The Overnight Chosen Wife: darling, kiss me deeper

Ji Feifei was a bit panicked when she heard Li Lanni say that she had evidence against her.

That b*tch had already made life difficult for her. Not only had she been expelled, but recently, Old Master Ji didn’t trust her. She was just lucky that Madam Ji trusted her no matter what happened.

If she lost Madam Ji’s trust as well, she would be done for...

She was just about to rush foward and do something.

But she thought about something and she calmed herself instantly. She thought about how she had done everything discreetly. No one could figure anything out. Even if they did tie anything to her, it could at most only be a coincidence.

And when she heard Ji Xiehan’s words, she was deeply elated and was even more pleased with herself.

Her dearest beloved brother was finally on her side. He was finally starting to see clearly what he deserved.

At the same time, Li Lanni tilted her head curiously when she heard Ji Xiehan’s words. She was his companion, right? Why was he against her?

As she thought of this, Ji Xiehan spoke again. "You should know, I hate people who lie and bully others. It doesn’t matter who you are. So, are you going to show the evidence or not?"

Li Lanni’s mouth opened, but she had nothing to say so she just closed it. Was Ji Xiehan really saying such things with a straight face?

She could understand that although she was his companion tonight, he would definitely defend his family as a good son. But, seriously... hated liars and people who bully others? Ji Feifei was all of that, and he knew it! To be able to say such things without flinching, he was absolutely shameless!

"Should we assume you were only seeking attention and using a public gathering to pursue your personal grudges?" Ji Xiehan probed again.

Li Lanni thought she saw him wink at her and came to a realization. Was he pushing her to show the evidence? But did he not know that this might ruin the Ji family’s reputation, right?

It took a few seconds for her to play along. "How can you say that? People who have acting skills don’t need evidence, but we who can’t act need to have strong evidence to support our words."

Ji Feifei stabbed her nails into her palm with a frown on her face. That witch was obviously talking about her.

But what was the use? She smirked and haughtily looked at Li Lanni as if she were looking at a clown. Ji Xiehan was siding with her anyway. It wouldn’t be long before he kicked Li Lanni out of the face of the earth. Or so she thought!

Ji Xiehan and Li Lanni kept their little charade up for a few seconds.

The guests were no longer displeased. So what if this wasn’t part of the banquet? Nothing was better than a free round of gossip, right? What they lacked was just a bowl of popcorn.

The young women were especially thrilled. Their broken hearts healed again. So they were fighting already. Trouble in paradise so soon? That happened faster than they thought.

They now stood a chance, right? Although Jiang Xingyu was a good match too, Ji Xiehan was more handsome and had a stronger presence. Not to mention his charming smile that could send confusion in everyone’s heart and his eyes that seemed to see right into the depth of one’s soul.

Thanks to this ’interrogation’, they were now openly looking at Ji Xiehan with eyes full of infatuation.

At the side, Jiang Xingyu and Lin Jian rolled their eyes and exchanged looks, what interrogation? These two were obviously flirting! And they were even doing so in such a high profile way!

The charade finally ended with Li Lanni playing a video on her phone and passing it to Ji Xiehan.

Ji Xiehan watched it for a few seconds and had a ’shocked’ expression on his face and then stared at Ji Feifei in ’disbelief’.

Ji Feifei trembled. Did that b*tch actually have evidence?

Madam Ji was curious too. She had been angry that Li Lanni was slandering her daughter yet again, but the look on Ji Xiehan’s face gave her a bad feeling.

When everyone saw Ji Xiehan’s shocked expression and disbelief, they were very much curious to know what was in the video.

Ji Xiehan knew everyone was curious; thus, he satisfied their curiosity by letting them see the content of the video.

It looked like a clip from a surveillance video. Two women were conversing; the waitress from just now and Ji Feifei.

Although no one could hear what they were saying, Ji Feifei obviously gave a stack of cash to the waitress.

No one needed to think further. She had obviously hired the waitress.

"It’s not what you think!" Ji Feifei attempted to defend herself.

"Oh? Then why are you speaking to her? Why did you give her money?" Li Lanni probed.

"I... I owed her a favor. She came to me for help!"

"Stop it already. You sound ridiculous. Even a 3-year old kid wouldn’t believe such lies. Would you need to act so sneaky if she only needed help?" Li Lanni sneered and took her phone back from Ji Xiehan.

At this point, it wouldn’t matter whether or not she had more evidence. Everyone’s opinion was already shifting.

Of course, Li Lanni would grab this opportunity. "Is it such a coincidence that right after she came to you for help, she served drinks and ’accidentally’ bumped into me, then unnecessarily started hurling insults at me? I also want to know how come she didn’t appear in the hall before meeting you?"

By this time, Si Yulin had retrieved the list of waitresses that had gone to the banquet. It had taken a while because it was past working hours, so she had to call the manager of their cafeteria and get him to check the records. He had only sent the list right now.

True to Su Yulin’s words, the chubby waitress was nowhere on the list.

All this evidence pointed to one direction; Ji Feifei had really hired her. Everyone’s gaze towards Ji Feifei became strange.

To add oil, Li Lanni further asked, "She even made a fake employee ID and gave it to the waitress. This makes me think that the two of them have not just done this one thing together. Could it be that they have been involved in more shady business?"

Si Yulin raised an eyebrow then glared at the waitress. Star Art International’s opponents have been finding out classified information against them lately... she needed to investigate this ’waitress’ further.

Li Lanni was not interested in the drama that followed. It was already enough that she had publicly embarrassed her. She did have evidence of Ji Feifei bribing her former bodyguard to cause an ’accident,’ but she would be a fool if she used it here. She had a feeling the Jis would still defend Ji Feifei. 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

She was initially not planning to do anything significant to Ji Feifei, but now she changed her mind. The girl was more brazen than she thought.

Li Lanni was too immersed in her thought, and she didn’t notice the non-verbal exchange between Ji Xiehan and Jiang Xingyu.

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At the same time. In Goldenwing Apartment.

"Damn! It!" Xia Luna dropped her phone.

"Girls shouldn’t curse. It’s rude." Cheng Yu said, glancing at her friend.

"Tell me about decorum later. That Ji Xiehan knows my codename."

"What?" Cheng Yu exclaimed. "How did that happen?"

Xia Luna didn’t know where to start. "Lanni is at Star Art International’s banquet.

Someone played a dirty trick to shame her, so she sent me a message and asked me to check the surveillance for her." She paused and sighed at Ji Feifei’s stupidity. Did she really know how to scheme, or was she still a rookie at it? She could make such a low level mistake even after being a schemer for years?!

"Whatever it is, I quickly checked for the footage, but she must have chosen a blind spot. So I checked the security camera from the street across, and I did find something. I sent it to Lanni.

Who would have known that Ji Xiehan knew Lanni would ask for my help, and used this chance to track me? I don’t even know how he did it and damn it! He must have already known what his sister had done."

Cheng Yu was dizzy just from listening. "Why does that sound like something from a sci-fi movie?"

Xia Luna ignored her and speculated. "Perhaps he had an inkling of my codename, and he only used this as an opportunity to confirm his suspicions."

Cheng Yu shrugged. "What use is a codename anyway?"

Xia Luna frowned. This oblivious girl. "Don’t you get it? If he is so good at programming and hacking that he has found out my codename, or if he knows someone that is that good, it means that he can easily find out everything else about me."

The mood in the room turned solemn. She didn’t want anyone to find out about her past. Ji Xiehan, please don’t do this!