Once upon a time, the more lively she was when facing him, the calmer she was now.
"Maybe Weiya Jewelry was truly innocent in that incident, but I know you weren't. Even if the Cheng family did something wrong, during those years, our whole family treated you with all our hearts and without any second thoughts!"
It seemed that the relationship between them had reached a dead end, and there was nothing more to say.
Fang Jiangyi looked at her for a long time. "In the matter of Weiya's bankruptcy, among those involved, who can claim to be innocent? Can you forget the slap just because you're given a sweet date later?"
"Yes, no one can claim to be innocent, but what does all this have to do with the Cheng family? What does it have to do with my sister?" And on what grounds did he hurt a girl who had given him her whole heart and soul and only had eyes for him?
Fang Jiangyi knew that no matter what he said now, she wouldn't listen. So he cut to the chase.
"Do you remember the jade Buddha pagoda placed in the main hall of the Cheng family's old mansion? That's the very pagoda that caused Weiya Jewelry to go bankrupt and my family to be ruined. It's the chief culprit."
Once a person gives in to greed, desires will follow one after another. It's an escalating process that can't be stopped.
Yan Xia looked up at him. "What do you mean by that?"
The smile on Fang Jiangyi's face gradually faded, replaced by a suppressed hatred.
"Yan Xia, you're still the same as before. You're so smart, but why are you so confused when it comes to your own family's affairs? You've been living in a honey jar since childhood and have never seen the evil of human nature. How well do you know your father? As the chairman of Shengshi Group and the president of the Shoujing Chamber of Commerce, having that priceless jade Buddha pagoda in your home. How much do you think your father was involved in these things? How dirty are his hands usually?"
Finally, all the words were out in the open.
Yan Xia's face looked very ugly. She had actually guessed in this direction before, but she had been deceiving herself and didn't want to believe it.
So, Cheng Hua was really not innocent. Why had Shengshi always been smooth - sailing and its market value been rising linearly? Why were there always people visiting their home and politely sending all kinds of rare and novel things?
She closed her eyes in despair and then opened them again.
"Fine, even if my father is not innocent and even if Shengshi deserves what it got. Then tell me, what did my sister do wrong? She loved you so much and gave you everything, but all you did to her was use and deceive her. And in the end, you even threw her off the building."
Yan Xia felt that she couldn't go on. She steadied her emotions and then said, "Just because your younger brother committed suicide by jumping off a building, do you want to take my sister's life as compensation? On what grounds?!"
All the hatred and resentment she had harbored towards him for more than half a year burst out at this moment. She wanted to seek justice for her sister and ask him why.
"Do you think I could be so heartless as to throw her off the building?" Fang Jiangyi felt as if he had been shot in the heart. One reason was being misunderstood by the one he loved, and the other was the reversal of right and wrong.
Seeming disappointed in her, Fang Jiangyi suddenly stepped forward and grabbed her chin, forcing her to look up at him. "Cheng Yanxia, listen up. Your sister is not as innocent as you think. She discovered the feud between me and your father long before I took action, but she didn't show it at all. Instead, she cooperated with your father to secretly deprive me of my rights and wanted to gradually kick me out of Shengshi."
Yan Xia never knew there were so many twists and turns in the middle. Her sister knew, and everyone knew, but they all worked together to hide it from her.
"I didn't throw her off the building. At the last moment, she tried to find an escape route from the edge. My people went to grab her, and she fell accidentally in a panic." Fang Jiangyi said in a deep voice, "No matter how much I hated her, I wouldn't have let her die."
All the mysteries were now explained.
Why everything had been fine when she came back before the incident, but Fang Jiangyi suddenly wanted to close the net.
Why her sister never mentioned why Fang Jiangyi suddenly framed Cheng Hua.
Fang Jiangyi took revenge on Cheng Hua because he had colluded with others to ruin Weiya Jewelry, destroy Fang Jiangyi's family, and indirectly cause Fang Jiang'an to commit suicide by jumping off a building.
No one was innocent.
She never expected that the truth she had been seeking for so long would be like this. Yan Xia felt extremely heart - broken at that moment.
The giant in her heart, the father she had always admired, turned out to be such a hypocrite. In an instant, it seemed that all her lifelong pursuits and beliefs had collapsed.
"Are you still going to cooperate with Lu Qianzhou to take revenge on me and seek so - called justice?" Fang Jiangyi asked her.
Yan Xia freed her chin. "I don't know what feud you have with him. What he wants to do to you is his business."
She took a deep breath. "After all these things, even if we can't tell who is right and who is wrong. From now on, you and I can only be strangers. Drifting apart and seeking peace separately, it's best that we never meet again."
Fang Jiangyi's hands trembled slightly. Listening to her decisive words, it seemed that something important in his body was flowing away with her words.
Speaking of Lu Qianzhou, he couldn't help but say, "Do you still think Lu Qianzhou is your savior? You don't understand him at all. Don't be deceived by his appearance. Compared to me, your father, or anyone else, he is the one with the deepest thoughts. You'll never see through him. Yan Xia, I advise you to leave him as soon as possible."
Yan Xia turned her face to look at him. Fang Jiangyi saw four words in her eyes - slandering.
"If you don't listen to me now, one day when you understand what I said, you'll definitely regret it. Maybe by then, everything will be a foregone conclusion and it will be too late to stop the loss in time." Fang Jiangyi smiled bitterly.
He wanted to say something to try to win her back, but he opened his mouth and couldn't make a sound.
He was in so much pain. In fact, he had never really had her. Just when he finally summoned the courage to face his feelings, that person had suddenly become Cheng Yanxia, and now, she was about to break up with him.
"You don't need to say these things to sow discord. Lu Qianzhou and I are doing fine." Yan Xia didn't look at him anymore. She got up and walked straight out.
After getting everything clear, she felt extremely sad and didn't want to entangle with him anymore.
When she reached the door, she didn't look back. She just said to him, "Since your goal has been achieved, please let my sister go and let me go too. My sister doesn't belong to you anymore. I'll arrange for someone to pick her up as soon as possible. Please release her."
After saying that, she pushed open the door and left the lounge.
Fang Jiangyi stood there. For the first time, he felt such a strange and painful feeling in his heart.
A moment later, he took out his phone and made a call.
He took one last defensive measure. "If anything happens to me at the banquet today, send that video to Lu Qianzhou."
He wanted to leave a way out for himself.
After he sorted out his emotions and walked out of the lounge, the protagonist of today's event had already appeared in the hall. Wang Keding was surrounded by a group of people, and it was very lively. The waiters were greeting everyone to get ready to be seated.
It was the calm before the storm.