Chapter 4 “Brother-in-law’s Hidden Treasure”
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“Study?” Song was slightly stunned before her brow began to furrow up. “There is indeed a study room in our home, but that’s where my husband likes to meditate. He doesn’t like it when others go in.”
She’s hesitant about the idea because the study was her husband Chu Yun’s private domain. As the good wife, the singer doesn’t want to invade that personal space unless permitted.
However, upon thinking about those immensely valuable wines he didn’t disclose to herself, Song wondered if the guy truly was being honest with their marriage.
“We can go inside the study, but I have a request.” Song solemnly explained to the other three girls, “You are not allowed to move the things in there randomly, and you can’t destroy the layout in your search. Everything must be back in their original spot, okay?!”
No one had seen this side of the songbird’s character. She’s an international sensation, meaning the singer had to watch out for her own image at all times, but for her husband, she’s willing to ruin the perfect image she built over the years.
Everyone in the stream naturally became envious of Chu Yun’s good fortune, which only added to their jealousy of the guy.
If you have a wife like this, what more does a husband have to demand?
As for the other three friends, they only found the situation grim and undesirable because it would be the end of their friendship if they didn’t agree.
Fortunately, the three never thought about doing damage anyways so the request immediately got granted.
Just like that, Song eventually brought the party to the so-called ordinary-looking study. But sharp-eyed netizens weren’t going to be fooled. The sharpest of the viewers soon noticed some of the oddities.
“This isn’t right. Song’s home is so big, why is a study room located in the basement?
“Did any of you notice? All of the other rooms in the house are big classy halls, and only this basement is a single room layout!”
“Intriguing, why would Thief Chu Yun set up his personal space in a tiny room like this?”
Originally nobody paid attention to the size, but the series of questions popping up on the screen instantly made the crowd antsy and nervous about what this hinted at.
Creek~
As Song pushed open the door, everyone involuntarily held their breath while Music swept the study with her camera for the first time.
Nobody flinched there, not a single one. They all want to witness the source of their suspense. However, their momentary high quickly fell into a momentary low. There’s nothing special about this room—a total disappointment.
The room’s layout was unremarkable. Whether it be the desk or bookshelf, or the decorative items, there’s nothing special to mention aside from the material being slightly luxurious. But compared to the rest of the home’s furniture, that’s to be expected.
“Anchor, go check the books, maybe there will be something like a diary!”
“Is there a cupboard in the study, take a look?”
“Take a look inside the vase, right, the trashcan too!”
……
Everyone started giving advice and thought about everything they could think of.
But after a big lap around the whole room, they were again disappointed with only Song giddy inside at not finding evidence of infidelity.
“Let’s go back out now, it’s unlikely we will find anything with this little stuff here.” She carefully restored everything to their original spot and quickly gave the items a swift dust with a cloth.
Spirit the actress didn’t want to give up so easily despite her own disappointment. But then after a quick glance around, her eyes immediately fell upon the bookshelf that’s neatly organized in a very stylish fashion.
“Hmm, I didn’t expect Song’s husband to be so literate and collected this many books.” After murmuring to herself, the film queen went ahead to grab a book titled “Turns out I’m a Great Cultivator” for a scrim.
Despite being close friends, not even the girls here knew Spirit had a hobby of reading novels in her private time while in bed so this was right up her alley.
Then as she curiously flipped through the pages, the film queen’s body suddenly froze as astonishment took hold. She’s popping her eyes out as that lip forms an “O” shape.
“This… this novel isn’t a novel at all!” Spirit gently pulled apart the hardcover until the entire thing revealed its true form.
“What are you doing Spirit? We’re leaving…” Music was about to call her friend to come when she noticed the thing in the friend’s hand. “What are you holding in your hand?”
“A novel… no wait, this is not a novel at all! It’s an old scripture book. This is definitely brother-in-law’s treasure!” Spirit yelled aloud after taking a quick glance at the first few lines.
“Book?” Despite their doubt, the other three girls hurriedly ran over while the stream chat exploded with excitement.
At this time, the number of people watching the live stream had exceeded one million, thus putting heavy a strain on the servers.
It couldn’t be helped. The news of the four famous celebrities coming together on one screen was too hard to pass by. In addition, there’s also the hot topic of the girls finding some legendary wine in Song’s home, which compounded the rumor mill into the business sector that normally doesn’t pay attention to these things.
“What’s wrong? Is there something wrong with that book?”
“Thank god, we finally found something. I thought we would leave empty-handed there.”
“The goddesses are too good, they actually found Thief Chu Yun’s weakness!”
“Upstairs, you should focus on the wheel if you are driving. Didn’t you see the book unfolding into a big calligraphy paper?”
When Song and the three girls read through the paper’s content, their pupils immediately shrank and grew sluggish due to the alien language known as calligraphy.
“The novel’s hardcover turned out to be just a disguise, and the content is actually a letter, a poem, what?!” Song found herself fried in the head like a thunderbolt just struck down.
The reason? It’s because the songbird realized she had never truly known her husband at all!
Coco the cute schoolgirl didn’t get so shocked and instead got all lovey-dovey with that adoring face, “Who wrote this anyway? The letters are so beautiful like the ones used in those old manuscripts I see in the museums.”
“Fans, do any of you know how to read these words?” Music gave a close-up of the letter with her lens.
“Ninth year of Yonghe, years of decay, the beginning of late spring… aren’t these the poems of the Orchid Pavilion Collection?”
“Speaking of the Orchid Pavilion Collection, the most famous script would have to be Wang Xizhi’s poem.”
“Hey, take a closer look at the end. That name is written so smoothly, it can’t be Wang Xizhi’s autograph, right?”
“Upstairs, quit dreaming, how can it be Wang Xizhi’s autograph? If it is, that would make this manuscript the original you idiot!”
“On the surface it’s a novel book, but it’s in fact an old-styled calligraphy scroll that can be unfolded open. Thief Chu Yun sure knows how to play.”
The Storm Pen rewards Anchor with ten super fire comments: “Anchor, can you help me ask Mrs. Song if she’s willing to sell? I am a calligraphy enthusiast and would pay $200,000 for the book.”
“Here it comes, the bidding war is starting. I just knew there’s a lot of rich bosses lurking in this room!”
“I have to hand it to Thief Chu Yun’s ability to hide his savings. A simple calligraphy book he has lying around is worth over $200,000!”
……
At the same time, in an old-fashioned styled estate of the capital.
A teenager with a rather feministic handsome face was currently watching the live broadcast with great interest in his eyes. He’s been grinning ever since it started, and would often chuckle and giggle from the fans’ reactions.
This made the old grandpa and father nearby shaking their heads unceasingly due to the disappointment.
How did our Wang House produce this incompetent grandson?
We are known as a scholarly family throughout the ages, why is this generation only staring into the screen and following some singer instead of studying?
It’s then the teen’s body starts to shake violently due to excitement. Screaming aloud without care for those around: “HOLY SHIT!!!”
Startled by his son’s outburst, the father snaps angrily at the rude boy: “You brat, what are you screaming for out of the blue?!”
Unfazed at the tongue lashing, the teenager instead waved his phone around like a fanatic: “Grandpa, Dad, quickly come watch this!”
“Outrageous! Your grandfather is already so old, why would he be interested in your silly hobby?!”
The father flushed red from embarrassment and was ready to knock the boy on the head as punishment.
Dodging that with a side roll like any good brat: “Grandpa, you need to come see this for real! There’s something happening in the video!”
“Okay, okay, okay, grandpa is coming.” That said, the old grandfather sighs and fondly walked over like a kind elder.
However, that calm and serene image instantly crumbled after the old senior got his first glance at the content. He literally jumped with more excitement than his own grandson back there and yelled like a wild wolverine: “HOLY SHIT!”
This time it was the middle-aged man to be flabbergasted. He could deal with his son’s outburst since the kid’s immature, but why would his old man behave the same way?
Though hesitant and wary, he too stepped over to take a peek as well.
“HOLY SHIT!!!”