vstars Chapter 168 But he still wants to be the fourth mistress!
Chapter 168 But he still wants to be the fourth mistress!
"You... divorced three years ago?" Cao Ling stared blankly at An Qilan.
Cheng Yaozu panicked too, "Qilan, didn't you say we couldn't let Xiaoyi know?"
“Xiao Yi already knew, and I apologized to her. I shouldn’t have kept this from her in the first place.”
An Qilan raised her voice slightly and addressed the guests in the banquet hall:
“Originally, my divorce from Cheng Yaozu was a private matter, and I didn’t think it was necessary to make it public. But as everyone has seen today, I feel it’s necessary to clarify some things for everyone.”
“Cheng Yaozu and I divorced three years ago, but I discovered his affair even earlier. Now it seems that the person he was having an affair with was Cao Ling.”
As for Cao Ling's claim that she and Cheng Yaozu were each other's first love, I only just found out about it. Back then, I was just a mentor to Cheng Yaozu. I knew nothing about his private life. I only got together with him after he had pursued me for several years. So, the idea that I interfered in their relationship is completely absurd.
"Let me take this opportunity to formally clarify: from now on, Cheng Yaozu has absolutely no connection with the An family."
Most of the people present were shrewd individuals. An Qilan's words were a way of telling them that their future interactions with Cheng Yaozu, whether private or business-related, would have nothing to do with her or the An family. Cheng Yaozu's life was likely to become much more difficult afterward.
However, today's engagement banquet was truly amazing. Not only did not a single couple get engaged, but three couples actually broke up. Even if the Queen Mother of the West were here, the efficiency wouldn't be this high.
Cao Ling still held onto Cheng Yaozu with one hand, and after hearing An Qilan's words, she began to question Cheng Yaozu frantically again.
"You two were divorced a long time ago, why didn't you tell me! Didn't you say you would marry me if you got divorced?"
Cheng Yaozu clearly said he loved her, and even said that An Qilan was unwilling to divorce him or else he would leave with nothing.
If she hadn't been afraid of being discovered by An Qilan as a mistress, she wouldn't have had the idea of seducing Cheng Zhuoxing again, and things wouldn't have escalated to this point today.
But now An Qilan says that they divorced a long time ago, which means that Cheng Yaozu has been lying to her all along!
[Because he doesn't want to marry you at all. Maintaining the image of being a son-in-law of the An family is at least helpful to his career, but marrying you would bring him no benefit whatsoever.]
An Ling had just returned when she discovered that her aunt had announced the divorce. She silently returned to the location where the An family was, opened her phone, and sent a message.
[This is perfect timing for Xiaowei to send the video; otherwise, the two main actors might leave soon.]
"Mom, please stop talking and come home with me," Cheng Ze pleaded, trying to pry her hand off Cheng Yaozu's. "Uncle Cheng must have his reasons. Please don't blame him. I'm begging you, please don't continue to embarrass yourself here!"
Just then, the large screen in the banquet hall changed again. Yin Siyi's video call screen disappeared and was replaced by another video.
This video was probably taken secretly; the lighting and angle weren't great, but it was still enough to make out the faces of the two people in the video, especially their clothes, which everyone present had seen before.
"Isn't that Cheng Yaozu and Cheng Ze?" someone asked doubtfully. "Judging from their clothes, it must be today, right? So they're quite familiar with each other. Did Cheng Ze know all along that his mother was a mistress?"
Upon hearing this, Cheng Yaozu and Cheng Ze turned to look at the big screen, their expressions immediately changed, and their first reaction was to run away, but several bodyguards suddenly surrounded them at the exit and blocked their way.
At this moment, the audio of the two people talking in the video was played clearly and reached the ears of everyone in the banquet hall.
"Uncle Cheng, you know very well that I like you, so why are you still so insistent on introducing me to An Yi?"
The guests fell silent instantly, with only the sound of several glasses shattering revealing the shock in everyone's hearts. Everyone stared wide-eyed at the screen, wondering if they had just imagined it.
Because no one spoke, Cheng Ze's next words sounded even clearer in the quiet hall.
"As you just saw, An Yi has absolutely no interest in me, and the An family doesn't like me either. Why are you still trying to match us up?"
After confirming that they hadn't misheard, the guests were even more incredulous at what they had heard.
What did Cheng Ze mean by that?
He likes Cheng Yaozu? And Cheng Yaozu introduced him to his daughter knowing this?
Has Cheng Yaozu lost his mind?
But Cheng Ze's voice continued to confirm that everything the guests heard was true.
"I told you two years ago that I like you, so why can't you give me a chance?"
“It’s not that I don’t want to give you a chance,” Cheng Yaozu said, his eyes darting around in the video, “I just don’t like men.”
"Uncle Cheng, how do you know you don't like it if you haven't even tried it?"
Cheng Ze did not back down because of Cheng Yaozu's rejection. On the contrary, he pressed on and almost pressed against Cheng Yaozu.
"Uncle Cheng, I actually know everything about you and my mother. You don't want me to tell Aunt An about these things, do you?"
Cheng Yaozu looked flustered: "Are you threatening me?"
“No, why would I threaten you?” Cheng Ze shook his head and smiled. “I just want to say, don’t you think I look a lot like my mother? I’m younger and prettier than her now, don’t you really like that?”
After saying this, Cheng Ze reached out and pressed Cheng Yaozu's head against the back of his head, then forcefully kissed him on the lips.
Several more wine glasses shattered on the floor in the banquet hall, but no one had the energy to deal with such a minor incident. Even the waiters in the banquet hall stood there, staring at the big screen, beginning to question their existence.
Cheng Yaozu was also a tall man, and if he really didn't want to, it would only take him a minute to break free from Cheng Ze's grasp.
In the scene, Cheng Yao's ancestor struggled symbolically for a few moments, then gradually loosened his grip and stopped resisting, appearing to be completely at someone's mercy. He even hugged her back afterward.
The two of them started kissing each other back and forth, and their sounds were amplified and played out through the banquet hall's sound system.
If this were just a normal couple, people would probably be condemning the shameful paparazzi right now.
Cheng Yaozu, a man with a family background who still maintains a romantic relationship with Cao Ling, fell in love with his lover's son and even wanted Cheng Ze to become his son-in-law, knowing that Cheng Ze liked men.
Cheng Ze knew perfectly well that Cheng Yaozu was his mother's lover, and in his previous understanding, Cheng Yaozu was a married man, yet he still pursued Cheng Yaozu and even forcibly kissed him.
It's like knowing your mother is a mistress, but still going to be the fourth mistress!