Chapter 84

Guo Lin and Zhao Lina maintained a lover's relationship for three and a half years. He always thought he had hidden it very well and that it would never be exposed, but he never expected it to be exposed.

Seeing Guo Lin's face turn pale, Xue Guilin knew that everything on the internet was true. In a fit of anger, she grabbed the ashtray from the coffee table and threw it on the ground in a frenzy: "You really have no conscience, Guo! I gave birth to and raised your son at home, and helped you make money and build relationships outside, and you actually kept a fox spirit behind my back!"

Seeing the situation, Guo Lin knew that any attempt to explain or lie would be useless. He quickly stepped forward to apologize: "Dear, don't be angry, I was just confused for a moment..."

Xue Guilin immediately exploded and reached out to scratch Guo Lin's face: "Confused? You old bastard, were you confused for three and a half years?"

Guo Lin was caught off guard, and his face burned with pain from at least five or six spots. In a panic, he pushed Xue Guilin away and said angrily: "What do you want to do? Everyone in this neighborhood works at the mine. Do you want to ruin me? If this gets out, how can I still be the mine manager?"

Xue Guilin was already driven mad by the situation and lost her reason. In a fit of anger, she lunged forward again to attack: "You old scoundrel, you still have a sense of shame? What did you do before! It's too late! Your affair with that fox spirit has already been exposed online. Who doesn't know now? Fortunately, this person exposed you, or you would have hidden it from me for life?"

Xue Guilin's words made Guo Lin feel a chill down his back. His mind exploded, and his heart raced as if it was about to jump out. As he was stunned, Xue Guilin grabbed his face, and Guo Lin's legs gave way, and he fell to the ground.

Xue Guilin, in a rage, grabbed Guo Lin's hair and tore at it fiercely.

Over the years, she had always felt like a queen at the Xiling Coal Mine, bossing everyone around, and was obsessed with makeup, beauty treatments, hair dyeing, and dressing up, making herself look like a fake foreigner. She thought she had a firm grip on her husband's heart, but today she realized that Guo Lin had been keeping women behind her back all along. This was a huge blow to her, and she didn't consider anything else.

At this moment, Guo Lin was more terrified than anything else. In the afternoon, he still thought that the people who wanted to ruin him didn't have any evidence. But in less than an hour, Zhao Lina, whom he had hidden for three and a half years, was exposed. This clearly showed that the other party had evidence against him, but he didn't know how much more they had.

In his extreme frustration, Xue Guilin attacked him again, and Guo Lin's anger reached its limit. He pushed Xue Guilin to the ground and, dragging his fat body, slapped her hard: "Do I give you too much face, Xue Guilin? You want to fly to the sky?"

Xue Guilin's face burned with pain. Guo Lin, who had been exposed for his affair, actually dared to hit her, which made her even angrier: "You dog, I'll fight you to the death, I'll die with you!"

This was the time when families in the Xiling Coal Mine neighborhood were finishing their meals and going out for a walk to cool off. The noise from Guo Lin's house, with the fighting, smashing, and cursing, was known to everyone in the neighborhood. People who lived next to the Guo family heard the content of their mutual insults, and a rumor quickly spread throughout the neighborhood.

"Guo Lin was caught with a woman, and the couple is fighting at home!"

The Guo family lived on the first floor, and as the couple was in the heat of battle, they didn't realize that dozens of people had gathered at both the front and back doors, listening to the scene. Even the people in the buildings behind them were standing on their balconies, straining to hear.

Li Mu also heard it. His house was in the building in front of the Guo family, and his bedroom was on the shady side, so he could hear everything clearly from his window.

Xue Guilin was known as a notorious woman in the Xiling Coal Mine, and her personality couldn't be described as just fierce. It was said that when she was young, she could pull out a bloody sanitary napkin from her pants and throw it in someone's face during an argument. Now, although sanitary napkins were widely used, Xue Guilin, at her age, was at the peak of her fighting ability.

Li Mu couldn't say how much impact the rumors he had spread would have on Guo Lin's career, but he was sure that Xue Guilin, this female warrior, would not let him off easily in the short term.

Numerous spy movies have taught a lesson: if you can't defeat your enemy head-on, you must first break them from within.

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The next day, neither Guo Lin nor Xue Guilin appeared at the mine.

Rumors at the mine were even more rampant, and soon everyone knew about Guo Lin's affair with a woman.

Guo Lin was almost driven mad at home. Last night, he fought with his wife until midnight, and they were both exhausted, so they slept in separate rooms, temporarily putting an end to the conflict. But his face was scratched to pieces, and he couldn't go to work like this.

Thinking about all the negative comments about him online, he became even more anxious.

At this moment, he almost completely forgot about getting Chen Hailong to frame Li Mu's father. His mind was filled with how to get through the current crisis and how to fix the mess at home.

He even forgot that Zhao Lina was still waiting for him to bring the money.

He forgot about Zhao Lina, but Xue Guilin didn't.

She didn't sleep all night, thinking of strategies in a rage. Early in the morning, she started asking friends about a woman named Zhao Lina.

The information she could provide was limited. She only knew that the woman's name was Zhao Lina, she was between 22 and 24 years old, and she was a third-year student at Haizhou Teachers College three years ago, and should have graduated two years ago.

Fortunately, Haizhou was a small city, and it was easy to find someone. By noon, she had received a confirmed piece of information.

The Zhao Lina she was looking for graduated from Haizhou Teachers College in 1999 and was the only one with that name that year. She was currently working in Haizhou, which matched the description.

When she heard that Zhao Lina was now a civil servant in the Education Bureau, Xue Guilin's anger intensified.

No wonder, no wonder last year when her brother's daughter graduated from university and asked him to help get a job in the Education Bureau, he refused. It turned out he had already gotten his fox spirit in!

She was so angry that she forgot about the bruises on her face from Guo Lin's beating. She called her brother and sister, asking her brother to pick up her sister and then come to her house. She decided to go and confront the fox spirit!

The Xue family had benefited greatly from Xue Guilin and Guo Lin, so Xue Guilin was always the core figure in the family. She only needed to give a command, and her siblings would follow her lead.

Hearing Xue Guilin slam the door, Guo Lin, hiding in another bedroom, finally breathed a sigh of relief. He didn't think about where Xue Guilin had gone but first called someone with whom he had a close interest, a man named Wu Dong. Wu Dong almost monopolized 80% of the coal from the Xiling Coal Mine, and Guo Lin had received a lot of bribes from him. They were a solid interest alliance.

Wu Dong had considerable influence in Haizhou, and when Guo Lin called him to help delete the posts online, Wu Dong immediately agreed. Guo Lin was his cash cow, and he couldn't let him get into trouble.

Then, Guo Lin called his old leader, Han Lu.

Guo Lin had no connections in Pengcheng, and Han Lu was the person he knew best. In such a situation, he needed Han Lu to help him in the group, and of course, he wouldn't let him help for free.

Although Han Lu scolded Guo Lin over the phone for being careless and causing trouble at a critical moment, he still agreed to help. They had a close relationship, and years of mutual benefit meant he couldn't abandon Guo Lin now.

As for Jinling, Guo Lin was a bit at a loss. He had no connections there, and it would be difficult to find someone to delete the posts.

After careful consideration, he called Wu Dong again, offering to pay to see if he could get the relevant posts deleted from Jinling's websites.

After making these arrangements, Guo Lin finally remembered Zhao Lina.

The internet had already exposed Zhao Lina's name and the location of their love nest, but fortunately, the exposers didn't know her current job, so they didn't reveal her workplace.

It seemed that he absolutely couldn't see Zhao Lina for a while. He also needed to warn her not to return to the house in Wanying International Garden. They needed to maintain a distance until the storm passed.

So, Guo Lin called Zhao Lina and explained the situation.

Zhao Lina was at work, and her colleagues had been whispering behind her back all day, making her nervous. But she hadn't thought about being exposed until Guo Lin's call.

Hearing that she had been exposed, Zhao Lina, who was already nervous, became even more frightened and anxious.

For a young woman like her, who was being kept by a wealthy older man, she absolutely didn't want to be exposed. She saw it as a business deal, a way to accumulate more life capital. When the time was right and she had earned enough money, she would leave him quietly.

With her looks and her job as a civil servant in the Education Bureau, Zhao Lina was confident that after leaving Guo Lin, she could find a reliable young man to marry. After they fell in love, she would tell her future husband, with tears in her eyes, that he was her second man, and that her first time was during a drunken night in college, and she had never been with anyone else since. Then she would turn over her past and start a new, happy life.

But if her affair was exposed, all these dreams would be shattered. Her reputation would be ruined, her relationship with Guo Lin would be over, and she would no longer receive any benefits from him. She wouldn't have the courage to continue her job, and she would be too ashamed to stay in Haizhou.

Zhao Lina was in a panic, like a deer surrounded by wolves. Guo Lin tried to comfort her on the phone: "Baby, don't think too much. They only exposed your name, and I'm already trying to get the posts deleted."

"What did you do last night!" Zhao Lina's voice carried a hint of accusation. She had been exposed yesterday evening, and he only started deleting the posts now.

Guo Lin sighed: "I fought with that old woman until midnight."

Zhao Lina quickly asked: "What? She found out?"

Guo Lin nodded, and just as he was about to speak, Zhao Lina let out a terrible scream...

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From January 11th, when I uploaded the first chapter of this book, to today, it has been exactly one and a half months. If I remember correctly, I haven't missed a single day of updates, and the word count has reached 230,000. Looking at books with good performance, by this word count, their collections are usually over 10,000, and the recommendation votes are also over 10,000. This book has not even reached 4,000, and the recommendation votes are even fewer than the collections...

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