QWAPMP Chapter 32
by VolareJust as Yan Ye opened the door on the passenger side and helped Song Xi get down, he saw Song Father coming over to greet them. Song Father smiled at the person Yan Ye was supporting, saying, “Song Xi is drunk, I brought him back. Mr. Song is also here, so I’ll hand Song Xi over to you.”
Seeing her son’s flushed face, Song Mother took a step forward with a worried expression. Hearing Mr. Yan say this, she quickly went over to take her son, the concern in her eyes genuine.
Song Father clearly wanted to exchange a few more words with Yan Ye, but unexpectedly, after Yan Ye handed Song Xi over to his wife, he quickly glanced at his watch and said he had something to attend to and had to leave first.
Song Mu Han, seeing his father who had stopped talking and was about to see someone off, stepped forward. “Mr. Yan, please stay.”
Yan Ye paused in his movement of opening the car door. Song Mu Han walked over and presented an invitation card with both hands. “Tomorrow is the engagement banquet for me and Meng Zhou. I hope Mr. Yan can grace us with your presence.”
Only then did Song Father react. His eyes shifted, and he smiled, “Yes, the day after tomorrow is my son’s engagement. I hope Mr. Yan can come and have a celebratory drink.”
Yan Ye’s gaze lingered on the invitation card, which had been prepared at some unknown time. He then subtly glanced at the male supporting character whose eyelashes trembled slightly. The word “Okay” slipped out, and he left with the invitation card.
Watching Yan Ye’s luxury car drive away, Song Father patted his son’s shoulder with satisfaction. “Fortunately, you remembered this. Since Mr. Yan personally accepted our invitation card, he should come. This engagement banquet must be arranged grandly.”
Song Mu Han nodded, already planning to personally oversee the arrangements and setup of the engagement banquet.
“Alright, you two father and son are done talking, go inside. Xiao Xi is already asleep,” Song Mother reminded gently. She touched Song Xi’s forehead, pushing aside some of the scattered hair in front of it, revealing a delicate and flushed face.
If looked at closely, Song Xi and Song Mu Han are actually quite similar, but in terms of temperament, Song Xi is far inferior to Song Mu Han, who grew up in the Song family and has the air of a young master.
Seeing Song Xi, Song Father thought of how he always caused trouble for him, and couldn’t help but snort before leading the way inside.
“Mom, let me help him,” Song Mu Han said, his eyes indifferent, showing no trace of concern.
“It’s alright, I can manage. Aren’t you going to discuss the engagement with your father? I can take care of Xiao Xi,” Song Mother shook her head.
Song Father had no intention of turning back to help. As soon as Song Mother finished speaking, he called out to his son to go into the study with him.
After helping Song Xi back onto the bed in his room, Song Mother helped him take off his shoes and coat, and then used a warm towel to wipe his face.
Deep in the night, the bright moonlight streamed through the window, falling on the young man’s face, making his delicate and handsome face even more beautiful.
The more she looked closely at this face, the more regretful Song Mother’s expression became. How could she have lost him when he was little?
Heaven brought him back to her side, but this child’s personality was somewhat at odds with Mu Han’s.
If he had grown up by her side since childhood, the relationship between the two brothers wouldn’t be so strained!
Song Mother sighed softly, “Xiao Xi, can you be a little more obedient? Don’t always quarrel with your dad and your younger brother!”
There was a gentle knock on the room door. Song Mother immediately put away her regretful expression. It was Song Mu Han’s voice from outside. “Mom, it’s late. You should go back to sleep now!”
“Okay, Mom knows,” Song Mother put down the towel, left quietly, and turned off the light in Song’s room.
The quilt on the bed was pulled twice. Song Xi buried his entire body under the quilt. The moonlight illuminated the whole room, but inside Song Xi’s quilt, it was still dark.
During those days in the welfare institute, he was very well-behaved, but no one was willing to adopt him.
The online discussion about Luo Fei was still ongoing, with a trend of getting more intense. Not long after Mo Xu posted on Weibo tagging Song Xi to thank him, Luo Fei posted a Weibo about apologizing.
He admitted to deceiving fans about not using a stunt double for filming and explained that he didn’t go to save Mo Xu because he couldn’t swim. The reason he didn’t immediately give the life vest to Song Xi was because he was worried that the other person, like Mo Xu, might forget they couldn’t swim out of eagerness to save someone, thus creating trouble for the rescuers and delaying Mo Xu’s critical rescue time.
As soon as this Weibo was posted, it immediately received tens of thousands of reposts and comments.
[Which fan group belongs to whom? Come out! I told you Luo Fei can’t swim, and he didn’t intentionally not save him. And yet you keep spreading rumors that Luo Fei just watched someone die without helping. Doesn’t spreading rumors carry legal responsibility?]
[My heart aches for my Brother Luo. He clearly can’t swim, but he’s being slandered by others.]
There were fans defending Luo Fei, and then there were netizens who had watched “Water Dragon Legend”!
[Laughing my head off, is this considered spreading rumors? Didn’t you yourselves say at the time that you didn’t use a stunt double and that your own main star could swim? What, now you can’t? Luo Fei’s fans, don’t your faces hurt?]
[Hahaha, do they still have faces? Their own main star has come out to apologize, and they still have the nerve to say others are spreading rumors.]
[Stop talking, even that apology Weibo feels so cynical.]
[His gentle male second lead filter in my heart is truly shattered beyond repair. He should just change careers and play green tea men from now on!]
[Good thing Song Xi didn’t take a liking to him. But I watched the second episode, didn’t that guest named Xue Xuan show interest in him?]
[I watched the second episode too. Xue Xuan looked at Luo Fei with eyes that practically said ‘I like you’!]
[Uh… What does Xue Xuan mean by this? He can even fancy this kind of man.]
[Hahaha, he likes him, but Luo Fei doesn’t seem to like him.]
[This Luo Fei isn’t much of a person, but he still has some taste in judging people, after all, Song Xi is much better looking than Xue Xuan!]
In the dressing room, Xue Xuan’s face was so dark it looked like it would drip water. His clenched fists showed how furious he was at this moment.
He never expected that in a dating reality show, he would be used by netizens for comparison and stepping on him to elevate Song Mu, making it impossible for him not to be angry.
“Stop looking. There’s no need to get angry over these words. The one being scolded the most severely right now is Luo Fei, not you,” Manager Sister Shuang snatched the phone from his hand and said indifferently.
Xue Xuan sneered, “What’s the use of being good-looking? Something without a brain will always be without a brain.”
“President Wang wants you to attend a banquet with him tomorrow,” Manager Sister Shuang fiddled with her phone, seemingly replying to someone’s message.
Xue Xuan didn’t even think. “Not going.”
Just thinking of that fat old man, Xue Xuan felt a chill.
Although he got to know President Wang through his manager’s connections, Xue Xuan was very unwilling to see him unless absolutely necessary.
“Think clearly. Tomorrow’s banquet is the engagement banquet for the Song family and the Meng family. There will be many important figures at the banquet then. Aren’t you trying to get rid of President Wang?”
“Which two Song and Meng families?” Xue Xuan asked uncertainly, not daring to confirm if they were the two families he was thinking of.
“Besides the Meng and Song families who can be called wealthy families in City A, which other Meng and Song could get important figures to attend a banquet?”
Xue Xuan was stunned. After two seconds, “I’ll go with President Wang.” A glint of ambition flashed in his eyes.
Manager Sister Shuang nodded with satisfaction. “Whether you can seize the opportunity depends on your own ability.”
Time quickly arrived at the day of the engagement banquet. The secretary looked at the itinerary and had just started to state today’s schedule when Yan Ye interrupted, “Help me prepare a suit for the engagement banquet!”
The secretary opened his mouth in surprise. “Mr…. Mr. Yan, are you getting engaged?”
“Mm.” Yan Ye replied. After the secretary revealed an incredulous expression, he shook his head. “Help me re-plan my itinerary. All of today’s plans are postponed to tomorrow. I need to attend the engagement banquet for the Song family and the Meng family today.”
“Ah?” The secretary was still a bit slow to react. “So you’re attending someone else’s engagement banquet! Okay, I’ll arrange it right away.”
After the secretary left, Yan Ye received a video. He opened the video, which first showed flashing lights, then the sound of a DJ yelling. As the camera moved, Yan Ye finally saw the person he wanted to see.
The young man, drinking away his sorrows, had red eyes, seemingly having cried just before. His mood was very low, and he was downing glasses of alcohol one after another.
Yan Ye frowned as he watched, a strange feeling flashing through his heart, so quickly that even he didn’t notice it.
However, after about half an hour into the video, Yan Ye saw what he wanted.
A man wearing a hat walked stealthily towards Song Xi, said something to him, and then handed him a small packet of something.
Song Xi glared at him with his tear-reddened eyes, then gritted his teeth and took out a wallet, pulling out a few hundred yuan to give the man.
Seeing this, Yan Ye exited the video. He knew that the drugging plot, which was supposed to happen, was still going to happen.
This video was enough to show that the male supporting character had bought the drug and would likely drug Meng Zhou at the engagement banquet tonight, preventing the banquet from going smoothly.
There were still a few hours until the banquet began. The secretary was very efficient and immediately brought him a high-end custom suit.
Cardare Manor, as the venue for today’s engagement banquet, was already seeing luxury cars arriving continuously. From these luxury cars, it was clear that the people attending this banquet today were of considerable status.
The parking security personnel were already waiting at the entrance. As soon as someone stopped their car and got out, they would respectfully step forward to take the key and help the car owner park the car in the designated spot.
This was one of the largest engagement banquets held in City A in recent years. Here, you could see many business tycoons, as well as the celebrities invited to keep them company.
Inside a certain room, Song Xi stood by the window, watching the crowd on the lawn with an expressionless face. It was truly lively.
A group of hypocritical men and noblewomen in evening gowns were chatting with each other, laughing and talking. Did this so-called engagement banquet make everyone so happy?
How could he, as the older brother of today’s protagonist, not go down and take a look?
Song Xi curled his lips into a sarcastic smile and pushed open the closed door.
Cardare Manor was very large, covering an area of 180 mu. As soon as Xue Xuan entered the manor, he revealed an envious look.
President Wang saw it and said proudly, “How is this place? Isn’t it grand?”
Seeing his little lover look at him with such an adoring gaze, President Wang’s vanity was satisfied.
Although this manor wasn’t his, not everyone was qualified to enter here.
“President Wang, isn’t this manor the Song family’s or the Meng family’s?”
The old man called President Wang shook his head. “Although the Meng family and the Song family are rich, they are not so overbearing as to buy such a large piece of land in the expensive City A for a manor.”
“Whose is it?” Xue Xuan blurted out.
Seeing that many people had already gone inside and fearing being left behind, President Wang leaned closer and whispered, “It’s the Yan’s.”