Chapter 63: The Gu Family is Finished!

Gu Ningning struggled frantically, screaming incoherent curses at the top of her lungs: "Let go of me! You have no right to touch me! Chen Yu! Jiang Zhiyun! I will never let you go! Even if I turn into a ghost, I'll haunt you forever!"

Her voice sounded particularly shrill in the silent night, until she was finally dragged away forcibly by the security guards, her cries fading into the distance.

The farce had finally come to an end.

The campsite returned to a quiet state, but the atmosphere remained excruciatingly awkward.

"Ugh, what a piece of bad luck!"

Lin Weiwei was still fuming, spitting bitterly onto the ground. "Zhiyun, you really need to open your eyes wider when making friends in the future. Why do you let all sorts of toxic trash into your inner circle?"

Jiang Zhiyun wearily rubbed the space between her eyebrows and said to Lin Weiwei, "All right, you should head back to sleep too. Stop getting so worked up, it's not worth it."

"How can I not be worked up?!"

Lin Weiwei stared at her with an expression that clearly read, *Are you out of your mind?* "That's your husband! He was almost set up by someone! How can you be so utterly indifferent?"

Hearing this, Jiang Zhiyun instinctively looked over at Chen Yu.

The man still maintained his carefree and nonchalant demeanor.

He yawned, looking as though he were genuinely sleepy.

"All right, everyone back to bed," he said casually to Jiang Zhiyun. "Don't hang out with people like that anymore; it ruins the mood."

With that, he turned around and walked back to his own tent, zipping it shut.

Lin Weiwei looked at Chen Yu's retreating back, then turned to Jiang Zhiyun, and curled her lip. "This guy... he's ridiculously cool. Fine, I'm staying out of you and your husband's business. I'm going back to sleep, I'm so furious I could burst!"

Having said her piece, she marched off angrily toward her own tent.

In the entire campsite, only Jiang Zhiyun was left standing alone in the chilly night wind.

She gazed in the direction of Chen Yu's tent, her emotions a tangled, complex mess.

Was he a modern-day Liu Xiahui? A man who could sit with a beauty on his lap without being seduced?

No, he wasn't someone who resisted temptation while sitting with beauty; he was the kind of person who simply threw out anyone attempting to tempt him.

Or could it be... was he genuinely a good man?

A good man who was loyal to his wife and capable of resisting external temptations?

Did he act this way purely because of the contract between them, or because... there was actually a shred of genuine feeling, something beyond the contract, that he held for her?

Jiang Zhiyun's heart began to hammer wildly against her control.

...

Meanwhile, back inside her tent, Lin Weiwei's husband, the award-winning actor Zhao Kai, was leaning against his sleeping bag playing on his phone. Seeing her return, he asked casually, "What's going on? There was so much noise outside."

Still burning with residual anger, Lin Weiwei gave him a heavily exaggerated, dramatic retelling of everything that had just happened.

Zhao Kai listened with a look of utter astonishment. "Gu Ningning? Has she completely lost her mind? How on earth could she pull a stunt like that during a live-streamed show?"

"It's not just losing her mind, she's completely brainless!"

Lin Weiwei angrily wriggled into her sleeping bag. "Thank goodness Chen Yu isn't that kind of man, or Zhiyun would have died of sheer rage tonight!"

At these words, an involuntary image flashed across Zhao Kai's mind—Gu Ningning's exquisitely glamorous face and her smoking-hot figure.

Fair is fair, she truly was a top-tier stunner.

Too bad her brain was malfunctioning; knowing full well that Chen Yu was being live-streamed, she actually had the audacity to try and seduce him.

She must have gone utterly mad.

Noticing the pensive look on her husband's face, a sudden impulse struck Lin Weiwei, and she asked on a whim:

"Hey, Lao Zhao, let me ask you a question, and you better tell me the absolute truth."

"What is it?"

"If... and I mean *if*, Gu Ningning had crawled into your tent tonight, would you have turned her down?"

Zhao Kai's body visibly stiffened for a fraction of a second.

A fleeting ripple of wild temptation crossed his mind. Having a beauty like that throw herself at him...

Although the thought vanished in a flash, his hesitation was instantly and sharply caught by Lin Weiwei.

"Of course I would!" Zhao Kai answered immediately, righteous indignation coloring his voice. "What on earth are you thinking? I'm a married man, how could I ever do something to betray you?!"

His response came swiftly and decisively.

Yet, through that momentary hesitation, Lin Weiwei had already read his true thoughts.

She said nothing more, simply rolling over quietly to turn her back on Zhao Kai.

Compared to Chen Yu, she thought, her own husband seemed utterly lackluster.

...

The next day.

Major platforms like Dayand, Douyin, and countless other apps had completely exploded into a massive frenzy because of the production team's live broadcast the previous night.

Trending search topics such as #GuNingningRaidsChenYuAtNight#, #JiangZhiyunResolutelySeversPartnership#, and #LinWeiweiSlapsGuNingning# firmly occupied the top spots across the major platforms.

Everyone was discussing the incident.

After all, celebrity gossip was everyone's favorite snack.

Let alone gossip involving this level of scandalous intrigue.

Following close behind was the cliff-like, catastrophic plunge of the Gu Group's stock prices.

Within ten minutes of the market opening, it hit the daily limit-down.

Wails of despair echoed across the market, and countless retail investors lost their entire fortunes.

Even some corporate partners immediately rushed to contact the Gu Group, willing to pay penalty fees just to cancel their partnerships with them.

Nobody understood the immense traffic and hype of the celebrity parenting show better than they did.

With a scandal like this breaking out over the Gu family, nobody in their right mind would buy products associated with them.

Continuing the partnership would guarantee a massive financial loss!

Inside the Gu family villa, Gu Ningning's father, Gu De-kang, the chairman of the Gu Group, was so furious he nearly suffered a heart attack.

"You disastrous, unfilial wretch!!"

Brandishing a newspaper, he smashed it fiercely across Gu Ningning's face, trembling violently with rage.

"I sent you on that show to build good relations with Jiang Zhiyun and Lin Weiwei, to secure resources for our company! Not for you to crawl into a man's bed and drag the Gu family's name completely through the mud!"

With both sides of her cheeks swollen high, Gu Ningning knelt on the floor in silence, her eyes burning with bitter malice and resentment.

"Now look at this! The Jiangs and the Lin family have completely cut ties with us! The company's stock has hit rock bottom! The bank's call for debt repayment is ringing off the hook! Do you have any idea that our Gu family... is finished?! And it's all because of you, you idiot!"

Gu De-kang beat his chest in despair, pointing straight at his daughter's nose as he hurled every vicious insult imaginable.

Gu Ningning silently endured her father's fury, but deep in her heart, she directed every ounce of her burning hatred toward Chen Yu and Jiang Zhiyun.

Especially Chen Yu.

That was the man who had struck her, humiliated her, and ruined her entire life.

She clenched her fists so tightly that her fingernails dug deeply into her palms.

Chen Yu... I, Gu Ningning, swear that if I don't make you pay a thousand times, a hundred times over, I will no longer be human!

...

In stark contrast to the gloomy atmosphere shrouding the Gu family, the suburban campsite was bathed in brilliant sunshine and peaceful serenity.

With the farce of the previous night out of the way, the campsite felt even more harmonious with one troublesome person removed.

Chen Yu's culinary skills had completely conquered everyone present.

Whether it was the simply toasted slices of bread or the bacon fried to a crispy-outside, tender-inside perfection, everything radiated an irresistible magic that made one's mouth water.

The two little ones, Niannian and Zhao Jie, ate until their faces were smeared with grease, letting out sighs of satisfied delight every so often.