"So Miss Yao recognizes me!" Mona sneered.
Yao Manning was taken aback.
The way Mona looked at her no longer held the same affection she once had for her best friend.
"What...what are you doing here?" Yao Manning stepped forward and scolded her in a low voice, "Do you want to come with them to embarrass me? Don't forget, without me, would you have become famous?"
“Yes,” Mona’s voice trembled slightly, “Yao Manning, if it weren’t for you, I wouldn’t have ended up like this today!”
As she spoke, she lifted her headscarf, revealing deep scars on her face that shocked Yao Manning.
"You gave me all of this!"
"You're talking nonsense!" Yao Manning suddenly took two steps back. "I've never let anyone disfigure you!"
"Ha, it wasn't you who did it, but it all started because of you!"
Mona faced the crowd, who stared in disbelief at the injuries on her face.
"I'm standing here today to expose what this Miss Yao has done!"
"She's the one who asked me to seduce President Lu and drug his drink. She's also the one who... called in reporters to create a scandal, which is why Mrs. Lu was so traumatized that she lost her baby!"
"Mona!" Yao Manning shrieked, "Are you crazy? You want to pin this on me? Ha, even if I gave you the idea, don't you have a brain? Can't you analyze things? You think you can just seduce whoever I tell you to seduce?"
"You, you still want to deny it!" Mona glared at her, trembling with anger. "Fine, let's not talk about me, let's talk about your sister... Didn't you harm Yao Wanyin?"
"shut up!"
Enraged, Yao Manning lunged forward to shove Mona, but the bodyguard beside her reacted quickly and pressed a gun against her head.
Yao Manning's heart was pounding, and she dared not move an inch.
"You've been utterly depraved towards Yao Wanyin!" Mona emphasized each word. "Last time at the hospital, you took advantage of Madam Yao's absence, bribed the driver to get Yao Wanyin out, and even tried to drug her to make her mute... You won't admit to any of this?"
"What?" Yao Zheng was taken aback.
Although he didn't particularly like Yao Wanyin, she was still his daughter after all.
He never expected Yao Manning to harm her own sister!
"Manning...is what she said true?"
"no!"
"Now that things have come to this, you still want to renege?" Mona looked at her with a mocking gaze. "Have you forgotten that you promised to give that driver 200,000, but you renege on it! In the end, I'm the one who has to pay!"
Yao Manning hurriedly shook her head, a hint of panic in her eyes.
Huo Zhixing smiled and slowly played a video. On the big screen, the driver, dressed in prison clothes and shackles, sat behind the iron bars of his window with a gloomy expression.
"It was Yao Manning... If she hadn't promised me 200,000 yuan, I wouldn't have done this kind of thing! Yao Manning said that as long as we took Miss Wanyin to a secluded place, gave her a drug to make her mute, and made her unable to speak forever, the mission would be complete!"
A low gasp escaped the people in the banquet hall.
Yao Manning's actions were constantly redefining their understanding. They whispered among themselves, "With an heir like this in the Yao family, will we still dare to cooperate in the future?"
"Yeah, I never expected Yao Zheng to raise such a daughter... I think that old guy isn't any better!"
"They appear respectable in public, but engage in dirty deals behind the scenes!"
Huo Zhixing pressed the pause button, and the image on the big screen froze at the moment the driver looked up.
Startled by that gaze, Yao Manning screamed and hurriedly grabbed Huo Zhixing's arm, "Zhixing...Zhixing! We grew up together, you know me, how could I do such a thing? It's all their...they framed me!"
Huo Zhixing gave her a disgusted look and shoved her away.
Jiang Can took his arm, her eyes cold as she looked at Yao Manning.
Yao Manning tried to stay with Huo Zhixing, but her bodyguard stepped forward and pushed her to the ground.
The door suddenly opened, and Qin Minzhi pushed Yao Wanyin in. Yao Wanyin in the wheelchair was pale and thin, but the determination in her eyes filled Yao Manning with fear.
"Minzhi, Wanyin..." Yao Zheng's forehead was covered in beads of sweat, and he looked flustered. "Why are you here?"
"Ha," Qin Minzhi sneered, "If we hadn't come, were we just going to watch you hand over the family business to this treacherous and vicious bitch?"
"Minzhi!"
Yao Zheng still wanted to suppress her, but Qin Minzhi just handed him a document.
"Yao Zheng, you've probably forgotten our prenuptial agreement, haven't you?"
"What?" Yao Zheng's face turned pale, and he stared wide-eyed at the words on the document.
He then remembered that when they got married more than 20 years ago, the Qin family had indeed required him to sign a prenuptial agreement.
The agreement settled the premarital property of the two, and later the Yao family was established. According to the agreement, Qin Minzhi owned two-thirds of the entire Yao family.
However, because she was never wary of Yao Zheng, she never brought out this prenuptial agreement.
Yao Zheng had become so used to being a CEO over the years that he had forgotten about the existence of this prenuptial agreement.
"The agreement also states," Qin Minzhi said solemnly, "that I have veto power over any major decisions concerning the future successor and the company!"
“I’ve always considered our marital bond and never exercised this right before.” Her gaze was cold as she looked at Yao Zheng. “But today I’m going to exercise this right!”
Yao Zheng's face was deathly pale, and his hands trembled uncontrollably.
"Everyone!" Qin Minzhi took a deep breath and raised her voice, "Yao Manning is not my daughter at all. She is Yao Zheng's illegitimate daughter with another woman! He kept me in the dark for over twenty years, deceiving me into raising his mistress's daughter for over twenty years, while neglecting his own child..."
"I can't swallow this insult no matter what!"
These words caused an uproar among everyone.
Jiang Can leaned closer to Huo Zhixing, nervously squeezing his hand. The man returned the grip, his warm, broad palm enveloping her small hand.
"Really?!" The crowd erupted in an uproar. "Yao Manning is actually an illegitimate child?"
"Yao Zheng is really something, having an affair more than 20 years ago!"
"Ha, I told you so! Some people look honest and kind on the outside, but they're rotten inside!"
Yao Zheng's legs went weak and he almost knelt on the ground, but Yao Manning quickly helped him up.
But she wasn't much better off; cold sweat soaked through her elegant embroidered evening gown.
“No, no…” Yao Zheng denied it outright, “Manning…Manning is a child we adopted from an orphanage, I, I even have the adoption certificate…”
“I also have proof!” Yao Wanyin said calmly, enunciating each word clearly.
Yao Zheng met her eyes.
This was the first time in over twenty years that he had felt his frail and sickly daughter possessed such a sharp gaze.
“Dad.” Yao Wanyin looked at him coldly, pulled out a stack of documents, and threw them upwards.
The papers fell like a blizzard, each snowflake telling a story of the injustices and humiliations she had suffered over the years.
“These are my proof!” Yao Wanyin said softly, “DNA test results, and medical examination report!”
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