Mu Jiu Chen narrowed his eyes, a slight smile playing on his lips. "Miss Jiang, let's find a place to talk about Jiang Nuan, as you mentioned."
It was a good opportunity to learn about the little girl's past.
Jiang Qing, upon hearing that she could trample Jiang Nuan underfoot, naturally wouldn't refuse such a good chance.
"Okay, Master Jiu!" she readily agreed.
Mu Jiu Chen smiled and pointed to a nearby coffee shop.
"Miss Jiang, let's talk in that coffee shop."
Jiang Qing nodded excitedly. Being able to sit and have coffee with Master Jiu would earn her some respect from other socialites if they saw it.
The two sat by the window, where a partition shielded them from outside view, making it relatively quiet.
Mu Jiu Chen ordered a latte, while Jiang Qing feigned ordering a glass of water.
For a girl, being beautiful was the most important thing.
Mu Jiu Chen sat casually, his relaxed demeanor, arrogance, and noble aura drawing everyone's attention even when he was just sitting there.
Jiang Qing also inexplicably liked this side of Mu Jiu Chen.
It was a pity that the Jiang family and the Mu family were worlds apart; the gap was not something the Jiang family could close by aggressively entering the entertainment industry.
"Speak."
Jiang Qing nodded with a slight smile and said, "Master Jiu, you know Jiang Nuan is the adopted daughter of the Jiang family. As an adopted daughter, she never fulfilled her filial duties. When she was at our house, she was lazy, rude to the servants, and an ill-mannered child. My parents took great care of her, but ultimately, they raised a viper.
"I remember when I was little, Jiang Nuan always snatched my things. She always liked to claim other people's belongings as her own. She was also very unkind to Grandma. Grandma was good to her because she was a foundling, out of pity."
"A foundling?" Mu Jiu Chen caught that sentence.
Xiao Fan's investigation had yielded no useful information.
Jiang Shuo had fled, and the only person who knew about the events back then was Jiang Shuo's mother, who was also Nuan Nuan's grandmother.
But she had died six years ago.
"Yes, I asked my father, and he said Jiang Nuan was found by the roadside."
"Even if she was a child we took in, our family treated her as our own from childhood. We gave her all the best food and necessities, only for her to turn around and accuse us of framing her. In reality, she just didn't want to stay with the Jiang family."
Jiang Nuan, today I will completely ruin you in front of Mu Jiu Chen.
"Is that so?" Mu Jiu Chen frowned, his expression inscrutable.
"Yes, Master Jiu, what happened before was just her trying to gain everyone's sympathy."
Mu Jiu Chen found it somewhat amusing. He looked at her sharply, noting that she could lie without batting an eye.
Why hadn't their Nuan Nuan developed such a skill?
When she lied, she was so hesitant that it was obvious she was lying.
"Didn't you just say she was drugged by your mother, and now you're saying she's an ungrateful viper who deliberately framed your family? Miss Jiang, one should be honest."
Mu Jiu Chen rarely spoke so much at once.
He just wanted to see what this woman was trying to achieve.
Nothing she said was the truth.
Jiang Qing said anxiously, "Master Jiu, other than that incident, everything else is true. My mother drugged her because she discovered she was planning to run away. She wanted to find her a rich husband to marry, so she could live a life of comfort and security. This was for her own good!"
"For her own good?" Mu Jiu Chen thought that this was perhaps the most disgusting thing he had heard all year.
These heartless people were truly revolting!
"Alright, I understand now. Jiang Nuan, she is a 'vile person'." Mu Jiu Chen stood up, without even glancing at her, and strode out of the coffee shop.
Jiang Qing: "..." What did he mean by this?
"Heh heh..." Jiang Qing chuckled. "This Mu Jiu Chen is truly unfathomable."
But she believed he must dislike Jiang Nuan now.
People from wealthy families hated ungrateful individuals the most.
She couldn't let Jiang Nuan's matters go like this. Her elder brother would be back soon.
With her elder brother here, what was she afraid of?
Jiang Qing took a deep breath. Her father had fled due to the kidnapping case, so all of the Jiang family's real estate would belong to her and her brother from now on. The bastard child outside wouldn't get a single cent.
Jiang Qing watched Mu Jiu Chen's car drive away before leaving the coffee shop herself.
The next day, Jiang Nuan received notification that her son and daughter were returning.
She went out to handle some matters, preparing to go home and cook.
Expecting to see her three babies early in the morning, she opened the door to find the house eerily quiet.
Jiang Nuan: "..."
Where had her precious ones gone?
"Kuo Bao, Qing Bao, San Bao."
Jiang Nuan called out to them, but only heard silence.
"Yuan Yuan, are you upstairs?" Still, only silence answered.
Jiang Nuan patiently climbed to the third floor, wondering if Yuan Yuan was playing games with the children.
But she was still met with emptiness.
Jiang Nuan lost her patience and took out her phone to call Meng Yuan.
"Hello! Nuan Nuan, I've brought the babies out, so don't worry. We'll be back later."
Jiang Nuan: "No, I just wanted to make something delicious for you. Where did you go?"
Meng Yuan: "Heh heh... On a mission."
Jiang Nuan became a little angry. "Meng Yuan, you can't take the babies on missions, you'll corrupt them."
Meng Yuan scoffed, mocking her, "Jiang Nuan, your children were corrupted by you. How can you blame me? Don't you know they were watching you when you were on missions?"
"Our babies are geniuses, geniuses, geniuses, do you understand geniuses?"
Jiang Nuan: "As if you gave birth to them. Fine, fine. You're out, I'm going to catch up on sleep."
"Mhm..." The call ended quickly from the other side.
Jiang Nuan didn't think much of it. When she was busy, Meng Yuan usually looked after the children.
On the food street, Meng Yuan, with the three little ones, looked at a luxurious five-story hotel.
Her eyes were filled with pain. Last night, she was very tired and didn't continue tracking Shu Cheng's whereabouts.
When she returned this morning, she found Shu Cheng here.
Suspicion arose in her heart. Her heart ached, but she had to find out the truth, not wanting to be made a fool of and lose millions.
Jiang Yu Kuo looked at her pale face and pained expression, and couldn't help but ask, "Auntie Meng, what's wrong?"
Meng Yuan pulled herself together, looked down at the three precious children before her.
Her voice was filled with desolation, "Kuo Bao, Qing Bao, San Bao, your Auntie Meng has been cheated on."
"Ah..." The three little ones cried out in surprise simultaneously.
Jiang Yu Kuo: "Aish, Auntie Meng, is it that scoundrel Shu Cheng? We'll castrate him for you."
Meng Yuan smiled bitterly and nodded. "We can't castrate him yet. We need to find evidence and get my five million back. Over the past year or so, I've given him nearly five million, which is my entire fortune."
Jiang Yu Kuo and his siblings exchanged glances.
Indeed, highly intelligent people often had terribly low emotional intelligence.
Others had boyfriends who spent money on their girlfriends, but she was the opposite.
And in the end, she was cheated out of all her money.