"You?!"
No one had expected that in the end, it would be me who took the blame.
Bai Wei even looked up at me, a hint of confusion in her eyes. "Miss Du, why did you do this? Why did you frame a poor waiter?"
Even Zhao Zifeng gently tugged at the back of my waist.
"Should I just watch as the bracelet is found on Zhao Zifeng and let you frame her?"
I sneered as I stared back at Bai Wei. I had given this woman two or three chances, but she still didn't know when to stop. "Whether or not Zhao Zifeng stole the bracelet, you would have found a way to drag her into the mire!"
"Impossible! It was just a joke! Just a joke!"
Bai Wei had played these kinds of pranks of framing people in foreign countries many times and wasn't afraid of being found out at all.
At worst, it was just a joke. If the framed person got angry, they would be labeled as "unable to take a joke" and isolated by their small circle.
"So, this is how the upper - class circles joke around!"
Suddenly, Du Peilin behind me burst into laughter. He touched his nose. "It really broadens Mr. Du's horizons."
"I'm sorry. We really didn't think it through."
Bai Wei looked at Du Peilin with a serious expression. She already knew that this man was Zhao Zifeng's boyfriend.
Moreover, Zhao Zifeng had said that her boyfriend, just like me, was a feng shui master!
No matter how handsome this man was, he was just a low - class hooligan, a liar who made a living by his glib tongue!
Although she despised him in her heart, Bai Wei said sincerely on her face, "When we were in foreign countries, we would play these harmless little games at dances and parties. If you don't often play with us, you may not be used to it."
"Zifeng."
Du Peilin waved to his little girlfriend.
"What?"
Zhao Zifeng obediently ran over, her eyes full of her boyfriend. Her smile was so sweet that it could send one's blood sugar soaring.
"How did you and Xixi deal with the classmates who played pranks at school?"
Du Peilin stroked the curly hair that fell on Zhao Zifeng's shoulder. He looked like he was stroking a cute kitten.
"Ha!"
Zhao Zifeng seemed to have thought of something interesting and her eyes curved with a smile. "What, do you want to see?"
Du Peilin nodded.
"Then, I'll give you a demonstration!"
Zhao Zifeng squinted at Du Peilin, nodded, then turned around and walked to Bai Wei's side. Suddenly, she raised her hand and slapped Bai Wei hard across the face.
Bai Wei didn't even realize what had happened. She didn't even have time to wipe the smile off her face before she was slapped on the left cheek with a "pop".
She was completely stunned. She covered half of her face and stared at Zhao Zifeng with wide eyes.
"You... You..."
This time, it was Bai Wei's turn to tremble. She had never been slapped in public before. She stammered out just two words before her tears streamed down.
"Whose girl is this? Such bad manners!"
Bai Wei's father, feeling sorry for his daughter, pointed at Zhao Zifeng and roared, "How could you hit someone?"
Zhao Zifeng shook her hand and said, "What's the use of good manners for someone without a bottom line?"
"I'm sure Miss Bai has used this kind of harmless joke to trap many people."
I also sneered and only said to Bai Wei, "Any girl who has been splashed with such dirty water would want to give you two slaps!"
By now, Cheng Rui had retrieved her bracelet. She examined it carefully before putting it back on her wrist. Then she pointed at Bai Wei. "I didn't expect you to even scheme against me! Have you forgotten who bought your plane ticket and sent you back to China?"
Back then, the Bai family's investment had failed and Bai Wei was trapped abroad.
When she was at the end of her rope, it was indeed Cheng Rui who had spent a few thousand yuan to send her back to China.
However, Cheng Rui also had her own motives. At that time, Bai Wei had already received an offer from Cold Fir, and Cheng Rui wanted to leave herself a favor for the future.
Unexpectedly, now that Cheng Rui had returned to China, she was tricked by the "friend" she had helped.
Cheng Rui was both angry and furious. She simply stopped pretending to be sisters. She exposed all the messy pranks they had done together in foreign countries.
Bai Jingrui didn't expect his daughter's life abroad to be so "colorful". He was so angry that he pointed at Bai Wei and said, "Vivian, is what she said true?!"
"Dad, don't believe her. It's not true! She's lying and framing me!"
Bai Wei was really panicking now. Cheng Rui had spoken clearly, with the time, place, and the names of the people she had played "jokes" on. Some of them she had even forgotten...
Everyone present was a smart person. How could they not tell what was true and what was false?
The whispering and discussion never stopped.
Many of the guests who came to the banquet today were of a certain age and status. They also had children studying abroad. They hated people like Bai Wei who did bad things but pretended to be innocent the most!
"Say, Brother Bai..."
Sheng Shixun's face became even more ugly. As he listened to Cheng Rui list Bai Wei's serial schemes of framing people, he immediately associated it with today's incident. Originally, everyone thought that Bai Wei would come with Si Jiangchen, but unexpectedly, Si Jiangchen brought me into the banquet hall.
Why was Bai Wei so persistent in attending this banquet?
Naturally, it was to take revenge on the person who had replaced her... So, this so - called prank of hers was premeditated. She was deliberately causing trouble!
"This is not the place to educate your child."
He said to Bai Jingrui, "Brother Bai, you'd better go home and have a good talk with your daughter later!"
His words were quite blunt. He was directly ordering the Bai father and daughter to leave.
Bai Jingrui was also a man of status. Not only was he played by his own daughter, but he was also treated like this by the person he wanted to make friends with. He was so angry that he had nowhere to vent his anger. He glared at Bai Wei fiercely. "Why aren't you coming back with me! Don't make a fool of yourself here!"
"Dad..."
How could Bai Wei be willing to leave like this? She was confident that she could turn the situation around. If she left like this, she would definitely become a laughingstock. How could she have the face to hang around in this snobbish circle in the future?
"Miss Bai, if you don't leave, you can accept the police investigation with us."
Du Peilin suddenly spoke up. "The matter of framing my girlfriend can't be easily dismissed!"
"Humph!"
Bai Jingrui knew very well that if he didn't let his daughter leave, how could the discussion in the hall subside?
For Bai Wei, who had incurred public wrath, the best way now was cold treatment.
She'd better not show up in public for a while. When people gradually forgot about this incident after a few days, this storm would be over...
In order to protect the reputation of the Bai family and Bai Wei's position at Cold Fir, Bai Jingrui had no choice but to take his daughter away dejectedly.