Unbeknownst to Bai Tao, while she was frantically searching, Pei Fei had already reported her.

Since she wasn’t married, Pei Fei returned to her parents’ villa. Her parents were traveling abroad, leaving her alone at home. After settling in a bit, she couldn’t hold back her emotions and called her brother: “Brother! I’m back in the country!!!”

“Fei Fei?”

Hearing her brother’s familiar voice, Pei Fei couldn’t help but get choked up. Pursuing a music career kept her abroad most of the time, with many small tours around the world, leaving little time to return home. Now, being back with family, all her grievances and longing surfaced: “Brother, I missed you.”

However, expressing her feelings wasn’t the main reason for her call. Pei Fei had a more important issue to address. After collecting herself, she got straight to the point: “Brother, Bai Tao cheated!”

Her brother fell silent, and Pei Fei, filled with reluctance and anger, summoned the courage to continue: “Brother, I know this is hurtful, but letting Bai Tao’s crimes continue would be even more disrespectful to you!”

“I never understood why you suddenly married Bai Tao. Sure, if it was just for a family alliance, her background is impeccable. But brother, is this really the life you want?” Pei Fei asked earnestly, “Tell me, are you happy?”

After a pause, Pei Fei heard her brother’s calm voice—

“I’m a Pei, not a Fu.”

“….”

Pei Fei chose to ignore her brother’s cryptic response and continued emotionally: “Last time I visited, you two seemed to have a cold relationship. But now I hear from Zheng Qing that at a recent alumni gathering, you were catering to her every need, even peeling shrimp for her!”

Pei Fei’s voice was filled with disbelief as she questioned: “Brother, does she have something on you? Did she take compromising photos? How could you peel shrimp for someone? Even I haven’t experienced that! This isn’t like you at all!”

“If Zheng Qing hadn’t seen it with her own eyes and told me, I wouldn’t have believed it! When I was in Austria, I never took those messy domestic news about you two seriously. But now…”

Unexpectedly, her brother calmly denied it: “No.”

“What?”

“No leverage.”

Pei Fei was bewildered: “Then do you really love her that much?”

To her surprise, Pei Shi didn’t refute, simply stating, “I have my own limits.”

Limits? Peeling shrimp for Bai Tao? Where were the limits in that!

Pei Fei’s hands trembled with anger. She decided to drop the love issue and focus on the truth first: “Brother, but you need to wake up. Bai Tao isn’t a proper woman. Even in college, many men pursued her. She’s used to being chased like a social butterfly. Remember her ex-boyfriend Zhong Xiao?”

“I saw Zhong Xiao in Austria.”

As expected, mentioning Zhong Xiao caused a slight stir in her brother’s calm demeanor: “Zhong Xiao? What was he doing in Austria?”

“He’s starting a business, and quite coincidentally, it’s in the same field as you—big data and algorithms. He’s looking for investors. I happen to have a friend in investment banking who is evaluating his company, and he mentioned that Bai Tao secretly invested a lot of money into his company.”

Pei Fei continued, “Later, at a dinner party, Zhong Xiao drank too much and let it slip that he and Bai Tao have always kept in touch over the years. Bai Tao has always loved him. He said they only broke up out of spite back then, and he deeply regrets it. He even showed a bunch of their intimate photos to my friend. Zhong Xiao admitted that he was the third party mentioned in the cheating rumors about Bai Tao. Of course, he claimed that after Bai Tao got married, they never crossed the line of friendship. But who believes that? Do you? I certainly don’t. This kind of gossip spreads quickly, and now the European investment community knows that your wife had an affair!”

“What kind of algorithms is he working on?”

“Brother!” Pei Fei stamped her foot in frustration. “At this point, is it so hard to accept reality?”

Pei Fei was annoyed by her brother’s calm and composed question, as if he didn’t care about Bai Tao’s affair and was more interested in the details of the business venture.

Does he love Bai Tao so much that he’s willing to ignore the truth and numb himself?

“Bai Tao cheated, cheated, cheated! I hope you can have some self-respect and divorce her quickly, or else she might use the money you earn to support Zhong Xiao.”

“Zhong Xiao even said you are older, uninteresting, and not romantic, making Bai Tao’s life with you miserable and unhappy! This must be what Bai Tao told Zhong Xiao, so that’s what she says about you behind your back!”

The more Pei Fei talked, the angrier she got: “In any case, I confronted Bai Tao. I hope she at least restrains herself and avoids bringing shame to our family.”

For the first time, Pei Shi showed a more serious reaction. He slightly raised his voice to scold Pei Fei: “Why did you say those things to her?”

Pei Fei was stunned: “Shouldn’t I expose her and see through her act? And don’t you care about this? Why else would you name her Fiona? I already told her! And didn’t the rumors say she was considering divorce? Fine, let her. Brother, get a lawyer quickly, before…”

“No divorce.”

Pei Shi cut her off with those two words, then issued a low warning: “Be polite to Bai Tao. She is your sister-in-law. Don’t confront her. Her health…,” he paused, lowering his voice as if not wanting to elaborate, “Her health is a bit delicate right now, so don’t provoke her.”

“I will handle everything else.”

Without waiting for Pei Fei’s response, Pei Shi hung up.

Bai Tao’s health is delicate, and she shouldn’t be provoked…

Could it be…

Could it be that she’s pregnant?!

Pei Fei knew her brother loved children.

It was difficult to explain his sudden tolerance towards Bai Tao, but if she was pregnant, it all made sense. Precisely because she was pregnant, her brother had to endure the pain of being cheated on for the sake of the child, not wanting the child to be born into a broken family…

This…

Her brother was suffering too much!

As for Bai Tao’s pregnancy, it must have been planned. She wasn’t her brother’s type at all. How did they have a child? It must have been because she drugged and intoxicated him!

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