After I Woke Up to Find I Had a Wife - Chapter 42

Lin You sat in the small garden on the second floor. Today, she had only come here with her aunt to take a look at her future aunt-in-law… or uncle-in-law?

At her status, there was no need for so much socializing and false politeness, nor did she need to lower herself.

She sat in the little garden and raised her head to look at the sky. There were few people here, and everyone was seated relatively far apart. No one would be so tactless as to come disturb her.

The lights in the garden were hazy, not too bright, but the arrangement was elegant and comfortable. The lighting was neither so bright that it made people uncomfortable, nor so dim that nothing could be seen.

On one side of the garden, among the low flower bushes, stood a woman. She seemed to be on the phone. A soft, sweet voice could be heard, acting spoiled toward the person on the other end.

“Hello, may I ask if you need something to drink?” A waiter wearing a small black-and-white vest bowed steadily and politely, placing the tray in his hand at a distance from Lin You, but still somewhere she could reach by raising her hand.

“No need. Pour me a cup of plain water.” Lin You waved her hand and handed the untouched champagne beside her to the waiter.

“All right. Please wait a moment.” The waiter nodded and left.

The girl behind the garden did not know what she had talked about with the person on the phone, but she laughed very happily. She bent down, cupped a flower, and carefully smelled it.

Her lovely, beautiful figure appeared faintly under the hazy lighting, carrying a bit of a young girl’s innocent romance.

Lin You saw nothing. She only single-mindedly took out her phone and chatted with Fu Xinran.

“Ranran, Ranran, are you asleep?” Lin You poked Fu Xinran’s WeChat and patted her profile picture.

“Am I a pig? Why would I sleep this early? When are you coming back?” Ever since Fu Xinran’s little belly began to bulge, she found Lin You unpleasant no matter where she looked.

Hearing Fu Xinran’s cold yet proud voice, Lin You’s face showed a sweet smile.

“Hello, your plain water.” The waiter brought over a cup of warm water and handed it to Lin You.

“Thank you.”

The waiter smiled and said there was no need, then turned to continue serving others.

Lin You did not want to go home with her whole body covered in the smell of alcohol and smoke, so she had asked for plain water and hidden in the small garden alone to chat with Fu Xinran, taking a sip of the water while she did.

Clang.

The glass fell to the ground and shattered into pieces.

The person talking on the phone among the flowers heard the sound. After hesitating for an instant, she hung up the phone and lightly walked out from the garden path. Under the hazy lights, her face could not be seen clearly.

Fu Xinran, lying on the sofa, suddenly felt inexplicably panicked. The person who had just been acting spoiled with her was now no longer replying to her messages.

Her heart felt uneasy. After thinking for a moment, Fu Xinran took out her phone and called Lin You.

“Du… du… du… Hello, the number you have dialed is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later…”

Fu Xinran felt that something was wrong. She turned over and sat up, her porcelain-white bare feet landing on the floor.

Chunsheng, who had just gone out to bring Fu Xinran warm milk, entered the screening room and saw Fu Xinran standing barefoot on the floor.

“Madam, why aren’t you wearing shoes again? When the Family Head comes back later and finds out, she’ll be angry again.”

“Chunsheng, go prepare the car.” Fu Xinran now felt even more panicked. That panic was powerless, the kind where her mind was a mess and she could not think about anything, so panicked that she did not know what to do.

It was intuition. She felt that something had happened to Lin You. Right now, she only wanted to see Lin You.

Seeing Fu Xinran so panicked, Chunsheng thought something had happened. She put down the milk and ran downstairs to have the car prepared.

Fu Xinran first called Lin You’s assistant. The assistant did not answer. Then she called the bodyguards, but the bodyguards’ phones also did not answer. Fu Xinran completely panicked.

Even Su Qingfeng had gone out of contact. That made the matter serious.

Shen Mengmeng stood under the lights. Her lips were already pressed pale. Both hands tightly gripped her phone. In the end, she still took a defeated step back.

She clenched both fists and breathed hard until her body trembled.

Shen Mengmeng, you can do it. You can do it. She encouraged herself in her heart.

Then she fixed her expression, and her face once again carried an innocent, naive look untouched by worldly affairs.

Standing under the light, she looked at Lin You collapsed on the wooden bench. Her lively, sweet face carried worry as she asked, “Hello? Hello? Are you all right? Do you need me to help you find a doctor? Do you need help?”

Shen Mengmeng reached out and pushed Lin You’s body. Lin You lay limp on the chair, completely unconscious. Suddenly, Shen Mengmeng saw Lin You’s fingertip move.

Her heart skipped a beat.

Her breathing shortened by half, and her whole body went weak. She bit her lip and decided she could not sit still and wait for death.

She was only an ordinary, normal person, just a little celebrity. Why did the struggles among these wealthy aristocratic families have to affect her?

She recognized Lin You, because she was an artist under Tanglong Entertainment, which belonged to Lin You. She had only debuted a year ago. She had only watched video speeches about Lin You and had never come into contact with her at such close range.

On the other side of the little garden, in a place no one could see, there was a shadow blended into the darkness, silently watching everything happening here.

Shen Mengmeng knew someone was watching here. So she gritted her teeth and could only shoulder all of this. No matter how panicked she felt inside, her face remained calm. Her hands unhurriedly helped Lin You sit upright.

“President Lin, I’m sorry.”

Shen Mengmeng bent down and struggled to carry this Alpha, who was nearly twenty centimeters taller than herself, on her back.

Shen Mengmeng could be considered a strange case. She had been discovered by a talent scout at university. She looked like a little white flower, muddleheaded and ignorant, and had signed a slave contract in confusion.

Every month, she received a salary of three thousand yuan. She had flopped all the way to the center of the earth. She had no grand ambitions either and felt that receiving three thousand yuan every month without working was already very happy.

Occasionally, she would go out to take a small advertisement or play a little maid. That was fine too. She could treat it as experiencing life.

Her manager could not stand it. Some time ago, the manager said she had arranged a big job for her. Then, in confusion, Shen Mengmeng was trapped in a setup and ended up owing several million. She did not even dare tell her parents.

“Host? Are you all right?” The system looked at the dazed person inside Lin You’s consciousness.

Lin You’s consciousness was unclear. Everything she saw had double images. She only felt the world spinning, so uncomfortable that she wanted to vomit. Worst of all, her whole body could not move, yet she could feel someone moving her.

“Hold on. I’ve already used the warning to notify Fu Xinran. She’ll arrive soon. Good thing this girl doesn’t have any malice toward you.” The system was nervous too. It began circling around Lin You, muttering nonstop.

Lin You was too tall. Although she was very thin, an Alpha’s height and weight were both there. Even if Shen Mengmeng was a little stronger than ordinary Omegas, supporting Lin You while avoiding people was still very difficult.

She staggered along, acting as Lin You’s crutch, and finally managed to get her to the elevator on the far side of the Xie family’s banquet area.

The place where the banquet was held today was a special banquet venue belonging to the Xie family. It was five stories tall overall. The first and second floors were for hosting guests, the third and fourth floors were for resting and entertainment, and the fifth floor was off-limits.

In front of the elevator on this side, a sign saying “Under Maintenance” had been placed. Shen Mengmeng pressed the elevator button and forcefully squeezed Lin You against the wall, not daring to relax for fear that Lin You would slide down.

If she slid down, Shen Mengmeng definitely would not have the strength to help her up again.

Only at the moment Lin You fell did she realize something was wrong. Blame her. She had trusted the rules too much. For an old aristocratic family like the Xie family, this kind of thing should not have happened.

Because once something like this happened, the Xie family’s image would be directly damaged. Once one person got into trouble in this kind of setting, no one would ever lightly accept a banquet invitation from the Xie family again.

After all, if I come to your house and don’t eat anything, that means I’m not giving you face. But if I eat, I’m afraid of inviting disaster onto myself. In that case, I can only not come.

Moreover, at proper banquets of aristocratic families like this, almost everyone interacting with one another belonged to the same circle. Everyone would think, “If he was targeted today, will I be targeted tomorrow?”

So whether openly or secretly, the host’s requirements regarding banquet safety were extremely strict. There were rules between all of them.

Lin You truly had not expected to encounter this kind of thing at such a formal occasion.

Su Qingfeng finally saw the person she had yearned for day and night, but she could only stand in place, hesitating and unable to step forward, staring blankly at that figure.

Su Qingfeng did not have the courage to go forward. She could only take one glass of wine after another and drink them down. Anyone who came to toast her was accepted without refusal.

While Xie Yun’an was chatting and laughing with others, she took the time to glance from the corner of her eye at the person who only raised her head and drank gloomy wine. Her brows furrowed for an instant, then immediately relaxed as she continued talking with others.

Fu Xinran finally contacted Lin You’s bodyguards. They had been waiting in the car the whole time.

“Madam, the parking lot seems to have been blocked. The signal is very weak right now.” The bodyguard team captain used equipment to check the surroundings.

Seeing that both sides had finally made contact, the system finally let out a sigh of relief. Lin You had been dragged to the corridor on the fifth floor.

Shen Mengmeng was already exhausted. She directly pushed Lin You down onto the floor and prepared to completely disregard her image and drag her away.

She could not support her anymore. She had no strength left. She could only drag her away. Shen Mengmeng sat on the ground, panting. The originally dreamy and beautiful high-end custom white dress was already wrinkled and no longer worth its price.

“Auntie, are you playing a game?”

A crisp, adorable child’s voice came from behind Shen Mengmeng.

Shen Mengmeng immediately turned back and saw a very cute little girl in a pink puffy dress. Only then did the panic in her heart settle a little.

“Cough, no. She’s drunk. I’m sending her back to her room.” Shen Mengmeng patted her chest and wiped the sweat from her face, not even knowing that she had smeared her makeup.

The little girl hugged her cute stuffed rabbit and crouched beside Shen Mengmeng. While hugging her little rabbit, she boldly stretched out her short, chubby finger and poked the person lying on the ground.

Shen Mengmeng looked around. No one had followed for now. She turned and looked at the little girl who was poking President Lin hard.

Even she felt it looked a little painful. Lowering her voice, she asked, “Little sister, do you know where we can play hide-and-seek?”

The little girl looked at this very strange-looking big sister. Her lipstick was smudged, her eyeliner was blurred, and her fingers were still rubbing hard at her face. The little girl could not hold back and covered her mouth to laugh secretly.

Shen Mengmeng thought this child looked so cute when she smiled. At least she was countless times cuter than Shen Mengmeng’s little brother.

“Yes. Big Sister, follow me.” The little girl thought this was very fun. It had been a long time since she had played with someone from outside.

She first ran back to her room and checked. Teacher Wu had not returned yet, so she turned around and called them into her room.

Shen Mengmeng was determined to save herself. As long as she did not let President Lin get into trouble, perhaps President Lin would consider that she had atoned for her mistake and terminate her contract. Then she could go home and never be a celebrity again.

Her mother was right. Someone like her, who had no figure, no face, and no brains, was not suited to playing with smart people.

“Huff, huff, huff… President Lin, you’re really heavy. Oh my god, finally made it. Huff.”

Shen Mengmeng dragged Lin You into the room, both hands trembling as she locked the door from inside.

“Little sister, starting now, we’re playing hide-and-seek for a while. They search, we hide. No matter who calls, don’t open the door, except your mom. Okay?”

Shen Mengmeng collapsed onto the floor, panting heavily as she coaxed the little girl, who was beautiful like a little elf.

The little girl nodded and hugged her stuffed rabbit. Sitting on the sofa and swinging her chubby legs, she looked curiously at the two people on the floor, one lying and one sitting.

Their side quieted down, but downstairs had begun to fall into chaos.

Within half an hour, Fu Xinran could not contact Lin You, nor could she contact Su Qingfeng. When she finally contacted the bodyguards, the bodyguards told her Su Qingfeng was already dead drunk.

Fu Xinran was so anxious that her stomach hurt, yet she still endured the pain and dealt with the Xie family. If the Xie family insisted on not letting her search for Lin You, then today, the two families would completely tear off all pretenses.

When Xie Yun’an heard this, her gaze stared straight at her second brother. That pressure made Xie Yunfeng’s face turn pale. Xie Yunfeng lowered his head in embarrassment and did not dare say anything.

“Madam Lin, rest assured. At most, President Lin drank too much and is resting upstairs. I’ll arrange for people to search now.” Xie Yun’an’s expression did not change as she spoke.

Facing Fu Xinran, whose aura was fully unleashed, she did not panic either. An impeccable smile remained on her face. She merely followed Xie Yun’an and searched the rooms one by one.

The bodyguards also quietly searched under the Xie family’s guidance.

Lin Gong’s expression changed slightly when he saw Fu Xinran arrive, then quickly returned to normal. Fortunately, Fu Xinran did not spare any extra glance for him.

Lin Gong turned his head and glanced at his drunken, dizzy son. His face darkened. This useless thing. He gave his assistant a look, then they silently left through another side door.

“Madam, we found President Lin’s assistant. She was drunk and asleep in a lounge.” The bodyguard called. Fu Xinran had the speaker on. Xie Yun’an nodded.

But she had people speed up their movements. It was far too coincidental. Fu Xinran provided the test result showing signal jamming. Xie Yun’an’s face remained calm, but in reality, she had already notified Old Master Xie that they could see off the guests.

The kitchen had also been taken under her people’s control. If nothing had happened to Lin You, that would still be fine. If something had happened, the Xie family would not be able to extricate themselves easily. Xie Yun’an’s eyes darkened.