When Luo's Mother announced her divorce declaration, both the Luo Family and Mei Family erupted in chaos.
The Mei Family members, known for their passionate temperament, immediately stood up to support their own when they heard Luo's Mother's declaration and saw that Luo Fei didn't object.
The Luo Family, however, was thrown into panic. In the business world, their business acumen wasn't particularly outstanding. In fact, it was mainly their connection to the military through the Mei Family that had given them the networking resources to carve out their own path. Without that foundation, the Luo Family's original standing wouldn't have been enough to enter their current social circle.
Moreover, they didn't have a genius successor like Qin Xian who could turn the tide.
Therefore, they absolutely couldn't afford to sever ties with the Mei Family.
They all rushed forward to mediate, spouting the same old clichéd persuasions.
After all, in many people's eyes, having a mistress and an illegitimate child wasn't anything extraordinary. Some even considered Luo's Father to be one of the better ones - he had always treated Luo's Mother well, only kept one mistress, and had just one illegitimate child. His private life was relatively clean by their standards.
To be honest, among the families present, three out of five men weren't faithful to their marriages.
In these wealthy circles, those who remained truly faithful to their marriages were the minority.
Of course, they had never seen a scandal as huge as the one involving Luo's Father's illegitimate child. It was understandable that Luo's Mother would demand a divorce in her anger.
So the Luo Family members started pushing Luo's Father forward to apologize, willing to face the humiliation in front of guests to win back Luo's Mother's heart.
But Luo's Mother had already made up her mind. She completely ignored them and even called upon the family's military connections and her son's police colleagues to drive them away.
Finally, the Luo Family members, unable to bear the humiliation any longer, had to leave.
Luo's Father and the butler were also driven out, while his phone kept ringing incessantly.
Through Ji Fei's insight, the Qin Family all knew that the caller was the mistress from abroad.
Tang Yu had gone to complain to the mistress, who still had emotional control over Luo's Father, though now... Luo's Father looked like he wanted to smash his phone every time it rang.
Seeing Luo's Father's pathetic state, the guests wanted to laugh but didn't dare to.
After the unwanted guests left, the hosts began systematically arranging for the remaining guests to depart.
Luo's Mother and Luo Fei apologized to everyone one by one.
As people left, they eagerly discussed the day's dramatic events.
It was certain that the wealthy circles would be shaken again, though Ji Fei probably hadn't expected to be dragged into it again.
"It was so close - Luo Fei and that Miss Wu were almost schemed to death. Thank heavens the affair was discovered before the wedding."
"I heard Luo Fei discovered the surveillance video first, and Luo's Mother became suspicious and started investigating, leading to catching them in the act."
"Wasn't Luo Fei completely unsuspicious before? Why would he investigate Fan Shi?"
"Someone must have shown him the evidence, since he seemed normal during the early wedding preparations."
"Come to think of it, I saw Mr. Qin and Mrs. Qin accompanying Luo Fei for quite a while..."
"You mean Qin Xian and that..."
"Yes, that one..."
"Why is it her again?! She was also there during the Luo Family incident, and seemed quite close to the people involved."
"It must be a coincidence, they're all Qin Xian's brothers, of course they'd be there."
"No, no, no, the Entertainment Judge is quite mystical."
"So does this mean wherever she attends an event, there's bound to be some wealthy family drama?"
"Are you suggesting Mrs. Qin is some kind of walking drama magnet? Wherever she goes, drama follows?"
"Well... I'm just curious about which event she'll attend next. I have to say, witnessing these dramas in person is incredibly thrilling."
"She can attend anyone's events, just not my family's. I'm scared."
"If you haven't done anything wrong, why fear the wealthy family drama queen? Unless your family..."
"Oh, stop it..."
Ji Fei, who was about to leave, suddenly felt eyes on her back, as if many people were staring at her. It made her uncomfortable.
At this moment, Qin Xian's friends couldn't help but marvel.
Qi Li frowned and said, "Ji Fei, be honest, do you have some kind of mystical power?"
He was beginning to suspect that his troubles with Han Ziyu were connected to Ji Fei, especially since Han Ziyu was Ji Fei's fan.
Of course, it wasn't that he cared about Han Ziyu - he was just annoyed by her playing hard to get. She was just a substitute; she should just cooperate obediently. Even if she wasn't content, he couldn't give her what she wanted. Wasn't it enough that he allowed her to stay by his side?
Ji Fei had no time to investigate the twists and turns in Qi Li's mind, otherwise she would have definitely criticized him harshly.
"This time it was Qin Xian who investigated the problem, it had nothing to do with me," Ji Fei immediately deflected.
Qin Xian nodded in agreement.
"Wasn't it because you wanted to see the dog that the illegitimate child issue was discovered?" Bai Xiaoxi laughed heartily.
Everyone certainly hadn't thought as deeply as Qi Li had; they simply felt that Ji Fei had a knack for being present during dramatic events, so they were just joking around.
Although they shouldn't have been so cheerful about their good friend Luo Fei's situation, strictly speaking, this was actually good for him. Plus, after what happened with Luo Zhou and Xuan Yi, they had become somewhat numb to such drama and were happy to watch it unfold.
"Are you two going to break up a couple every time you attend an event? Are you marriage breakers?" Yu Yue immediately turned to Cen Ting and said, "Cen Ting, you better be careful, your engagement party is coming up soon."
Cen Ting shrugged indifferently. "If a relationship can be broken up, it means there were problems to begin with. This kind of scrutiny is good - emergency risk prevention. But I think we probably won't have any issues, since it's already a loveless arranged marriage. That person already plays around outside anyway, we're just cooperating."
This was the first time they heard Cen Ting talk about his own marriage.
Aliali: 67219cfb3a4784313d7ca9d4Ji Fei had seen some information about it before - it was indeed purely a business arrangement marriage where both parties did their own thing, though Cen Ting didn't play around while the other person was quite active in that regard. There was absolutely no emotion involved, so there was no talk of hurt feelings.
However, every time Ji Fei heard Cen Ting speak, she habitually stole glances at Jing Yan's reaction.
No one could resist their gossiping nature, especially when they knew someone in their circle had a secret crush on another person that others didn't know about.
Sure enough, Jing Yan gave Cen Ting a controlled glance, his eyes complex with emotion, before returning to his natural smile and retorting to Yu Yue, "What about your father's wedding?"
Yu Yue immediately made a wish to Ji Fei: "You must come, and hopefully you can disrupt my father's wedding."
Bai Xiaoxi gave Yu Yue a light smack.
Yu Yue said innocently, "You wouldn't want your future mother-in-law to be the same age as you, would you?"
It was just that Yu Yue's father changed wives too frequently, so frequently that people had become numb to it, making Yu Yue wonder if his old man was using these constant weddings as a way to collect gift money.
Each time he changed wives, it would cause a huge storm and disrupt the family peace. That's why they had been staying abroad. Several times when they wanted to return home to get married, they encountered drama from his father's romantic entanglements and had to cancel their plans. The only silver lining was that his father couldn't produce any illegitimate children - probably due to physical inability.
After all the joking and laughing, Luo Fei came over. In front of his good friends, he didn't hide his exhaustion anymore.