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Jiang Yu said casually, “If there’s anything else, just say it all at once. It’s not a good habit to wait for someone to ask you.”
Jian Hanshen’s lips twitched as he explained, “My father owed Lu Yuan’s mother, so the Jians owed her a favor. Lu Yuan used this as leverage to make the Jians work for her.
“When she was exposed as an illegitimate daughter, she was criticized. She didn’t want to stay in the country anymore, so she came to us. She wanted to borrow the power of the Jians to send herself abroad and got us to provide a place for her to live.
“I did get someone to arrange everything for her, including providing her with a new identity. She also signed up with a foreign school and got accepted. She enrolled early overseas. She was already in school and everything was going smoothly. However, a few days ago, I received news that she had
disappeared.
“She dropped out of school and left her residence. She might have also left the city. In any case, the current situation is that our people can’t locate her.”
Jiang Yu’s interest was piqued. “So, what are you trying to say by telling me all this? To remind me to be careful? Because she might come back to cause trouble for me?”
Jian Hanshen replied, “I just felt like I had an obligation to tell you. Of course, she’s no match for you.”
The corners of Jiang Yu’s lips curled upward as her eyes filled with ridicule. “Mr. Jian, I think I need to tell you that I know you’re lying.
“Havent the Jians already repaid the favor they owe Lu Yuan?”
Jian Hanshen’s expression did not change.
In his sleeves, his hands were clenched into fists.
So…she knew.
“Are you wondering when I found out?” The mockery in Jiang Yu’s eyes deepened. “Actually, I wasn’t sure at first. Otherwise, I would have caused trouble for the Jians a long time ago. I wouldn’t have fallen to the point where you’d still have the chance to threaten me with my mother’s belongings.
“Of course, saving your father wasn’t a difficult task. I just hate being threatened by others. You just happened to hit my nerve. However, I was willing to tolerate it because of your filial piety, but you’re still lying to me. Isn’t that unreasonable?”
Jiang Jingnian was stunned. “Little Sister…?”
Why did he not seem to understand?
But soon, Jiang Yu explained it to him clearly.
“My father is not that scumbag Jiang, but An Yimin. I wonder if Mr. Jian still remembers him?
“Back then, because of Shun-Ning Corporation’s accusation that my father leaked trade secrets, many people chased after him and scolded him. He was beaten senseless and even his phone exploded with threats and scoldings. Reporters blocked the door and he couldn’t leave his house. Tens of thousands
of netizens on the internet pointed at him as if he was some heinous criminal… Of course, I’m sure Mr. Jian has already forgotten about such a small fry.”
The smile on Jiang Yu’s lips was cold and merciless. “After that, we found out that it was someone from the Jians who had taken bribes and leaked the news to the others at Shun-Ning. It wasn’t my father, so my father was able to clear his name. But…can the humiliation that he suffered be treated like
nothing?”
Jian Hanshen did not say a word.
When it came to An Yimin, Jiang Yu was unusually talkative.
It was as if a switch had been turned on. The anger in her chest and the fear from the dream overlapped with An Yimin’s smiling face. In the room with the curtains drawn tightly, she recalled the moment that An Yimin’s eyelids closed. The sobs from that dream echoed in her ears. For a moment, it was as
if she was staring at Jian Hanshen, but at the same time, it was as if she was looking at someone else inside of him.
In her heart, she was saying, you are also a coward.
But what if no one led the crime at that time?
Would you still go that far?
She was wrong, but wasn’t the person who led these things to happen even more guilty?
“At that time, I didn’t understand one thing. Jian Industries is such a big company, yet they are so lax in storing information. Even other project team members can get their hands on them?
“Maybe it was because it would be too eye-catching if the internal members of the project team were to lose the information. That way, it would be easy for them to be traced. That’s why they got an external member of the project team to leak the information. That way, that person wouldn’t be easily
traced.
“Don’t you think so, Mr. Jian?” Jiang Yu smiled faintly and hit the nail on the head. “You’re involved in this, aren’t you, Mr. Jian?”
The people around Jian Hanshen had already started retreating when Jiang Yu opened her mouth to accuse Jian Hanshen of lying.
For people like them who were just there to make a living, the more they knew, the harder it would be for them to live. Therefore, the smart ones chose to not listen to the story so that they would not be implicated.
Jiang Jingnian had already understood what Jiang Yu was trying to say. “This…this…Little Sister, are you saying that Jian Hanshen was the one who did such a thing to Uncle An?”
Jiang Yu continued to look at Jian Hanshen, “I didn’t understand why you wanted to help Lu Yuan. As soon as you said it today, I knew. So it was a relationship between the previous generation. No wonder I couldn’t find out. It was because the direction was wrong, I overestimated Lu Yuan and
underestimated Lu Yuan’s mother. This was my oversight.”
Jian Hanshen’s eyes flickered.
Logically speaking, even if he was exposed, he should not have any negative feelings.
Even if he failed, he would never regret what he had done.
But, why did he feel guilty and…regretful when Jiang Yu looked at him?
Jiang Yu: “Thank you, Mr. Jian, for clearing up my doubts today. Thank you for the additional information you gave me today. Our deal will end when your father recovers. But, if I want to make a move on Jian Industries, it’s a different matter. Do you understand Mr. Jian?”
Jian Hanshen smiled bitterly.
He finally opened his mouth and said, “What’s there to understand? If I were you, Ms. Jiang, I would have made the same choice.”
Jiang Yu nodded and said, “That would be best.”
She was merely informing him. She was not asking for his consent.
Jiang Jingnian had just finished digesting this fact. He was even angrier than when he learned that Lu Yuan was missing ten minutes ago, “It’s one thing to threaten me with my mother’s belongings, but you actually framed Uncle An? He’s such an honest person… You’re really despicable!”
Jian Hanshen did not refute.
Jiang Jingnian was still angry.
On the day he returned to the country, he met An Yimin who was in a sorry state.
At the time, he did not care. When he found out that An Yimin had been cyber-bullied, he still felt that it had nothing to do with him.
He was like an outsider, coldly watching from the sidelines. If he had not coincidentally bumped into Jiang Yu and An Yimin at the hospital, he probably would not have participated in the process of saving An Yimin.
Although Jiang Yu could have saved An Yimin without him, he still proved himself a useful tool. Without him, she would have had to go through a lot of twists and turns.
Later on, perhaps because An Yimin and Xun Shaorong took care of him, or perhaps it was because they were happy with each other, they had gradually…become his family..
