Seeing the barrage of criticism online, Chen Lan felt utterly hopeless and threw her phone away, unable to bear looking any longer.

Unable to reach her by phone, Yan Yaohui dialed her home phone.

When the phone rang, Chen Lan was startled and didn't dare to answer it.

She took several deep breaths and answered the phone.

"Hello?"

"Are you dead? I can't get through to you on the phone! Chen Lan, I want a divorce! A divorce! Who gave you permission to bribe marketing accounts to post those things online? Look at how much people are cursing you online! I'll settle accounts with you after I've dealt with the company's affairs."

Yan Yaohui was extremely busy, and people kept urging him on, so he had to hurriedly hang up the phone to deal with the situation.

The Yan family is in the food industry, and netizens have begun to dig up information about their products and are boycotting them online.

Even the online store's backend is being bombarded with criticism from netizens to the point of near collapse, with a large number of customers rushing to cancel their contracts, resulting in heavy losses.

Yan Yaoyao led the police to question Yuan Mengchun, only to find that everything had changed after they returned from the sanatorium.

"Mom, everyone online is criticizing us, what should we do?"

Chen Lan's face was cold, but she couldn't hide the panic in her heart.

"How would I know what to do! If your grandmother hadn't done those things, I wouldn't have resorted to such a desperate measure! If your father hadn't been fooling around with other women and not answering his phone, I wouldn't have bothered to find those marketing accounts to post those things!"

Is it her fault? Of course not!

In the end, it's still Yuan Mengchun's fault!

"Won't our company go bankrupt?" What Yan Yaoyao feared most was that her good life, which she hadn't enjoyed for many days, would just vanish like that.

She didn't want to live a hard life anymore.

Chen Lan clenched her fists. "No, I'll call my friends and ask them for help. As long as we get through this, everything will be alright."

Her so-called friends were, of course, the group of wives who would usually go out together for beauty treatments and play cards.

She took out her phone, scrolled through her contacts, and called them one by one.

Very few people answered the phone.

"Oh, isn't this Mrs. Yan? What? Help? Help with what? You used to always brag to us about how close your daughter and the young master of the Shen family were. With the Shen family involved, how could we possibly get a chance?"

"Mrs. Yan, so your husband has so many mistresses. No wonder my husband thought he had kidney deficiency when he saw him last time."

"Mrs. Yan, your husband has so many illegitimate children. Even if the company doesn't go bankrupt, you won't get much of the inheritance in the future. Oh, how pitiful."

The more they were once idolized, the faster they've changed their tune.

Chen Lan's face turned ashen from the stab wound; the image she had cultivated before completely collapsed at this moment.

She gripped her phone tightly and slammed it to the ground.

"They used to fawn over me like dogs, but now that we're in trouble, they've turned their backs on us! What snobs!"

Yan Yaoyao bit her lip, looking dejected, absentmindedly clutching the hem of her clothes.

Suddenly, Chen Lan said, "Yao Yao, go and beg the Shen family!"

Yan Yaoyao hurriedly asked, "What do you want from the Shen family?"

"Let them help! As long as they help our company get through this difficult time, that's fine. You're their future daughter-in-law, they'll definitely give us face."

Yan Yaoyao smiled bitterly, "Mom, what have I done to deserve their respect?"

She knew her importance in Shen Zhou's heart, and she was even more aware that Shen Zhou had no say in the Shen family business.

He couldn't help himself, nor did he have the ability to do so.

Chen Lan shrieked, "Then what do you expect me to do! Tell me what to do! Yao Yao, if the company gets into trouble, it won't do you any good either! If it weren't for the Yan family, do you think the Shen family would have let you in?"

Yan Yaoyao pursed her lips. "Then I'll give it a try. Mom, why don't you call Yan Qiao? She grew up by your side, after all. Try to coax her and hopefully get her to delete her Weibo post. She has a lot of influence online. Maybe if she changes her mind, there's still room for things to turn around."

Chen Lan snorted coldly, "That heartless brat, I don't count on her!"

That's what she said, but after Yan Yaoyao left, she still endured the humiliation and called Yan Qiao.

As soon as the call connected, she gritted her teeth and berated, "Don't you have any conscience! No matter how wrong your grandmother was, our Yan family raised you. How dare you treat us like this! Yan Qiao, you..."

"Ms. Chen Lan, I feel it's necessary to remind you that I have recorded what you just said. If you don't want me to post another Weibo, you should watch your words."

Chen Lan had a bellyful of cursing words, but she swallowed them back, her face turning blue with anger.

You have no conscience!

Yan Qiao chuckled lightly, "Are you talking to me about conscience? Ms. Chen Lan, your Yan family has never had this kind of thing."

"The Yan family! Don't you have the surname Yan? Aren't you a member of the Yan family?!" Chen Lan demanded angrily.

“My Yan is the Yan of Yan Shu, and has nothing to do with your Yan family.”

Hearing her firm attitude, Chen Lan finally softened her stance: "Yan Qiao, can't we talk about this privately? We're all family, why make things so tense? It won't do you any good."

Yan Qiao scoffed, "Didn't I give you a chance to talk privately? The stuff you bribed marketing accounts to post distorted the facts. I didn't see any sincerity in you wanting to have a proper conversation!"

"Those things are not me..."

“Ms. Chen Lan, I dare to say this with certainty, which means I have already investigated and found out the truth. You don’t need to bother denying it. Such despicable tactics are quite in line with your style. Let me tell you, I will not only sue those marketing accounts, but I will also sue you, including your mother-in-law who switched the child. I will sue them all at once! My family is not short of money, you just wait and see! At your age, going to jail, just thinking about it is quite satisfying.”

Yan Qiao hung up the phone and blocked Chen Lan's number.

Chen Lan smashed her phone again.

This time, she used even more force than before; the screen shattered on the floor, and the rebounding glass cut her arm.

"Madam, you're injured!"

Chen Lan said irritably, "I'm not blind, hurry up and get the first-aid kit!"

While the wound was being treated, Yan Yaoyao returned, sobbing with her hand over her mouth.

“I told you I didn’t want to go, but you insisted! Not only did Chenzhou’s mother scold me, but she also kicked me out.”

Chen Lan's face was gloomy. "Useless thing! Chen Zhou is your fiancé, what right does she have to kick you out!"

Yan Yaoyao bit her lip and retorted, "He's just a fiancé in name only, isn't it normal not to help? Mom, the friends you usually associate with, the ones you call sisters, are also mocking you when it comes to this crucial moment."

Chen Lan was so angry that her temples throbbed. "Idiot!"

Is this something worth comparing? And she's even proud of it!

"What did Yan Qiao say?"

Chen Lan gritted her teeth: "Don't mention her to me! She's a beast, heartless and ruthless, she'll get her comeuppance sooner or later!"

Yan Yaoyao had given up hope; it seemed she hadn't enjoyed her good fortune for long before going bankrupt.

"It would be better if I stayed at my adoptive parents' house," she muttered, which made Chen Lan even angrier.