A glint of satisfaction flashed in Han Ruochen's eyes when she saw her father getting angry. In her past life, her father didn't want her to get married to Yang Jianming, as he didn't trust the character of the Yang family, but Han Ruochen was stubborn, and with Meng Yunhan continuously filling her head with all sorts of thoughts, she was determined to marry Yang Jianming.
Believing that she would live a better life with him, who would have thought that her own mother was pushing her into a raging fire pit bit by bit!
What was more, this marriage was established by the elders of the two families. It was Grandpa Yang and Grandpa Han who agreed to marry Han Ruochen to Yang Jianming; if not for this promise, Yang Jianming wouldn't have resolutely married her and then tarnished her reputation such that he could marry Han Ziyan with his head held high.
In the past life, the Yang family stood on the higher ground and scolded her father until his back could no longer be straightened. Now Han Ruochen was given another chance; she was going to make the Yang family unable to raise their heads in front of the village, just like her and her father!
Han Yichen glared at Yang Jianming, who lowered his head in return. Seeing this, Han Yichen scoffed and then turned his attention to the director of the station. He sat down on the chair and questioned, "Officer, can you please tell me what this man did to my daughter?"
Director Li had already listened to the gist of the situation, and as a father of a daughter himself, he felt extremely sympathetic toward Han Ruochen. A poor girl whose mother was more biased toward her adopted daughter. A woman like her was doomed to bring trouble for her husband sooner or later.
With his personal feelings mixed in, he told the entire situation to Han Yichen, and by the time he was finished speaking, Han Yichen was shaking with fury. When he thought about how Yang Jianming had bribed the thugs to ruin the reputation of his daughter and even wanted to steal her job through unfair means, he wished he could shoot the man to death.
He jumped to his feet and rushed to the cell where he caught Yang Jianming by his collar and shook him ruthlessly. "You bastard! How has my daughter let you down? Your family doesn't have enough to eat, and my daughter has fed them like they were her ancestors! She also helped you in getting a job, and this is how you repay her? Ptui! You are a shame to all men, Yang Jianming. I bet your grandfather must be rolling in shame in his grave because of your crass actions!"
Han Yichen spat on Yang Jianming's face. If not for the fact that the man was locked inside the cell, he would have beaten this bastard to death!
Yang Jianming didn't dare to say a word. He lowered his head and simply acted as a mute. Seeing this, Han Yichen spat on him again. Just like his gutless father!
Han Yichen let go of the man when the police officers asked him to. He walked over to where Han Ruochen was standing and asked her, "What do you want, Ruochen? Do you want to solve this matter privately or do you want to keep him locked up?"
Yang Jianming raised his head and looked at Han Ruochen. Hope surged in his heart as he knew that Han Ruochen could never see him in pain.
However, if Han Ruochen could still feel a shred of sympathy for this man, she would be a fool. She scoffed and said to her father, "He tried to ruin me father. Not only did he have an affair with Ziyan, but he also tried to steal my hard-earned job and bribed thugs to ruin my reputation. If he had succeeded, I would have had no other choice but to hang myself to death. How can I solve this matter privately? I want him to pay for his crimes!"
Not only did she tell her father her grievances, but she also poured dirty water on Han Ziyan.
"Why are you bringing Ziyan up? She didn't ask him to do it!" Meng Yunhan was really angry. Not only did Han Ruochen not listen to her orders, but she also kept dragging Han Ziyan down. What was this woman trying to do?
"Then did he also force her to have an affair with him, Mom?" Han Ruochen questioned without breaking her gaze. "It was something that Ziyan did quite happily despite knowing that Yang Jianming was betrothed to me. It does not matter whether she has feelings for him or not; as the adopted daughter who lives off my family's money, wears clothes from the money that my father gives her and lives under our family's roof, she should have known better than to let her feelings get the best of her. She should have restrained her feelings or at least told me about them."
"If she had asked, would I have refused? Naturally, I would have given her the engagement, but why did she have to go behind me and cheat me like this? Haven't I treated her well enough? Hasn't Dad treated her quite nicely? Why did she betray us like this?"
There were quite a lot of police officers who lived in the same village as her. Since Han Ruochen was set on ruining Han Ziyan's reputation, she was not going to let this chance go. Since Han Ziyan wanted everyone to like her, she would do her best to make everyone dislike Han Ziyan.
And what better way was there than to make everyone think of Han Ziyan as a vixen who stole her sister's man?
Naturally, Meng Yunhan had no answers to Han Ruochen's questions; she had clearly not expected such a thing to happen. She thought that with the control that she had over Han Ruochen, the latter would not refuse, and Han Ziyan would then happily marry Yang Jianming by stepping on Han Ruochen, who would have expected such a thing to happen?