The Scheming Ex-Husband's Courtship-Chapter 508 - 451 Betting Lives_2

Chapter 508: Chapter 451 Betting Lives_2
This idea merely flashed through Bai Chengxi’s mind; he knew this was a competition between men, a silent war. Making Zhuo Yao personally hand over his daughter to another man was like cutting his own flesh and blood, so he absolutely would not lose to this future son-in-law.
"Come on." Zhuo Yao closed his eyes, his face calm, the man who had already faced life and death fears nothing.
Bai Chengxi picked up the gun beside him, silently psyching himself up. Since Zhuo Yao was willing to trust him, he must also trust himself. Therefore, he steadied his mind to shoot these five rounds well.
Qiao San couldn’t find Bai Chengxi outside and thought he had left. After returning to the house and not finding her husband, she asked the servant and learned that they seemed to have gone to the shooting range below.
As soon as Qiao San heard this, she ran to the shooting range. Her husband, prone to using force to solve problems, what if his stubbornness flares up and he shoots the son-in-law dead.
When Qiao San hurriedly pushed open the door of the shooting room, Bai Chengxi and Zhuo Yao were sitting and drinking water, peacefully together, appearing to get along quite well.
"Mother." Bai Chengxi got up quickly when he saw Qiao San.
"Chengxi, are you alright?" Qiao San hastily looked him over, fearing he had suddenly sprouted a bullet wound.
"I’m fine." Bai Chengxi replied with a relieved smile, glancing back at Zhuo Yao; the two men shared an unspoken understanding. It was inappropriate for Qiao San to know about the bloody and brutal incident that had just passed. A minor issue if it caused her alarm, but she would probably chase Zhuo Yao with a feather duster if she found out.
"That’s good to hear." Qiao San finally felt relieved and said to her husband: "Stop scowling, Chengxi has already made a Weibo post, and the situation has started to turn around."
"What?" Zhuo Yao stood up and looked at Bai Chengxi: "What did you post?"
Bai Chengxi said, "I’m fulfilling my promise."
Zhuo Yao seemed to understand, nodding his head: "You can go back."
Qiao San thought Zhuo Yao still refused to forgive Bai Chengxi and was sending him away, just as she was about to plead, she heard Zhuo Yao say: "The day before the wedding, we will go to Aus City."
Upon hearing this, Qiao San was first stunned, then joy appeared on her face, happily hugging Zhuo Yao’s arm and winking at him. Although she didn’t know how Bai Chengxi had won Zhuo Yao over, she was happy to see it happen.
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Su Yingluo could never imagine that her meeting with Bai Chengxi at the coffee shop was actually a trap set by him. He recorded their entire conversation, and now, a video website was crazily spreading this dialogue, with some purposeful individual even adding imagery to it, using characters Su Yingluo had portrayed in past films as avatars, with exaggerated expressions.
"Since you already know, I might as well tell you the truth. I love you, so I absolutely will not allow you to marry another woman."
"Su Yingluo, let me tell you again, stop deluding yourself, I stopped loving you a long time ago, as far back as ten years ago, I love my wife now. What you’ve done is utterly disgusting to me, only making my disdain for you grow."
"Chengxi, I love you, I really do love you, I know you love me too, how can the affection of twenty years just disappear, you’re lying to me, aren’t you?"
This audio clip was quickly verified as the voices of Su Yingluo and Bai Chengxi himself. Once the audio was released, the truth of the matter immediately surfaced, and everyone understood that it was Su Yingluo who was unwilling to let go of Bai Chengxi and orchestrated this drama.
Instantly, online comments tilted one-sidedly again, but there were still die-hard fans and paid commenters supporting Su Yingluo.
"What exactly happened?" Xi Yang immediately called Su Yingluo. As the largest shareholder of Orange Light, and with Su Yingluo being Orange Light’s top money-maker, incidents like this would majorly impact the company.
Su Yingluo was also in a state of panic, never expecting to be played by Bai Chengxi. Yet, she couldn’t believe that Bai Chengxi would do this to her.
"It must be Zhuo Yuqing’s doing, she definitely suggested this, Chengxi would never treat me this way." Su Yingluo ranted furiously, "I’ve met her, she’s sly and malicious at heart."
Xi Yang paused when he heard the name Zhuo Yuqing: "Who did you just say? Is the Z-surnamed female er in the news Zhuo Yuqing?"
"Mr. Xi knows her?"
Xi Yang couldn’t quite describe his feeling at that moment. The girl he’d been thinking about turned out to be someone else’s wife. It was a good thing he hadn’t confessed to her, or he would’ve faced an embarrassing rejection.
Despite this, hearing Su Yingluo malign Zhuo Yuqing, Xi Yang couldn’t help but feel angry: "Miss Su, the mess you’ve made this time was ill-considered. Even if you wanted to create a sensation, I’d prefer you stir up this kind of scene during the promotion of your new movie. Now that things have developed to this point, and it’s still uncertain how badly it might turn out, how do you expect us to clean up after you?"
"I can’t wait." Su Yingluo, considering herself the top star of Orange Light, didn’t hold Xi Yang in high regard. She was confident that Orange Light wouldn’t terminate her contract because no one would easily give up a cash cow like her, "Do you expect me to watch indifferently as my man gets taken away by someone else?"
"Your relationship with Bai Chengxi ended ten years ago."
"Mr. Xi, whose side are you on? I’m an artist under your company, shouldn’t you be standing by my side when such a thing happens?" Su Yingluo spoke furiously: "You know better than anyone how my negative news affects the company. Now what you should be doing is not questioning me or lecturing me, but figuring out how to minimize the impact of this incident."
Having said that, Su Yingluo angrily hung up the phone.
"This Xi Yang is simply insane, taking the side of that Zhuo Yuqing." Su Yingluo slammed her phone down in frustration.
Suddenly, browsing the web, Xiao Lan spoke up: "Sister Luo, bad news, there’s another headline."