The photos do indeed show her and Mr. Liu, but those dates were clearly business engagements she attended with her father!

She suddenly realized, her blood freezing instantly. This was a trap, from the very beginning when her father made her accompany him to those so-called business engagements!

In the chaos, no one noticed that a reporter wearing a baseball cap quietly inserted a USB drive into Mr. Liu's laptop bag and copied data.

Three minutes later, the hashtag #ChuFamilyHeiressSleepWithHerself# began to spread wildly online, accompanied by complete hotel records and a recording of a private conversation between Chu's father and President Liu.

"The project approval will be issued next week... Mr. Liu, please take care of the shipwreck matter..."

"I'll be leaving Yiyi in your care from now on, Mr. Liu..."

"Premarital behavior... well... okay! As long as you can rescue our sunken boat."

Chu's father's voice was exceptionally clear in the recording.

In Qingxi Ancient Town, a thousand miles away, Jiang Yanli leaned leisurely against a rattan chair in a guesthouse, her tablet computer playing live news about the Chu family company's stock price plummeting.

The sound of water in the bathroom stopped, and he quickly switched screens to open the weather forecast, his sneer turning into a gentle expression.

It's going to rain tomorrow.

Zi Xi walked out, drying her hair. Water droplets from her hair left dark stains on the floor.

Jiang Yanli handed her a cup of warm honey water: "If it rains tomorrow, let's reschedule our trip to the mountaintop to watch the sunrise. We're not leaving anytime soon anyway."

Zi Xi took the water glass and glanced at the notification bar on the edge of the tablet, which hadn't been closed yet. The latest message was from Assistant Zhao, saying that the video had been sent.

She looked up at Jiang Yanli, who was pretending to study a strategy guide. The boy's thick eyelashes cast long shadows under the desk lamp, and he had an innocent smile on his lips.

"Okay, everything will be as you plan."

Zi Xi raised an eyebrow, took a sip of honey water, the sweetness was just right. When Jiang Yanli came out, she saw Zi Xi holding a tablet and looking at it intently.

"Young Master, those ledgers, fund flow charts... the anonymous tip-off materials have all been sent to the tax bureau."

Zi Xi immediately opened Assistant Zhao's voice report and asked Jiang Yanli directly, "Has something happened to the Chu family?"

Jiang Yanli's fingertips trembled almost imperceptibly on her knee.

"Yes, Chu Chenzhou has been criminally detained, and the Chu family is asking you to write a letter of understanding. I have suppressed it all, and I even found out about the dealings between your adoptive father and the Liu Group. The Chu family's company is under tax investigation, but you don't need to worry. I had Assistant Zhao take all the people with sound values ​​in the company to the Jiang Group's subsidiary for resettlement."

"We did not hire those who embezzled funds."

He decided to stop hiding it and tell Zixi everything, showing her the video that Assistant Zhao had sent him.

He had originally suppressed these matters because he didn't want to spoil Zixi's trip.

The screen showed a live feed of the Chu family's headquarters, with a dozen uniformed staff carrying cardboard boxes in and out, and the leader holding a seizure order.

The camera panned across the employees coming and going in front of the building; some were happily answering reporters' questions, while others were angrily venting their grievances to the reporters.

The time displayed in the lower right corner of the screen was 10 a.m. today. At that time, they were listening to Pingtan in a teahouse in the ancient town. Jiang Yanli held her hand the whole time and occasionally leaned close to her ear to explain the lyrics. His warm breath made her ears burn.

"you're good."

Zi Xi felt that he had done a very good job.

"It's not that I'm so great. The Chu family's company was already riddled with problems; it just happened to collapse now."

Jiang Yanli picked up an orange from the coffee table and began to peel it. As his fingernails scratched the orange peel, a few drops of juice splashed out, exploding with a sweet fragrance in the air. He broke off a segment of orange flesh and handed it to her.

"You're really great. You do things in a very organized way, and you've caught up in your studies very quickly."

Zi Xi accepted the orange and praised her. The moment their fingertips touched, Jiang Yanli put her orange-juice-covered fingers to her lips and licked them, the seductive intent was very obvious.

"So...you're willing to marry..."

"I don't want to for now, let's eat oranges instead."

"..."