Ch58 - Yes

Yao Jing was released in court, and Sheng Min Ou being her defense lawyer was regarded as untouchable for a while, as he received a lot of media attention.

Though he already had established a good reputation in his field, he still lacked popularity behind his name. After this incident, everyone knew of him now, and it could be said that this move had completely elevated the level of awareness surrounding his name. 

It was exactly as Sheng Min Ou had said at the beginning. This was a win-win situation where both sides benefitted.

After the lawsuit was over, he became even busier than before. I went to their law firm a few times and saw that each time he was preoccupied with meeting clients. The once orderly office had also morphed to become like a swarming marketplace, with many people visiting for a consultation. Compared to his business which appeared to grow at light speed, my relationship with him looked as if it was on the verge of colliding with a reef.

 

 

These days, he hadn’t been paying much attention to me. Granted, it wasn’t like he usually treated me with great enthusiasm, but I could still somehow discern a difference in his demeanor.

Using the text messages that I send him daily as an example, I sent reminders for him to remember to take time to rest and to also eat on time. In the past, he wouldn’t reply to any of these messages, but I knew that he would read them. However, in the past two days I started becoming more uncertain. Though I had nothing to go off of, I had a feeling that he might not even have opened any of my recent texts. He might have simply deleted it as soon as he received it. 

How did he end up becoming angry again?

 

“Ai, ge ge’s heart really is about as clear as mud…”

I stared at my empty notifications banner and sighed. Shen Xiao Shi passed me by, puzzled, “Feng Ge, it’s almost half past six, aren’t you planning to leave?”

I propped my face on a hand and sighed three times in one sentence as I replied, “It’s only half past six, isn’t it still early?”

 

Shen Xiao Shi was taken aback, then glanced at the time on his phone, “That’s right, but did you forget? I invited Lawyer Sheng and the others to dinner today. I told you last week.”

We were having dinner together? It sounded faintly familiar, however these past few days my thoughts had wandered elsewhere, and I had completely forgotten about this arrangement.

Hang on……

 

I got up at once and grabbed Shen Xiao Shi’s arm, “Is my brother going?” 

Shen Xiao Shi received quite a fright from my sudden actions, “Probably… he’s probably going?”

Liu Yue turned off her computer at this time, and slung her bag over the side as she moved to leave. Shen Xiao Shi and I were right in her way, so she could only stand aside and wait.

“Aren’t you guys going to leave?”

I took a step back to let her pass through first, and noticed that she had subtle makeup on and even applied red lipstick today, as I remarked in surprise, “Are you going on a date today?” 

Liu Yue looked back at me, and gathered a strand of her hair shyly, “Aren’t we all going to eat together? I wanted to see Feng Ge’s super handsome brother, so I made a special effort to dress up today.”

I raised an eyebrow and looked at Shen Xiao Shi as he smiled and explained, “Liu Yue is great at livening the atmosphere, she’s totally hype to have around.”

Shen Xiao Shi had Liu Yue and I go ahead first as he stayed back to lock up. Shen Xiao Shi rejoined us when the taxi arrived but he brought along with him a big briefcase in his hand.

I looked at the briefcase and found it familiar as I tried hard to recall what it was. Suddenly, it hit me that I had seen this briefcase when we were cleaning out the inventory before. Shen Xiao Shi explained then that it was a polygraph, but as it was not a very common everyday item, it had been with us for a long time and could not be sold. 

Shen Xiao Shi could tell that I was curious and slapped the briefcase a few times as he remarked, “We’ll be using this to play some games. The restaurant I booked for has karaoke in it’s private rooms. However, if all we did was sing then that might get a bit boring, so Liu Yue suggested for us to all play a little game.”

“Using a polygraph for the games?”

 

Liu Yue turned around from her front passenger seat and said, “Feng Ge, you don’t understand, this is how you make things exciting.”

At that time, I was still rather skeptical over how much additional excitement a polygraph could generate. However, two hours later, I would admit that games with a polygraph added were thrilling indeed. 

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The three of us arrived at the restaurant. There was a table for 20 people, and the cold dishes had already been served. The automatic turntable was slowly rotating, and the wall was decorated with red and yellow colored balloons. The atmosphere of the place was great. On the side was a section where there was a sofa and coffee table, with dice for gambling and dice cups, as well as various other board games. Right in front of that was a projector with a huge screen and just as Shen Xiao Shi had said, there was an option to queue songs for karaoke.

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Wu Yi still looked slightly awkward when he saw me, as he couldn’t bring himself to look me in the eye. He coughed lightly before responding, “Laoshi is still meeting with clients outside. I don’t know when it will be over. He might have to come over later.” 

If he wasn’t sure when the meeting would end, then that meant there was a chance that he might not be able to make it here in time.

I uttered a disappointed ‘oh’ and lost most of my interest. After that, I was absent-minded throughout the whole meal, as I couldn’t help but let my gaze drift towards the door over and over. Even when we had finished eating, Sheng Min Ou still did not show up.

It hadn’t even passed 8 p.m. when we finished dinner. The lights were dimmed, as those who sang sang, those who drank drank, and those who were gambling with dice did exactly that. It was at this moment that Liu Yue decided to present her skill of ‘livening the atmosphere’, as she had Shen Xiao Shi bring out the polygraph. We bunched up and sat in a circle, as we started playing a game of Truth or Dare.

“I’ll be the referee. There are five dice here. Everyone takes a guess and the person who gets the closest to it loses. If you choose Truth, you’ll have to be strapped up to the lie detector. If you decide to take Dare, then you’ll have to down a whole glass of wine. You guys game?” Liu Yue explained as she shook the dice up in her hand, looking as if she was a veteran at this. 

I could not have guessed that this little girl who was obsessed with dramas and celebrities had so many tricks up her sleeve, and I had no idea if she had learnt all of this from her TV shows.

“Go go go!” Wu Yi responded positively, rushing to participate first, “I have never played with a polygraph before, it’s so high-end!”

In the end, the more enthusiastic he was the faster he lost. He guessed right in the very first round, and therefore became the first user who tried out the polygraph.

Shen Xiao Shi put the equipment on for him as Liu Yue sat right opposite him and asked him to come up with any number. “I have an app here which has a thousand truth prompts. Whichever question you guys end up with is not related to me yeah, it’s not as if these questions are what I personally wanted to ask. Of course, if you really can’t answer the question then there will be a slight electric shock penalty after ten seconds have passed. Then, you’ll have to answer another question. However, if you lie and the machine beeps, it’s not a pass, and you’ll be shocked again, so the questions would still continue. Therefore, if you don’t want to be shocked, you’re better off telling the truth.” 

Wu Yi’s expression changed a little hearing this, he hadn’t anticipated that there would be electric shocks at stake in this thrilling game, and therefore appeared slightly nervous.

“The electric shock…does it hurt?”

Shen Xiao Shi comforted him, “It’s alright, it’s like being flicked by a rubber band.”

Wu Yi was going to say something else when Liu Yue signaled for everyone to be quiet, as she read out the question corresponding to the number he selected. 

“Number eighty-nine, who in this room would you most want to sleep with?”

The colour on Wu Yi’s face instantly changed to be the colour of dirt, “This… can we change the question?”

 

Liu Yue replied, “This is the whole point of choosing Truth, you can’t just change questions at ease.”

As soon as she finished speaking, Wu Yi’s expression distorted as a yelp escaped him, as both his hands shrank back simultaneously. 

Liu Yue covered her lips and smiled, “Oops, sorry, the time ran out as we were talking. Then, let’s change the question.”

Wu Yi sighed and cautiously changed to another number. This time the question was not as spicy as the one before it, as it asked Wu Yi for his most hidden secret which no one knew.

Due to the ten-second time limit, Wu Yi didn’t have much time to think. He glanced at me subconsciously, and quickly shouted, “I accidentally learned of Laoshi’s secret!”

Though he had not specified what the secret was, just the mention of Sheng Min Ou was enough to light up the whole atmosphere. 

For a while, everyone rushed to Wu Yi and pestered him for what Sheng Min Ou’s secret was, and why he hadn’t been killed off yet.

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“Don’t ask, I won’t say it!” Wu Yi hurriedly tore off the polygraph, his earlier excitement completely vanishing from his current demeanor as he sped off to one side to sing instead.

“Seeing how afraid Wu Yi is, it looks like this really is one hell of a secret.” One lawyer analyzed, as he folded his arms across his chest.

“I really want to know Lawyer Sheng’s secret though, when should we get Wu Yi drunk?” Another lawyer said. 

The two smiled at each other and reached a consensus.

I took a photo of everyone enjoying their time together from a distance, and sent it to Sheng Min Ou, whilst attaching a cheesy pick up line to him, “Without you in this lively atmosphere, the happiness doesn’t even mean anything. Ge, I miss you, how long will it take before you arrive?”

Not long after I had sent the message, there was a sudden soft ‘ding’ at the door, followed by the waiter pushing open the door to the room and letting a tall figure in.

Sheng Min Ou held his phone up to check its contents before putting it away at a glance. 

See, what did I say. I just knew that he wasn’t reading my texts anymore!

As soon as he raised his head, he happened to collide gazes with me and paused. I waved at him, pretending that nothing had happened, as I still welcomed him warmly.

“Ge, you finally came.” I went up and pulled at his arm as I dragged him to the side where we were playing with the polygraph.

He didn’t offer any resistance as he let me drag him inside. 

When everyone saw him approaching, they hurriedly stepped aside and also strongly insisted for him to also take part in the game. Every one of them having been electric shocked so thoroughly that their courage now swelled too.

Sheng Min Ou sat down without fully grasping the situation and Liu Yue had him choose a number between five and thirty. He chose five. As a result, everyone winked at each other and chose numbers bigger than fifteen. When Liu Yue revealed the die under the cup, it was an eight. Sheng Min Ou had lost.

 

There were not many chances to witness the boss truthfully answer questions. Everyone banded together in concealing the fact that there was an alternative choice being dare, and instead urged Shen Xiao Shi to hook him onto the polygraph.

Sheng Min Ou was pulling up his sleeves. He had only arrived for five minutes, and he hadn’t even warmed up the surface under his ass before he was dragged to the ‘penalty chair’. In light of this, his brows became slightly furrowed and full of bewilderment. 

The great lawyer who was highly esteemed outside was now being miserably tricked and done in by his colleagues at a game of dice. He wasn’t even extended the opportunity to choose Dare, as he was forced to go with Truth. I found him being in this situation extremely interesting, as I fell against the sofa and laughed so hard I couldn’t stand up properly.

Perhaps I laughed too hard and had forgotten what I must have looked like in front of others as his gaze suddenly was directed towards me, his look mixed with slight disdain. I instantly reverted back to my younger, kid self. I didn’t even just stop laughing, one glance from him was enough to have me sit up right and proper again, not daring to fool around anymore.

I sat up straight, brought my knees together, and gave him a smile in an attempt to curry favour. He saw it, but like the text messages that I had sent him, it sank into the depths of the sea without any response, as he looked away rather indifferently.

Wu Yi at this time had just finished singing a song on the other side. When he was about to queue up a new one, he noticed Sheng Min Ou being wired up to the polygraph, and decided to stop singing as he watched on in anticipation. 

Liu Yue gave Sheng Min Ou a recap of the rules and asked him to pick a number at random.

“Nineteen.” Sheng Min Ou chose the number without hesitation.

“Well, the question is….” Liu Yue was just about to read the question when I swiped the phone from her hand and gestured that I would read the question out instead. She didn’t say anything as she stepped aside for me to take her spot. I sat down opposite Sheng Min Ou, glanced at the phone, and placed it back onto the coffee table, face down.

I leaned in towards him slightly, looked directly in his eyes, as if I just wanted to talk to him about today’s weather. 

I gave him a smile first to liven the atmosphere, and then asked him the question without any euphemisms, “Do you like me?”

The crowd echoed noises of disappointment and boredom. To them, this question was not challenging at all. After all, what was wrong with brothers saying that they liked each other? This reaction was shared by everyone except for Liu Yue, who had read the question and knew that I hadn’t followed the prompt on the phone at all, so she instead appeared especially startled.

Ten seconds passed in an instant, and Sheng Min Ou never answered this question that was deemed to be unchallenging to everyone else. The moment the current ran across his wrist, his eyebrows suddenly furrowed. Other than that one movement, he appeared completely fine, and his reaction was the slightest out of everyone present.

“Boss, was it because you thought this question was too simple, so you deliberately didn’t answer it and wanted a change of questions?” 

“Boss, why don’t you pick another number?”

“Pick a luckier number.”

Shen Xiao Shi controlled the machine, and asked Sheng Min Ou in a slightly diffident tone, “Do we want to keep going?”

Sheng Min Ou didn’t reply to him as he stared at me, and directly called out a number. 

“Five-three-two.”

I looked at the phone, typed in the numbers and laughed when I saw the question.

 

The heavens were really on my side.

“Do you want to sleep with me?” 

Everyone let out a shocked sound, as Liu Yue leaned over to take a look as she smacked her lips together and said, “Woah, this is so taboo, so thrilling!”

Sheng Min Ou pursed his lips knowing he could not answer either way so could only submit to being electrocuted again. This time he had experience, so even when the charge hit him there was no change in his features. Shen Xiao Shi however appeared terrified and acted as if he was put in a difficult position, “We, we’re still going again?”

After all, Sheng Min Ou could basically be regarded as the person who had saved his mothers life, and here he was electrocuting said saviour over and over again. It was inevitable that Shen Xiao Shi would feel some sort of burden doing so.

After being electrocuted twice, Sheng Min Ou might have thought that I was messing with him, as he moved silently to take the electrode pads off himself, his facial expression sullen. I chased away Shen Xiao Shi, sat next to him, and stopped his hand. 

“I didn’t make up the two questions that were asked before. They were all randomly generated by the phone. If you don’t believe me, ask Liu Yue.” I was being thick skinned and spouting nonsense but Liu Yue was very cooperative in nodding to my claims.

Sheng Min Ou stopped moving, as he looked at me, “Then what do you want?”

I put the electrode pads back on his hand, blinked at him and said, “Go on of course, unless you can’t afford to keep playing?”

Sometimes men really could not be taunted. If one decided to taunt him, then they would 100% fall for the trick. 

Not doing it and not being able to stay in the game were almost analogous in terms of the weight they carried.

Sure enough, Sheng Min Ou sneered, “Then continue.”

He called out a number for the third time and Liu Yue handed me the phone. I glanced at the question, then leaned in close to Sheng Min Ou’s ear as I asked him, “If I had physical contact with other people, the type that was very intimate, would you be angry at that?”

This evidently was not a question generated by the phone. From beginning to end, my goal was just to mess with him. 

Time ticked by with every passing second, would he remain silent and be electrified, or would he lie and face the same punishment, or would he simply just unplug the electrode pads and deride me for such shameless daydreams? I thought about it, and came to the conclusion that the chances of the first possibility happening was the highest.

There were only a few seconds left, and seeing that Sheng Min Ou would similarly avoid answering this time around, I sighed in my heart, and thought to myself, hey, forget about it, he’s already been shocked twice. Given Wu Yi’s reaction before, it should be quite painful, so if he doesn’t answer then that will just be that.

I was about to bend over to turn off the machine when the man who had always remained silent suddenly opened his mouth at the last second.

“Yes.” 

His voice was not very loud, but it was very clear.

I sat there, my body stilled, staring stunned at the polygraph screen.

 

The machine didn’t beep and the heart rate was consistent. He had told the truth.

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