A Beauty in the 80s Goes on a Blind Date with Her Child, Captivating the Military Compound - Chapter 77

“You… you knew all along! You were intentionally playing me!”

Chen Ting pointed at Gu Chengfeng, her teeth nearly shattering from how hard she was clenching them.

Gu Chengfeng’s face was like ice. Blue veins bulged on his handsome forehead, and his hidden fury finally erupted. “Didn’t you play me first?”

“I…” Chen Ting choked on her words. “I did that… out of concern for Sisi. I was afraid she was being tricked.”

“Is that so?” Gu Chengfeng’s gaze flashed with a chilling frost. “If you truly cared for her, why didn’t you stop her right then and look for help nearby? Instead, you took the long way around and sent someone to the barracks with a note.”

“What exactly was your intention?”

The petty calculations in Chen Ting’s heart were exposed in front of everyone. Her face turned red then white; she looked utterly miserable.

Shen Sisi had rarely seen Gu Chengfeng confront someone so directly. She quietly tugged at his sleeve. “What’s going on with you two?”

Gu Chengfeng’s mouth curved into a cold sneer. “You’ll have to ask your cousin, Chen Ting.” He lowered his voice, “Chen Ting, are you going to say it yourself, or should I?”

His voice was sharp and terrifying, pouring into her ears like thunder.

Chen Ting felt her skin crawl. “I’ll say it, I’ll say it…”

She stepped toward Shen Sisi, trying to take her hand, but Sisi dodged her. “If you have something to say, just say it. Why are you trying to grab me?”

Chen Ting gave an awkward smile. “Actually, this is all just a misunderstanding!”

Sisi huffed. “A misunderstanding? Can a misunderstanding lead to someone calling a man a ‘pretty boy’ in public?”

“It’s like this: I was shopping just now and saw you walking with a man. I was worried you’d met a con artist, so I… I sent someone to notify your husband.”

As soon as she finished, Feng Yanzhou burst out laughing. “You’re that kind-hearted?”

“If she really met a bad guy, by the time you sent that message, the trail would have gone cold! You’re like a narcissus that won’t bloom—you’re just a big onion putting on an act! In my opinion, you intentionally notified Old Gu to catch someone ‘in the act’!”

“Your ‘Sima Zhao’ heart is known to everyone on the street…”

Feng Yanzhou couldn’t bring himself to use a word as filthy as “adultery,” but his meaning was clear enough. Everyone present was an adult; who couldn’t guess Chen Ting’s petty intentions?

The onlookers began to look at Chen Ting with disdain. Trying to sabotage her own cousin? What a piece of trash…

Even Director Zhou Ying couldn’t stand it anymore. She spoke up for Sisi: “To think you’re Sisi’s cousin. Your mind is so filthy! People were walking down the street in broad daylight, and you still managed to weave a tale about them. What kind of person are you?”

Feng Yanzhou tilted his chin. “Exactly. As the saying goes, if your heart is dirty, everything you see is dirty. Everyone, isn’t that right?”

“Exactly, exactly.” “This woman is far too calculating!”

People pointed and whispered at Chen Ting. Her face grew even redder as she glared hatefully at the couple. Curse them, I fell right into their trap!

Especially Gu Chengfeng—so he wasn’t a fool who just picked up “broken shoes” after all… he was actually this cunning.

She refused to back down, puffing out her chest and arguing righteously: “How can this be entirely my fault? If your husband trusted you enough, why would he even have come here?”

Those words weren’t entirely false. Shen Sisi turned to look at Gu Chengfeng, waiting for his explanation.

Gu Chengfeng seemed to have anticipated this. He pulled the note from his pocket. “You said my wife was in danger. Of course I had to come see for myself.”

Sisi took the note and read it. It was written in black and white exactly as he said. She was so angry she nearly threw the paper in Chen Ting’s face.

“So this is how you ‘care’? Then let me ask you: what did Commissar Feng do to me? How exactly was I in danger?”

“He… he…” Chen Ting stammered for a long time, unable to find an answer.

Feng Yanzhou wasn’t amused anymore. He walked up to Chen Ting with a serious expression. “Open your dog eyes and look clearly. I am a legitimate soldier. I’ve been to the front lines and guarded the borders. I have military honors to my name. With one opening and closing of your mouth, I became a ‘pretty boy’ kidnapping women? If you don’t explain yourself clearly today, I’m not finished with you!”

Chen Ting had assumed he was just a new recruit. Who knew he was a Political Commissar with military honors? Now she was truly finished.

“I… I didn’t know. If I had known, how would I have dared…?”

Feng Yanzhou cast a glance at her. “You wouldn’t dare? You dared plenty.”

Shen Sisi countered with fury: “Commissar Feng is wearing a military coat and a military cap, yet you dared to lie with your eyes wide open. Imagine what you’d do to an ordinary person! Do you know that words can kill?”

Back then, her father had been hounded to death by rumors and gossip that still hadn’t been cleared. In that specific era, some people could kill a person just by moving their lips. It was the same now.

Fortunately, she and Feng Yanzhou were upright, and Gu Chengfeng trusted them. Otherwise, she really would have been in deep trouble today.

“Chen Ting, you bullied me before, and I didn’t bother to settle the score. But today, you insulted an upright soldier. Everyone here is a witness… You’re finished!”

Since this involved Commissar Feng, Sisi had no intention of shielding her. She told Feng Yanzhou and Gu Chengfeng to handle it officially and not worry about her.

Chen Ting let out a “tch.” “Who are you trying to scare? It’s just a few words, right? No need to make a mountain out of a molehill! At most, I’ll just apologize to this Commissar.”

Feng Yanzhou sneered. “Big sister, it’s not as simple as an apology…”

“What else can you do? Besides, you didn’t actually lose anything…”

At that moment, the silent Gu Chengfeng narrowed his eyes. A cruel curve appeared at the corner of his mouth.

“Insulting a soldier on active duty, intentionally fabricating and spreading fictitious facts, disparaging another’s character, and destroying another’s reputation—if the circumstances are serious, it constitutes the crime of insult and defamation. It is punishable by up to three years of fixed-term imprisonment, criminal detention, public surveillance, or deprivation of political rights.”

Gu Chengfeng’s tone was frigid. Each word was like an icicle stabbing into Chen Ting’s heart. Her head began to buzz. Prison? I have to go to prison?

Her arrogance vanished instantly like a frost-bitten eggplant. She hurriedly apologized to Feng Yanzhou: “Commissar Brother, I’m sorry. It was my fault, I—”

Feng Yanzhou rolled his eyes. She had called him a “pretty boy” a moment ago, and now she was calling him “Commissar Brother.”

“If apologies worked, why would we need the police? Come with me.”

He reached out to grab her. Terrified, Chen Ting plopped onto the floor. “I’m not going… I won’t go!”

If she went, she was completely finished! Three years in prison! She was the star of the cultural troupe, the youngest soprano, and about to marry the factory director’s son. She had a brilliant future; she wasn’t going to prison.

“This isn’t up to you! Get ready to eat prison food!” Feng Yanzhou didn’t want to argue; he turned to ask Zhou Ying to borrow a phone.

To dare slander him and his sister-in-law? This was beyond the limit of tolerance!

Seeing this, Chen Ting had a sudden flash of “inspiration.” She found the courage from somewhere to slap herself twice, hard.

“I’m sorry! My eyes are broken! My… my brain is broken too! I saw it wrong! I was just talking nonsense! Please, be a big person and don’t mind a small person like me. Let me go, okay?”

No one expected Chen Ting to pull this move. Was she… pretending to be mentally ill?