Chapter 116: I am here!

"I-I am sorry!"

The waiter bowed deeply in apology, his face filled with fear. He quickly offered to take Lin Feng away to change and clean his suit.

Lin Feng hesitated.

At this moment, a voice sounded, "What’s going on? Bai Jianning, is that you?"

Bai Jianning was busy wiping the wine stains from Lin Feng’s cheeks and hair. When she looked up, she saw someone from the Wei family.

It was someone she knew through her mother, a distant maternal cousin from the Wei family.

They were not close, but they were still polite with each other.

Bai Jianning was relieved to see someone she knew.

"As you can see, this happened..."

"Oh dear! Let’s get you changed quickly."

The Wei family cousin immediately signaled to the terrified waiter, careful not to attract the attention of the other guests.

"Bring Young Master Lin Feng inside the house to change. Just tell the butler, and he’ll know what to do."

These things did happen at banquets, so the hosts would always prepare extra clothes for guests in case of emergencies.

Bai Jianning wanted to follow, but her maternal cousin held her back.

"Silly girl, following him will make it easy to attract other people’s attention. It’s best not to cause trouble at the heir’s birthday party. Don’t worry. No one will be reckless enough to cause trouble under the Wei family’s eyes."

Bai Jianning could only reluctantly nod and stay behind.

Lin Feng thought the same thing, so he did not think there was anything to worry about and obediently followed the waiter.

But sometimes, fate was simply like this.

Some people dared to cause trouble.

Lin Feng was led toward the back of the mansion to avoid being seen in his current disgraceful state.

At the back was a garden with a pond below the open gallery on the second floor.

They climbed the staircase and followed a long, open balcony corridor.

Designed in the Versailles style, it had ornate stone balustrades and overlooked the back garden, with a pond directly below.

Several birds flew down and perched on the balustrade.

When they passed by the open gallery, the waiter asked Lin Feng to sit and wait there while he went to call the butler.

Lin Feng could only nod and stand in the open gallery.

The waiter was gone for a while.

It was quiet all around, with only the birds keeping him company.

Lin Feng heard a splash below him and looked down beyond the open gallery.

The view of the back garden was beautiful, especially the pond below, where countless colorful koi fish swam leisurely.

From above, they looked like scattered jewels drifting through the clear water, their vibrant colors shimmering under the sunlight.

A hand silently reached out behind him.

The next moment, a flash of camel color drew a line through the air along with an exclamation, which was swallowed by a large splash.

...

Wei Tianyu saw his friend enter the lawn from a distance. His extremely tall height made him tower over everyone else, making him especially eye-catching.

Wei Tianyu raised an eyebrow and signaled for Chu Haoran, Rong Zexin, and Gu Bowen to look behind them.

The others also turned to look.

Chu Haoran and Rong Zexin laughed meaningfully.

When Hou Yizhen approached, he greeted the birthday boy, "Happy birthday, Brother Wei. Your gift."

He threw a key over.

Wei Tianyu caught it and looked down at it, a smile breaking across his face. "So you’re finally willing to part with this car, huh?"

"Your bribe."

"Tsk."

"Look who came here so early." Rong Zexin smiled teasingly. "You must have really wanted to see a certain someone, eh?"

"Hmm?" Gu Bowen, who was busy training in the military and had only come out for his friend’s birthday, was confused. "Did I miss something again?"

Rong Zexin snorted. "You always miss something! You deserve it because you’re always away."

Gu Bowen looked down at the fuming Rong Zexin, a hint of doting in his eyes. "I’m sorry, Xinxin. Can our resident information enthusiast take pity on me and share some insights?"

"Hmph. Stop calling me Xinxin." Rong Zexin snorted, his ears faintly turning red.

Gu Bowen stared for a few seconds at the red cloud on those ears, feeling the urge to bite them, before finally tearing his gaze away.

Then he met three pairs of eyes.

"..."

"..."

"..."

Chu Haoran spoke with difficulty. "What did I just—mphf..."

Gu Bowen immediately clamped a hand over the other man’s mouth. "Don’t talk nonsense here."

His little cat still did not know anything.

Wei Tianyu was shocked speechless by this sudden discovery.

Why was it that once you realized one person in your group of friends was gay, suddenly, everyone else seemed gay too?

Hou Yizhen, the gay friend in question, quickly calmed down and was looking around, searching for someone.

"Where is he?"

Rong Zexin did not notice anything amiss and pointed toward one corner. "I saw him go over there."

It was the corner where Lin Feng had gone to sit with Bai Jianning.

The man immediately turned and stepped in the direction he had pointed.

...

Gurgle.

Everything was a blur.

Bubbles floated above him as his hands flailed helplessly. Then everything became clear for a moment when his head bobbed up as he tried to gasp for breath and call for help, only to instantly submerge back underwater.’Help...’

Water entered his nose and mouth, and Lin Feng choked helplessly.

It was painful!

As a lady whose feet had been bound since she was little, Madam Lin had never learned how to swim.

The original body had learned it, but panic had completely overwhelmed the boy. His mind was in disarray, and he could not remember how to swim.

’Someone, please...’

’Help me...!’

The koi fish swam around him faster, surging through the water, pressing their bodies against his head, back, and hips, as if trying to push him up.

But he continued to sink down

Despair began to well up inside him, followed by fury and hatred.

Why was it that even in this life, he had to suffer like this?

Why?!

It was because he had been careless again!

Falling into yet another scheme!

Why had he not learned anything at all?!

Whoever did this, he wanted them to pay for it...

The light in the boy’s eyes gradually disappeared as he slowly sank down underwater.

His field of vision was getting more and more blurry.

If he could still have a second chance...

He would no longer trust so easily!

’Please, I beg you...’

’Someone, come here!’

’Help...!’

’I am here!’

...

Within a one-mile radius, with the grand Versailles-style mansion at its center, all the animals in the vicinity began to feel a strange pulling energy, as if someone were calling out to them.

The rabbits and foxes at the foot of the mountain.

The birds and squirrels perched in the surrounding trees.

The deer and ducks along the shore of the lake.

The insects crawling through the grass.

Even the spiders lurking in their webs.

One by one, all the living creatures stopped what they were doing. Their eyes turned dark and empty as they stared in the same direction, a strange sense of danger emanating from them.