Chapter 27: A Family Affair: Love, Lies, and Legacy

“Enough, it’s hardly a major incident! Is hitting your child truly necessary?”

“Yingying, look at what he’s done! If we don’t rein him in now, he’ll be unstoppable later! The Ji family will never tolerate anyone who disgraces its name.”

Fortunately, Gong Yingying’s sudden interjection prevented a violent scene from escalating.

Ji Wenyan, for his part, breathed a sigh of relief. His mother truly had a way of keeping his father firmly under her thumb.

“Mom, you’re the best! Look at Dad, all he ever does is hit me! I just miraculously survived a car accident a few days ago, I’m still a patient! Oh dear, I’m too excited, my head hurts…”

Seeing that Ji Wenlin ultimately didn’t pick up the wooden stick, Ji Wenyan’s lips secretly curled upwards for a moment.

He then immediately feigned weakness, collapsing onto the sofa as if his body had given out.

Having only recently been brutally infused with skills by the Star Source Map, coupled with his sudden exertion, Ji Wenyan’s face was now paler than parchment.

The cold sweat beading on his forehead instantly startled Gong Yingying, who had still been sipping her tea.

Discarding the expensive cup, Gong Yingying swiftly turned to examine Ji Wenyan, checking if he was genuinely in trouble.

Upon hearing Ji Wenyan mention the car accident, Ji Wenlin suddenly remembered.

His son had narrowly escaped death just a few days prior.

“Oh, my precious son, are you alright? I didn’t mean to hit you, I just wanted to teach you a lesson…”

“A lesson, all you ever do is lecture our child! Our son is the flesh and blood I carried; if anything truly happened to him, I wouldn’t forgive you!”

“Yingying, check on Wenyan first.”

Seeing Ji Wenyan suddenly appear so weak, Ji Wenlin panicked, quickly rushing to his son’s side.

Gong Yingying shot Ji Wenlin a fierce glare before quickly administering emergency aid.

However, after his mother’s hands pressed so hard on his chest it felt like it might cave in, Ji Wenyan finally decided to abandon his act of frailty.

It was simply too painful!

“Mom, where did you learn this first aid technique?”

“From a show I recently wrapped up. The crew invited professionals to teach us, and I picked up a few pointers.”

“Yingying is truly amazing! She can just casually learn something and save our son.”

“Hmph, just look who you’re talking to.”

Unable to endure it any longer, Ji Wenyan, as soon as he escaped Gong Yingying’s grasp, immediately changed the subject.

His chest still throbbed with excruciating pain if he pressed it!

As a devoted husband, Ji Wenlin, seeing his son ‘revived,’ no longer paid him much attention.

Instead, he smiled brightly, showering Gong Yingying with compliments.

Gong Yingying, hearing his praise, swelled with pride, her smile growing even more radiant, completely forgetting her supposedly ‘gravely injured’ son.

Watching the couple flaunt their affection, Ji Wenyan couldn’t help but pout in annoyance, thinking how utterly oblivious they were to their surroundings.

Ji Wenyan’s parents could be summarized by a single idiom:

Truly extraordinary.

There was no need to elaborate on Ji Wenyan’s father, Ji Wenlin. As the heir to the Ji family, owners of U City’s largest chain of shopping malls, his legendary accomplishments were simply too numerous to count.

As for Ji Wenyan’s mother, Gong Yingying, in her youth, she had swept up awards both domestically and internationally, becoming Asia’s most celebrated actress.

Having since retired from the limelight to become a director, she proved even more formidable than during her acting career.

Best TV Series, Best Film, Best Director… trophies like these were on the verge of filling an entire underground storage room.

Director Mo, whom Ji Wenyan had encountered, couldn’t even hold a candle to his mother.

When such a formidable father met an equally formidable mother, it was love at first sight. They registered their marriage less than a year after meeting.

At the time, because Gong Yingying was still an immensely popular actress across Asia, announcing their marriage would have caused considerable upheaval.

Thus, they simply invited a few close acquaintances and held a discreet wedding.

To this day, very few people knew about Gong Yingying and Ji Wenlin’s relationship.

Consequently, Ji Wenyan’s biological mother’s identity had always been publicly declared as unknown.

[Shocking: Gong Yingying’s Husband Is Actually Him!]

[Feiniao Mall Chairman Ji Wenlin Exposed for Dating a Young Model!]

[Famous Domestic Actor Publicly Confesses Love to Former Film Queen Gong Yingying, Vows to Marry No One Else!]

[Who Is the Wife of the Ji Group Heir?!]

Regarding Gong Yingying and Ji Wenlin, Ji Wenyan could open any browser and find all sorts of gossip. Over time, he simply stopped caring.

After all, it had no impact on his own life.

As for why they hadn’t gone public yet, according to Gong Yingying, she wished to enjoy the thrill of mystery and the forbidden excitement of potentially being exposed at any moment.

Ji Wenyan offered no comment on this.

As long as they were happy, that was all that mattered.