Quick Transmigration: Why did you provoke him? He's love-struck!

Chapter 228 Killing the Cuckoo (43)

Li Tingyi: "..."

These bastards who kick someone when they're down! He was so good to them all the time, but as soon as he got into trouble, they all ran away.

It's true that only when you're at your lowest point in life can you see clearly who's around you and who's a monster.

Li Tingyi clenched his fists, took several deep breaths, and secretly vowed that when he made a comeback, he would make these people pay!

Having calmed down, Li Tingyi rallied her spirits and began to take stock of her remaining assets.

Upon taking stock, he discovered that the situation was far more serious than he had anticipated.

The client terminated the cooperation, the employees scattered like birds and beasts, and the company was like a machine that had stopped running. To revive it, tens of millions of yuan would be needed.

Even if I invest all my savings and sell my house in Ningcheng, there will still be a shortfall of more than four million yuan.

Li Tingyi thought of borrowing money from a bank.

He reassured the project team leader and assistant, and began preparing the loan application materials.

But after visiting several banks, I was rejected at the face-to-face interview stage.

His qualifications and credit history are all fine, but the recent uproar about the marriage fraud and threatening He Xiaolian has had a huge impact on him.

Unable to get through to the bank, Li Tingyi had no choice but to ask his friends for help.

However, his friends, who used to be very willing to invite him to drinks and parties, either stammered and complained about being broke when they learned of his purpose, or refused him outright without any mercy.

He pleaded until his lips were sore, but only managed to borrow 20 yuan.

With nowhere else to turn, Li Tingyi thought of Fang Yihe.

Fang Yihe is wealthy and earns a million-dollar annual salary. If he's willing to lend it, he can definitely come up with the money.

But the question is—would he be willing to lend it?

The two had a terrible falling out before, and the thought of having to humble himself and borrow money from him made Li Tingyi very resistant.

But he was unwilling to see his company, which he had worked so hard to build up over a long period of time, collapse due to a funding gap of four million.

After mentally preparing himself for a long time, Li Tingyi drove to the research institute where Fang Yihe worked.

Fang Yihe was not at the research institute at this time.

He stood outside the Wenfu Bakery workshop, staring intently at Yan Zhen, who was busy at the counter, through the floor-to-ceiling glass window.

Inside the studio, Wang Jinqiu brought out a sliced ​​cake from the kitchen. Seeing Fang Yihe outside, she nudged Yan Zhen with her elbow and said, "Your husband is here again."

Yan Zhen didn't even look up: "I saw it."

"Did you two have a fight?" Wang Jinqiu asked. "He's been coming for several days now, and you haven't paid any attention to him."

"Yeah, they had a fight."

Wang Jinqiu, with the intention of reconciliation rather than separation, said, "Let's talk things out properly. It's not a good idea for you to keep ignoring him like this. He's practically become the logo of our studio standing outside..."

Yan Zhen calmly said, "He cheated on me."

Wang Jinqiu: "..."

"The person she cheated with was a man."

Wang Jinqiu: "..."

"He's still the one lying under someone else."

"..." Wang Jinqiu put down the cake, turned around awkwardly, and went back to the kitchen.

Yan Zhen was busy until closing time. When she walked out of the studio, Fang Yihe immediately came up to her: "Xiao Li".

The cold snap of early spring has ended, and the weather has warmed up considerably in the past few days. Yan Zhen, wearing a thin trench coat with his hands in his pockets, stood on the steps looking down at Fang Yihe.

Fang Yi met her calm gaze, feeling a pang of unease. He forced himself to say, "I want to talk to you."

Unexpectedly, Yan Zhen didn't refuse again: "Okay."

"Then let's find a restaurant..."

“Let’s talk here,” Yan Zhen interrupted him. “We’re no longer in a relationship where we can sit down and have a peaceful meal and chat.”

Fang Yi was taken aback: "Does it have to be this way?"

"Otherwise what?" Yan Zhen retorted.

Fang Yi closed her eyes, her expression revealing deep exhaustion: "I was wrong, I'm sorry, I... Can you give me a chance to repent and start anew? I promise to live a good life with you from now on."

Yan Zhen looked at him and suddenly laughed: "What do you mean by 'living a good life'?"

Fang Yihe quickly said, "I will put away those inappropriate thoughts and will only treat you well from now on. I will fulfill all the duties and responsibilities of a husband."

"Can you get an erection in front of me?"

Fang Yi was stunned.

“Sometimes I feel like I understand what you’re thinking, and sometimes I feel like I don’t,” Yan Zhen said. “I say I don’t understand because I can’t comprehend your thought process. You have neither physical attraction nor psychological dependence on me. Now you’ve been exposed for lying to me and can’t even hold your head up in front of me. Things have come to this point, and instead of thinking about divorce, you come here every few days pretending to be affectionate. What are you trying to achieve?”

Fang Yihe: "..."

"But I think I can understand what you're doing. The things Li Tingyi has done recently prove that he's not an easy person to get along with. You must have suffered a lot at his hands, right? You've endured a lot of grievances and hardships outside, so you want to find an 'honest man' to take over and live a peaceful life?"

That's true. I have an easy-going personality and I'm very accommodating to you. I'm a very cost-effective partner. Plus, now that I know you're gay and can't have a physical reaction to the opposite sex, I won't force you to have sex with me in the future.

In comparison, divorcing me and marrying another woman to be a "closet door" (a metaphor for being a kept woman), repeating the lies you told me in the past, is indeed exhausting. So, it's more worthwhile for you to beg for reconciliation. If I don't agree, you won't lose out. If I do agree, you won't need to hide your sexual orientation from me anymore, and you can even try to coax me into having your child.

Fang Yihe: "..."

"How stupid and cheap am I in your eyes? I know you're gay, yet I still willingly live with you." Yan Zhen's eyes were full of contempt. "Fang Yihe, there's a limit to how much you can insult people."

Fang Yi opened his mouth, instinctively wanting to deny it, but found that every word Yan Zhen said struck a chord with him.

"Get a divorce quickly before I turn on you."

Yan Zhen left after saying those words, walking past him.

"Xiao Li..." Fang Yihe took a few steps after him when his phone rang.

He took it out and saw that it was a call from an unknown number.

"Hey?"

"It's me," Li Tingyi's voice came through. "I'm at the research institute. Come out and let's meet."

Fang Yi paused, his first thought being that Li Tingyi was threatening him—if he didn't come out to see him, he would go to the research institute and expose everything about him and Li Tingyi.

Upon thinking of this, Fang Yihe's expression turned serious, but her tone was cautious: "I'm not at the research institute."

"Then where are you?"

Fang Yi glanced quickly at Yan Zhen, who was hailing a taxi by the roadside, but didn't dare reveal her location.

He has been keeping an eye on Li Tingyi's situation these days. He knows all about the cyberbullying and detention he suffered, the trouble his company had, and the employees running away.

He must have a reason for coming to see me now.

If he finds out that I'm with my wife, it might anger him.

"Wait for me at the research institute, I'm coming over now."