NOVEL NEXT Chapter 270 - Getting Stalked
Chapter 270 Getting Stalked
On the second day of the New Year, while all households were still enjoying the festival, a scandal arrived quickly to overwhelm all the news of the day.
Murong Ye knocked on the door of Murong Yunxi’s room. Only when he heard Murong Yunxi’s answer from inside did Murong Ye push open the door and walk in.
Murong Yunxi was a little surprised to see Murong Ye. “Brother, weren’t you going out today?”
Murong Ye placed a newspaper on the side table in front of Murong Yunxi, then asked her listlessly, “Yunxi, what’s with this piece of news?”
Murong Yunxi looked at Murong Ye, puzzled, and picked up the newspaper.
After she gave a rough scan of the content, Murong Yunxi’s delicate eyebrows pinched a little, and she spoke indifferently, “Brother, what do you think about it?”
“I 100 percent believe that my sister got dragged in innocently. I’ve always known who you are. I just wanted to know what that was about before I fixed it for you once for all.”
Actually, Murong Ye already had a simple and crudely effective solution, which was that he would delete everything on the Internet directly and even send out an order to all media outlets, big or small, forbidding them to cover this. Nevertheless, this method might not solve the issue at its roots. He needed to understand the whole thing before coming up with a better method.
Murong Yunyi ran through all she had learned from Tong Nan yesterday with Murong Ye:
Roughly speaking, Tong Nan had recently accepted this spokesperson job for female cosmetics of the Haina Group. Unexpectedly, the chairman of the Haina Group, Wei Guodong, was an old wolf. Seeing Tong Nan’s good figure and looks, he couldn’t let it go. First, he negotiated with Tong Nan’s agent in an attempt to strike a backdoor deal. But quite against his expectations, Tong Nan didn’t fall for such things. Failing to achieve his purpose by doing business, he decided to do it illegally.
On one occasion, Tong Nan was dragged by Wei Guodong to entertain his clients. She had not thought that this would be a trap set by Wei Guodong, that he would drug her drink to get her in bed by force. Tong Nan eventually not only became Wei Guodong’s prey, but also had a lot of pictures taken of her undressed and was threatened to keep quiet about it.
Tong Nan wanted to call the police and solve this issue legally, but her agent dissuaded her by saying: “You’d better endure it because Wei Guodong is rich and powerful. It would be extremely easy for him to get those witnesses on his side, and who would truly speak for you? In the end, instead of the evil man getting punished, you would hurt yourself and ruin your whole career.”
Thus, this matter was temporarily suppressed. But the thing was, Wei Guodong’s wife was not an enduring woman and she had secretly hired a private detective to collect evidence of her husband’s infidelity. It so happened that Tong Nan was mentioned to Wu Qingmei.
Yesterday, Tong Nan had asked out Wei Guodong to negotiate with him to give up her naked photos. Wu Qingmei had followed her husband secretly to the mall and showed up in front of them. However, Wei Guodong not only refused to tell the truth face-to-face with responsibility, but also ran away himself. What to follow was this scandalous scene of Wu Qingmei beating her husband’s mistress in public.
Then Murong Yunxi happened upon the commotion, rescued Tong Nan from the trouble, and got entangled in this issue innocently.
After hearing the whole thing, Murong Ye was practically desperate. He also blamed Tong Nan for her lack of brains, or else she wouldn’t have gotten involved in such an ugly thing and dragged Murong Yunxi innocently into it as well.
On that day, someone on the spot shot a video of the scene and uploaded it to the Internet, making not only Tong Nan the center of a home-wrecker scandal overnight, but also the previous gossip of Murong Yunxi’s love affair was dug up by someone. Although these had been kept down or clarified, there were still some people who wouldn’t let it pass and brought them up again.
At once, both of them were plunged into a crisis of having a suspicious character.
“Brother, I’ll let you take care of it.”
Murong Ye chuckled and, with a wild carelessness, said, “Oh, you have so many brothers now. You don’t have to ask me for help about such minor issues.”
Murong Yunxi was a little surprised. “Brother, what’s that? Won’t you help me?”
Murong Ye put on more smiles on the corner of his mouth. He took a mysterious glimpse of Murong Yunxi before taking out his mobile phone and making a phone call. “Hello?”
“…”
“Now since your identity as her brother has been exposed, you will undertake some brotherly obligation.”
“…”
“Oh seriously, you’re indifferent? If so, I will…”
“…”
“All right. This crisis management is your duty!”
Only with just a few words, Murong Ye handed this tricky problem over to another person. He then smiled in a relaxed manner.
“Okay. Let’s enjoy the New Year. Somebody has agreed to solve the problem.”
These two people could really take things easy, and they really dared to leave this issue behind without any anxiety. They really dared to honestly enjoy the New Year.
Every day, Murong Yunxi slept until she was thoroughly rested. Every day, she lived leisurely as she pleased. Every day, she kept Niannian’s company and played games with her.
The New Year holiday was passed happily like this. It was not until the Lantern Festival, the 15th day of the Chinese year, was passed that Murong Yunxi started going to work, urged by Murong Ye. Murong Ye also seemed genuine to greatly shed his responsibilities, most of which he directly gave to Murong Yunxi. Even though Murong Yunxi complained to him about the workload with a bitter face of the oppressed, Murong Ye just chose to ignore it.
When they came back from the New Year holiday, things around Murong Yunxi’s previously rumored love affair had also been resolved without accident.
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On this day, Murong Yunxi drove her car after work to Gong Yu’s company to pick him up.
Murong Yunxi was wearing a professional suit as she went upstairs directly, heading for Gong Yu’s office.
She pushed open the door and walked in, only to find that Gong Yu was not in the room. Nobody but Seventh Brother was in her sight.
“Aha, look who’s here. What wind has blown you here, busy lady?” Seventh Brother greeted Murong Yunxi a little teasingly.
“We haven’t seen each other for only a few days, you’re really getting better at talking nonsense. Where is my husband?”
“He’s in a meeting!”
“Then why are you so idle?”
“Am I idle? Which eye of yours saw me being idle? All my personal time was occupied by some young lady’s matter, and she’s even asserted that I am idle?”
“What? Oh, I understand now. So are you utilizing this to oppress my husband?”
“I wouldn’t dare! It’s really because your husband has more and more enterprise now and demands to do so many things by himself that I could have a chance to take a break.”
“Nonetheless… By the way, what should I call you from now on?”
“Seventh Brother! I’ve gotten used to it!”
“Well, Seventh Brother then, there is a ‘brother’ in it anyway. But how did you hide yourself so well, lurking beside me like this? Tell me now. Do you have other ulterior motives?”
Seventh Brother raised his hand and gave a rap on her forehead with a knuckle. “What an unruly girl, talking more and more uncontrollably now!”
As they were talking, Gong Yu pushed the door and came into the room. This coincided with Seventh Brother’s rapping on Murong Yunxi’s head, and he couldn’t help frowning at it. “I didn’t expect that you’d bully my wife in my absence.”
Seventh Brother instantly put on an innocent and abused face. “You guys are really displaying your affection for each other as a couple to me! I’d never dare to bully either of you, but I am always abused this way.”
Beside them, Murong Yunxi giggled a little in resentment. Gong Yu walked over to Murong Yunxi and, stooping, printed a kiss on her forehead.
“Why have you come here?”
“Brother has been exploiting me terribly these days. I’ve got tons of work every day. But today, I quit and came to pick my husband up from work earlier. It’s been quite a few days since I could spare time to have dinner with you.”
As she was saying this, Murong Yunyi started holding Gong Yu’s arm like a spoiled child and brushed her little head against his shoulder.
Gong Yu stroked the small skull of Murong Yunxi, his face becoming gentle and caring. “You have been working too hard lately. Now you can finish your work earlier in the company, you’d better go home to take a good rest. Just give me a call when you reach home. I can go back on my own.”
Acting like a kitten, Murong Yunxi moved into the arms of Gong Yu, and said in a lazier tone, “I don’t want to. If I come to pick you up at your company, I can stay in your presence for longer.”
“Duh, hey hey hey, you two stop acting so gross! Look at these goosebumps that pop up on my skin and fall off all over the floor.” Seventh Brother rubbed his arm with one hand exaggeratedly, with an expression of “not being able to bear it any longer” on his face.
Gong Yu rolled his eyes at Seventh Brother coldly. “All right, let’s go home, in case somebody might be so disgusted by us.”
With this, Gong Yu put his arm around Murong Yunxi’s waist, stood up, and, reaching for her purse, prepared to stride out of the room.
“Hey, hey, did you really mean it when you said ‘go home’? Don’t you still have a meeting?”
“Work is over for today. My darling seldom gets off work early. I want to go home with her.”
Without turning around, Gong Yu walked through the door with one arm around Murong Yunxi.
However, no sooner had they got into the parking lot than they felt someone was lurking behind them. When they turned around to check, no one was in their sight.
Gong Yu continued to walk toward their car with his arm around Murong Yunxi, while paying nervous attention to the noise and movements nearby.
There was no sound behind them until they got in the car. Gong Yu sat behind the wheel, then drove Murong Yunxi out of the parking lot.
Gong Yu steered the car at a moderate speed along the road. He was not heading home, but circling around the city, luring the car trailing them as if flying a kite with a thread.
“Who are they?” Murong Yunxi glanced at the plain black car from the rearview mirror.
“Dunno.” Gong Yu also raised his head and looked in the rearview mirror. Suddenly, he said to Murong Yunxi, “Buckle up. Sit tight.”
In a flash, Gong Yu pushed the throttle down and the car thrust forward immediately, threading through the traffic flow at a high speed.
Gong Yu had excellent driving skills. When he drove a car in daily life, nobody could perceive it. But at this time, it was eye-opening for Murong Yunxi.
Such excellence in driving was impossible to achieve even for Murong Yunxi, an extraordinary person who had lived in this universe for more than 20 years.
“Wow, my dear husband, your driving skills are wonderful. You look like nothing special when you drive at normal times. I hadn’t expected you to be so good at driving.”
Gong Yu’s mouth curved a little at the corner. Trying not to make a big deal of it, he said, “Sometimes talent is a wonderful thing.”
Hearing this, Murong Yunxi couldn’t help laughing. The originally tense atmosphere started to lighten up.
“Hilarious. When I say you’re weighty, you start breathing heavily.” Murong Yunxi rolled her eyes at Gong Yu. Now Gong Yu was driving rapidly through traffic. Although it might be precisely rush hour with so many cars on the road and it would be praiseworthy to be able to drive at 60 miles an hour, Gong Yu could do it at 100 miles an hour.
“I spent a few years in South Korea when I was lucky to star in a gangster movie. The film had a scene where the hero was chasing the robbers in a car and displaying his driving skills. At that time, Seventh Brother intentionally found a stunt instructor for me, and I learned for a period of time under his instruction. But then for some reasons, I didn’t play that character.”
As they were talking, the car dashed toward the rear of a car on the right front. At this moment, another car on the left front started changing lanes. Their car had nowhere to duck and it was running so fast that it would be too late to halt the car.
Murong Yunxi suddenly felt that her heart had jumped into her throat, and she grabbed the seat belt tightly with both hands.
Gong Yu’s eyebrows pinched slightly. Instead of slowing the car down, he pressed the throttle again. When Murong Yunxi suspected that he mistook the accelerator for the brakes in an emergency and was about to scream, she found something was wrong.