Can Bai Huanyu break the deadlock?
The mont this question popped into his head, Xiao Feng couldn't help feeling a bit like laughing.
"Talk about man proposes, God disposes… I actually have a day when I worry about Bai Huanyu?"
But honestly, looking at the current ss with his two sons and one daughter all kicking up trouble together, he really was a little worried Bai Huanyu wouldn't be able to handle it.
Once Bai Huanyu collapsed, there were basically only two outcos.
First: Bai Huanyu becos completely disheartened, gives up on himself, never recovers, and then the Devil's Concentration Camp forcefully steps into the Bai Family…
Second: Bai Huanyu, with no other choice, bows his head to the Devil's Concentration Camp.
And neither of these outcos was sothing Xiao Feng wanted to see.
"Should I… give Bai Huanyu a hand?"
Xiao Feng started seriously thinking about this question.
Earlier, he had told Qin Mantong that he'd never taken Bai Huanyu seriously. That was both a fact and a deliberate strategic contempt.
But now it was different. The Devil's Concentration Camp had already gotten involved; if he still didn't step in, and they ended up taking control of the Bai Family, that'd be a huge headache.
With that in mind, Xiao Feng quickly recognized the situation.
Right now, just washing his hands of it and watching the fire from across the river was no longer an option.
Because if the fire got big enough and jumped the line, it would eventually burn its way to him anyway.
"So how exactly should I help Bai Huanyu?"
Xiao Feng rubbed his chin and started racking his brain.
The first thing he thought of was the simplest, most brutal thod.
Just directly take out Bai Yongge, Bai Lisha, and Bai Tieniu, so the Devil's Concentration Camp would lose these three chess pieces, and Bai Huanyu would be forced to cut off those "ties."
But doing that might very well backfire.
If Bai Huanyu figured he had no successors left anyway, got impulsive, and tead up with the Devil's Concentration Camp, wouldn't that be him lifting a rock only to smash his own foot?
Walking as he thought, Xiao Feng had already circled more than half around the Bai Family estate, yet still hadn't co up with a perfect solution…
However, just then, a thought popped up out of nowhere in his heart.
"Could the Devil's Concentration Camp have used the sa thod on the Du Family?"
Objectively speaking, it wasn't impossible.
Bai Huanyu had been obsessed with going against Xiao Feng and still got a leg stuck in by the Devil's Concentration Camp.
And the Du Family was also deeply entangled with Xiao Feng, especially as it was Du Qingyue's maiden family. If anything happened to the Du Family, whether he wanted to or not, Xiao Feng couldn't just ignore it.
Thinking of this, Xiao Feng took out his phone, deciding he should send a ssage to remind Old Master Du Qingyun to pay attention to his children's "ntal and physical health," and whether there was anything strange about the people they'd been interacting with lately.
But as soon as he pulled out his phone, he saw a dozen missed calls, all from—Du Linlang.
Xiao Feng felt a little lucky. Good thing he'd rembered to switch his phone to silent before entering the Bai Family estate, otherwise he'd probably have been exposed long ago.
But alongside that luck, he couldn't help muttering "crap" in his heart; his instincts told him there was an eighty to ninety percent chance sothing had happened to the Du Family as well.
Right as he was thinking this, Du Linlang called again.
Xiao Feng glanced around and picked up.
"Where are you right now?" Du Linlang's voice carried a tired edge. "If you have ti, I want to see you."
Xiao Feng thought for a mont. "Let make a bold guess—are your parents planning to get a divorce?"
On the other end of the line, there was a full three seconds of silence before Du Linlang spoke. "How… how did you know?"
Silently saying "figures" to himself, Xiao Feng gave a wry smile. "Don't worry about how I know. You shouldn't be going out these days. Send your location; I'll co find you."
...
Half an hour later, at the restaurant near the Lanyue Group where Du Linlang and Gao Panpan had put on their "two-person show" before.
Xiao Feng pushed the door open and saw Du Linlang sitting alone by the floor-to-ceiling window.
She was wearing a red coat, a scarf wrapped around her neck, hands cupped around a coffee mug. A light touch of makeup still made her pretty face look tempting, but there was an indescribable sorrow in her eyes.
Behind the bar, a waiter walked out and gave him an apologetic smile. "Sorry, sir, the place has already been reserved…"
Before he could finish, he heard Du Linlang say, "He's the one I'm waiting for."
The waiter froze for a second, then politely asked, "What would you like to order, sir?"
"A cup of green tea," Xiao Feng said casually.
"Alright, please wait a mont."
The waiter agreed and went back behind the bar.
Xiao Feng sat down across from Du Linlang and couldn't hold back a chuckle. "Where's that dear girlfriend of yours?"
"You think I'm still in the mood to joke around right now?"
"Then I'll change the question… hmm… how many months?"
"How many months what?" Du Linlang's brows knitted slightly.
Xiao Feng held back his laughter. "Didn't you say last ti you were planning to do IVF?"
"Sigh…" Du Linlang let out a sigh, put down the coffee cup in her hand, and grabbed Xiao Feng's hand. She said seriously, "If you're willing to do it with , we can go to the hospital right now."
Xiao Feng pulled his hand back from hers. He had to admit, under normal circumstances, he really couldn't compete with Du Linlang's "boldness."
He cleared his throat twice and changed the subject. "So, tell , why are your parents getting divorced?"
At the ntion of this, Du Linlang sighed again. "If I had to use one idiom to describe it, it'd be 'completely baffling.'
People say marriages crack bit by bit over ti, but they just suddenly announced they wanted a divorce. There wasn't a single sign beforehand—like a vase suddenly smashing to the floor and shattering into pieces.
And they both firmly insist they've found a perfect other half, and no matter who tries to talk them out of it, they won't listen. They say they have to split."
Xiao Feng chuckled softly. "Interesting."
"Interesting?" Du Linlang repeated, but she didn't get mad. Instead, she quickly seed to realize sothing and asked, "How did you know my parents were getting divorced?"
"You really want to know?"
"I do!" Du Linlang nodded hard. "You can na any condition. My heart already belongs to you—giving you my body too is no big deal.
You know I've been waiting for this day for a long ti."
"…" Xiao Feng.
This was basically like dealing with a piece of uncut pork belly—thick-skinned, afraid of nothing, caring about nothing—and he was the one who had no way to deal with her.
Just then, the waiter brought the tea over.
After the waiter left, Xiao Feng got up and moved to sit beside Du Linlang instead of across from her.
Du Linlang was slightly taken aback. Was he going to make a move for real?
But so what.
Real or not, she wasn't scared either way!
With that thought, she naturally opened her arms, reaching around Xiao Feng's waist to hug him.
However, before she could succeed, Xiao Feng reached out to stop her and said in a low voice, "Cut it out, I have sothing serious to tell you."
"Go ahead, I'll just listen." Du Linlang replied lightly, but she didn't try to hug him again. Instead, she scooted over towards him, pressing right up against his side.
The mont their eyes t, Xiao Feng suddenly felt a very subtle sensation.
Ti seed to slow down, and every detail of the face in front of him looked like it had a beauty filter on it.
Snowy white skin, tempting red lips, bright eyes—she looked like a work of art painstakingly crafted by a master.
In no ti, two blushes blood on Du Linlang's cheeks, an effect no makeup could ever achieve.
But even with her pretty face flushed red, she still t Xiao Feng's gaze head-on, without dodging or flinching.
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