[My idol is the award-winning actress Xue Jing. Chen Ruxue was in a party video she posted before, dripping with jewels. Chen Ruxue even put out press releases putting the others down, saying her beauty outshone everyone else's. Turns out she was a mistress.]
[I like collecting old magazines and newspapers, and Su Yang was one of Chen Ruxue's rumored boyfriends back then! So they were already hooking up before he got married!]
[That's not all! After Chen Ruxue's divorce, Su Yang wasn't the only man she was romantically linked to. There was also a wealthy businessman from Harbor City in the papers. Looks like she cast a wide net, and that idiot Su Yang took the bait.]
[Poor Miss Zhou. That scumbag tricked her into marriage, didn't he?]
[Thank goodness Miss Zhou finally discovered the truth and woke up. I heard she's the Zhou Family's only daughter. If Su Yang had kept fooling her to the end, wouldn't that scumbag and that bitch have swallowed up her family's entire fortune!]
As Ye Jin followed the gossip, she added her own commentary inwardly.
[Tsk, tsk, tsk. The novel really whitewashed Su Yang and Chen Ruxue far too much. Looking at it now, she was just a gold digger fishing for a rich sucker, and she landed that idiot Su Yang.]
[Ugh, when will the netizens uncover that Su Yang didn't break up with Chen Ruxue because his family disapproved at all? He just wanted to climb onto the Zhou Family's high branch and use their influence to fight his older brother for control of the Su Family. What a scumbag-and-bitch pair!]
[If the netizens still can't dig it up, maybe I should put on a]
[sockpuppet account]
[and go spill the beans?]
Lin Xiwen had prided herself on knowing Su Yang fairly well, but after reading what the netizens had dug up, she realized there were plenty of details she hadn't known.
After hearing the additional information in Ye Jin's thoughts, her fists clenched even tighter.
Although she had always assumed the worst of Su Yang, his vileness still exceeded her imagination.
When she heard Ye Jin thinking about using a sockpuppet account to expose him herself, she nodded inwardly in agreement. That bastard Su Yang deserved to be exposed and judged by the entire nation!
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were so absorbed in the gossip that they only snapped out of it when the assistant came over to remind them that their car home was ready. Then, almost simultaneously, they hurriedly put away their phones.
Ye Jin was already an old hand at getting caught like this and hastily made up an excuse. "Mom, I was just discussing a job with my agent and lost track of time. I'm so sorry."
[Aaaah, today's gossip was just too delicious! It made me forget to keep my eyes and ears open in every direction!]
Ye Jin hadn't completely left the entertainment industry after getting married. Even among wealthy families, housewives with no careers at all were no longer in fashion in this day and age.
Of course, wealthy families didn't actually want their daughters-in-law to be career-minded]
[powerful women]
[either, so being a celebrity, a job that let her control her own schedule, suited Ye Jin's current circumstances perfectly.
This time, she had taken leave from the production because of Su Chengjing's incident, so the excuse was plausible enough.
Lin Xiwen knew exactly what Ye Jin had been doing, but remembering that she, too, had been engrossed in the gossip, she immediately felt guilty and only said, "Mm, it's fine. Let's get our things together and head home."
By then, the evening rush hour was long over, and they returned to the Su Family estate without any traffic.
The Su Family estate was nearly a century old and occupied considerable grounds. Built in the style of a classical garden, it featured pavilions and towers, and even had a separate courtyard built for each child.
Unfortunately, none of the Su Family's children liked living at the old estate. Ye Jin had previously lived in a spacious single-floor apartment in the city, too.
But given the unusual circumstances, Ye Jin had moved back to the old estate as well.
A great deal had happened that day, so Lin Xiwen didn't insist that Ye Jin stay and talk. They each returned to their rooms to rest.
For a night owl like Ye Jin, there was no way she could fall asleep at this hour.
Once back in her bedroom, she eagerly resumed following the gossip while sorting through the plot information she had received that day.
Things were still lively online. Although Su Yang's PR team had already gotten to work and deleted a large batch of posts, the gossip was simply too delicious. The netizens kept posting, and new threads sprouted like bamboo shoots after rain.
At the same time, Zhou Wanqing's side seemed to have noticed Su Yang's moves and quickly launched a counterattack. The deleted posts were soon restored, and both sides' actions drove the netizens' enthusiasm for digging up dirt even higher.
Ye Jin's only regret was that no one had yet uncovered that Su Yang had actively pursued Zhou Wanqing for power. She immediately put on a sockpuppet account and went to the largest forum to spill the beans, determined not to give Su Yang any chance of turning things around.
[Guys, right after Su Yang got married, he kept marketing himself as a doting husband, and he often attended events with Zhou Wanqing to show off their love. Add in the fact that this was right when the Su Group was choosing the previous head of the Su Family, and I'm going to make a bold guess: Su Yang dumped Chen Ruxue of his own accord and latched onto Zhou Wanqing for power.]
[Of course, if that were all, it would just be Su Yang's personal choice. But everyone knows what happened afterward. Those two really are a bitch matched with a dog.]
The moment she posted this revelation, countless replies poured in.
[OP's reasoning makes sense! Everything connects now!]
[Su Yang always manages to sink below my lowest expectations. He dumped Chen Ruxue himself, so why does he keep going on about her being his white moonlight?]
[Chen Ruxue is something else, too. She still dared to stay with Su Yang after that. She must not have been able to find anyone else.]
[I hope those two stay locked together and don't come out to ruin anyone else's life.]
Watching the netizens grow increasingly indignant, Ye Jin lay back on the bed in satisfaction.
[Sure enough, it's more fun cursing that old bastard with everyone else. Ranting alone is just too lonely!]
Lin Xiwen had thought she would no longer hear Ye Jin's thoughts once she left, but after washing up and lying on the large bed in her bedroom to sleep, she heard Ye Jin's muttering thoughts again!
They weren't as clear as before, but she could indeed hear them.
After some testing, Lin Xiwen discovered that the range within which she could hear Ye Jin's thoughts was roughly one hundred meters. The closer she was, the clearer they became, and the bedrooms in their two courtyards happened to fall just within that range.
Lin Xiwen always went to bed early and paid close attention to her health. She had planned to sleep in another room, but as she listened to the novel's plot unfolding in Ye Jin's mind, she no longer wanted to sleep at all!
They were actually living in the world of an old-school dog-blood novel? Her entire family and Zhou Wanqing were the vicious villains?