At that moment, a string in his heart slackened. He didn't know if it was relief or something else.
If Lu Qianzhou really went to such great lengths to take revenge on him...
Yan Xia spent the whole journey studying the history of Viya Jewelry. According to the information, Yuan Qiuping used to be a major shareholder of Viya Jewelry. So Fang Jiangyi and Yuan Qiuping must know each other, but the two of them never showed any familiarity in front of outsiders.
She flipped through the information page by page. Finally, in the following text, she saw the whole process of Viya Jewelry's bankruptcy.
A few years ago, Viya Jewelry sold a Qing Dynasty jade Buddha pagoda to an auction house. But after it was auctioned off, it was found to be a fake. For a while, the appraiser, the auction, and Viya Jewelry all started to shift the blame.
Moreover, the appraiser and the auction jointly accused Viya Jewelry, claiming that after the Buddha pagoda was appraised, Viya Jewelry swapped the real pagoda for a fake one to make a profit.
Viya Jewelry began to fall into a huge crisis. Many people who had previously auctioned items from Viya Jewelry started to ride on the wave of the incident, accusing Viya Jewelry of selling numerous fakes and defrauding a lot of money.
The public opinion was overwhelming, and Viya Jewelry began to fall into a huge debt crisis.
A month later, under the huge pressure of public opinion, Viya Jewelry announced bankruptcy. The founder of Viya Jewelry, Fang Xiangyuan, was imprisoned for fraud.
So, the fuse that led to Viya Jewelry's bankruptcy was that jade Buddha pagoda that was replaced.
Fang Jiangyi once said that a family member of his committed suicide by jumping off a building. Since his parents were still alive, was the one who committed suicide his younger brother, the one she had never met?
After Yan Xia read all the information, she suddenly felt inexplicably uneasy.
If the fuse of Viya Jewelry's bankruptcy was that jade Buddha pagoda, then why was Fang Jiangyi so crazy about taking revenge on the Cheng family?
She remembered the Buddha pagoda that Cheng Hua brought back to the old house. Could it be related to this?
Originally, she wanted to search the internet for a photo of the Buddha pagoda, but by then she had already arrived downstairs at Shengshi Company, so she had to give up.
Right now, she didn't want to do anything else. She just wanted to find Fang Jiangyi and ask him what exactly had happened, about his younger brother and his family.
After arriving at the company, Yan Xia went straight to his office. Fang Jiangyi was just handing over today's work with Assistant Sun. He was startled when he saw her suddenly barge in.
Seeing her coming, he quickly finished his work. After Assistant Sun left and he closed the office door, he asked her.
"Why did you come so early in the morning? I remember there's a regular meeting at ten o'clock."
"Brother Jiangyi." It was the first time Yan Xia had ever called him like this. She was distraught, with slightly red eyes. She said, "I saw some news about you and your family, but I don't know if it's true. I can't figure out many details, so I came to ask you if it's true."
Fang Jiangyi had never seen her look so dejected before. His heart skipped a beat, and he pulled her to sit on the sofa.
He poured her a cup of tea and stared at her calmly.
"Are you about to cry just because of this?"
"Yeah." She replied softly.
Fang Jiangyi sighed lightly. "Then tell me first what you know."
Yan Xia told him everything she knew about Viya Jewelry and then asked him.
"Is all this true? Did your younger brother commit suicide because of this?"
Fang Jiangyi said, "Not entirely."
Yan Xia looked at him with her eyes, asking what "not entirely" meant.
Fang Jiangyi frowned slightly. "Why are you suddenly asking about these things?"
Yan Xia still looked at him, her eyes watery.
"Because you never tell me anything. I don't know if this is true, so I came to verify it with you. What exactly happened? Was that Buddha pagoda swapped? Was Viya framed?"
Fang Jiangyi raised his eyebrows slightly and looked at her from a short distance.
"You've asked so many questions. Which one do you want me to answer first?" He let out a brief laugh. "With that look on your face, do you feel sorry for me?"
Yan Xia still looked at him like that. She didn't know if Cheng Hua was involved in this matter. If it was really as she guessed, then all her actions up until now seemed so unreasonable.
"I feel sorry." She lowered her head and said. "I didn't know you had been through all that. I don't know how you managed to get through it."
Fang Jiangyi seemed reluctant to talk about it and just said, "It's all in the past."
Yan Xia looked into his eyes, and her gaze became serious.
"Brother Jiangyi, I hope to know what you've been through. I hope you can answer all my questions seriously and without reservation. Otherwise, I'll be very sad."
Fang Jiangyi's expression changed slightly. He noticed the sudden change in her attitude.
Thinking of what Peng Shiyi and Yuan Qiuping had told him, he wiped his face in annoyance.
Finally, he said, "The information you found is all correct, but Jiang An's suicide wasn't directly caused by that incident."
So Jiang An was his younger brother's name, Yan Xia thought. It was really a very beautiful name, just like his.
"Jiang An had mild autism and depression, but he was very smart. He developed an anti - cancer drug called nilotinies with the school's professor team. During the time when Viya had problems, all of us were so busy that we had no energy to take care of him."
He paused for a moment and then continued.
"But during that period, he encountered some very bad things. His professor took over his academic paper and claimed it as his own. He even kicked Jiang An out of the nilotinies research and development team. Jiang An couldn't find anyone to help him or get justice. Seeing his mother go crazy and the family in a complete mess. Maybe because his autism and depression got worse, one day, when the nanny wasn't watching him closely, he went to the rooftop alone and jumped off."
Yan Xia felt a chill in her heart.
She had always planned to pursue a doctoral degree and had written many papers. Especially for students doing academic research, she knew too well how important an academic paper was to a student.
She imagined that boy named Jiang An. In his last days, he couldn't get justice and was kicked out of the pharmaceutical team. It must have been such helplessness and despair that made him choose to end his life by jumping off a building.
Seeing her eyes turn even redder, Fang Jiangyi softened. His lips twitched, and he suddenly reached out to touch her face.
He forced a smile. "Scared?"
Yan Xia said, "I know how important that paper was to your younger brother. He had already suffered so much injustice, but in the end, he received a fatal blow from his own teacher."
"Don't be sad. It's all in the past."
Yan Xia nodded. "Take me to see him some other day."
"Okay."
Yan Xia composed herself and then asked, "Viya Jewelry was framed like that. Have you found out what really happened later?"
She wanted to know Fang Jiangyi's answer. Whether that incident was really related to the Cheng family.
But before he could answer, Assistant Sun came to the door and knocked again.