At this moment, the public opinion completely exploded!
"Oh my god! It's a reversal! The entire Du family are villains!"
"So, did Du Xixi, knowing she was about to be arrested, try to drag others down with her and deliberately frame Meng Ruozhao and Young Master Pei?"
"The official refutation is the most lethal! There was no poison at all! I said she looked full of energy at that time."
"I knew it! Young Master Pei wouldn't be stupid enough to use such a method!"
"Then why did the Du family target Meng Ruozhao like this? Isn't she also a member of the Du family?"
Just as netizens were confused, an old man who claimed to be a former senior executive of Du Group and had been favored by Meng Ruozhao's grandfather bravely stepped forward.
He accepted an interview from the media and revealed the long - buried truth.
It turned out that the predecessor of Du Group was an industry founded by Meng Ruozhao's grandfather's Meng family.
It mainly included several well - performing clothing factories and several gold shops.
Du Feng was from a poor family, but he was a college classmate of Meng Yu, the only daughter of the Meng family. They fell in love and got married.
Meng Yu's parents valued Du Feng's ability and gradually handed the company over to him to manage.
Not long after Meng Ruozhao was born, Meng Yu's parents passed away due to illness one after another.
Devastated by grief, Meng Yu's physical and mental state deteriorated. She gradually withdrew from the company's management and left everything to Du Feng.
However, after gaining power and wealth, Du Feng's mentality gradually distorted.
He began to think that he had built the company up, but it still carried the name "Meng's". There were always people secretly laughing at him as a "son - in - law who married into the wife's family".
So he kept several mistresses outside. Xia Lian was one of them and the most favored one.
Before long, instigated by Xia Lian, he started to subject his gentle and kind original wife, Meng Yu, to long - term mental oppression and cold violence.
Meng Yu was already depressed because of her parents' death. Under her husband's betrayal and mental torture, she finally fell to her death from the balcony of her home on a rainy night.
At that time, it was publicly announced that she had accidentally fallen to her death due to emotional instability, but many insiders had their doubts.
Not long after Meng Yu's death, Du Feng couldn't wait to rename "Meng Group" to "Du Group".
Moreover, less than two months after Meng Yu's death, he quickly married Xia Lian, who had already given birth to an illegitimate son, Du Changlin.
Some old employees in the company who were loyal to the Meng family were either fired by Du Feng on false pretexts or voluntarily resigned in despair.
The senior executive who came out to expose the truth was one of those who was about to resign because of his disappointment.
But just before he submitted his resignation letter, he accidentally learned a piece of news -
Meng Ruozhao, the only bloodline of Meng Yu left in the world, had "accidentally gone missing"!
Filled with suspicion, he endured humiliation and stayed. He had been secretly keeping an eye out for news of Meng Ruozhao.
Later, through Meng Yu's old friends, he learned of Meng Ruozhao's whereabouts in France.
He deliberately revealed the news to Du Feng, hoping that he would take her back for the sake of father - daughter relationship.
He had hoped that the adult Meng Ruozhao would come back to take back what belonged to her mother, but he didn't expect that she would return in a state of amnesia...
This exposure was like a bomb dropped into deep water, instantly igniting the anger of all netizens.
"Damn it! This is a real - life story of a poor man rising to power, killing his wife and seizing property!"
"It's so disgusting! Du Feng and Xia Lian are simply inhuman!"
"So Meng Ruozhao's 'disappearance' back then was definitely their plan, right?!"
"Du Xixi and Du Changlin, the illegitimate children of the mistress, where do they get the nerve to bully the daughter of the original wife?!"
"Thinking about it makes one shudder! Mrs. Meng Yu's death may not have been an accident, right?!"
"I said this Du Feng must be a bit crazy. He doesn't love the young mistress, his original wife, but likes that mistress? Du Xixi probably isn't even Du Feng's child."
"Because Xia Lian gave birth to a son for him. Some men have very serious son - preference ideas."
"Hey, according to reliable insider information, Du Changlin is not even Du Feng's child."
"What? Elaborate, please..."
The anger of public opinion completely shifted, and the four members of the Du family were widely condemned.
Just then, a processed recording began to circulate on the Internet -
It was the content of the four members of the Du family biting each other in order to save their own skins in the abandoned factory that day.
In the recording, they admitted personally how they had conspired to trick the ten - year - old Meng Ruozhao into a car.
They also admitted how they had pushed her off a mountain road and arranged for human traffickers to sell her to the mountains.
The content was shocking and corroborated with the senior executive's exposure, becoming iron - clad evidence to nail down the Du family's crimes.
At this point, the four members of the Du family were completely nailed to the pillar of shame in history and would never be able to redeem themselves.
The whole network was filled with sympathy and apologies for Meng Ruozhao, as well as condemnation of the Du family's heinous crimes.
All the slander that had been poured on her before was washed away by the truth one by one.
However, Meng Ruozhao, who was at the center of this storm, had endured countless malicious attacks and finally been cleared of all suspicions, was completely unaware of all this.
On an especially sunny afternoon, the sunlight was like broken gold, shining through the clean floor - to - ceiling windows and filling the room with warmth.
On the hospital bed, the person who had been in a coma for more than a hundred and twenty days fluttered her eyelashes like a butterfly's wings under several nervous and burning gazes.
Finally, she slowly and painfully opened her eyes a little.
The blurred light and shadow gradually gathered, and the world emerged from the chaotic darkness, revealing a white ceiling.
Her vision seemed a bit scattered. After trying hard to focus, a face clearly came into her view.
It was an extremely handsome face.
Even though it was now full of exhaustion, with dark circles under his eyes and a messy stubble on his chin, it still couldn't hide his profound features and noble temperament.
However, the ecstasy on this face and the fragility that was like a drowning man grabbing a floating log seemed a bit strange and confusing to her.
Pei Jiangmu, who had been guarding the bedside, almost stopped breathing the moment Meng Ruozhao opened her eyes.
Huge ecstasy swept over him like a tsunami, shattering all the fear, despair and pain that had been building up in him for more than a hundred days.
His Zhaozhao was awake! His light had finally returned!
He was so excited that his whole body trembled slightly.
Then, almost holding his breath, he carefully leaned closer. His voice was choked with sobs and filled with extreme tenderness and caution for fear of disturbing her.
"Zhaozhao... Are you awake? How do you feel? Do you feel uncomfortable anywhere?"
He reached out his hand, wanting to touch her cheek, but was afraid that this was just a fragile dream.
However, seeing his approaching movement and the overly surging emotions in his eyes, Meng Ruozhao subconsciously frowned slightly.
She opened her mouth. Her throat was dry and tight from long - term disuse, and the voice she made was weak and hoarse.
"Who... are you?"
These simple three words were like three thunderbolts carrying immense power, striking Pei Jiangmu's head without warning.
In an instant, all the ecstasy, excitement and tenderness on his face quickly dissipated like the ebbing tide.
All that was left was a deathly pale face and an expression of disbelief.
He froze there, his outstretched hand hanging in mid - air as if instantly frozen.
Was he... hearing things?
She asked... who he was?