"Please let her in!" Jiang Yi said.
"Yes!" the servant replied and invited Ye Yanran in.
Upon entering the hall, Ye Yanran's gaze fell on Jiang Yi. Just as she was about to speak, Dongfang Mei emerged from the room.
This room was previously Jiang Yi's and Ye Yanran's. Now, Dongfang Mei had taken it over. Ye Yanran assumed Jiang Yi was now with Dongfang Mei and felt a pang of sadness, though she kept her composure and showed no outward emotion.
"I've come to seek your help this time," Ye Yanran stated, explaining the troubles her company was facing to Jiang Yi.
"No problem. You can go back and wait for news!" Jiang Yi looked at Ye Yanran. "After I finish what I'm doing here, I'll be leaving Jiang City. As we were once husband and wife, I'll do my best to help you."
Ye Yanran's delicate eyebrows furrowed slightly. She felt Jiang Yi had transformed into a different person, acting and speaking with a decisiveness that was unlike his previous timidity. Especially his magnanimity, which was something extraordinary. Anyone else would have not only refused to help but would have likely mocked her.
"Is there anything else?" Jiang Yi inquired.
Hearing Jiang Yi's voice, Ye Yanran snapped back to attention.
"No!" Ye Yanran said politely, "Thank you..." With that, she turned and walked out of the villa.
Watching Ye Yanran's retreating back, Jiang Yi took a deep breath. Perhaps this was the last time he and Ye Yanran would see each other. Their relationship had truly come to an end. Now, Jiang Yi felt a great sense of relief, free from the previous oppressive burden.
He took out his phone and called the head of the Chen family. After Jiang Yi explained the situation, the Chen family patriarch immediately agreed to help.
As soon as Ye Yanran returned home, she received a call from the Chen family patriarch himself. He stated that tomorrow, the general manager of the Chen Corporation's branch would meet with her to discuss cooperation, and that the Chen family would also invest ten billion yuan in her company. Ye Yanran froze on the spot, her mind reeling with shock. She had never imagined Jiang Yi would resolve the matter so quickly, and that the Chen family patriarch would call her personally.
"Yanran, did Jiang Yi agree to help?" asked Ye's mother.
"Jiang Yi has already helped!" Ye Yanran recounted the events. Upon hearing this, everyone in the Ye family was astounded.
Ye's mother, with a look of surprise, said, "I never imagined Jiang Yi had such good connections with the Chen family. One phone call and he sorted out such a significant matter. Although it's a branch of the Chen family that's cooperating with Yanran's company, it's still dozens of times stronger than Liu Tianyu's company. And with a ten billion yuan investment, it's simply an unbelievable surprise." Ye's mother was beaming with excitement. Ye's father and Ye Xiaofeng also looked thrilled. Cooperating with a branch of the Chen family was a matter of great prestige, with countless other benefits.
Despite the problem being solved, Ye Yanran couldn't feel happy.
"Old woman, wasn't I right? Jiang Yi is far better than Liu Tianyu, but nobody believed me," Ye's father sighed.
"If I had known Jiang Yi had this capability, I wouldn't have let them divorce," Ye's mother said. "But it's okay, I'll go find Jiang Yi tomorrow and ask him to remarry Yanran. He likes Yanran very much; if I ask, he'll surely come running back to Yanran to get married again."
"Mom, aren't you embarrassed enough?" Ye Yanran said angrily.
"I'm doing this for your own good!" Ye's mother replied.
Enraged, Ye Yanran ignored her mother and went straight to her room.
Meanwhile, Jiang Yi received a call while buying a car. It was from his university counselor. The counselor informed Jiang Yi that there would be a dinner party at the Royal Hotel that evening, and all classmates would be attending, including Ye Yanran. Ostensibly a dinner party, it was actually an occasion for mutual comparison. Jiang Yi had majored in Business Management. People in this field aimed to start companies after graduation. All his classmates had either started companies or factories, becoming bosses. Only Jiang Yi, with no company, had married into the Ye family as a live-in son-in-law. Every year since graduation, Jiang Yi had been ridiculed at reunions, and even the counselor spoke with a sting, considering Jiang Yi the most useless and pathetic student he had ever taught. Jiang Yi had tolerated this in the past to remain with Ye Yanran. Now that they were divorced, Jiang Yi no longer cared about such things. He had to attend the class reunion.
Many classmates arrived at the Royal Hotel entrance half an hour early, all dressed in designer clothes and driving sports cars, each trying to outdo the other. Ye Yanran had also arrived! As soon as Ye Yanran stepped out of her car, several people gathered around her. Ye Yanran had been the campus belle back in the day, and she was as popular among her classmates as ever.
"Yanran, you're looking more beautiful than ever!" A sexy woman in a pink dress walked over, hooked her arm through Ye Yanran's, and smiled. "I heard you kicked Jiang Yi out of the Ye family, is that true?" Ye Yanran didn't want to bring up the matter. This woman was Hua Xiaomei, Ye Yanran's best friend in college. Hua Xiaomei had married into a wealthy family and founded her own company, making her one of the most successful among their classmates, seemingly having reached the pinnacle of life. In the past, Jiang Yi was Ye Yanran's husband, and these classmates, out of respect for Ye Yanran, didn't go too far. Now that Jiang Yi and Ye Yanran were divorced, many had become brazen and openly treated Jiang Yi as a joke. Most of them had companies in other cities and were unaware that the Chen family patriarch had personally visited Jiang Yi. They still saw Jiang Yi as a parasite who lived off women, a good-for-nothing. Ye Yanran felt annoyed and remained silent. Hua Xiaomei chattered incessantly.
"Passengers in the vehicle, please hold on tight!"
"Next stop, Baiyun Road, passengers alighting please prepare!"
...
A bus stopped at the bus station ahead. Everyone's gaze turned towards the bus. They had their reunions at this hotel every year, and every year, Jiang Yi would disembark from this bus at this time. As expected, when the bus doors opened, Jiang Yi stepped out.
A roar of laughter erupted from the crowd. Among the entire class, Jiang Yi was the only one taking the bus. Everyone else attending the reunion had arrived in luxury cars. A man in a suit stared at Jiang Yi and mockingly said, "Jiang Yi, our class is the most outstanding class in the school's history. Out of fifty-six classmates, everyone either started a company or a factory after graduation. Only you, you can't even afford to open a small grocery store. After so many years, you're almost a beggar." This man was Xu Hui, Jiang Yi's love rival in college. Xu Hui had liked Ye Yanran, but Ye Yanran had married Jiang Yi. This matter had always irked Xu Hui, and even after so many years, he still harbored resentment.