Chapter 33

Chapter 33

Xi Lian thought for a moment that she must have misheard—her first love, Ren Shuhao, was the same person she saw last night, cajoling her father?!

This was absolutely impossible!!

The young lover was a tall, strikingly beautiful woman with long pink nails, smiling as she sat down in front of Xi Lian.

"Xi Lian, hello."

"You, what are you doing here?!"

Xi Lian found this scene utterly bizarre and was ready to bolt at any moment.

"I'm your first love, Ren Shuhao."

Ren Shuhao, now the stunning beauty before her, smiled seductively at Xi Lian.

Xi Lian furrowed her brows, unable to reconcile the shy boy from her memories with the glamorous woman sitting before her!

"Is this some kind of prank?!"

Xi Lian finally reacted; everything was too surreal! If it wasn't a prank, then she must be losing her mind!

"Although this is indeed a prank, the beauty before you is indeed Ren Shuhao, who has undergone gender reassignment."

"What could be more shocking than a white moonlight? A white moonlight who has changed genders!"

Yi Tiantian watched with great interest, munching on some snacks.

Yueyue and Yang Yang exchanged glances, their eyes filled with the thrill of gossip!

Xi Lian's jaw dropped in shock, scrutinizing the person before her.

Ren Shuhao pretended to remain calm, taking a sip of her drink, "Of course not."

But this action revealed a black mole on her wrist, identical to the one on Xi Lian's first love, Ren Shuhao!

Xi Lian couldn't help but tremble, examining the face of her father's lover closely and noticing an unmistakable resemblance to Ren Shuhao!

"Ren Shuhao? Why are you doing this?!"

Xi Lian finally confirmed that the person before her was indeed her first love, and a surge of inexplicable anger welled up within her.

"Is it just to get back at me?!"

"Their breakup years ago was messy because Xi Lian dumped the overly dramatic Ren Shuhao, but Ren Shuhao never harbored resentment towards her."

"His approach to Xi Lian's father had another motive!"

Xi Lian listened to Yi Tiantian's inner monologue while glaring at Ren Shuhao.

"I didn't come here to seek revenge," Ren Shuhao said gently, meeting Xi Lian's gaze, "I truly love your father."

Upon hearing this, the staff in the monitoring room erupted into excitement.

"Holy crap, what a juicy scoop!"

"My first love turned into my stepmom?! This is something even TV dramas wouldn't dare write!"

"TV dramas wouldn't pass censorship if they did! Help, but I love it!"

Director Yang rubbed his hands together excitedly, "This episode will break ratings records! Yi Tiantian is truly a walking traffic bomb, living up to her title as the entertainment industry's judge!"

While the staff celebrated, Xi Lian was far from happy.

Yi Tiantian's inner voice reminded her that the most pressing issue was understanding why Ren Shuhao approached her father!

What does Ren Shuhao see in her father? Does he like him for not showering? For his old age smell?

Moreover, her father was diagnosed with terminal cancer, so their relationship couldn't be purely based on love!

"I came here just to tell you that we genuinely love each other. Please stop causing a scene at our house."

Ren Shuhao took another sip of her drink, delivering the harshest words in the gentlest tone.

"Our house?! Causing a scene?!"

Xi Lian was infuriated by this hypocritical transwoman,

"Just wait!"

At only 22 years old, Xi Lian was full of righteous indignation and immediately called her father via video chat.

"Dad, do you know?" She blurted out, "Your young lover is my first love! His name is Ren Shuhao!"

However, the reaction she expected from her father—a mix of shock and fury—never came.

He simply replied, "I already knew about this."

"..." Xi Lian felt deeply betrayed, "Do you have any shame?!"

"Cough... Lian'er, I'm sorry for this. Don't make things difficult for Shu Shu."

Her father coughed weakly, trying to soothe her.

"Xi Lian's father is nearing the end of his life, and his intelligence seems to be fading too!"

"Xi Lian's family has been in business for three generations, accumulating a considerable fortune. Even though Xi Lian's father has been squandering it since becoming a singer, a dead camel is still bigger than a horse. The Xi family is still considered wealthy!"

"Xi Lian's father doesn't know that Ren Shuhao's sole purpose in approaching him is to coax him into changing his will!"

"Of course, if coaxing doesn't work, he'll have to secretly alter the will!"

Yi Tiantian ate her melon while carefully observing the movements on Xi Lian's side.

Suddenly, Xi Lian's father froze, then tried to speak but found himself unable to make a sound.

"Turn me around so I can talk to Shu Shu for a bit."

Xi Lian's father suddenly said.

Before Xi Lian could turn the phone around, Ren Shuhao grabbed it from her.

"Darling, what do you need from me?"

Ren Shuhao spoke in an extremely gentle and seductive tone to Xi Lian's father.

"That day, didn't you say you wanted a Ferrari? When you come back today, we'll go pick it up."

Xi Lian's father said calmly.

"I don't care about any Ferrari; I only care about you."

Ren Shuhao pouted in response.

Xi Lian was so angry she wanted to flip the table. After all, her father had never bought her a Ferrari!

What kind of spell did Ren Shuhao cast on her father to make him so compliant?!

Taking advantage of Ren Shuhao being on the video call, Xi Lian quietly took out a few pills from her bag and slipped them into Ren Shuhao's drink without him noticing.

Meanwhile, Ren Shuhao, clearly intoxicated by the excitement of the Ferrari, couldn't stop smiling.

"Honey, really, there's no need!"

"How can that be? I promised you this before." Xi Lian's father said with a hint of indulgence, "Do you remember the password to my safe? I accidentally forgot it. We'll need the documents inside when we pick up the car this afternoon."

"Of course I remember..."

As soon as the words left his mouth, Ren Shuhao realized he had let something slip.

Xi Lian's father had never told him the password to the safe!

Ren Shuhao had learned the password by stealthily following Xi Lian's father!

Those words were a trap set by Xi Lian's father!

Ren Shuhao's face immediately turned grim.

Xi Lian snorted coldly and snatched back her phone: "How did you know my father's safe password?"

Xi Lian's father shook his head in self-mockery: "I thought you truly loved me, since only I could accept your transgender status."

"Honey, I swear I didn't. I just happened to see it..."

Ren Shuhao tried to grab Xi Lian's phone again to explain but missed and had to walk over to Xi Lian to plead with her father.

"By accident? Then giving your father drugs was also by accident?"

"Xi Lian's father is already in the late stages of cancer, but Ren Shuhao wants to get the inheritance sooner, so he increased the dosage of his medication, hoping he would die sooner!"

The more Yi Tiantian ate, the more she felt Ren Shuhao was too outrageous, far too malicious!

Xi Lian wanted to call the police right away, and Xi Lian's father immediately ordered his servants to check the surveillance footage.

"Xiao Wang, check the surveillance! From last night at 8 PM in the restaurant!"

Xi Lian's father valued his life dearly and hadn't given up treatment even in the late stages, taking his medication every day under Ren Shuhao's care after meals.

Ren Shuhao was panicking and wanted to rush home to explain to Xi Lian's father, but Xi Lian stopped him.

"Don't go yet. I have something to discuss with you! Come, let's have a drink!"

Xi Lian picked up her drink and raised it towards Ren Shuhao.

"What is it?!"

Ren Shuhao, like an ant on a hot pan, grabbed the drink on the table and downed it in one go.

"Oh no!"

"That cup contained an overdose of sleeping pills!"

Yi Tiantian exclaimed and quickly called Director Lao Yang.

The two assistants, Yueyue and Yang Yang, were also shocked. They had been enjoying the drama with Yi Tiantian, never expecting Xi Lian to do something so bold!

This was live on the show!

With a thud, Ren Shuhao lost consciousness and collapsed onto the floor.

The staff members disguised as passersby in the restaurant were in chaos, someone called an ambulance, and everyone rushed to help Ren Shuhao.

Xi Lian's father, who had just finished checking the surveillance, noticed the commotion and asked, "What's going on?"

"Nothing, Ren Shuhao swallowed sleeping pills."

Xi Lian watched coldly as everything unfolded before her and hung up the phone after answering.

Xi Lian's husband, Ming Gang, rushed over, filled with self-reproach: "I shouldn't have agreed to let them participate in this variety show. Lian, are you hurt?"

Xi Lian shook her head and looked at her husband gently. "Thank you for bringing me to this show; it helped me catch this murderer!"

Ren Shuhao lay on the ground convulsing, and the program was forced to halt.

Yi Tiantian hurriedly walked out from behind, but as soon as he appeared, Xi Lian grabbed both of his hands.

"Yi Tiantian, the person I am most grateful to is you! Thank you so much... for chatting with me!"

Xi Lian had originally wanted to say that it was Yi Tiantian's inner thoughts that revealed so much, but she found herself unable to mention anything about inner thoughts and thus changed it to chatting.

"No, no, thank you."

In a panic, Yi Tiantian didn't quite react and simply shook her hand.

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A couple of days had passed since the prank show, and Yi Tiantian had been resting all this time.

He was lying on a sun lounger, closing his eyes to rest, when he suddenly heard Yueyue's surprised voice from behind.

"Tian Ge, I just received a strange call!"

Yueyue walked up, "They said they need you to pick up a Ferrari?!"