Only after her death did I realize that she was the white moonlight of a billionaire CEO.

Chapter 159: If a woman is not ruthless, her position will be unstable

Jiang Zhulang walked to the bedside and sat down, rubbing his forehead wearily.

Song Yunzhi climbed onto the bed, knelt behind Jiang Zhulang, and massaged his head from behind.

Jiang Zhulang leaned against Song Yunzhi's chest, his brows furrowed, looking preoccupied.

"Anything on your mind?"

Jiang Zhulang shook his head, "It's nothing."

"By the way," Song Yunzhi said, "what has Jiang Xinghe been doing lately? I didn't see him come back for the Lantern Festival."

Jiang Zhulang's expression froze. "He's probably off somewhere having fun. Who cares what he's doing?"

"...I did see him a few days ago."

Jiang Zhulang shifted his posture, his tone indifferent: "What are you going to do with him?"

Song Yunzhi explained, "Qingkong sent back a pair of sneakers from abroad, saying they were for Jiang Xinghe. I went to deliver the shoes to him."

"Maybe I went at the wrong time. He was entertaining guests and complained that I didn't know the proper etiquette. I went to see him without even calling him."

"guest?"

Jiang Zhulang asked calmly, "What kind of guest is it?"

"I don't know him. He looks a bit intimidating, and his accent sounds a bit like someone from Southeast Asia. Oh, right, I also heard him say something about 'appraisal'."

While observing Jiang Zhulang's reaction, Song Yunzhi said, "He's probably from a luxury goods appraisal agency. You know he likes to buy second-hand luxury goods to collect."

Identification?

Could it be a DNA test?

Jiang Zhulang suddenly opened his eyes and stared at Song Yunzhi, asking, "When did you see it?"

Song Yunzhi: "Four days ago?"

Four days ago, Jiang Xinghe had a paternity test with the Fifth Master couple. Today, the Fifth Master couple came to Dongzhou City and brought Jiang Xinghe with them.

Could it be that the kinship test really shows that Jiang Xinghe is the grandson of the Fifth Absolute Couple?

Is Chu Xingchen really Fifth Dream?

"I suddenly remembered that I still have some work to do." Jiang Zhulang immediately pushed Song Yunzhi away, stood up, grabbed his suit jacket from the sofa, put it on, and was about to leave.

Song Yunzhi asked in surprise, "Are you going to the company?"

"Yes, I left a few important documents at the company. I need them first thing tomorrow morning, so I'll go take care of them now."

Seeing that Jiang Zhulang had already reached the door, he turned the doorknob and, without turning his head, dismissively told Song Yunzhi, "Go to sleep early, don't wait for me."

After saying that, he disappeared without a trace.

Only after hearing noises coming from the garage downstairs did they see Jiang Zhulang drive away from home.

Song Yunzhi then opened her phone and sent a message to Jiang Xinghe: "[The old man heard I had your 'test' done four days ago, and he drove off in a panic.]"

*

Jiang Zhulang parked his car in the underground parking garage of the Dixing Hotel.

This hotel has strict security measures, and guests who are not registered at the hotel are not allowed to go upstairs.

Upon arriving at the lobby, Jiang Zhulang took out his ID card to check in and said, "My son, Jiang Xinghe, is also staying at your hotel tonight. Please try to arrange my room on the same floor as his."

When the front desk manager saw that the name on the ID card was Jiang Zhulang, he had no suspicions and arranged for Jiang Zhulang and Jiang Xinghe to be on the same floor.

"Mr. Jiang, your room is on the 23rd floor, the elevator is on your right..."

Jiang Zhulang took the room key and went straight to the 23rd floor.

When he arrived on the 23rd floor, he pushed open the door to room 2312, went inside, and took out his phone to call Jiang Xinghe.

“I’m in room 2312. Get over here and see me.”

Jiang Zhulang waited for more than twenty minutes, but Jiang Xinghe did not come.

He had to make the call again, this time softening his tone to try and make peace: "Jiang Xinghe, come to room 2312, I have something to tell you."

Five minutes later, Jiang Xinghe, wrapped in a bathrobe and still looking sleepy, appeared in 2312.

Upon seeing him, Jiang Zhulang lost all patience and eagerly asked, "When did you get together with the Fifth Master and his wife?"

Jiang Xinghe didn't deny it, but he answered irrelevantly, "What's it to you?"

Jiang Zhulang: "You are my son, Jiang Zhulang. It's a good thing for the Jiang family that you have dealings with the Fifth Family. Isn't it normal for me to ask about it?"

“I remember back in my senior year of high school, when you sent me abroad to make a living when I didn’t know any English, you said you wouldn’t acknowledge me as your son.”

“Every year when the Jiang family holds an ancestral worship ceremony, you call me a good-for-nothing and tell me not to offend your ancestors and to get as far away as possible. But when you do say I am your son?”

"Now that I know some important people and can bring benefits to the Jiang family, does that mean I've become your son?"

“Jiang Zhulang.” Jiang Xinghe smiled nonchalantly and mocked Jiang Zhulang: “You’re so snobbish, why don’t you go upstairs and become the godfather of the Fifth Master?”

"You bastard!" Jiang Zhulang cursed angrily, "How dare you talk to me like that? I'm your father, without me you wouldn't exist, you..."

“That’s wrong,” Jiang Xinghe corrected Jiang Zhulang. “You should say that without the butterfly birthmark behind my mother’s ear, I wouldn’t exist.”

"Jiang Zhulang, what are you pretending for in front of me? Do you really think no one knows the real reason you married my mother?"

Upon hearing this, Jiang Zhulang's expression changed drastically. "Jiang Xinghe, what do you know?"

"I know everything I should and shouldn't know."

Jiang Xinghe sneered repeatedly, deliberately trying to scare Jiang Zhulang: "Not only do I know, my grandfather knows too!"

"Your maternal grandfather?" Jiang Zhulang's heart pounded, and he asked in surprise and uncertainty, "Who is your maternal grandfather?"

"Didn't you guess it already?" Jiang Xinghe deliberately avoided mentioning his maternal grandfather's name, only saying ambiguously, "Isn't my maternal grandfather that one from Southeast Asia?"

"What!" Jiang Zhulang's legs went weak, and he collapsed onto the sofa behind him.

After a long pause, Jiang Zhulang finally found his voice: "You really are their grandson..."

"And your mother..."

“That’s right.” Jiang Xinghe nodded and said, “My mother is their daughter who was lost many years ago.”

Jiang Zhulang's face turned pale, and his ten fingers hanging at his sides began to tremble uncontrollably.

"how is this possible?"

"This is ridiculous!"

Jiang Zhulang refused to acknowledge this fact.

Jiang Xinghe gave a deliberately enigmatic smile and said to Jiang Zhulang, "You should go back and think of a solution, and figure out how to explain what your Jiang family has done to my grandfather."

"After all, a woman who has just given birth and finished her postpartum confinement period has no chance to get close to any random man and have an affair."

"Besides, who in Dongzhou City doesn't know about your first wife, Jiang Zhulang, who even became a jinx to your Jiang family after her death?"

"My grandfather had heard about these things as well..."

Jiang Xinghe left after saying that, leaving Jiang Zhulang terrified.

When Jiang Zhulang regained his composure and thought of finding Jiang Xinghe to sound him out and plead for mercy, he learned that Jiang Xinghe had already left with the Fifth Master and his wife.

As for where they went, the hotel manager really didn't know.

Jiang Zhulang had no choice but to call Jiang Xinghe, only to be told, "We have something to do and will be leaving for two days."

Jiang Zhulang asked impatiently, "What's the matter?"

Now that the two sides have recognized each other.

At this point, shouldn't we work together to go to the Jiang family and denounce him as an incompetent husband and his parents?

Jiang Xinghe said with a playful tone, "I'll take my parents to pay respects to my mother's spirit in heaven first."

First, go and pay respects to Chu Xingchen, then what?

Even without Jiang Xinghe saying anything, Jiang Zhulang knew that it was time for the Jiang family to suffer next.

No!

He couldn't sit still and wait for death.

Jiang Zhulang immediately ran home and told his father about it.

"Jiang Xinghe is really the grandson of the Fifth Master?" Old Man Jiang was so frightened that his expression changed again. He grabbed Jiang Zhulang's sleeve and asked seriously, "Did you hear him say it yourself?"

"Can't be wrong!"

Jiang Zhulang whispered, "He took those two to pay respects to Chu Xingchen early this morning!"

"what!"

Old Man Jiang's heart skipped a beat. He barely managed to calm himself down and asked Jiang Zhulang, "Don't rush. We've only just recognized each other. Fifth Jue should only know about how our Jiang family has mistreated Jiang Xinghe all these years."

"They don't know the real cause of Chu Xingchen's death yet. Even if they want to take revenge on us, they won't go too far. Let's calm down and think of a solution."

"Dad, the Fifth Master and his wife may already know the truth about Chu Xingchen's death!" As soon as Jiang Zhulang said this, the old man's expression changed drastically again.

How did they know?

"How did you know?"

With things having developed to this point, Jiang Zhulang dared not hide anything. He truthfully told his father, "Jiang Zhulang said something last night that made me realize that our plans and actions from back then have been exposed."

"What did he say?"

"He said, if it weren't for the butterfly birthmark behind Chu Xingchen's ear, I would never have married Chu Xingchen!"

"Think about it, for him to say something like that is a blatant threat! He knows about our plan back then. Do you think he won't tell the Fifth Master and his wife about the doubts surrounding Chu Xingchen's death?"

"Dad," Jiang Zhulang sighed heavily, his face grim, "Once the Fifth Master and his wife finish paying their respects to Chu Xingchen, they'll come looking for trouble for the Jiang family."

Upon hearing this, Old Man Jiang remained silent for a long time.

He didn't speak, but that didn't mean he was completely calm.

In fact, Old Man Jiang had already panicked, and he was at a loss for what to do.

"What should I do..."

Old Jiang's face, as weathered as pine bark, was now filled with gloom and melancholy.

Jiang Zhulang, with a cigarette dangling from his lips, paced back and forth in the bedroom.

After walking around five or six times, Jiang Zhulang heard Song Yunzhi talking on the phone with Jiang Qingkong outside, and his worried brows relaxed slightly.

"Dad, I have an idea."

Upon hearing this, Old Man Jiang looked up and gazed at Jiang Zhulang with delight. "Tell me about it."

“If the Fifth Family really wants to retaliate, our Jiang family definitely won’t be able to withstand the disaster.” Jiang Zhulang’s eyes were as dark as water. He twitched his lips and revealed a ferocious smile. “We will have no choice but to shift the blame.”

"You mean..." Old Man Jiang adjusted his posture, twitched his ears, and slowly turned his head to stare at the tightly closed door.

Outside, Song Yunzhi asked Jiang Qingkong with a tender tone whether she was getting used to life abroad and whether she needed money.

She is clearly a foolish mother who spoils her daughter.

"You want to drag the Song family into this mess?"

Whether I should say it or not, Old Man Jiang and Jiang Zhulang are indeed father and son; he easily figured out Jiang Zhulang's plan.

Nodding, Jiang Zhulang said, "When Chu Xingchen passed away, Yunzhi and I had already met a few times."

"If I were to pin the blame for Chu Xingchen's death on Yunzhi, it would be plausible. Besides, did anyone witness me strangling Chu Xingchen with my own hands?"

"Only you."

"But you won't betray me."

“As long as my son and I refuse to admit it to the death and insist that Chu Xingchen was strangled to death by Song Yunzhi, with the aim of making room for her as Mrs. Jiang, it will be very convincing.”

"Besides, in the past, Qingkong bullied Jiang Xinghe quite a bit. The fact that she and her mother mistreated Jiang Xinghe cannot be kept secret. If I say these things, Song Yunzhi will have no way to clear her name."

"At that point, the truth will no longer matter."

"The important thing is that the Song family is already tied to our Jiang family. The Fifth Family can easily crush our Jiang family, so how could they possibly crush the Song family?"

"Even if it really has that ability, it will have to pay a much higher price."

"Even if our Jiang family is to suffer, we'll take someone down with us!"

As he spoke these scheming words, Jiang Zhulang's expression grew increasingly ferocious and terrifying.

Old Man Jiang became more and more excited as he listened, and suddenly felt that this was a brilliant idea. "Good! Let's shift the blame to Song Yunzhi. With the true and false information mixed together, she will never be able to clear her name."

"This is indeed a way to save oneself."

Old Man Jiang nodded approvingly and made the final decision: "Do it this way!"

Jiang Zhulang smiled too.

Outside, Song Yunzhi, who was pretending to make a phone call to Jiang Qingkong, overheard the conversation between Jiang Zhulang and his son through a listening device, and her eyes turned red with anger.

Jiang Zhulang, Jiang Buyi, you two beasts!

"Qingkong, you rest then. Mom will call you again in a couple of days." Song Yunzhi pretended to be reluctant to part and hung up the non-existent phone call.

She immediately sent a backup of the audio recording to Jiang Qingkong, then to Jiang Xinghe, and texted him: "I have completed the mission for you, Jiang Xinghe. Please let the Song family off the hook."

As Mrs. Jiang and Jiang Xinghe's stepmother, Song Yunzhi did not expect to remain uninvolved.

But she couldn't let her family be implicated.

*

the other side.

Chu Ying was driving, Jiang Xinghe was in the passenger seat, and the Fifth Master and his wife were in the back.

Jiang Xinghe immediately turned on the speakerphone to play the conversation between Jiang Zhulang and his son.

Hearing these shameless words, Chu Ying clicked his tongue twice and sneered, "Mr. Jiang, it's not easy for you to survive under these beastly father and son."

Zhou Zhiwei felt extremely distressed. She asked Jiang Xinghe, "Were those two people who were talking just now your father and grandfather?"

“It’s Jiang Zhulang and Jiang Buyi.” Jiang Xinghe shook his head with a bitter smile and said with a sob, “Jiang Zhulang thought my mother was your daughter, so he went to great lengths to go to Maple Leaf Town to win her heart, marry her, and give birth to me as quickly as possible.”

"Later, I heard that the real Fifth Dream Lady had returned to Southeast Asia. He then despised my mother for being useless and was in a hurry to make room for the new Mrs. Jiang. He strangled my mother with an electric wire."

"After my mother died, he claimed that my mother had an affair with another man and that she hanged herself because she was ashamed when the Jiang family found out."

"After my mother died, Jiang Zhulang had nightmares. He found a fortune teller somewhere to seek a solution."

"So, following the fortune teller's advice, he dug up my mother's ashes from her tombstone and secretly buried them in the ground in front of the Jiang family ancestral hall, hoping to use the Jiang family's generations of ancestors to suppress her resentment..."

“It wasn’t until last year that I dug out my mother’s urn from under the ancestral hall and sent her back to Maple Leaf Town for burial.”

"..."

Hearing these words, Zhou Zhiwei felt a surge of anger.

"Bastard!"

Zhou Zhiwei turned to Wu Jue and said, "Lan Qing is, after all, a daughter of Lancheng, a girl we watched grow up. How could she suffer such cruel treatment!"

"Absolutely! Even if Lan Cheng doesn't step in, we will still help Lan Qing get justice!"

"After we get back from the small town, we'll go to the Jiang family's house!"

In Southeast Asia, a woman's position is not secure unless she is ruthless.

Zhou Zhiwei's ability to become the matriarch of the Fifth Family was not due to her beauty, but rather because her beauty was the least noteworthy of her qualities.

Unlike Chu Qingying's intellectual and elegant personality, Zhou Zhiwei was extremely fiery in her youth and was a ruthless character who didn't mince words.

After learning about Chu Xingchen's experience in the Jiang family, could she tolerate it?

If she were young, she could have hired a group of mercenaries to bomb the Jiang family and make them all pay with their lives for Lan Qing!

Fifth Jue had no objections and was happy to play along with her lover's antics, saying, "Okay, I'll listen to whatever you say."