Chapter 304: The Mastermind Behind the Scenes

Ji Xiaoling was supported as she went and knocked on every door in the house—all the men in the family had fled!

Every single one of them had fled!

"Second Aunt, where is my second uncle?"

"That heartless man left—he actually abandoned us mother and daughter and ran!"

Ji Xiaoling had no patience to listen to her second aunt's wailing!

She rushed anxiously to assess the situation, wanting to transfer some assets out. No matter what, she had to keep the money for her future livelihood!

But it seemed her luck had hit rock bottom!

The daughter of the official overseeing this matter was someone Ji Xiaoling had once beaten. Back then, Ji Xiaoling, relying on being the Ji Family's only young lady, with her third uncle and third aunt both kept down by her grandfather, had ruthlessly dealt with the daughter of one of her third uncle's subordinates.

She never expected that the girl's mother would actually go into politics and steadily rise in rank. Originally, no matter what, their family could never compare to the Ji Family. But now, without her grandfather, without her third uncle, she was nothing but an ant in front of others!

"Miss Ji, please do not obstruct judicial fairness!"

Looking at the smile on the woman's lips, Ji Xiaoling trembled all over! Especially since the other party had placed heavy emphasis on the words "judicial fairness."

Ji Xiaoling was scared!

On the way home, she wanted her subordinates to take her things out and support her later, but she was also afraid that her subordinates would run off with the money.

But when she got home, "What is going on here?"

No one told Ji Xiaoling—the entire villa was empty!

And before long, someone came to say they were repossessing the house.

"Repossess what house? This is my home!"

"Sorry, the property here belongs to the state!"

The people repossessing the house were very polite, and even produced the property deed and contract. Back then, this house was given by the higher-ups in consideration of Ji Shouguo, Ji Tianlin, and the marriage alliance between the Ji Family and the Xu family. Now that the Ji Family was one hundred percent finished, the house naturally had to be taken back.

Ji Xiaoling was furious, but there was nothing she could do!

She prepared to go upstairs to pack her things, at least taking those clothes, dresses, and bags with her, only to discover that everything was gone!

The entire house seemed to have been emptied!

All that was left was trash!

The people repossessing the house were actually quite satisfied with this scene. A house like this was much better than one strewn with personal belongings! They did not want to be accused by this family of stealing something of theirs!

Ji Xiaoling walked a full circle and couldn't find a single thing left behind worth a second glance!

Just as she was about to make a second round, she suddenly remembered her little apartment and immediately ran over!

Fortunately, the things in her little apartment were still there—she still had a future!

She stayed in the little apartment, constantly calling her parents, brothers, and sisters! The person she most wanted to contact was her grandfather! Didn't he say he felt guilty toward her? Didn't he say she was the granddaughter he doted on the most? Why did he leave without telling her a word?

Why did he leave this mess for her alone at a time like this?

Ji Xiaoling kept calling everyone—she didn't even spare the illegitimate sons and daughters. In the end, only one girl answered her call.

"Hello?"

"I'm Ji Xiaoling. Where is my dad and the others?"

The girl looked at Zheng Yuerong in the livestream, weeping and pouring her heart out, and turned on speakerphone!

"She was the one who agreed to let me pursue Qi Yinghao, she was the one who went back on her word! I'm not the other woman at all! She was clearly with that male star, and when she saw I had taken photos, she even told me she didn't care about Qi Yinghao, that it was up to me whether I was with him or not, and that their engagement was a joke!"

Zheng Yuerong cried like pear blossoms in the rain. "How was I supposed to know this was just a trap she set to trick me! I should have learned from the last one's lesson. Boo-hoo, I was greedy—I just wanted a home!"

Zheng Yuerong sobbed bitterly, genuinely crying her heart out like any ordinary person would, but she shifted the blame onto many others.

First, cutting her wrists for sympathy was the company's fault—they turned around and said she had staged it herself, that the company was heartless. Since the company was heartless, the company's so-called claim of her "moral degeneracy" was open to debate.

Second, originally the internet was scolding her for stealing someone's fiancé, but she wasn't stealing—she was schemed against. Those were two different things! She even had video of Ji Xiaoling being intimate with another male star, so she must have been there at the scene. Her so-called claim that Ji Xiaoling didn't care and let her be with Qi Yinghao—whether true or false was questionable, but the likelihood of it being true was very high. Because this involved the third point: Ji Xiaoling was deliberately targeting her!

Third, Ji Xiaoling had deployed a massive water army to take down one pitiful little star like her, constantly calling her a homewrecker and an adulterer—then what about her own affair with that male star?

This was a very shameless way of diverting attention, but it was very effective.

The netizens' attention was instantly led astray by Zheng Yuerong. Ji Xiaoling, hearing those "accusations" through her phone, badly wanted to smash the phone, but her last shred of reason stopped her.

Everything she had right now was precious property!

Only, "Heh, what, the illegitimate daughter wants to climb on top of my head now?!"

An illegitimate daughter—if she lifted a finger to expose her identity now, what kind of good life could she possibly have? Her nerve had grown, daring to mock her?

The girl on the other end of the phone did indeed have that thought, but she didn't dare admit it!

"I heard from Mom that Dad ran off to some unknown little mountain village, that her brothers had already gone abroad, and the rest of us are just us and the sisters. I just wanted to remind you that your reputation is bad right now, so don't go out looking for them—you won't find them!"

Her own mother hadn't run, but was at home cursing her dad as completely worthless, and saying it was a good thing she had been registered under her uncle's name, otherwise she would have been implicated too.

But on the other end of the phone, the once high-and-mighty "legitimate eldest daughter" was in dire straits! The company had become her responsibility, and the remaining men of the Ji Family were all useless—not a single one showed up, leaving Ji Xiaoling alone to hold up the household!

By now, the girl was starting to suspect that when the Ji Family had lifted Ji Xiaoling to the skies back then, they might have already had this plan? They wanted to toss out Ji Xiaoling, this discarded pawn, when the Ji Family's situation turned bad, to bear the vast majority of the debts?

Ji Xiaoling gritted her teeth and waited and waited, until she finally received the news of her debts!

She refused to accept it!

She wanted to appeal!

Right at this moment, her subordinates exposed her scandal of buying marketing accounts and using blackmail material to threaten stars, and the stars went directly to the police!

She was suspected of extortion and blackmail, and was taken into the police station.

She was still waiting for her subordinates to rescue her, only to find that they had all become tainted witnesses, each one pointing fingers at her, dragging out everything she had ever done.

There were simply too many matters—she was suspected of various charges, and there were even things she had forgotten whether she had done or not, yet those people could produce evidence of her giving the orders!

"That's not right!"

"Not me, I didn't do it!"

"They couldn't possibly betray me!"

"You're framing me, coercing confessions!"

The detectives handling the case were also speechless. How could they be willing to list so many charges against Ji Xiaoling? They were all said by her group of henchmen!

Whether they showed those videos to Ji Xiaoling or let her audit them, she still refused to believe those people would betray her!

She shouted "injustice" and caused all sorts of commotion in the prison.

The outside world was also stirred up enough by these matters!

Because Ji Xiaoling's evidence of crimes was released case by case!

Su Yu looked at the returning Wulongcha and thought, 【Wulongcha, who actually did it?】

The mastermind truly had vast powers, not only the evils Ji Xiaoling committed during this period, but also various threats to celebrities for money, plus when she was in university she envied a classmate who was a genius and suppressed them, in high school she schemed against an arrogant school beauty, in middle school she fought with someone and ruined their face, and in elementary school she insulted someone and pushed them into a river, almost drowning them!

These deeds weren't collected from childhood to adulthood; it's impossible to gather so many!

【On the surface, it was done by the family of a girl whom Ji Xiaoling almost bullied to death; in reality, it was sent out by Ji Shouguo and Ji Tianci.】

Su Yu didn't believe, 【Are they crazy? That's their granddaughter and daughter? Isn't Ji Shouguo the one who liked that granddaughter the most?】

While supervising Su Yu's phone usage, Su Xi's ears twitched; he sent a message to let Ji Tianlin come in. In this situation, it's better for him to audit a bit!

Ji Tianlin entered quickly, sat at Su Xi's desk pretending to read documents, but his thoughts drifted to Su Yu.

【They like her, but they need a scapegoat! Ji Shouguo and Ji Tianci are no longer here; they've gone to the province where the border line lies.】

Su Yu truly thinks they're insane, 【The identity at the border line? Aren't they afraid of extradition? Even if they're not afraid, have they forgotten who they are? Once captured, they'd become ready‑made venting bags!】

Su Yu completely doesn't understand these two's self‑destructive thinking.

【But now they no longer bear the Ji surname; they've changed identities, wives, and even their faces a bit, so others can't recognize them!】

Su Yu was shocked, 【That past is two days, not two years, right? Cosmetic surgery and identity change—can that work? Don't the higher‑ups investigate?】

Su Yu doesn't believe Ji Shouguo and Ji Tianci are truly clean! Even if they shifted most of the wrongdoing onto Ji Xiaoling, some matters they can't escape!

The superiors could never let them go!

【They prepared new identities in advance; exposing Ji Xiaoling's affairs was just to draw attention to her, giving them enough time to escape. They had prepared this many years ago!】

Wulongcha only uncovered this information now, 【Those identities have been operating locally for many years; locals wouldn't think they're outsiders.】

【Absurd, totally absurd! They're the protagonists, aren't they? Why can't locals realize they're foreigners?】

Wulongcha spread it on the tea table, 【They appear from time to time. Previously they were the successful business persona, now they're the failed business return‑to‑hometown persona; given the current climate, how normal!】

Wulongcha was helpless; under these circumstances, they simply couldn't deal with those people. The only one being pushed out now is Ji Xiaoling, the apparent big villain who has done all the bad deeds.

【Do they intend to revenge against my parents and my grandfather?】

Wulongcha checked, 【Temporarily none; their lives are already huge problems!】

Finding even a bite to eat is hard, let alone trouble them!

But there's another issue in this, and Wulongcha doesn't know whether to say it.

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