strictlysupreme Chapter 176 The Good-for-Nothing × The Innocent Little Tyrant 15
Chapter 176 The Good-for-Nothing × The Innocent Little Tyrant 15
Ji Fu acted faster than Ji Xiaosong had imagined; in less than a day, Li Liping found Ji Yao's boyfriend's wife.
Li Liping certainly didn't want her daughter to marry such a man, but she had no choice. Everything she had in her life was given to her by Ji Fu, and if she didn't listen to him, she could forget about having a wealthy life in the future.
Besides, it's just forced marriage; at worst, we can just get a divorce in a few years.
Inside a private dining room, Li Liping printed out photos of Ji Yao and her boyfriend and placed them on the table.
Steam rose from the bone china teacups on the glass turntable.
When Li Liping checked her watch for the fifth time, the door to the private room was finally pushed open.
Jiang Manyun walked in wearing ten-centimeter Jimmy Choo satin high heels. Underneath her black cashmere coat, the subtle pattern of her Hermès scarf was visible. Behind her were two men in suits carrying briefcases.
"I heard Ms. Li wants to show me something interesting?"
Jiang Manyun took off her sunglasses and casually tossed her platinum bag onto the back of the carved chair.
Her dark brown curly hair fell to her collarbone, and the Cartier panther bracelet on her wrist gleamed coolly in the warm light.
Li Liping's fingertips trembled slightly as she pushed the photo over.
In the footage secretly taken in the hotel parking lot, Jiang Manyun's husband is seen pressing Ji Yao against the car door and kissing her deeply. The girl's white skirt flutters in the night wind like a butterfly.
"Miss Jiang, let's speak frankly."
Li Liping swallowed hard. "As long as you sign the divorce agreement, you can get 30% of the shares in the Ji Group's jade mine in Myanmar..."
Before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by a sharp laugh.
Jiang Manyun pulled a stack of documents from her crocodile-skin handbag; the notary office's seal was clearly visible on the paper. "What a coincidence," she said, "my husband just took over the legal department of the Jiang Group last month. These are Ji Fu's safety production records from the Shanxi coal mine. Guess if we send these to the Emergency Management Bureau, will Chairman Ji still be able to attend his daughter's wedding?"
Li Liping broke out in a cold sweat instantly.
She recalled the drunken ramblings Ji Fu had made three days earlier, mentioning that the compensation money from the landslide accident was still sitting in the group's accounts.
A light rain was falling outside the window, and the crystal chandelier cast dappled light and shadow on Jiang Manyun's face, making the beauty mark at the corner of her eye appear even more alluring.
Jiang Manyun ran her fingers through the photo with her emerald-ringed finger, then suddenly pulled out a napkin and placed it on her fingertip: "I was wondering why this photo smelled so oily, turns out it's from the sweat on the car seat where we were having an affair."
She slowly wiped each of her fingers. "When Ms. Li handed the abortion pills to the wife at the hospital, wasn't she also taking photos from this despicable angle?"
Li Liping blushed: "At least my daughter is sincere..."
"sincere?"
Jiang Manyun suddenly tapped her teacup with a teaspoon, startling Li Liping. "The way you stormed into the maternity ward with your pregnant belly, crying to your first wife that 'we are true love,' and the way your daughter is kneeling down to tie my husband's tie now—"
She deliberately dragged out the words, "They really are the same kind of shameless people."
Why do you have to say such harsh things?
Li Liping clutched the gold thread embroidery on the tablecloth, "Yao Yao was young and naive..."
"immature?"
Jiang Manyun pulled out a lipstick from her platinum bag and drew a bright red marriage certificate on a napkin. "Last month at my birthday party, your daughter sneaked into my husband's study wearing a transparent petticoat."
She suddenly slapped the tissue with lipstick stains onto the other person's hand, "Just like when you were wearing a nurse's uniform and giving Ji Fuyuan's wife hot milk mixed with safflower."
Li Liping abruptly pulled her hand back, and the tissue fell to the ground.
Jiang Manyun's high heels rolled over the glaring red: "I heard Ji Yao studied acting? You and your daughter certainly have a family tradition of this, always trying to steal someone else's partner when the original wife is pregnant."
"Miss Jiang!"
Li Liping dug her nails into her palms. "Name your price. What do you want in return for a divorce?"
Jiang Manyun's cashmere coat slipped to the ground, revealing a pigeon-egg diamond necklace on her collarbone: "Back then, Ji Fu used his daughter to blackmail his first wife. You don't actually think that our Jiang family's marriages are the same as your cheap marriages where a maid rises to power?"
She suddenly leaned in and stared into the other person's evasive eyes. "Do you know why I allowed you to sit here and negotiate?"
Li Liping's lips trembled as she watched the other person use tea tongs to pick up her used teacup and throw it into the trash can with a "clatter".
"I love watching the silly way pheasants flap their wings."
Jiang Manyun put her sunglasses back on, and the two lawyers immediately opened the door to the private room. "Go back and tell Ji Yao that every tear she shed today is an echo of the sins you committed back then."
"Ms. Li, please wait a moment."
The lawyer wearing gold-rimmed glasses stopped Li Liping, who was about to flee, and pulled out a document three fingers thick from the briefcase. "According to Article 1091 of the Civil Code, the property received by Ms. Ji Yao during the period when she had an improper relationship with the spouse of our client constitutes unjust enrichment."
Another lawyer simultaneously projected a list, with Bulgari necklaces and Van Cleef & Arpels bracelets flashing frame by frame on the screen: "From May 2023 to February 2024, Ms. Ji received a total of seven Hermes bags, four sets of Cartier jewelry, and two apartments in Wulin No. 1, City B."
He adjusted his glasses. "Based on the market value, the refund should be 23 million yuan. Considering the depreciation, the remainder will be waived."
“Those were given voluntarily!” Li Liping’s voice trembled.
"What a coincidence."
Jiang Manyun leaned against the door, admiring her newly done manicure. "My husband used the company's credit card, which was accounted for under the Jiang Group's public relations expenses."
She suddenly shoved her phone in front of the other person's face, the screen showing a CCTV screenshot of Ji Yao signing for gifts while wearing a silk nightgown. "What if we report this to the tax bureau..."
A vibration came from the pocket of her cashmere coat, and Li Liping glimpsed a freeze notice from the bank.
Three sets of jade jewelry under her name are currently being offered for auction.
The lawyer in the gray suit handed over the POS machine at the opportune moment: "Pay now and enjoy installment payment options; a 30% down payment will suspend the asset liquidation process."
"By the way, Miss Ji received a Tiffany blue diamond wedding ring last month."
Jiang Manyun suddenly used the tip of her shoe to pick up the silk scarf that Li Liping had dropped, "Remember to polish the 'J&Y 2013' engraved on the inside of the ring. That was my tenth wedding anniversary edition."
The torrential rain pounded against the French windows as Li Liping watched her lawyer slam the compensation agreement onto the wet glass.
The black ink, smeared by raindrops, formed a menacing spiderweb pattern, with the last line of small print remaining remarkably clear:
Party B shall submit Ji Yao’s medical examination report to Party A every month for three years after the dissolution of the engagement.
Li Liping's face turned deathly pale instantly. Her gaze was fixed on the line of small print, as if she were nailed to the spot, her whole body frozen in place.
Her lips trembled uncontrollably, but she couldn't utter a single word.
"This...this is too much!"
After a long while, she managed to squeeze out a few words through gritted teeth, her voice hoarse and trembling with a hint of despair.
"Excessive?"
Jiang Manyun sneered, "This is just something you and your daughter brought upon yourselves."
Li Liping's legs went weak, and she instinctively reached out to hold onto the chair next to her, barely managing to keep herself from collapsing to the ground.
"I don't have that much money,"
Li Liping's voice was choked with sobs, "You are trying to drive us to the brink of despair."
"Hmph, if only you had known this would happen, you wouldn't have done it in the first place."
Jiang Manyun crossed her arms, her eyes full of disdain, "When you and your daughter destroyed other people's families, did you ever think this day would come?"
Li Liping's eyes reddened, and tears welled up in them.
She was filled with anger and resentment, angry at Jiang Manyun's ruthlessness and resentful of her own stupidity.
She regretted listening to Ji Fu and getting involved in this absurd farce, but now it was all too late to undo the damage.
"I...can I talk to my daughter about this?"
Li Liping said with a hint of pleading, at this moment she could only place her hopes on her daughter, perhaps her daughter could come up with a way to get out of this predicament.
"discuss?"
Jiang Manyun raised an eyebrow. "Do you think there's any room for negotiation? You have three days. If you don't raise the compensation in three days, you can expect a court summons."
After saying that, she turned around and walked away in her high heels, the two lawyers following her out in single file. Li Liping was left standing in the private room, looking out at the torrential rain, as if the world had collapsed at that moment.