Empty Promises: The Ceo Cunning Bride - Chapter 202

“G-good?” Lu Weisheng answered with uncertainty. He shuttered again, “W-why would you ask me that? Did something happen between you and Zheyan again?”

“No?” Xiong Jingfei answered, even though flashes of what happened in the rain came rushing back.

“W-why would you ask me that?” Lu Weisheng stammered, avoiding eye contact with her.

“To break the ice?” Xiong Jingfei shrugged her shoulders. “I thought you had something to tell me privately.”

Earlier, Lu Weisheng kept glancing back at her even though he came into the room shouting Yang Zheyan’s name. Whatever it was that he had to tell Yang Zheyan, it felt more like he rather talked to her about it.

Lu Weisheng’s eyes looked left and right as he bit down his bottom lips. It was scary that Xiong Jingfei can read what he was thinking with that one glance he gave her. He was sure that he didn’t give away his real thoughts. He made it look like he had something to tell Yang Zheyan, but she knew right away that she was his target.

Xiong Jingfei picked up the tray. “I better get going.”

“Please save me, sister-in-law! I’m begging you!” Lu Weisheng wailed, dropping down on his knees. “I will owe you if you do this for me. I couldn’t refuse it… No! It was something I couldn’t refuse!”

“What can I do for you?” Xiong Jingfei asked. Then she made an expression like she had an idea what it was that he wanted from her. “Zheyan mentioned that you got dragged home by your brother? Does your request have anything to do with him?”

There are very few people that could make Lu Weisheng do something he can’t refuse. If it’s not Yang Zheyan, then it’s his older brother, Lu Xuefeng. For him to get on his knees and ask her for a favor, it had to be Lu Xuefeng who requested it.

Lu Weisheng got off the floor and nodded his head. “You probably don’t know how scary my older brother is, but he is!”

Wow, your explanation of how scary Lu Xuefeng is very helpful. Xiong Jingfei kept herself from saying it. But she knows how scary Lu Xuefeng can be and get. She first hand saw it all in the past.

“If I tell Zheyan, he will never agree to it and may kill me on the spot. So…”

Xiong Jingfei covered his mouth. “In other words, don’t tell Zheyan about it, right?”

He doesn’t want to tell Yang Zheyan about it but is shouting so loudly in the kitchen. His room may be far from the kitchen and on another floor, but that doesn’t mean it was impossible to hear Lu Weisheng’s shouting.

“Bring this to him.” Xiong Jingfei handed him the tray into his stiff hands.

“Why me?” Lu Weisheng didn’t want to go anywhere near Yang Zheyan, afraid the devil upstairs would pull the truth out of him. “Can’t you-”

“Ah~, what am I saying.” She tapped her chin. “I should be the one taking it to my darling~. I will hand feed him to make him feel all better! Oh! He can also come downstairs and talk to us~.”

Just as Xiong Jingfei was reaching out to take the tray, Lu Weisheng pulled it back and was out of the kitchen.

“No! Leave this small task to me!” Lu Weisheng shouted in a cheery voice. “How can I inconvenience my benefactor like this? I wasn’t in my right mind when I refused the small grace you’ve given me.”

“Tell him to rest in bed without leaving!” Xiong Jingfei smiled. She didn’t say she agreed to help him yet. “Tell him to be a good boy~, or I will leave! You have to say it exactly like this, okay?”

“O-okay…”

It didn’t take long at all for Lu Weisheng to come flying down the stairs.

“I-I…” Lu Weisheng tried catching his breath with a pale face. “I told him exactly what you wanted!”

Xiong Jingfei didn’t think he would do it, but since he did what she asked, she can also spare her time to listen to him. She beckoned him to follow her.

Since Lu Weisheng doesn’t want Yang Zheyan to know of his request for her, outside was the best choice, but she will have to be somewhere within Yang Zheyan’s sight. Therefore, they’ll be outside where you can see them if you look out his balcony.

Xiong Jingfei chose to sit facing Yang Zheyan’s balcony while Lu Weisheng sat on the opposite side. She didn’t want him to start choking on his words if he accidentally saw Yang Zheyan out on the balcony.

“Ahem.” Xiong Jingfei cleared her throat since Lu Weisheng was preoccupied with fumbling his fingers. “You can start whenever you’re ready… Like right now!”

Lu Weisheng began explaining why he came to me with this request of his. It started because of his scandal with Zhao Fan. Instead of helping him clean up the scandal because his brother refused to do it, we helped him put on a fancy show for Zhao Fan. It spread like wildfire, and it reached his lovely parents’ ears.

Something we already put into our calculation, but because I suddenly recalled my memories. I threw it out of my head and forgot about Lu Weisheng’s problem.

So why is it an issue because Lu Weisheng’s parents know? Because he is about to lose his freedom, and they are pestering him about meeting Zhao Fan. Zhao Fan will never be their first choice for a daughter-in-law, but if she can tame the womanizer Lu Weisheng. They’ll welcome her with open arms.

“You know that I don’t have anything with Zhao Fan! Absolutely nothing!” Lu Weisheng swore up and down they didn’t have anything together. “I would never be in that sort of relationship with your enemy!”

“Pfft. Why would you say Zhao Fan is my enemy?” Xiong Jingfei started laughing. Zhao Fan is only a practice villain side character.

“She’s not? I checked…” Lu Weisheng realized what he was about to slip that he did a background check on her. “I’m sorry!”

“For doing a background check on me?” Xiong Jingfei’s eyes travel up to the balcony. It wasn’t odd that anyone from the Lu or Yang family did a background check on her. “Go on.”

“I’m not sure what you want out of this? Did you want me to break her heart for what she and Feng Huan did to you…” Lu Weisheng bit his tongue. “I’m sorry-”

“You are having too many slips up today, Lu Weisheng.” Xiong Jingfei wasn’t angry but laughed again. She muttered, “How did you become the crazy master of information…”

“Did you say something?” Lu Weisheng thought she said something about information.

“Mn? I didn’t say anything.” Xiong Jingfei shook her head and smiled. The person’s heart I want to break is your friend, but you don’t know that yet.

Lu Weisheng sighed. “Because of Zhao Fan, I’m in trouble with my parents and brother… However, in exchange for my freedom. My brother wants to talk to you alone. Easy, right?”

Hah, easy! Xiong Jingfei didn’t say anything after he finished explaining.

“Do you see why the devil will refuse my request?” Lu Weisheng felt a huge burden lifted off his shoulders. “Oh, there is something in for you too.”

“Oh? What will that be?” Xiong Jingfei asked with curiosity. What can Lu Xuefeng have that she will walk on her own two legs to him?

“Remember what you and Yang Zheyan asked me to look into?” Lu Weisheng said. “In exchange for meeting up with him, he will tell you something about the butterfly hairpin drawing.”