What Fu Yan Ting didn't expect was that Lin Qian would strike first.
Fu Yan Ting was preparing to move against the Lin family, intending to eradicate them completely, leaving them no chance to recover and ensuring Lin Qian could no longer trouble them.
However, Fu Yan Ting had overlooked Lin Qian's combativeness.
Lin Qian actually went to Fu Corporation to cause a scene.
At the entrance of Fu Corporation, numerous reporters were gathered. These were reporters who had a good relationship with Lin Qian previously. This time, on Lin Qian's behalf, they were there to interview Fu Yan Ting.
Rather than an interview, it was more like an attack on Fu Yan Ting, orchestrated by Lin Qian.
How could Fu Yan Ting not know that this was all a play staged by Lin Qian?
When Fu Yan Ting appeared at the company entrance, Lin Qian was preparing to commit suicide.
She held a fruit knife to her throat.
Upon seeing Fu Yan Ting, Lin Qian, with tear-filled eyes, pleaded, "Yan Ting, although your father and I are divorced due to irreconcilable differences, my love for you over these years is undeniable. I know the Fu family must be speaking ill of me, but I've tried my best to make amends. Why are you treating me like this?"
After speaking, Lin Qian, in tears, produced all the evidence she had of Fu Yan Ting causing the Lin family to go bankrupt.
Lin Qian wasn't hysterical; she merely pleaded. Even now, she and the Lin family were the victims, yet Lin Qian was still portraying herself as wronged.
Lin Qian's actions pushed Fu Yan Ting's perceived filial impiety to the forefront, making him a target of public scrutiny.
Fu Yan Ting frowned. Even at this point, Fu Yan Ting didn't want to make Lin Qian appear too disgraced.
He walked up to Lin Qian and said in a volume audible only to them, "Let's talk."
Lin Qian gave Fu Yan Ting a cold glance and quietly replied, "Alright."
Fu Yan Ting and Lin Qian moved aside. Lin Qian had initially assumed that with the situation escalating to this extent, Fu Yan Ting wanting to talk meant he was compromising with her.
After all, Fu Yan Ting was the face of the Fu family and paid great attention to such matters.
But Lin Qian never expected that Fu Yan Ting would actually be threatening her.
Fu Yan Ting looked at Lin Qian and said coldly, "You'd better tell those reporters the truth and stop spouting nonsense here. Otherwise, I won't hesitate to expose you myself."
"Yan Ting, I was wrong. I had no other choice. It's harder than reaching the heavens to get a meeting with you."
Lin Qian looked at Fu Yan Ting, her expression turning extremely ugly. She pleaded desperately, hoping Fu Yan Ting would give her a chance and not hold it against her, given she was his birth mother.
Fu Yan Ting knew very well that Lin Qian was in a vulnerable position. If Fu Yan Ting were to press her on certain points, Lin Qian would lose credibility in front of the reporters and would never be able to establish herself in high society again.
In reality, Lin Qian was a very intelligent woman. She knew exactly what was beneficial to her and what wasn't. However, in front of Fu Yan Ting, Lin Qian was feigning ignorance.
Fu Yan Ting, however, was not overly concerned about Lin Qian. He simply didn't want these matters to affect Yan Xi and their child.
After all, Yan Zi Tong was still a child and had to go to school. He worried that these events might cause him harm.
"I'll give you three minutes to clarify things with those reporters."
As soon as Fu Yan Ting finished speaking, Lin Qian nodded, turned around, and faced the reporters. She suddenly knelt before Fu Yan Ting, crying profusely, and pleaded, "Son, I know I was wrong. Can you forgive me this once? I know you've always hated me and the Lin family, but regardless, I gave you life. Can you not be so cruel to us?"
Fu Yan Ting looked at Lin Qian, a slight smile on his lips.
Fu Yan Ting knew exactly what kind of person Lin Qian was. When he gave Lin Qian this last chance, he had seemingly anticipated this outcome.
However, Fu Yan Ting told himself that if Lin Qian truly acted as he had instructed this time, he would give her that chance.
But Fu Yan Ting hadn't expected Lin Qian to be so duplicitous, saying one thing to his face and another behind his back.
Since Lin Qian wanted to escalate the situation, Fu Yan Ting would oblige her.
Fu Yan Ting stepped forward behind Lin Qian and released videos of all the times he had tried to approach Lin Qian over the years, only to be met with her sarcasm and rejection. Instantly, the scene descended into chaos.
Fu Yan Ting's lips curled upwards as he looked at Lin Qian. Lin Qian hadn't expected Fu Yan Ting to be so well-prepared.
By releasing these videos, Fu Yan Ting turned everything Lin Qian had just said to the reporters into a laughable joke.
Lin Qian suddenly realized that Fu Yan Ting was a devil; he was terrifying.
Honestly, Fu Yan Ting had no idea when these videos were recorded, but seeing the scenes on the screen, Lin Qian's face turned incredibly pale.
The reporters seized the opportunity to step forward and ask, "Mr. Fu, are the videos on your phone all real?"
Lin Qian was about to speak, but Fu Yan Ting's lips curved upwards.
What Lin Qian had intended to say was now impossible to utter.
Fu Yan Ting then revealed the charitable acts he had performed in Lin Qian's name over the years, and the charity work done by Lin Qian under the pseudonym Mu Qing, which was merely for show. Every time she was photographed, she would reclaim the donated funds.
Lin Qian had wondered why her actions had gone unpunished all these years.
In fact, every time Lin Qian reclaimed the money, Fu Yan Ting would donate again in Lin Qian's name.
Over the years, no matter how hostile Lin Qian's attitude towards him was, Fu Yan Ting had never intended to harm her.
But he hadn't expected that Lin Qian had been continuously harming him.
Harming him in the most brutal ways.
Thinking of this, Fu Yan Ting's lips curved upwards, a flicker of mockery in his eyes.
Lin Qian didn't understand what that smile meant. She just watched Fu Yan Ting smile, and the smile sent a chill down her spine.
Fu Yan Ting presented all the evidence of his donations made in Lin Qian's name. He also exposed the businesses he had personally helped the Lin family secure over the years, as well as those facilitated by Fu Corporation.
Following this, came the final revelations: Lin Qian's verbal abuse towards Fu Yan Ting, her threats to achieve her goals, and her insults towards Fu Yan Ting. All that evidence was laid bare before the reporters.
The crowd was stunned. Lin Qian's act of crying wolf was truly remarkable.
She, who had been the one hurting Fu Yan Ting all along, had managed to make it seem like Fu Yan Ting was the one harming her.