Chapter 409: Chapter 408: Rumors Abound (8)
She would keep the transaction involving her body a secret for her whole life, absolutely... she wouldn’t let anyone know.
Dong Xin Yan struggled for a few seconds, but ultimately chose a well-intentioned lie.
She raised her eyes, meeting Mrs. Cheng’s gaze, and her lips moved slightly, answering sincerely, word by word, "Auntie, I do know Gu Ningyi, and there was indeed a time when we were close, but that was because we had a gentleman’s agreement. He wanted to use me to provoke his fiancée, and I did it for Ziyang. Besides this, we have no connection."
"No connection?"
Mrs. Cheng listened, unmoved in the slightest, and instead, her anger flared even more. She grabbed her phone fiercely, lit up the screen, and then hurled it at Dong Xin Yan, her voice rising. "Then how do you explain these photos?" Dong Xin Yan, caught off guard, was hit directly by the phone, leaving a bruise on her forehead, and then the phone dropped onto the soft carpet.
Ignoring the pain, Dong Xin Yan glanced down at the phone screen dumbfounded, her heart sinking abruptly.
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After returning from the bar that night, Gu Ningyi fell ill. It was a sudden high fever that came on in the middle of the night with extreme aggression. In the spacious villa, he was the only one there, and he fell into a dazed sleep, unable to discern day from night.
In the end, he was awoken by the sound of his phone ringing.
When he woke, the night was very dark, with only a faint moonlight shining down. Relying on the moonlight, he stretched his arms to reach for the phone on the nightstand and found it after quite a while.
He picked it up, glanced at the caller ID, and remained silent for a moment before answering, "Hello..."
His voice was extremely hoarse and dry, as if filled with grit, grating on one’s heart.
Yuan Shen, initially speaking with a high tone, lowered his voice upon hearing Gu Ningyi’s, puzzled, "Man, what happened? Why does your voice sound like this?"
Gu Ningyi wanted to reply that it was nothing, but he was overtaken by a fit of coughing, which was particularly jarring in the quiet of the night.
Yuan Shen furrowed his brows, "Yi, are you ill?"
After coughing for quite a while, Gu Ningyi finally stopped, answering in a huskier voice, "I’m fine, it’s just a bit of a fever."
"A fever?"
Gu Ningyi had a frail and sickly constitution as a child, so Mrs. Gu would give him all sorts of supplements, which did fatten him up quite a bit, but it also made him robust. Later, he worked hard to lose weight by exercising daily. Once he slimmed down, his physical fitness was almost invincible. Now he’s having a fever?
Yuan Shen could hardly believe his ears.
No wonder, with such big events happening recently, he hadn’t made a peep.
Gu Ningyi rarely fell ill, so when he did, it was particularly uncomfortable. His whole body felt as if pricked by needles, and his head was drowsy, continually chilled.
He had no desire to engage in nonsense with Yuan Shen, so he said in a low voice, "If there’s nothing else, I’m hanging up."
Yuan Shen had called intending to tell Gu Ningyi about Dong Xin Yan, the heartless woman who had her engagement called off. But since Gu Ningyi was ill, he couldn’t bother with such gossip, so he hurriedly said, "Bro, are you at the villa in Nahai Blue Bay? I’ll come over now."
"No." Before...
Before he could finish the word, his phone turned off automatically due to low battery.
He sighed lightly and, too tired to fuss, tossed the phone back onto the nightstand and covered himself with the blanket to continue sleeping.
But it seemed less than ten minutes later, the doorbell downstairs rang recklessly, accompanied by knocking sounds, which echoed through the empty villa.