Relio's pupils dilated in shock. "Who? Who is he?"
Old Rex coldly twitched the corners of his lips. "You don't deserve to know. According to the laws of Country S, for murdering a Duke, you will be sentenced to hang!"
Relio's face instantly turned as pale as frost. "Father, I truly know I was wrong—"
Old Rex clapped his hands, and two Interpol officers walked in, forcibly taking Relio away.
"Who exactly is your biological son? Is he really still alive?"
Old Rex did not answer Relio.
As he was being taken away, he saw Wen Jinglou in the corridor.
Seeing Wen Jinglou's dark blue eyes, he seemed to realize something, and his entire body trembled violently.
"Are you—"
Before he could finish his sentence, he was forcefully escorted into the elevator by the Interpol officers.
The sudden turn of events left the conference room as quiet as a mouse.
No one had expected that Relio was actually a fake.
With Relio's downfall, Wen Yue's backer was gone, so...
Would they still be able to get the money from selling their shares?
In the next second, Old Rex answered their concerns and doubts. "I have frozen all of Relio's accounts, and I will have my lawyers recover all the expenses Wen Yue has withdrawn from the Rex family's accounts!"
Hearing Old Rex's words, all the blood in Wen Yue's body rushed to her head.
Her mind buzzed as if thousands of bees had flown in.
Her beautiful dream had just begun; why was she suddenly thrown from heaven into hell?
Wen Yue looked at Wen Yan, who had a smile in her eyes, and felt as if she had fallen into an ice cellar.
She was supposed to be the female lead of this world!
Why could Wen Yan always defeat her?
"Grandpa Rex, actually, Wen Yan is Relio's biological daughter!"
Since Wen Yan wanted to drag her to hell, she would pull Wen Yan down with her.
Just as Wen Yue finished speaking, Wen Jinglou rushed in. "Yan Yan is my daughter. Back when your mother abandoned her, she ceased to have any relationship with your mother and Relio!"
Old Rex nodded. "Jinglou, Little Yan is also like a biological granddaughter in my heart! I will hand over full control of the Si Corporation shares that Wen Yue bought to Little Yan."
Hearing this, Wen Yue's face instantly turned as pale as paper.
The shareholders in the conference room who had supported Wen Yue were all dumbfounded.
...
Mother Wen had not attended the Si Corporation's shareholder meeting today; she was preparing a celebration banquet at the villa.
She knew that with Relio backing her now, Wen Yue was one hundred percent guaranteed to take control of the Si Corporation.
Mother Wen had even invited reporters over for an interview.
She sat on the swing in the garden, touching her belly, a smug smile hooking the corners of her lips.
Near noon, Wen Yue returned.
Unlike the high spirits she had when she left in the morning, Wen Yue now looked utterly defeated, like a frostbitten eggplant.
"Yue Yue, how did it go? The plan was a success, right? Where is your daddy? The reporters are already here, ready to interview our family. You've become the richest person in Ye City now, haven't you? Mom has to congratulate you."
Wen Yue glared at Mother Wen with red-rimmed eyes. Suddenly, she slapped her hard across the face. "It's all your fault! I'm now burdened with hundreds of billions in debt. How do you expect me to pay it back?"
Even if she died, she couldn't pay it all off!
Before Mother Wen could figure out the situation, a large group of people rushed in from outside.
They were all the wealthy businessmen and shareholders who had previously bowed and scraped to Wen Yue.
"Wen Yue, we can't get a single dime from the checks you wrote!"
"We heard that Relio is not the Duke's son at all. Your whole family is a bunch of scammers!"
"Pay us back! Pay us back!"
These people were aggressive, swarming over all at once.
Mother Wen didn't have time to dodge and was pushed to the ground.
A sharp pain struck her, and a gush of warm liquid flowed from her lower body.
She looked down and screamed, "My baby!"
She couldn't miscarry! If she miscarried, she wouldn't be able to secure her status through her son!
"If anything happens to the son in my belly, Relio will definitely not forgive you!"
A wealthy businessman closest to Mother Wen sneered. "You're still counting on securing your status through your son? Relio isn't Old Rex's biological son at all; his real son is Wen Jinglou. There is conclusive evidence that Relio tried to murder Old Rex, and he has already been taken away by Interpol!"
What?
Mother Wen shook her head frantically.
Impossible, absolutely impossible!
Someone turned on the television in the living room, and the news was broadcasting Relio's situation.
Seeing Relio looking disheveled and being escorted away, Mother Wen felt the ultimate despair of her life.
Wen Yue smiled blankly. She straddled Mother Wen and slapped her forcefully.
"It's all your fault, entirely your fault! If you hadn't taken me to acknowledge that family, I wouldn't be burdened with this massive debt. My whole life has been ruined by you!"
Mother Wen looked at Wen Yue sitting on top of her, looking fierce and malicious, as if she wanted to slice her into a thousand pieces. Her heart turned cold.
She had pampered Wen Yue in the palm of her hand since childhood, thinking she was her lucky star.
But in the end, it was repaid with biting the hand that fed her!
Wrong, it turned out, everything was wrong.
Wen Yue wasn't a lucky star at all; she was a jinx.
Mother Wen was filled with regret.
If she hadn't sent Wen Yan away back then and had properly raised her biological daughter, she wouldn't have ended up in this state today!
...
One afternoon, Wen Yue, who was hiding from her debts everywhere, had acid thrown on her under an overpass, completely disfiguring her.
After Wen Yue was sent to the hospital, she jumped from the top floor that very night, dying on the spot.
Mother Wen hid here and there, but was eventually discovered. She was sold to a nightclub that dealt in the flesh trade, suffering torture every single day.
Wen Shiyu didn't fare well either. He lost his job at the hospital, and when he tried to take a divine doctor as his mentor, he discovered that the divine doctor was Wen Yan, the person he hated the most.
He completely broke down, and his mental state deteriorated.
As for Wen Yiheng, without the Wen family backing him, Lucy abused him even more recklessly.
Wen Yan felt no sympathy at all for the Wen family ending up in this state.
It could only be said that they brought it upon themselves.
Old Rex handed over all the shares he had purchased to Wen Yan.
Now, Wen Yan was the second-largest shareholder of the Si Corporation, right after Si Moyan.
Old Rex wanted to take Wen Yan, Wen Jinglou, and Wen Xiaoshu back to Country S to formally acknowledge their ancestry.
Wen Yan politely declined. "Great-grandfather, I need to stay in Ye City for now to accompany my husband. He still has quite a few things to deal with."
Wen Yue's matter had temporarily come to a close, but there was still Jiang Shuyin.
She always felt that Jiang Shuyin's sudden return to the country was not simple.
The most terrifying part was that she could only find some things in the system that had happened between Jiang Shuyin and Si Moyan in the past. What she did after going abroad was not displayed in the system at all.
Perhaps there was a powerful hidden hand behind Jiang Shuyin, a hand capable of shielding Jiang Shuyin's information within the system.
"Mrs. Si, will you accompany me to another commercial gathering in Ye City tonight?"
Wen Yan smiled and nodded. "Sure."
The two of them arrived at the same banquet hall once again, but the expressions of the crowd looking at them were completely different.
The mockery, disdain, and ridicule were no more.
Everyone was filled with trepidation and caution.
"Si Moyan brought his wife here; he must be coming to take revenge on us!"
"President, we mistakenly trusted Wen Yue and offended Si Moyan. What should we do?"
"Don't worry, everyone," the president of the Ye City Chamber of Commerce reassured them. "I have already contacted MY Corporation. Their CEO will be here shortly."
"MY Corporation?" the crowd exclaimed in shock.
That was the most powerful microchip company in the country. Their newly launched 6G chip was the only one of its kind in the entire world.
"President, you are truly amazing to have invited the CEO of MY Corporation! We are saved now. Even if Si Moyan tries to make things difficult for us, we have nothing to fear anymore!"
Just as the man finished speaking, the president spotted a man in a sharp, tailored suit walking into the venue.
"CEO Li of MY Corporation is here."
The president led the crowd over to greet him.
However, CEO Li walked right past them, heading straight toward Si Moyan and Wen Yan.
"President, I have brought the contracts you asked for."
The chamber president and the rest of the crowd froze when they heard CEO Li address Si Moyan as his superior.
"C-CEO Li, could it be that MY Corporation has been acquired by President Si?"
CEO Li shook his head. "Of course not. The big boss of MY Corporation has always been President Si. MY is a high-tech company that President Si named using his and his wife's initials."
The crowd was completely dumbfounded.
This meant that even if the leadership of the Si family had changed hands, Si Moyan still had MY Corporation backing him up.
He had prepared a trump card all along. He was never going to fall!
At the last business gathering, he had allowed people to mock him without offering a single word of defense. It turned out he was doing it on purpose to see clearly who would backstab him in a crisis, and who was actually worthy of his trust and cooperation!
For such a young man, his shrewdness and calculation ran so deep it was utterly terrifying.
Si Moyan looked at Ming Zheng and the few bosses who had sat with him last time. "I told you, as long as I am here, your companies will not go bankrupt so easily."
Wen Yan looked at the cold, steady, handsome, and mature man beside her. Her heart began to pound wildly, completely out of her control.
[Ahhh, my husband is just too handsome and utterly charming!]
[I want to sleep with him tonight!]
