You're dumping me, huh? Fine, then I'll just pick up the school beauty and make her my wif

The noodles they ordered were served quickly.

Jiang Che's bowl of beef noodles was glistening with red oil, sprinkled with chopped cilantro, and the steam hit his face as soon as he got close.

Su Qinghe's small bowl of beef noodles looked much more delicate, and she didn't ask for much spice; it was basically a clear broth with a few thin slices of beef on top, the edges of which were lightly pink.

Jiang Che broke the chopsticks apart, stirred the noodles in the bowl twice, and the noodles tangled on the chopsticks. He blew on them a couple of times and then stuffed them into his mouth.

One word: hot.

The heat made him wince and hiss, while he mumbled a warning to Su Qinghe beside him: "Hey, don't eat yet, this noodle is a bit hot, let it cool down a bit before you eat it."

But in fact, Su Qinghe didn't touch her chopsticks at all; she was staring blankly at the noodles in her bowl, lost in thought.

After blowing on the noodles again, Jiang Che took another big bite and entered into a pleasant slurping session.

After slurping twice, Jiang Che noticed out of the corner of his eye that the noodles in front of Su Qinghe hadn't been touched, so he gently tapped the back of her hand with the end of his chopsticks.

"Teacher Su, hurry up and eat, the noodles are getting soggy."

Su Qinghe blinked, as if she had just been pulled back from somewhere, picked up her chopsticks and poked at the bowl twice, picked up a noodle, and then put it down.

"Who exactly is this Sister Wang...?"

Jiang Che continued slurping his noodles, casually replying, "You eat first, I'll tell you after you're done."

Upon hearing this, Su Qinghe looked up at him in surprise: "You found out?"

"You eat first."

How could he possibly have information about Sister Wang in just a few minutes?

But Jiang Che had no choice. If he didn't trick Su Qinghe like this, he probably wouldn't be able to eat in peace.

Upon hearing this, Su Qinghe pursed her lips, finally picked up a piece of noodles with her chopsticks, blew on it, and began to eat it in small bites.

Seeing that she had started eating, Jiang Che continued to eat as well.

I had only taken a few bites when my phone suddenly vibrated in my pocket.

Jiang Che took out his phone and saw that it was a message from Lu Ziang. After opening it, he swiped up the screen twice, and his gaze slowly froze.

It's true what they say, speak of the devil and he appears.

Su Qinghe noticed the change in his expression, her chopsticks stopping in mid-air as she asked, "What's wrong?"

Jiang Che didn't answer. He scrolled down to the next page and looked at it carefully before turning his phone over and placing it in front of Su Qinghe: "Take a look at this."

Su Qinghe leaned closer to take a look and saw a rather detailed survey report on the screen.

The top photo shows a woman in her early forties with short hair, high cheekbones, and tightly pursed lips.

He looks like the kind of person who's not easy to talk to.

"Who is this person?" Su Qinghe scrolled down.

"Wang Lihua, Ye Yunjin's assistant, is the Sister Wang that Ding Siyu mentioned."

Su Qinghe's finger stopped on the screen.

Jiang Che had almost finished eating, so he simply pushed the bowl aside and rested his elbow on the table to make his arm holding the phone a little more relaxed.

"These are messages that Lu Ziang just sent me. This Wang Lihua has been helping Ye Yunjin run an MCN company in mainland China. She has signed more than 20 internet celebrities and is best at manipulating media and public opinion."

"Those smear posts on the forum, and Ding Siyu's live stream today, were all arranged by her behind the scenes."

After he finished speaking, he stared at Su Qinghe, expecting her to have a more obvious reaction.

But Su Qinghe simply placed her chopsticks on the edge of the bowl, her expression surprisingly calm.

She lowered her eyelids and stared at the scallions floating on the noodle soup for a while, pondering for a long time before slowly saying, "So the Ye family was behind this?"

Jiang Che nodded. "Looking at it this way, it should be."

"But this Wang Lihua..." Su Qinghe paused, a hint of doubt appearing between her brows, "The way she does things doesn't seem to be at Ye Yunjin's behest."

"How so?"

"First of all, Ye Yunjin is still my biological mother. No matter what, she wouldn't go so far as to have someone harm her own daughter."

"Besides Ye Yunjin, the only other person from the Ye family who is at odds with us is Ye Qingru."

"Ye Qingru will definitely complain after she returns to the Ye family."

Su Qinghe returned the phone to Jiang Che, picked up the teacup on the table, took a sip, and continued her analysis: "Wang Lihua is Ye Yunjin's person, so it's possible that she also obeys other members of the Ye family."

"Ye Qingru complained to her elders, and the elders arranged for Wang Lihua to take revenge on me. That makes sense."

"But such underhanded tactics..." She shook her head. "I really don't think this is the way a large family operates."

Or perhaps the Ye family is capable of doing such a thing. After all, she has no connection with the Ye family and it's normal that she doesn't know anything about them.

Jiang Che also felt that Su Qinghe's words made a lot of sense. He also felt that Ye Yunjin, as Su Qinghe's mother, and who had always wanted Su Qinghe to return to the Ye family, would naturally not do something that would alienate the mother-daughter relationship.

Isn't that just plain stupid?

However, Jiang Che did not entirely agree with Su Qinghe's point of view. "Under normal circumstances, as Ye Yunjin's assistant, Wang Lihua would most likely only be under Ye Yunjin's command."

"Think about it. Suppose you were Ye Yunjin's assistant. You're just a lowly employee. Ye Yunjin is the one who pays your salary. What does it have to do with the rest of the Ye family?"

"Unless the Ye family gives you a huge sum of money, like hundreds of millions, it seems unnecessary for you to meddle in other people's business, right?"

"And why couldn't we just find anyone to do this job? Why did we have to find Ye Yunjin's assistant?"

Su Qinghe was taken aback. "A-Che, you mean... you think Ye Yunjin is the mastermind?"

Jiang Che looked into her eyes and immediately saw through her doubts, "You think Ye Yunjin wouldn't resort to such methods against you, right?"

Su Qinghe neither nodded nor shook her head, but said, "Haven't she always wanted to bring me back to the Ye family? There's no need for her to go through all this trouble and wage a propaganda war. It doesn't seem to benefit her in achieving her ultimate goal."

"Moreover, Ye Yunjin is always very particular about her actions. She doesn't do dirty work, or if she were to do something dirty, she would use someone else to do it, and she would never let dirty things get involved with herself."

As she spoke, she herself became a little dazed.

She seemed to know quite a lot about Ye Yunjin; these impressions surprised even herself when they popped into her head.

But there's really nothing strange about it. Before that, she and A-Che were practically surrounded by enemies, with a whole host of troubles waiting for them.

In order to develop corresponding plans for each of her enemies, she secretly studied these adversaries extensively.

For example, Liu Wei, Jiang Dahe, and Ye Yunjin.