No one spoke for a long time; the atmosphere was as cold as it could possibly be.
Murong Xiao, with his strong composure, slowly sipped his tea, while Xiang Jin, sitting next to him, grew restless and wanted to end the situation quickly.
Seeing that the old man ignored her, Li Shuhui couldn't take it anymore and turned her gaze to Xiang Jin: "Ah Jin, what are you doing here? This is none of your business. You should leave."
Just as Xiang Jin was about to answer, Wen Yufan spoke up: "Mrs. Xiang, it was Chairman Li who invited Miss Jin here."
Li Shuhui was stunned: "Dad, why did you invite her here? She doesn't know anything about painting."
"Whether she knows how to paint or not is none of your business." The old man didn't hold back and directly retorted.
Besides, how could someone who can paint "Light" not understand painting?
Li Shuhui patiently explained, "Dad, of course this is my business. She is my daughter. Who else but me can take care of her?"
“I didn’t expect that she was your daughter.” This time it was Li Pu’s turn to be surprised. “No wonder she seemed so familiar to me, there’s actually this connection.” He said this to Xiang Jin, with a completely different attitude than before, and even a hint of a smile.
"Sorry, I haven't introduced myself yet. My name is Xiang Jin, and I'm an adopted daughter of the Xiang family," Xiang Jin added.
Chairman Li nodded: "A good name." But he didn't dwell on her status as an adopted daughter.
Li Shuhui and Xiang Qi, standing next to her, had faces that were almost contorted in shock.
What exactly happened? How did Xiang Jin get in touch with Li Pu?
A year ago, Li Shuhui arranged for Xiang Qi to go abroad, partly to avoid Feng Jianian, and partly to let her get close to Li Pu and win his favor so that she could inherit the Li family's property. After all, the Li family only had the old man left, so it didn't matter who it was given to, but Xiang Qi was definitely the best choice.
Who would have thought that Xiang Qi had been gone for more than half a year and hadn't even seen her grandfather, while Xiang Jin had taken the initiative to strike up a conversation with her.
And judging from the old man's reaction, he really likes Xiang Jin.
This made her feel a great sense of crisis. What if the old man suddenly had a mental breakdown and handed the Li family over to Xiang Jin? Don't doubt it, this is something he is capable of doing.
No, absolutely not. The Li family's wealth can only be inherited by Xiang Qi, not Xiang Jinmen!
Upon hearing the old man's call, Xiang Jin hesitated about how to explain her relationship with Li Shuhui, but Li Shuhui spoke first: "Ah Jin, come out for a moment, I have something to tell you."
Xiang Jin said expressionlessly, "It's fine to say it here. There's no need to go out."
"What, you can't get me to do anything with you now? Do you really want me to expose all the dirty things you've done here?"
"You might as well tell me what despicable things I've done."
Murong Xiao keenly noticed that Xiang Jin didn't even call her "mother." She was such a tolerant person... It seemed that the conflict between them was far deeper than he had imagined.
"So you really think that's how it is? I was originally saving you three favors, but you didn't want them." With that, she threw a stack of photos out with a thud. "You never told Master Xiao about this, did you?"
Looking at the photos scattered on the ground, Xiang Jin picked one up at random and immediately turned pale.
It's Lu Yifan.
Xiang Qi killed Lu Yifan in a car accident, and then framed her for it, causing her to suffer three years in prison.
These photos depict the scene of the car accident.
Her hand gripped the photo tightly.
"Master Xiao, it's my fault for not raising my daughter well. My daughter, Jin, killed someone in a car accident four years ago and served three years in prison. I didn't want to bring it up in this setting, since family scandals shouldn't be aired in public. But I just can't bear to see you being deceived..."
Li Shuhui spoke with great conviction and emotion, even choking up twice at crucial moments: "Moreover, the person she killed has a great deal to do with you; she is your ex-fiancée, Lu Yifan."
“I used to think she caused the tragedy because she was drunk driving, but now it seems that she had planned it all along!”
She threw out a stack of prepared chat screenshots, which were fake information she had commissioned an expert to create: "Ah Jin has had a crush on you for a long time. She was jealous of Lu Yifan, so she ran her over with her car!"
"You're talking nonsense!" Xiang Jin couldn't help but stand up. "Li Shuhui, you're just taking advantage of my lack of evidence to frame me, aren't you? Do you really want me to tell you who killed Lu Yifan?"
Li Shuhui felt a pang of guilt, and Xiang Qi, who was next to her, hurriedly turned around and looked away.
“Ah Jin, I believe in the law and the police. The verdict is still there. I can’t possibly wrong my own family. Besides, even if I wronged you, the police can’t possibly wrong you.”
Xiang Jin was so angry he laughed.
The Xiang family went to great lengths to pull strings and make arrangements for Xiang Qi's case back then. She and Xiang Qi look so alike, it's not easy to tell them apart... Besides, after the accident, the Xiang family wiped all the fingerprints off the car, leaving only their own...
She took the blame, but it was something she had no choice but to do for Jiang Anqing. However, she didn't expect that after so long, Jiang Anqing would bring it up again to disgust her. In order to get Xiang Qi and Murong Xiao together, Jiang Anqing chose to expose everything in such a public place. This was clearly an attempt to ruin her.
Is Li Shuhui really not afraid? Isn't she afraid that Li Shuhui will resort to desperate measures and gamble everything?
There couldn't have been no flaws in what happened back then. The surveillance footage on the street and her alibi—if she's determined, she can find them. Then Xiang Qi will be the one who suffers.
Li Shuhui couldn't possibly have overlooked this, yet she still willingly risked everything to slander her. Why is that?
She's gambling.
She was gambling that Murong Xiao would hate her because of this.
Driven by malice and jealousy, he killed his own fiancée. What kind of person is Murong Xiao? How could he tolerate such a woman by his side? Once Murong Xiao believed her, even if she later discovered the truth, it would be meaningless, because she would already be rejected by him!
Therefore, the focus of this farce is on Murong Xiao; they are watching Murong Xiao's reaction!
Thinking of this, Xiang Jin's gaze fell on Murong Xiao.
“Mrs. Xiang, how could you be so naive?” At this moment, Murong Xiao, who was sitting to the side, spoke leisurely.
"The police, are the police omnipotent? If the police were omnipotent, how could there be wrongful convictions in this world?"
"Master Xiao, what do you mean by this? Are you going to speak up for this murderer? She killed your fiancée." Xiang Qi looked at him in disbelief, her eyes full of hurt, looking pitiful.
Fortunately, reporters couldn't get into the banquet, otherwise Xiang Qi's fans would have been heartbroken if they had seen this scene.
Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh—eyes like cold arrows shot towards Xiang Qi, who shuddered and shut her mouth.
"What I do and what I say is none of your business. Besides, don't you two know that I've known about this for a long time?" He spoke casually, as if discussing the weather.
Li Shuhui was so shocked by these words that she didn't recover for a long time.
"You knew? You knew all along? You knew and yet you still..."
His fiancée died! He wasn't shocked or saddened at all? Not only did he not retaliate against Xiang Jin, he was even willing to be with her?
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