Chapter 24 Three Always Opposed by Three

“Who are you calling sister?”

Ji Yisi saw Fang Qirui in the living room, and her expression instantly turned icy. She slapped the young woman across the face.

“Smack—”

The young woman held her face, tears welling up in her eyes. “Sister, why did you hit me?”

“You seduced my husband, and I’m not allowed to hit you?”

“But… aren’t you in a fake marriage? Qírui told me that you’re his boss’s mistress, and since his boss couldn’t marry you, you two just had a fake marriage…”

At this moment, Fang Qirui noticed the commotion. Seeing Ji Yisi with someone at the doorway, he frowned. “What are you doing here?”

“Doing? I’m here to catch adultery!” Ji Yisi sneered, shoving the woman aside and strolling slowly into the room, glancing left and right. “If I hadn’t come, how would I have known that your little nest is actually quite cozy? Oh, look, a wedding photo here too…”

Indeed, there it was.

Behind the sofa in the living room hung a large wedding portrait of a couple smiling so happily that anyone who didn’t know better would think they were really married.

Ji Yisi confronted Fang Qirui, furious at his audacity. Had he forgotten who he owed everything to? If it weren’t for her, would he even be where he is now? And yet he dared to keep a mistress.

The worst part was that what Yu Xing said was true: not only did he have a mistress, but he also had a son and a daughter with her, making it look like that family of four was the “real” one.

And what about her? After so many years of marriage to Fang Qirui, giving him a daughter, supporting him, what was she to him?

Even usually timid and accommodating Fang Qirui had had enough. He spoke bluntly, “What do you think I see you as? And what do you think you see me as? You got close to me just to get close to Yu Xing, to sleep with him! You even used my seed, made my daughter call a thief her father, and had me acting like a cuckold…”

Ji Yisi exploded. “If you had the ability, would I have let my daughter recognize someone else as her real father? You simply didn’t have the ability. Besides, wasn’t this plan something you agreed to? If it weren’t for this plan, would Yu Xing have opened the company for you? Would you have gotten so many benefits?”

…

“So I had someone gather clues and passed the evidence to Ji Yisi,” Yu Xiangqiao said, cracking sunflower seeds as she spoke to Ruan Yaoyao. “Let’s see how proud she can be now. She’s been scheming against my parents, trying to become a rich wife. I just want her to see that after all that scheming, what did she really get? No matter how well you plan, in the end, it falls into someone else’s hands.”

Ruan Yaoyao wanted to see that too.

【Too bad she wasn’t present at the time, otherwise…】

“They’re both no good. Let them bite each other—dogs fighting over fur,” Ruan Yaoyao said. She didn’t like women who tried to steal someone else’s husband.

When she was younger, her luck was bad, and she had to deal with the scumbag Xǔ Xiǎoxiào. That was unavoidable. Women who threw themselves at him deserved him. A scumbag woman for a scumbag man, just right.

But the mother-in-law was different. She married for true love. If some woman had succeeded in taking him—even accidentally—it would have been disgusting.

“Your father still hasn’t pacified your mother?”

Yu Xiangqiao shook her head. It wasn’t that easy. Her father didn’t even understand why her mother was upset.

Her mother wasn’t angry that her father had been schemed against—people make mistakes, that’s normal. She was angry that such a huge thing had happened, and her father had kept it secret for so many years. If not…

“If your mother hadn’t discovered it herself, your father probably would have hidden it forever,” Ruan Yaoyao said, rolling her eyes. “Honestly, your father deserves this. He didn’t think—if your mother hadn’t found out and dug to the bottom of it, someone like him would probably have supported someone else’s kids for life.”

Yu Xiangqiao: “…Indeed!”

If they hadn’t been able to hear the mother-in-law’s thoughts, this would have been hard to figure out.

The sunflower seeds on the small plate were mostly finished. Yu Xiangqiao pushed the plate toward Ruan Yaoyao.

Ruan Yaoyao didn’t refuse. She pushed another empty plate toward Yu Xiangqiao to keep shelling, and started eating the newly full plate herself.

Though she didn’t quite understand why her daughter-in-law was suddenly trying to please her, Ruan Yaoyao thought: why not enjoy it while you can? If she regretted it later, it would be gone.

As they chatted, Ruan Yaoyao received a text and glanced down.

Oh, it was just a deduction notice for something she ordered online. She swiped it away and a news alert caught her eye.

“Xiangqiao, look at this, what’s going on?”

Yu Xiangqiao leaned over.

【Shocking! Heiress of the Yu family exposes that her father abandoned his biological daughter?!】

【Yu Group CEO abandons his biological daughter—favoring sons over daughters?!】

【Who would have thought the Yu Group CEO is like this…】

Scrolling through, it was all shocking headlines.

Ruan Yaoyao thought: definitely clickbait, but still very attention-grabbing. She didn’t understand why this was suddenly happening in the Yu family. Yu Xiangqiao didn’t seem to have a bad relationship with her parents, and her sister Yu Tingrong didn’t either.

The two immediately thought of someone. Clicking through, sure enough.

The Yu family heiress was none other than Fang Xinran.

She didn’t know where she got the nerve, but she participated in a million-follower influencer livestream and tearfully claimed she was the biological daughter of Yu Xing of the Yú Group, presenting a paternity test, but Yu Xing refused to acknowledge her. She wanted to ask—if she was also Yu Xing’s biological daughter, why wouldn’t he recognize her?

“She actually has the nerve?!” Yu Xiangqiao got angry at once, wanting to curse.

Fang Xinran was clinging to their family?

She wasn’t even her father’s flesh and blood. That paternity test was fake.

She immediately called her brother Yu Yan. How could he not have noticed Fang Xinran trending online?

Yu Yan scratched his head, saying he had just seen it and was handling it in a meeting.

Hearing that her brother was taking care of it, Yu Xiangqiao relaxed, but she still scolded him a bit. Such a huge oversight—even if corrected later—it would affect the company stock.

As Yu Xiangqiao predicted, that day Yu Group’s stock dropped ten percent, alerting shareholders. Fortunately, they presented paternity tests for Fang Xinran with Yu Xing, and Fang Xinran with Fang Qirui, proving she was not Yu Xing’s daughter, but Fang Qirui’s.

Yu Xing’s wife also testified, saying she had mistakenly recognized a wolf as a close friend and adopted her friend’s daughter, unintentionally encouraging the girl’s ambitions…

Next, they revealed evidence that Fang Xinran, posing as the Yu heiress, had fraudulently obtained 50 million yuan in investments. They had contacted the victims and reported it to the authorities.

Yu Group published all this on their official accounts, with a lawyer’s letter, showing they were taking the matter seriously.