That night, I caught a cold and developed a low-grade fever. After taking some medicine, I felt slightly better the next day, but my head was still foggy and I lacked energy.
When Jiang Yurou's call came in, the mobile phone on the bedside table buzzed incessantly.
Annoyed by the disturbance, Jiang Shiyu pressed the power button. She hadn't expected Jiang Yurou to show up at her door.
She kept knocking on the downstairs door.
The room had good soundproofing, but the rhythmic knocking could still be heard.
Jiang Shiyu frowned impatiently.
She climbed out of bed, went downstairs, and opened the door.
Seeing Jiang Shiyu, Jiang Yurou immediately lunged at her, "Jiang Shiyu! You bitch! I'm not done with you!"
Jiang Shiyu was stunned for a moment. She shifted her body, narrowly dodging Jiang Yurou's attack.
Jiang Yurou, dodged by Jiang Shiyu, stumbled straight to the ground, hitting her head.
Screaming, she got up and tried to tear at Jiang Shiyu.
Jiang Shiyu grabbed Jiang Yurou's hands. As a child, she was adept at climbing trees and catching fish. How could the pampered Jiang Yurou be her match?
"Jiang Shiyu! You manipulated my father! You scheming woman! You're so calculating! Today, I'm going to take you down with me! If I can't have a good life, neither can you!"
Jiang Yurou no longer cared about her image, her voice hysterical as she went to grab Jiang Shiyu's hair.
Fortunately, she had her hair tied up. If Jiang Yurou had managed to grab it, she would have lost a large chunk.
"It's just blood debt paid with blood, are you that surprised? That's how Jiang Dehai treated my mother and maternal grandfather back then. The wealth and status you've enjoyed all these years were stolen, snatched away. I'm merely reclaiming what belongs to me, and you call me calculating?"
A chill ran through Jiang Shiyu's heart. She curled her lips into a forced smile.
Jiang Yurou couldn't listen to any of this. "Bitch! You're still making excuses! This situation is because of you! If it weren't for you, my family wouldn't have ended up like this. Now my mother is hospitalized and my father is in prison, all thanks to you!"
"Your father deserved to pay for murder with his life. How did it become my fault? Instead of blaming me, perhaps you should look for reasons within yourselves!"
Jiang Shiyu forcefully pushed Jiang Yurou away.
Jiang Yurou was shoved out the door, stumbled, and then fell backward, sitting on the marble floor outside.
"You're lying! I don't believe my father is that kind of person! It must be a setup! My father is a good man, he loved me so much, treated me so well, how could he have cruelly murdered your maternal grandfather! You're lying!"
Jiang Yurou's eyes widened, refusing to believe Jiang Shiyu's words.
"If you don't believe me, then go ask your father and mother. He treated you well because you are his daughter, but there's no denying how he acquired his wealth. His escape from responsibility in my maternal grandfather's death is undeniable!"
Jiang Shiyu, too lazy to argue with Jiang Yurou any further, closed the door.
She thought Jiang Yurou would knock again, but she never heard another knock.
Jiang Shiyu returned to her room, took her medicine, and slept again.
When she woke up, it was already afternoon. She opened her phone and found many missed calls.
They were all from Zhao Shuyao.
Jiang Shiyu called her back.
"Shiyu, darling! Are you okay? You scared me to death. When you turned off your phone, I thought something had happened to you. I hacked into your home surveillance and saw you were fine. Oh, and I might be back in Haicheng a bit later, so wait for me."
Zhao Shuyao sounded very anxious on the other end, as if she had something urgent to tell her.
Jiang Shiyu smiled slightly. "It's okay, no rush. If it's something important, you can tell me when you get back."
"It's urgent, but there's no solid evidence yet, so you might not believe me if I tell you now. Anyway, we'll talk about it when I get back to Haicheng. Qin Yusheng... won't let me leave."
Thinking of Qin Yusheng, Zhao Shuyao gnashed her teeth in hatred.
In the evening, when Murong Cheng returned home, the aunt had made soup. After dinner, Jiang Shiyu checked her temperature; she was much better than the day before.
The next day, Jiang Shiyu returned to the company. As soon as Xiaohong saw her, she rushed over.
Her gossipy mouth started working.
"Jiang Yurou resigned, can you believe it? Jiang Yurou's father was indicted, oh, and he's probably your father too. I heard he was sentenced to forty years in prison! My goodness!"
Resigned?
Jiang Shiyu glanced at Jiang Yurou's workstation.
Indeed, the items on it had already been cleared.
Jiang Shiyu went to the restroom. When she came out, she encountered Fang Yuan outside the door.
Fang Yuan paused, stared at Jiang Shiyu, and let out a laugh. "You're truly amazing, bringing down the entire Jiang family in just a few days. Well, you're not a Jiang anymore, so the Jiang family has nothing to do with you."
Jiang Shiyu was wiping her wet hands with a tissue. Hearing Fang Yuan's words, her movements paused.
Jiang Shiyu looked up and smiled lightly. "I didn't realize Vice President Fang was so fond of meddling, so fond of worrying about other people's gossip. Vice President, you're swamped with work, perhaps you should focus less on gossip and more on your job, lest rumors of you using your position for favors start circulating in the company."
After speaking, she brushed past Fang Yuan without looking back.
Her arrogance was at its peak.
Fang Yuan gritted her teeth, turned sharply, and stared intently at Jiang Shiyu's retreating back.
It seems the plan needs to be expedited. Jiang Shiyu, relying on Murong Cheng's backing, has become increasingly presumptuous.
"Let's see how you'll be smiling in a while!"
Su Ziyue's appearance hadn't disrupted Murong Cheng and Jiang Shiyu's relationship. This Su Ziyue is truly useless. If she were the biological mother of Ruoruo and Cheche, she would have already replaced Jiang Shiyu and married Murong Cheng!
Fang Yuan was frustrated by her lack of progress, but she was helpless.
She walked into the restroom and called Su Ziyue.
"Speed things up, we can't drag this out any longer."
In the afternoon, Jiang Shiyu left work early and drove to the kindergarten to pick up Ruoruo and Cheche.
Ruoruo had been back in the country for some time. Since the two children spent a lot of time together, and to prevent Ruoruo from being bored when she was alone, she sent Ruoruo to Cheche's kindergarten. This way, the two children would have a companion.
After waiting for a while, the kindergarten let out. Luxury cars were already parked outside the kindergarten gate, and the children were mostly picked up by nannies.
"Mommy!"
Cheche, led out by his teacher, his eyes lit up as soon as he saw Jiang Shiyu. He excitedly rushed towards Jiang Shiyu and threw himself into her arms.
Jiang Shiyu stumbled, almost losing her balance, and hugged Cheche. "Where's your sister, little one?"
She looked left and right but couldn't see Ruoruo.
After waiting for a while, Jiang Shiyu went to ask the kindergarten teacher.
"Ruoruo? Didn't her dad pick her up this afternoon?"
The kindergarten teacher looked at Jiang Shiyu with surprise.
Murong Cheng picked her up?
"Okay, thank you."