Chapter 69: Looking for Trouble

Gu Yan felt a bit troubled.

Before going upstairs to sleep, she had impulsively tested her parents' views on flash marriage.

It went without saying for Gu Yan's parents, but even Gu Lin had frowned.

By comparison, Yang Bing was actually the most composed, only saying: "Marriage is not child's play; you still need to be cautious."

Gu Fanglin was quite agitated, slamming his teacup back onto the table: "Don't even think about it!"

"I was just asking, I'm not thinking about it." Gu Yan shrank her neck, feeling guilty, and said, "It's a friend of mine..."

"Which friend?" Gu Lin suddenly leaned over to ask.

Gu Yan: "You don't know them."

Gu Lin was suspicious: "Oh..."

Gu Fanglin shook his head, staring at his youngest daughter: "That friend of yours will have plenty to cry about later."

Feeling guilty, she lowered her head and gnawed on an apple.

Gu Fanglin asked again, worried: "You haven't had such thoughts, have you?"

Sorry, Dad, not only have I had the thoughts, but I've already flashed.

"How could that be?" Gu Yan immediately looked up, her expression incomparably sincere, "Dad, don't worry, I absolutely will not flash marry. I have to date for at least... a year or two, right?"

Seeing the furrow in his brow, she immediately changed her words: "Two or three years!"

Only then did Gu Fanglin's expression soften slightly, but he still added: "Remember what you said today."

"Remember, remember." Gu Yan raised her hand to promise.

After chatting about family matters for a while, she used jet lag as an excuse to slip back to her room.

Closing the door, she leaned against the door panel and let out a long sigh.

She could only wrong Shen Yanhui a little.

Let him be her boyfriend first.

——

The next day, Gu Yan went downstairs while looking down at her phone.

Her fingertips tapped lightly on the screen:

【I'm heading out, I'll wait for you at the restaurant in a bit~】

【Also, my dad has spoken, he wants you to come over for a meal on Saturday.】

【He also said he wants to personally vet you.】

【Are you afraid?】

She discovered that Shen Yanhui didn't really like using WeChat to send messages, but she didn't care; she liked it, so he had to like it too.

Chatting back and forth with text was the essence of a sweet romance.

She hummed a song as she walked down the last step, and there was a reply from Shen Yanhui on her phone.

【It would be my honor.】

Two seconds later.

Another message: 【Are you afraid?】

Gu Yan's smile deepened, and just as she was about to reply, she caught a glimpse of her aunt Yang Xue and her cousin Qin Yue sitting on the living room sofa.

She put away her phone and trotted over to greet them: "Aunt, cousin, it's been so long, I've missed you so much~"

When Yang Xue saw her, her cold expression faded slightly, and she forced a smile: "Yanyan is back."

Gu Yan sensed that the atmosphere was wrong.

Subconsciously, she looked toward Qin Yue; her eyes were severely swollen, and it was clear she had just been crying.

The smile on her face faded, and her brows furrowed slightly.

"What's wrong?" She sat down next to Qin Yue and held her cold hands.

Yang Bing signaled to her with her eyes.

Her aunt, however, was a straightforward person and had already spoken indignantly: "It's all because of your cousin, who doesn't know how to look after herself! I said from the start that she couldn't marry him, she couldn't! That Chen Zhiyuan has deep motives; she's so naive, she was bound to suffer, but she wouldn't listen!"

"Mom..." Qin Yue felt embarrassed and interrupted in a hoarse voice.

"Why can't I say it! Let Yanyan hear it too, to see what happens when you marry the wrong person!"

Gu Yan's brows furrowed even tighter.

She asked Qin Yue softly: "Cousin, what exactly happened? What did Chen Zhiyuan do?"

Qin Yue's tears fell again, her voice trembling: "He cheated."

Gu Yan's expression sank instantly.

She had met this cousin-in-law a few times; he looked decent enough and appeared to be an honest person. Every time they met, he would be busy and attentive around Qin Yue.

She hadn't expected it to all be an act.

Her aunt was on the side, feeling frustrated that her daughter wouldn't live up to her expectations: "At first, your cousin found text messages on his phone and confronted him, and he said it was his assistant, a work relationship. Your cousin, that fool, actually believed him. She's so stupid!"

Qin Yue cried even harder. Yang Bing couldn't bear it, so she hugged her and patted her, saying to Yang Xue: "Say less, don't always poke at the child's wounds."

Yang Xue turned her head away, her own eye sockets a bit red. It was her own daughter; even if she scolded her, how could she not feel heartache?

"Back then, if it weren't for Yueyue begging me to inject capital into his lousy company, it would have been gone long ago. He, on the other hand, actually thought it was his own ability, actually thought he was someone important, and even gave Yueyue a cold shoulder!"

Qin Yue cried even more violently.

The more Yang Xue thought about it, the angrier she became: "Qin Yue, tell me, what do you want with a man like that!"

Qin Yue only cried and couldn't speak.

After a long while, she sobbed and said: "The child is only three years old... what will happen if we divorce..."

"I'll raise them!" Yang Xue said decisively, "I'm not dead yet! Can't I afford to raise the two of you?"

"But..."

"No 'buts'! A man like that, if he does it once, he'll do it again. If you endure it now, he'll be bringing people home in the future!"

Yang Xue paused, her voice also somewhat choked: "With you like this, how am I supposed to explain it to your father? He loved you the most when he was alive; if he saw you crying like this from the underworld, I don't know how heartbroken he would be."

The living room suddenly went quiet.

There was only the sound of Qin Yue's stifled sobbing.

Gu Yan felt both heartache and anger.

When a man cheats, in her opinion, he just needs a beating.

"Sister, setting aside the divorce for now, do you want to vent your anger?"

"How do I vent my anger?" Qin Yue looked up, her eyes blurred with tears.

"Leave it to me; I will definitely make him kneel before you and repent."

Qin Yue was stunned: "Yan Yan, don't..."

"Rest assured, I know what I'm doing," Gu Yan said coldly, "Where is he tonight?"

"Ruijing Club... Room 201, he said he had a client..."

Gu Yan stepped on the gas and sped all the way, even calling Gu Lin during the trip; he was the best at doing bad things.

Sure enough, after hearing her out, he cursed angrily and said he would go find some people, telling Gu Yan to wait for him at the entrance of the club.

Half an hour later, the two met up.

Gu Yan looked at the three blond-haired men behind him, wanting to say something but holding back, then leaned into his ear: "I told you to at least find some burly men; these three don't look like they can fight very well."

Gu Lin said: "Don't judge a book by its cover; I asked around, they are the best fighters among the hoodlums in this area."

Fine, she would take his word for it for now.

The group marched aggressively toward Room 201.

Halfway there, Gu Yan stopped, turned, and headed to the front desk, tapped on the counter, and said: "Get your manager out here."

The person in front of her looked like a young lady from a wealthy family, so the young girl at the front desk didn't dare to be negligent and ran to the back office. Before long, a middle-aged man appeared.

"This lady, may I ask what the matter is?"

Gu Yan handed over a card: "Room 201, I'm here to handle some family business."

The club manager was a shrewd person and understood immediately; he took the card, lowered his voice, and said: "Understood, understood. I will have the surveillance turned off immediately; please go ahead."

Gu Yan added: "Don't let anyone get close."

The manager nodded repeatedly: "Very well, madam. I will reassign all the waiters on the second floor so that no one will come near."

Gu Yan nodded in satisfaction and turned to walk toward the private room.

Gu Lin clicked his tongue in wonder: "Gu Yan, you're something else; you thought of everything so thoroughly. You must have done plenty of bad things, right?"

Gu Yan rolled her eyes at him: "Not as many as you, and besides, this is called having a brain."