Ji Xinyue's head was buzzing from the slap. Before she could react, her hair was grabbed the next moment, forcing her to raise her head. When she opened her eyes, she found that the one beating her was actually her own father. She burst into tears.
"Dad, why did you hit me?"
"Hit you? I'm going to beat you to death today! It's all because of you that our Ji family has fallen to this state! Only by beating you to death can I vent my hatred!"
After saying that, he slapped her across the face again.
Ji Xinyue's teeth were loosened, and her mouth was full of blood. She cried, "What did I do wrong for you to beat me? It has nothing to do with me. It was clearly you, Dad, who couldn't control yourself and had affairs with those women, and were photographed. That's why people dug into my past. Otherwise, I would have become a well - known big star across the country!"
"Because of me? I'll just ask you, do you know a journalist named Li Mao?"
Li Mao? Ji Xinyue covered her face, which was swollen like a pig's head, and shook her head blankly.
Seeing that she refused to admit it, Ji Keshuang sneered. He grabbed her and pressed her in front of the computer screen. Then he said to Ji Xinzhe, who was standing beside, coldly watching his sister being beaten,
"Play the video we just received for her!"
Ji Xinzhe coldly pressed the Enter key. The picture on the computer screen jumped, and a bearded middle - aged man appeared. He smiled at the camera and said,
"Hello, everyone. My name is Li Mao. I used to be a publicist under Siji Entertainment. Then I quit Siji Entertainment and became a journalist at Guangzhao Daily. I believe you must be investigating who is trying to take down your Ji family. Well, it's me."
Seeing the man's face, Ji Xinyue's pupils suddenly shrank, and she was so shocked that she couldn't even close her mouth.
"I took the photos of Chairman Ji in bed. However, at first, I didn't want the Ji family to go bankrupt. I just wanted to use these photos to blackmail Chairman Ji and get some money. After all, prices have risen so much these days. The two million yuan Miss Ji gave me back then has long been spent. But I didn't expect netizens to be so gossipy and powerful. They dug out all the dirty things about your family. Hahaha, it's really hilarious."
The man in the video laughed heartily for a while before he contained his smile.
"Miss Ji, how does it feel to be manipulated, coerced, and overwhelmed by public opinion? Do you feel like you just want to die? Chairman Ji, let me tell you. Your Ji family has ended up like this all thanks to your daughter. If you want to know why, just ask her yourself."
The video ended here.
Ji Keshuang grabbed Ji Xinyue's hair forcefully and asked viciously, "He said I should ask you. So I'm asking you. What on earth is going on? What's that two million yuan? What dirty deeds did you do with this man?"
Afraid that his slap would land on her face again, Ji Xinyue didn't dare to hide anything anymore. She said, "Four years ago, I gave him two million yuan to take photos of Yuan Xi in bed and then release them to completely ruin Yuan Xi!"
"Yuan Xi?" Everyone in the Ji family was stunned. Ji Xinzhe said, "The adopted daughter of the Yuan family? So it was you who hired someone to take that photo of her in the hotel? Why did you go after her?"
"Yes!" Thinking of this name, Ji Xinyue's expression became distorted again because of jealousy. "She just comes from an ordinary family. Just because she was wrongly taken in by the Yuan family, she has enjoyed all the good things. Which aspect of me, Ji Xinyue, is inferior to her in terms of height, appearance, or talent? But she has always suppressed me and snatched countless opportunities to shine from me. She even wanted to marry Yan Zhen and become the granddaughter - in - law of the Yan family? Continue to suppress me for the rest of her life? Well, I won't let her get what she wants!"
"What else did you do besides hiring someone to take photos?" Ji Keshuang pressed.
Ji Xinyue averted her gaze. She didn't dare to say more. This plan involved not only her but also Yuan Ya'er and the helper Yuan Ya'er hired. It was said that the person was a psychopath. If he knew that she had revealed Yuan Ya'er and him, she would be killed by that person!
"That's all. I was just responsible for hiring someone to take the photos and making the news public."
Ji Keshuang's face showed a fierce look. He said, "You should have told me about this back then. If you had told me, we wouldn't have left Li Mao as a future trouble. And you even gave him two million yuan? I would have directly made him disappear from this world! But now, he has ruined the foundation of our Ji family!"
"What should we do now? What does Li Mao want by sending this video? Does he want money? How much does he want?" Ji Xinyue grabbed the corner of Ji Keshuang's clothes. "Dad, let's give him the money. Since all this started because of him, let him come out and clarify that those photos were all photoshopped by him!"
As if to answer her words, as soon as she finished speaking, Ji Keshuang's phone suddenly rang.
The sound was a bit creepy in this environment. Ji Keshuang looked at the incoming call. It was a strange number. After hesitating for a while, he answered it and pressed the speakerphone.
"Miss Ji, you're wrong. I don't want money." The voice that came from the phone was actually Li Mao's voice from the video just now. This startled everyone in the Ji family. They panicked and looked around, but they couldn't figure out anything.
"How do you know what we're talking about? Are you a ghost?" Ji Xinyue stammered. She had already been so frightened by the howling outside the window that she was on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
"Then what do you want?" Ji Keshuang asked sharply.
"The person behind me said that what he wants is for the entire Ji family to pay the price for what Miss Ji did to Yuan Xi back then. He wants the Ji family to completely disappear from Fengcheng."
The person behind him? Who was behind him? Who wanted the Ji family to disappear from Fengcheng? Who had the ability to make the Ji family disappear from Fengcheng?
While Ji Keshuang was frowning and thinking, Ji Xinyue had already analyzed the identity of that person from this information. She opened her eyes in disbelief.
"I... I may know who that person is."
Ji Keshuang quickly asked, "Who is it!"
"It's Mr. Yan San!"
In Haicheng.
When the phone rang urgently, Yan Yincheng was standing in the living room, asking the bodyguard to wrap two sandbags weighing about 10 kilograms in total around his waist.
A Biao walked towards him with the phone and handed him the earphone.
After answering the phone, Yan Yincheng heard Ji Keshuang's voice in his ear. "Yan San, what do you want to do to let the Ji family go? Give me a definite answer."
The sandbags were finally firmly wrapped around his waist. From the side, it could be seen that there was a bulge in his abdomen, looking like he was pregnant. Feeling the faint weight, Yan Yincheng began to walk slowly in the room.
"Who is this?" he said coldly.