Chapter 34: A Tangled Mess

But if he did not come forward, Sheng Hanyu would stubbornly believe that Jian Yixin was still alive, and might even insist on opening the coffin to prove it... This put Jian Yining in a very difficult position.

One cannot be too selfish; because she did not want to reveal her identity, she would have to let Jian Yining's sister risk having her coffin opened, and Shi Youxuan could not bear to do that.

She had not yet made up her mind, but Sheng Yukai had already begun to take action on his end.

Bai Xue took the phone her son gave her and found internet trolls to spread rumors online, smearing Sheng Hanyu for murdering his new wife, the reason being that his former fiancée was still alive!

The rumors spread throughout Jiangzhou in less than half a day, becoming the talk of the town.

The Shi Family.

For the first time in the decades that Shi Yucheng and Jiang Yadan had lived together, they had an exceptionally fierce argument!

The living room was a mess; almost everything that could be smashed had been smashed, and what remained that couldn't be broken was pushed into a chaotic, lopsided heap.

"This life is impossible to go on with..."

Jiang Yadan sat on the floor, wailing and howling: "Shi Yucheng, if you don't go and get it back today, I will bash my head in and die right in front of you!" She had been having bad luck with gambling these past few days and had lost a lot of money again.

She had originally intended to take some money from the 100 million yuan dowry to cover her emergency while her husband wasn't paying attention, but she discovered the bank card was missing.

There was 100 million yuan in the card, which was no small sum; with such a large amount of money and the card missing, she naturally had to ask Shi Yucheng what was going on.

At first, he was evasive and wouldn't say, but later, when he was truly pushed into a corner, he told the truth: he had returned it to Sheng Hanyu.

Jiang Yadan exploded on the spot and forced him to go get it back!

When Shi Yucheng refused to go, she started losing her temper, harping on about money, which in turn made Shi Yucheng lose his temper, accusing her of only caring about money and not people.

He even brought up the matter of her occupying the pension money for Shi Youxuan's parents.

The couple argued incessantly, and even Jiang Yadan's threat to her own life was of no use.

With her parents making such a scene in the living room, Shi Yuke did not dare to intervene.

Ever since Shi Youxuan went missing, her father had always looked at her with displeasure, and she did not dare to go over and court disaster at a time like this.

The phone rang; it was a call from Sheng Yukai!

Last time, Sheng Yukai had disappeared after she helped him, and Shi Yuke felt uneasy and restless.

One moment she wondered if she had agreed too readily, making Sheng Yukai think she was vicious enough to scheme against her own sister, and thus he was distancing himself from her?

The next moment she wondered if Sheng Yukai had hooked up with another woman?

Although she was flirting with Sheng Yukai while still thinking of Jian Yining, Shi Yuke felt her own actions were justified, but she would be very angry if Sheng Yukai did the same thing!

She had been anxious when the phone wasn't ringing, but when Sheng Yukai called, she deliberately didn't answer, watching it ring over and over... When it rang for the fourth time, she finally flicked her fingertip and slid to the answer button.

"Mr. Sheng, is something the matter?"

The way they addressed each other had long since become very intimate; now that it had become distant again, one didn't need to think to know that she was angry.

Sheng Yukai said: "Yuke, I bought a villa in Half Moon Bay as a wedding house; do you think it's okay?"

Half Moon Bay was the most expensive residential area in Jiangzhou, where every inch of land was worth an ounce of gold, and buying a villa there had always been Shi Yuke's dream.

The anger in her heart immediately diminished by half, but she still pretended to be foolish: "Why ask me? You should ask your future wife."

"In my heart, you are my future wife; as long as you are willing, Yuke, are you willing?"

Shi Yuke felt sweet inside, but Jian Yining had not called her yet, so she could not give him a definite answer right now.

In her heart, she still leaned a little more toward Jian Yining.

"It's too sudden; I need to consider it."

Although Shi Yuke said she was considering it, her voice was already as tender as water, and Sheng Yukai, an old hand at chasing women for years, knew exactly what was going on just by hearing her voice.

"Yuke, we will definitely be one family; family doesn't hide things from each other, your sister..." Sheng Yukai paused deliberately, feeling he had whetted Shi Yuke's appetite enough, before saying: "You know about the fool's situation, right?"

"What happened to the fool?" Shi Yuke hadn't been online and didn't know.

Seeing that she didn't know, Sheng Yukai told her to go online and look for herself.

Shi Yuke opened her computer to browse, and the screen was flooded with news that Shi Youxuan had gone missing and had actually been murdered by Sheng Hanyu.

Regardless of whether the news was true or false, she was quite happy about it.

It was just that she couldn't show her joy, as that would make her appear too heartless.

"That's too much; how could Sheng Hanyu do that? If he didn't like my sister, he could have just sent her back; why did he have to kill her?" Shi Yuke put on an indignant look and said angrily.

This was the effect Sheng Yukai wanted, so he took the opportunity to fan the flames: "Uncle doesn't know yet, right? Uncle should know about such things; even if the person is gone, the economic compensation cannot be less... By the way, Sheng Hanyu isn't at home; he is in the Eighteenth Floor Room Twenty-Two at Saint Mary Hospital, having been admitted yesterday due to a fever for his former fiancée."

Sheng Yukai didn't say much, but the amount of information was not small.

He wanted to use Shi Yuke to pass the message to Shi Yucheng, so that Shi Yucheng would go to the hospital to make a scene with Sheng Hanyu, the more intense the better.

Shi Yuke didn't take in anything else, but she heard the four words "economic compensation" clearly.

Finally, Sheng Yukai also said he bought a Patek Philippe diamond watch in Switzerland and would send it to her in a couple of days!

After hanging up the phone, Shi Yuke put away her joyful mood and went to the living room to tell her father this "bad news" with added embellishments.

Shi Yucheng was already in a rage, and upon hearing that his second daughter had been harmed by Sheng Hanyu, he immediately went to the hospital to settle the score with Sheng Hanyu!

Sheng Yukai did not stay idle after calling Shi Yuke; he bribed a few local thugs, provided them with a photo of Shi Youxuan, and told them to search for her secretly, and to kill the woman in the photo immediately upon finding her!

"Let me in; my daughter was harmed by him, can't I even go in and ask?" Shi Yucheng arrived at the hospital, but was blocked by bodyguards at the door of the Hospital Ward and not allowed in.

So he started shouting loudly at the door of the ward, and the bodyguards were also in a difficult position.

The Eldest Young Master was still in a coma; even if he went in now, he wouldn't be able to ask anything, and if Shi Yucheng did something to the Eldest Young Master, they feared they wouldn't be able to stop him in time if they were too far away.

"The Eldest Young Master has a fever and hasn't woken up yet; even if you want to ask, you have to wait until he wakes up."

The bodyguards were telling the truth, but Shi Yucheng thought it was an excuse, so he became even more agitated and shouted loudly, his voice growing louder and his emotions becoming increasingly volatile.

Shi Yucheng was Sheng Hanyu's father-in-law; no matter how much of a scene he made, the bodyguards couldn't do anything to him out of respect for the Eldest Young Master.

But none of them noticed that among the crowd watching the commotion, a man wearing a duck-billed cap secretly filmed all of this and immediately uploaded it to the internet!

The video of Shi Yucheng causing a scene at the hospital ward immediately caused a huge stir online.

The commotion grew larger and larger, until it finally reached the old man!

The Sheng Family Study.

These children all think I've lived too long, and they're doing this on purpose to anger me to death!

The old man chased everyone out and sat in the Study sulking by himself; it would be one thing if Sheng Yukai wouldn't settle down, but even his most prized grandson, Sheng Hanyu, had started making foolish moves, and that was what made the old man the angriest.

Jian Yixin had been buried for five years; everyone was there at the funeral back then, and many pairs of eyes watched Jian Yixin being put into the ground, so how could he suddenly feel like she was still alive five years later?

The old man believed his grandson was having a fit and that something had gone wrong with his mind.