Reborn as Zhao Ruilong of Handong, I will defy fate.

Chapter 565 Enraged! Liang Lu Reports Qi Tongwei!

"Madam, wake up!"

Wake up, lady!

A gentle pat and a call woke Liang Lu up.

She thought she had fainted and woken up to find herself in a hospital bed.

What we saw instead were beautiful waitresses dressed in Huilong Hotel uniforms.

Immediately following was the sound of laughter and chatter from her ex-husband Qi Tongwei's wedding banquet...

"How are you?"

"Did you fall and get hurt, or is anything bothering you?"

"Should we call an ambulance to take you to the hospital?"

Liang Lu shook her head decisively.

Go to the hospital...

Can I afford to go by myself?

She had only recently been released from prison and hadn't even received her first month's salary yet, so her medical insurance couldn't be renewed.

If you're taken to the hospital by ambulance, all sorts of tests like ultrasounds, CT scans, and blood tests will cost you at least several hundred yuan.

"I'm fine, I just feel a little dizzy for a moment!"

"I've never drunk alcohol before, but I drank quite a lot today, and I feel a bit dizzy!"

Liang Lu quickly explained that she didn't want to go to the hospital.

"Would you like me to help you back to your seat to rest?"

"No need, just help me up."

Liang Lu reached out for support and stood up with the help of the waiter.

After getting up, I realized that I had fainted at the entrance of the hall without attracting the attention of other guests.

Perhaps it's not that no one saw it, but rather that even if they did, they pretended not to.

Anyway, the waiter guarding the door will definitely handle it quickly as soon as possible.

After taking two steps forward, I realized that I seemed to be fine.

Liang Lu stopped and brushed away the waiter's hand.

"I can walk by myself, I don't need your help, thank you!"

"Okay, then please take your time!"

Liang Lu gave a soft "hmm" and continued walking forward in a daze.

But after taking only a few steps, he stopped again.

Why would I go back?

"Look how smug Qi Tongwei is today!"

"Or should we watch how these high-ranking officials and dignitaries fawn over Zhao Ruilong?"

Liang Lu shook her head slightly.

I felt there was no need for me to return to the main table to continue the meal.

She thought of her father, Liang Qunfeng.

I remembered what he had said when he was alive.

"So-called social skills are nothing more than icing on the cake when you have value to us, and people's concern and flattery in order to seek their own interests."

"Once you lose your value, even the best relationships will quickly cool down, and even the closest friends will gradually drift apart. Those who once flattered you may even kick you when you're down!"

Thinking of this, Liang Lu couldn't help but smile self-deprecatingly.

I should have realized long ago that by shamelessly attending the wedding banquet today, I would inevitably end up with nothing.

"What a cold and realistic society!"

"So-called social etiquette is nothing more than the weak trying to please the strong."

"Otherwise, how come I've never seen a strong person treat the weak with courtesy and consideration?"

"I'm a social outcast with absolutely no value, and I'm lucky I wasn't kicked out of the wedding banquet!"

"You think you can get acquainted with these big shots? You think you can play the victim and cry poverty to gain their pity and sympathy? What am I thinking? Am I daydreaming?"

With a forced smile and a shake of her head, Liang Lu prepared to turn and leave.

And just as his gaze unconsciously swept across the crowd.

After clinking glasses with several guests, Qi Tongwei, who was about to drink, happened to be looking at them.

The moment their eyes met, Qi Tongwei smiled.

That fleeting smile.

In Liang Lu's view, it was clearly not politeness or courtesy, but rather smugness.

It's the victor's boast!

He was a poor rural boy who had turned his life around and was very proud of himself!

It was a silent contempt for herself, an old woman whose family had fallen on hard times and could no longer bully others!

In an instant.

A nameless fire ignited in Liang Lu's heart.

Unable to gain any advantage at the wedding banquet and instead being ignored and neglected, she instantly became furious and embarrassed!

"You bastard, Qi Tongwei!"

"What's with the attitude? What's so great about it?"

"If I hadn't agreed to marry you back then, and you hadn't become the Liang family's son-in-law, would you be where you are today?"

"You're still stuck in that poor, rural judicial office in Yantai City, waiting for your seniority to be recognized!"

"They showed no gratitude after their fate was changed by my Liang family. As soon as my Liang family got into trouble, they immediately severed ties and switched allegiance to the Zhao family!"

"What's so great about a new wife that you, a heartless, greedy, and ungrateful scoundrel, have to brag about?"

Liang Lu became increasingly angry as she thought about it.

Qi Tongwei, who openly knelt down and proposed to her on the playground back then.

Now, at the wedding banquet, he's showing off and flaunting his wealth with a smug look in his eyes.

This was like a sharp blade, piercing Liang Lu's heart.

It made her tremble with pain and grit her teeth in anger!

Seeing Qi Tongwei tilt his head back, finish his drink, and then glance at himself again.

It's as if it's saying silently, "Look how successful this guy is now!"

I didn't invite you, but you insisted on coming. Now you've been slapped in the face and hurt your feelings, haven't you?

Looking at Qi Tongwei's amused eyes and teasing smile.

Liang Lu's anger reached its peak.

Just as she couldn't hold back any longer and was about to rush up and start cursing at him.

A man suddenly jogged in.

Take a closer look.

Isn't that a matter of degree?

His appearance alone makes him look quite fierce and imposing; he's Zhao Ruilong's staunch follower!

Liang Lu remembered that when the Liang family was brought down, Cheng Du, the then deputy director of the Guangming District Branch, was a leading figure in the effort!

Now that he's out of prison, his status as Zhao Ruilong's loyal underling has probably already risen to a higher level.

"Sorry, old classmate! I had to deal with an unexpected case and I'm late!"

"It's alright, I'll just punish myself with three drinks!"

"no problem!"

The degree of ease and decisiveness was readily agreed to by Qi Tongwei.

At the same time, he quickly smiled and nodded to Zhao Ruilong in greeting.

Watching the group drinking and laughing, Liang Lu's anger suddenly subsided considerably.

The thought of rushing up to angrily berate Qi Tongwei vanished instantly.

"No, no, no!"

"I can't rush up and yell at him!"

"Today is his big day. If I were to scold him, I would be in the wrong!"

"Besides, what should we say about him? That he's ungrateful? But the decline of the Liang family isn't his fault!"

"If I were to call him a treacherous and opportunistic villain who would do anything to curry favor with the powerful, he would definitely bring up old grievances with me instead!"

"He said that if I hadn't abused my power back then and assigned him, who was excellent in both character and academics, to a remote judicial office, even though he was shot three times and became a drug-fighting hero, he still couldn't be transferred to Yanjing to reunite with Chen Yang, and he wouldn't have knelt down and proposed to me in public!"

"Moreover, I disrupted the wedding and made Qi Tongwei lose face on this auspicious day. I'm afraid he won't even have to get angry; Cheng Du could easily put me in jail and charge me with 'picking quarrels and provoking trouble'!"

Liang Lu took a deep breath, suppressing her anger.

She used to be the deputy secretary of the law school of Handong University, and her father, Liang Qunfeng, was also the secretary of the political and legal affairs department of Handong Province.

So she certainly knew that disrupting the wedding banquet, whether it was considered disturbing public order or provoking trouble, would be enough to bring her, with her criminal record, into serious trouble.

But the more I suppress it, the more unhappy I feel.

Seeing Qi Tongwei's happy expression made Liang Lu even angrier.

After his family fell into poverty and his life hit rock bottom, Qi Tongwei, who had once been bullied, rose to the pinnacle of his life.

Outraged, Liang Lu turned and stormed out of the banquet hall. Without hesitation, she took out her phone from her bag and dialed the anti-corruption hotline of the Handong Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection.

"Arrogant, huh? Smug, huh?"

"I'll show you what it means for things to go to extremes and then reverse!"

"Let me teach you a lesson so you'll understand that for those from humble backgrounds to achieve great things, life is always a perilous journey!"

"Do you really think that by first getting close to the Liang family and then the Zhao family, you can leapfrog social classes and defy fate?"

"Today I'm going to show you, Qi Tongwei, what it means to turn your life around. You're still a damn salted fish in the end!!"

Liang Lu walked out of Huilong Hotel grumbling and cursing. After listening to the audio introduction, she chose the live customer service option without hesitation.

After a short wait, the call was connected.

"Hello, this is employee number 0547. May I ask how you..."

Liang Lu shouted angrily, "I want to report that a large group of high-ranking officials are feasting and drinking in Hall 3 of the Huilong Hotel in Jingzhou. You should send someone to investigate right away!"

Are you here to report a public official for violating regulations regarding dining and drinking?

Liang Lu exclaimed, "That's right! Doesn't Handong Province strictly prohibit unauthorized dining and drinking? Yet a large group of officials are here indulging in lavish feasts, severely corrupting the atmosphere of officialdom. This is simply lawless!"

Do you know who the organizers are? Do you know why they're having such a feast?

"The organizer is Qi Tongwei, the current captain of the Handong Anti-Terrorism Brigade. Today is his wedding day, and he has invited many high-ranking officials to a lavish feast!"

"A wedding banquet, right? Please wait a moment while I check!"

Liang Lu frowned.

"What do you mean? How can you investigate if you don't send people to the scene? And you need to hurry up and send people over, otherwise they'll be done eating and drinking!"

"Please wait!"

There was no sound coming from the phone.

Liang Lu walked down the steps angrily and came to the fountain outside the gate.

Seeing one luxury car after another coming and going from the Huilong Hotel only fueled my anger.

"Hello ma'am, is the groom Qi Tongwei and the bride Bao Yali, correct?"

"That's right, it's the two of them! But how did you find out who the bride is?"

"Because they had registered in advance that they would be getting married on October 1st, which means they would be holding their wedding banquet together at the Huilong Hotel in Jingzhou today, and they had registered for 30 tables."

Liang Lu was stunned.

"No, does that mean that if we apply in advance, we can eat and drink whatever we want without restraint?"

"Of course not! If you use hosting a wedding banquet as an excuse to collect exorbitant gifts, have someone else pay the bill, or enjoy discounts far below market rates, or if the wedding banquet standards are significantly higher than normal consumption levels, all of these are violations!"

Liang Lu said excitedly, "Although they didn't accept any money as gifts, the table was full of good wine, food, and cigarettes, which is clearly a violation of the rules!"

"Most importantly, the groom, Qi Tongwei, has a close relationship with Zhao Ruilong, the behind-the-scenes boss of Huilong Group. He certainly won't have to pay a single penny for his wedding banquet. Isn't that tantamount to indirect bribery?"

On the other end of the phone, the operator was so shocked that she was speechless.

What Liang Lu said was tantamount to saying that Zhao Ruilong, the behind-the-scenes boss of Huilong Group, was suspected of bribing Qi Tongwei, the captain of the Handong Anti-Terrorism Brigade.

I'm not very familiar with Qi Tongwei, the captain of the counter-terrorism team.

But Huilong Group, Zhao Ruilong...

Those within the system certainly know perfectly well what these seven characters mean in Handong.