Chapter 58 After hearing that Lu Tian cheated, Pei...

Lu Tian abruptly snapped back to her senses, quickly stepping back as she stammered, "I'm sorry, I... I must be out of my mind today. I shouldn't have asked you to come over. Goodbye."

She fled as if on wings.

In the ride-hailing car.

A text message from Li Yanchen: [Ms. Lu, you use me and then just run away?]

[Heartless woman!!!]

"Hello, Dr. Simon, sorry to bother you, do you know any psychiatrists?" She clutched her frantically beating heart, her voice urgent.

Simon, still half-asleep, mumbled, "A psychiatrist? I am one."

"Then let me ask you a question. I... um, it's a friend of mine.

"She's currently going through a divorce and has already separated from her ex-husband.

"Yet, for some inexplicable reason, she's been getting a bit too close to a married man, and whenever she's in a bad mood, she instinctively seeks him out.

"Is something wrong with her?"

Lu Tian covered her eyes and let out a heavy sigh.

Simon had a case of morning crankiness; being rudely awakened made his temper flare, "What do you mean, something's wrong with her? Isn't that just falling in love?! What's this? Her own family was destroyed by a mistress, so now she's fighting fire with fire and jumping in to become a mistress herself?"

Click! The call abruptly ended.

With lightning-fast speed, she blocked Li Yanchen across every single communication channel.

She got in the elevator and returned to her apartment.

The entire way up, she kept muttering to herself, "I am not going to fall in love with a married man. It must be an illusion, definitely an illusion, definitely an illusion."

Early the next morning, Lu Tian's phone was bombarded with calls from all sorts of media friends.

A colleague from the control tower sent her a message: [Teacher Lu, it's fine. There are plenty of good men out there. If this one doesn't work out, we can always find another.]

Turns out, the scene of catching someone in the act at the school last night had been hyped all the way to the top of the trending searches.

The trending topic read: [President Fei plays role-play, gets passionate with his little lover!]

Every single word reeked of scandalous implication.

Fei Jing's WeChat messages were mixed in among them.

[Wife, why aren't you answering my calls?]

[Come back. All of this is just public accounts deliberately slandering me.]

[Lu Youyou and I are completely innocent. Those paparazzi photos were taken out of context, please don't misunderstand.]

After reading them, Lu Tian replied with a single word.

[Get lost!]

After that, she pulled out her SIM card, using her phone exclusively on Wi-Fi.

As for the scumbag's messages, she automatically filtered every single one of them.

At nine in the morning, she punched in for work as usual.

Only this time, she deliberately bypassed the flight crew's passage, taking the stairs into the tower's restricted control area.

Lunch break.

A text message from an unknown number.

[Ms. Lu, you're quite something!]

[Ditching the helper the moment the task is done?]

[Watch out for ghosts when you walk down dark alleys tonight!]

"Li Yanchen, you're a man after all, do you have to be so petty?" Lu Tian took a bite of her bread, deleting and blocking him all at once.

She stood up, preparing to leave the rooftop lounge.

Suddenly, the door was shoved open by a disheveled and emotionally distraught Lu Youyou.

Behind her swarmed a dozen media personnel carrying filming equipment.

Without missing a beat, the young woman dropped to her knees the moment she saw Lu Tian, slapping her own face, "Sister, I know you hate me, hate that I took back my identity as the true daughter of the Lu family.

"But if you want revenge, take it out on me alone! Brother-in-law is innocent!"

With that, she scrambled onto the open window sill, hanging half her body outside the building.

Tears streamed down her face as she sobbed, "Wuwuwu, Sister, I'm begging you. I can die, as long as you can clear Brother-in-law's name. He loves you so much!"

Click, click.

The flashes of DSLR cameras went off one after another, all aimed at the expressionless Lu Tian.

Downstairs, the emergency rescue team's inflatable air cushion had been set up.

Lu Youyou glanced down.

Right before letting go, she shouted, "Everyone must believe that Brother-in-law is innocent! Sister, see you in the next life. I'm returning everything back to you!"

It was only a four-story building.

The cushion below caught the young girl smoothly and securely.

As if timing it perfectly, the moment she fell, Fei Jing rushed forward and helped her up.

Pushed along by the surging crowd of reporters, Lu Tian was forced downstairs and squeezed into the throng.

"Lu Tian, to divorce me, you hooked up with a male homewrecker, whipped up all this public opinion, and almost drove Lu Youyou to her death.

"Are you satisfied now? Are you happy?"

The one who actually cheated was able to disguise himself as the most pitiful victim under countless camera lenses.

Lu Youyou, cradled horizontally in his arms, twitched twice, her eyes welling with tears as she murmured, "Brother-in-law, let me die, otherwise Sister will cause your ruin because of me!"

"Don't be afraid! Justice prevails!

"Lu Tian, you'd better watch your step!"

Fei Jing shoved past her, shielding Lu Youyou as they hurried away.

The ambulance sped off.

The reporters pointed their long lenses and heavy artillery at her, successfully carving out the image of a loose-moraled, character-flawed socialite.

In an instant, Lu Tian was suspended from work.

Zhao Yinanzai sighed helplessly, "Spouses shouldn't argue to this extent, Tiantian. You really need to reflect on your own faults. After all, Fei Jing loves you so much, how could he bear to slander and hurt you?"

Within the social circles of Jinggang, no one failed to praise Fei Jing as a man utterly devoted to his wife.

Precisely because of this, whenever the slightest conflict arose between the couple, it was bound to be assumed that she was the problem!

"I can't take you with me to the academic seminar a week from now.

"Fei Jing recommended Lu Youyou, and I will seriously consider her."

Hanging up the call with Zhao Yinan, Lu Tian buried her face in her hands out of sheer frustration, curling up into the soft leather sofa.

Lu Youyou's provocative photo messages came in dense succession.

The girl was smart; she used anonymous internet numbers, so they couldn't be used as evidence and made public.

[Lu Tian, you must be all alone right now, completely helpless, aren't you?]

[What are you going to do? Hehe, right now I am Brother Fei's absolute favorite. He must be loving me to death, right?]

Seven or eight photos and short videos followed.

In one, Fei Jing personally washed Lu Youyou's feet.

In another, he tenderly helped her change clothes.

The man bustled about busily. When someone offered to let a nurse's aide help, he stated, "I will take care of my own wife and child myself."

Wife and child...

Lu Tian's fingers grew numb and stiff.

Lowering her gaze, she laughed self-deprecatingly, "Fei Jing, you really are a piece of shit!"

At the doorway, Fei family's dedicated chauffeur knocked, delivering a message on behalf of his master, "Madam, Sir asks that you return home as soon as possible. Since you've already lost your job and your chance to enter the research circle, a loser should naturally learn to be obedient on her own."

Before leaving, the driver took the liberty of adding one final remark.

"Oh, right, Madam. Actually, that day at the school, Sir was trying to prepare a surprise for you. It's a real waste that you didn't appreciate it."

The subtext was clear: Lu Tian refused a toast only to be forced to drink a forfeiture!

She had it coming!

The security door slammed shut heavily.

Lawyer Wang came probing with hesitation.

[Ms. Lu, things have turned out like this; this divorce is going to be hard to get!]

[Why don't you soften up to President Fei first? Things will be easier to handle afterwards!]

The apartment property manager came by to give notice, "Ms. Lu, with your kind of character, you might not be suitable to live in our residential complex anymore, so..."

"Manager Chen, Manager Chen, stop talking! Quick, quick, look at Weibo!"

A front desk receptionist rushed over, first stopping the manager from making personal attacks, then respectfully bowing to Lu Tian.

Lu Tian furrowed her brows in utter confusion, and pulled out her phone...