Era: You're asked to cook a home-style dish, but you cook Wellington.

Su Wanqing instructed Qian Liu to clear out all the media, and soon only a few people remained in the kitchen.

"What do you want to do, Su Wanqing? Do you want to hit me? If you dare to lay a finger on me, I'll report you to the family immediately."

Su Zhaoyang sensed something was wrong, but he still forced himself to stand tall and meet Su Wanqing's eyes without flinching.

"Hit you? You're dreaming. I'd find it dirty to hit you."

Su Wanqing snorted coldly, a disdainful smile appearing on her lips. Then she clapped her hands, and two people pushed in a large screen.

"What are you doing?"

The unease in Su Zhaoyang's heart grew stronger.

Su Wanqing smiled faintly and gently pressed a button on the remote control in her hand.

On the blank large screen, the projector suddenly lit up, playing a video taken from various angles showing Su Zhaoyang stirring up trouble among the crowd.

"Su Zhaoyang, I didn't realize you hated the Su family so much. You know this new project is key to the Su family's transformation, yet you still incite people to slander the Su family like this."

A huge wave of shock washed over Su Zhaoyang, and his eyes were filled with fear as he looked at Su Wanqing and Gao Yang.

"These two actually secretly filmed me when I wasn't looking."

He looked up, glanced around the kitchen, and confirmed that there were no cameras or anyone secretly filming him. He gritted his teeth and decided to just give up.

"What's wrong? You can't let people talk about what you're doing? That's Elder Cai. Do you dare say you don't know who he is? I'm doing this to protect the Su family. If it weren't for you, our Su family would have soared to new heights with this project."

"Furthermore, I just can't stand you all. What right does an illegitimate daughter have to come back and get so many resources from the family? What right does an outsider have to receive the old man's favor?"

Su Zhaoyang blurted out everything, and the entire room fell silent.

Gao Yang and Su Wanqing nodded, seemingly lost in thought.

"Hmm, I think what you said makes sense."

Gao Yang spoke slowly.

Su Zhaoyang: ???

"Is this thing going insane?"

He couldn't believe it.

However, Gao Yang's next sentence shattered all his illusions.

"Old man, come out."

Gao Yang's voice wasn't loud, but it clearly reached the ears of everyone in the kitchen.

The side door to the kitchen was gently pushed open, and a robust-looking old man with a dignified appearance slowly walked in.

This man exuded an aura of authority without needing to be angry; he was none other than Old Master Su, the head of the Su family.

His face was cold and his gaze was sharp as he stared straight at Su Zhaoyang, who was standing there dumbfounded. His disappointment and anger were undisguised.

Su Zhaoyang froze, his pupils contracted sharply, and the arrogance and resentment on his face instantly vanished. He was struck dumb, unable to move.

He never expected that the old man would be here too!

The old man heard every single word he blurted out!

"grandfather."

Su Zhaoyang's lips trembled, his face was as pale as paper, and his previous arrogant and reckless attitude vanished instantly.

His legs began to tremble uncontrollably, and he could barely speak.

"I was just talking nonsense, I didn't mean it, Grandpa, please believe me."

He then realized that everything from Su Wanqing clearing the area and playing the video to Gao Yang deliberately getting him to reveal his true feelings was a setup, designed to make him expose all his thoughts in front of the old man!

"It was you! You did it on purpose!"

Su Zhaoyang looked at Gao Yang, his eyes wide with fury.

His anger surged, and in a moment of impulsiveness, he wanted to rush up and hit Gao Yang.

"snort."

Grandpa Su tapped his cane on the ground and snorted coldly.

Two bodyguards immediately stepped forward and firmly restrained Su Zhaoyang, preventing him from advancing even an inch.

The old man slowly walked to the center, his gaze sweeping coldly over Su Zhaoyang, his voice low and carrying an unquestionable authority.

"Every word you just said was clear and distinct; it wasn't nonsense."

"I'm biased? I favor Wanqing and trust Gao Yang?"

The old man snorted coldly, looking at this good-for-nothing fellow with a tone full of disappointment.

"With her own abilities, Wanqing shouldered the heavy responsibility of transforming the Su family, devoted herself to this project, and did everything personally without ever slacking off."

"Gao Yang has real skills; he protected the kitchen and upheld the Su family's reputation. But what about you? All you do is fight amongst yourselves, collude with outsiders, and destroy your own foundation. Tell me, in what way are they not a hundred times better than you!"

Su Zhaoyang trembled all over and shook his head frantically.

"No, Grandpa, I didn't collude with outsiders; they're the ones slandering me."

"Slandering you?"

"You secretly contacted outsiders, targeted relatives, maliciously sabotaged the Su family's important projects, and attempted to frame them. There is evidence for every single one of these acts."

Su Wanqing's tone was icy. "You look like Su Zhaoyang, as if you were looking at a dead man."

"You keep saying it's for the Su family, but in reality it's driven by jealousy. For your own selfish interests, you're willing to damage the interests of the entire Su family, even disregarding Elder Cai's safety, and putting the Su family in a hopeless situation."

Gao Yang looked at Su Zhaoyang, whose face was ashen, and spoke calmly.

"We didn't want to get involved, but from the moment you barged in with reporters, your fate was sealed."

"Wanqing had long anticipated that you would resort to desperate measures, so she invited the old man over in advance to make you confess to everything you had done."

Su Zhaoyang collapsed to the ground, his eyes vacant, filled with despair.

He thought he was the one who orchestrated the whole thing, but little did he know that he had fallen into the other party's trap from the very beginning.

All the scheming and resentment were exposed to the old man, leaving him no room for further explanation.

The old man's disappointment grew even more evident as he looked at his disheveled appearance.

A hint of reluctance flashed in his eyes, then he closed them, and when he opened them again, his gaze had turned completely cold.

"From this day forward, Su Zhaoyang is stripped of all his positions in the Su family, expelled from the core circle of the Su family, and all his properties and shares are confiscated. From now on, all affairs of the Su family will have nothing to do with you."

In one sentence, Su Zhaoyang's fate was sealed.

He collapsed to the ground, his face ashen, unable to utter a single word, his heart filled with remorse.

The staff lifted Su Zhaoyang, who was slumped on the ground, and ignored his desperate pleas, taking him away from the kitchen. He was no longer as arrogant as before.

After this incident, everyone in the kitchen who had harbored ulterior motives fell silent. Their eyes were filled with awe and obedience as they looked at Su Wanqing and Gao Yang, and no one dared to have any disloyal thoughts.

Old Zhou stepped forward and led the kitchen staff in bowing respectfully, his tone filled with remorse and determination.

"President Su, Chef Gao, this mistake was due to our lax supervision. We will strictly adhere to procedures from now on and will never make any more mistakes!"

Gao Yang waved his hand.

"This is not your fault. The other side was too ruthless. They wanted to kill us on the very first day."

Everyone present fell silent.

Having suffered so much these past few days, I still haven't even seen the mastermind behind it all. The difference in strength is like heaven and earth.

"What are your plans next?"

Grandpa Su looked at Gao Yang, his tone neither warm nor cold.

"Grandpa, Wanqing and I will go see Old Master Cai later."

Grandpa Su nodded.

"Alright, then leave these two to me. I want to see if I can pry anything out of them."

"Thank you for your trouble, sir."

Gao Yang cupped his hands in a respectful gesture.