Chapter 71: The incident is exposed

This night, some were happy, some were worried.

Capital, Gu family.

It was night, ten o'clock.

When Lu Manman returned home with her handbag, the Gu siblings were sitting on the living room sofa, having waited for a long time.

"Yinyin, you go back to your room first."

"No, Brother, I want to listen too!"

"Be obedient."

Gu Tingchen crushed the cigarette butt between his fingertips, his eyes cool, his attitude refusing to be denied.

"Hmph."

Gu Yinyin snorted angrily, then glared fiercely at the fake sister-in-law, and slammed the door back to her room in a fit of rage.

However, she lay on the door panel, trying to eavesdrop on how her eldest brother would tear the mask off the fake.

"Tingchen, what's wrong with you and Yinyin tonight? Why do I feel like you're very angry?"

Lu Manman was confused, feeling that the atmosphere was wrong, but she felt she hadn't offended her sister-in-law recently.

Wasn't she the one who helped her classmate's mother get the surgery, and for that, she even offended the Vice President...

"Shen, Man, do you know her?"

Gu Tingchen's eyes were dark, his eyes containing ice cold to the extreme.

He asked this sentence of only a few words in a hoarse voice.

"I—I know her."

Lu Manman didn't hold her bag steady, and it fell straight to the floor with a *thud*.

"Who, exactly, are you?"

There was no warmth in Gu Tingchen's eyes, only strange ice cold.

He spent his whole life playing with hawks, but he didn't expect that one day, he would be deceived by a fake fiancée and marry a fake!

"Tingchen, I am your wife. No matter who I am or what I have done, you must believe that I did this because I love you."

Lu Manman knew the matter had been exposed. She didn't know why it was exposed, but first, she had to show weakness to appease her husband's anger.

"Wife? Heh, my fiancée is Shen Man. Do you need me to go through the things I investigated with you one by one?"

Gu Tingchen grabbed the cup on the table and threw it at the other party in a rage. It brushed past her cheek and hit the wall, instantly shattering—

*Plop! *

The fragments of the "Hundred Years of Harmony" teacup splashed everywhere, cutting the back of Lu Manman's hand and revealing a bloodstain.

"Hiss."

Lu Manman ignored the wound on the back of her hand, crawled and rolled to the floor, hugged the man's leg, and cried:

"Tingchen, yes, I impersonated Shen Man, but she has been missing for fifteen years, with no news at all. We don't know if she's alive or dead.

I am a living person. I lived in the Lu family for fifteen years and called Father for fifteen years. Father has long treated me like his own daughter. I am also a daughter of the Lu family, and you and I are a match made in heaven!"

"So, you have been lying to me, and the Lu family has been lying to me."

In his rage, Gu Tingchen instinctively avoided harm and calculated the pros and cons.

At his feet was the fake Lu family girl. The real Lu family heiress, his fiancée Shen Man, had come to the family compound to seek relatives the day after their wedding, only to hear that he and the fake had already registered their marriage a day early...

The boat was already built; if only he hadn't been so drunk before the return visit and hadn't shared a room with the fake...

Now, he had to hold onto the fact that the Lu family knew but didn't say, intentionally replacing the bride, and leverage the Lu family!

"Father knows; Grandfather—Grandfather doesn't know."

Lu Manman felt very guilty at this time, but since her husband had already found out about Shen Man, he had already found out about her replacing the bride.

If she continued to hide it, she was afraid it would make her husband hate her even more, so it was better to tell the truth.

Hearing this, Gu Tingchen frowned tightly.

Grandfather Lu didn't know, so this matter was the unauthorized decision of the father-in-law and the fake mother and daughter...

This was actually fewer chips than he had expected.

"Where is Shen Man now?"

He had no requirements for his wife's appearance or character, as long as her family background was decent and could help his official career; he had no objections.

It was just that this was the first time he had been played around by a fake.

Moreover, his real fiancée didn't make a scene after knowing her marriage was snatched, nor did she think about snatching him back, which made his male self-esteem and competitive spirit suddenly soar...

"She left the Capital. She went to seek refuge with her brother, Lu Xiu Bai. Most likely, she has already found a man on the Sea Island and had a military marriage."

Lu Manman carefully observed her husband's complexion, a flash of imperceptible pleasure in her eyes.

On one hand, she was proud that she had snatched a good marriage. Even if the incident was exposed, she would be scolded at most. A day as husband and wife, a hundred days of grace; her husband couldn't possibly divorce her at this juncture.

On the other hand, she was intentionally reminding her husband that Shen Man hadn't been sad or upset because her marriage was snatched, and had quickly thrown herself into a new relationship. A military marriage wasn't something anyone could break up just because they wanted to!

"I see."

Gu Tingchen laughed in anger. He reached out and took the fake wife's palm, his smile undiminished, and his index finger pressed hard on the wound, exerting force...

"Hiss~"

Lu Manman's face was ferocious with pain, but she didn't dare to resist.

She thought, *The incident is exposed; there will be such a day sooner or later. *

*It's good that my husband found out; I don't have to pretend to be someone else anymore, living in fear every day. *

"Tomorrow, go back to the Lu family with me. We should have a good chat with Father and Mother."

Gu Tingchen released his finger, and while ordering, he took a handkerchief from his chest pocket, wiped the bloodstains on his fingertips casually, and finally threw the handkerchief into the ashtray with disgust.

"Okay."

Lu Manman felt her whole body lose strength; she didn't know what to say.

Perhaps she shouldn't say anything and let her husband vent his resentment.

As for the split wound on her hand, she actually felt a sense of relief in her heart.

Finally, she didn't have to hide her identity anymore.

She, Lu Manman, could finally hold her head high and no longer be anyone's substitute!

In the second bedroom, Gu Yinyin, who couldn't hear any movement, was scratching her head in anxiety.

If it weren't for her eldest brother's majesty intimidating her, she really couldn't help but go out and grab the fake sister-in-law's hair!

Shameless, impersonating her real sister-in-law's identity to muddle through and marry into the Gu family!

Damn it!

She had said it herself, every time she saw this fake sister-in-law, she felt uncomfortable all over!

Now everything was revealed; this was a fake, unworthy of being her sister-in-law!

Her sister-in-law was Shen Man, not some Lu Manman!

Gu Tingchen didn't even take off his clothes, directly took a quilt into the study, and locked the door.

His attitude was very clear: he didn't want to share a bed with Lu Manman.

Lu Manman didn't make a sound, silently washed up, changed into pajamas, and lay on the bed thinking about the changes after her rebirth.

In the end, where did things go wrong?

Except for the loss of the jade pendant space, everything she did followed the trajectory of her previous life, with almost no difference.

But now, one thing after another was happening, and she felt that she was becoming increasingly unlucky...