Mental Illness Evolution Manual - Chapter 70

Yue Yongjian’s face contorted in anger, his soul seemed to leave his body, “You’re full of shit! You slut!”

Qi Ziyang sneered, he turned to Zhao Yi’s wife, who was standing on the other side, and said, “What, you think no one knows about your secret affair?”

Wang Yao’s eyes flashed, she forced herself to remain calm, “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

Qi Ziyang laughed a few times, he glanced at Zhao Yi, who was beside him, still confused and flustered, and said sarcastically, “Your husband is a fool, doesn’t mean I am.”

“There are so many people here today, anyway, I’ve already lost face, what’s there to be afraid of? Let everyone know, my dear husband is having an affair with Wang Yao! They’ve been sneaking around, they’re like dry tinder and a raging fire, they’ve slept together countless times!”

Yan Xianchuan’s gaze darted back and forth between the four of them, she looked at this one, then that one, for a moment, she was like a weasel in a melon patch, she didn’t know what to do.

“What are you talking about!” Yue Yongjian’s lips trembled, he shouted loudly, but he was bluffing, “You’re the one who’s promiscuous, you’re sleeping with other men, and you’re trying to frame me. You’ve disgraced both the Yue family and the Qi family!”

“Really?” Qi Ziyang said calmly, “On the fifteenth of May, you said you were going horse riding with friends, check your itinerary and you’ll know if you actually went! On the seventh, eighteenth, and twenty-third of June, the ninth, fifteenth, and twentieth of July, the first, eighth, and seventeenth of August, the twenty-fourth, and then September… Heh, Yue Yongjian, you wouldn’t think your actions were flawless, would you?”

“You make all sorts of excuses, but your hypocritical face has already betrayed you!”

The people he was accusing turned pale, Wang Yao’s expression was also very bad. Their secret rendezvous, their excuses were all crudely made, they couldn’t stand up to scrutiny.

When the others saw their expressions, their hesitant silence, they knew that Qi Ziyang wasn’t lying.

These two, one a married woman, one a married man, they were actually hooking up!

Although modern society is open-minded, people in the upper class basically all have mistresses, but no one goes and sleeps with someone else’s wife.

Zhao Yi stared intently at his spouse, he watched her beautiful face turn pale, he watched her nervously avoid his gaze, what else was there to misunderstand?

He jumped up in a rage, even the rejection reaction from the forced injection of suppressants during his heat was thrown to the back of his mind, “I’ve been so good to you! What more do you want!”

“Other people keep mistresses, I never have. You haven’t been able to get pregnant for so many years, the family has been urging you, I’ve been bearing all this pressure, I haven’t told you, I’ve been treating you with sincerity, what do you think I am, a sucker!”

His lips moved, as if he was about to spit out some harsh insults, but somehow he didn’t say them. He slumped to the ground, his heart filled with disappointment.

…

Yan Xianchuan and Lu Mingqiu had just returned home and were taking off their shoes when the latter suddenly said, “Something happened to the Lin family.”

Yan Xianchuan: ?

She still remembered Head of the Lin family’s portly and shrewd appearance. She had just seen him at the banquet. What could have happened? Another piece of gossip?

She heard Lu Mingqiu continue, “The floor where the Lin family lived suddenly had a short circuit and caught fire, causing an explosion. No one survived.”

Yan Xianchuan: ??

Ah?

So sudden?

Well… but death is death, it had nothing to do with her. Yan Xianchuan said casually, “That’s so sad.”

Lu Mingqiu was used to her attitude, she just furrowed her brow slightly. It was such a coincidence, it happened right after Head of the Lin family returned home from the birthday banquet, the whole family was at home, all together, not even a single serious injury.

Was that right?

Even an explosion has a center point and an outer perimeter. Everyone, including the servants, died.

She felt something was fishy, but she couldn’t find any leads, so she had to suppress this feeling in her heart.

The Lin family was wiped out, so what about their business and assets? Xie Qi stepped forward, following the procedure, he reported to Yan Xianchuan, saying that he wanted to apply to take over the Lin family’s business.

Yan Xianchuan naturally agreed, then she asked, “Is there anything I need to do?”

Xie Qi nodded, “There are some orders with the Black Tiger Gang that you need to discuss. The time is set for ten o’clock the night after tomorrow, at the Jinxiu Night City.”

This part of the business was originally the Yan family’s, Yan Wanzi had given it to the Lin family, now the Lin family had exploded, so naturally, they had to take it back. Not only that, the Yan family would also take over all of the Lin family’s small-time arms deals.

These were all small matters, Xie Wu would take care of them himself. He had been in Dingyang City for a long time, he was already representing the Yan family, with him mediating, it was almost effortless.

Jinxiu Night City was a nightclub, and Lu Mingqiu couldn’t go to this kind of place.

There was an unspoken rule that when important figures met, bringing an omega who was useless was a sign of disrespect.

Head of the Yan family was a terrible person, you could tell from the way he raised his children. He didn’t care about omegas, he only saw them as amusing breeding machines.

To get into his good graces, Yan Xianchuan also had to pretend to be indifferent to Lu Mingqiu, when she went to do business, she wouldn’t bring her “in the way.”

She readily agreed. After Xie Qi left, Yan Xianchuan immediately slumped down, “What should I do?”

Lu Mingqiu couldn’t help but laugh when she saw her like this, “Xie Wu will definitely go with you, he’s the main negotiator, you just need to nod your head appropriately.”

Yan Xianchuan frowned, “I’m afraid I won’t do well.”

“What if I say the wrong thing? I’m so stupid, I don’t know anything.”

Lu Mingqiu smiled slightly and looked at her, “You’re overdoing it.”

Yan Xianchuan looked innocent and puzzled, “Overdoing what?”

Lu Mingqiu: “You’re overacting.”

Yan Xianchuan touched her face and asked in surprise, “Really? I practiced in front of the mirror, it’s pretty good!”

Lu Mingqiu: “You’re not the kind of person who would be intimidated by such a small scene. This kind of insincere talk, it really doesn’t suit you.”

“How could that be!” She was shocked, “It really doesn’t suit me? Didn’t you feel like you wanted to pity me?”

Lu Mingqiu said expressionlessly, “I only felt like laughing.”

Yan Xianchuan hesitated, she secretly glanced at the other person’s expression and asked again, “Really?”

Lu Mingqiu said decisively, “No.”

“Then how come it worked last time?” Yan Xianchuan was confused, she mumbled, “It seemed to work really well.”

Lu Mingqiu: …

Lu Mingqiu, a person with no dark history, perfect like a textbook, had successfully acquired a past she couldn’t bear to remember.

It was all thanks to the person in front of her.

Yan Xianchuan took out a folding mirror from her jacket pocket, she made a few pitiful expressions in front of it, “Isn’t this good?”

Clearly, she had been pretending before, and it had been very effective. Why didn’t it work when she tried it in front of Lu Mingqiu?

Yan Xianchuan was baffled, she went upstairs in a daze.

She didn’t know that the reason why she had been successful before was because others didn’t know she was pretending, they didn’t know she was mentally ill, or literally, they didn’t know her real situation. Her parents, who knew her real situation, would only be happier to see her like this, they would do whatever she wanted, how could it not be successful?

Seeing that playing the victim didn’t work, she started to look at other guides.

Playing the victim works on people who have a strong desire to control, who like to be in charge. If it doesn’t work, it means it’s not a good fit, you should switch to showing your domineering side, and control the other person in return.

Show your strength, your domineering side, you have to act cold, mysterious.

Cold… Yan Xianchuan searched, and the first thing that came up was—expressionless.

Huh?

She read on, and she was surprised to find that it was similar to what she had been doing before.

Simple.

The next morning, Yan Xianchuan got up, she rubbed her hands together and stood in the cloakroom, her mouth turned down, her eyelids were half-closed, her face was drooping. She looked in the mirror, what a perfect, “Don’t even think about it” face!

Then she went out.

Lu Mingqiu looked at her for the first time, “What’s wrong? Didn’t you sleep well last night?”

Yan Xianchuan replied briefly, “No.”

Then she maintained an attitude of “Don’t bother me,” she sat down at the dining table and stared straight at Lu Mingqiu.

In her imagination, she was arrogant, cold, as cold as ice, as aloof as a pine forest, like a stone, like an ice sea.

In Lu Mingqiu’s eyes, Yan Xianchuan: So hungry! I want to eat!