But when she stayed home, her husband and son ignored her too.
Jiang Shangyun had run away from home the night she appeared on set. He would not answer calls or reply to WeChat messages. He had not even attended the finals. Jiang Fu was still at home, but he would not speak to Ruan Cuimei either. Every day, he clutched his phone and sighed heavily.
Those gossip-hungry netizens dug up Jiang Family Garment Factory's platform account. Huge numbers of people flocked to the factory's official account to leave abusive comments, asking whether they knew their boss's wife was a vicious woman who had abandoned her own flesh and blood.
Others traced the timeline and determined that Ruan Cuimei must have given birth to Ye Mingzhao before marrying Jiang Fu. In other words, after having a child out of wedlock with another man, Ruan Cuimei had chosen to abandon her biological son, leave Xinhai for Shenzhen, and marry her current husband, Jiang Fu, not long afterward.
—Jiang Shangyun had once publicly revealed his basic information while participating in the fashion design competition. He was nineteen this year, and his birthday was in June. Ye Mingzhao was twenty-one, and his birthday was in winter.
That meant Ruan Cuimei had married her current husband less than a year after abandoning her biological son.
According to old employees of Jiang Family Garment Factory, after marrying Jiang Fu, Ruan Cuimei had produced a dowry of several hundred thousand yuan to equip the factory with the most advanced production line. The Jiang family's garment factory had risen from that point onward, then received many clothing orders from foreign brands during the demographic-dividend era. They had made their fortune through foreign trade.
The old employees did not know Ruan Cuimei's background and had assumed she was