The tone was a little serious. After he questioned her a few times, the film empress’s tears began to fall like broken strings of pearls.
“Daddy is so fierce. Ever since Aunt Gong came to the house, Daddy doesn’t like me anymore. Daddy is always fierce to me.”
“Does Daddy not want me anymore? Daddy wants to be with Aunt Gong, and Daddy doesn’t want me and Mommy anymore!”
Already in a bad mood, his daughter’s sobbing words made Zhan Bei Jue even more irritable.
“Stop crying. I never said I didn’t want you, and I never will. It’s that damned Jiang Nan Fang who doesn’t want you!”
He thought that saying this would elicit a strong reaction from Ge’er, and that today he would finally tell her Jiang Nan Fang’s true nature.
However, after he finished speaking, Ge’er shook her head firmly.
“Impossible. Mommy loves me and my brother very much, she wouldn’t abandon me.”
“Did you argue with her again? Did you have a misunderstanding with him again? You always misunderstand Mommy!”
“What do you mean I always misunderstand her? It’s clearly her own…”
Zhan Bei Jue suddenly remembered the strange account from yesterday.
Jiang Nan Fang was being monitored, otherwise there wouldn’t be evidence of her being with Xu Yan Chuan.
Everything happened perfectly, just as he stumbled upon it. Could there really be a misunderstanding?
He took out his phone and called Ah Zhong, “Did you find out about yesterday’s number?”
Ah Zhong said, “We’ve already traced it. But the number was likely resold by a second-hand dealer, so it’s meaningless.”
“What do you mean?”
“The number is registered under an old man named Liu Shuang Gen. I visited him overnight, and this person passed away just two months ago…”
Useless.
After following him for so many years, he couldn’t even accurately trace a single number.
Zhan Bei Jue said angrily, “No matter what method you use, you must find out who is behind this. You have one more day!”
The call ended. He looked at his daughter’s beautiful big eyes, red and swollen from crying, her pretty little mouth still quivering.
He suddenly remembered Jiang Nan Fang’s similar face.
“Since you want to see her so much, I’ll take you to see her.”
“But I’ll warn both of you beforehand. Your mommy is not a good person. If you see anything unpleasant, don’t be sad. It’s enough that Daddy is always with you.”
Zhou Jin Xiu received a distress call from Jiang Nan Fang before he had even woken up.
He rushed to the police station without delay and found that Xu Yan Chuan and his mother were also there.
The four of them emerged from the station one after another. At the entrance, on the wide road, Zhou Jin Xiu’s and Mrs. Xu’s luxury cars were parked one behind the other.
Mrs. Xu was walking towards her car, scolding Xu Yan Chuan.
“You’re an embarrassment! Wait until your father breaks your dog legs when we get home!”
“You’ve been back for so long, you don’t even come home, you’re always out fooling around! And now…”
“Who is that woman? Is it her? Shameless! She’ll do anything to marry into our Xu family! She actually dared to mess up your records, I’ll go tear her stinky face apart!”
Saying this, Mrs. Xu quickened her pace and called out to Jiang Nan Fang.
“Hey, that woman, stop!”
Xu Yan Chuan quickly went to pull her back.
“I told you it was a misunderstanding. Don’t you understand? I was drunk last night, and someone set me up. It has nothing to do with her. Mom, don’t talk nonsense.”
“You’re still protecting her even after it’s come to this? I want to see how beautiful and capable she is to be worth you acting like this! Get up!”
Hearing the argument behind them, Jiang Nan Fang and Zhou Jin Xiu instinctively stopped.
Unexpectedly, as soon as she turned around, a slapping hand flew towards her face.
Mrs. Xu put all her strength into it, and Jiang Nan Fang staggered from the blow.
“I thought she was some beauty who could topple cities, but it turns out she’s nothing special!”
“Look at you, you have no charisma, no figure! With this, you still want to hook up with my son? Do you think our Xu family’s door is that easy to get into!”
Jiang Nan Fang didn’t understand how things had escalated to this point.
From last night until now, first explaining to Zhan Bei Jue, then explaining to the staff.
Now she had to explain to Mrs. Xu, and later to Zhou Jin Xiu.
What exactly happened? She had suddenly become a villain who owed everyone!
Her ears were ringing from the slap, and Jiang Nan Fang no longer had the energy to be angry.
She was mentally and physically exhausted, and her eyes looked faintly at Xu Yan Chuan, “Is this your mother?”
Xu Yan Chuan rushed forward and pulled his mother back forcefully, then ran to her to apologize.
“I don’t know how things turned out like this. My mom misunderstood. I’m sorry, she didn’t mean it.”
“No need to apologize to me,” Jiang Nan Fang said with a self-deprecating smile.
“If anyone is to blame, it’s myself for being so foolish and easily falling into someone’s trap. It’s not your fault.”
“This slap from Auntie was well deserved. Even if she hadn’t hit me, I would have wanted to slap myself. Why am I still so easily tricked at my age?”
“Nan Fang…”
“No need to say more. You are also a victim, and I don’t blame you. But the message I received yesterday did come from your phone. Please investigate what exactly happened and give me an explanation.”
After speaking, she turned away, exhausted in body and mind.
Zhou Jin Xiu was furious seeing her get slapped for no reason.
“You don’t like her son, and you never intended to marry into the Xu family, so why would you let yourself be slapped?”
“The Xu family isn’t some great family. If you really wanted to marry into it, so what? And for a slap? They think too highly of themselves…”
Seeing her son siding with an outsider, Mrs. Xu, who was already angry, almost exploded when she heard Zhou Jin Xiu’s words.
“What are you saying? Stop right there! You ill-mannered brat, I’m your elder, what are you babbling about!”
Jiang Nan Fang didn’t bother arguing with Mrs. Xu, but Zhou Jin Xiu was not so easygoing.
He stopped, turned back, and looked at Mrs. Xu with a casual expression.
“Don’t think too highly of yourself. You’re so fierce, but I don’t have an elder like you.”
“Do you think the Xu family is so great that every woman wants to marry into it? You’re too narcissistic.”
“With me, Zhou Jin Xiu, around, she wouldn’t possibly fall for your son. Stop with the persecution complex, it’s ridiculous!”
“What are you saying? What is he saying? Xu Yan Chuan, how could you know such an uncouth person?”
“He insulted me, he dared to mock me! Are you dead, why aren’t you speaking? Go up and hit him!”
Xu Yan Chuan was also annoyed.
He hadn’t slept all night yesterday, and today he was supposed to meet Gong Bei Bei, but his mother showed up instead.
He would have a lot of trouble at home, and now Zhou Jin Xiu was here causing trouble!
“Zhou Jin Xiu, this has nothing to do with you. Mind your own business, I don’t want to talk to you.”
Zhou Jin Xiu thought he was standing up for Jiang Nan Fang.
“How can it have nothing to do with me? You probably don’t know what my relationship with Jiang Nan Fang is.”
“I’m pursuing her. She’s my future girlfriend. Am I not allowed to speak up when my girlfriend is being bullied? Does Nan Cheng belong to your Xu family?”
After saying that, he reached out and pulled Jiang Nan Fang into his arms, tenderly stroking her face.
“It’s only because your mother is old and her bones would fall apart with a single touch that I’m not arguing with her. If it were anyone else, I’d slap them back today!”
From the car across the street, Zhan Bei Jue watched this chaotic scene clearly.
He was truly impressed by Jiang Nan Fang’s charm.
“From now on, consider your mother dead. You are never to mention Jiang Nan Fang’s name to me again.”