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This was a project their family currently had high hopes for. No one had seen the preliminary documents; they had been kept in his brother's study all along.

How could Wen Chuxue have pinpointed them so precisely?

He scoffed. "Don't tell me your way of getting our family to accept you is to bring our family down?????"

Song Shiwei blinked. [Well, damn, Jiang Ye's even learned to connect the dots. He actually guessed right. How did this love-brained fool suddenly get smart?! Wen Chuxue nearly choked to death holding those words in before she could even say them.]

[Jiang Ye, you absolutely have to believe her. What a wonderful thing, becoming the lucky daddy of someone else's kid.]

Jiang Ye: ...

He really had to thank Song Shiwei for that.

Wen Chuxue was instantly dumbfounded. She had never imagined Jiang Ye would wake up, or that the Jiang family would wake up.

Huo Xiuzhu had said absolutely nothing would go wrong tonight, and she had believed him.

She had also successfully entered Jiang Xun's study and found the important documents. But just as she was about to finish the job and slip away, someone who looked like a female ghost had drifted in, frightening her into screaming.

Then the Jiang family had come over.

Her face turned deathly pale in an instant, her lips trembling and her gaze darting about.

Seeing her like this, what was there left for Jiang Ye not to understand? Fury surged in his chest, and his fists clenched tightly. "There's something else I want to know. That competition back in college-was it you who leaked my idea so Huo Xiuzhu could win the gold prize?"

As Jiang Ye said this, even his voice trembled, carrying a barely perceptible trace of timidity.

Wen Chuxue's eyes suddenly widened, her face filled with panic. "No..."

"Miss Wen, here's a document you can take a look at." Jiang Xun unhurriedly handed over the documents he had prepared long ago.

He also tossed a copy into Jiang Ye's arms. "Take a look. These documents make for fascinating reading."

With a terrified expression, Wen Chuxue picked up the documents Jiang Xun handed her. The moment she opened them, she was dumbstruck. How did Jiang Xun have these chat logs?

There was even video evidence of her secretly copying information from Jiang Ye's computer.

Jiang Xun's evidence caught her completely off guard.

Song Shiwei was eagerly eating melons on the sidelines too. [Well, damn, this is absolutely top-tier! Honestly, hubby, how could you bring out so much evidence to show Jiang Ye exactly what kind of person his white moonlight is?]

[With all this evidence thrown in his face, how's Jiang Ye supposed to keep being a love-brained fool?]

[It seems Jiang Xun threw out this evidence back then too. Who would've thought Jiang Ye wouldn't believe him? Wen Chuxue even turned around and blamed Jiang Xun. From then on, Jiang Ye and Jiang Xun grew apart, and in the end, the brothers turned their weapons on each other.]

Hearing Song Shiwei's thoughts, Jiang Xun narrowed his eyes slightly. Jiang Ye really could be that brainless.

"Jiang Ye, all of this is fake! I love you!" Wen Chuxue grabbed Jiang Ye's shoulders anxiously, trying to make one last struggle.

"Do you think I should believe my brother or believe you?" For an instant, Jiang Ye's gaze turned dark.

"Jiang Ye, you have to believe me," Wen Chuxue cried in a panic. "I love you. How could I possibly..."

"Love me? Didn't you just say we were only friends? Now you love me?"

Song Shiwei burst out laughing, then quickly realized how inappropriate that was and instinctively covered her mouth.

[Oh my, how did this love-brained fool suddenly get smart?!]

[I'm dying. Did the shock knock some brains into him?!!]

Jiang Ye: ...

Now all he could do was lie flat and take the mockery.

"Enough. You're still making excuses with conclusive evidence right here. Do you think I'll still believe you?" The moment Jiang Ye saw Wen Chuxue's panicked expression, he understood everything.

Everything Song Shiwei had said was true. Wen Chuxue had been lying to him from beginning to end, treating him as a tool. Even her visit today had been to steal confidential information from the Jiang family for Huo Xiuzhu.

Yet he had foolishly thought Wen Chuxue had finally noticed him, and he had been beside himself with excitement. He had never imagined that, in Wen Chuxue's eyes, everything he had done might have been the actions of an idiot, as stupid as a pig.

He was nothing more than a stepping stone on Wen Chuxue and Huo Xiuzhu's road to romance. Their Jiang family would be buried alongside their love.

He was furious! Was he some kind of colossal sucker? Why should he meet an end like this?!

Song Shiwei shook her head, feeling a little regretful. [Wen Chuxue, just look at you. You've even jolted a love-brained fool awake. Honestly, what can I say!]

Jiang Ye felt the world spin before his eyes. He did not care about Wen Chuxue's past. He could even forgo any official status and treat her child as his own, as long as Wen Chuxue stayed faithfully by her side.

But why did Wen Chuxue disappoint him again and again, without even the slightest lingering attachment to him?

In Wen Chuxue's eyes, the feelings between them were not even worth as much as a single sentence from Huo Xiuzhu.

Why?! He had done nothing wrong in his life, so how had he ended up like this?

He accepted it. He admitted defeat. He no longer wanted to keep struggling in vain like this.

At that thought, a bitter smile involuntarily appeared on Jiang Ye's face. "Wen Chuxue, this is where we end. Get out of here! We're cutting all ties. I don't want this to turn too ugly for either of us."

Wen Chuxue had never expected Jiang Ye to say such things to her. Jiang Ye had always obeyed her every word and put her affairs first. As long as she coaxed him a little, he was even willing to acknowledge the child as his own. He could even break with his family for her. Yet now he was saying he wanted to end things with her?

"Jiang Ye! No, you can't leave. I love you! I was wrong. Let's start over." Wen Chuxue seized Jiang Ye's hand.

She tried to make one last struggle, but Jiang Ye did not spare him so much as a glance. He flung her hand away. "Your love disgusts me."