“This…” Jun Liang’s face turned purple before he paled. His hand trembled as he swallowed the non-existent saliva in his mouth. “How did you get this?” He asked, his eyes glued to the contents on Lily’s tablet. “How?” He eyed Lily’s face. Memories of his painful past with Yani Chen immediately resurfaced in his mind.
“Doesn’t matter,” Lily answered. “The important thing is… I can prove that she blackmailed you.”
Jun Liang gave the tablet back to Lily as he hurriedly drank his coffee. He then looked at the couple elegantly drinking their teas in front of him. Confusion flashed in his eyes. “What do you want?” he asked. “You didn’t show me this because… you pity me, right?” He turned his head to his left and to his right as if speaking those words would get him into trouble.
“Smart.” Lily beamed. “I want information.”
“What kind of information?”
“We believe that Yani Chen is the one behind all the issues about my wife.” Zhou Jingren said. “We want to know everything about the woman.”
“You — ” Jun Liang shook his head. “She is not that stupid. She won’t just attack you because of a failed marriage engagement. True, she might create a scheme or two but that’s just it.”
A smile hung on Lily’s lips. “Well… that is only if she doesn’t care about her daughter.”
“She doesn’t. If she cared, she would not have abandoned them years ago.” Yani Chen didn’t only abandon both of their children. She also refused to spend some holidays with them and even attend their birthdays. Sometimes, when she sees them, she would bring media and people who will take pictures of her and her children talking and laughing.
It was as if she only sees them so she could use them for her career.
What kind of mother would do this to her children?
“Or… she did it to avoid suspicions from you.”
“What do you mean?” Jun Liang knitted his brows as he asked Zhou Jingren. “What suspicions?”
“We have reasons to believe that Demi is not your daughter,” Lily answered the man.
“That is impossible. Can’t you see the similarities between Demi and me?”
“I can. In fact… she looks a little like your brother too.”
“What nonsense are you talking about?” Jun Liang asked, confusion laced his eyes. He always believed that Lily is a very smart person. So hearing her talk about something like this would understandably make him confused.
“We have reasons to believe that she is your brother’s daughter and not yours.”
“That — That is impossible.” He leaned towards Lily and lowered his voice. “That is not possible Miss Lily, there is no way that my brother would… do that to me.”
“Well… as I said, this is only an assumption. We don’t have any evidence of this matter. Surely, if you really wanted to know the truth, then you would get a DNA test.” Zhou Jingren said. “Now this matter is not our concern anymore. We have warned you it is up to you if you believe us or not.”
Jun Liang went silent. It is true. The choice is still his in the end. Lily and Zhou Jingren does not have any business in this matter anymore. Moreover, they would not benefit from this issue.
“What kind of information do you need?” he asked.
“Well… we checked her profile online and… it’s clean. In fact, it’s too clean. If one would read her file, one would wonder if it was a file of a saint. Her past two marriages seemed to acknowledge the fact that it was a peaceful break-up. No hurtful words, no cheating. Both of her previous husbands even attended her wedding. It was as if a professional storyteller that is trying to describe a perfect woman wrote her files.” Lily said.
“Well… what can you expect from a sociopath?” Jun Liang suddenly unbuttoned his shirt. And showed a scar on his chest. Seeing Zhou Jingren frowned, he immediately closed his shirt, hiding the scar inside. “That woman carved my chest and dared to threaten me that she would file a case of domestic abuse against me.”
“So you give in?” Lily lifted an eyebrow.
“What can I do? If I called the police it would be very easy for her to say that it was self-defense. That I was the one who hurt her.” He let out a frustrated sigh. This issue really riled him up. “In this world, if a woman is hurt, everyone will sympathize and would call the man a monster. What about us, men? Is there any law that protects us from abuse?”
“And yet, you still agreed for a divorce and even agreed to give her money until the day she dies?”
“Our divorce papers stated that I can give her money until I remarried,” he answered Zhou Jingren.
“But you never did.”
“I never did.” Jun Liang nodded. “She made sure that I won’t marry another woman again.”
Both Lily and Zhou Jingren turned silent at his words. Is it possible that the same thing happened to Yani Chen’s second marriage as well? “It seems that I am seeing a pattern here,” Lily said. “Did she blackmail you into not marrying another woman?”
Once again, Jun Liang nodded at her.
Lily furrowed her brows as she eyed Zhou Jingren. “So in her third marriage…”
“She had been in her third marriage for four years now? She even dared to invite me to her wedding. That man is just like me and her second husband. Rich and hardworking. I am sure … a divorce will happen soon.”
“Or… she would finally settle this time,” Lily said. “She is getting older and her husband is pretty rich and influential. She is also very well known and is considered a national treasure in China. She actually has everything in her life right now.”
“Everything except her child.” Zhou Jingren added. “Ron and Yani Chen was the person who instigated Old Man Lee to ask for an engagement. They wanted Demi to enter the Lee household.”
“The — The one that you mention earlier about Demi — You don’t have any proof, right?” Jun Liang asked. How could he even think that his brother betrayed him like this? While he already had the feeling that Ron is talking to Yani Chen he always thought that this was only to update her on what is happening in her children’s life when she was gone.
However, this all changed when she noticed that Ron had been very aggressive with Demi’s engagement. Because of this, he suspected that it was Yani Chen who wanted this engagement and had been asking for Ron’s help. He always believed that this was the case. However, Lily’s words don’t make any sense to him.
First, Lily and Zhou Jingren are the types of people that would not do something that won’t benefit them. It is very hard for him to believe that Lily is doing this out of goodwill. So what was their reason for telling him something like this?
“We don’t have any proof. But you can easily find it out yourself.” Zhou Jingren answered before he added. “I dislike women like her. Me and my wife will destroy her and we wanted you to cooperate with us.”
“Of course, this is only if we have some solid proof that this is indeed your wife’s doing.”Lily smiled at him.
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