<blockquote>Cui Hao immediately picked up when his phone rang, “How was last night? Is Lin Hua’s technique in bed good? Is his body impressive? Did he serve you well?”</blockquote>
<blockquote>Shen Yi asked, “Did you tell Zeng Nan about me buying Lin Hua?”</blockquote>
<blockquote>“I posted it on Friend’s Circle <sup>1</sup> You finally took a bite at the forbidden fruit. I must share this among our friends to shine the limelight on you.”</blockquote>
<blockquote>“You!!!” Shen Yi rubbed his forehead in frustration.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Cui Hao brimmed in pride and was still unaware that he had angered Shen Yi. “There’s no need to praise me. Everyone is happy that you finally managed to sleep with Lin Hua.”</blockquote>
<blockquote>Shen Yi felt that talking further to Cui Hao is useless. Ignoring him, he login to his own Friend’s Circle account. The first post that Shen Yi saw was Cui Hao’s post regarding the events that took place last night. He had also uploaded some pictures of the bar to prove that Shen Yi bought Lin Hua in the auction. There was even a picture of the room that Lin Hua and Shen Yi briefly stayed in.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Shen Yi’s eyes lingered on each and every word in Cui Hao’s post which read, “Young Master Shen, you are so impressive last night! I could hear the noise both you and Lin Hua made from the adjacent room. I couldn’t sleep the whole night because both of you were moaning throughout the night! You have finally tasted the forbidden fruit!”</blockquote>
<blockquote>Many of Cui Hao and Shen Yi’s friends commented below the post.</blockquote>
<blockquote>“Xiao <sup>2</sup> Yi really slept with Lin Hua?”</blockquote>
<blockquote>“Young Master Shen, you are so bold and awesome. You even slept with your future brother-in-law!”</blockquote>
<blockquote>“Shen Yi managed to sleep with Lin Hua? He must be in luck last night!”</blockquote>
<blockquote>“Young Master Shen, you are so formidable and bold!”</blockquote>
<blockquote>“Young Master Shen, dinner is on you since your dream has finally came true”</blockquote>
<blockquote>In a comment posted by Yi Sui is a video of people cheering and applauding.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Cold sweat gradually appeared on Shen Yi’s forehead as he scrolled down the comments section. He froze when he reached the last post. It belonged to Zeng Nan who asked casually, “They really slept together? Are you sure that you heard it from the next room?”</blockquote>
<blockquote>Cui Hao, that idiot actually dared replied, “Of course, I heard everything.”</blockquote>
<blockquote>Screw you! What did you hear? I was only in the room for 5 minutes, what the hell did you hear? Your imagination is so wild, I really want to skin you alive!</blockquote>
<blockquote>Shen Jiajia also sent him a private message that read, “Shen Yi, do you want to drag the whole Shen family down with you?”</blockquote>
<blockquote>At that very moment, Shen Yi’s personal terminal started ringing. It was a call from the patriarch of the Shen family. Shen Yi’s body trembled as he stared at the terminal on his wrist. He hesitated for a moment before he reluctantly accepted the call.</blockquote>
<blockquote>“What the hell went through your mind last night? Do you realise that you are already married to Lu Yunbo? How dare you sleep with another man?”</blockquote>
<blockquote>The patriarch continued, “It’s one thing to have fun while sneaking behind Lu Yunbo’s back. But why do you need to make it public? What do you take the royal family for? Do you think Lu Yunbo is a pushover? Now that you have cuckold him, are you confident that he will not kill you?”</blockquote>
<blockquote>Confident. Shen Yi is very confident that Lu Yunbo will truly kill him.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Shen Yi took a deep breath and said, “Nothing happened. I pitied Lin Hua who is merely a friend, and that’s why I wanted to help him. Nothing happened between us.” Shen Yi reported the whole incident to the Shen patriarch.</blockquote>
<blockquote>“Then why did your friend publish such a post? Does he want you dead? Or does he bear any ill-feeling towards the Shen family and intent for our whole family to be ruined?”</blockquote>
<blockquote>Shen Yi was aware of the consequences of having such rumours being spread. A rumour if repeated enough times, can easily be taken as a fact. Moreover, the royal family should never be trifled with as they will not tolerate being humiliated in any way.</blockquote>
<blockquote>“You need to quickly ask your friend to delete that post from his Friend’s circle account and then, you need to find an opportunity to explain the whole situation to Lu Yunbo. Also, don’t you dare do something like this in the future, do you understand?”</blockquote>
<blockquote>Shen Yi agreed with all of the patriarch’s suggestions. After he ended the call, he texted Cui Hao to give him a piece of his mind. He demanded Cui Hao to delete the post and to publish another post to publicly explain the situation at hand.</blockquote>
<blockquote>However, when Shen Yi read the post that Cui Hao later published on his Friend’s Circle account to ‘explain’ the situation, Shen Yi got so angry he wanted to rip Cui Hao’s limbs off.</blockquote>
<blockquote>It read, “At the request of Young Master Shen, I would like to explain last night’s events. Last night, I didn’t stay in the next room therefore I don’t know the actual situation that occurred within the room. But I’ll leave it up to the reader’s imagination on what could happen when two single men end up alone in a room.”</blockquote>
<blockquote>After Cui Hao published the post, all hell broke loose. Comments kept flowing in, all along the lines of “Of course we understand!”.</blockquote>
<blockquote>No, you don’t understand! Do you want to see me dead? Why do the original Shen Yi have a bunch of imbeciles for friends?!</blockquote>
<blockquote>Shen Yi was lying on his bed, felt utterly defeated by Cui Hao’s post and his friend’s comments. He was convinced that his life may end much faster compared to the original Shen Yi. ‘ With friends like this, I don’t need to wait till I give birth before I get killed by Lu Yunbo!’</blockquote>
<blockquote>Cui Hao’s explanation merely made matters worse.</blockquote>
<blockquote>At this juncture, Shen Yi can only demand Cui Hao to delete all his posts which relate to last night’s events and to forbid Cui Hao from ever publishing any post regarding last night.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Cui Hao was surprisingly obedient as he had deleted the post upon Shen Yi’s request. However, he sent a private message to the group stating, “It must be for the sake of that kid, Lin Hua who is so proud and arrogant. It’s not good for such rumours to be spreading around, since he is a top student from the 1st Military Academy.”</blockquote>
<blockquote>“Young Master Shen is being so considerate to that kid.”</blockquote>
<blockquote>“True love, this must be true love.”</blockquote>
<blockquote>“Before sleeping with him, Shen Yi was already so desperately in love with Lin Hua. Now that they have spent the night together, their relationship must be even better.”</blockquote>
<blockquote>“A night of passion will lead to years in devotion.”</blockquote>
<blockquote>“Wow! Xiao Yi managed to snatch away his future brother-in-law?”</blockquote>
<blockquote>As the discussion in the group became more and more heated, Shen Yi felt that it was becoming more and more impossible to clear the air around last night’s events. He really wanted to dig a hole and kill himself.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Shen Yi lay on his bed with his eyes closed, feeling completely helpless as he no longer knew what he could do to remedy his present situation.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Why must this marriage be a secret?! Apart from Zeng Nan who is the original Shen Yi’s best friend, no one knew that he was married to Lu Yunbo.</blockquote>
<blockquote>The biggest problem lies with the original Shen Yi himself. He never regarded himself as married and continuously courted Lin Hua after his marriage to Lu Yunbo.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Shen Yi suddenly felt another person’s presence in the room. He opened his eyes hastily and saw a lanky figure stand before the bed.</blockquote>
<blockquote>“Who is it?” Could it be that Lu Yunbo had read the post and decided to send some assassin to kill him? This was only the second day after he has transmigrated into this novel. Is this how he will die?</blockquote>
<blockquote>“Shhh! It’s me.”</blockquote>
<blockquote>Shen Yi immediately breathed a great sigh of relief and sat up straight. “You …. Why are you here?”</blockquote>
<blockquote>The figure turned on the lights in the room. His blond hair and blue eyes became apparent to Shen Yi. The man also had a mole resting between his eyebrows. It’s Lu Yihan.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Lu Yihan took out a bottle of ointment from his pockets and handed it over to Shen Yi. “Sister-in-law, I’m just here to give you some medication.”</blockquote>
Footnotes
<ol>Friend’s Circle is a function introduced by the WeChat app. It allows its users to share pictures with captions and their status with their friends on WeChat. It means little. It is a term of endearment when used before someone’s name.</ol>