She bent down and picked up a sharp fragment, an ominous glint in her eyes, releasing a strange laugh from her throat.

"Hahaha, Ye Lu wants to ruin me, let’s see who ruins whom. I will make you taste the bitterness of total defeat and disgrace."

...

The next morning.

Upon checking online, the media’s hype was very intense. Yuan Jiayin had basically been torn apart, and the comments online were all criticizing her, calling her a gold digger and a prosti/,tute who would do anything to marry into a wealthy family.

In any case, her reputation was completely ruined, similar to a despised street rat.

Ye Lu breathed a sigh of relief. If Yuan Jiayin could still turn things around in such a situation, it’d be a miracle.

She sat in the courtyard, basking in the sun, feeling somewhat drowsy.

Just then, her phone rang. Looking at the incoming call, it was from her daughter. She couldn’t help but cheerfully pick it up: "Lazy pig, you got up so early today?"

But she heard Ye Yiyi anxiously shouting: "Mommy, something’s wrong, dad’s in the hospital. You need to come see him."

Ye Lu was taken aback. How could someone as strong as Third Young Master Jun end up in the hospital?

But what’s that got to do with her?

She patiently said, "Yiyi, he has the Jun family to take care of him in the hospital. He doesn’t need me. Besides, everyone gets sick, it’s not a big deal. You don’t need to worry."

"But dad is seriously ill, he has pneumonia and is currently unconscious." The young girl’s voice started to waver, seemingly on the verge of tears.

Ye Lu was more puzzled. How did he suddenly get pneumonia? Third Young Master Jun didn’t seem like the kind of person who would fall seriously ill.

"Okay, don’t exaggerate, he just has a cold, right?"

She was well aware that her daughter often exaggerated. A small illness could be depicted by her as a life-threatening condition. Taking her words with a grain of salt was necessary.

Tears started to well up in Ye Yiyi’s eyes: "No, it’s really pneumonia, the doctor said it’s a severe infection. Mommy, please come and see him. When dad fainted, he kept calling your name, it was so heartbreaking." 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

Third Young Master Jun calling her name while unconscious? How was that possible?

Upon hearing this, Ye Lu felt even more convinced that her daughter was lying. This girl had always been trying to bring them together, and now she was probably making up stories again.

She couldn’t help getting stern: "Enough, Yiyi. I’ve told you that his matters have nothing to do with me. Even if he is dying, it has nothing to do with me either."

Then she hung up the phone.

"Mommy, what’s wrong?" Ye Yuan came over, noticing her upset expression.

Ye Lu told him what had just happened.

"Your sister is still trying to play matchmaker between him and me, even making up such a lie. That child..."

Ye Yuan’s eyebrows furrowed slightly at the news, but he didn’t say anything.

...

"So, what did your mommy say?" Old Madam Jun anxiously asked.

With tears filling her big eyes, Ye Yiyi said, "Mommy said she is very busy and doesn’t have time to come right now, but as soon as she has time, she will definitely come."

Old Madam Jun, who was very experienced, knew immediately what this meant and sighed.

How heartless.

"If she doesn’t want to come, then let it be. Feiyu, what is going on here? How did this happen?"

Feiyu’s face flushed with shame: "I’m not exactly sure either. That night, the Third Young Master said he would take Yiyi out for a ride on the yacht and wouldn’t return. But suddenly in the middle of the night, he said he wanted to come back and asked me to send a car to pick him up from the dock. I sent people, but they waited for a long time, and Third Young Master was nowhere to be found.

I got worried when he couldn’t be reached by phone, so I quickly informed the maritime authorities to search for him. They searched for a long time and only found him unconscious on a beach of an uninhabited island the next day. We immediately brought him back for medical treatment."