Chapter 21: A Video Reveal of Humiliation

"You only need to give me a car, and I will be able to bring the jade pendant back in half an hour!"

Hearing Ye Fan's guarantee, Lin Zhenjie panicked. He immediately shouted from the side, "I think he is just stalling for time so he can find a chance to run away!"

As he spoke, he took out his phone and said to Lin Junqiang, "I have a video here of this brat and Chen Shuting in a hotel room!"

"Hmm?"

The crowd was taken aback. They watched as Lin Zhenjie connected his phone to the living room television and hit play.

The video showed the presidential suite of the Longcheng Building. Chen Shuting, wearing a tight-fitting knit sweater, a leather skirt, and black stockings, was swaying her waist as she picked up two glasses of red wine and sat down across from Ye Fan.

The two toasted with the wine, then leaned in, their faces flushed, until they were almost touching, whispering something to each other.

During this time, they appeared to be flirting. They finished another glass of wine, and immediately after, Chen Shuting collapsed onto Ye Fan!

"Click!"

The video ended there. Lin Zhenjie looked at the crowd with a sinister smile. "The footage after this is too violent, so I won't play it! My sister-in-law was truly enchanting that night!"

Lin Junqiang watched the video, his distorted mouth and nose trembling violently as anger surfaced on his face.

"Chen Shuting! You really are a fine daughter-in-law of mine!"

He raised his trembling hand, pointing at Chen Shuting and cursing. Chen Shuting sat slumped on the floor, pale as a sheet, her eyes brimming with tears. "It’s not like that! There is nothing after that! Lin Zhenjie, if you have the guts, show what happened next!"

Just then, Ye Fan gave a sudden cough.

"Heh, if you had played even one more second of this video, you would have been exposed!"

"Exposed? What are you talking about!"

Lin Zhenjie sneered at Ye Fan. "You know perfectly well what happened next. Even I found it despicable and disgusting, so I deleted it!"

"Is that so?"

Ye Fan tilted his head, pulled out his phone, and calmly plugged in a data cable. "What a coincidence, I have a video here too!"

Lin Zhenjie froze. "What did you say?"

"What I said, why don't you see for yourself?"

Ye Fan started the video. The scene appeared again, with Chen Shuting falling onto Ye Fan, but immediately after, the two hurriedly scrambled apart!

"Violent? Not at all!"

The video continued. Ye Fan scrambled into the closet, and then Huang Dalei smashed the door open...

"Tell me, Elder Lin, look, nothing happened between your daughter-in-law and me. It was purely a misunderstanding!"

Ye Fan looked at Lin Junqiang. He had obtained this video from the skinny boy who flew the drone. That guy had been flying it all night and must have recorded plenty of interesting footage. Ye Fan had originally intended to take it home to critique it properly, never expecting it to be filled with clips of him and Chen Shuting!

That was when he realized there was a conspiracy afoot.

Before Lin Junqiang could speak, Lin Zhenjie hurriedly interrupted, "That’s because someone interrupted your affair! Who knows what would have happened if Huang Dalei hadn't come?"

"What would have happened?"

Ye Fan gave a look that said, "I was going to spare you, but you insisted on looking for a beating," and held out his hand. "Please, roll the VCR!"

Another video played.

In the frame was the scarred man, wailing with tears and snot running down his face: "Stop hitting me, stop hitting me! I'll talk!"

"It was Brother Huang. He said you slept with a woman you shouldn't have!"

"Someone bribed the manager of the Golden Dragon Building to secretly drug the red wine in Chen Shuting's room. Tonight was supposed to be Brother Huang going to the room to drink with Chen Shuting!"

Ye Fan's voice sounded: "Who bribed that manager?"

"I really can't say this!" the scarred man begged. "If I say it, I'm a dead man!"

"If you don't say it, you're a dead man right now!"

A machete flashed in the video. As the blade came down hard, the scarred man wailed again.

"I'll talk! Stop hitting me!"

"It was someone from the Lin family... the Third Young Master of the Lin family. He said there was something very important at Chen Shuting's place, and he told Brother Huang to sleep with Chen Shuting and film a video to blackmail her!"

"Something very important? What is it?"

"I really don't know that! Ow, brother, stop hitting me, I really don't know!"

The video stopped. Ye Fan stood with his hands on his hips, scanning the crowd.

"Look, this whole thing was a conspiracy from start to finish. We are completely the victims!"

"You, you, you..." Lin Zhenjie pointed at Ye Fan, unable to speak.

Ye Fan spat. "You what you! You were actually willing to poison your own sister-in-law for a jade pendant. You're lower than a dog!"

Hearing this, Lin Zhenjie looked at Lin Jiaxing. "Second Uncle, say something! This isn't my..."

"Shut up!" Lin Jiaxing glared fiercely at Lin Zhenjie and said, "The matter is clear. You have committed a grave mistake. Why don't you beg your father for mercy!"

He then looked at Lin Junqiang and whispered, "Big brother, I think Xiao Jie is a bit too reckless in his actions. How about we send him back to our hometown to cool off?"

Lin Junqiang closed his eyes, veins bulging on his forehead. His blood pressure was skyrocketing, and all he could hear was the pounding of blood in his ears.

Hearing Lin Jiaxing's words, he felt as if he were about to pass away.

"Everyone, shut up!"

He let out a roar and actually stood up from his wheelchair!

He stood up!

"Lin Zhenjie! You are a disgrace to my Lin family! A clown! I have wasted all these years teaching you! I hope you..."

He pointed at Lin Zhenjie's nose, barely refraining from finishing the curse.

"Pass on my order! All businesses under Lin Zhenjie's name are to be confiscated! Send him back to our hometown to reflect on his actions!"

"His assets are to be managed by Xiao Ting!"

As Lin Junqiang's words fell, Lin Zhenjie's body went limp, and he collapsed onto the floor.

Lin Junqiang didn't even glance at him, instead looking at Chen Shuting with deep remorse in his eyes. "Xiao Ting, I wronged you this time!"

He clutched his chest and said with grief and indignation, "Ever since I suffered a cerebral thrombosis, I stopped concerning myself with family affairs. I never expected them to be so absurd!"

"I owe you an apology as well! After Zhenqian went missing, I was searching for him in secret. I only stopped because I tracked the trail to a certain behemoth and the leads were cut off."

"It was wrong of me not to tell you sooner. I didn't realize you were so persistent in your love for Zhenqian, still thinking of him! Don't worry, this time I will personally go to your Chen family home, apologize to your father, and then our two families will work together to save Zhenqian!"

Listening to his words, the years of torment Chen Shuting had endured seemed to collapse like a vast river, and tears streamed down her face uncontrollably.

She could only nod, unable to utter a single word.

Lin Junqiang looked at Ye Fan again. "Young man, thank you as well. If you don't mind, take out that jade pendant and let us see it. It doesn't matter if it's real or fake; the Lin family will certainly remember your kindness!"

"Elder, you are too kind!" Ye Fan scratched his head. "Actually, I said it before: the jade pendant isn't mine, and it isn't real. Otherwise, I would have sold it long ago!"

"Look, now that the misunderstanding is cleared up, can you let us go?"

Ye Fan checked the sky; it was already evening. He had been away all day and didn't know if Li Yaoyao was worried. He wanted to go back as soon as possible.

"Very well. I will have a driver take you back!"

Hearing this, Ye Fan turned to leave.

"Wait a moment!" Chen Shuting's voice suddenly came from behind him.

"Sister Chen, what is it?"

"Take all your things!"

As she spoke, she picked up Lin Zhenjie's bank card, property deeds, and the service contract from the table. "This is for you!"

"Huh? Sister Chen, is that really okay?"

"What's not okay about it? The head of the family just said that Lin Zhenjie's properties are under my name, so I have the right to distribute them!"

She said this, looking at Ye Fan playfully, then glanced at the three beauties behind him.

"Dad!" Chen Shuting called out to Lin Junqiang abruptly.

"Yes! What is it?"

Lin Junqiang felt a surge of excitement when Chen Shuting called him "Dad."

"How about I take Ye Fan back? I happen to have a business cooperation I'd like to discuss with him!"

"Fine, fine, fine! Go ahead!"

Lin Junqiang waved his hand, smiling so broadly that a bit of drool escaped his chin.