Xu Ziyan couldn’t imagine how much pain Fu Yazhen was in inside. After all, she previously had a model husband and a eagerly anticipated child, but now things had ended up like this. She could only hold Fu Yazhen’s hand to give her strength, saying nothing.
‘Impressive! That’s how one should be—decisive. Never let yourself fall into an emotional trap. What’s the big deal? Each day that passes is one less to live. Treating yourself like a precious treasure is better than anything. After this ordeal, my sister is sure to have smooth sailing and great fortune from now on!’
A warmth spread in Fu Yazhen’s heart, and she gripped Xu Ziyan’s hand in return. She had to admit, she truly found comfort and strength in Xu Ziyan’s inner thoughts, making her even more certain her decision was right.
Remembering the plot, she said, “Xiao Yan, accompany me for the surgery.”
“Huh? Me?” Xu Ziyan was very surprised. Their sisterly affection didn’t seem to have reached that level.
Li Yun Hui hurriedly said, “I should be the one to go, but the thought of it makes me too upset. I’m afraid I’ll affect Xiao Zhen’s emotions at the time. Xiao Yan, you go. Take good care of your sister for us.”
“Oh, okay.” Although Xu Ziyan didn’t fully understand, she agreed. She figured when fighting a tiger, you need your own brothers. Even if they were usually fair-weather sisters, when a real crisis hit, they were still family. Having her go shouldn’t be a problem, right?
In reality, this was the Fu family’s test of the plot. Whether it would work specifically still depended on the situation at the time.
The Fu family acted quickly. Early the next morning, they went to the hospital. Fu Yazhen authorized Xu Ziyan to be in charge of her affairs, so it was Xu Ziyan who signed the surgical consent form. Fu Qiming ran around fetching medicine and buying water.
Not long after Fu Yazhen was wheeled into the operating room, Xu Ziyan suddenly heard the system notification.
【Congratulations, Host. Mission Completed: Indirectly cause Fu Yazhen to lose her child and fall unconscious. Reward: 1 skill point.】
Xu Ziyan was stunned. ‘What? I indirectly… Wait, Fu Yazhen fell unconscious? Did something go wrong with the surgery?’
001: 【Host, don’t panic. The system detects that Fu Yazhen is currently unconscious due to anesthesia. She will gradually wake up after the surgery.】
Xu Ziyan breathed a sigh of relief. So that’s how it was. She had found another loophole!
Beside her, Fu Qiming, who was tightly clutching a water bottle, also secretly sighed in relief. He had stuck close to Xu Ziyan precisely to listen to her inner thoughts and see if this surgical procedure would be judged as mission completion.
Previously, Xu Ziyan had supported Fu Yazhen’s decision to have the abortion, and now she had signed the consent form. The child was gone, and Fu Yazhen hadn’t woken up yet. On the surface, this perfectly matched the original plot’s outcome for Fu Yazhen. Indeed, the test had succeeded! They could really complete missions this way. Excellent!
Fu Qiming found an excuse to call the other family members. With such an important result, it would be greatly advantageous for them. They might even be able to complete missions through acting and setting up honey traps.
That very night, Fu Yazhen returned home to recuperate. While Xu Ziyan went to her room to change clothes, Fu Yazhen asked Fu Qiming, “Did Xiao Yan say anything? I didn’t hear any activity in her heart either. Did the mission really complete?”
Fu Qiming was confused for a moment. “She’s been chattering non-stop in her heart with 001. Saying she doesn’t need to buy a cruise ship anymore, doesn’t need to trick you out to sea, doesn’t need to deal with that scumbag brother-in-law anymore… She also said she’d find a few thugs to pretend to rough her up, to see if she could complete the final ‘miserable death’ ending. Just when she came in, she was muttering about ordering takeout to celebrate.”
He belatedly widened his eyes. “Sis, you didn’t hear that?”
Fu Dongfeng and Li Yun Hui also looked at Fu Yazhen in surprise. “We all heard it. You didn’t?”
Fu Yazhen shook her head somewhat bewildered. “I didn’t hear anything.”
They exchanged glances, all somewhat puzzled. They guessed it might be because Fu Yazhen had just had surgery; her vital energy was depleted, her blood and qi were insufficient, so she couldn’t hear such a fantastical inner voice.
This matter made them all somewhat anxious. Their fate hadn’t been altered yet, the crisis wasn’t resolved. If they suddenly couldn’t hear anything anymore, could they still escape the predetermined plot? Would they have to confront Xu Ziyan then?
None of them slept well that night. Only Xu Ziyan was excited about completing the ‘sister storyline,’ feeling as if her own lifeline had extended by a large margin. She sang and danced in the media room. Fortunately, the soundproofing was good, or else everyone would have heard her wailing like a ghost and howling like a wolf.
The next day, the scumbag brother-in-law Zheng Wenbo returned.
As soon as Zheng Wenbo arrived home, he distributed gifts to everyone and asked Fu Yazhen with concern how she had been these past few days. Knowing his true colors, seeing him act so well was truly chilling.
Fu Yazhen took out the divorce agreement and said coldly, “Sign it. We have a prenuptial agreement, so no asset division is needed. Handle the divorce procedures, and let’s not see each other again.”
Zheng Wenbo’s heart lurched. He looked at everyone, puzzled. “Wh-what’s going on?”
Fu Dongfeng said gravely, “We know who you are. If you want revenge, come at us openly, and I’d even praise you for having guts. What does scheming to get close to my daughter count as? Is that what Zheng Liqiang taught you?”
Hearing Zheng Liqiang’s name, Zheng Wenbo knew they had investigated him. There was no point in denying it. His expression changed, turning sinister. “My father never had the chance to teach me, because you killed him!”
Fu Dongfeng sneered and directly threw a stack of documents at him. Zheng Wenbo opened them; they were all evidence from the incident back then.
Fu Dongfeng said coldly, “The Ding family bribed Zheng Liqiang to harm me, embezzle company funds, commit crimes, nearly causing the Fu Corporation’s capital chain to break. I merely reported it to the police. I did nothing else. Everything that happened to him was his own fault.”
“Impossible! My father was taking the fall for you…”
Before Zheng Wenbo could finish, Fu Yazhen stood up. “You never investigated that incident because you didn’t want to admit your parents’ vileness. In fact, all your misfortune was caused by them. It has nothing to do with my father or me.
Sign it. I’ve already had the abortion. The child wouldn’t have wanted a father like you.”
After speaking, Fu Yazhen returned to her room. She still needed rest, and she had nothing more to say to Zheng Wenbo.
Zheng Wenbo was shocked into silence. When he learned about the child, he hadn’t been averse to it. He had even maliciously hoped the child would be deformed to make the Fu family suffer. He had occasionally entertained the idea of causing Fu Yazhen’s death along with the child’s, though he hadn’t formulated a detailed plan yet.
But now that the child was gone, he suddenly felt a wrenching pain in his heart. The child wouldn’t have wanted a father like him? Really? Was he wrong? What had he done wrong?
Fu Dongfeng added, “If you continue to make trouble, I’ll have no choice but to disturb your parents’ gravesite.”
“You’re shameless!” Zheng Wenbo shot to his feet, his eyes bloodshot and filled with rage.
Xu Ziyan thought to herself, ‘The most shameless one is you. How dare you call others that? What a joke.’
Li Yun Hui waved her hand. “Enough. That’s the situation. Nothing more to discuss. To protect our daughter, we are capable of anything. If you don’t want anything to happen to your parents’ gravesite, sign the divorce papers quickly. After this, let bridges be bridges and roads be roads.”
Zheng Wenbo gritted his teeth, locked in a stalemate with them for a while, but finally signed the papers with a trembling hand and left the Fu family in anger.
He felt utterly absurd. He had only been away on a business trip for a few days. How had everything changed the moment he returned? Driving his car, he suddenly thought of Xu Ziyan. He hurriedly sent her a voice message asking what was going on, only to find that Xu Ziyan had just blocked him. Before blocking him, she had even sent a message calling him “scum”?
Zheng Wenbo laughed in angry frustration. If he was scum, what was Xu Ziyan? Trash?
Impulsively, he wanted to call the Fu family and reveal Xu Ziyan’s true nature. But just as he was about to dial, he hung up. He wouldn’t tell the Fu family. Let that ungrateful wretch Xu Ziyan stay with them. He would wait for the day Xu Ziyan delivered the fatal blow. He would wait to see the expression on the Fu family’s faces then.
Just as Fu Yazhen had said, he was unwilling to admit his parents’ vileness, so he stubbornly clung to viewing the Fu family as enemies. Even with the evidence right before his eyes, he chose to deceive himself. The only difference was that his revenge plan had failed, forcing him to leave the Fu family.
Thinking of that evidence, his face darkened. He truly hadn’t known the Ding family had masterminded the initial incident. So the Ding family was also his enemy.
Ding Jie had just made contact with him, wanting to join forces to bring down the Fu family. Originally, he had planned to cooperate with Ding Jie, harming Fu Yazhen when the Fu family was in turmoil to deal them a heavy blow. Now that things had changed like this, perhaps he could directly infiltrate Ding Jie’s side and wait for an opportunity for revenge.
But before he could implement this plan, he discovered everything had changed again. The Fu family publicly announced Fu Yazhen’s divorce from him, stripped him of all his positions, and reclaimed the residence he lived in. He had signed the prenuptial agreement, so he got nothing, essentially left with nothing but the clothes on his back. He was chased out in a wretched state overnight by security. After that, when he tried calling Ding Jie, the calls wouldn’t connect.
Ding Jie was busy. Someone who had lost their value was, of course, not worth contacting anymore. He simply called Xu Ziyan to ask briefly about the situation. Xu Ziyan said dismissively, “His true identity was discovered by the Fu family. Of course they wouldn’t let him stay. Fu Yazhen isn’t stupid.”
Thinking of her own plan, Xu Ziyan said, “Oh, right. I need to hire some people to help with something these next couple of days. I have no money, so I’ll still be using your card. Helping me is equivalent to helping you, right? You agree?”
Ding Jie laughed. “Why wouldn’t I agree? Handle it as you see fit.”
Xu Ziyan also smiled. “Good, as long as you said that.”
She quickly hired a few extras and had them perform a scene according to the script—ruthlessly beating her up on the street.
The location and equipment were arranged by Ding Yao. They were, after all, an entertainment company now, so it was very convenient. The extras had no curiosity; they just thought it was rich people playing around. They only cared about acting their part. Whether it got broadcast wasn’t important, because the pay was really too good.
And so, late one night, Xu Ziyan’s car “broke down” by the roadside. While she was checking it, several “thugs” dragged her into a dark alley and beat her up. In the end, her hand was stomped on and broken, her mouth was covered, and she was drowned alive in a filthy gutter!
They filmed several scenes throughout the night. The makeup artist made Xu Ziyan look extremely realistic, as wretched and miserable as possible. The final tragic death scene made Ding Yao and Yang Anni’s hearts ache. As soon as filming finished, they quickly wrapped Xu Ziyan in a bath towel.
Xu Ziyan asked anxiously, “How was it? Successful? Can you tell what’s happening?”
Several crew members nodded. “You can tell. Very successful. Thugs, hired by Ding Jie, brutally beat and killed Xu Ziyan.”
The highly-paid editors were cutting on-site as they filmed. According to the script requirements, they had already put together a rough cut with a clear storyline.
Xu Ziyan finally heard that beautiful sound. 【Congratulations, Host! Mission Completed: Be ‘beaten and killed’ by people hired by Ding Jie.】
They were indeed people hired with Ding Jie’s money. And the plot—wasn’t this exactly her being “beaten and killed”? Hahaha!