Chapter 34: What Really Happened Between You and My Mother

“What’s it got to do with you?” Old Madam Ruan shot her a glare.

The next second, Ruan Jie was pulled back by her mother, Madam Shen Qing. “Come back, darling.”

Of all the women in the family, Shen Qing was the most overlooked, and her daughter Ruan Jie held little status as well—kind-hearted, but her words carried no weight.

“Mom…”

“Come back now!”

Ruan Cha stood in the midst of the crowd, her expression indifferent from beginning to end, not a trace of emotion in her eyes. When everyone had finished speaking, she lifted her gaze, calm and cold, and looked straight into Ruan Yingzhe’s eyes. “So what you’re all saying is that my mother drugged you and forced you into that situation?”

Ruan Yingzhe felt a chill down his spine under her gaze. Yet…

In order to push all responsibility for his infidelity onto Ruan Cha’s mother, he could only stick to this story.

“That’s right! Your mother’s like a leech, shameless. She knew I didn’t like her, but still threw herself at me…”

“Is that so?” Ruan Cha let out a cold laugh, her fists tightening at her sides. “So it’s you who spread the word all over Mo City that my mother is shameless!”

She pressed her lips together, a faint smile lifting the corners of her mouth.

Her eyes, beautiful when they curved, now held a chill that made others shiver.

“I’ll give you one more chance—are you saying my mother drugged you?” Ruan Cha’s voice was sharp, every word clearly articulated, the tone rising with each syllable, stabbing Ruan Yingzhe with an inexplicable sense of dread.

“Why would I lie about something like that?” Ruan Yingzhe could never reveal the truth—otherwise, he wouldn’t last a day in the Ruan family.

“In that case…” Ruan Cha looked at him with contempt, then, calm and composed, pulled a thin, transparent patch from her pocket.

No one saw what she was holding.

She walked up to Ruan Yingzhe, raised her hand, and lightly patted his neck, her tone arrogant and fearless. “Really?”

“You wretched girl! How dare you treat your father like that?!” Old Madam Ruan was incensed by Ruan Cha’s action and barked at her.

Ruan Cha didn’t spare her a glance. “Ruan Yingzhe, have you ever heard of the invisible wave lie detector developed by the Q7 Institute this year?”

“What?” Ruan Yingzhe didn’t understand her at first.

“I just attached the sensor to you. The control system is on my phone. If you lie, my phone will sound the alarm. So I’ll ask you again—what really happened between you and my mother?”

Ruan Yingzhe didn’t believe a word of it. This little girl—even if the Q7 Institute had developed a lie detector like that, how could she possibly get her hands on it?

What a joke.

“Ruan Cha, do you take me for a fool? No matter how many times you ask, it was your shameless mother who drugged me and trapped me!”

No sooner had he finished speaking than a piercing, shrill sound erupted from Ruan Cha’s phone.

Everyone in the room jumped in fright.

Ruan Yingzhe froze on the spot.

“You just lied,” Ruan Cha said calmly, looking at him. “Still not ready to tell the truth? If you lie more than three times before I remove the invisible detector, I’ll operate the system myself… and then it will explode.”

Ruan Yingzhe panicked, remembering how Ruan Cha had just tapped his neck. He quickly reached up to feel it, but found nothing.

“You wretched girl! How dare you do this to me!” Ruan Yingzhe’s face turned beet red.

If he knew nothing about the Q7 Institute, he might have ignored her, but unfortunately, that invisible wave lie detector was a hot project eyed by many major companies this year.

“So what really happened between you and my mother?”

Ruan Cha asked again.