After establishing a relationship with Huo Yunchen, Jiang Wan's road to revenge is no longer a lonely one. They become the most tacit partners, one in the open, the other in the dark, together weaving a net to completely trap the Gu family.
Jiang Wan's next target was the marriage between Gu Hanshen and Jiang Rou, which had long been in name only but was still maintained by a marriage certificate.
She knew that for a wealthy family like the Gu family, which attached great importance to reputation, as long as Jiang Rou was still "Mrs. Gu", this scandal would not be over. And for Gu Hanshen, his marriage to a "murderer" was the biggest stain on his career.
What she had to do was to force the Gu family to tear up the engagement with their own hands.
Jiang Wan's first step was to accept an exclusive interview with a top domestic financial magazine.
This was the first time she faced the media publicly after her innocence was cleared.
During the interview, she did not cry about her five years in prison, nor did she curse her enemies for being ruthless and heartless. She was calm, rational and strong throughout the interview. She talked in detail about her plans for the future and her plan to establish a "Rebirth Fund" to help women who have suffered unjust treatment like her.
Her vision and magnanimity won the respect of everyone.
At the end of the interview, the reporter carefully asked a question that everyone was concerned about.
"Ms. Jiang, what do you think of Mr. Gu and your sister's marriage now?"
Jiang Wan was silent for a moment, then smiled faintly towards the camera.
"I think this should be a private matter between my sister and Mr. Gu. However," she changed the subject, her eyes becoming sharp, "as far as I know, after I was imprisoned, our Jiang family and my ex-fiancé's Gu Group reached a business cooperation worth hundreds of millions. Using my five years of freedom in exchange for a business marriage and the revival of the family, this deal, I think, is questionable both legally and morally."
She didn't say it directly, but she made the most crucial information clear.
——This marriage was not based on love, but a dirty deal built on her pain!
Once this interview was released, it once again caused an uproar.
Originally, some people sympathized with Gu Hanshen for being "cheated", but now, everyone has seen clearly that he is just a cold-blooded businessman. His marriage with the Jiang family was an ignominious exchange of interests from beginning to end.
The share price of Gu Group plummeted again.
When Gu's mother Zhou Peilan saw the report, she was so angry that she tore the magazine to pieces.
"This Jiang Wan, she wants to drive our Gu family to death!"
She immediately gave Gu Hanshen an ultimatum: "I don't care what method you use, divorce Jiang Rou, that jinx, immediately! My Gu family can't afford to lose this person!"
Gu Hanshen actually had this idea in mind. His marriage with Jiang Rou had become a dog-skin plaster that he couldn't get rid of.
He asked a lawyer to draft a divorce agreement and gave it to Jiang Rou.
The terms of the agreement were very harsh. Not only would Jiang Rou not get a penny of the Gu family's property, but even her own jewelry brand would be taken back because it was built on the Gu family's funding.
She will be left with nothing.
"I won't sign!" Jiang Rou looked at the agreement and tore it up like crazy. "Gu Hanshen, don't even think about dumping me like this! If I sign, I'll really have nothing!"
"Don't sign?" Gu Hanshen looked at her coldly, "Jiang Rou, don't forget that you are still on bail. If you don't cooperate, I have plenty of ways to make you live comfortably in prison."
His threat made Jiang Rou's body tremble like a sieve.
She knew that if Gu Hanshen said it, he could do it.
But she was unwilling to give up!
Just when the two were in a stalemate, Jiang Wan's second attack followed.
Huo Yunchen used his connections to find out all the details of the cooperation agreement between the Gu Group and the Jiang family. He anonymously exposed the most critical clauses - "the cooperation is based on the marriage between the Gu and Jiang families" - to the board of directors and several major shareholders of the Gu Group.
The shareholders were instantly furious!
They could not tolerate that the interests of the company were tied up in such a disgraceful scandal. They united and put pressure on Gu Hanshen, demanding that he deal with his family affairs immediately, otherwise, they would convene a board meeting and remove him from his position as president.
We are attacked from both inside and outside.
Gu Hanshen was forced into a desperate situation.
He no longer had any patience for Jiang Rou. He directly asked the bodyguard to control Jiang Rou, forcefully pressed her hand, and pressed her fingerprint on the divorce agreement.
The next day, Gu Group's official Weibo account released a brief statement:
"Mr. Gu Hanshen and Ms. Jiang Rou have officially dissolved their marriage today due to a breakdown in their relationship."
At this point, Jiang Wan personally destroyed their wealthy marriage, which they were so proud of.
What she didn't know was that in the women's prison that held mentally ill criminals, Jiang Rou watched the divorce news on TV, and the last bit of light in her eyes was completely extinguished.
She let out a shrill scream that was not like a human voice, and then went crazy.
Destroying Gu Hanshen and Jiang Rou's marriage was only part of Jiang Wan's journey of reckoning. She knew very well that the root cause of her tragedy was not only these two people, but also the parents who gave her life but pushed her into the abyss with their own hands.
Jiang Zhengming and Liu Xuemei were sentenced to one year in prison for harboring a criminal. Because of their age, they applied for probation. They thought that after the limelight passed, they could continue to be wealthy and idle as before.
However, Jiang Wan would not give them this opportunity.
She wanted to let everyone see the biased and selfish faces of this parental couple.
Under Huo Yunchen's arrangement, Jiang Wan hosted an online charity fundraising gala as the founder of the "Rebirth Fund". Many celebrities and media were invited to the gala to speak out for women who have suffered injustice.
Halfway through the evening, the host invited Jiang Wan to the stage to share her journey.
Jiang Wan, wearing a plain white dress, stood under the spotlight and calmly recounted her five years of experience. She did not overly express her emotions, but stated the facts objectively. However, the great pain hidden behind her calmness moved everyone present.
"Many people asked me what supported me through the darkest years. I think, in addition to the desire for innocence, there was also an obsession."
"I want to ask my parents," Jiang Wan's eyes penetrated the camera, as if looking directly at Jiang Zhengming and Liu Xuemei in front of the TV, "We are both your daughters, why, in your eyes, my value and my sister's value are so different?"
At this moment, a recording suddenly began playing on the big screen behind her.
That was the conversation their family had in the hospital after the car accident that year.
Liu Xuemei cried and said, "Wanwan, Rourou is in poor health. If she goes to prison, her life will be over! Please help your sister!"
Jiang Zhengming said in a heavy voice: "Han Shen is a loyal child. He will wait for you. The Jiang family cannot have two daughters ruined. You are the elder sister, so you should bear more responsibility."
Then, a copy of the agreement appeared on the screen. It was the cooperation agreement between the Jiang family and the Gu Group. Jiang Wan circled the clause "marriage is the prerequisite" in red.
"My parents used my five years of freedom to revive the family business. They used my innocence to secure my sister's marriage to a wealthy family."
Jiang Wan's voice, every word, was clearly transmitted throughout the entire venue and also spread across the Internet.
"They told me that an elder sister should give in to a younger sister. They told me that this is for the family. They told me that Gu Hanshen would wait for me."
"But they didn't tell me that this so-called 'sacrifice' was a carefully planned deal from beginning to end. I'm not their daughter. I'm just a commodity they use for trading."
The live broadcast room was in an uproar, with comments so dense that they almost covered the entire screen.
"Oh my god! These parents are such inhumane!" "I've seen son preference over daughter, but this is the first time I've seen such partiality to their daughter! It's outrageous!" "They're not parents, they're vampires!" "Ruining the life of the eldest daughter for the happiness of the younger daughter? How selfish!"
In the Jiang family villa, Jiang Zhengming and Liu Xuemei watched their daughter's cold accusation on TV and listened to their own words in the recording. Both of them looked deathly pale and their bodies were cold.
They didn't expect that Jiang Wan would nail them to the pillar of shame in such a decisive way.
Their phones were bombarded with calls from relatives, friends, business partners... everyone was questioning and cursing them. They didn't even dare to go out because their door was blocked by angry neighbors and reporters.
Overnight, they went from being the respected Mr. Jiang and Mrs. Jiang to being the unscrupulous parents that everyone hated.
He was disgraced and ruined.
This was the belated reckoning that Jiang Wan gave them.