Chapter 222 Killing the Cuckoo (37)
Chapter 222 Killing the Cuckoo (37)
Yan Zhen didn't rush to check her phone, but instead looked at Fang Yi gently: "Hmm?"
Fang Yi's newly mustered courage was interrupted. He hesitated for a moment and decided to take it easy: "It's okay, you deal with the message first. Maybe it's from a client."
Yan Zhen then picked up his phone, and a message displayed on the floating window of the screen was from He Xiaolian.
A smile played on her lips as a premonition arose in her heart: the stage she had been building for so long was finally about to be put on.
I opened WeChat and found a video and several voice messages sent by He Xiaolian.
Yan Zhen turned on the voice chat and lowered the volume. While listening, he turned around to avoid Fang Yihe and pretended to go get the medicine box.
In the afternoon, after Yan Zhen and Qi Zhaoyi left, He Xiaolian contacted a classmate who was a beauty blogger.
The classmate with the ID "Bao'er Sister" has more than 100,000 followers on the short video platform. She is usually not very popular, but she has signed with a company and is already the best connection He Xiaolian can get.
When He Xiaolian told Bao'er about her situation, Bao'er sensed the potential for online traffic and immediately drove over 100 kilometers from her company back to the town.
After planning, the two brought a miniature camera and used hidden camera angles to film the scene before going to the Li family to propose annulment of the engagement.
Li Tingyi's parents were not exactly easy to deal with. When they heard He Xiaolian say that their son was gay and that they wanted to break off the engagement but couldn't return the betrothal gifts, they immediately became furious.
They initially vehemently denied that Li Tingyi was gay. However, after He Xiaolian presented a video of Li Tingyi and Fang Yihe as evidence, they lost their temper and began hurling insults at He Xiaolian and Bao'er.
The video captured the hideous faces of the Li family members.
Bao'er's sister is well-versed in the marketing tactics of short video platforms. She edited and dubbed the video she filmed, cut out the part about not returning the betrothal gifts, and only left the clip of Li's parents insulting the couple. She then added an eye-catching title, "Discovered her fiancé was gay before the wedding, went to break off the engagement and was beaten and insulted," and posted it on the short video platform.
In just one hour, the video received over 500,000 views.
The popularity continues to rise.
Yan Zhen was slightly surprised after watching the video.
He Xiaolian acted faster than she had imagined, and the fact that she thought of using social media platforms to amplify and spread the news proved that she was very quick-witted.
But as this was the first time He Xiaolian had done something like this, she couldn't help but feel flustered as the video's popularity soared. She sent Yan Zhen several 60-second voice messages to ask for her opinion.
"The video has been edited. What if Li Tingyi sues me for defamation?"
“I’m very worried that they will sue me and demand the return of the 200,000 yuan dowry. I simply don’t have that much money right now.”
"If they sue me, will I go to jail?"
Yan Zhen could sense He Xiaolian's panic even through the screen. She thought to herself that she was just a young girl who had never experienced anything like this before, and her mentality was unstable.
If it were someone as shameless and cunning as her, given such an opportunity, she would not only cause chaos in the Li and He families, but also capitalize on the attention to make a fortune.
As Yan Zhen pondered, he tapped the screen with his finger and quickly typed a reply.
"You won't go to jail."
"The Li family will probably come knocking on your door soon, telling your classmate to continue filming, not to over-edit, and to try to restore the facts as much as possible."
"If you really don't want to be burdened with this dowry debt, then seize this opportunity to make money and pay it back."
Yan Zhen only touched on the surface, without personally guiding He Xiaolian on how to operate the equipment.
After replying to the message, Yan Zhen was about to put away his phone when his finger paused slightly on the screen.
Given the popularity of this video, Li Tingyi and Fang Yihe will see it by tomorrow at the latest.
Judging from Fang Yi's dejected state, like a drowning dog, Li Tingyi must have gone to see him, but the talks probably broke down and they didn't reconcile as usual.
At a time when the two were in a cold war, Li Tingyi was exposed for marriage fraud. The news broke in his hometown. Would Li Tingyi's first reaction be that Fang Yi was the one who did it?
The purpose was to get revenge on him.
If I were to add fuel to the fire at this moment, causing Fang Yi and Li Tingyi to also expose his secrets, it would lead to a dogfight between the two of them...
It's easy to clarify a one-sided misunderstanding, but if both sides misunderstand each other and think the other wants to destroy them, then it's like mud falling into your pants—even if it's not shit, it'll still look like shit.
Thinking of this, Yan Zhen quickly opened the alternate account he had previously registered to contact the seller of the eavesdropping locator, set up a timed video to be sent to his email, and then quickly deleted the chat history with He Xiaolian and the login traces of the alternate account.
After doing all that, she casually put away her phone, picked up her first-aid kit, and went over to treat Fang Yihe's wounds.
While applying medicine to Fang Yihe's wounds, he would glance at Yan Zhen every now and then, his expression growing increasingly resolute.
After applying the medicine, Fang Yi took the cotton swab from Yan Zhen and threw it into the trash can. She pulled Yan Zhen to sit on the sofa, adjusted her expression, and showed a guilty look: "Xiao Li, I..."
His second attempt to speak, which he had been preparing for a long time, was once again interrupted by Yan Zhen's phone notification sound.
Yan Zhen didn't wait for him to speak this time, and gave him an apologetic smile: "Please wait a moment, a customer is inquiring about birthday cakes, I'll reply to him first."
"……it is good."
Yan Zhen opened her phone and exclaimed in surprise, "Huh? It's not a client message, it's..."
As she spoke, she opened the video attachment to the email, and soon came the sounds of panting and moaning.
Fang Yi's expression changed, and he slapped her phone away as if he had been electrocuted.
The phone was slapped and flew away, landing on the carpet.
The panting in the video continued; he had heard it countless times and knew it all too well—it was Li Tingyi's.
So Li Tingyi sent the video to Gao Li and his parents before 24 hours had passed.
Upon thinking of this, Fang Yi was about to explode.
How could he?!
How dare he!!!
Fang Yi was caught in a state of guilt and panic at the thought of his secret being exposed. It wasn't until he looked up that he noticed his wife's face was deathly pale, and she was looking at him with disbelief.
"Is that person in the video... you?"
Fang Yihe's breath hitched.
He instinctively wanted to deny it, but the video Li Tingyi filmed was taken from a superior's perspective, with him pinned down and holding the camera.
Li Tingyi's face wasn't shown, but his dazed expression was clearly exposed in high definition and without any blurring on camera.
There's no way to deny it.
"I……"
Before Fang Yihe could speak, Yan Zhen suddenly stood up, trembling slightly: "Fang Yihe, are you gay?"
Fang Yi was startled by her terrified gaze and quickly tried to grab her hand: "Xiao Li, let me explain..."
Yan Zhen immediately pushed him away and staggered back several steps.
The phone on the carpet was still playing a video, and in the video, a person, overcome with emotion, called out "A-Yi" in a hoarse voice.
"That's Xiao Li's voice..." Yan Zhen's expression was one of utter shock and disbelief, as if his understanding of the world had been completely overturned. "Fang Yihe, you're not only gay, but the person you cheated on me with is Li Tingyi!!!"
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