts your dick in half?!"

Hurry up and say it!!!

Everyone held their breath and waited.

One second.

Two seconds.

Three seconds.

...

There was no sound.

???

??????

"Brother Hao? Brother Hao, why did you get writer's block?!"

Where did you go?!!

Finish what you're saying!!!

Who is that person?!

Who is the person who saved the fourth older sister?!!

Don't learn from chapter-cliffhanger dogs!!!!!!

When making up stories, we need a beginning and an end, okay?!!

Chen Fan urged frantically in his heart, so anxious that he stopped cracking melon seeds.

But the immortal venerable voice pack seemed to have suddenly dropped offline, with not the slightest bit of movement anymore.

He was anxious.

The rest of the Chen family were even more anxious than him.

Especially Chen Xingyue, whose whole body stiffened on the chair, her nails digging deeply into her palms, breathing heavily.

Her savior.

Wasn't that beast.

It was someone else.

A man who genuinely liked her, was willing to cry for her, and handled her funeral.

Who is he?

Who on earth is he?!

In her mind, she frantically searched through all the males she knew.

Tall ones, short ones, fat ones, thin ones.

But she gained nothing.

Not a single one matched up.

She was so anxious she was about to go crazy, wishing she could jump up and choke Chen Fan's neck, forcing him to spit out the second half of his sentence!!!

But she was grabbed and held down by Wang Xiaoyun.

Wang Xiaoyun tightly grasped her daughter's wrist, signaling to her with her eyes——

Don't be impulsive!

We cannot expose the fact that we can eavesdrop on inner voices!!!

Chen Xingyue bit her lower lip, forcibly holding it in until her eye sockets were almost red with anxiety.

Everyone was waiting.

Waiting for that name.

However.

The immortal venerable voice pack remained silent for a long time. When it spoke again, it was in a bored tone.

[Forget it.]

[I'm not talking about that man anymore.]

Chen Xingyue: "??????"

What the heck???

Why did you suddenly stop talking??????

You stinky younger brother, do you think you're telling a mystery story! Digging holes and not filling them, huh!

Hurry up and say it ahhhh! w(ﾟДﾟ)w!!!

If you don't say it, how can I fall asleep tonight?!!!

ε＝ε＝ε＝(#＞д＜)ﾉ——!!!

Who on earth is my true love ahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!