Exposing Li Meiyan and Xie Lian's facade was actually simple.
No matter how good someone was at pretending, they always left traces. Finding those traces required someone who would never arouse anyone's suspicion.
Old Bai.
As the butler who had spent years in the Xie family without ever getting involved in their disputes, he had initially been someone Li Meiyan and Xie Lian took a few precautions around when doing anything underhanded.
Later, once they discovered that all he did every day was quote memes, they stopped caring.
And so Old Bai became the biggest loophole in the household.
Nobody avoided him when doing anything, and he certainly lived up to their expectations, shutting out the world every day to focus exclusively on melodramatic memes.
Until someone finally came along who could move his heart.
When Xie Mi told him, "Stick with me, and I'll replace the entire Xie family employee handbook with memes for them to memorize," Old Bai admitted that he was tempted.
Who could understand the loneliness of spending years quoting memes with nobody to play along?
At last, someone understood.
"You made it yourself, did you?" Xie Mi looked at Li Meiyan with a smile. Without saying anything else, she raised a hand slightly, signaling for Old Bai to bring something over.
Li Meiyan maintained her loving, motherly smile until she saw what Old Bai had brought. Then her smile stiffened.
Those were...
The things she had already tossed in the trash, instructed a servant to take out to the large bin by the entrance, and left for the villa complex's cleaners to load onto a garbage truck, transport to the dump, and incinerate on the spot-
Ready-made meal packets.
She had previously considered ordering takeout and transferring it onto plates, but ordering an entire imperial