"No, this number isn't much. Compared to what you originally had, I'm only taking a tiny fraction. If you won't even give me a fraction, then there's no point in continuing the discussion."
Lin Qingyun wanted to laugh, but couldn't.
She knew who gave Jiang Tian her confidence.
That person gave Jiang Tian so much, yet never even glanced at her.
Lin Qingyun felt a pang of sadness in her heart.
"Two billion is impossible," Lin Jianhe said outright.
How could he bear to give her so much money?
After thinking for a moment, Lin Jianhe said, "Three hundred million is the most."
He also glanced at Zhou Jishen.
The son-in-law said he would give two hundred million of it.
"Then there's no need to discuss it. I'll contact the reporter now."
Jiang Tian reached for her phone as she spoke.
Zhou Jishen stepped forward, took her hand, and looked her in the eye: "Calm down!"
Lin Jianhe was somewhat satisfied to see that his son-in-law had stopped Jiang Tian's behavior in time.
“Jiang Tian, listen to your husband. I’ll give you 300 million yuan, and half of the Zhou family’s assets will be yours. You won’t lose out.”
Jiang Tian sneered, "Your ability to make empty promises is truly impressive. Didn't Zhou Jishen tell you? We already got our divorce certificate a long time ago. He bought out my five-year marriage with five million. Perhaps you'd like to hear something even more shocking: the person he actually loves is Lin Qingyun, and he married me for her—oh, perhaps you already knew this—"
The study fell silent in an instant.
Lin Jianhe's expression turned extremely ugly. He stared at Zhou Jishen and asked, "You and Jiang Tian are divorced?"
Zhou Jishen was caught off guard when Jiang Tian casually announced their divorce.
With the divorce, the Lin and Zhou families are no longer bound by ethical ties, and the mutually beneficial situation could suddenly break down.
After the divorce, he no longer had a suitable excuse to enter and leave the Lin family home and see the person he longed for.
The confidentiality agreement was signed, but in her eyes, was it just a piece of waste paper?!
What Zhou Jishen could think of, Lin Jianhe could also think of.
Without the financial incentive of marriage, can the shareholders and investors on both sides feel at ease?
"Tell me! Are you two divorced or not?!"
It took Zhou Jishen a long time to speak before he finally said, "Yes, Father, we are divorced."
Lin Jianhe reached out to hit him, but didn't know who to hit.
How could he not know that Zhou Jishen liked Lin Qingyun, and that it was she who proposed to him back then?
Later, when he settled down and lived a peaceful life with Jiang Tian, doing his best for the Lin family, he turned a blind eye.
But now, without the bond of marriage, the cooperation between the two families is in jeopardy!
Human hearts are the least trustworthy thing.
Even if marriage is just a formality, the formality must still be maintained.
"Take your household registration books and ID cards and hurry up and remarry. Today is a workday, you still have time!"
Lin Jianhe gave the order in a cold voice.
"President Lin, aren't you being too dictatorial? Why should I get entangled with a cheating man? I'm divorced from Zhou Jishen, which means the Zhou family can't control me anymore. Stop making empty promises about the Zhou family. What I want is the Lin family's money."
Jiang Tian spoke in a light and indifferent tone, but the stench of money in her words was unmistakable.
It took Tan Jingyu a while to react.
She knew that Lin Jianhe relied on his son-in-law Zhou Jishen. Now that the marriage was over, he would have no reasonable excuse to even order Zhou Jishen around.
Are we going to have Lin Qingyun marry into that family?
Absolutely not!
The man she wants to marry is an exceptional individual, so that all the humiliation and hardship she has endured over the years will not have been in vain.
The only solution now is to let them remarry.
"Jiang Tian—" Tan Jingyu's smile was cut off by Jiang Tian.
She took another phone out of her pocket: "Ms. Tan, I think what you're saying is pretty much the same as what Mr. Lin said, so you'd better stop talking. My phone is recording, and every second of the conversation is being uploaded to the cloud. You're just trying to get me to remarry Zhou Jishen."
"But don't you think about it? As a third party, interfering in the marriage of a legal wife's daughter, if word gets back to Hong Kong, you'll lose all face."
Jiang Tian then looked at Lin Jianhe: "I've recorded everything you said about not giving me a single penny and transferring marital assets to your illegitimate children. Don't take public opinion lightly. If I post it online, believe me, Lin's stock price will plummet tomorrow."
In the internet age, the influence of public opinion on brick-and-mortar businesses should never be underestimated.
Lin Jianhe never expected that Jiang Tian would dare to openly collect dirt on him and even record it.
In his eyes, Jiang Tian had always been Jiang Yuehua's puppet.
But today her performance hit his weak points in every way.
Lin Jianhe couldn't imagine the pressure his words would put on the company once they spread.
Seeing the fierce glint in his eyes, Jiang Tian smiled and said, "If I lose a single hair, you'll have to search for your name on the trending topics. There's plenty of drama in the big and small newspapers of Hong Kong, yet President Lin doesn't seem to know the power of recording. These days, recordings are an indispensable weapon in all kinds of online feuds. President Lin, you're getting more and more out of touch with reality."
Lin Jianhe really didn't expect this.
The people around him were all his confidants; none of them would dare to utter a single word. But Jiang Tian managed to trick him into revealing information and even turned the tables on him!
Startled and enraged, Lin Jianhe rolled his eyes and fainted!
Everyone was thrown into chaos.
Lin Qingyun watched her mother leave in the ambulance, her face remaining calm.
She thought Jiang Tian would ask Ye Feiyu for help, but she didn't expect her to use public opinion.
This woman had long been a thorn in Lin Qingyun's side.
She walked over, remembering her father who had fainted from anger, and said in a cold tone, "You've gone too far. Once or twice, you've turned our family upside down. Have you ever thought about what would happen to Jiang Yuehua if I told her about your divorce?"
Jiang Yuehua, that woman bound by feudal dogma, certainly couldn't bear to see her daughter get divorced!
"What could I do? What else could I do? It's better than getting a divorce than having my daughter drained of her blood and thrown out!"
Just as the two were arguing, a somewhat aloof female voice rang out.
Lin Qingyun's heart skipped a beat, and she hurriedly turned around.
Jiang Yuehua took off her sunglasses and looked at Lin Qingyun, her contempt undisguised: "You, the offspring of a mistress, are not ashamed of your mother's self-degradation into being another man's mistress, but rather proud of it, and even threatened my daughter. As expected, like mother, like daughter!"
"Look at you, you have no manners at all, you're just a shrewd and mean-spirited person raised by a mistress! Given your status, I'm afraid to even say a few words to you, lest I dirty my mouth! If this were ancient times, you would have to kowtow and pay your respects to me, and if you talked back to me, you would be dragged away and slapped! As for your mother, she would have to stay obediently in her own little corner of the world without me even saying I wanted to see her!"
Lin Qingyun was so angry that her hands started to tremble.
Jiang Yuehua's words had the air of a feudal matriarch!
What era are we living in?!
Has she been watching too many family dramas?
After speaking with Lin Qingyun, Jiang Yuehua completely ignored her. She then looked at Jiang Tian and said, "What are you still doing there? It's so smoky and polluted here. Aren't you afraid of getting sick from breathing in the air? Let's go!"
Zhou Jishen finally realized what was happening. He pursed his lips and called out, "Mother-in-law, please wait a moment."
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