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Chapter 2561 Liu Lan's Show-off

Sha Zhu was speechless after being cornered by Liu Lan.

Xu Damao stepped forward and acted as a peacemaker. He took the initiative to pick up the wine bottle, poured wine for Liu Lan, and then asked Ma Hua to get another glass and pour wine for Ma Hua.

"Liu Lan, it's not that we don't want you to drink. This wine is priceless. We don't have much of it either."

"I poured him some drinks because Ma Hua said he wasn't feeling well."

Liu Lan smiled at Xu Damao and deliberately praised him: "You have good taste, unlike some people who look down on those who are nice to them and only like to hear what people with ill intentions say to them."

Xu Damao and Shazhu are well-known mortal enemies; they fight whenever they meet.

Liu Lan was fully aware of this, so she deliberately provoked Sha Zhu.

Sha Zhu didn't take it seriously after hearing it. In the past, he definitely wouldn't have been happy and would have started arguing.

But things are different now.

He and Xu Damao had already reconciled, so they wouldn't argue about it.

Seeing that Sha Zhu wasn't fooled, Liu Lan couldn't hold back any longer: "You and Xu Damao have really made up."

Sha Zhu snorted, "We didn't fight, sorry to disappoint you."

Liu Lan pouted: "What am I disappointed about? The one who should be disappointed is Qin Huairu."

Just now, she shifted all the blame onto Xu Damao.

From what she said, it's like Xu Damao has magic powers; she's using you as a puppet, controlling you.

Sha Zhu didn't want to argue with Liu Lan; he couldn't win anyway.

"What exactly did Qin Huairu say to you?"

"If you want to know, beg me." Liu Lan deliberately refused to tell.

Ma Hua nudged her: "Stop messing around. Tell me quickly, what lies has Qin Huairu made up this time?"

Liu Lan glared at Ma Hua: "I only said that to give Ma Hua face."

"Just tell me already."

Liu Lan truly lived up to her reputation as a gossip expert at the steel rolling mill; she remembered every single word Qin Huairu said.

After hearing Liu Lan's retelling, Sha Zhu slammed his fist on the table in anger: "She really didn't do anything wrong at all."

Liu Lan said, "When has she ever done anything wrong? Aren't all the wrong things done by people like you?"

By the way, did Yi Zhonghai really pressure her that much? Logically speaking, Yi Zhonghai treated her quite well.

Even a biological father wouldn't treat his own daughter the way Yi Zhonghai did.

"Who knows which of her words are true and which are false?" Xu Damao muttered.

He genuinely couldn't tell whether what Yi Zhonghai was saying to Qin Huairu was true or false.

According to He Yuzhu, there is a high probability that Yi Zhonghai is unable to have children, and Yi Zhonghai himself has also doubted himself.

However, Yi Zhonghai dared not accept this fact and never dared to go to the hospital for a checkup.

This is just speculation; there's no definitive conclusion yet.

If Yi Zhonghai knew he couldn't have children, then his forcing Qin Huairu to have one would be a joke.

However, it is also possible that Yi Zhonghai might try it out on Qin Huairu, just to see what happens.

Yi Zhonghai is dead now, and even his ashes have been thrown into a stinking ditch. There's no answer to that question.

Liu Lan nodded: "You know what, she really can make things up."

However, I knew from my time at the steel mill that her tricks couldn't fool me at all.

Sha Zhu thought about what Liu Lan had done in the past and said, "Since you know all this, why are you still helping him?"

Liu Lan said indignantly, "Shazhu, you really have no conscience at all."

Back when we were at the steel rolling mill, someone said that if Qin Huai said anything bad, you'd fight him to the death.

Yi Zhonghai, relying on his status as an eighth-grade worker, is causing trouble for others.

"Would anyone risk losing their job over your trivial matters?"

"And then what happened? Why did you still help Qin Huairu at Lou Xiao'e's restaurant?" Sha Zhu retorted.

Liu Lan argued confidently, "It's because Lou Xiao'e is so high and mighty that she doesn't even look at us."

You've forgotten that security guard from back then.

It was clearly she who arranged for the security guards to stop Yi Zhonghai.

The results of it?

You found out, and you took it out on her.

She turned around and fired the security guard.

The security guard was simply doing his job; how could he have done anything wrong?

Sha Zhu was taken aback, recalling the time when they had argued about splitting up the family business. The restaurant owner was Lou Xiao'e, but few of the restaurant's employees were on her side.

Even the MCA (Malaysian Chinese Association) was somewhat biased towards Qin Huairu at the time.

"That's why you helped Qin Huairu."

Liu Lan readily admitted, "Yes. Not only me, but you can ask Ma Hua. Wasn't he secretly helping Qin Huairu back then?"

Silly Zhu is looking at the MCA.

Ma Hua quickly explained, "Master, I didn't see through Qin Huairu's true colors at the time either."

She ran a nursing home and took care of the elderly residents; everyone spoke highly of her.

I thought she would take good care of you, so…”

Xu Damao stopped them: "Stop talking. It's all Yi Zhonghai and Qin Huairu's fault for being so good at pretending."

At that time, besides me, who could see through her true colors?

No one refuted this statement.

Xu Damao was indeed the only one who saw through their true colors.

Even a high-ranking leader with extensive experience was deceived by Qin Huairu.

Sha Zhu picked up his wine glass in frustration and took a sip.

Liu Lan smiled and said, "Qin Huairu begged me to plead for her. So I gave Qin Huairu an idea. Can you guess what it was?"

"Why are you giving Qin Huairu advice?" Ma Hua asked, somewhat displeased.

Qin Huairu has ruined Sha Zhu's life so badly; as Sha Zhu's apprentice, he absolutely cannot forgive Qin Huairu.

Liu Lan said, "I was so bothered by her that I had no choice but to do this in order to get away from her."

Don't worry, no matter what she chooses, my idea won't work out.

Take a guess.

Xu Damao became curious and guessed several answers, but none of them were correct.

"Stop guessing, just tell me directly. What's the method?"

Liu Lan said smugly, "My suggestion to her was to apologize with a bundle of thorns on her back."

Xu Damao immediately understood why Liu Lan had said that.

Qin Huairu never truly apologized to Sha Zhu even once in his entire life, and he never even looked Sha Zhu in the eye.

Making her apologize to Sha Zhu with a bundle of thorns on her back is harder than killing her.

If she were to genuinely apologize, she wouldn't be able to shift the blame onto others.

But if she doesn't apologize, she won't be able to win back Sha Zhu.

This presents Qin Huairu with a difficult choice.

"You're really ruthless," Sha Zhu commented.

Liu Lan glared at him with displeasure and downed the wine in her glass in one gulp.

"Pour me some more."

This time, Xu Damao brought out a different kind of wine.

Liu Lan was displeased: "Why did you change the wine? Where's the wine from before?"

Xu Damao said, "Didn't I tell you? That wine is rare, so you should drink it sparingly."

"You didn't see? There was barely any left in my and Sha Zhu's glasses; we weren't even taking big gulps."

Liu Lan glanced at the two cups and knew that Xu Damao was telling the truth.

"Look how stingy you all are. It's just a little bit of wine."

Sha Zhu said, "You make it sound so easy. Do you even know how much this wine costs?"

Pigsy ate the ginseng fruit.

"Silly Zhu, who are you calling Pigsy? I'll fight you to the death!" Liu Lan had drunk some alcohol, which emboldened her.

Ma Hua quickly stopped her: "Alright, Sister Lan. It's not that I don't want you to drink, it's just that this wine is really rare."

Do you know who brewed this wine?

He's a friend of my master.

"The one with the same name as him?" Liu Lan asked.

Qin Huairu had mentioned He Yuzhu several times earlier. Because the name was the same as "Silly Pillar," Liu Lan remembered it.

Ma Hua then explained He Yuzhu's identity, which shocked Liu Lan.

"How come you've had so much incredible luck in your life?" (End of Chapter)