Chapter 116: The Situation Spirals Out of Control

Snowball quickly finished off the last french fry, its cheeks bulging like two round balls.

Bai Chuwei took a small, foldable palmtop computer from her pocket and gently pushed it open. It featured a miniature keyboard perfectly sized for the hamster.

Snowball tilted its head, looking somewhat sympathetic. "Ancestor, are we really going to do this? Do you have a grudge against Xu Xingchen?"

Bai Chuwei nodded lazily. "Yes, I do."

Having lived together on Cloud Mist Mountain for twenty years after she had bestowed intelligence upon it, Snowball was the creature who knew her best. Yet, it still had no idea that they were living in the world of a book, or that Xu Xingchen, the insufferable protagonist, had once committed a series of malicious acts against the version of her that existed in that story.

Snowball tapped away at the keyboard with all its might, while Bai Chuwei leaned to the side, sipping red wine idly.

Snowball navigated the banquet's backend network with ease, finding the time to pitch to Bai Chuwei, "Ancestor, these fries are so good, and the fried chicken legs are delicious too. You should have some!"

Bai Chuwei couldn't be bothered to respond.

"Got it."

Inside the banquet hall, the butler noticed that something was amiss and immediately took control of the conversation. "The second young lady is currently in Europe for a design competition and could not make it back, but she has recorded a greeting video for you, sir."

Duan Xueqin, the second daughter of the Duan family, was a renowned designer. She had moved abroad years ago and married a wealthy Chinese-European businessman; her son was already in his teens.

Elder Duan, not wanting to dwell on the DNA test results, nodded immediately.

Staff members in the back operated the computer, opening the video sent by the second daughter. A video feed instantly projected onto the several-hundred-inch screen at the front of the hall.

Duan Feihan, standing beside Elder Duan, glanced at the documents with an impassive expression, just as he was about to hand them over to the butler.

Suddenly, a cold gust of wind blew through the hall from an unknown source. The wind swirled around Duan Feihan’s fingertips, and the documents flew from the butler’s hand, fluttering through the air like a flurry of winter snowflakes.

Elder Duan’s face turned ghastly green.

What was going on? Where did this strange wind come from?

Sheets of A4 paper rained down upon the guests. Among them were many wealthy students from Heng Hua High School.

"What is this? A DNA test report?"

"Holy cow, does this say Xu Xingchen and Duan Xingye are brothers?"

"Oh my god, does that mean Xu Xingchen is the illegitimate son of the Duan family?"

"..."

The crowd looked on with excitement, pointing fingers at the mortified Xu Xingchen. Just then, the video on the massive screen began to play.

The people appearing on screen were not the second daughter of the Duan family, Duan Xueqin, as everyone had expected. Instead, it was a man and a woman dressed in police-issued suspect uniforms.

The woman was sobbing uncontrollably into the camera, wailing, "I confess, I’ll confess to everything! Yes, it was me. I paid someone to hire a hitman to go after Duan Xingye."

"But I had no choice! Only if Duan Xingye died would the Duan family be without a legal eldest grandson; only then would my son, Xingchen, have a chance to step in legitimately. But... but didn’t Duan Xingye jump from the building and survive? He’s still jumping around, not even disabled."

"Officer, I was wrong. I truly know I was wrong..."

The entire banquet hall: "????"

What on earth was this?

Not to mention how they had obtained footage from a police interrogation, what kind of madness was the content?

A wealthy playboy in the crowd, who often frequented the Night Color Bar, suddenly shouted, "I know this woman! That’s Xu Li, the manager of Night Color Bar, isn't it? Damn, talk about a heart of a viper—she’s talking about contract killing, right?"

Xu Xingchen’s face turned deathly pale. Where... where had this video come from?