Wang Xiyou walked into the house barefoot, her eyes unfocused, as if she had lost all purpose and hope. She didn't go back to her room, but just sat blankly on the sofa, lost in thought.
Her thoughts were wandering elsewhere.
The butler finished packing his things and came out of the room. As he passed through the living room, he saw that Wang Xiyou had already returned to her room. "Miss?" he called out a few times, but received no response.
Seeing that Wang Xiyou was completely naked, he immediately went to the entrance and got her a pair of pink slippers, placing them next to the sofa.
Seeing Wang Xiyou's dazed expression, the butler silently shook his head, dragged his suitcase out of the house, glanced back at Wang Xiyou with concern, saw that she was still the same, sighed softly, and left.
Before leaving, he made sure to close the front door of the house, as the young lady was dressed lightly and might catch a cold if the door was left open.
With the housekeeper gone, Wang Xiyou was now completely alone in the huge house. It was empty and devoid of any human presence.
She sat on the sofa for a long time. The room was very cold, and she was shivering all over. Her teeth chattered, and she couldn't help but pull her clothes tighter, hug her knees, and curl herself up into a ball.
She doesn't know what she can do now. With something happening at home, she probably won't be able to sleep peacefully for a while.
After thinking for a long time, she got up, put on the slippers the housekeeper had just given her, and ran back to her room. She had rushed downstairs in the morning and hadn't had time to bring her phone down; her phone was probably ringing off the hook by now.
Back in her room, she found her phone on the bedside table, and sure enough, a call came in at that moment.
The caller ID showed a relative, a relative from her mother's side. These people were just calling to inquire about her family's situation. After all, they had profited a lot from her family over the years, and now they were probably worried that they wouldn't be able to profit from her in the future, so they called to ask.
She hung up immediately; seeing these greedy people made her eyes hurt.
She checked her missed calls; there were about ten. She went through them one by one, but none of them were from the Yan family. Yan Qianxiao hadn't contacted her for a long time since the engagement was called off.
These calls were mostly from her relatives.
Her fingers, which were scrolling down, paused. Her parents had just been arrested; how could her relatives possibly know all about it so quickly? She glanced at the timestamps of the missed calls; they had occurred shortly after her parents' arrest.
A chill ran from the soles of her feet up her spine and into her brain.
She immediately exited the phone book and searched online. Sure enough, she found news about her family at the top of the trending topics list.
She was shocked. How long had it been? Everything about their family had been exposed online, even the details of what happened back then. It was obvious that someone was pulling the strings behind the scenes.
She only had one person's image in her mind, but she couldn't quite believe that Lu Wanzheng had the ability to find so many things all at once.
Lu Wanzheng certainly didn't have that ability, but Xu Jingxing did. With the information they had gathered, they could easily put Wang Kun and Zhao Ping in jail for at least ten years.
Wang Xiyou felt a deep resentment.
While she was browsing online news, the commotion outside her villa started again. She took her phone and went downstairs. Just as she reached the bottom of the stairs, the front door of her villa was violently pushed open and slammed against the wall with a loud bang.
Wang Xiyou was startled. She looked in the direction of the sound and saw a man in a suit walking towards her with his back to the light. She couldn't see his face clearly.
When a strange man broke into her home, she instinctively took a step back, her face showing some panic.
What are these people doing here?
The leader entered the villa. He looked around at the familiar yet unfamiliar surroundings, and finally fixed his gaze on Wang Xiyou at the bottom of the stairs. He stared at Wang Xiyou coldly, his eyes revealing disgust.
He recognized the face of the person who had come in; it was Xu Jingxing, Lu Wanzheng's uncle!
As soon as Xu Jingxing entered the house, he sat down on the sofa, crossed one leg, took out a cigarette from his breast pocket, put it in his mouth, pressed the lighter with one hand, and cupped the flame with the other to light it. White smoke drifted from his mouth, obscuring his expression.
Wang Xiyou looked at his face, somewhat flustered. Looking behind him, she saw several other men, also dressed in suits, following behind him. She said in a panic, "What are you doing? This is trespassing. Don't think that just because I'm the only one left in our house, I'm easy to bully. I can call the police to arrest you."
Facing a group of grown men, Wang Xiyou lacked confidence when he spoke.
Xu Jingxing narrowed his eyes and sneered, "Trespassing? Miss Wang probably doesn't know who exactly trespassed. Oh, no, it shouldn't be called trespassing, it should be called robbery."
"What did you say?" Wang Xiyou's pupils contracted, as if he had heard something unbelievable, as if it were a fairy tale.
Xu Jingxing sneered again. Without the Wang family, Wang Xiyou was nothing, like an ant in his eyes. "I'm not being unreasonable. I'll give you half an hour to leave here with your things, or my men will throw you and your belongings out."
Wang Xiyou said angrily, "This is my home, why are you kicking me out? You're the ones who should leave. If you don't leave, I'll call security!"
This is her home, the place where she grew up. Why should she be driven away? No one has the right to drive her away!
A man behind Xu Jingxing, carrying a briefcase, stepped forward and took out a document. "Ms. Wang, I am Mr. Xu's lawyer, and also Ms. Lu's lawyer. The house you are currently living in belongs to Ms. Lu Qianyu, who was murdered by your parents. Ms. Lu Qianyu's whereabouts are currently unknown. Therefore, the rightful heir to this house should be Ms. Lu Wanzheng. However, your parents have occupied this house for many years. So, on behalf of my client, I am here to reclaim this house. I hope you will cooperate and leave as soon as possible, otherwise we will call the police. I think, as a public figure, Ms. Wang, you don't want to be trending on social media again, do you?"
Upon hearing this, how could Wang Xiyou not understand? "So it was your doing that our family's matter became a trending topic so quickly."
Xu Jingxing looked at Wang Xiyou with disdain, put the cigarette between his index and middle fingers into his mouth, took a small puff, and exhaled a puff of white smoke. "Don't you like being on the trending topics? You like being on the trending topics for the smallest things. I'm helping you out. Before, you wanted to use netizens to deal with Wan Zheng. I'm just giving you a taste of your own medicine. What, you don't like it? Oh, right, before, you and your fiancé, no, I should say ex-fiancé, the fact that you two were together was on the trending topics. Do you need me to arrange a trending topic about your two families canceling the engagement? There's discussion about it online right now, so it doesn't need to take up too much of my energy."
Another lawyer behind him stepped forward and said, “Regarding Wang’s Entertainment, since the company did not originally belong to Wang Kun, Mr. Xu next to me is taking back the company on behalf of Ms. Lu. In addition, we have checked the company’s contracts and there is no employment contract between Ms. Wang and Wang’s Entertainment. Therefore, Ms. Wang, you are no longer an artist under our company. We hope you will pack your things and leave immediately.”
Wang Xiyou was taken aback when she heard this. Wang's Entertainment used to be her family's company. Who would sign a contract with an artist in their own family? She didn't think much about it at the time and just used her family's resources.
"What are you still standing here for? Hurry up and pack your things. Do you want my men to help you pack?" Xu Jingxing's tone was nonchalant, and his handsome eyes were filled with a smile, but it was a mocking smile. He had a cigarette with a scarlet dot between his fingers, which made him look a bit roguish and handsome.
When she met Xu Jingxing's mocking eyes, Wang Xiyou shuddered and ran back to her room. She slammed the door shut, trying to shut out the outside world, but how could that possibly work?
Wang Xiyou pressed her back against the door panel, her body slowly sliding down until she sat completely on the ground. She bent her knees, placed her arms on her knees, lowered her head, and burst into tears.
Without a home, without parents, without a job, she is now completely alone.
She didn't know how long she had been crying when she heard someone coming upstairs. Then someone knocked on her door, and the person outside said loudly, "Miss Wang, you have ten minutes. If you're not ready to come out by now, we'll have to resort to violence to kick you out. I advise you to come out on your own and leave this house. At least you'll have some dignity and backbone. If we kick you out, you'll probably be on the front page of the news tomorrow."
After the person outside finished speaking, they didn't linger. Soon, footsteps could be heard again outside, fading into the distance.
Wang Xiyou overheard what the people outside were saying. She looked up, her eyes even smaller than before, her face pale and looking terrible.
She went to the dressing room, picked out the more expensive clothes and packed them into her suitcase. Over the years, she had also bought a lot of jewelry, which she also packed into the suitcase. She filled three suitcases in total.
After Wang Xiyou went upstairs, Xu Jingxing stubbed out his cigarette in the ashtray on the coffee table and added some water to completely extinguish the fire and prevent it from reigniting.
He got up and walked around the living room. Almost all the furniture and decorations from back then had been replaced. The paintings in the living room, if you didn't know their value, you would only know that they were famous paintings, but if you knew their value, you would know at a glance that every single one of them was genuine.
Think back to how these living rooms used to be filled with genuine masterpieces; now they're a mess.
Xu Jingxing took out his phone and called Lu Wanzheng. At that moment, Lu Wanzheng had just finished filming a scene, and Xiao Hua handed her the phone that had just rung.
"Old Xu, how is it?" Lu Wanzheng drank the water Xiao Hua handed her and put the phone to her ear.
Xu Jingxing looked at the fake vase in front of him, picked it up and weighed it in his hand, feeling that it was a little light. "We've gotten the house and the company back, but all the things from back then are gone. I guess Wang Kun used them to bribe people and give them away. What do you plan to do with this house?"
To be precise, the true owner of this house is Lu Wanzheng, so only she can decide how the house is used.
"They're all gone? Then let Wang Kun compensate me. I think he still has a lot of money in his account, but I feel disgusted to have any of it. Old Xu, you can donate it for me. Also, let's sell this house. There's nothing left to cherish. Let's donate the money from the sale in Mom's name."
That was the house where Lu Wanzheng lived when she was a child. It's not that she had no feelings for it, but feelings are all generated by people. What she cherished was the house where her mother lived, while this house was just an empty shell with nothing to remember it by, so there was no point in keeping it.
"Okay, leave everything to me. I'll arrange everything for you." Xu Jingxing put the vase back in his hand. Just as he was about to hang up the phone, he heard a voice from the other end, "Uncle, thank you." She sounded very sincere.
This surprised Xu Jingxing. He curled his lips into a slightly roguish smile. "My dear niece, don't be so polite. This is all my duty."
Immediately afterward, he heard the busy tone of the phone; Lu Wanzheng had already hung up.
Lu Wanzheng hung up the phone and handed it to Xiaohua. She glanced at Xiaohua, then smiled and looked down. Xiaohua took the phone and then heard Lu Wanzheng's amused words, "You're not young anymore, why are you still so indecent?" Xiaohua didn't know what the two had talked about, and after hearing this, she was a little confused. She scratched the back of her head.
Xu Jingxing put his phone back in his pocket, walked back to where his legal team was, and handed over the task that Lu Wanzheng had just given them.
These are things he doesn't need to worry about.
"Go and urge that young lady upstairs. Why hasn't she come down yet?" Xu Jingxing was getting impatient. Did she really think she was still a young lady?
After packing her things, Wang Xiyou sat down on the edge of the bed. Last night she was still the eldest daughter of the Wang family, but today she had become a stray dog. All of this was thanks to Lu Wanzheng and Xu Jingxing.
She hated those two.
Wang Xiyou sat up in bed, pushing her suitcase as she prepared to leave. Just then, she heard someone urging her from outside the door. Wang Xiyou frowned and opened the door. "I know, could you help me push my suitcase?"
Out of gentlemanly courtesy and hoping that Wang Xi could leave as soon as possible, the lawyer who came to the second floor helped Wang Xiyou carry a suitcase in each hand and push him out of the room.
As she walked downstairs, Wang Xiyou saw Xu Jingxing sitting leisurely on the sofa. Suddenly, a thought flashed through her mind. She straightened her back and said with a sneer, "Xu Jingxing, I suddenly remembered something. Many years ago, my mother told me about something concerning Lu Wanzheng."
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