Mind reading saves the whole family; I'm firmly in the role of a charlatan.

Chapter 81 Blood pressure suddenly spiked!
Du Anrao's words were truly earth-shattering; Du Lianshuang was so surprised that she almost broke her own fingernails.

What's going on? There's a second victim? And she's even worse off than her. How badly was she tortured?

Du Lianshuang glanced at her good friend of many years, and then thought that the other was also a good child she had watched grow up.

The anger that had been finally quelled instantly flared up like wildfire.

My sister is right. These scoundrels are all the same, none of them are good, and they can't be trusted at all!

Unaware of the truth, Yin Bailu was startled to see her best friend, who had been laughing and joking with her just a second ago, suddenly change her expression and become twisted and ferocious.

"What's wrong with you? You look terrible, are you feeling unwell? Should we call a doctor?"

Du Lianshuang suddenly realized what was happening and quickly stopped her, saying, "No, no, I'm just... just hungry."

"Hungry?" Yin Bailu breathed a sigh of relief. "Oh, you were hungry. You scared me. Wait here for a bit, I'll go downstairs and buy you something to eat. What would you like to eat?"

As soon as she finished speaking, Du's mother pushed open the door and came in: "I heard you say you were hungry as soon as you got to the door, so I brought you some chicken soup and rice. Eat some while it's hot."

As Du Lianshuang's best friend, Yin Bailu also knew Du's mother. Seeing that she had brought food, she stopped thinking about running away.

After exchanging greetings, Du's mother went to the bedside to serve soup to Du Lianshuang, while Du Anrao secretly observed Ms. Yin from the side. The more he looked, the more he wanted to shed a tear of sympathy for her and his cousin.

The book related to these two people is titled "The Legend of Cui". Like the previous entertainment industry Mary Sue novel, this book is written from a male perspective, which is the so-called male-oriented novel.

Early male-oriented novels had a common problem: the male protagonists usually had a lot of female confidantes, or even built a harem and married several wives.

The first third of this book is written from Cui Jueyan's perspective, depicting his love-hate relationship with his two wives and how he achieved upward social mobility by marrying into the Du family.

He transformed from a poor boy from a remote area into a well-known and pragmatic entrepreneur, gradually eliminating those who oppressed him, completely breaking free from the Du family's control, and taking over an entire large enterprise.

In the remaining two-thirds of the story, the male protagonist is changed to Cui Chengye, the son of Cui Jueyan and Cui Dongmei.

From his perspective, he, his mother, his grandparents, and Cui Jueyan were a happy and fulfilling family, while Du Lianshuang was just a shameless mistress who coveted his father's good looks and knew he already had a family, yet still used her money and power to steal his love.

Du Lianshuang, who was cheated out of money and her virtue, and was also cheated on by a mistress: "!!!" Where's my knife?! Where's my knife?!

Because of Du Lianshuang's existence, Cui Chengye felt extremely disgusted and resentful of these rich young ladies.

But his so-called aversion is nothing more than empty talk and thought; he mainly uses a self-brainwashing PUA technique of "I hate the rich, so I don't worship money."

Inspired by Cui Jueyan's success story of rising to prominence by becoming a live-in son-in-law, he began to plan at a young age to find a wealthy heiress so he could avoid thirty years of hard work. Unfortunately, Liao Jingyi was the prey he had carefully selected.

The two attended the same school. Liao Jingyi was sweet and lovely, and had excellent grades. She was a very popular person at school. Moreover, the Liao family and the Du family were similar in terms of financial situation. In fact, the Yin family, to which Liao Jingyi's mother Yin Bailu belonged, was also very well-off.

If he could win over Liao Jingyi, the effect would probably be even greater than his father's. When Du Lianshuang heard Du Anrao mention that that brat was studying at the same school as Liao Jingyi, she almost pinched her philtrum and needed oxygen again.

Du Lianshuang knew that Cui Jueyan had arranged for Cui Chengye to attend the prestigious school where Liao Jingyi was.

That school was hard to get into; even money couldn't help. Back then, she had to rely on her father's connections.

So, this guy used her family's money and resources to attend the school her family helped him find, dated her best friend's daughter, and then, judging from Du Anrao's tone just now, he betrayed her in the end, making her suffer even more than he did?!
Great, my blood pressure went up immediately!
Du Lianshuang gripped the soup spoon so tightly it made a squeaking sound, and her movements as she bit into the chicken were incredibly ferocious, as if she wanted to tear those two beastly father and son apart alive, just like the chicken meat.

Yin Bailu's lips twitched slightly as she watched this scene, feeling a sense of absurdity, as if her best friend had gone mad.

"Slow down, slow down, have you been starving for days? Your eyes are practically green. Eat slowly, no one's going to take it from you."

Du Lianshuang looked up at Yin Bailu and immediately saw through her thoughts, so she couldn't help but roll her eyes.

I thought to myself: That's because you don't know what happened. If you did, you'd be even crazier than me!
It must be said that Cui Chengye not only inherited his father's shamelessness but also his decent academic talent. Although he only got into the school with the help of Grandpa Du, his academic performance has always been good, ranking in the upper-middle range of the entire grade.

In addition to his good looks inherited from Cui Jueyan, Cui Chengye was quite popular at school and had many suitors.

Liao Jingyi first noticed Cui Chengye because of his grades. She was gentle and petite than most girls, which made her naturally fond of people who were tall and academically better than her. In short, she admired the strong.

Cui Chengye discovered this and began to approach her under the guise of studying, offering to tutor her.

Cui Chengye is not bad-looking to begin with. If he puts in a little effort to act humble, considerate and understanding when interacting with people, his goodwill will increase instantly.
Du Lianshuang, who felt this routine was strangely familiar, had started grinding her teeth.

Thinking about what happened afterward, Du Anrao couldn't help but want to curse a few words.

If Cui Jueyan was a scumbag, then his son was the king of scumbags, surpassing his father in every way! He met Liao Jingyi in high school, spent three years making her fall deeply in love with him, confirmed their relationship as soon as they entered university, and then... had sex.

"Pfft..." Du Lianshuang spat out all the chicken soup she had just taken a sip, coughing so hard she felt dizzy and disoriented.

Yin Bailu was startled. She dodged to the side in disgust, but then stepped forward to pat her back, saying, "What's wrong with you today? You even choked on your soup."

"Cough cough... that soup... was too hot, I didn't notice, cough cough cough..."

"Alright, alright, stop talking and have some water."

Seeing that things had calmed down on Du Lianshuang's side, Du Anrao was able to continue recalling the details of their subsequent interactions.

[That's why he's called a scumbag. Because he was worried that Liao Jingyi's pregnancy out of wedlock would affect his image in Liao Jingyi's parents' eyes, Cui Chengye would coax her to take birth control pills after every time they had sex and warned her not to tell her parents.]

(End of this chapter)