Lin Qingtong looked in the direction of the sound and saw Lin Jiaorui walking towards her, dressed in a bright red outfit.
A mocking smile played on her lips. This person had shouted it on purpose, simply to get attention.
Even though nothing was said, Lin Jiaorui suddenly said, "Wait a minute."
In the brief moment between sneers, Lin Jiaorui had already arrived in front of him, wearing a bright red V-neck dress, her snow-white figure dazzling the eye.
Lin Jiaorui deliberately rested her hands on her knees, revealing her cleavage. Shen Tinghe didn't even glance at her, but Jiang Hao stared at her intently, his eyes practically glued to her.
But Jiang Hao was still putting on an act.
"Miss Lin Jiaorui, I didn't know you came so suddenly. Is there something you need?"
Lin Jiaorui seemed quite pleased with Jiang Hao's gaze, and spoke in a deliberately soft voice.
"I was also invited to the banquet. I saw you all talking here, so I came over to say hello. I even brought my boyfriend with me today."
After she finished speaking, her gaze fell thoughtfully on Lin Qingtong, seemingly with a hint of provocation.
Immediately, Lin Jiaorui pretended to have just noticed Lin Qingtong and couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.
"Sister, what are you doing here? Oh—why are you with your brother-in-law and uncle?"
Jiang Hao hurriedly pretended to be injured, trying to gloss over what Lin Qingtong had just said.
"It's all in the past. As long as your sister is happy, it's okay for me to suffer a little."
Lin Qingtong glanced at Jiang Hao indifferently, a mocking smile playing on her lips.
"Because of her interruption, I almost forgot about you. The Shen Group will no longer invest in your company, so you don't need to confirm it again."
Shen Tinghe stood beside Lin Qingtong, his imposing figure radiating pressure, and casually uttered a single sentence.
"She has the final say."
For some reason, there was even a hint of pride in Shen Tinghe's tone.
Jiang Hao glared fiercely at Lin Qingtong, originally thinking that he could get away with it by joking around and then ask the Shen family for clarification later.
Unexpectedly, Lin Qingtong brought it up again, and Shen Tinghe even acknowledged it.
This will impact all the resources and projects Jiang Hao previously invested, and the company will likely suffer a severe blow.
He felt that Lin Qingtong was too ruthless, that she could even do something like seducing his uncle.
Lin Qingtong must still love me; she just wants to spite me.
"Qingtong, talk to your uncle properly. We were husband and wife for a time. If I hadn't divorced you, how could you be with your uncle?"
He averted his gaze and then adopted a pitiful expression, pleading.
More than saving face, Jiang Hao knew that without the company, he would be nothing and would become someone everyone could trample on.
Lin Qingtong was thoroughly disgusted by Jiang Hao; she had never seen such a disgusting person before.
Just a moment ago they were being harsh on themselves, but now they can turn around and beg themselves.
What did he want from her? It's ridiculous.
Has Jiang Hao forgotten everything he did for me back then?
Infidelity and scheming are absolutely unforgivable.
Lin Qingtong simply gave a cold laugh, and Jiang Hao was overjoyed, thinking that Lin Qingtong must have agreed.
As for why he didn't ask Shen Tinghe for help, it's naturally because his uncle is extremely difficult to talk to.
If Lin Qingtong still has feelings for him, she will definitely speak up for him.
"Qingtong, I knew you still loved me. You just need to say one word for me," Jiang Hao said happily.
Lin Qingtong stared at Jiang Hao in front of her and spoke slowly and deliberately.
"You're daydreaming. It's impossible. I won't say a word for you."
"We're already divorced, so just wait and see—"
Jiang Hao panicked for a moment and hurriedly asked, "What are you waiting for? What else do you want to do? Aren't you satisfied yet?"
"You've already kicked us out of the house, aren't you satisfied yet?"
He subconsciously shouted out those words, and Lin Jiaorui quickly caught it, deliberately exclaiming in surprise.
"What? My sister kicked you out of the house too? How could this be? I thought only Dad and I were kicked out."
"I originally wanted to be understanding of my sister. After all, she's a divorced woman with Wan Jun's mother by her side. It's only natural that she wants to control everything."
Lin Jiaorui feigned understanding and even wiped away non-existent tears with her hand.
These words echoed throughout the banquet, prompting many to gasp in surprise.
"They were all kicked out by Lin Qingtong? That's too cruel. Even if she's climbed up to Master Shen, she can't kick her own family members like that."
"Some people are just lucky. They can do whatever they want just by getting close to rich people. Why didn't I get such a good opportunity?"
"Pah, you'd have to be incredibly shameless to do something like that, I certainly couldn't."
These whispers reached Lin Qingtong's ears, but she had long since developed a body of steel and was completely unaffected by them.
If she really cared about these things, she would have been bullied to death by Lin Jiaorui and Shen Xue back in junior high school.
They won't actually take action; they'll just use words to attack you from every angle and undermine your confidence, making you doubt yourself.
In the end, they became puppets at the mercy of the puppeteers.
But Lin Qingtong won't become like that, which proves the saying—what doesn't kill me makes me stronger.
Lin Jiaorui seemed quite satisfied with the effect, a cold glint flashing in her eyes.
She once said that if she missed an opportunity, she would never let Lin Qingtong go.
So Lin Jiaorui took a stack of photos from a bodyguard on the side and deliberately handed them to Lin Qingtong in a pretentious manner, her face still showing worry and hypocrisy.
"Sister, these are photos I bought from paparazzi. How could you be so careless?"
Lin Qingtong looked at Lin Jiaorui with great interest. She was intrigued and wanted to see what kind of way this person was going to deal with her this time.
"Then you can tell me, what have I done?"
Lin Jiaorui was surprised that Lin Qingtong would cooperate so well, and she could hardly contain her joy, but she quickly suppressed it.
"Oh dear, you're not careful when you go out to play with men. But now that you're divorced from Jiang Hao, you can openly go to bars and pick up male models."
On the surface, she seemed to care about me and was worried about me, but her words were full of slander and rumors.
Lin Qingtong couldn't help but laugh. She actually said she went to a bar to pick up male models? It was utterly ridiculous.
She never went to places like that, except for that one time.
Just as Lin Qingtong took the photo with a cold smile on her lips, a gust of wind blew by, and Lin Jiaorui deliberately let go, sending the photo flying out in a flurry.
Shen Tinghe reached out and grabbed a paper, his eyes suddenly darkening.
In his hand was a photo of Lin Qingtong and a strange man coming out of a bar, and he had even managed to capture her face clearly.
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