Chapter 89: What? He’s on the show?!

The private suite of the Hill Hotel was filled with soft, breathless murmurs.

“Brother Xiaoyu is amazing~”

“Still, my darling Yuyue is the amazing one. Oh, yes, yes, right there!”

Before long, the man let out a sharp bark, and the room fell quiet.

Afterward, Sun Xiaoyu lit a cigarette and leaned back against the headboard. The knot in his brow loosened at last, and he exhaled a plume of smoke with obvious satisfaction.

Fang Ziyue, smiling coyly, pulled the quilt around herself and nestled against his knee.

Sun Xiaoyu rested a hand on her head. After taking a few more draws, he finally asked in contented tones, “Yuyue, how did that thing I asked you to handle last time go?”

At the mention of it, Fang Ziyue’s eyes darkened at once. She bit her lip and said, pretending to be annoyed, “It would have been fine if you hadn’t brought it up. Now that you have, I just remembered my old classmate changed his number after graduation. I still haven’t gotten in touch with him...”

“What?”

Sun Xiaoyu was instantly jolted awake. Forgetting his cigarette, he flicked the butt into the ashtray and sat up straight. “Is there any way to reach him? We need this dealt with as soon as possible. I already promised my father and the others.”

Seeing that Sun Xiaoyu was visibly anxious, as if he might fly into a rage the next second, Fang Ziyue hurriedly said, “Don’t worry, don’t worry. I’ll ask some other classmates for his contact information.”

Only then did Sun Xiaoyu breathe out in relief. In a grave tone, he reminded her, “You need to move fast on this. As long as we can get even a small order from Yihan Group for the second half of the year, the Sun family’s name will be made...”

“Mmm...”

Fang Ziyue nodded obediently, though the lowered gaze beneath her lashes gradually turned cold.

Sun Xiaoyu only knew to have her find Lin Feng. How could he know just how difficult that would be?

At the last banquet, she had gone there on purpose too, thinking that as long as she could get face to face with Lin Feng, that would be enough. But the moment she stepped out of the elevator, she was stopped by two security guards at the entrance.

They said the entire top floor had been rented by the Gu family, and without an invitation, no one could enter.

She had said she was only delivering something, but those two refused to let her in no matter what. On top of that, with all the news circulating lately, it was obvious that management had taken some kind of action.

Yet she knew nothing about any of it, and at that very moment, Lin Feng had somehow forced his way up there.

Sun Xiaoyu was anxious, and she was anxious too.

But if she could not even see Lin Feng, what could she possibly do?

Fang Ziyue bit down hard on her lip, unable to accept it. In just a little over a month, it had already become difficult for her to see Lin Feng even once.

Not long ago, she had not even needed to make a call. Lin Feng would have come rushing to her door on his own...

This kind of loss of control, this helpless torment, was driving her nearly mad.

No. She had to find a chance. Lin Feng was nothing more than one of her devoted lapdogs. She was the one meant to stand at the center of everything.

As she was thinking, her phone suddenly rang. Fang Ziyue hurriedly got up. Seeing that it was her younger brother calling, she shot Sun Xiaoyu an apologetic smile and went into the bathroom.

The call connected, and Fang Minghao’s voice burst out at once.

“Sis, have you seen the trending searches? Brother-in-law’s on a show!”

Fang Ziyue froze. “What?”

“Brother-in-law joined a dating variety show. People are still arguing about it online, and the buzz is huge!” Fang Minghao’s anxious voice went on. “Sis, hurry up and think of a way to contact brother-in-law! He’s about to become an internet celebrity!”

Fang Ziyue’s mind went blank. She quickly opened the trending list and looked. In an instant, the world before her went dark.

What was he doing on a show?!

She bit her lip and stared at the familiar, handsome face in the replay of the livestream.

After so many days, Lin Feng had changed completely. Compared to before, he now carried a cooler, more distant air.

His striking looks had sparked heated discussion among netizens, and plenty of girls were practically drooling over him.

As she scrolled through the comments, Fang Ziyue grew angrier and angrier.

That person, that face, had once belonged to her. But now...

“Sis, now that brother-in-law has become an internet celebrity, he must have quite a bit of money on him. Mom and Dad said you need to find a way to win brother-in-law back!” Fang Minghao’s anxious voice sounded again.

Fang Ziyue snapped back to her senses. Clenching her jaw, she said firmly, “Of course. Tell Mom and Dad not to worry. I’ll find a way to make him change his mind.”

After saying that, she hung up.

She searched through the photos on her phone and suddenly remembered that Lin Feng had once tried very hard to please her, showering her with all kinds of gifts.

Although she could not get in touch with Lin Feng now, this was the age of the internet. If she posted those things online, she believed that once Lin Feng saw them, he would surely remember all the little moments they had shared.

Then, no matter how fiercely they had fought this time, Lin Feng would definitely come back to her.

With that thought, she opened her Weibo account and posted a message under the identity of “the factory boy’s girlfriend.”

The weather is clear today. I tidied the cabinet and found so many memories from the past. So tell me, do you still remember all those little moments from those years?

The accompanying photos were the handmade bracelet Lin Feng had once given her, along with a bottle containing five hundred and twenty folded paper stars.

...

“Big sister, how did Xiao Feng end up on a show?!”

At Xu Logistics Company, Xu Zhiqing had just finished her work when she received a call from her third younger sister, Xu Nuoer.

She paused slightly. “He went on a show?”

“Yes! It’s all over the internet now. Big sister, wasn’t Xiao Feng kicked out by Dad?”

Xu Zhiqing said nothing. She stared silently at the trending topic on her phone.

Xu Nuoer’s careful voice sounded again. “Sis, about the last time he hit Xiaojie... did he apologize?”

“No. I can’t reach him.”

At the mention of it, Xu Zhiqing closed her eyes in sorrow. After a while, she opened them again, her tone turning somewhat resentful. “Dad already said it. He’s an ungrateful wolf with no memory of kindness.”

“What Dad said wasn’t wrong either. Our family raised him for so many years. It would have been bad enough that he framed Xiaojie, but he even laid hands on him...” Xu Nuoer’s voice came again, now tinged with urgency. “Big sister, could you use your connections and see if I can get on that show too? Then I could question him face to face!”

Saying this, Xu Nuoer was actually a little anxious as well.

She had always adored acting and had long dreamed of becoming a top-tier actress admired by all, with people waiting on her hand and foot. Lin Feng had always known that.

So after graduation, Lin Feng had pulled some strings and helped her squeeze into the entertainment industry.

But after three years of scrambling and struggling, she was still an unknown nobody, only able to land minor supporting roles. She had always thought the problem was her own lack of ability.

Yet now, seeing how wildly successful Lin Feng was the moment he appeared on screen...

Only then did she realize that the problem was never hers. It was probably because Lin Feng knew he was not the Xu family’s biological son, and so he had never truly considered her, his adopted sister, with any care at all...