CEO's Ugly Flash-Marriage Wife Hides So Many Identities
Chapter 22: Impossible to Verify

Chapter 22: Chapter 22: Impossible to Verify

Pei Mansion.

Elder Pei had just arrived home when Pei Liyan came bearing down on him.

At the entrance, Pei Liyan didn’t go inside but asked Elder Pei, "Grandpa, what was so important that you had to personally visit me early in the morning? What did you find out?"

"News travels fast, I see. Seems like you’re getting along just fine with Qiao Rui," Elder Pei said with a sarcastic tone. "I had barely returned before she phoned you to report. I didn’t expect her to be such a gossip."

Elder Pei’s words made his distaste for Qiao Rui unmistakably clear.

Pei Liyan didn’t bother explaining, letting Elder Pei go on with his misunderstanding.

"Grandpa, about the wedding, let’s start preparing it. It would be best to have a grand ceremony."

Elder Pei turned his head sharply, his piercing gaze sweeping across Liyan’s handsome face as he coldly said, "If you had chosen Qiao Xiang, the grand and majestic wedding would be arranged immediately, but you insist on picking such an inconspicuous girl. If you want to prepare for a wedding, better wait."

Pei Liyan furrowed his brows, "Doing this, aren’t you afraid of letting down your lifesaver, Grandpa Qiao?"

Mentioning Elder Qiao, Elder Pei gave Liyan a sidelong glare.

"Kid, don’t think just because you’ve chosen a Qiao Rui, whom neither I nor your Grandpa Qiao likes, that you can make us unhappy. It’s your marriage, a marriage you have to face every day."

Liyan’s expression unchanged, he calmly replied, "Since Grandpa also knows it’s my marriage, why bother intervening so much?"

Provoked, Elder Pei immediately responded with a cold frown, "I’ll tell you this, once you’re married, there can be no divorce. If you want a wedding, first give me a grandson."

Pei Liyan’s brow tightened further as he said, "What if I’m infertile?"

Elder Pei twisted his face in irritation, "I would get you the best fertility specialist to have you examined."

Pei Liyan: "....."

Elder Pei glanced at him, his demeanor haughty, "Kid, don’t try to be tough with me. You’re still lacking."

Pei Liyan with a light scoff, "Who’s trying to be tough with you?"

Elder Pei huffed lightly in an ’I-knew-it’ manner and, after glancing at Liyan, said, "Your performance was really poor at your grandma’s birthday banquet the other day."

Liyan was indifferent, "Haven’t I already chosen a bride for her?"

"Elder Madam Pei’s preference was Qiao Xiang," Elder Pei reminded him.

Liyan glanced at Elder Pei and said, "I have a meeting at my company, I’ll leave first."

"You stinky kid, you think by not daring to face your grandma, she won’t trouble Qiao Rui?" Elder Pei turned to watch him get into his car.

Liyan opened the car door, glancing at Elder Pei, "Grandpa, do you think if I cared about you troubling Qiao Rui, I would have chosen her?"

Caught off guard, Elder Pei was stunned for a moment, just about to speak when Liyan had already driven off.

Elder Pei cursed, "His wings are really hard!"

The driver beside him didn’t dare to make a sound.

As Elder Pei entered the house, Elder Madam Pei looked at her husband’s unhappy face, tugged at her lips, and asked, "Did you get a taste of defeat?"

Elder Pei was taken aback. "You guessed?"

"Do I need to guess?" Elder Madam Pei had anticipated this, "If he cared about us, he wouldn’t have chosen such an ugly duckling."

"He doesn’t care about us, nor does he care about that ugly girl." Elder Pei sat down on the sofa and glanced at his wife.

Elder Madam Pei continued, "Liyan thinks that such a country girl, with no grounding in the Qiao Family, would be very easy to use in the future, and could be dispatched with a sum of money. But he’s forgotten, that child survived so many years alone in the countryside, she wouldn’t have survived this long if she wasn’t shrewd."

"Indeed, she’s no pushover." Elder Pei had learned that today, thinking back to how he was rendered speechless by Qiao Rui, he couldn’t help but snort, "I just don’t know if she’s genuinely foolish or just pretending."

Elder Madam Pei chuckled softly, "You were too impatient. You shouldn’t have gone to see her and given her that satisfaction."

Though Elder Pei verbally disagreed, he inwardly concurred with his wife. "I was just bored."

"Just wait, they’ll eventually divorce without needing a wedding," Elder Madam Pei said.

"That’s what the girl said as well."

"Oh?" Elder Madam Pei was slightly taken aback. "If she’s aware of her place."

"The two of them are just cooperating, there’s no emotion involved." Elder Pei was surprisingly not in a rush anymore. "Let that stinky kid do as he pleases. I want to see what kind of mess he can create."

Elder Madam Pei looked at her husband, "Let’s wait. Later on, we’ll find him someone better."

"Yes, I think that’s a good idea," Elder Pei agreed with his wife. "By the way, any news on that popular actress, Rui Qing?"

"Not yet, there’s a lot of speculation lately," the old lady replied with some impatience, "The news insists our Liyan killed her because Rui Qing spent a night with Liyan in the hotel presidential suite, so Liyan is accused of silencing her."

"Did someone look into it? Are there really details about that night?" Elder Pei asked.

The old lady nodded, "I had the butler check; the two really did spend the night together. Rui Qing left when it was nearly dawn; nothing seemed to have happened. I don’t quite believe it."

Elder Pei exclaimed in surprise and seemed even a little pleased, "Then that’s really good news."

"What are you happy about? Your grandson is rumored to be involved with an actress, and you find that honorable?"

"Hmm, it’s not too bad," Elder Pei said, "At least it proves my grandson isn’t the woman-hater he’s rumored to be. He’s been with a woman, and that means there’s a good chance we can have a great-grandchild."

Elder Madam Pei understood her husband’s point and nodded, "That’s the only benefit, I suppose. Anyways, even if Rui Qing, that popular actress, were still alive, she could never enter the doors of our Pei Family."

"Your grandson is now married to a simpleton," Elder Pei thought of how Qiao Rui looked and couldn’t help shaking his head in disappointment, "So ugly I can’t stand to look at her."

Elder Madam Pei too sighed, "Thank goodness he’s just being spiteful with us. If it were real, the future great-grandchild would be doomed."

The couple sighed and murmured their complaints about their grandson for a while.

Pei Family.

Pei Liyan returned to his company.

CEO’s office.

Fang Mo came to report, "President, our company’s stock has dropped again."

"What happened?" Pei Liyan looked up at Fang Mo.

Fang Mo replied, "Rui Qing’s fans are causing a commotion. They’re saying you caused the death of their star. After a night with her, you silenced her. This news has been all over the trending searches, causing our company’s stocks to suffer turbulence as well."

Pei Liyan narrowed his eyes slightly, "Have you found out who drugged me that night?"

Fang Mo shook his head, "Not yet, there were too many people attending the Televised Art Festival that night. Both you and Miss Rui were drugged. We initially suspect Rui Qing was the one who drugged you, but now, with her whereabouts uncertain between life and death, we can’t verify it."

Pei Liyan’s brows knitted, he spoke gravely, "Find a way to get rid of the trending searches about Rui Qing!"

"Yes!" Fang Mo immediately set out to do it.