“Who are you calling sister?” Jí Yìsī’s expression instantly turned cold upon seeing Fāng Qíruì in the living room, and she slapped the young woman across the face.
Smack—
The young woman was struck, clutching her cheek with tears welling in her eyes. “Sister, why did you hit me?”
“You seduced my husband, and I can’t hit you?”
“But… aren’t you two just married in name? Brother Qíruì told me you’re his boss’s mistress. Since his boss’s wife couldn’t marry you openly, he had a sham marriage with you…”
At this moment, Fāng Qíruì noticed the commotion. Seeing Jí Yìsī standing at the door with others, he frowned unhappily. “What are you doing here?”
“What am I doing here? I’m here to catch you cheating!” Jí Yìsī sneered, shoving the woman aside and leisurely walking into the room. She glanced left and right. “If I hadn’t come, how would I know you’ve made this little nest so cozy? Oh, look—there’s even a wedding photo here…”
Yes, that’s right.
Hanging on the wall behind the living room sofa was a large wedding photo. The man and woman in it were smiling so blissfully that anyone who didn’t know better would think they were the real couple.
Jí Yìsī confronted Fāng Qíruì, asking how he had the nerve. Had he forgotten who he was? If it weren’t for her, did he think he could have achieved what he had today? How dare he keep a mistress outside?
The most infuriating part was that everything Yú Xíng had said was true. Not only did he keep a mistress, but he also had a son and a daughter with her, as if they were the real “family of four.”
What did that make her?
She had been married to Fāng Qíruì for so many years, given birth to his daughter, and worked hard alongside him. What did he take her for?
Even the usually meek and submissive Fāng Qíruì couldn’t hold back anymore. He retorted bluntly, “What do I take you for? What did you take me for? Back then, you only got close to me to get closer to Yú Xíng and climb into his bed, didn’t you? You even used my seed to make my daughter call another man ‘father,’ forcing me to live as a cuckold…”
Jí Yìsī flared up. “If you had the ability, would I have let our daughter call someone else her father? It’s because you were useless! Besides, didn’t you agree to this plan back then? If it weren’t for this plan, would Yú Xíng have helped you start a company? Would you have gained so many benefits?”
…
“So, I gathered clues and sent the evidence to Jí Yìsī,” Yú Xiāng Qiǎo said to Ruǎn Yáo Yáo while shelling sunflower seeds. “Let’s see how she acts all high and mighty now. She schemed against my parents, always dreaming of becoming a wealthy lady, didn’t she? I’ll show her what all her scheming has amounted to. No matter how clever her plans were, in the end, she still ended up in someone else’s hands.”
Ruǎn Yáo Yáo wished she could have seen it too.
What a pity she wasn’t there at the time. Otherwise…
“Neither of them is any good. Let them tear each other apart—like dogs fighting, leaving each other covered in fur.” Ruǎn Yáo Yáo didn’t have much sympathy for women who stole other people’s husbands either.
When she was young, she had the misfortune of meeting that scoundrel Xǔ Xiǎo Xiào. That was unavoidable. If women willingly threw themselves at him, then let him be a scoundrel—a scoundrel matched with a scoundrel, just perfect.
But her daughter-in-law’s mother was different. She had married for “true love.” If that woman had succeeded, whether by accident or not, it would have been utterly disgusting.
“Has your dad managed to make up with your mom yet?”
Yu Xiang Qiao shook her head. It wasn’t that easy to smooth things over. Her father simply didn’t understand what her mother was actually angry about.
Her mother wasn’t angry about her father being tricked—making mistakes in life was normal. What angered her mother was that something this significant had happened, yet her father had kept it from her all these years. If not for…
“If your mother hadn’t discovered it herself, your father probably would have kept it hidden from her for a lifetime,” Ruan Yao Yao said with a look of exasperation. “Honestly, your father deserves this. He never considered that if your mother hadn’t found out and insisted on investigating thoroughly, with his temperament, he might have ended up raising someone else’s child for the rest of his life.”
Yu Xiang Qiao: “…True!”
If they hadn’t been able to hear their mother-in-law’s Inner Voice, this matter would have been hard to resolve.
The sunflower seeds in the small dish were almost all shelled. Yu Xiang Qiao pushed the dish toward Ruan Yao Yao.
Ruan Yao Yao didn’t stand on ceremony. She pushed another empty dish next to Yu Xiang Qiao, signaling her to continue shelling, while she herself started eating from the now-full dish.
Although she wasn’t entirely sure why her daughter-in-law was suddenly trying to please her, Ruan Yao Yao thought: If someone’s trying to please me, why not enjoy it while I can?
Who knows when she might change her mind? Then I won’t get to enjoy it anymore.
As the two chatted idly, Ruan Yao Yao received a text message and glanced down at her phone.
Oh, it was just a payment notification for something she’d ordered online. After a quick look, she swiped it away, and a news headline that popped up caught her attention.
“Xiang Qiao, look at this! What is this?”
Yu Xiang Qiao leaned over to look.
【Shocking! Yu Family Heiress Furious, Exposes Her Father for Abandoning His Biological Daughter?!】
【Yu Group Chairman Abandons Biological Daughter, Revealing Preference for Sons Over Daughters?!】
【Who Would Have Thought the Yu Group Chairman Was This Kind of Person…】
A string of sensational headlines scrolled by.
As a seasoned clickbait connoisseur, Ruan Yao Yao admitted the headlines were quite eye-catching. She just wasn’t sure why such news about the Yu family had suddenly surfaced. From what she could tell, Yu Xiang Qiao didn’t seem to have a bad relationship with her parents, and neither did her sister, Yu Ting Rong.
Both women instantly thought of one person. They clicked on the article, and sure enough.
This so-called “Yu Family Heiress” was none other than Fang Xinxiu.
No one knew where she got the nerve, but she had joined a livestream hosted by a million-follower influencer. During the stream, she tearfully revealed that she was the biological daughter of Yu Xing, chairman of the Yu Group, and claimed to have a paternity test as proof. Yet, Yu Xing refused to acknowledge her. She just wanted to ask why, as Yu Xing’s biological daughter just like the others, he wouldn’t recognize her.
“How dare she have the audacity?!” Yu Xiang Qiao was furious upon hearing this and wanted to curse.
Was Fang Xīnrán determined to latch onto their family?
She wasn’t her father’s flesh and blood at all. That paternity test was fake.
She immediately called her brother, Yu Yan, asking him what was going on. Hadn’t he seen that Fang Xinxiu was trending?
Yu Yan was also overwhelmed, saying he had just seen it and was in a meeting to handle the situation.
Hearing that her brother was dealing with it, Yu Xiang Qiao breathed a sigh of relief but still scolded him a bit. Such a major slip-up, even if cleared up afterward, would definitely affect the company’s stock.
As Yu Xiang Qiao had anticipated, on the very day the news hit the trending searches, Yu Group’s stock plummeted by ten percentage points, alarming the shareholders. Fortunately, they promptly submitted two paternity tests—one between Fang Xinxiu and Yu Xing, and another between Fang Xinxiu and Fāng Qíruì—proving that she was not Yu Xing’s daughter but rather the biological child of Fāng Qíruì.
Yu Xing’s wife also came forward to testify, admitting that she had been blind, mistaking a wolf in sheep’s clothing for a close friend and even taking her friend’s daughter as her goddaughter, never expecting it would fuel the other party’s ambitions…
Next, evidence was released showing that Fang Xinxiu had been posing as the “Yu Group heiress” to swindle others, defrauding an investor of 50 million yuan. They had already located the victim, explained the situation, and reported the matter to the relevant authorities.
Yu Group documented this series of actions on their official account, accompanied by a lawyer’s letter, demonstrating their serious stance on the issue.