Seeing Su Yang like this only disappointed Zhou Wanqing further. Although she had had little time to investigate, it had been enough for her to obtain the report on today's hotel visit.
She had not seen Su Yang's or Chen Ruxue's names on the hotel's reservation list, but before she could breathe a sigh of relief, she spotted the name of the assistant who had worked for Su Yang for decades. Yet how could a mere assistant earning a million a year afford to stay there?
Su Yang and Chen Ruxue had even been so impatient that they had openly started fondling and flirting with each other in the corridor, all of which had been captured by the security cameras.
After seeing that footage, Zhou Wanqing had snapped fully awake.
She was an obsessive person. In the past, she had chosen to trust Su Yang, which was why she had believed everything he said. Now that he had broken her heart, she would take revenge like a woman possessed.
Ha, Su Yang actually dared to betray me and still wanted to use our Zhou Family as a stepping stone to the top? In his dreams!
She would show him that whatever she could give him, she could take back at any time! What could hurt him more than having his beautiful dream shatter just as it was about to come true?
"I know you must all be wondering why, especially since we still seemed so loving half an hour ago. So next, please watch this video."
Soon, security footage appeared on the large screen in the center, showing a man and a woman in a lavishly decorated corridor laid with wool carpeting.
At first, they simply walked one behind the other, but perhaps realizing that the corridor was empty, they soon grew intimate. By the time they approached the door, they were already embracing and kissing without restraint.
Although the footage was not particularly clear and mostly did not show them from the front, everyone quickly identified the man as Su Yang in light of the current situation.
As for the woman, she should not have been so easy to identify.
Although Chen Ruxue had kept a very high profile these past few years, attending all sorts of so-called society wives' gatherings, she had neither a distinguished family background nor a good husband, and she remained little known.
Today, however, knowing that this was Su Yang's big day, she had specially chosen an ahead-of-season haute couture dress she had bought at great expense.
Because she had only one, Chen Ruxue had not changed her clothes. A quick comparison revealed to everyone who the woman in the footage was, and every gaze at the venue began roaming back and forth between the two of them.
Su Yang quickly realized what was happening. His face flushed crimson, and his mind exploded with a boom.
How dare Zhou Wanqing!
By then, he had lost all reason. He struggled forward as though he meant to hit someone, but unfortunately, the bodyguards held him firmly in place. He could only glare at Zhou Wanqing with eyes so wide they seemed about to split, yet he still refused to give up, shouting and yelling.
"You bitch, how dare you? This is an invasion of privacy!"
When Chen Ruxue heard Zhou Wanqing say she wanted a divorce, she had felt a secret thrill. Was she finally going to take her place?
All she has is a good family background. Whether it's looks or talent, in what way don't I utterly crush her? The thought of how Zhou Wanqing had lorded it over her in the past made Chen Ruxue grind her teeth with hatred.
Now that she had stolen Su Yang, the person Zhou Wanqing cared about most, she wondered how Zhou Wanqing would weep and sob in front of her.
Yet the moment she saw the security footage, all her smug satisfaction vanished.
She did indeed desperately want to make her relationship with Su Yang public and become the legitimate Second Madam Su, but not like this!
All these years, she had been trying to cultivate a noble, elegant image, proving that she was no worse than those so-called wealthy heiresses. Her impatient, wanton behavior in the footage had destroyed that image completely!
What was even more terrifying was that everyone present had recognized her and was looking at her with contempt, disdain, or ridicule!
Chen Ruxue felt her head spin and nearly lost her footing. Fortunately, Su Yinan, standing beside her, caught her in time.
Su Yinan naturally recognized the people in the footage as her parents too. As a female lead who upheld "truth, goodness, and beauty," she also knew that cheating and being a mistress were wrong, and as an illegitimate daughter, she felt deeply inferior.
But after hearing Chen Ruxue's embellished account of her love story with Su Yang, she had also felt a deep sense of injustice on their behalf.
Chen Ruxue had told her that she and Su Yang had fallen in love when they were young, but the gulf between their family backgrounds was too great, and Su Yang's parents had opposed them, leaving them no choice but to break up.
Afterward, they had each married someone else. However, she had chosen the wrong man, marrying a wastrel who spent his days idling away and waiting to die, and who also abused her. In the end, she had only managed to divorce him by leaving with nothing.
To earn enough to support herself, she had had no choice but to return to acting in the entertainment industry. But how could a washed-up actress find roles so easily? She had even nearly been □□ by an investor while trying to land a role. Fortunately, she had happened to run into Su Yang, who had rescued her.
After that, they had intended only to remain friends, but someone had schemed against them at a drinking party, tricking them into drinking spiked alcohol. Under the effects of the drug, and unable to restrain their feelings, they had slept together and conceived her.
Chen Ruxue had lamented to her through tears, "Fate makes fools of us. I didn't want to hurt Su Yang's wife, nor did I want to fight her for your father, but you needed a father. I only wanted to keep things as they were. It was enough for the two of us, mother and daughter, to have a tiny part of your father."
After hearing this, Su Yinan had felt nothing but sympathy for her mother. Seeing the footage on the screen now, she instantly flushed red with anger.
Although her parents in the footage looked completely different from the elegant, kindly figures she remembered... how could anyone make such a private video public?!
This Second Madam Su has gone too far!
However, Su Yinan was not eloquent or quick with words, so she merely said, "Mom, why don't we leave first? There's no need to argue with people who don't know the truth at all. Dad... Second Master Su will take care of everything."
But Chen Ruxue shook her head. She had already steadied herself. Since her public image could no longer be salvaged, she had to keep a firm hold on Su Yang.
This was an incredibly difficult moment for Su Yang. How could she leave? Of course she had to stay by his side and make him even more grateful to her.
She walked over to Su Yang in a few steps and gazed at him affectionately, as though she had made some great decision. "A-Yang, don't speak to Wanqing like that. She's only doing this because she's hurt."
Then she turned to Zhou Wanqing and squeezed out two trails of tears. "Wanqing, this is all my fault. I shouldn't have developed feelings of gratitude for A-Yang just because he helped me when I had nowhere left to turn. I shouldn't have clung to that little bit of warmth. I'm the one who wronged you. Don't blame A-Yang!"