Li Ying's decisive words left everyone present in disbelief, especially the Ye family, who had seen the document. Wasn't Li Ying digging her own grave and ruining her future by saying those words?
"Old Chen, this is a debate, not a courtroom. Our family matters don't need to be publicly tried in this kind of setting!" Grandma Ye said coldly.
Tang Qiao nodded, signaling Li Ying not to act impulsively.
Hearing Grandma Ye say this, Chen Wen was even happier. If she didn't want to go public, then that meant that was the truth: the person Ye Jingchi slept with at Donghu that night was Jiang Nuannuan.
Old Master Chen pondered for a moment, but Chen Wen interrupted, "Grandma Ye, you seem so anxious. Could it be that the rumors are true, that Ye Jingchi really slept with the Jiang family's young lady, which is why Li Ying moved out of the Ye family?"
Grandma Ye was speechless, and somewhat regretted her decision to have Li Ying move out.
Absolutely wrong!
Grandma Hua glanced at Grandma Ye. This country bumpkin was blind to talent, pushing away such a good granddaughter-in-law. Now look what she's done, she's shot herself in the foot. It seems the Hua family is very lucky!
She found a seat, waited for the Ye family to suffer a setback, and waited for the situation to become unmanageable before stepping in to help Li Ying resolve it. At that time, Li Ying could become the Hua family's granddaughter-in-law.
Jiang Nuannuan has been invited to the center of the venue by Chen Wen.
"Miss Jiang, please tell everyone, who did Ye Jingchi sleep with at East Lake that night?" Chen Wen was smug and arrogant, determined to crush Li Ying tonight.
Looking at so many prominent people in the venue, Jiang Nuannuan felt a little nervous, and her cheeks flushed red.
"Nuan Nuan, don't be afraid, just speak," Mrs. Jiang encouraged her daughter.
"That night, Ye Jingchi...that night..."
"Miss Jiang!" Grandma Ye said sternly, "Have you thought carefully about what you're going to say?!"
If Jiang Nuannuan were to say it in public today, that grandson of a battalion commander would be out of a job.
"Grandma Ye, why are you threatening Miss Jiang? Are you afraid of being exposed?" Chen Wen pressed aggressively.
Li Ying smiled calmly: "Ms. Jiang, since Ms. Chen Wen says so, then I'll ask you a few questions, and you can answer them truthfully."
Jiang Nuannuan glanced at Li Ying, not wanting to comply, but in front of so many people, she had to make things clear, otherwise she would be finished, and the Jiang family would be finished too.
"When did you go to East Lake? Who did you go with? What were you doing there?" Li Ying asked, focusing on the key points.
“I went there in June during the flood relief efforts at Donghu Lake, with my aunt, to deliver supplies to the soldiers,” Jiang Nuannuan replied.
Li Ying nodded slightly: "If I remember correctly, you should be in class in June. How long of leave did you take?"
Jiang Nuannuan panicked. She had indeed gone to East Lake, but only for a day, while the flood control efforts at East Lake had lasted for more than a week.
"I...I took a day off, which was the day of the victory celebration banquet."
Li Ying responded with an "oh," then stared sharply into Jiang Nuannuan's eyes: "You're lying!"
"I didn't!" Jiang Nuannuan retorted instinctively.
"Li Ying, what do you mean by asking my daughter this question?" Mrs. Jiang said angrily. "If the Ye family doesn't want to take responsibility, our Jiang family won't be so eager to get involved! But the way you're doing this is a bit too aggressive!"
Li Ying remained calm and composed: "Mrs. Jiang, I'm not being aggressive; I just want to get to the bottom of things. Since your daughter said that Ye Jingchi slept with her that night, I didn't hold it against her before because I valued your daughter's innocence. But today, you've conspired to destroy my innocence, so I'm sorry, I must also find out the truth and clear my own and the Ye family's names!"
Grandma Ye and Tang Qiao exchanged a glance.
Did Jiang Nuannuan lie?
"I can vouch for what Nuannuan said!" Ye Zhonghong rushed over, protecting Jiang Nuannuan, and glanced at Li Ying: "I was the one who had someone investigate Li Ying. The child in her belly is not my third brother's, and I don't know which wild man's. She lied and said it was my third brother's, and that's why my third brother agreed to marry her. I couldn't stand it, so I had someone investigate her, and that's when I found out that the person was Jiang Nuannuan."
"Since it's Jiang Nuannuan, why didn't Miss Jiang come out and explain everything when I went back to the Ye family with Ye Jingchi?" Li Ying expressed her doubts.
"That's because Nuannuan is embarrassed!" Ye Zhonghong had great faith in Jiang Nuannuan's character.
"You were embarrassed then, but you're embarrassed now?"
"this……"
Ye Zhonghong shook his head: "It was because I was worried that Third Brother would be deceived by you that Nuan Nuan had no choice but to come out and explain what happened that night."
Li Ying smiled coldly: "It seems Miss Jiang is very righteous and willing to sacrifice for love, which is quite admirable! I remember the person you're looking for is called Leng Su, and he's in Hong Kong right now. You can say whatever you want, right?"
Ye Zhonghong was bewildered: "What do you mean?"
"My point is very clear: is that document genuine or fake?"
Jiang Nuannuan looked terrified, but considering that she was the one who made the changes, and that no one else knew except Leng Su, she had to stick to her story that she was the one who was there that night. Anyway, Leng Su was a nomadic person who didn't know when he would come back. Once Ye Jingchi and Li Ying divorced, she would marry Ye Jingchi. Even if Leng Su came back then, the deed would be done, and the Ye family would have no choice but to accept it.
"Li Ying, you're slandering me!" Jiang Nuannuan was on the verge of tears: "How could I, an innocent young woman, treat something like this as a joke?"
"Li Ying, you really went too far!" Chen Wen rebuked her righteously.
"Miss Jiang, would you dare let me take your pulse now?" Li Ying suddenly asked.
Jiang Nuannuan was startled, took a step back, tightly grasped Mrs. Jiang's hand, and shook her head desperately: "No, I don't need it!"
"It's not that you don't need it, it's that you're afraid! Because you're pregnant!"
What?
Everyone present was stunned. They never expected that coming to participate in a debate would lead to such a huge scandal.
Mrs. Jiang couldn't believe her daughter would do something so outrageous. "Li Ying, even if you are extremely despicable, you can't ruin my daughter's reputation!"
“I didn’t tarnish her reputation. All the participants in the debate are top practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine. Anyone can take Miss Jiang’s pulse and see if what I said is true.” Li Ying maintained this attitude throughout, calm, composed, and methodical.
Ye Zhonghong glanced at Jiang Nuannuan's stomach: "Didn't you say you had an abortion?"
At those words, Mrs. Jiang was stunned. Grabbing Jiang Nuannuan's wrist, she lowered her voice and questioned, "Tell me, are you really pregnant?"
Jiang Nuannuan was uneasy and hesitated to speak.
"Is it my third brother's?" Ye Zhonghong asked expectantly.
Jiang Nuannuan became even more nervous, remaining noncommittal.
"Mrs. Jiang, let this old man take your daughter's pulse, how about it?" Old Chen said, wanting to personally shatter Li Ying's self-righteousness.
Old Master Chen is a highly respected person and would not speak carelessly. Mrs. Jiang nodded, "Then I'll trouble you."
Jiang Nuannuan wanted to refuse, but Mrs. Jiang pushed her forward: "What are you afraid of? The truth will out! With Old Chen's diagnosis, why are you afraid that Li Ying will throw mud at you?"
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