Chapter 180 - 141: It’s Not Too Late to Regret Now

Chapter 180: Chapter 141: It’s Not Too Late to Regret Now

Meanwhile, the group, completely unaware, had already finished breakfast and started dividing up the work.

Having learned their lesson from falling into the water the previous night, they were much more meticulous today.

Zhang Chuan was in charge of filming, Yan Xici was on detection duty, while Xiao Ran steadied her and watched over her.

As for the unlucky Xu Cheng, he was the one in the water searching. There was no other choice—after all, it was his farm stay!

The owner personally getting into the water to help a customer... once this video got posted, how thoughtful will that look?

People would come visit just for the owner’s amazing service!

Xiao Ran rowed the boat while Yan Xici held the metal detector. Behind them, Zhang Chuan filmed with Yan Xici’s phone.

Whenever the detector passed over something metal, it would let out a beeping alarm, and Xu Cheng would swim over to that spot to search.

It was a fishing lake, after all, so the water wasn’t very clear. It was incredibly murky; even with goggles on, he could barely see a thing.

The first time, Xu Cheng didn’t find the bracelet. Instead, he surfaced with a medium-sized box.

He was absolutely astonished.

He even had the fleeting delusion that his fishing lake might contain some legendary treasure.

Zhang Chuan quickly zoomed in for a close-up, and the nimble-fingered girl immediately set about helping everyone open the box.

As it turned out, the small box contained... a lighter!!!

Some girl’s gift to her boyfriend must have fallen into the water.

It was still dripping water when they took it out!

The four of them toiled for over three hours, finally succeeding in fishing out Yan Xici’s bracelet around noon.

Of course, that wasn’t all they fished out. Xiao Ran did a rough tally.

Twenty lighters, six belts, over a dozen assorted toys, two dog leashes, two bicycle rims, three necklaces, and five bracelets—though they could have been anklets...

In short, if you could think of it, a customer had probably dropped it in the water!

Zhang Chuan even filmed until Yan Xici’s phone ran out of battery.

After all, the operation was massive. This wasn’t a mission to find a bracelet; it was a full-blown lake cleanup!

The group was already exhausted, and after baking under the midday sun, they were completely listless.

Each one was more lethargic than the last, like wilted lettuce.

Back in their private room, Zhang Chuan couldn’t wait to flop onto the tatami mat. He let out a few long sighs, finally feeling his whole body relax.

He casually picked up his phone and, out of habit, opened TikTok, planning to look at some pictures of women in black stockings to soothe his weary body.

Unfortunately, he didn’t see any black stockings. Instead, he came across a rant video with a ton of likes—over eighty thousand already.

It was from a relationship blogger named Ming Le. She was wearing a carrot-shaped hairpin and was quite pretty.

She sat before the camera, speaking earnestly.

"I’m here to share some huge gossip with you all. The boss at my company is a beautiful woman, but her life is absolutely miserable."

"And why is that? Because her husband is a total gigolo. But don’t underestimate him just because he’s a gigolo—his scheming is on a whole other level."

"He set his sights on our boss’s younger sister, tricked our boss into a divorce, and that wasn’t enough. He then played the victim to the younger sister and ended up latching onto his own sister-in-law!"

Hearing this, Zhang Chuan instantly lost his composure.

He couldn’t help but keep listening.

"Not only that, he instigated the sister-in-law to turn against our boss, driving a wedge between them. And it doesn’t stop there! The gigolo is now making videos with the sister-in-law. Any guesses what he’s after?"

"If you ask me, he’s probably planning some big move to demand money from our boss!"

The blogger in the video kept talking.

But Zhang Chuan couldn’t listen anymore. He felt the story sounded an awful lot like Xiao Ran. Didn’t that guy get divorced and immediately turn around and get with his sister-in-law?

He swallowed hard, looking uncertainly over at Xiao Ran, who was sitting in a chair drinking water.

"Ranzi, come over here. I want to show you something."

Seeing his nervous expression, Xiao Ran couldn’t help but feel curious. He got up, walked over, and saw the video on Zhang Chuan’s phone.

His gut told him this wasn’t about someone else—it was about him and Yan Xici!

Eighty thousand likes and over forty thousand comments.

Xiao Ran took the phone and opened the comment section. Unsurprisingly, it was an absolute dumpster fire.

Sure enough, the comments were full of remarks like:

"A man like that deserves to die."

"Men like him don’t deserve to exist!"

"It’s so hard for us women!"

Reading the mindless comments, Zhang Chuan was so incensed he almost passed out.

’These keyboard warriors are ruthless!’ he thought. ’They don’t even care about the facts!’

In fact, the previous night, Xiao Ran already had a faint feeling that this wasn’t over. After all, Yan Li had never been the type to let things slide.

But he hadn’t expected her to move so quickly; she had already made her move this morning.

And so directly, so mercilessly.

"Who the hell did this?!" Zhang Chuan asked, looking at Xiao Ran in confusion. "You don’t think... they’re talking about you, do you?"

His head was spinning. For the moment, he couldn’t figure out if this was just a coincidence or if someone had done it on purpose.

If it was on purpose, who could it be?

Before Xiao Ran could say anything, Xu Cheng, who was sitting at the table, also scrolled to a TikTok video from a different blogger.

The content was similar to the one Zhang Chuan found, just presented differently. This one, however, gave specifics: it said the man was a novelist who worked as an administrator at Jiaotong University.