Disorder in marriage

Yan Zhi and Ke Anyu agreed on a time and place to meet, but she felt uneasy before seeing him.

The meeting place was a coffee shop, which seemed to belong to him. When Yan Zhi arrived, he was standing behind the counter making coffee.

There weren't many people in the shop at this time, so he took two cups of coffee to a seat by the window.

"Niannian didn't come? I prepared milk for her."

Yan Zhi didn't expect that he still cared about Niannian, and for a moment she felt that Ke Anyu was not as frivolous as Xia Linglong had said.

"I've entrusted her to Linglong, but Linglong can't take care of her for long; I only have one hour."

Ke Anyu didn't linger any longer. He took out his phone and showed her the photos in his album.

"Is this person your friend?"

Yan Zhi took the phone. The photo wasn't very clear, and she had to zoom in to vaguely recognize the familiar facial features.

"It's my senior, Ling Xiao."

Ke Anyu swiped the screen again, and a video appeared next.

It's a surveillance video, and the timeline shows it was taken two hours before Yan Zhi's incident.

Yan Zhi's attention was initially focused on Ling Xiao, but when another person appeared in the corridor in the scene, her eyes widened.

There was no sound from the surveillance footage, but she saw that after Ah Long finished talking to Ling Xiao, he patted Ling Xiao on the shoulder, and then the two parted ways in the corridor.

After reading it, Yan Zhi was stunned for a long time. She never expected that Ling Xiao would have private contact with Brother A Long.

She didn't even dare to think about it further, but her suspicions were being confirmed step by step.

She felt she was within reach of the truth.

Ke Anyu took a sip of coffee and saw that she looked unwell and remained silent for a long time, so he helped her find a way to save face.

"Maybe I'm overthinking it, or maybe they were just saying hello casually."

Yan Zhi looked at him: "Are there any other surveillance videos?"

Ke Anyu said regretfully, "No, after your accident, I found that the other surveillance footage had been inexplicably destroyed. I had to work hard to recover this video."

Yan Zhi hummed in agreement and said nothing more. "Thank you, Mr. Ke. I hope you can keep this a secret for now. I don't want to cause any unnecessary commotion."

"Of course."

Just as Yan Zhi was about to leave, Ke Anyu stopped her with a single sentence: "I helped Mrs. Gu, how will Mrs. Gu repay me?"

Yan Zhi's mind raced, and she sat down again.

"Mr. Ke, I am currently penniless, but I will remember this favor and repay it when I have the chance in the future."

Ke Anyu laughed, his face glowing with spring-like happiness. "Mrs. Gu, let's be frank. I helped you, so you should do me a favor."

He made no secret of it, saying, "I want to pursue Xia Linglong."

Yan Zhi remained calm and said, "I have no say in your affairs anyway."

Ke Anyu extended his index finger and waved it from side to side. "No, no, no, as Linglong's best friend, you have a lot of influence."

This was the first time Yan Zhi had encountered such a difficult person, and she couldn't help but feel a little worried for Xia Linglong.

"I can put in a good word for you with Linglong, but Linglong doesn't seem to be very interested in you."

Ke Anyu pulled an invitation from his pocket. "This is a banquet organized by my friend. I'd like to invite you and Xia Linglong to attend. Mrs. Gu doesn't need to say anything on my behalf; just bring her."

Yan Zhi was taken aback. "You like her that much? But you don't even know her."

Ke Anyu raised an eyebrow. "Wasn't this exactly what we were about to find out?"

Yan Zhi couldn't argue with him, hesitated for two seconds, and then picked up the invitation and stood up. "I'll try my best, but don't get your hopes up too high."

"Thanks."

Yan Zhi rushed home and found Xia Linglong sitting on the ground playing with Niannian.

"You're finally back!"

Xia Linglong sat on the sofa, supporting her back. "Taking care of a child is really physically demanding!"

Yan Zhi was distracted and did not respond.

Xia Linglong stared at her for a while, "What's wrong? What did Ke Anyu say?"

Yan Zhi made up an excuse to send Niannian away to paint.

She sat down next to Xia Linglong and told her about the photos and videos.

Surprisingly, Xia Linglong wasn't too surprised after hearing this.

"Actually, I had discovered before that my senior was secretly doing whitewashing for some bad people."

Yan Zhi frowned. "Why have you never told me this before?"

Xia Linglong scratched her head, now that she thought about it, she did feel that something was wrong.

"I didn't think that much about it back then. My senior also needs to earn money to eat, and almost every time it was those same people who came to cause trouble for him. If he didn't agree, it would probably be even more troublesome."

Yan Zhi asked, "Did you know that he knew Brother Long?"

Xia Linglong shook her head, also puzzled, "How could senior get involved with someone like that?"

This is definitely not a coincidence; Yan Zhi's accident happened right in that corridor.

In addition, Nian Nian's reaction to Ling Xiao was always abnormal, and she didn't believe that someone could suddenly be targeted by so much evidence.

After thinking it over, she calmly told Xia Linglong her guess.

"I think my accident and Niannian's running away from home are both related to my senior."

Upon hearing this, Xia Linglong first looked around, but quickly realized that this was Yan Zhi's house and no one would hear her.

"You suspect that your senior is that kind of person? Xiaozhi, that's impossible, right? We've known him for so many years."

Yan Zhi didn't want things to turn out this way either, but with so much evidence in front of her, her unwavering belief in Ling Xiao began to waver.

"Linglong, I still want to verify my guess."

"How do we test it?" Xia Linglong asked. "I'll cooperate with you."

Yan Zhi took out her phone and called Zhou Zheng to ask for his help.

He was somewhat shocked when he heard Yan Zhi doubt Ling Xiao, but the tacit understanding they had developed over the years meant he did not question Yan Zhi's decision.

Even if Yan Zhi were to suspect him one day, he believed that Yan Zhi would give him a chance to prove himself.

After hanging up the phone, Yan Zhi hadn't decided what to do next, so she changed the subject.

"This is an invitation from Ke Anyu to you; he wants to see you."

Xia Linglong glanced at it. "Did he threaten you?"

"No, not at all," Yan Zhi said, "but I owe him a favor."

Xia Linglong clicked her tongue three times in a row, "Looks like I have no choice but to go?"

"If you don't want to go—"

Xia Linglong stood up, holding the invitation behind her back, and said, "Oh well, I'll just treat it as going to see some handsome guys!"

Yan Zhi smiled helplessly, and no matter how she looked at it, she couldn't believe that Xia Linglong was indifferent to Ke Anyu.

Looking back on the early days of her relationship with Gu Yunmo, she was also stubborn and refused to admit that she liked him no matter who asked.

So much so that when she later said she liked him, Gu Yunmo didn't take it too seriously.

That evening, she saw that Yan Fei had updated her social media status with an intimate photo of herself and a man.

She didn't show her face, only half of her collarbone.

Yan Fei captioned the photo: "Only when you're here can I sleep soundly. @gu"