Chapter 193: Eldest Cousin Got Set Up
Feng Jingcheng and Nan Yuanman both turned their heads to look at Feng Zining, one big and one small wearing the same gossipy expressions.
Feng Zining’s face darkened slightly, and he solemnly denied, “This… lady, I think you’ve got the wrong person. I’ve been single since birth and have never had a girlfriend to this day. I’m not your…”
He paused slightly in his words, then said the rest with some difficulty, “Zining brother, you must have confused me with your boyfriend.”
However… Sheng Hanxiang… this name did sound somewhat familiar, as if he had heard it somewhere, or perhaps seen it.
Sheng Hanxiang’s emotions immediately flared up, ghost energy leaking from her body, and the temperature in the office suddenly dropped: “I didn’t get it wrong! I still have the love letter you personally wrote! Look!”
As Sheng Hanxiang spoke, eerie ghost energy gathered in her hand into a pink letter paper, with a heart sticker on the letter paper, and several big characters on it: To Sheng Hanxiang from Feng Zining.
Feng Jingcheng boldly leaned in for a look, then abruptly turned to Feng Zining: “Big brother, this… you really gave it? The signature on it is the same name and surname as you!”
Feng Zining’s face darkened slightly. He pushed away this troublemaking bastard who was enjoying the spectacle, frowned, and carefully examined the signature on the letter: “This isn’t my handwriting.”
Sheng Hanxiang, full of eager anticipation, froze for a moment, her eyes suddenly widening in disbelief as she spoke: “Not yours? How could it not be yours? This is clearly yours!”
Her eyes reddened, and the pitch-black ghost energy around her faintly glowed with red light: “It was you who responded to my love letter in high school! It was you who agreed to let me be your girlfriend!”
“Feng Zining! After eating me clean and wiping me out, you’re just going to abandon me, aren’t you? You unfaithful man!”
Feng Jingcheng let out a “whoa”: “I never expected you to be such a big brother!”
Feng Zining: “…”
A vein throbbed on his forehead. Unable to hold back, he kicked Feng Jingcheng: “If you can’t speak properly, shut your mouth and be mute!”
Finally, he turned around and looked at Sheng Hanxiang with particular sincerity: “Lady, I think there might be some misunderstanding between us…”
“Misunderstanding what? There’s no misunderstanding at all!” Sheng Hanxiang’s eyes gradually turned crimson, ghost energy surging around her, water stains continuously leaking from below her: “I should have realized earlier! You’re just like them! Equally despicable! I was the foolish one, always believing you really wanted to set aside family status differences and be with me properly…”
She muttered to herself, as if recalling some scene she didn’t want to face. Her expression gradually turned ferocious, and the ghost power on her body slowly turned red.
“Sizzle——!”
The temperature in the office plummeted, the lights flickering on and off under the influence of ghost power. Nan Yuanman stepped forward, her round and chubby little body blocking in front of Feng Zining and Feng Jingcheng. She pinched a talisman between two fingers and threw it at Sheng Hanxiang.
The talisman landed on Sheng Hanxiang, like a basin of icy cold water, extinguishing the anger in her heart and pulling back some of her faltering sanity.
“Sister, are you calm now? I believe my fourth brother isn’t the type to abandon someone after starting something. There must be a misunderstanding between you two. Why don’t you calm down and talk about exactly where this misunderstanding occurred.”
Nan Yuanman’s voice was childish and milky, yet carried a maturity beyond her age: “You don’t want the person who hurt you to keep getting away with it, do you?”
She paused, then added: “Of course, if you can’t calm yourself, I’m not unwilling to help.”
Feng Zining looked with complex emotions at the small figure blocking in front of him, negotiating so proficiently with the female ghost. His gaze was somewhat dazed, and in his ears seemed to echo the sound of his twenty-plus years of materialist values crumbling.
Sheng Hanxiang recalled the burning pain when the talisman struck her soul body earlier. Her body trembled, and the faintly out-of-control ghost power gradually subsided. She bit her lip, glanced at Feng Zining, and stubbornly said: “I’m not lying.”
“Feng Zining really wrote back to me then. He really agreed to let me be his girlfriend!”
“If you say you received the reply in high school, then someone used my name to deceive you.”
Feng Zining said almost ruthlessly: “Because all the love letters I received in high school, I had the butler take them and burn them.”
“Moreover, after entering high school, I was busy with studies and wasn’t often at school. I have no impression of you.”
In other words, he simply didn’t know Sheng Hanxiang.
Feng Zining’s words were somewhat hurtful, but that was indeed the fact.
As the eldest brother, he had endless cram classes and competitions from childhood to adulthood. After entering high school and becoming an adult, his father deliberately brought him into contact with the Feng family business. He was much busier than ordinary peers.
Being absent from school every few days was commonplace.
It was just that Feng Zining back then was a prominent figure in the noble high school in Shangjing, with outstanding looks, a dazzling resume, and a powerful family background.
Plus, he himself was modest and courteous, which held great appeal for boys and girls in the midst of puberty at the time.
Even if he wasn’t often at school, his desk was stuffed full every day with love letters and snacks from various girls and boys.
No matter how Feng Zining refused, those students persisted on their own, annoying him endlessly. He simply handed them to the butler to handle and focused on his studies.
It was impossible for the butler to be bored enough to use his name to write back to a high school girl in her puberty and date her, right?
So there was no such thing as him responding to Sheng Hanxiang’s love letter and agreeing to let her be his girlfriend.
Feng Jingcheng scratched his head, a faint spark of conscience awakened. He said to Sheng Hanxiang: “I can vouch for this. After my bro entered high school, he slept later than a dog and woke earlier than a rooster, wishing he could split into three people every day.”
“To put it bluntly about how busy he was then, he didn’t even have time to wipe his buttocks in the toilet, let alone respond to your love letter and date you on the side.”
Feng Zining started to speak but stopped, ultimately holding back and not giving this bastard a knock on the head.
He added: “If you need evidence, I can call the butler to come and confront you.”
Sheng Hanxiang was also stunned. She looked at Feng Zining with a bewildered expression: “Then… what’s the deal with this love letter?”
Feng Zining asked her: “Do you still remember who gave you this love letter?”
He guessed that the one who gave the love letter to Sheng Hanxiang must be a student from the same high school, and one who knew him somewhat well to deceive Sheng Hanxiang so thoroughly.
A sharp cold glint flashed through Feng Zining’s eyes.
Using his name to deceive a girl was a crime deserving of death. Feng Zining wouldn’t let that person off easily.
Sheng Hanxiang dazedly recalled for a moment, then suddenly found her brain completely blank. She shook her head foolishly: “I don’t remember.”
Nan Yuanman realized something was off. She stared closely at Sheng Hanxiang and asked: “Then do you remember how you died? What did you go through before you died?”
Sheng Hanxiang continued to shake her head: “I don’t remember.”
Feng Jingcheng was dumbfounded: “You don’t remember anything? Then how did you latch onto my bro?”
Sheng Hanxiang tried hard to think and said: “I was drawn by a pleasant fragrance. When I came to, I was already clinging to his back. I… I don’t know how I latched onto him either.”
Hearing Sheng Hanxiang’s words, Feng Jingcheng and Feng Zining gradually caught on.
“Big brother, could it be some enemy you provoked outside set this trap for you?”
