“I won’t, I won’t, I wouldn’t even if I were beaten to death.”


  Chu Yunxiu waved her hands, showing her determination.

  “Ding Ning, who on earth trapped my mother?”


  Ling Yun’s beautiful eyes looked cold. At that moment, her airs as a leader made Chu Yunxiu tremble all over, making her view her daughter with a complex look.

  Ding Ning raised the corner of his mouth. “Sun Guiying.”


  “Aunt Sun?”


  “Sister Sun?”


  Ling Yun and Chu Yunxiu opened their mouths wide at the same time.

  “Impossible, she had no reason to trap me!”


  Chu Yunxiu shook her head firmly, showing it was absolutely impossible.

  Sun Guiying was her neighbor for many years in their old community. Later, she married a very rich businessman and moved out of the community.

  But they had been keeping in touch over these years, and their relationship was quite well. So, when Ding Ning spoke of her name, she didn’t believe it at all.

  Compared with Chu Yunxiu’s blind belief, Ling Yun seemed to be thinking about it. “Ding Ning, Aunt Sun had no reason to trap my mother. Are you mistaken?”


  “Absolutely not, she didn’t mean to trap Aunt Chu, but me.”


  Ding Ning raised the corner of his mouth, revealing an ice-cold arc.

  “Trap you? It seems she doesn’t know you, right?”


  Ling Yun and her mother were confounded, knowing nothing about Ding Ning’s accusation.

  “It’s a long story. I know you can’t think it through. To be honest, I can’t think it through, either. I don’t know when I offended her. Strictly speaking, it is quite impossible for Sun Guiying and me to have any relations. We haven’t seen each other, and how can we hate each other?”


  Ding Ning had a wry smile and said a little guiltily, “In fact, I am afraid Sun Guiying even didn’t know whom they really wanted to trap. She just took their money and did the job for them. The thing is not as simple as it looks. Either the misunderstanding you made at the entrance of the Celebrity Clubhouse or the debt-paying trap set for Aunt Chu, frankly speaking, was plotted to hurt me.”


  “Hurt you? What on earth is the person? The more I listen, the more I get confused.”


  Chu Yunxiu had a perplexed expression.

  Ling Yun remained silent, for she knew Ding Ning would never speak anything without proof. He must have his reason for speaking so.

  Ding Ning grinned, revealing a mouthful of snow-white teeth, with a little cruelty in his smile. “That person is Liu Junwei.”


  “Liu Junwei? Im-impossible.”


  Chu Yunxiu shrieked shockingly but then shook her head. She had an extremely good impression of Liu Junwei, which made Ding Ning very uncomfortable.

  Instantly, Chu Yunxiu realized something. Taking a look at Ling Yun, she said, “Does he hate you and want to hurt you because of love?”


  Ling Yun looked a little unhappy. She had a good impression of Liu Junwei, but she preferred to believe Ding Ning.

  Unhappily, she said, “Mother, what are you talking about? I don’t have any relations with Liu Junwei.”


  “Why have no relations? He still cannot forget you, and then hurt Ding Ning because of love. It also sounds reasonable.”


  Just as she finished speaking, Chu Yunxiu realized Ding Ning was a little unhappy. So, she changed her tone. “I am just analyzing the thing with the evidence. Ding Ning, don’t mind.”


  “It doesn’t matter.”


  Ding Ning waved his hands, pondered, and said, “Not as simple as Aunt Chu said. I don’t know when I offended Liu Junwei. The first time I met him, his look at me was already very strange, not the envy between rivals in love, but hatred. So, I suspect even his blind date with Ling Yun was also a scheme.”


  “How, how come? He is Sister Wang’s nephew. Sister Wang and I have a very good relationship.”


  Chu Yunxiu still couldn’t believe it, shaking her head to say no.

  “Good relationship? Do Sun Guiying and you not have a good relationship? You always play mahjong and go shopping. Is this relationship not better than your relationship with Sister Wang? But she still trapped you.”


  Some words which were unsuitable for Ding Ning to speak were unhappily spoken by Ling Yun.

  Speaking of this, Chu Yunxiu’s imposing manner that had just appeared vanished instantly. She said gingerly, “Now, whether Sun Guiying trapped me or not, it is but Ding Ning’s guess. It may be necessarily true.”


  “Mother, you are silly. Think! As an old friend, why didn’t she take you to the casino during these years but this time?”


  Convinced by Ding Ning’s words, Ling Yun hated her mother’s silliness but analyzed the reason for her.

  “That day, your Aunt Liu was busy and couldn’t come. Since it was boring with one player less, Sun Guiying persuaded me to visit the casino to broaden my horizon.”


  Chu Yunxiu muttered softly and timidly.

  “Aunt Chu, since I say so, I definitely have evidence. I ask you, ‘Do Liu Junwei and Sun Guiying know each other?’”


  Realizing Chu Yunxiu still doubted it, he had to analyze to her patiently.

  “Should not, right? She and Sister Wang know each other, but they have no real contacts. Even if she knows Liu Junwei, they should not have any relations.”


  Chu Yunxiu said with uncertainty.

  Ding Ning had a smile at the corner of his mouth, silently sighing that it was so convenient to do anything with a hacker friend. Instantly, he took out several call record sheets from his pocket.

  “These are all the call record sheets of Sun Guiying during the past two months I got from a friend working at a communications company. I guess you know her phone number. Look, is this her phone number?”


  “Yes, sure. Right, this is her phone number indeed.”


  Chu Yunxiu took these sheets, looked at the phone number on top, and nodded yes.

  “Good, look, are you familiar with this number?”


  Ding Ning pointed at a phone number that he had specially marked in a circle with a pen, asking.

  “No, whose number is this?”


  Chu Yunxiu frowned and shook her head doubtfully.

  “Liu Junwei’s.”


  As Ling Yun entered this number on Chu Yunxiu phone, Liu Junwei’s name appeared at once. She spoke expressionlessly.

  “Ah!” Chu Yunxiu compared the number. No doubt, it was Liu Junwei’s. She looked gloomy, thought about it, and still argued, “Perhaps they know each other by chance. It is hard to tell. Maybe it is a coincidence.”


  Ding Ning was completely speechless. “Even if a housewife and a business elite know each other, what is their common interest? Is it possible to speak so much? Take a closer look at their calling dates carefully, and rethink if they had called each other before that day you were lured into the casino. And, on the day before the misunderstanding at the entrance of the Celebrity Clubhouse, Sun Guiying and Liu Junwei called twice. The duration between the two calls was less than an hour, and then she called you.”


  Chu Yunxiu recalled carefully and suddenly understood. “Do you mean Ling Yun’s free coupons are the ones Liu Junwei gave to Sun Guiying?”


  “Exactly. After that day’s misunderstanding, just as you left, Sun Guiying called Liu Junwei. I am sure she reported the situation to Liu Junwei. The next day, I investigated, wanting to know the person renting the whole Ladies Clubhouse the night before, but I found no one did it. It is the Qian Family that gave the order and made an excuse, forcing you to leave the club and go to the Celebrity Clubhouse to make your misunderstanding about me possible.”


  Ding Ning’s eyes glistened with wisdom. “That time, I was curious why you appeared at the Celebrity Clubhouse so coincidentally. After I suspected Sun Guiying and judged with clues, I knew someone wanted to tear Ling Yun and me apart. So, I suspected Liu Junwei.”


  “What do you mean? It seems that no one other than Liu Junwei pursues me?”


  Ling Yun was unhappy, pouting to blame him.

  “No. Since the first time I met Liu Junwei, his hateful look at me has been making me feel strange. I’m afraid you don’t know that after I left that night, Liu Junwei had been following me. I rented a room at an express inn. He had been watching me in his car until I switched off the light, and he thought I went to sleep and left. Think, with such behavior, how could I avoid suspecting him first?”


  Ding Ning took Ling Yun’s hands naturally and interlocked them with his. Chu Yunxiu’s expression changed slightly, but she finally didn’t speak anything.

  “What was wrong with him? Why did he follow you?”


  Ling Yun didn’t know that, shocked after hearing it. Then, scenes with human homicidal perverts flashed across her mind automatically, and her grip on Ding Ning’s hand turned even tighter.

  “I wish I knew. Even until now, I still don’t know. I have never seen him, let alone when I offended him. Why does he hate me to the bones?”


  Ding Ning had a wry smile and said.

  “Is it possible you’ve made a mistake? He likes Ling Yun, so he wants to tear you two apart.”


  Chu Yunxiu spoke gingerly.

  “Impossible, I will never make such a mistake. He really hates me.”


  Ding Ning spoke resolutely. To prove his guess was more convincing, after a moment of hesitation, he said with a strange look, “Liu Junwei will never like Ling Yun because he is gay.”


  “Ah!”


  Chu Yunxiu and her daughter opened their mouths wide out of shock, wearing an incredulous expression.

  “I know you don’t believe it. I invited a private detective to tail after him and recorded a video of him with another man, but the video is not comfortable to view for the eye. If you don’t believe me, I can show it to you.”


  Ding Ning took out a micro hard disk from his pocket and handed it to Chu Yunxiu, for he didn’t want Ling Yun to watch two men’s play to pollute her eyes.

  “Oh, no, no, I believe you. I don’t want to view it, too disgusting.”


  Chu Yunxiu disliked it, shook her hands, and said with a grimace, “I never thought Liu Junwei is in fact gay, but since he is gay, why did he have a blind date with my daughter Ling Yun?”


  “So, I said he approached Ling Yun with premeditation, but in fact, he aimed at me. Pretending to like Ling Yun, he worked to tear Ling Yun and me apart to revenge me.”


  Ding Ning had a clear logic, speaking word by word. Recalling that he was nearly fooled before, he regretted that he was still too naive.

  Chu Yunxiu’s face was full of fear. “Fortunately, Ling Yun didn’t like him. Otherwise, if she married the disgusting pervert, she wouldn’t have a couple’s sex life and lose a lifetime’s happiness.”


  “Mother, what are you talking about? How can I marry him? In my heart, I only love Ding Ning.”


  Afraid her mother’s unrestrained words would make Ding Ning unhappy, Ling Yun blamed her instantly.

  Chu Yunxiu also realized her mistake and closed her mouth shyly and instantly.

  Ding Ning didn’t care about it. After learning Liu Junwei was gay, he had long let go of his envy that Ling Yun once took his arm with hers.

  Chu Yunxiu was a little sad. “I never thought Sun Guiying is such a person. We have been such good friends for decades, but she trapped me.”


  “She also had an awkward situation and didn’t necessarily wish to hurt you. I investigated her family background. Her husband has a clothing company, which was about to go bankrupt. Liu Junwei’s Yige Company also makes clothes. He took the initiative to find her help and promised that if she did as he said, he would hand Yige Company’s orders to her husband’s company. Sun Guiying had no reason to refuse this condition.”


  Ding Ning sighed unceasingly. Between her good friend and her husband’s business, Sun Guiying chose the latter. That was not wrong.

  After all, humans were selfish. Only if her husband’s business was good, she could continue to be a rich wife.