Chapter 97 The Ending of the Previous Life (8)
As soon as he finished speaking, Yan Mu's finger fell—the video was deleted.
Then Jiang Chengli did the same thing again, grabbing Yan Mu's hand and deleting the timed alarm text message, which she did not resist at all.
After watching for so long, the knife hanging over Yan Songyu's head finally fell. She let out a "heh," as if mocking herself, and looked at Yan Mu with disappointment and relief in her eyes.
"This life is ultimately a joke..."
Even though she already knew that Jiang Chengli and Zhou Yue would go to prison and die a horrible death, she still hoped that Yan Mu would give them this ending rather than Feng Yu.
She had hoped that Yan Mu would choose her, after all, it was a genuine mother-daughter relationship of more than 20 years. She had given Yan Mu the best of everything, and even after giving birth to Yan Xu, she actually loved Yan Mu far more than Yan Xu.
Seeing that Yan Mu didn't react after he deleted the video and text message, Jiang Chengli smiled.
He helped Yan Mu up from the floor and sat her on the sofa, then poured her a glass of water. "When your mother arrives, we'll talk everything out in person."
Yan Songyu didn't want to watch anymore; she didn't want to see this happy scene of the family of three reuniting.
Her daughter died tragically, and she herself was also killed by this despicable couple. Her father is still in the hospital, and her son... it would have been better if they had never existed. She had a perfectly good life, but this despicable couple ruined it all. How dare they take her Yan family's assets and live a carefree life?
Yan Songyu wished she were a vengeful ghost so she could take their lives.
But things didn't go as planned. Not only could she not get revenge, but she also watched as Zhou Yue rushed into Jiang Chengli's office and hugged Yan Mu, crying about how much she missed her, how much she loved her, and how difficult things had been for her.
Yan Mu pushed Zhou Yue away with a cold face. "Tell me, what exactly happened?"
Jiang Chengli said gently, "This is a long story. Your mother and I grew up together, childhood sweethearts..."
Yan Songyu was furious as she listened to Jiang Chengli's distorted account.
According to Jiang Chengli's account, he and Zhou Yue were childhood sweethearts and deeply in love. However, Zhou Yue was forced to drop out of high school, so she came to Haishi, where he was studying, to work. They depended on each other for survival, and Zhou Yue gave him half of her monthly earnings to buy paint.
He came from a poor family and received a grant from the Yan Songyu Foundation. When he expressed his gratitude to Yan Songyu on behalf of the students who received the grant, Yan Songyu fell in love with him at first sight and began to pursue him passionately. He rejected her and told her that he already had a girlfriend.
Yan Songyu then coerced and bribed Zhou Yue to leave. Zhou Yue refused, but Yan Songyu threatened her with financial support for Jiang Chengli. For Jiang Chengli's future, Zhou Yue had no choice but to leave in tears. In order to make Jiang Chengli give up, she even staged a scene of being materialistic and having fallen in love with someone else.
Jiang Chengli gave up and accepted Yan Songyu's pursuit. However, after their marriage, Jiang Chengli met Zhou Yue, who was living in poverty, and learned the truth about what had happened. Moreover, after Zhou Yue left, Yan Songyu secretly suppressed her, making it impossible for her to find a job.
They hated Yan Songyu for his coercion back then, but they were no match for the powerful Yan family.
The former lovers reunited and their passion ignited. After a night of passion, Zhou Yue became pregnant, and at the same time, Yan Songyu also found out she was pregnant.
“Your mother has been suppressed by Yan Songyu, which has drastically changed her personality. She is desperately trying to get revenge on Yan Songyu and the Yan family. More importantly, she knows that you will not receive a good education or a healthy environment to grow up in with her, so she came up with the idea of switching children.”
“I…I was tempted too. I didn’t want the daughter born to the woman I loved most to be an illegitimate child who couldn’t be seen in the light of day. So I told her Yan Songyu’s due date. Your mother induced labor and gave birth to you, and then switched you two.”
Yan Mu remained silent for a long time, staring down at the water glass in her hand, making it impossible to discern her thoughts.
Yan Songyu screamed and cursed wildly from the side: "You've turned black into white! If you hadn't framed me, how could I have been so blind as to fall for you? You couldn't stand the poverty, so you tried every means to climb the social ladder and marry into power, causing my family to be ruined and my life destroyed. Now you're trying to turn the tables on me... Waaah, I was so stupid..."
"Then why did you kill her? Was it just because you resented her for stealing your love back then?" Yan Mu asked.
“Of course not.” Zhou Yue always spoke with a startled and nervous tone. “It’s because she discovered the truth. She knows about your and Fei Fei’s background. Fei Fei is dead, and she wants to avenge Fei Fei. How can I fight against her? I don’t want to die, so only if she dies can we be alright and you can inherit Ruixin Group.”
Yan Mu looked at Jiang Chengli, "So, the maids weren't home that day, and the security cameras were broken. Was all this your doing? And you brought her home too?"
Upon hearing Zhou Mu's question, Jiang Chengli was unsure of her attitude.
Yan Muwei rubbed his fingers almost imperceptibly and lowered his voice, "Why do this at home? It's easy to leave evidence. Wouldn't it be better to take her out and find a deserted place?"
Jiang Chengli's furrowed brows relaxed. "The situation was quite urgent at the time. I was afraid she would take the information and spread it around, but Mumu, don't worry, I didn't leave any evidence against her."
Yan Mu leaned back on the sofa, regaining his composure in the business world, showing no trace of his previous loss of composure.
"Yan Binghua must not know about this. Besides me, the only other person qualified to inherit Ruixin is... Yan Xu."
“No one else will know,” Jiang Chengli assured him. “Ruixin will only be yours. As for Yan Xu… he’s good for nothing except being a member of the Yan family. Over the years, I’ve put in a lot of effort to teach him to be good for nothing. It’s impossible for him to change.”
"Moreover, he is closer to me. He doesn't even like Yan Songyu, let alone Yan Binghua, who is a generation apart."
"As long as we keep this a secret, no one will come back to compete with you for Ruixin. Mumu, when Yan Binghua is hospitalized, do your best to trick him into giving you the remaining shares. Then, we won't be afraid of anything. Even if our identities are exposed, as long as you have Ruixin in your hands, we will win."
The more Jiang Chengli spoke, the more shrewd and smug he became.
Yan Mu hesitated, as if Jiang Chengli would completely side with her if things didn't work out. "Yan Xu... is also your son. You started planning this so early?"
"Mumu, you are the only child I love the most. Although Yan Xu is also my son, he has the blood of the Yan family in his veins, and that is enough for me to hate him."
As if afraid that Yan Mu would not believe him, he even brought up Fei Fei as an example, "Just like Fei Fei, she suffered for more than 20 years in your mother's hands, and I did not soften my heart. I only raised Yan Xu to be a playboy. He should be content."
Upon hearing Feifei's name, Yan Mu's eyes were unexpectedly filled with a trace of pain. She hurriedly picked up her cup and took a sip of water to hide her emotions.
"So, Mumu, don't doubt your parents' love for you."
Jiang Chengli tentatively touched Yan Mu's hand, and she didn't flinch. Zhou Yue burst into tears of joy and placed her hand on his. What a touching reunion of the family of three!
But Yan Songyu, the only audience member, felt like her soul was about to explode. "Damn it! Damn it! You all deserve to die!"
She didn't want to watch anymore. Why wasn't she awake? She wanted to leave...
After a while, Yan Mu seemed to realize that her hand was being held. She awkwardly pulled it back and plucked a hair from Zhou Yue's head. "I will do a paternity test myself. If you lied to me, I will definitely send you to jail!"
Watching Yan Mu's departing figure, Zhou Yue was somewhat incredulous. "Did Mu Mu believe it? Will she really acknowledge us?"
Jiang Chengli chuckled, "That's not important. What's important is Ruixin's inheritance rights. No blood ties or family affection can compare to the real benefits. Yan Songyu has loved her for over twenty years, so what if their feelings are deep? She has already made her choice."
Yan Songyu thought so too, and drifted away with Yan Mu in a daze. She closed her eyes, not wanting to see Yan Mu anymore, like a true wandering soul.
Yan Songyu wanted to slap herself for thinking that she still had compassion for Yan Mu after her rebirth. She even thought she was innocent and let Feifei help her. She really didn't deserve to be a mother or a father's daughter.
When Yan Mu returned to her office, she instructed her assistant not to disturb her. She leaned back in her chair, closed her eyes to rest, and processed all her emotions before slowly taking off the blue iris brooch from her chest.
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