Bai Lianhua limped slowly to the class clearly feeling her weakness and vowed never to decrease her stats again. She was now as weak as a 10-year-old child - but she chose it herself and she could only work harder to get more points. She thought about cooperation with the Yue family again - they don't know that their daughter has reconciled with Wu Chenren nor do they know Mei Qinghua's plans. As they say, the enemy of an enemy is temporarily a friend.
Using her rudimentary hacking skills, Bai Lianhua got access to Yue Hai's phone. Yue Hai is the current head of the Yue family. She sent him an alarmist text with her analysis of the current situation with videos of what happened and physical evidence of Wu Chenren's confession to her. She chuckled and wanted to know how Wu Chenren would feel knowing what he wrote with his own hands would come back to bite him. The last thing she said was that she would like to cooperate because Mei Qinghua is also scheming against her. Mei Qinghua was solved. Now it was time to think about Wu Chenren more.
The most important thing to him is being the heir - this can be seen by the fact that he immediately started wooing Yue Linlan after his position became unstable. So Bai Lianhua would deprive him of rights.
She searched on the web and found some of Wu Chenren's rivals - his older brothers who were already in the company. She sent them video evidence of his crimes of contracting gangsters, sent evidence of his confession to her. She was sure they would go to Yue family to convince them to support someone else. This family only cares about benefits so it wouldn't matter. They were going to drop him once before - it wouldn't matter if they did it twice. There were many other capable potential sons-in-law that could bring more money and prestige.
After doing that, she relaxed and started paying more attention to her classes. There were six months left until the high school examination and she wanted to do well. As reiterated earlier, she was still No.20 of the class and now she spent most of her time in the library, in the teacher's office and in and out of tutor's homes.
She didn't forget the ball either.
She went out shopping with Mei Qinghua on the weekend and bought some expensive jewellery and shoes - all of which were similar to Yue Linlan's choices. After that shopping date, Bai Lianhua went out again and bought exactly the opposite jewellery and shoes. She had a hunch that anything she did with Mei Qinghua would be a trap and she didn't want to blindly believe that nothing was going on.
Mei Qinghua was even generous and sent a dress free of charge. Bai Lianhua went out with Mom Hu and got a completely different dress in addition to the one that was sent.
As the days went by and the ball was approaching, she started dieting to remove water weight and took more care of her skin. She went to bed earlier and lived on vegetables and water. She even went to the gym more often to tone her body up.
She lived a fulfilling life but others were not so comfortable.
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Wu Chenren didn't know why, but suddenly, his father drove him out of the house and his marriage contract with Yue Linlan was broken. What was even more annoying was that he did an investigation on his girlfriend and found out that she had multiple boyfriends and she even dressed differently with them. With one, she wore a mini-skirt and looked very playful, with him, she wore long skirts and looked gentle and elegant, with another, she looked very sexy and even showed cleavage. He was very disgusted and annoyed with the whole matter.
His mother gave him a side villa to live in and invited a cleaning and cooking aunt for him but that was it. He was the only one in the house and he was very lonely.
He kept wondering what it was that he did to deserve this treatment. Wasn't he the heir?
He tried to go back to the main house but the butler wouldn't let him in. He also tried to contact his mother but she was very impatient with him.
"Son, you have done a stupid thing. Remember how your grandfather told you we needed funding from the Yue family? Your acts have put the company in a direct crisis - everyone is running around trying to borrow money and no one wants to lend. Not only that, the Yue family already announced that Yue Linlan would be married to that boy from the Si family. So you are a scourge, not only did you bring bad luck but you also indirectly drove your own inheritance to the ground. I hope you are happy!"
Wu Chenren couldn't believe it - was everything he did for nothing?
But there was no medicine for regret. He took out an invite to a ball that was sent to him anonymously and he felt very determined in his heart. Didn't he have good looks? Wasn't he popular? He can find another fiancée! Just for himself of course - he didn't care about his family at all. Since they abandoned him, he would abandon them as well.
He quickly arranged the money he had and was surprised to see that he wasn't too poor! He had about $1,000,000 which was deposited into his account when he was born. This was enough for anyone to live well but for him, it was a drop in the bucket. He used to be driven to school in cars that cost even more. You must know it is much harder for people who are rich to suddenly become poor - the disparity in lifestyles cause many people to commit suicide.
Wu Chenren bought a suit and waited for the day of the ball to come. He thought about inviting his cheap 'girlfriend' as a plus one but decided against it. That woman was too beautiful and he wanted to find his future wife at the ball. He suddenly laughed thinking that he had become a modern-day cinderella except that he was male.
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Yue Linlan was clamouring for Wu Chenren to be reinstated as her husband. Mom Yue gave her big slaps and confined her to her bedroom saying that disobedient children don't need to come out of the house.
Later, her mom moved her to a villa for confinement and asked the school for leave for about half a month to deal with personal issues. Then etiquette teachers were stuffed in the house and from morning until evening, Yue Linlan was lectured until she was going crazy. She stifled down her resentment and rebelliousness and became a robot.
Mom Yue was satisfied and then she gave her an invitation to the ball.
"Yue Linlan - let me remind you that you are replaceable - you're not the only one who is vying to be our adopted daughter. Many people want to be but they don't have that chance. Only you have it. So enjoy it while you still can otherwise you might become poor in one breath again."
Yue Linlan knew this was true. She followed everything because she didn't want to be poor. Even if she is sad or angry, she would at least have money.