The three-month internship period was crucial; she had to keep this job.
The thought of Jiang Yurou sent a wave of annoyance through Jiang Shiyu's heart.
Although she knew Jiang Yurou also worked here before arriving, she hadn't expected Jiang Yurou to be in the same department. Seeing Jiang Yurou every day felt like bad luck.
She had latched onto a powerful figure. What a joke.
Murong Cheng was just a driver who knew a little about the company, and that made him powerful? It was utterly ridiculous.
She wasn't afraid of Jiang Yurou finding out about her, she was just annoyed.
As the elevator doors opened, Jiang Yurou was standing right outside.
Jiang Shiyu frowned, her gaze sweeping over Jiang Yurou as if she hadn't seen her, and walked directly out of the elevator.
Fang Yuan, walking beside Jiang Shiyu, noticed Jiang Shiyu's demeanor. "Your relationship with your sister doesn't seem very good."
Fang Yuan had heard a little about the Gu family's affairs.
She couldn't help but feel a bit of sympathy for Jiang Shiyu.
"She's not my sister," Jiang Shiyu replied coldly.
Fang Yuan pursed her lips, not daring to ask anything further.
At noon, Jiang Shiyu received a call from Jiang Dehai.
She glanced at her phone. Although she hadn't saved the number, she recognized Jiang Dehai's number immediately.
Jiang Shiyu hung up the phone and headed to the cafeteria for lunch.
Unexpectedly, Jiang Dehai was persistent. Jiang Shiyu had barely started eating when her phone rang again and again.
Taking her phone, she walked out to the stairwell. Jiang Shiyu impatiently answered, "What is it?"
"What kind of tone are you using to speak to your father?! Don't think you can ignore me just because your mother is gone! Get back here! Secretly getting married behind our backs! What are you thinking!"
The moment the call connected, she was met with an onslaught of scolding and humiliation without any preamble.
Although she was accustomed to it, hearing Jiang Dehai's harsh words still sent a chill through Jiang Shiyu's heart.
"Home? I don't recall having a home. When I was almost starving to death, I didn't know I had a home, nor did I know I had a father?"
Jiang Shiyu was so angry she laughed.
"You've really grown wings! Don't think you can talk to your father like this just because you got a job at Lingsheng! I know people at Lingsheng! Do you believe I can get you fired with one phone call! Get home now!"
After Jiang Dehai finished yelling, he hung up.
Jiang Shiyu tightly gripped her phone, her knuckles turning white.
Her body trembled violently.
It must be Jiang Yurou's doing.
Jiang Dehai calling her out of the blue, what else could it be? Jiang Yurou couldn't find out who she married, so she complained to Jiang Dehai...
She really had it coming!
Jiang Shiyu sneered. Staring at the blank phone screen, she knew that if she didn't return to the Gu family, Jiang Dehai would surely find a way to ruin her.
Before leaving work in the afternoon, Jiang Shiyu sent a WeChat message to Murong Cheng and then took a taxi back to the Gu residence.
When she arrived at the Gu mansion, the sun was setting, and dusk was approaching.
As soon as Jiang Shiyu entered, an ashtray flew directly towards her head.
Having anticipated this, Jiang Shiyu leaned slightly to the side, dodging the ashtray. The next second, the crystal ashtray shattered against the wall. Jiang Shiyu couldn't help but feel a pang of coldness.
"How dare you show your face here again? It's one thing to be jilted by the Mu family, but to marry some random man?! Speak! Who is that man?! How can I have a daughter as shameless as you! Utterly disgraceful! How did you get into Lingsheng?! Did that man help you?! Did you sell yourself for that job?!"
Jiang Dehai's face was contorted, his eyes bloodshot, as he yelled furiously, spewing all sorts of foul language.
The servants throughout the Gu mansion didn't need to see who had arrived; hearing Jiang Dehai's harsh scolding, they knew Jiang Shiyu was back.
Even the servants of the Gu mansion couldn't help but cast sympathetic glances.
"Sister, you've finally deigned to come home. Not even telling Father about the annulment of the engagement with the Mu family, truly unfilial. And secretly marrying without telling us. What if you married a hooligan and ruined your reputation? It's not just your reputation that would be damaged, but the Gu family's reputation too. If you don't consider yourself, you should at least consider the family!"
Jiang Yurou stood beside Jiang Dehai, feeling a surge of secret delight as Jiang Dehai cursed Jiang Shiyu.
That wretched Jiang Shiyu, so arrogant at Lingsheng, but back home, she would still be beneath her!
Jiang Shiyu coldly glanced at Jiang Yurou. "Su Jiamu cheated, so my annulment was reasonable. As for not telling you about my marriage, when have you ever cared about me? When I was starving and cold at the Gu family's all these years, why didn't I see you caring so much? Now you're suddenly concerned about who I married, it's truly laughable! It's so funny it makes me want to die!
Jiang Dehai couldn't believe that Jiang Shiyu, who had always been timid and submissive, had become so assertive after leaving the Gu family and even dared to talk back.
*Slap—*
Jiang Dehai slammed the table and stood up. "I am your father! Shut your foul mouth! When have I ever mistreated you? The Gu family is wealthy and powerful, do you think I, Jiang Dehai, lack a meal to give you? Don't go out and spread rumors! Don't disgrace the Gu family's name! If I had known you would be like this, I shouldn't have let your mother give birth to you!"
Mentioning her mother was like touching a raw nerve for Jiang Shiyu.
"Even if the family is wealthy and powerful, it's not yours. If it weren't for the disappearance of grandfather's will, how would the company and family fortune have ended up in your hands? You still have the audacity? My mother's mourning period had just ended, and you were already eagerly bringing in your mistress and your illegitimate daughter to enjoy yourselves, seizing my grandfather's company and inheritance, and having affairs behind my mother's back. You know very well who is truly disgraceful!"
Jiang Shiyu was no longer the naive and ignorant young girl she once was.
Every word was a sharp pearl, every sentence pierced to the heart.
Jiang Dehai's face immediately fell, a mixture of blue and purple appearing on his skin. "A bastard's daughter is just as much of a bastard—"
"Doesn't the daughter of a bastard stand right beside you? You married two bastards, one big and one small, into the house, aren't you a bastard yourself? You eat my grandfather's food, wear my grandfather's clothes, use my grandfather's things, and you're still living in my mother's villa. If my grandfather and mother knew how you treated me, they must have been blind to have married you, you leech!"
Jiang Shiyu clenched her fists tightly.
In the past, she was young, ignorant, and clueless. If it weren't for her wet nurse, Sister Wu, telling her these things, she would still be foolishly kept in the dark.
She would definitely make Jiang Dehai spit out every last bit of her grandfather's inheritance!
"Shut up!"
Jiang Dehai roared in fury, his face turning from ashen to flushed red. In his rage, he grabbed a porcelain object from beside him and smashed it at Jiang Shiyu. Jiang Shiyu didn't have time to dodge and was hit directly on the head. A gash instantly opened on her forehead, and blood poured out like a river.
Strangely, Jiang Shiyu felt no pain at all.
Her heart was filled with hatred and anger, almost consuming her entire being.
The sticky blood trickled down her forehead.
Jiang Shiyu wiped her face, her palm stained a glaring red.