After my divorce, I started to have good luck

Chapter 1359 - 706: The Warlords Assemble

After hearing what Lin Yujiao said, Guo Mengyao didn’t know how to respond.If it were before, she would have wished Chen Feng had as few women as possible, but now, in this situation, she didn’t think that way anymore. Now every extra person they could unite with was one more, only then would they have enough confidence and strength to fight against Wu Mengting.

"I understand what you’re doing, and I don’t object to you doing it, to going up against Wu Mengting, but I personally don’t want to do that, to fight with Wu Mengting. I’m already a bit tired of sharing a man with so many women."

What Lin Yujiao said was basically the truth, she just left out one thing: even though she was a bit tired of it, deep down she still didn’t want to completely leave Chen Feng.

It was just that if Chen Feng主动提出 breaking up with her, she wouldn’t cling to him in tears and beg.

On top of that, she’d already lost her nerve before the fight even started. She didn’t want to clash with Wu Mengting. Besides her own inferiority complex, feeling she was no match for Wu Mengting at all, she was actually also afraid that if Chen Feng found out about what they were plotting, he would be furious and then completely kick her out.

So, out of a cowardly fear of the fight, self-abasement, and the worry about Chen Feng getting angry, she didn’t want to join this alliance.

Deep in her heart, she even vaguely looked forward to the day their plan failed, all of them got kicked out by Chen Feng, and she instead became the final "survivor."

Of course, if they won the fight, she could also just sit back and enjoy the benefits.

You could see from this that although Lin Yujiao was Buddhist about it, not wanting to fight over a man with other women, she wasn’t some silly sweet thing either; she had her own little calculations.

Honestly, as long as a woman has gone through a certain amount of life experience, by her age it’s impossible to still be a real silly sweet girl.

Especially someone like her, who dropped out of school in her teens to work, wandering in this society for so many years— even an idiot would understand that people’s hearts are separated by a belly.

Clearly, Guo Mengyao had not expected what Lin Yujiao was really thinking. Hearing her say this, she thought she was really planning to take the initiative and break up with Chen Feng.

If it were before, she would definitely have been thrilled, but now she really didn’t want a member to quit just as the alliance was formed, so she started persuading her earnestly: "Ah Jiao, don’t be so impulsive. Chen Feng may be a philanderer, but I think he’s always treated you quite well, right? Otherwise, you wouldn’t have stayed with him before. If you leave him, it’ll be really hard to find a man more outstanding than him. More importantly, that Wu Mengting has gone way too far. She just became Chen Feng’s girlfriend and wants to drive all of us away, without even giving us enough time to adjust. She doesn’t take us seriously at all, it’s really infuriating. She’s so domineering—can you really swallow that?"

Lin Yujiao sighed and said, "This actually isn’t Mengting’s problem, it’s Chen Feng’s. If he didn’t want to kick us out, it wouldn’t matter how much Mengting pressured him, it wouldn’t work. If Chen Feng himself has that intention, then no matter how we pester him, it’ll be useless."

Those words made Guo Mengyao feel uncomfortable for a moment, but she had to admit there was some truth to them.

"Of course Chen Feng has his share of the blame, but I still think the main problem is Wu Mengting. If she didn’t force him, Chen Feng definitely wouldn’t break up with us."

"She’s going to get engaged to Chen Feng at the end of the year. Once she becomes Chen Feng’s fiancée, will you still have the nerve to fight her for him?"

That sentence again made Guo Mengyao feel annoyed, but she still forced herself to say stiffly, "What era is this? So what if she becomes his fiancée? Even if she and Chen Feng get married, we still have the right to keep fighting. Chen Feng and I were classmates for all three years of high school, back then Wu Mengting was still in elementary school. I knew Chen Feng first, of course I have the right to fight for him."

Guo Mengyao’s twisted logic obviously didn’t stand up. When it comes to feelings, what "I came first, you came later" is there?

However, Lin Yujiao didn’t argue with her; she simply said, "I really don’t want to get involved in this. Don’t pull me into the group again."

After thinking for a moment, Guo Mengyao said, "How about this: I’ll add you back into the group, but you just pretend you’re not in it, just hang your name there. You can ignore the group from now on, or mute it. Otherwise, if you quit right after our alliance was just formed, it’ll be a real blow to our morale. Also, the rest of us in the group will definitely have opinions about you."

What she said wasn’t wrong. If Lin Yujiao exited now, the rest in the group would definitely be unhappy with her, especially Liu Ying.

Besides, everyone would surely worry whether Lin Yujiao might go and snitch.

Of course, Lin Yujiao understood this as well. After a moment of silence, she said, "I really don’t want to join the group again. If you all have opinions about me, there’s nothing I can do. But I can promise you, I absolutely won’t leak anything. On this, Xinyan can vouch for me. I often live with her; we sleep in the same bed."

"Huh, you and Xinyan are that close?"

Guo Mengyao asked in some surprise.

She really hadn’t known before that Jin Xinyan and Lin Yujiao were this close. Living together was one thing, but sleeping in the same bed—at their age, women like them still sharing a bed, that meant their relationship was actually much closer than that of ordinary best friends.

And she had always gotten along pretty well with Jin Xinyan; their personalities matched quite well too.

If Jin Xinyan was willing to vouch for Lin Yujiao, she really couldn’t refuse to give that face.

Not just because their relationship was good, but also because if it weren’t for Jin Xinyan helping to connect everyone, she wouldn’t have met Liu Ying and Hong Xiaodan, and wouldn’t have been able to pull in Sun Xiaorui, this key figure.

Plus, since Lin Yujiao had such a good relationship with Jin Xinyan, she probably wouldn’t betray Jin Xinyan and the rest of them.

"Yes. Xinyan is pretty much my best friend now. There are almost no secrets between us. I couldn’t possibly go and snitch and betray her. Besides, snitching would do absolutely nothing good for me; instead it’d offend all of you. Don’t you think so?"

After hesitating slightly, Guo Mengyao finally said, "Alright then. But I have to talk to Xinyan first. If she also doesn’t agree to you quitting the group, then I think you’d better still join, so you don’t put her in an awkward spot, or make things awkward for everyone."

"Fine. You can call Xinyan and talk to her about it."

"Mm, I’ll leave it here then, I’m hanging up."

"Okay."

After hanging up, Guo Mengyao immediately called Jin Xinyan.

After listening to what Guo Mengyao said, Jin Xinyan replied, "Since Sister Jiao doesn’t want to join the group, then forget it. It’s my fault for insisting on pulling her in; from the beginning she didn’t want to be part of our alliance. Don’t worry, she definitely won’t snitch. I can vouch for her. She’s very easygoing and likes to live at peace with the world, she’s never thought about scheming against people, unlike us."

Those words made Guo Mengyao feel awkward for a second. What did she mean "unlike us," that we scheme against others? Were they really that good at scheming?

"Alright then, since you’re willing to vouch for her, of course I’ll give you face. When you have time, just pay more attention to our group. We were just discussing specific plans of action."

"Okay, I was busy just now and didn’t check the group, I’ll keep an eye on it."