Return of the Antagonistic Lady Boss

Qian sent Da Yi back and returned home herself. As soon as she arrived at the doorstep, she saw her big brother’s car parked downstairs. The car was empty, without a driver, meaning her brother had driven over himself.

Qian checked the time; it was still before the end of work. But her brother’s absence meant Xiaoqiang had picked him up to go home. If Xiaoqiang had taken leave from work to come back, it seemed her brother was dealing with something serious this time.

Upon entering the room, she indeed saw Xiaoqiang and her brother sitting on the sofa together. Qian glanced at the coffee table—it was empty.

Not even a cup of tea had been brewed for her brother, indicating the matter was significant enough that such things were being neglected.

After returning, Qian didn’t join the conversation directly. Instead, she walked toward the kitchen. Xiaoqiang immediately stood up.

"What are you doing?"

"I’m making tea."

"You go sit down, I’ll do it."

Who wants to drink weird-tasting tea made in the microwave?

Qian sat back down on the sofa and looked at her brother, "What’s going on?"

Her brother irritably pulled a sheet of paper from his pocket. Qian opened it and glanced at it—pregnancy report?

"Is Mrs Yu pregnant? Worried about not being allowed to have a second child? Go abroad."

"If it were your sister-in-law’s, would I be this anxious?"

No way?!

Qian had just bragged to Da Yi about her brother’s integrity, only to have this come crashing down so quickly?

"Whose is it?"

"Feng Manman, the fitness coach your sister-in-law recommended to me."

"!!!"

Qian’s expression froze momentarily, as if she had swallowed a fly, feeling disgusted.

"Brother, when did you become so outrageous? A rabbit doesn’t eat the grass near its burrow."

Yu Minglang brought over the tea and placed it on the table with disdain.

"Didn’t you already replace her long ago? How did she still cling to you?"

That’s the kind of rapport between siblings.

Qian was still suspicious of her brother, mentioning rabbits not eating the grass nearby, while Yu Minglang straightforwardly talked about clinging, showing he didn’t believe for a moment that his brother would mess around and get another woman pregnant.

"After Qian spoke to me, I replaced her, but she suddenly came to me with this in the morning... I find it puzzling; I don’t even recall having any relations with her."

For years, her brother had been very cautious outside, even with many women trying to get close and curry favor. However, this was the first time someone came to claim they were pregnant with his child.

"She claims to have proof... A month ago, after a dinner, I drank too much and then— but I don’t remember. She insists it happened that night."

After finding out about this, his first reaction was to contact Qian.

He hadn’t even dared to return home; afraid to imagine his wife’s reaction upon discovering this.

Not to mention Mrs. Yu’s position in Mrs. Yu’s mother’s heart, just speaking of the brother’s feelings for his wife over the years, having such an issue would be exceedingly difficult to explain to her.

"Seems like there’s something shady going on." Qian picked up on the implication in her brother’s words. He wasn’t certain about the matter himself, which showed how calculating Feng Manman must be.

"That’s why I thought of you. You’re skilled in hypnosis, right? Can you help me recover the memory I lost?" His brother didn’t believe he committed adultery, but after drinking too much that day, he remembered nothing, waking up alone on his bed at home. The family maid said later that it was Feng Manman who brought him home.

And that day, coincidentally his wife was taking the children to visit her family as it was her mother’s birthday. His brother had an unavoidable engagement and couldn’t go, which led to some friction with his wife.

He only remembers the events of his engagement, but exactly how he encountered Feng Manman afterwards, he was completely blanked out.

He even thought his wife had returned, shared some intimacy with him, and was embarrassed to go to work directly, then happily ordered a bouquet for her, sent to her hospital, and his wife was delighted. The two reconciled.

Afterwards, his brother, fearing his wife’s embarrassment, didn’t bring up the matter of the bedsheets, and the couple stayed sweet until now. When that woman came with the report this morning, his brother’s head was spinning.

"Come with me to the room, I’ll try to hypnotize you—Yu Xiaoqiang, don’t drink heavily anymore, okay? Alcohol causes trouble!"

Qian and her sister-in-law had a good relationship, and knowing this incident built an inexplicable resentment inside her, directing her anger at Yu Minglang.

Xiaoqiang claimed innocence.

"My alcohol tolerance is excellent; how could I drink to blackout?"

"Walk along the river, and you’ll eventually get wet shoes. Is my brother’s drinking tolerance poor?"

"That’s why it’s odd—wait, Mei, you mean—?!"

Nothing escapes the most intuitive academic pair; Qian started, and Xiaoqiang immediately caught on.

"Could my brother possibly drink to blackout? And coincidentally, was she just passing by? Where are so many coincidences coming from? This must be someone drugging him; the question is, what kind of drug was used?"

If it was a drug, that might be easier to sort out. But if not, it’s more troublesome.

His brother was infuriated, "I’ll investigate those who accompanied me in the engagement that day."

Could he have been plotted against by an insider and outsider collaborating? Too despicable!

"The real issue is, you’ve been around the block for many years. How couldn’t you notice such a trivial scheme? Wouldn’t you know if something was amiss yourself?" Yu Minglang still found it hard to believe his brother’s intelligence and foresight could be deceived by some young girl who’d just entered society.

"That day was one incident after another. Hadn’t I just quarreled with your sister-in-law... Forget it, it’s complicated. Qian, I must rely on you next."

His brother also found the situation confusing and hard to resolve. At this moment, only his sister-in-law’s professional expertise was trustworthy.

Qian nodded and led her brother into the room.

This form of hypnosis differed from the implanting style; it involved helping her brother recall memories he’d lost after blacking out. Hypnosis wasn’t almighty, and Qian wasn’t entirely confident but could only try her best.

Compared to normal people, her brother was harder to hypnotize, unlike Shi Yu who’d blackout after slightly being hypnotized. But he’s somewhat better than Xiaoqiang, who’s completely resistant to treatment. Therefore, Qian’s level of hypnosis on her brother wasn’t an issue.

Her brother’s condition required Qian to take a bit more time than usual to draw him into the subconscious, but fortunately, she succeeded.

"What color clothes were you wearing that day?"

"Light gray suit."

"Who were you drinking with?"

...

Her brother answered one by one. Qian proceeded step by step until she reached the critical point.

"After drinking too much, what did you do?"

"Felt dizzy, then laid down... Someone helped me walk."

"How many people helped you?"

"Two."

Good, that implied accomplices!