Abstinence Pei, don't be too sweet when chasing your wife

Long Weiwei sat in the office on the top floor of the Long Group, her fingertips swiping across the surveillance screenshots on her tablet - in the picture, Pei Luonan entered the hotel room first, and not long after, she followed in...

She raised the corners of her lips towards the screen, a cold and calculating glint in her eyes.

Gu Fanxing has left, and it’s time for a new audience to appear in this drama, and for her to become the protagonist.

"Assistant Wang," she pressed the intercom, her voice filled with the certainty of victory, "release the hotel surveillance footage as planned. Remember to remove the key frames, leaving only the footage of Pei Luonan and I entering the room one after another."

"Ms. Long, isn't this too risky? What if President Pei finds out..."

"So what if they find out?" Long Weiwei interrupted him, tapping her fingertips lightly on the table. "Once public opinion ferments, even if he wants to deny it, he'll have to consider the face of the Pei and Long families."

What she wanted was never a secretive ambiguity, but to make everyone believe that she was Pei Luonan's legitimate fiancée.

Special Assistant Wang quickly sent a message: Reporter Zhang from "Star News Daily" has already sent out a draft titled "Pei's President secretly meets with a mysterious woman in a hotel late at night, her identity remains a mystery", and the accompanying picture is a silhouette of you entering the hotel. From now on, you will become the target of his 'secret visit'.

"Very good," Long Weiwei replied, her fingertips tapping rapidly on the screen. "Have the internet trolls start to stir up trouble, leading everyone to speculate about my identity, especially by tying the two labels of 'Long's daughter' and 'President Pei's rumored girlfriend' together."

Long Weiwei opened the encrypted photo album with satisfaction, which contained the "evidence" she had prepared long ago - a few days ago at the construction site,

The close-up of her hands intertwined with Pei Luonan's when she bent down to pick up a pen, the close-up of her forehead touching Pei Luonan's when she squatted down to pick up a cufflink, and the most fatal thing was - when she almost fell, his palm clasped her waist, her back leaning on his chest, and the gold locket given by Mr. Pei, the words of Mr. Long and Mr. Pei asking her to marry Pei Luonan... These evidences were pieced together by her, enough to weave a big net that "the Long and Pei families had already had a marriage contract."

As night fell, there were indeed several reporters with telephoto lenses squatting at the entrance of the Peninsula Hotel.

Long Weiwei wore a champagne-colored long dress and put on exquisite makeup, revealing the seemingly inconspicuous necklace around her neck, which was actually an ancestral style of the Pei family. She asked someone to make it for her, just to leave the impression to reporters that "she has a close relationship with the Pei family."

"Ms. Long, why are you coming to the hotel so late?"

A man in a windbreaker suddenly walked out from behind a pillar. It was reporter Zhang from the Star News Daily. He was holding a recorder, his eyes gleaming with excitement.

"I heard that President Pei is here tonight too?"

Long Weiwei covered her mouth in feigned surprise, but a hint of triumphant smile flashed across her eyes: "Reporter Zhang? What a coincidence. I... I'm just here to deliver a document. I'll be leaving soon."

As she spoke, she slowly moved towards the elevator, deliberately letting reporters photograph her walking towards Pei Luonan's suite.

The moment the elevator door closed, the panic on her face instantly faded, replaced by calm calculation.

At one in the morning, reporter Zhang's second report was published on time: "Exclusive! The identity of the woman who entered President Pei's suite late at night has been revealed. It turned out to be Long Weiwei, the daughter of the Long Group who had been missing for 18 years!"

The article did not directly point out the relationship between the two, but hinted at it with words such as "entering the hotel together late at night" and "the Long and Pei families have had business dealings for a long time." The accompanying picture showed her silhouette standing at the door of the suite fixing her hair, and Pei Luonan's room number was clearly visible in the background.

The Internet exploded instantly.

The entry about Pei Luonan and Long Weiwei's secret meeting at the hotel quickly became a hot search, and in the comment section, the online trolls arranged by Long Weiwei began to lead the trend:

"The daughter of the Long family and the president of the Pei family? This combination is too rich!"

"I told you there was something wrong with them. When they sat together at the last business forum, their eyes were glaring!"

"Could it be that they've been together for a long time and have been hiding it too well..."

Long Weiwei scrolled through her phone, watching public opinion develop in the direction she anticipated. She took a sip of the red wine on the table. It wasn't time to close the net yet; she had to keep this fire burning.

Kong Haoyu rushed into Pei Luonan's office with his cell phone: "Boss, look at this! Long Weiwei has taken action."

Pei Luonan glanced at the headlines in the newspaper, his face so gloomy that water could drip out of it.

He had just returned from visiting Gu Fanxing in the west of the city. His eyes were bloodshot from a sleepless night. At this moment, he was shocked by the news, and the coldness around him almost froze the entire office.

"Let the Ministry of Justice issue a statement to clarify."

His voice was hoarse, and his fingertips clenched into fists from the exertion.

"It's already been sent!" Kong Haoyu handed over the phone. "But it seems the Long family had been prepared for this. As soon as our statement was sent out, it was suppressed by their troll army. Now the internet is full of posts saying that you and Miss Long are 'about to get married.'"

Pei Luonan was furious. He knew that Long Weiwei would not give up, but he did not expect her to use such a despicable method.

At this time, Long Weiwei was sitting in front of the dressing table, putting on makeup in front of the mirror.

Special Assistant Wang called, his tone excited, "Ms. Long, Pei's issued a statement, but we suppressed it! Now the time is almost right, we can release the evidence to 'debunk' the rumors."

"Not urgent."

Long Weiwei raised the corners of her lips in front of the mirror.

"We have to wait until they are most anxious before delivering a fatal blow."

What she wants is not a vague scandal, but the confirmed status of "fiancée".

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Long Weiwei held a small media meeting.

She was wearing a white dress, with just the right amount of grievance on her face, and in her hand was a velvet box containing the 'token of love' - a gold lock.

"Dear journalist friends,"

She faced the camera, her voice choked with sobs.

"I didn't want to respond to the rumors about me and Mr. Pei, but now they're so outrageous, I have to come out and clarify."

She opened the velvet box and showed the golden lock to everyone.

"This was given to me by Old Master Pei when I was young. He said... he said that as long as we favor each other, the Long and Pei families will become relatives..."

The reporters were instantly excited and the flash lights were crackling non-stop.

"Ms. Long, are you saying that you and Mr. Pei are engaged?"

With red eyes, Long Weiwei nodded and took out another set of photos from her bag - they were the intimate photos of her and Pei Luonanhuai at the construction site a few days ago.

"Our two families are old friends, and we had a verbal engagement since childhood, but I lost touch with them for eighteen years and never announced it to the public."

She paused, then added as if mustering up the courage.

"These photos were taken at a construction site. I accidentally sprained my ankle and he helped me up. I didn't expect someone to take pictures of them..."

These words were half true and half false, but they were enough for the media to make wild guesses.

"Old friends", "verbal engagement", "Mr. Pei's approval", each word is like a bombshell, pounding the impression that "Long Weiwei is Pei Luonan's fiancée" into the public's mind.

After the meeting, the entry about Long Weiwei and Pei Luonan’s engagement was immediately ranked first on the hot search list.

The report not only included photos of Jinsuo and the construction site, but also unearthed a photo of the two families from over twenty years ago, with a sentimental caption: "The marriage between the wealthy and powerful finally comes true! The Long and Pei families' agreement of over twenty years has finally come to fruition, and Pei Luonan and Long Weiwei are about to get married!"

Seeing the public opinion on the Internet getting more and more intense, Pei Luonan's heart sank suddenly.

He was not afraid of how intense the public opinion was, he was only afraid of hurting the person he cared about most: Gu Fanxing.

He roared at the air like an angry beast, but no sound came out.

Long Weiwei turned on her cell phone and looked at the word "fiancée" on the screen. She was secretly delighted: I will definitely win this battle.

Little did she know that the drama she directed and acted in would push herself and the Long family into an abyss of no return.