"Xiao Yu, Xiao Yu, open the door, please!"
Nanny Wu pounded on the door like she was losing her mind.
"Who's in there? You better tell me, who's in there?"
"Open the door, open up!"
No matter how loudly Nanny Wu shouted, Zhou Chenyu wouldn’t open the door.
Inside, she kept screeching shamelessly.
Su Jing leaned closer to Liu Renzhi and asked quietly,
"Who’s in there? Do you know?"
Liu Renzhi nodded lightly.
"Mom, you’ll find out in a moment. I just didn’t expect you’d have to come all the way here for something like this."
Su Jing shot him a glare.
"You started all this. Didn’t you see how heartbroken Wanyi was just now?"
"In that short moment, I already figured out how to cut ties with you. I won’t recognize you as my son anymore."
"Mom!"
Liu Renzhi put on a pitiful, childlike face.
"How can you not trust me? I’m your son."
"Hmph!"
Su Jing glared at him again.
"Right now, I’m standing with my daughter-in-law. Whoever bullies her, I bully them right back!"
"Even if it’s my own son!"
Liu Renzhi hugged Lin Wanyi even tighter.
Lin Wanyi was now his shield—he couldn’t afford to offend her.
Watching the three of them laugh and chat, Nanny Wu grew even angrier.
She stormed downstairs to grab the keys.
She had to know who was inside. She had to know.
She couldn’t let someone take advantage of her daughter for nothing.
Absolutely not!
When she came back upstairs, her hands were shaking as she held the keys.
She kept pounding on the door.
"Xiao Yu, open the door. Open up!"
"If you don’t, I’m coming in. Zhou Chenyu, I’m coming in."
She was so agitated that she couldn’t even fit the key into the lock.
Su Jing laughed.
"Wu Xiaoli, want me to help? Give me the keys, and I’ll open it for you."
"Get lost!"
Nanny Wu was so frantic she couldn’t choose her words.
She kept trying to jam the key into the lock.
Click. The door swung open.
The room inside was dimly lit, even though it was daytime. The curtains blocked out all the sunlight.
Nanny Wu strained to see everything.
The floor was littered with torn clothes and foul-smelling tissues.
And there were two people still tangled together.
Liu Renzhi covered Lin Wanyi’s eyes.
"Don’t look at that—it’s filthy!"
Su Jing pretended to cover her eyes but actually peeked through her fingers, seeing everything clearly.
"Zhou Chenyu!"
Nanny Wu roared.
"Get up! Who is this? Who is he?"
Zhou Chenyu’s cheeks were flushed, her eyes dazed, with not a stitch of clothing on her.
"Mom, why are you coming in? Get out, get out!"
"Ren Zhi is still here. What are you doing coming in?"
Nanny Wu yanked the man off Zhou Chenyu and slapped her hard across the face.
"Open your eyes and look closely! That’s not Liu Renzhi!"
"He’s not Liu Renzhi at all!"
"No."
Zhou Chenyu pulled the man back onto her.
"He is Ren Zhi. How could he not be Ren Zhi?"
"Mom, what are you doing? You were the one who brought him to my bed! How can you say he isn’t?"
"Get out now. Don’t bother us."
Nanny Wu was about to lose her mind. She yanked open the curtains with a loud slap.
The sudden bright light stung Zhou Chenyu’s eyes, and she hurriedly covered them.
"Mom, what exactly are you trying to do? You said it yourself—let me and Ren Zhi make it a done deal. You said that after today, I’d be Ren Zhi’s woman."
"It was you..."
Nanny Wu grabbed the bedsheet and threw it over Zhou Chenyu.
"Cover yourself up. You’re a disgrace. You’re humiliating yourself!"
Zhou Chenyu, like a madwoman, threw off the sheet and went back toward the man.
Fuming, Nanny Wu grabbed her by the ear, dragged her into the bathroom, snatched the showerhead, and turned on the cold water, spraying her.
"Zhou Chenyu, open your eyes! Open them! How can you not even tell people apart?"
"Did you take some drug? Have you gone crazy?"
"Are you sober now? I'm asking you, are you sober?"
Zhou Chenyu was drenched to the bone by the cold water. She screamed loudly.
"Stop it, Mom! Stop it!"
After several minutes, Nanny Wu finally stopped. Zhou Chenyu collapsed onto the water-covered floor.
She wiped the water from her face.
"Mom, what are you trying to do? You told me to do this! It was your idea!"
"And now you come in to ruin it? But..."
She paused mid-sentence and let out a laugh.
"But we’ve already made it a fact. Ren Zhi and I can never be separated now."
"Mom, I’ll marry Ren Zhi soon. Hahaha."
The happier she laughed, the more desperate Nanny Wu became.
She found a piece of clothing, threw it over Zhou Chenyu, and clenched her teeth as she stepped out.
She stared hard at the man, who had just pulled on his shorts. The fire in her eyes was ready to burn him alive.
"Who are you? Tell me! Who are you? Why are you in my house?"
"Speak! Why are you in my house? And what did you do to my daughter?"
The man didn’t hurry as he finished putting on all his clothes.
"I don’t know. I’m just a delivery guy. As soon as I came in, your daughter lunged at me like a crazy dog and started tearing off my clothes."
"I was forced by her."
"Bullshit!"
Nanny Wu was truly losing it.
"She doesn’t even know you. How could she force you?"
"You’re a rapist! A rapist! I’m calling the police. Right now!"
Zhou Chenyu finally saw clearly. The cold water had jolted her back to her senses.
She looked at the strange old man, then at Liu Renzhi outside the door, holding Lin Wanyi’s hand.
She clutched her head and screamed.
"No, this isn’t real!"
"What does this mean? The one who was just with me was clearly Ren Zhi! How could I mistake him?"
"I led him into the room myself. It can’t be wrong. It’s impossible."
She threw a pillow at the man.
"Tell me! What trick did you use to replace Ren Zhi? Speak!"
The man turned to Liu Renzhi, gave a slight nod, and started to leave.
Nanny Wu tried to grab him, but Zhou Chenyu held her back.
"Don’t you dare leave! You can’t go! I’m calling the police. I’ll charge you with rape!"
"Don’t you dare leave!"
The man stopped. But Liu Renzhi spoke up.
"Zhou Chenyu, are you sure you want to press charges against him?"
He stared at her sternly.
"What was in the tea your mom brewed? What was in the incense you lit?"
"What was in your bathwater? And what did you yourself eat?"
"You directed all of this yourself. You even forced it yourself."
"Zhou Chenyu, are you really bold enough to call the police?"
"You?"
Zhou Chenyu stumbled back several steps in terror.
"You... How do you know?"
"Ren Zhi, how do you know?"
Liu Renzhi’s eyes were like knives.
"Why wouldn’t I know? Zhou Chenyu, you and your mom conspired to trap me."
"But you both seem to have forgotten—I’m not a child. I manage a company with thousands of employees. How could I be fooled by low tricks like yours?"
He looked past Zhou Chenyu at Nanny Wu.
"The only reason I came today was out of respect for what we once had."
"Nanny Wu, I always believed that your change now was driven by greed. I always trusted that your feelings for me back then were real."
"At least the way you jumped into the river to save me without a second thought was real."
"But now I know that was also fake. It was all fake.
"Nanny Wu, even my fall into the river was pushed by you. Tell me, what is still real?"
