Jiang Shaozhen worked his way up from the bottom, and only he knows the hardships he endured along the way.

While helping rural areas overcome natural disasters, he nearly lost his life several times. He also helped people trapped in the mountains escape danger and developed various rescue plans with the leaders in charge.

He earned all of this through his own efforts.

He disliked Song Wanyin because, despite his own hard work over the years, the Song family spread rumors through her that he owed his success to their support.

After lying so many times, they can no longer distinguish between what is true and what is false!

“Miss Song, because we grew up together, I haven’t refuted your claims that we were childhood sweethearts, as your parents told me, for fear of embarrassing you. You told Yinyin that District Chief Song helped me a lot, but I served as an engineer for three years and was promoted based on my performance. My superiors can vouch for me. What about you? And District Chief Song, do you have any evidence?” He was too lazy to argue with the Song family anymore.

The Song family took away Wang Xinian's political background check materials. His father went to plead with them many times, but they wouldn't let him go. They were essentially ruining a talented person's career and destroying his future.

Jiang Shao Chen would never believe that such despicable people would help him behind the scenes.

If they had truly helped, things wouldn't be like this now. They would have made the whole Beijing circle know, humiliated the Jiang family, and kicked Dad out of the Armed Forces Department!

Before Song Huiquan could speak, Song Wanyin gave a desolate smile, "You're saying I'm lying and spreading rumors about you?!"

"Isn't that right? That's just the kind of people your Song family is. Don't say I misunderstood you. Take last New Year's, for example. After your troupe's performance, you deliberately had your female classmate invite me to meet you, and then rumors spread everywhere that we were dating. You said you needed to talk to me, but I was tricked into going, and people spread rumors that I was dating you. I swallowed my anger because you're a woman and value your reputation. I tolerated whatever people said about me, but I never expected your Song family to go so far!"

Jiang Shaozhen's voice was extremely loud, "You come here and keep talking about widows. Her children are my children. We've already registered our marriage. As a revolutionary comrade, you spread rumors about us ordinary people. You rely on being the district head to come to my wedding and spout nonsense. I ask you, is this how a revolutionary comrade who claims to help ordinary people bullies others?!"

Song Wanyin felt utterly humiliated by his words, and felt as if everyone around her was looking at her with ill intent.

Seeing her panicked expression, Shen Mingzhi felt a surge of pleasure.

In her opinion, the Song family deserved it.

They come here to cause trouble when others are getting married.

“During my time in the army, I saved people from no fewer than a hundred villages, and it’s all recorded in the military. Your Song family keeps saying you’re helping me, but I’m curious, what exactly did you help me with? During the winter snowstorm, I risked my life to save people, and then I got promoted and earned military merit. You, District Chief Song and Miss Song, were sitting in your nice houses in Beijing, just talking, and the credit went to you, right? During the summer flood relief efforts, you did the same thing, taking away the military merit I earned with my life, is that it?” he continued.

Song Huiquan's face was extremely ugly.

Jiang Guofu puffed out his chest, looking at him with a mocking smile. "District Chief Song, you usually gather a group of people to suppress my daughter-in-law's small business, and we accept that we can't win. You don't like the construction team my son works for, so you don't approve his labor insurance or medical expenses, and you don't allow him to eat in the communal canteen, and we accept that too. So what, you want to sabotage our Jiang family's child's wedding? Aren't you shameless?"

"Not only that, our Sister Wang's child, Wang Xinian, was the top scorer in the province's college entrance examination, but his political review materials are still nowhere to be found. They were submitted, but there's been no result for a long time. Everyone else has already received their admission notices, but his political review materials are stuck like this, and he's missed the review period. He won't be able to go to university." Jiang Qing continued his words without a pleasant expression.

They secretly sabotaged things, and the Chiang family couldn't do anything about it.

But today is Jiang Shaozhen and Shen Mingzhi's wedding. If they gain the upper hand, the Jiang family will not be able to survive in Beijing and will not be able to hold their heads high in front of relatives and friends.

So today they're going all out to uphold the dignity of the Chiang family.

"They're holding up the background check materials? That's going too far! The background check time is limited; aren't they ruining someone's child's future?"

"Yeah... what's wrong with District Chief Song?"

"Jiang Qing, stop talking nonsense!" Song Huiquan shouted angrily upon hearing the discussion.

Jiang Shaozhen said coldly, "Do you really think that what District Chief Song did was foolproof? This is the era of reform and opening up, there are laws, and we ordinary people are protected by the law. What you did will be found out sooner or later. I don't believe you can be so smug forever!"

"Jiang Shao Chen, what has our Song family ever done to wrong you—"

"You've wronged me in every way. You repeatedly lied to me about seeing you and spread rumors about us. That's what you've wronged me for. I treated you like a sister, but what did you take me for?!"

Jiang Shao Chen angrily questioned her, "You even used my sister to sow discord in my family! You have malicious intentions!"

Shen Mingzhi looked at Jiang Shaozhen beside her and realized that this was the first time she had ever hated someone so much.

Song Wanyin was a woman after all, and she was easily embarrassed. After he said that, she immediately ran away with tears in her eyes.

"Wanyin!" Song Huiquan called out quickly.

"Don't come here again, people from the Song family. We, the Jiang family, don't welcome you! And Miss Song, please be upfront about who you like in the future. Don't resort to these underhanded tricks; they're disgusting!" Jiang Shaozhen added immediately afterward.

Song Wanyin was already crying.

After the Song family left, Jiang Qing sat down abruptly and asked Song Huiquan, "You think... we'll be alright from now on?"

“There’s nothing we can do about it. They came here just to ruin Shao Chen’s wedding. Can we let them succeed? At worst, we’ll have to suffer a bit more later. Once they find out what he did, we’ll get through this.” Jiang Guofu’s tone was full of helplessness.

At Jiang Shaozhen's prompting, Shen Mingzhi sat down.

Jiang Yinyin sat to the side without saying a word.

She's going to the Party School in a few days... there's not much to say.

"Do you still think the Song family has helped me a lot?" Jiang Shaozhen asked her.

Jiang Yinyin didn't say anything and silently ate her food.

"The Song family has never helped our Jiang family, and your father wasn't originally from the Armed Forces Department. That old fox, Song Huiquan, is two-faced. He colluded with a few people to get him into the Armed Forces Department just to control our Jiang family. Do you really think that Song Wanyin, born into that kind of family, is a harmless little flower? Being used as a weapon every day, and you still think you're so close to her!" Jiang Qing finished speaking and rolled her eyes at the sky.