Imperial Treasure
Chapter 224 - 165: Ye Jue, Living Up to His Name_2

Chapter 224: Chapter 165: Ye Jue, Living Up to His Name_2

He paused, then patted the astonished Ye Xiuling on the shoulder and smiled faintly, "If we really have to both suffer losses, we still have some leeway on our side. After all, society still clearly distinguishes between good and evil, between victims and perpetrators. Mr. Huah Jue will surely understand this distinction. But as for business reputation, people are extremely harsh. Who would trust a group leader who is unfilial, treacherous, and ruthless?"

"Just look at the expressions of these uncles and aunties right now," he added.

At that moment, the few people present indeed had very strange expressions as they looked at Ye Jue...

—I’ll never buy anything from your family again.

—Tianmei Group? What do they sell? I’ll search it up on Baidu when I get back...

Ten seconds later, the Ye brothers left quietly with their wives without saying a word.

Sui Yi glanced at the clock on the wall, picked up the pen from the doctor’s hand, swiftly signed his name, and turned to Jiang Yunxiu, saying, "Thank you."

"Mhm", Jiang Yunxiu didn’t say much, immediately leading the elderly lady and the others quickly to the operating room.

Sui Yi also followed with Ye Xiuling, and soon after, they sat down in the waiting area outside the operating room.

Ye Xiuling was silent for a long time, it took her a while to find her voice again and said, "Sui Yi, you know about my relationship with Ye Jue..."

She wasn’t foolish; from Sui Yi’s final threats and seeing that Ye Jue ultimately did not take any action against her, she was sure that Sui Yi had made some kind of unpleasant agreement with Ye Jue.

You don’t say, I don’t say, let’s just leave it at that.

It also brought her a glimmer of hope.

"Mhm," Sui Yi glanced at the bright red ’IN SURGERY’ sign above the operating room, blinked slightly, then turned to look at Ye Xiuling.

"Back then, Ye Jue didn’t take you away but handed you over to that gang leader, right?" he asked.

For some reason, Sui Yi’s casual tone somehow eased the chronic, poisonous hurt in Ye Xiuling’s heart from over the years, showing no shock, sympathy, or disdain...

But Ye Xiuling did not want such dirty affairs of hers to be known to the younger generation like Sui Yi...

"I..."

"Yes, or no," Sui Yi’s eyes could see through people’s hearts.

"Yes,"

Ye Xiuling gently wiped her face with one hand, a "yes" pierced through all the flimsy covers, tilting out all the unmentionable matters, a venting after the psychological defenses were dismantled, a common human reaction. Thus, Ye Xiuling slowly spoke, and Sui Yi quietly listened.

"It’s hard to imagine, right? He’s my own brother... He even drugged me and sent me there back then... Later... I stayed by that man’s side for three years, he eventually got tired of me and kicked me away... But what I didn’t expect was that I was already over two months pregnant, it wasn’t easy to have an abortion given the medical standards back then... I had no choice but to have the baby, but even that wasn’t easy... I later found a man, got married, had a child, and got my life back on track, though it was a poorer life, it was much better than before, I just always dared not return to the Ye family, afraid of encountering Ye Jue and being entangled by that man again..."

In fact, she didn’t elaborate on the hardships and difficulties; after all, a woman pregnant with someone else’s child living a happy life is less likely unless favored by fate. But if fate had favored her, Ye Xiuling wouldn’t have encountered such tragic incidents.

It seems her later husband also died in an accident, and her in-laws were not very welcoming.

It seems she was indeed not favored by fate.

After Ye Xiuling finished speaking, Sui Yi didn’t say much, just lowered his head to fiddle with the information sent by Gong Jiu, Gong Jiu’s network and intelligence system made him sigh, yet in just a moment, Ye Jue’s activities in Provincial City were thoroughly exposed, and as time went on, a wave of Ye Jue’s private dealings were also meticulously recorded.

—Perhaps this would become his trump card to shackle Ye Jue in the future.

However, Sui Yi didn’t like playing these lukewarm games... Such methods would make him too passive, the elderly lady could not withstand any unexpected threats... If you don’t strike, you must root it all out completely.

Sui Yi narrowed his eyes, thanked Gong Jiu, who asked no questions, only suggesting they meet up sometime...

She didn’t even know about the elderly lady’s situation, she might blow up when she found out.

"It seems they came for those treasures of the Ye family from years ago... If Ye Jue contacts you again, tell him that if the Ye family has anything, it’s not his turn to lay hands on. Everyone wants good stuff; maybe he should consider competing with the other players. If he has enough people willing to die... Otherwise, you could always dig up what’s under the Ye family’s ancestral tomb," Sui Yi said.

Ye Jue? Tianmei Group? They’re not enough to fill the gaps between Gong Jiu and Flower Demon’s arsenal, let alone Lin Feng’s kind who kills without blinking, or people like Ye Luanyun who play with non-humans...

For someone like Ye Jue who thinks he’s clever but hasn’t dealt with the Dark World, those things buried underground are untouchable.

At least, Sui Yi thought Gong Jiu and his circle weren’t qualified to touch them.

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Ye Xiuling now trusts Sui Yi immensely, even depending on her. This girl is so incredible, and even Ye Jue got KO’d with just a photo, elevating Sui Yi to a genius of high caliber in her eyes...

So when she heard Sui Yi mention that she had bought an apartment and would move in with the elderly lady after she was discharged, she wasn’t surprised at all. (To be continued. If you enjoy this work, you are welcome to vote on Qidian (qidian.com), your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please visit m.qidian.com to read.)