Chapter 4: You'll Pay for the Button

The moment those words landed, the comments exploded!

[Satisfying!!]

[Sister Lin is a legend!!]

[Sue him!!! Leech! Leech off your mom's—!!]

[Hahahahaha! Best episode ever!]

The comments surged, and the livestream's popularity value shot to an unprecedented high.

The screen was so flooded you could barely see the people.

Lu Yiyan felt like he'd been threatened, and it pissed him off.

The more pissed he got, the more his nose tingled, and he wanted to cry again.

This crybaby setting was really killer.

No, not a crybaby.

A humiliation-baby.

Crying in the middle of an argument was way too humiliating.

Lu Yiyan blew his nose and said, eyes red: "Then I'll give you the evidence."

"You planted the Love Gu, so I'll remove it."

At those words, Lin Yi almost laughed out loud.

What was he pretending for? What would a rich second-generation brat know about undoing a Gu?

Never mind whether he had the ability—even if he did, he couldn't undo it.

A Love Gu can only be undone by the one who planted it. No outsider can remove it.

And this Gu, she'd had a master from Southeast Asia plant it.

That master was famous. She'd traded her body and half the wealth of her remaining years for the chance.

Who did Lu Yiyan think he was? He could undo it?

Lu Yiyan wasted no words. First he took a yellow talisman, pinched it between his index and ring fingers, then poured a cup of clear water.

He stood up, drew a formation on the floor with his foot, closed his eyes, and chanted: "Earth Spirit, Northern Dipper, thou art the god!"

Then he pressed his two fingers hard, and the yellow talisman burst into flames out of thin air!

The talisman crumbled to ash in an instant.

"Talisman burns, dharma stirs, spirit blood as guide, the command rests with the god—go forth!"

Then he strode straight up to Gu Chenhuan!

He lowered his eyes, bit his finger, and as crimson blood welled up, dabbed it on Gu Chenhuan's brow.

Right after, Lu Yiyan pressed his five fingers together, swept them down from the other's forehead, and tilted Gu Chenhuan's chin up!

The next second, Gu Chenhuan felt something churning in his stomach, and opened his mouth to vomit!

And out crawled a Gu worm the size of half a palm from Gu Chenhuan's mouth!

Even Gu Chenhuan himself hadn't reacted in time.

The Gu worm dropped into the cup.

The air seemed to freeze for a few seconds.

Half a minute later, the comments exploded:

[Holy shit!!!! For real!?]

[Mommy!!! So gross, and it's alive!!!]

[Holy shit holy shit so disgusting!!! This is a Gu??]

[How is that possible—Empress Lin really planted a Love Gu???]

[No wonder Gu Chenhuan kept saying from the first episode that he felt something was wrong with their relationship but couldn't put it into words! So he had a Love Gu planted on him????]

[Holy shit holy shit holy shit holy shit holy shit!! Is this a divorce reality show?]

The surrounding guests were all stunned.

Including the director and planner sitting off to the side monitoring—their minds went blank.

Lin Yi's agent was yelling over the walkie-talkie, demanding the livestream be terminated or she'd sue the production team.

But with this level of heat, there was no way it could be terminated.

Film empress.

Gu poison.

Fate alteration.

Even killing her own elder brother.

Who would turn down this kind of heat?

The director slapped his thigh and ordered that even if the King of Heaven himself showed up, it had to keep broadcasting!

"Here's the evidence," Lu Yiyan placed the Gu worm in front of Lin Yi, then said: "And this is just one part."

Lin Yi's face was deathly pale, staring blankly at the cup.

"Murder means paying with your life," Lu Yiyan said. "That part, the police will investigate on their own."

Lin Yi trembled all over, looking at the Gu worm, then at Lu Yiyan.

"How is this possible?" Lin Yi took half a step back. "How could you possibly know?"

It had been so long. How could he possibly know?

It had to be a conspiracy.

Right.

A conspiracy!

"Did someone tell you?"

Lin Yi seemed to think of something and suddenly looked up. "That master—was it him?!"

With that one sentence, she unconsciously admitted to everything she'd done.

The surrounding guests were scared stiff.

Who could have imagined that the usually gentle and refined Empress Lin was secretly this vicious!

"It must be him! He asked me for money, I didn't give it, so he sent you to betray me!"

Lin Yi was shaking with rage. She pointed at Lu Yiyan, eyes bloodshot: "You want to bring me down! No way!"

"I was born to be a huge star!!"

"I'm telling you! I—!"

"Lin Yi!" Gu Chenhuan suddenly called her name. He grabbed Lin Yi and looked at her in disbelief: "You killed your brother?!"

Lin Yi was startled by him, and it brought her back to her senses.

Planting a Gu—that could still be talked around.

But murder meant prison.

Lin Yi woke as if from a dream. She shook her head: "No, it wasn't me..."

"Chenhuan, it wasn't me, really it wasn't me," Lin Yi's tears burst out. "I was the person my brother loved most. He was so good to me—how could I harm him?"

"Chenhuan," Lin Yi seemed to think of something and suddenly grabbed Gu Chenhuan, looking at him. "My brother definitely wouldn't want anything to happen to me."

Lin Yi looked at Gu Chenhuan and said, word by word, as if threatening him: "You have to stand on my side."

"Otherwise my brother—he'll die with his eyes open."

Gu Chenhuan looked at Lin Yi, thinking he'd misheard.

At a time like this, Lin Yi was actually using her brother as a shield?!

The man's breathing grew ragged, his whole body trembling, even his fingertips shaking. He wanted to devour her alive.

It was her...

She killed brother...

This woman...

How could she be this vicious!?

Gu Chenhuan remembered what Lu Yiyan had said earlier.

Before brother died, he was torn at by the Gu worm in such agony, his life eaten away bit by bit...

He died such a painful death, at the hands of the sister he loved most...

Lin Yi, Lin Yi—!

Lin Yi suddenly pulled Gu Chenhuan's hand and placed it on her lower abdomen, saying softly: "Chenhuan, I'm pregnant."

That sentence was like a basin of cold water dumped onto a roaring fire.

Gu Chenhuan froze in place: "What?"

"I'm pregnant," Lin Yi said, holding onto him. "Four months already."

Lin Yi hadn't wanted to say it.

She'd originally planned to secretly abort the child, but at a time like this, the child became her only bargaining chip.

"Chenhuan, even if you're angry, you have to take responsibility for our child!"

Gu Chenhuan's mind went blank as he looked at Lin Yi.

The woman held his hand, making him touch her belly, feel the child.

Lin Yi looked at Gu Chenhuan, eyes full of longing, and pleaded softly: "Just for our baby's sake, hm?"

Baby...

Anger and hatred tangled together, but the child was innocent.

Gu Chenhuan looked at Lin Yi, at this face so much like his brother's...

[Holy shit... tonight really destroyed my worldview!!]

[Ahhhhhhh! How can Sister Lin be this vicious!!!]

[Using a child as a threat?]

[But the child is innocent to begin with!]

[Holy shit... Gu Chenhuan is really stuck between a rock and a hard place right now...]

[What's the dilemma? Call the police! You have to call the police! If Lin Yi really killed someone, she has to pay the price!]

The guests, hearing this, began whispering among themselves.

Who would've thought Empress Lin was this kind of person.

Even more unexpected—she'd altered fate and ruined Gu Chenhuan's life!

And now she was using the child in her belly as a bargaining chip?

This kind of woman was simply vicious to the extreme!

"A child?" Lu Yiyan looked a bit confused. "Mr. Gu has no children in his fate. Where would a child come from?"

Gu Chenhuan and Lin Yi's brother were lovers across three lifetimes.

The first two lifetimes had ended in regret, never coming to fruition.

This lifetime they were meant to be together—naturally there couldn't be a child.

Even if the fate chart had been altered, offspring wouldn't change because of it.

How could Lin Yi possibly be pregnant with Gu Chenhuan's child?

Lu Yiyan found it strange, pinched his fingers to calculate, and instantly understood.

He was even a bit stunned, clicking his tongue: "Ms. Lin, you really are messy."

"There were too many bosses out playing that night. I can't say for sure right now who the father is."

"But I can guarantee the child in your belly isn't Gu Chenhuan's," Lu Yiyan thought for a moment, and even kindly offered a suggestion: "How about you give me a character, and I'll do a character reading to see who the father is?"

"But my rates are high—two thousand for a reading," Lu Yiyan tilted his head and blinked. "Want a reading, Empress?"