Chapter 42

Ling Yue meant that any wife should understand this, but Shiguang Jinghao didn't believe it.

She was born into a wealthy family since childhood, her parents had only this one daughter, as if they feared she would melt in their mouths or break in their palms, raising her thoroughly into a flower in a greenhouse, believing the world is beautiful.

Otherwise, she wouldn't have fallen in love at first sight after her current husband rescued her as a hero, starting a secret crush; only after they got together did she realize it was mutual.

For the family, Shiguang Jinghao gave up her career, became a full-time homemaker; her husband treated her well, she didn't mind having no children, and she regarded the Yellow Peach she had raised for years as her own child.

Because she had never faced setbacks, everything in her world was beautiful.

She had a kind heart, but she didn't know that the world had another side; her parents had protected her too well.

Ling Yue had already guessed the outcome before speaking; she wouldn't believe it.

Such a young woman shouldn't fall in her prime; Ling Yue looked at her, her gaze cold: 'Why impossible? I take responsibility for every word I say.'

Shiguang Jinghao panicked completely, she instinctively wanted to dodge; Yellow Peach cried out in anxiety, its foolish owner—how could she not believe it!

The parrot's mimicry blurted out a string of 'husband, husband, husband,' then suddenly interjected 'Brother Si Yan.'

Affected and pretentious, as if one could wring out a catty of water.

Yellow Peach retched instantly, its 'ah-ah' appearance made people unable to hold back laughter.

Shiguang Jinghao froze on the spot, incredulously looking at her own PetLove, her head buzzing, the world shattering into fragments; in her memory, only one person would say such a thing.

She had never thought of that.

Shiguang Jinghao's breathing quickened: 'Room 503 of Kaiyue Hotel?'

Her hands and feet turned cold; she suddenly realized something—the streamer was in Jing Shi, how could she know this hotel? Moreover, it was her family's hotel; thinking of this, Shiguang Jinghao bit her lip.

She seemed to have become another person, her steps unsteady, she grabbed her pearl bag and phone and was about to leave; the livestream's netizens were dumbfounded, they had already guessed Ling Yue's meaning.

Ling Yue: 'Are you just going like that?'

She calmly looked at Shiguang Jinghao: 'Just one person, one bag, what do you intend to do? Aren't you afraid of getting hurt? Your family will worry.'

Seeing Shiguang Jinghao hesitate, Ling Yue continued: 'Don't rush, you have plenty of time to prepare. Yellow Peach told me, he said he's on a business trip today and won't be back; you should be able to guess, they'll be together all day.'

Earlier, the livestream's netizens had vaguely guessed; now hearing Ling Yue say it out loud, the hastily fermented words exploded across the whole livestream.

【I thought it was just the parrot mimicking speech, a normal couple's daily life, but I never expected it to be infidelity!】

【Retched, such a great beauty not cherished, scumbag man!】

【Sis, to catch an affair you definitely need to bring more people, protect yourself well, and you can even make the scumbag guy die socially ah ah ah!】

Shiguang Jinghao hesitated and nodded; she really couldn't accept this, she really couldn't imagine her husband would cheat; it was her first time coming to Ling Yue's livestream, but she had already watched the videos several times, never missing anything this host said.

Thinking of this, Shiguang Jinghao held onto the table, her stomach churned, she retched for a while only bringing up a bit of acid.

She called her parents; as soon as she started, she burst into tears, the elders instantly anxious, the livestream's netizens could hear the urgency in her voice: 'Dear, what's wrong? Why did you suddenly cry?'

Shiguang Jinghao could no longer bear it, but she still had her reason, saying: 'Mom and Dad, I got news that Si Yan cheated, right here at our family's hotel.'《I Can Hear Animals' Hearts 【Live Broadcast】》, remember the website: m. 1. Her parents were shocked, then immediately furious: 'How could this happen? That bastard dares to bully my daughter!'

The father pacified his daughter with a few words, truly deserving of being a self-made founder who built a huge fortune, a wealthy first-generation.

They immediately finalized the deployment, rushing nonstop from home; by the time they arrived, Shiguang Jinghao had changed into a long shirt and pants, preparing to drive to the hotel.

In the end, they became a family of three.

The old father was driving, couldn't be distracted; only the mother spoke, her first words: 'What do you want to do?'

They believed their daughter could never do something aimless and pointless; besides, they had already prepared everything before coming.

Shiguang Jinghao repeated it, blurring the earlier beginning, head lowered, a thin layer of powder on her face; after all, who would think her mind so peculiar as to suspect a human-bird romance?

After hearing this, the mother clenched her brows tightly: 'He's gotten tired of living! I still remember how he initially knelt begging me to hand you over to him—how many years has it been? And he cheats in our family's hotel, while we've merely retreated, not died!'

'Does he think that putting him in charge of the hotel makes it his? Ridiculous! Who back then lifted him from utter poverty to become today's general manager? His conscience has been devoured by dogs!'

The livestream's netizens felt a mix of tension and relief.

【Damn, that's how it should be; listening, he's still a phoenix man, my goodness, heaven is blind—why could such an ungrateful wolf also find a wife?】

【Still a great beauty QAQ】

【Wife, what do you see in him? I'll go learn right away!】

Unfortunately, Shiguang Jinghao kept listening to her mother speak, not noticing the livestream.

The drive soon reached the destination; when they arrived, the hotel had already been blockaded by the old father; the lobby manager, as a confidant, saw his immediate superior and was startled instantly.

'Chairman, Madam, Miss.'

Shiguang Jinghao felt nothing; the netizens watching this scene were truly sour—what fortune does a cheating dog have to marry someone else's golden miss?

【Damn, making our male compatriots lose face! I'd be willing to die if I had such a wife!】

During the conversation, Shiguang Jinghao had already gone up the stairs.

All the way up to the fifth floor, 503.

The lobby manager who followed wiped the sweat from his forehead; at the old gentleman's gesture, he swiped the room card, with a beep, the tightly closed door automatically opened.

A group rushed straight to the bedroom; before even entering, they saw clothes scattered all over the floor; Shiguang Jinghao felt nauseous and vomited straight away, not noticing her mother's worried gaze beside her.

The livestream's viewership surged again; although when Shiguang Jinghao had just entered, they had tried to avoid capturing everything, the clothes in utter disarray on the floor were already enough to stir the public's senses.

【Waiting to catch the affair, I want to see exactly which shameless scumbag it is! No manly virtue!】

【Ah ah ah ah ah, sis, charge! Fuck the scumbag and the mistress!】

What made Shiguang Jinghao even more nauseous was that as they drew nearer, they could hear that faint, broken sound; not just her, but even her parents' faces turned green!

They looked worriedly at their daughter, who had never suffered hardship in her life, yet she had stumbled so painfully in marriage.

Inwardly, they were furious to the point of bitterness, regretting deeply.

'Jingjing you——'

The mother was about to say something, but the always-silent Shiguang Jinghao suddenly moved—she was faster than anyone, shoving the door open!

The phone camera faithfully captured the whole impact; the livestream seemed as if suddenly hit by a thrown bomb, and the netizens exploded.

【No wonder I just seemed to hear some sound, my god! Truly catching adultery in bed!】【I go, I go, I go, or is it the dragon below and phoenix above!】

【Can I really watch this? Ah ah ah, I'm going to get needle eyes!】

The cameraman invited from behind was very responsible; although shocked, he also immediately took out his camera to take photos; the two people who had reacted instantly sprang apart.

The worst part was that the man directly pulled away the blanket; the girl trembled all over, clutching the sheets in terror, and when they saw who it was, both faces turned as pale as paper.

"Jingjing, I was forced——"

Shiguang Jinghao slapped her across the face: "I don't have a friend like you! I'd rather never know you for the rest of my life!"

The girl covered her face, looking at her in shock, "Aren't you the best-tempered?" The girl didn't know that even the most good-tempered person, when their bottom line is touched, cannot help but explode.

Compared to the green-tea friend, the man's status is higher; he pulled the blanket and knelt with a thud: "Jingjing, I was wrong, I made you sad, I deserve to die! But it's all her seducing me! She forced me——"

Seeing no response for a long time, the man quietly raised his head: "Jingjing, I was just momentarily confused——I——"

A loud slap filled the whole room: "You still know you deserve to die."

That slap left the netizens dumbfounded.

Shiguang Jinghao slapped repeatedly until her palm ached, a pent-up anger in her chest finally released, feeling wonderfully relieved: "She forced you? If she forced you to do it, you do it; if she told you to die, why don't you go die?!!"

The man was completely dazed by her successive slaps.

After reacting, one face was already swollen like a pig's head; seeing her eyes devoid of any affection, filled only with disgust, he finally panicked.

He thought he had figured out the girl's temperament—gentle, soft, and easy to bully, with no opinion—but at this moment, an inexplicable anxiety gripped his heart, and he crawled over on his knees: "Jingjing——Jingjing, I love you!"

The netizens in the livestream directly retched and vomited.

【I'm eating, oh my mom, the takeout I just ordered is completely ruined!】

【Scumbag! Bitch! What love, do you love my heart and body while *ing someone else? You think everyone else is an idiot!】

Shiguang Jinghao's mother gripped her aching palm, distressed: "Good girl, does your hand hurt? How could you hit him yourself? His rough face is thicker than pigskin—look, your palm is all red……"

【Pfft——】

【Even calling them pigs insults pigs—beasts are worse!】

Shiguang Jinghao, however, felt great, quite good; even though her palm was still trembling, she felt completely relieved.

She gazed at the other party with an utterly emotionless look: "We're divorcing."

The man stared, seeing her gaze cold enough to make one shiver, he lunged toward the back as if gone mad: "It's all you! It's all you, you bitch!"

The girl screamed, clutching her stomach: "Noooo, I'm pregnant with your child! I have your child in my belly!"

"You have weak sperm syndrome; this is your only child! If you hit my child, you won't be able to keep it!"

【What the hell, I thought this was already disgusting enough—how can it get even more disgusting!】

【Did the beautiful sister dig up his grave in a past life? What sin!】

【A child? Cheating and even having a child!】

Shiguang Jinghao felt like an outsider listening to the two argue, as if seeing a mud pit; previously she had unknowingly sunk into it, but now, in this lifetime, she never wants to set foot in it again!

Suddenly, a voice called out to her—it was Ling Yue.

She had calculated the timing and told her: "Scumbags can't have children."

She saw the scumbag's physiognomy; in this lifetime he has no fate for offspring, as for the so-called child……

The netizens laughed themselves to death.

This voice was neither too loud nor too soft; everyone in the room could hear it.

The girl's face instantly turned deathly pale; the hesitant man immediately reacted: "You bitch, you're giving me a green hat!"

The girl retorted directly: "Is it my fault? It's you! You're greedy as a snake swallowing an elephant; if you want to marry into someone's family, you just kicked me!"

She angrily shouted, anyway everything's over, let's all perish together!

"Obviously it's you, I'm your legitimate girlfriend! You go after her because her family is rich, you crazyly find thugs to bully her—am I lowly to have you, this perverted madman? You pervert!!"

"You still want——ahhh——"

Consumed by rage, Sun Siyan kicked the woman in the belly: "What nonsense are you spouting!"

His guilty, panicked look startled everyone; the netizens in the livestream speculated even more.

【He must be hiding something else—this is truly heinous!】

【Call the police quickly! I'm literally sick to death; I've never seen such a disgusting scumbag in this lifetime!】

The man was kicked over by the bodyguard, the woman fainted and was sent to the hospital; the atmosphere was deathly silent.

Nobody expected things to develop like this.

Shiguang Jinghao's face turned pale; that was her greatest fear, also the beginning of her love at first sight for the man—it turned out everything was fake!

Her parents were even more furious, hair standing on end, watching their pale daughter shed tears nonstop; the affair actually ended like this.

After a while, everyone finally saw her; this should be a private room, compared to the start, Shiguang Jinghao's appearance had changed greatly; she looked at the camera, voice hoarse: "Thank you, host."

Ling Yue: "No need to thank me; I also don't want to see you come to harm. My final advice: check the medicine you're taking."

Shiguang Jinghao startled, an indescribable chill shot from the soles of her feet up her spine into her brain!

She suffered severe insomnia and anxiety, because her friend—the woman just now—told her how hard her husband worked outside, each matter more dangerous than the last.

Because she was alone at home, aside from raising yellow peaches, she basically had nothing to do; her mind filled with uncontrollable wild thoughts, originally mild but increasingly severe, she had to take medication to keep it under control.

Shiguang Jinghao's throat was dry and sore; upon reflection, the onset of her insomnia and anxiety coincided exactly with the period when her friend appeared.

Shiguang Jinghao said in a daze: "Okay, thank you, host."

After saying that, she hung up the livestream connection.

Ling Yue withdrew her gaze, looking at the empty comment section, slightly startled; the netizens' scalps went numb, and they still haven't reacted to this day.

Moments later, the comments erupted like a geyser!

【Ahhhh, thinking about it fills me with dread, thinking about it fills me with dread!】

【Is the host what I guessed? That medicine…… does that medicine have a problem?】

【In broad daylight, I'm breaking out in cold sweat all over! How could there be such a man!!】

Ling Yue nodded, almost explicitly saying: "Alright, let's begin with the next consultee."

Ling Yue's thoughts were still unsettled; how to put it? If it weren't for today's livestream, the other party would, in a few years, lose both parents, and in grief the company would be entirely run by a man; after a few more years, the hotel would completely change hands.

She would, in an "unintentional" moment, discover her husband's affair with her best friend; unable to accept it, she would choose mutual destruction, then be discovered, subsequently diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder, and afterwards no one would remember her—a madwoman in a mental asylum.

Now, the originally peaceful timeline of fate has completely vanished; as for the future, Ling Yue thought, it certainly won't be worse than now!

Thinking so, Ling Yue initiated a call with the next consultee; the screen quickly connected, and on half of the screen lay a landscape of clear mountains and pure waters, with a waterfall flowing behind like a white silk ribbon, the green pond water rippling gently, the setting serene—a very beautiful place.

"Is it really me? When I just heard it, I thought I had misheard! The streamer is really beautiful."

Ling Yue furrowed her brows slightly: "Now that we have wine, let's get drunk—what do you want to calculate?"

The person opposite appeared to be a young man in his twenties, handsome, with someone beside him; just as he was about to speak, he heard his friend's voice, immediately turned his head and replied: "What am I doing? I was watching the livestream lottery and got picked by the streamer—she's extraordinarily beautiful, a total beauty!"

"Let me see—what kind of streamer could make a playboy like you praise her so much? Surely she isn't another plastic-surgery monster, is she?"

His frivolous words made people frown.

【I feel like I've sinned—how could these words be so… so pretentious?!】

【So oily I'm dying, so oily I'm dying—did I just eat a few cans in one sitting?】

【This consultee really leaves a bad impression, and is especially pretentious; in this remote wilderness, what pets could they possibly bring?】

Soon, Ling Yue saw a group of young people in the livestream; her eyes shifted slightly to the lake behind them, and then to the fishing rods and similar gear of a few people, brand new as if never used.

They were a group of rich second-gen heirs out for a wild fishing trip.

"Wow! She's really beautiful, a top-notch beauty I've never seen before—how much did you spend to connect with her?"

"Only a thousand? That's cheap—I'll offer ten times that; streamer, can you call me 'good brother'?"

"I'll offer ten thousand, streamer—"

Ling Yue didn't take the bait at all, directly interrupting and asking the other party: "Now that we have wine, let's get drunk—what do you want to consult? If you don't want to consult, I'll hang up."

"No! I haven't had enough of looking yet!"

Now that we have wine, let's get drunk deliberately curled the corner of his mouth, gave a crooked smile, and flamboyantly said: "Streamer, this is my first time entering your livestream; I've seen viewers say you consult about pets, I'm a bit doubtful, and want you to prove it."

Ling Yue looked at him, her gaze turning cold; if one looked closely, there was still a hint of pity: "How do you want to calculate?"

Now that we have wine, let's get drunk laughed: "Although we don't have pets here, we do have animals!"

"Streamer, look—"

The camera panned down, showing several plump fish; now that we have wine, let's get drunk, he was quite pleased: "This is the catch from our wild fishing with my brothers; this pond looks small, but there are truly many fish. We expended great effort to catch them, and the results are gratifying—each weighs seven or eight catties, and a dozen or so have already been put in the pot to stew or roast. Look—"

Among the livestream's viewers there were also fishing enthusiasts; upon hearing this, their eyes turned red.

【I don't believe it! This is the newbie protection period!】

【I'd break my own leg—where is this? I'm grabbing my gear right away!】

Over here, now that we have wine, let's get drunk turned the camera, capturing a group of men cooking outdoors, holding bowls and drinking fish soup, or holding forks eating grilled fish; seeing him take a photo, they all waved: "You idiot, what are you looking at if you're not eating fish?"

"If it weren't for seeing how especially fat and large these few fish are, we would have killed them already."

"Why not take a few photos and videos, and later make a sour cabbage fish?"

"Wang Wu." Someone called out to now that we have wine, let's get drunk: "I specially saved a grilled fish for you."

Now that we have wine, let's get drunk gave a hehe laugh: "Still, the brothers are thoughtful, thinking of me."

He seemed to have just remembered Ling Yue and asked: "Streamer, can you tell me what these few fish are saying now? It would be best if you could prove it; otherwise I won't believe you."

【... oh, oh you big-headed idiot, yue, oily confident guy!】

【How can we prove the fish are speaking? Should the streamer make them swim a few laps to show?】

【Here we come, a delightful scene to hear and see; the streamer's good temper gave him face, and I want to slap their faces hard!】

Ling Yue lifted her eyelids, looking at the fish in the plastic bucket; the rustling sound transmitted into her ears.

"Brothers, we're doomed—we're definitely going to die this time!"

"What's going on? Just a few days ago a group came, and now another group shows up to eat fish—our fish in the black pool aren't to be eaten!"

"Third one, why aren't you speaking?"

"Um, I—I ate too much earlier, and now I don't even want to swim…"

"Wuwuwu, if I could go home, I'd never eat weird stuff again in this life—I want to go home! I want to go home wuwuwu~"

"It's too noisy, keep it down—I'm feeling awful╯﹏╰"

"Huh? What's wrong with you? You've been listless lately—are you sick?"

"It's not that idiot suddenly grabbing to eat; I panicked and swallowed him straight away—goodness, my stomach feels awful, I might as well die!"

"We're all a bunch of fools, eating so much that when people come we don't run, and we get caught right away!"

"Actually, it's fine—I've got indigestion from the whole fish; just kill me quickly!"

"It's so uncomfortable—why do these humans keep catching little fish to kill? I'm a big fish; kill me first, I can't hold on much longer—QAQ"

Afterward, more information leaked out.

Ling Yue restrained her gaze, looking toward now that we have wine, let's get drunk; the man ate with oil dripping from his mouth, thoroughly delighted.

Ling Yue said: "No need for all that trouble, and we don't need these fish to prove anything—I'll say one thing: these fish weren't caught by you."

Now that we have wine, let's get drunk flushed with anger: "You're talking nonsense!"

"These big fish were hard-won catches; we even broke a fishing rod—how could they not have been caught by us?"

Ling Yue smiled: "You said I could understand fish speech—why don't you believe me now?"

"Moreover, I know you lot were at the right-side pond, where a group of big fish had overeaten and couldn't swim, and you picked them up."

"Now, out of dozens of fish, only these remain."

This left now that we have wine, let's get drunk completely stunned—the streamer was far away, a thousand li distant, making it absolutely impossible for her to see their fish‑catching scene, yet she said it exactly, without a single detail off!

He was about to admit it when he suddenly heard his brothers exclaim: "Holy shit, the livestream with eighty million followers has nearly a hundred million viewers online! Wang Wu, you've really made it big!"

"Wow, after today you're going to be famous!"

Now that we have wine, let's get drunk's heart tightened instantly—being famous? That would mean many people would know what he said today; if he admitted to bragging…

He shuddered violently, his throat constricted, and he spoke righteously: "You're talking nonsense! This is a wild pond—what could make the fish eat until they can't swim?"

These are clearly the big fish I caught together with my brothers through hard work, and you're talking nonsense!

Ling Yue's fingertip lightly tapped, her dense, long eyelashes lifted, seeing that he only had half a grilled fish left in his hand: "I already expected you'd say that, but it's fine—these fish have eaten too much, their stomachs haven't digested yet, there's evidence in the fish's bellies."

"Cut open the fish's belly, you'll see some things, but——"

"I hope you won't regret it."