Chapter 180
Chapter 180
I had faith in Pan Xiaorou’s abilities. After all, she was the current chairwoman of Jiangling Group.
But I hadn’t expected her to be this forceful. She had only said last night that she would protect Meng Yifan, and by noon today, she had already gotten it done.
“The video was the main reason,” Song Xiaotian said. “With that video and Pan Xiaorou stepping in, the police will definitely release Meng Yifan.”
I nodded. I understood that much too.
If we had been the ones to take that video to the police, it might not have been nearly as effective.
But Pan Xiaorou was different. The police wouldn’t dare brush her off.
In any case, I could finally relax.
As long as Meng Yifan was all right, everything would be fine.
Song Xiaotian said, “Xiang Kai’s body has also been sent to the funeral home. Pan Xiaorou’s side will probably hold the funeral for him very soon. With two big shots falling one after another, Lanjiang City’s business circles are pretty shaken up.”
Xiang Kai was, after all, a well-known figure in the business world.
Plenty of people would definitely attend his funeral.
As his widow, Pan Xiaorou had to keep up appearances. Otherwise, people would gossip, and it would damage her business image.
A moment ago, Song Xiaotian had still been happy about Meng Yifan. Now, though, he looked worried again.
I asked him what was wrong.
“She asked me to have dinner with her tonight…” Song Xiaotian frowned, his face full of gloom.
“Who?”
“Who do you think?”
He glared at me.
“Pan Xiaorou?” I was a little surprised. “Isn’t she supposed to be arranging her husband’s funeral?”
His body had already been taken to the funeral home, so she would definitely have to start handling Xiang Kai’s funeral arrangements right away.
Even if there was no love left between them, the man hadn’t even been buried yet, and she was already asking another man out?
I suddenly remembered Seventh Master’s analysis of Pan Xiaorou last night and thought, Damn, he was way too accurate.
She really did seem lonely.
Song Xiaotian looked utterly melancholy. “Meng Yifan hasn’t been released yet, and I don’t dare turn her down and make her unhappy.”
“Then just accept it,” I said, holding back a laugh. “Seventh Master already analyzed it for you yesterday. President Pan likes you. Really likes you. You’ve hit the jackpot, man. You didn’t do a damn thing and got yourself a wife for free, plus a fortune you’ll never finish spending.”
That was the dream of countless men!
“Bullshit!” Song Xiaotian got worked up, as if someone had struck a nerve. “Why is that damn old man such a gossip all day long? She’s been married before, she’s two years older than me, and she’s a widow. No matter what, there’s no way I could be with her!”
I said, “You’re being way too narrow-minded. She’s not bad at all. Her overall conditions are great, and she’s beautiful too. So what if she’s been married before? Plenty of people remarry these days. You’re discriminating against her.”
“You don’t know shit!” he snapped. “If she’s so great, you marry her!”
I said, “That’s only because she doesn’t have her eye on me. If she did, I’d marry her. President Pan is so virtuous, and she even… even applies ointment and stuff. Did she apply any for you this morning?”
Song Xiaotian shot me a glare, got up, and left.
That evening, Seventh Master invited me to dinner.
Once again, it was at a hotpot restaurant.
I didn’t get it. He was from the Northeast, so why did he love hotpot so much?
“Seventh Master, I’m about to eat myself into hemorrhoids here. Can we change places next time?”
“Why are you alone?”
Seventh Master didn’t see Song Xiaotian and seemed a little curious.
After all, Song Xiaotian, Meng Yifan, and I were practically inseparable.
He had invited us to dinner today because he wanted to ask how things were going with Meng Yifan.
But the moment he asked about Song Xiaotian, I wanted to laugh. “If you miss him that much, I’ll call and ask him.”
I dialed Song Xiaotian’s number. He picked up quickly.
“Brother Tian, Seventh Master is asking where you are.” I put the call on speaker.
All I heard was him cough dryly twice. “I… I’m having dinner with President Pan. What do you guys want?”
I hadn’t even started laughing yet, but Seventh Master was already cracking up.
Song Xiaotian said, “What the hell are you laughing at? If you’ve got something to say, say it!”
Seventh Master said, “Xiaotian, are you still going to apply the medicine tonight?”
Song Xiaotian said, “Fine. You two just wait. You just wait, got it?”
With that, he hung up.
Seventh Master and I laughed for ages.
Seventh Master said, “This really is a Peach Blossom Calamity for him. I imagine he’ll be stuck in this mess for a long time to come.”
I asked Seventh Master what a Peach Blossom Calamity was.
“A Peach Blossom Calamity is when two people get caught up in a love-hate entanglement, and disputes or even disasters arise because of their feelings.”
After hearing Seventh Master’s explanation, I was instantly startled.
Song Xiaotian obviously couldn’t accept that Pan Xiaorou had been divorced before. He was very resistant to it.
But Pan Xiaorou liked him with such burning intensity.
If Song Xiaotian refused to go along with it, Pan Xiaorou wouldn’t fly into a rage out of humiliation, would she…
“That’s not impossible.”
Seventh Master explained, “When a Peach Blossom Calamity appears, most of the time it just torments the mind. The people involved become hard to shake off, and it affects daily life. Physical harm is rarer, and cases where the woman hurts the man are even rarer.”
“But the true power of a Peach Blossom Calamity lies in this: if the person at fault hurts someone else, it will affect his next relationship. And in that next relationship, he will become the victim.”
“Song Xiaotian was the one who went and provoked her first, so he’s definitely the one at fault. If he refuses to accept this President Pan, then his love life may be full of setbacks for the rest of his life.”
Damn. Wasn’t that just karma?
After that, I told Seventh Master about Meng Yifan’s situation. He could be released tomorrow.
We agreed to go to the detention center together tomorrow to pick him up.
That night, when I got home, Song Xiaotian didn’t return until eight-thirty.
In other words, he had eaten dinner with Pan Xiaorou for more than two hours.
His face was flushed bright red, and he reeked of alcohol. Who knew how much he had drunk?
“Bro, didn’t you not want to go? And you still drank that much with her?”
“You think I wanted to?”
Song Xiaotian staggered over and flopped straight onto the sofa. “I didn’t want to drink at all. She insisted on drinking with me. She wanted to get me drunk. Good thing I can hold my liquor, or my virginity would’ve been done for.”
I burst out laughing. “You’re twenty-nine and still a virgin? Hahaha.”
“Laugh my ass!” He threw a pillow at me and snapped in annoyance, “My family upbringing is strict. If I dared mess around outside, my dad would break my legs. If I dared sleep with anyone before marriage, I’d be forced to marry her the very next day.”
I snorted and laughed again. “You’re already twenty-nine. President Pan is showing you such fierce love, so why are you still protecting your virginity?”
He didn’t answer. He was too drunk, and he fell asleep just like that.
But he had not been asleep for long when his phone rang and woke him up again.
He picked up the phone and looked at it, then was so frightened he sat straight up. “Holy crap! Pan Xiaorou is calling me again. What does she want now?”
I held back my laughter. “She wants you to apply the medicine…”
“Screw you!” Song Xiaotian reluctantly answered the call. “President Pan, what’s the matter?”
I had no idea what Pan Xiaorou said on the other end, but Song Xiaotian’s expression changed at once. “He came back as a returning spirit again? How is that possible? Didn’t Seventh Master already take care of it?”
“All right, all right. Wait for us. We’ll come over right away.”
After hanging up, he stared at me in a daze. “This is damn strange. Xiang Kai has come back as a returning spirit again…”
I was immediately startled too.
Just last night, Seventh Master had sworn with absolute certainty that even if Xiang Kai returned as a spirit again, he wouldn’t be able to enter that villa.
So how had he gotten in again?
Could it be because Song Xiaotian had cuckolded him, and he couldn’t swallow the anger…