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Qin Xiangyun knew that her second sister’s new boyfriend was Gu Hai, the chief lawyer at Yunhai Law Firm, and that Gu Hai was also one of the firm’s partners. He had always been dazzlingly prominent in the legal circles of the capital city.
Who, in the one field he excelled at, could have made him suffer the biggest fall of his life?
For a moment Qin Xiangyun couldn’t help but be suspicious, but then she recalled the Yan financial conglomerate her grandmother mentioned—if that person spoke, not only a prominent law firm in the capital city might go down, but even a major family could be uprooted.
Qin Xiangyun’s face went pale as she suppressed the panic in her chest.
Fortunately, she couldn’t possibly provoke that female tycoon CEO!
At most Qin Jiang was deliberately flaunting the Yan family’s name around the capital city.
Qin Jiang was just a pretty boy brought in to bring luck. He only happened to have the fortune to withstand Young Mistress Yan’s dominance.
In truth, could such a top heiress from a financial dynasty ever take a fancy to a wild kid like Qin Jiang from the bottom rung?
Anyone who thought that must be dreaming.
To avoid overthinking things, Qin Xiangyun gritted her teeth, paid the bail, and hurried into the detention center to help Old Madam Qin out.
“Grandma, take it slow. Your granddaughter has been unfilial and let you stay in a place like this for two days. You must have suffered.”
“I’ve already arranged a car to pick you up at the gate, let’s go home first.”
Qin Xiangyun had arranged everything earlier. She got Qin Yun help her grandmother to the car to rest, and then she went to look for the person in charge.
“Where are Ms. Qin Moyun and Ms. Qin Shuyun being detained now? May I visit them?”
Qin Xiangyun felt the question itself was absurd—there were only a few people in the Qin family, and nearly half of them had been sent to jail!
And they included men and women, old and young!!
It was mortifying to even say it out loud.
“Ms. Qin Moyun had her staff come pay the bail and leave; as for Ms. Qin Shuyun, she is the principal plaintiff who falsely accused Mr. Qin, so her detention is longer and she is not allowed external visits—that was also Ms. Qin Shuyun’s own decision.”
Having received the answer, the question marks in Qin Xiangyun’s head only grew larger.
This once peaceful family had been so harmonious and loving before.
Now it had been torn apart by Qin Jiang. Tthe eldest sister bailed herself out alone… the whole thing sounded like science fiction to her.
But that was…supposed to be Eldest Sister!
The eldest sister who cared for the Qin family and dutifully supervised and taught the younger generation—could she really be selfish enough to bail only herself out?
She wouldn’t even take care of Grandma…What?!
Qin Xiangyun felt her worldview collapse at that moment.
But on the other hand, Qin Jiang had indeed inflicted severe psychological harm on the Qin sisters during this period.
In short, Qin Jiang’s role as a little disaster was increasingly affecting those around him. She wanted her grandmother to find a way to remove Qin Jiang’s name from the Qin family genealogy…
So as not to bring further disaster upon the whole family!!
…
The Su family, owners of a huge conglomerate in the capital city.
Jiayu Manor.
The Su family was also a well-known tycoon household in the capital city. Nominally, this banquet was hosted by President Su for his sister Su Jiayu’s birthday.
But every detail was top-tier, and it was held in the manor Su Jiayu brought as dowry, meant to show that the Su family matched the Yan family in status back then.
Yan Liang was well aware of Uncle Su’s little intentions.
She was just too lazy to expose them.
An old man who all day long fantasized about surpassing her—and he wasn’t the only one like that.
If she bothered herself with every one of them, she wouldn’t have time to manage the company’s performance.
At the manor gates, top luxury cars opened their doors as the capital city socialites in splendid attire arrived arm-in-arm with their partners. People came and went, a glittering scene.
Almost as the finale, Ms. Qi appeared in an ostentatious custom red gown, the pigeon-blood ruby necklace and full set of jewels dazzling—her arrival seemed to light up the whole venue.
This time, the pretty boy at her side was a different one again.
His face looked three or four parts similar to the previous one. Judging by his expression, he seemed timid at such a grand banquet.
It seemed unclear from which club she’d “rescued” him from this time… poor little fellow!!
All eyes were on her brazenly seductive looks. Some gazed with envy, others secretly despised her and called her promiscuous.
But in this country, the power of discourse was held by tycoons and those with influence and power.
Qi Yuan had wealth and power. As the eldest daughter of a tycoon family and… later on, the only daughter!
She had long since earned the right not to care about anyone’s gaze and to be herself recklessly.
In this respect, Yan Liang was the same!
Just as she also unabashedly doted on Qin Jiang.
The difference was that Qi Yuan passed through many beds without clinging to any single leaf.
But Yan Liang lingered on only one leaf!!
“Oh, Uncle, what a cheerful mood—throwing a birthday banquet specially for Auntie. Pity… given Auntie’s current mental state, can she tell this is a celebration for her?”
Qi Yuan flamboyantly approached Uncle Su, the host, and by calling out ‘uncle’ along with Yan Liang, had already made her stance clear.
She, without principle, stood on Yan Liang’s side.
When Qi Yuan said this, Uncle Su’s face indeed darkened.
He had organized this banquet precisely to publicly accuse Yan Liang of usurping the Yan family’s customs!
Even the fact that his sister—Yan Liang’s own mother—had been driven mad by it.
However, now was not the time to expose it.
Such secrets were always shameful to mention publicly, yet Qi Yuan brazenly brought it up—wasn’t that clearly trying to wreck the event?
“Young Mistress Qi, you do have a good relationship with my niece Xiaoliang, but you can’t be so rude as to speak of her mother’s illness like that.”
“Where is your basic etiquette as a tycoon female CEO?”
Uncle Su’s ears flushed with anger, but as the host with so many socialites watching today, he could only invoke etiquette and Yan Liang to ‘remind’ Qi Yuan to be cautious in her words!
“Tsk, I’m already standing in this position—why bother following etiquette?”
“My every move is etiquette!”
“So is Yan Liang’s.”
“She can vent or do anything here. If you, Uncle, have truly gone astray, then can you bear Yan Liang’s wrath when it comes?”
Qi Yuan called him ‘uncle’ again and again, chilling Su Wenhao’s spine.
In childhood, he had doted on little princess Yan Liang as well.
He had even cared for Yan Yue, the elder princess, but after they suddenly disappeared from the Yan family, he silently acted as if that little niece had never existed!
Indeed, he had already experienced Yan Yue’s disappearance.
When Yan Liang was taken to play at his side, he didn’t reveal a single detail to this niece about why her sister had gone missing…
This was also why Yan Liang refused to acknowledge this uncle when she grew up.
She had, of course, called him ‘uncle’ before.
It was when Su Jiayu had a mental breakdown and ran back to the Su family in fear. Yan Liang watched with her own eyes as the entire Su manor was brightly lit yet eerily quiet, and no one dared to open the door for Su Jiayu.
Yan Liang still held a blood-stained sickle in her hand too.
Her figure was lonely and reclusive, small and fragile.
Her gothic skirt was stained and wet, and with every step she left a trail of crimson marks…
Yan Liang walked step by step to the maddened Su Jiayu’s side, gently knocked on the iron gate of the Su manor, and pressed the visitor intercom.
The newly adult girl’s voice was hoarse and low, and her face was splattered with countless bloodstains that almost covered her perfect features.
Yan Liang’s thin lips parted slightly.
“Uncle, don’t hide… your niece knows you’re home~”
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