"What!?" Wei Yun's face showed disbelief.

Yu Tinglie was also dumbfounded, and it took him a few seconds to react. He asked Shen Zhu with a serious expression, "Child, what do you mean by that?"

“Yu Qiao is my lover, and I don’t want these things to affect her.” Shen Zhu’s long, furrowed brows relaxed as he calmly stated the situation, lifting his dark eyelashes to look at Yu Tinglie with a firm expression.

These things are not important to him. The whole thing started off like a disaster and has come all the way to where it is now. Doesn't that prove that he and the young lady are a match made in heaven?

Otherwise, how could he, who should be enemies, fall in love with the young lady?

The young lady is his; what need does he have for status? What need does he have for parents of noble lineage?

He wants to be the rich young lady's son-in-law!

"So...that's how it is." Wei Yun wiped the tears from her cheeks with the back of her hand, and smiled through her tears: "I never thought that you two could actually fall in love."

"Child, are you really sure?" Yu Tinglie's face showed a heavy expression. He was not a stubborn or old-fashioned person and was willing to respect Shen Zhu's thoughts: "You must think it through. Once you make a decision, there will be no room for regret later."

Shen Zhu did not hesitate. He knew very well what he wanted: "Yu Qiao is your biological daughter, and I am your son-in-law. Father, I have thought it through very clearly."

"What did you call me?!" Yu Tinglie smiled with delight. He had thought the child would have a hard time accepting it, but he hadn't expected that the child would fall in love with Yu Qiao and even come up with such a clever plan.

"..." Shen Zhu's narrow eyes were dark and he looked down at Wei Yun's face. He tugged at the corner of his lips and called out, "Father, Mother."

He'd have to address people as "young lady" eventually, so he'd get used to his new role beforehand.

“Good boy.” Wei Yun patted his shoulder with tears in her eyes. “Mom respects your decision. It’s good this way. Everyone is happy. My darling is still my daughter, and you are back by Mom’s side.”

Wei Yun and Yu Tinglie smiled at each other. Whether it was Yu Qiao or Shen Zhu, they had both returned to the Yu family and were still their children.

Rumors still circulate among the aristocratic circles today, with everyone adding fuel to the fire and hoping that the Yu family will cause more scandals, leading to a drop in stock prices, suspension of projects, and withdrawal of investment...

Even a single business deal lost by one of these top conglomerates is enough for them to fight tooth and nail to get back.

Unexpectedly, Shen Zhu, the person involved, came forward to clarify and deny the post's claim of a fake heiress and a real young master. He presented a new paternity test and righteously proved that he was not Wei Yunyu Leiting's biological child.

With the parties involved vehemently denying it, the rumors were dispelled on their own. After all, anyone who knew they were a true nobleman would have already returned to the nobility based on their noble bloodline.

Yu Tinglie, being a businessman as always, capitalized on the buzz to promote a charity donation, claiming he would sponsor impoverished students to attend school. With this, the Yu family's corporate image rose to another level.

…………

"How could this be! How could this be!! Has Shen Zhu gone mad?!" Jiang Mingyue squatted in the police station, watching the news report on TV, screaming wildly, "Shen Zhu is the heir of the Yu family, he's lying! This madman!"

"I was clearly helping the Yu family! Have these people lost their minds?" Jiang Mingyue's eyes widened, her anger practically spitting fire. She smashed a stool and yelled, "I want to see Shen Zhu! Bring Shen Zhu here!"

"What's all the noise about? What's all the noise about?!" A bald woman glanced at her impatiently: "If you keep talking, I'll tear your mouth apart."

"Do you think he's an idiot? If he were really the young master of the Yu family, he would have already returned to his ancestral home."

"No, that's not it! I know the truth!" Jiang Mingyue roared, her face contorted with rage, pointing at the people on the television and shouting, "It must have been that vain and selfish woman, Yu Qiao, who threatened Shen Zhu! It must be!!"

Shen Zhu must have been threatened by Yu Qiao!

Otherwise, he would definitely return to the Yu family, inherit the Yu family business, and then be grateful to her for being brave enough to reveal the truth!

Shen Zhu must have been bewitched by Yu Qiao, he must have!

She's going to save Shen Zhu! She's going to be Shen Zhu's savior!

"Let me out! Let me out!" Jiang Mingyue roared as she frantically pounded on the iron gate.

This was a six-person room, and the noise made the others look at her with disgust. One of them, a woman who was imprisoned for killing her own father, grabbed Jiang Mingyue's hair with a sinister expression: "You bitch, shut up!"

"I heard you're part of a group that stops selling sex, and you're the one who brought in pimps, right?"

"Waaah..." Jiang Mingyue looked terrified and shook her head.

No, she didn't!

She is helping those poor girls earn money and escape their suffering!

She was doing a good deed! Although she used some tricks at the beginning, didn't the girls cooperate quite well later on?

Some even managed to seduce nobles and become their playthings, living a life of comfort and ease every month! This is all thanks to her!

"Slap! Slap! Slap!"

Several slaps landed on Jiang Mingyue's face. The woman's eyes were filled with hatred as she punched and kicked her: "What I hate most is a woman like you who does despicable and disgusting things!"

She was a poor woman at the bottom of society. Her father was an alcoholic who sold her to other men for a pittance of thirty yuan a time in order to buy alcohol.

Driven by resentment, she finally killed her own father and was imprisoned.

"Pah!" The woman spat fiercely at Jiang Mingyue, who was curled up in a ball, and went back to her seat to lie down.

Jiang Mingyue wailed in pain, her whole body cramping up, as if several of her ribs had been broken.

"Squeak squeak squeak~" Two rats with green eyes crawled out of the black hole and climbed onto Jiang Mingyue.

"Aww! Help! Help! There's a rat!"

Jiang Mingyue screamed repeatedly, jumping up and down in excruciating pain. Suddenly, a cold gaze fell upon her.

Jiang Mingyue froze, covering her mouth in grievance and shrinking into a corner, tears streaming down her face. She thought to herself, "I have to get out! I don't want to be with these lowly, rude women! I'm innocent!"

Qin Zhi! She still has Qin Zhi. Qin Zhi is so gentle and gentlemanly, he will definitely rescue her.

When the time comes, she will be willing to marry Qin Zhi to repay his kindness.

Jiang Mingyue was lost in her fantasies, tears streaming down her face.

The following afternoon, after Jiang Mingyue's earnest pleading, Qin Zhi finally came to the police station to visit her.

"Qin Zhi, Ah Zhi, please save me! I'm innocent..." Jiang Mingyue cried bitterly. The people here are all abnormal. She was beaten up by those crazy women for snoring in her sleep. This place is no place for a human to live!

A cold glint flashed in Qin Zhi's gentle eyes as he ruthlessly refused: "No."

"?" Jiang Mingyue was so shocked that she forgot to shed tears, and shouted uncontrollably, "Why! Qin Zhi, aren't you supposed to be a gentle gentleman? Why did you stand by and watch me die! I'm begging you!"

A gentle smile appeared on Qin Zhiqing's handsome face: "Jiang, I'm a gentleman, not an idiot."

"When you exposed your secret, you should have expected this outcome. Besides, your behavior was truly despicable."

"Qin Zhi! Yu Qiao is a fake! I was just telling the truth, what did I do wrong!" Jiang Mingyue glared angrily and shouted, "As for the heinous things you mentioned, do you even know the truth?"

"Do you understand how hard it is for poor people like us to earn money? I'm just helping girls like me earn money, and they haven't criticized me. What right do you have to?!"

"It seems we have nothing to say." Qin Zhi's expression gradually turned cold. He turned around, took a long stride, paused, and said softly, "I like her, not because of her status."

"She would be so heartbroken if she knew the truth."

"Ahhh!" Jiang Mingyue broke down in tears, "You crazy people, why don't you understand my good intentions!"

Finally, Jiang Mingyue was sentenced to ten years in prison for her illegal act of enticing and organizing teenage girls to sell their bodies.

"Ten years, just ten years. I'll still have a chance when I get out..." Jiang Mingyue muttered unfocusedly, her eyes flashing with a vicious and hateful light.

When she gets out, I'll definitely take revenge on Yu Qiao for all these humiliations! It's all that bitch's fault!

Unfortunately, Shen Zhucai is not a careless person.

His well-defined fingers held a box of money, which he placed on the table. His eyes were icy: "No matter what means I use, I want Jiang Mingyue to come out missing an arm or a leg."

"Of course, it's best not to come out."