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“Jiayu, you can’t say that in front of Liang. You know Liang is extremely guarded with us and doesn’t treat you kindly.”
“The Liang of today is completely different from the old Liang. The power she holds long ago surpassed you and me. I’ve even heard… she didn’t spare her own blood brother Han, let alone me, her uncle.”
“Jiayu, your insistence on holding this birthday banquet is really just a way to learn more about the man who changed Liang, right? You’re testing whether he can help Liang break the Yan family curse that daughters only live to 25… am I right?”
Uncle Su’s gaze darkened. He furrowed his brow and bowed his head, the frown refusing to relax.
Taking a step back, he knew that thirty years ago he should never have married his sister off to the then-rising tycoon Yan family.
He also did not realize that the Yan family was such a terrifying den of demons.
They had brutally cut off his sister’s lifetime of happiness.
They had also forced Su Jiayu to become, in effect, a madwoman.
“No matter what, I’ve already lost Yue… Liang cannot suffer any more misfortune.”
“Brother, this Qin Jiang does seem genuinely caring toward Liang, but ten years ago that man was sincere with Yue too—yet the moment I demanded he pay a terrible price, he backed down…”
“In this world, men’s promises are the most fickle—if it were up to me, I wouldn’t want Liang to also…”
Su Jiayu only said half that sentence. The Yan family’s depths were so profound that even Su Jiayu, who had married into them for decades, couldn’t fathom them. She could only feign madness and foolishness to keep herself alive and plan in secret.
At present, she did not know the whereabouts of the Yan family head, Yan Rong’an. She figured that if he fell into Liang’s hands, he wouldn’t have a good end.
But Yan Liang would certainly not really kill him.
Liang had been in that organization. The most fearsome thing about that organization was that they did not kill people outright, but would make life worse than death.
Because that was the most torturous.
For those they hated intensely, death would be a kind of relief.
“Jiayu, so what do you mean?”
Uncle Su’s face changed too. Thinking of that niece who had been raised graceful and outstanding, and now was gone… it pained him.
But he could not let Yan Liang know about those cruel consequences that were about to occur.
Even if he had to endure that pain, he would force a smile in front of Yan Liang, deliberately ignoring and blurring out Yue’s existence.
He could not publicly take Yan Liang’s side in anything. He could only secretly send people to protect her.
But his hand reached too far.
It was soon discovered by Yan Rong’an, who had all of his ‘hands’ broken off.
Uncle Su understood that Yan Rong’an was warning him—an outsider uncle had no right to meddle in the futures of the Yan daughters.
“Hold our positions for now.”
“Liang is my daughter. I can see… she truly likes this mysterious young man.”
“Qin Jiang is fine in every other way. It’s just that he isn’t capable enough yet… he can’t protect Liang.”
Su Jiayu sighed. Of course she also hoped that her remaining daughter could find happiness.
But she wasn’t cruelly trying to tear them apart… rather, she more wished that her daughter would stay alive.
Live to a hundred years.
To celebrate year after year, get through morning to night—as long as she survived!
…
The Qin family villa.
In the master bedroom.
Qin Moyun happened to come back to fetch some documents and her certificates, since she had found a way to get herself released from detention.
She had directly resigned from the CEO position of Qin Financial. Over the years she had sacrificed too much for Qin Financial, her health long in poor condition while she kept propping up the group’s development.
As the eldest sister, she had always felt that her hard work was her duty.
For her younger siblings, for the family’s honor, for the group’s growth.
She was the firstborn. Those responsibilities were hers to bear.
But now, after that family’s tearing-apart and the exposing of too many of Qin family’s hidden dirt and ill intentions and malicious speculations, Qin Moyun simply felt exhausted.
She didn’t want to stay in a family full of deceit, mutual distrust, and even backstabbing.
She chose to leave voluntarily and saw no need to notify her family.
This family had long since fallen apart, and she didn’t want to invest any more energy into it.
Still, she was ultimately regretful and ashamed.
She needed to find Qin Jiang, confess her reckless act from last time, and find a way to make amends.
Although Qin Moyun knew very well that the harm she’d done to Qin Jiang was severe—one impulsive moment the last time… could have even killed Qin Jiang.
But she couldn’t pretend it had never happened.
She needed to repent! To atone!
Qin Moyun dragged her weary steps back to the Qin residence to get things and pack, but unexpectedly saw a figure who should also have been in detention at that moment.
Silently, like a ghost, she followed Qin Yun and even stood at the door to listen to his phone call.
This time Qin Moyun caught him red-handed.
She saw with her own eyes that Qin Yun had clearly seen the pigeon-blood-red bracelet sitting intact in the safe… yet he casually lied, saying there was nothing in the safe.
Qin Moyun wasn’t foolish this time.
When she followed Qin Yun she had quietly turned on her phone’s recording, capturing almost all of Qin Yun’s actions and his offhand lies.
Just as he was about to succeed.
Qin Moyun put away her phone, strode forward, snatched Qin Yun’s phone, and deliberately said loudly, “Qin Yun, why are you sneaking into Mom’s room again?”
Then she smashed the phone on the ground.
Her calm, questioning, and cold gaze fixed on Qin Yun, as if at this moment all the trust in him—the twenty years of care and concern for his sick body—
All of it crumbled at this instant.
Qin Moyun’s face turned pale. She knew Qin Yun was lying, and she knew that Qin Yun’s brother was the real ‘devil’, the instigator of misfortune—that was one thing.
What she saw with her own eyes, however, was another matter.
Her mindset collapsed.
Trust shattered too.
She could hardly stand!!
“Qin Yun! Are you trying to mess with your brother Qin Jiang again?”
“How can you be so stubborn and unrepentant!!”
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