What's Your Motive?

Lu Shuya's words were like a slap in the face of everyone. As the tears streamed down her cheeks without her will, everyone was stunned.

Yang Yize and Lu AnLing were a couple before?

No one believed that!

Seeing their faces of disbelief, Sheng spoke up. "I told you guys you were mistaken. AnLing and Yize were dating long before Xiao Mian even approached him."

Some people in the crowd laughed.

It was obvious that Sheng's words had no lie in them. He was always a truthful boy but the truth was harder to swallow than a lie.

If it was Sheng and Lu AnLing, everyone would have believed it in a heartbeat but Yang Yize? Impossible.

Why would a prince date a pauper?

The rest had never seen even a mere moment of love or care between the two. They never even hung out.

The only people in the room who knew this as a fact were Lu Shuya, Lu AnLing, Yang Yize, Sheng and Zhao Fei.

Well... there was also Wang Tingting...

Wang Tingting had arrived at the reunion at a time when Lu AnLing had disappeared and Xiao Mian had arrived hand in hand with Yang Yize.

The room had exploded in cheers!

"I knew you two would get together!" Some of the girls squealed.

But as Wang Tingting looked at the two she just couldn't help but feel a little sorry for Xiao Mian.

Wang Tingting had been forced to be Zhao Fei's 'dog' for a long time. And during this time, Zhao Fei had done a lot of cruel things to others but most of them in the shadows.

The woman didn't know why Zhao Fei was so cruel or why she would target those whom she targeted but there was a lot of collateral damage.

Wang Tingting had a first class seat when Zhao Fei was seducing Yang Yize.

At first, Wang Tingting was completely shocked that Lu AnLing was dating the man and she was annoyed, but her jealousy had slightly subsided over time. After all, she used to have her eyes set on Sheng, not Yang Yize... Not like this mattered anymore.

She had actually felt bad for Lu AnLing at that moment because whatever Zhao Fei wanted, If she went after it aggressively enough, It is what she got.

And before Wang Tingting knew it, in a matter of months, Lu AnLing and Yang Yize had broken up and Lu AnLing had mysteriously ended up pregnant...

Wang Tingting always wondered how these events had taken such a turn but she always suspected that it had something to do with Zhao Fei.

Watching the scene now, Wang Tingting wasn't sure if she was right or wrong but what she did know for a fact was that what was happening right now had nothing to do with Xiao Mian. The girl would just be collateral damage.

But whatever... what was done was already done, seeing the scene unfolding Wang Tingting stepped up to the group and said,

"It's true." Wang Tingting's low voice cut through the strange tension in the room sending all the stares to herself. Seeing this the girl lifted her head high. "I saw them on a date once. I even took a picture."

Wang Tingting uploaded it on their group chat.

Everyone looked down to their phones.

Turning to look at Wang Tingting, Lu AnLing frown. The girls were close together, so Lu AnLing could speak without being heard by many.

"What's your motive?"

Wang Tingting scoffed. "It has nothing to do with you."

Lu AnLing raised her eyebrows. "This is my business don't interfere."

"I have my own business with that bitch Zhao Fei. I don't want to go near your business but what can I say, it's a good segue."

Hearing this, Lu AnLing said no words. She knew the relationship between Zhao Fei and Wang Tingting but still...

Looking at the tense room, Lu AnLing could see that whatever was to happen today wouldn't be pretty.

Wang Tingting was no idiot. She'd always waited for a moment in time when she couldn't drag Zhao Fei to the bottom of hell. But she just never expected that her best chance would come from Lu AnLing; the girl whom Wang Tingting was extremely jealous of.

Wang Tingting knew that this was a good opportunity to become close with Lu AnLing. Qiao Lan told her to become a 'friend' or at least acquaintances with Lu AnLing by any means necessary and as much as Wang Tingting wanted to do this—not for Qiao Lan but for Kang Nianxi— Wang Tingting felt that there was too much bad blood between the two of them to ever become too close. Not like she wanted to be close to someone who was handed everything in life.

The two went back to being quiet while people looked at the photo many people gasped and even Xiao Mian was shocked.

Though other groups didn't concentrate on this, instead, they were more interested in Wang Tinting...

"Wait a second? That's Wang Tingting! Did she marry rich? Why her? She's not even pretty. "

"She's probably a sugar baby or a Mistress. Flaunting somebody else's wealth... so shameless."

Kang Liang frowned hearing this. He didn't know much about Wang Tingting but he knew that she was his sister-in-law, he couldn't just allow others to talk bad about her. "Aren't you the shameless ones? Aren't you the same bitches who were saying AnLing was a whore? Now you're bad mouthing Tingting? Don't you have a mirror? Look in it and see who's truly shameless. Women with no brains are the worst kind."

Hearing the man's voice, Wang Tingting had to do a double take.

'Kang Liang...? Why is he here?' Wang Tingting's mind was confused. But as soon as she looked at his features she could see that it was truly him.

Wang Tingting looked back at Lu AnLing and frowned.

***

Meanwhile, as Lu AnLing was trying to settle problems from the past, Kang Jun was doing the same thing but in a more... active manner...

From another room screams echoed but Kang Jun was not taken aback at all. He was calm as the wind on a summer day.

Kang Jun looked at his phone for an update on his wife. He wanted to run to her, and help her but he couldn't. His wife needed to deal with her problems herself. It wasn't like she couldn't handle it. She was his wife. She was strong and she was able to do whatever she put her mind to. Kang Jun believed in her but he was still worried.

Though when he had heard she had gotten a slap, Kang Jun had stopped doing what he was doing. His heart ached.

He wanted to destroy their lives but Rong Xin had told him that Lu AnLing had taken care of everything and that she didn't want him to interfere.

Kang Jun didn't like this, but he respected her decision so he decided not to involve himself.

Checking her status once more, Kang Jun wished his wife luck and then walked back into the room were a man—Chong Wei—screamed.

Kang Jun turned to one of his men, "Is he ready to talk?"

The old man shivered a bit. They hadn't done much to him, they just applied slight pressure to his fingers and put immense strain on his wrists but they hadn't drawn any blood or broken anything, yet. This was the softest torture they had ever applied but Chong Wei was old so it hurt him nonetheless.

Sitting down on a chair facing Chong Wei, Kang Jun dismissed everyone else in the room.

When the room was empty, Kang Jun leaned forwards and said,

"I know Mei Xue is my daughter and Mingyu is Kang Zhi's son. Tell me everything you know or, if not, die here."

Hearing this, Chong Wei still kept his mouth shut. Kang Jun sighed and stood up.

"Maybe I should bring Chong Feng here, he's been getting on my nerves lately..." Kang Jun said with unvarying calmness as examined the sharpness of the knives on the table.

Hearing those words and the possible fate they entailed, Chong Wie shook in his chair trying to loosen the rope but it didn't let up. Because of his movements, the rope tying him down only ate at his skin.

"Don't hurts my son!" He screamed.

Kang Jun walked over to Chong Wei. On his way there he grabbed a knife from the table and pressed it to his neck. "Your son's life is in your hands. Just like my daughters' lives were but you killed one of them!"

Kang Jun's voice was no longer uncaring it was ravenous. With one wrong answer, Chong Wei felt as if the man would slit his throat and watch as the blood poured from his open wound.

Feeling true fear, the old man began to wet his pants.

Seeing this, Kang Jun was still unemotional. It's like he had turned off his emotions.

"I'll tell you everything," Chong Wei said through sobs. He then looked deeply into Kang Jun's eyes with the raw emotion of fear and begged, "Just please don't hurt my son! He's never done anything wrong."

Kang Jun looked at the man and retracted the knife.

Sitting down, Kang Jun crossed his legs and ordered him to speak without using any words.