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The curtains were drawn, and a dim, intimate light illuminated the bedside. The woman was naked, crouching on the floor, while the man, seated at the edge of the bed with his pants down, wore an ethereal, blissful expression.

Everyone's faces froze in shock, feeling as if the heavens and earth were trembling, that an earth-shattering event had unfolded before their eyes.

"That's Sun Zhenguo's son and wife, isn't it?!"

"Goodness gracious! The son is involved with his stepmother? What a tragedy!"

When Sun Zhenguo caught sight of the woman's face, his eyes bulged with fury.

The one crouching there... who else could it be but his wife, more than twenty years his junior?

The door suddenly swung open, jolting the two engrossed in passion back to reality.

"Ahh!" The stepmother let out a shriek, scrambling onto the bed to cover herself with the blanket. The man, faced with an audience of uncles and elders, hurriedly pulled up his pants.

"Fornicators!" Sun Zhenguo trembled with rage, his blood rushing to his head.

Once the man was fully dressed, he stepped forward to face Sun Zhenguo, stammering, unsure of how to explain the situation.

"Dad..."

"Slap!" Sun Zhengguo delivered a harsh slap across the man's face. "Good... the both of you... good! Don't call me 'Dad'; I don't have a son like you! You dared to steal someone right under my nose! Speak! How long has this been going on?"

Unable to withstand the beating, Sun Yuan soon confessed with a swollen nose and bruised face.

"It started... after we got our marriage certificate."

Sun Zhengguo's heart raced. He swiftly approached the bed, grabbed his stepmother by her hair, and dragged her out forcefully.

Smack, smack, smack!

A few slaps across her face.

"No wonder you didn't want me to touch you. You're just that cheap, aren't you? You prefer my son touching you, don't you!"

The stepmother panicked and attempted to explain, "Brother Zhengguo, I can explain this. For the sake of Buddha, think of BB... she's still so young..."

Mentioning the child only fueled Sun Zhengguo's rage further. "BB? You even messed around with my son! How do I know if that child is really mine!"

As he spoke, Sun Zhengguo glanced around. Unbothered by the embarrassment of exposing family matters, he dragged Sun Yuan up with a fierce expression, gritting his teeth as he demanded, "Tell me! Whose child is this?!"

Sun Yuan's eyes darted around fearfully as he pleaded, "Dad, it was all that woman's idea. It has nothing to do with me."

The moment those words left his mouth, all his colleagues were stunned.

What...

They had assumed that the child was actually the product of an affair between their boss's son and his wife?

Now that was big news.

They had been wondering how a sixty-year-old could still be so virile.

Upon realizing the truth, Sun Zhengguo flew into a rage and publicly severed ties with his son, "You good-for-nothing! You won't get a single cent of my wealth! Get out of here now with that bastard!"

Throughout the entire incident, Wei Zhenjing stood by, watching.

At last.

The thrill of Sun Yuan's infidelity had faded, leaving him kneeling on the ground with a swollen nose and bruised face, overwhelmed with regret. With tears and snot streaming down his face, he grabbed onto Wei Zhenjing's trouser leg.

"A'Jing, forgive me. It was all because of my stepmother! The person I truly love is you. I swear I'll change my ways, I... "

Sun Yuan's words were cut short by a resounding slap across his face.

Wei Zhenjing retracted her numb hand, barely suppressing her disgust. "Get out! I will never forgive anyone who tries to harm me. How could you claim to love me while secretly slipping me contraceptives?"

Sun Yuan slumped to the floor, stunned. "You... you knew all along?"

He quickly stood up, frantically explaining, "No, I didn't drug you. It was her..."

He pointed at his stepmother, who was shivering in pain on the bed. "She wanted to drug you, not me."

His stepmother, astonishment etched on her face, wrapped herself in a sheet and lunged at Sun Yuan, her long nails tearing at his face. "You scumbag! You weren't saying that when we were being intimate! If you really felt that deeply for her, how could you stand there and watch me drug her?"

It was at this moment.

The sound of an alarm echoed outside the villa.

The stepmother froze. She looked up at Wei Zhenjing, who was towering above her for the first time. She felt being looked down upon by this woman she had always despised as foolish.

With a hateful glint in her eyes, Wei Zhenjing sneered, "Surprised? Ever since the day you decided to slip me contraceptive pills, you should have expected this day."

The stepmother trembled. She hadn't anticipated that all her meticulous plans would crumble just like that.

She was supposed to control both her husband and son with the help of this silly woman, smoothly reaping all the benefits.

Why now were she and Sun Yuan the ones facing imprisonment?

Ruined.

Everything was ruined.

At the Temple Street Feng Shui Shop.

After giving three fortunes, Chu Yuening was already tidying up the items on the divination table.

She first collected the tea set on the table onto a tray and placed it under the showcase. Rising from her seat, she then retrieved a peach wood sword from the topmost shelf.

The neighbors had yet to disperse entirely, still simmering with indignation over Wei Zhenjing's predicament.

"Master, could Miss Wei really have been affected by the contraceptive pills?

"That stepmother is truly wicked. Ordinary people would suffer severe health consequences after consuming just two pills, let alone having them regularly in one's meals like Miss Wei."

"My son is a doctor. I can't stand by; I must schedule a full-body check-up for Miss Wei."

Seeing that everyone was genuinely concerned, Chu Yuening began to divine the situation.

After her calculation,

she exhaled softly in relief.

"It's fortunate that we caught it early. The side effects aren't overly severe. If it had been discovered a few years later, Wei Zhenjing's central nervous system would have been compromised by the drugs, leading to mental illness."

In fact, Wei Zhenjing might eventually have been shunned by her adopted son-husband due to her mental condition, ultimately ending up abandoned and wandering the streets.

Fortunately.

There was still time to alter the course of events.

Just as the neighbors, hearts clenched, were about to press for more answers.

Chu Yuening suddenly raised an eyebrow.

Her destiny chart seemed shrouded in a veil of mist, spinning relentlessly. Eventually, the mist dissipated.