A Substitute Bride With Multiple Identities
Chapter 255: The Tongue is the Sharpest Weapon

Chapter 255: Chapter 255: The Tongue is the Sharpest Weapon

Qi Fang smiled faintly, "Miss Fu, verbal harm is also a form of harm."

The tongue is the softest thing in the world, yet it is also the sharpest weapon that can hurt people.

The harm inflicted by words often weighs heavier than physical injuries.

Fu Yu’s body was shaking all over. She clutched her phone tightly, gritted her teeth hard, and a vicious glint flashed through her eyes.

Naively, she thought if she smashed the phone, then Qi Fang would have no evidence to prove that she had posted malicious comments online slandering Fu Yanhe!

But the very next second, as if Qi Fang had pierced through her thoughts, the smile remained unchanged on his face, "Miss Fu, even if you smash the phone, it’s useless. I’ve already made no less than a hundred copies of your slanderous comments against Master Fu."

"Oh and by the way, this phone is a new model developed by FY Group, worth twenty thousand yuan. If it gets smashed, I will add it to your debts," he added.

Fu Yu’s thought had been exposed, a trace of embarrassment appeared on her face, yet her hand firmly grasped the phone, not daring to let go.

"Right, after the Fu Family’s company goes bankrupt, we will still pay the employees their salaries as usual. FY Group will prepare new jobs for them," Qi Fang said as he pulled the phone out of Fu Yu’s hand, the lazy smile still on his face. "Seeing as you are Master Fu’s sister, we can offer you a position as well."

"However, FY Group does not hire based on connections; you will need to go through the normal application process."

Fu Yu’s expression grew even uglier, her hands clenched tightly into fists.

Apply for a job?

What a joke!

She was the pampered young mistress of the Fu Family! Even if the Fu family had fallen, she must still live better than others!

How could she demean herself to apply and work alongside those she once looked down upon?

This was an insult from Fu Yanhe!

Qi Fang didn’t bother with her anymore, turning his gaze toward the disconsolate Jiang Yun, "Someone once had the chance to continue living the life of a wealthy lady, but alas, she destroyed that opportunity with her own hands."

Jiang Yun came back to her senses, her eyes red-rimmed as she looked toward Qi Fang.

Qi Fang gave her a slight smile, "Your eldest son died in a car accident, your daughter achieved nothing, and your husband has betrayed and abandoned you. Our Master Fu is powerful and influential, now a rising star in Haicheng, and you, you have nothing."

"Not quite nothing, at least you still have a mountain of debt," he said with a chuckle.

"Tell me, if you had been a little nicer to Master Fu on his first day with the Fu Family, would the result have been different?" he mused.

Jiang Yun clutched her hair tightly, letting out sharp screams from her throat as tears fell plop plop.

She seemed on the brink of madness.

Qi Fang’s smile slowly faded, "You truly don’t deserve to be Master Fu’s mother."

They, the subordinates, had watched over the years how Fu Yanhe had struggled, climbing up step by step.

They knew that before being taken back to the Fu Family, he had had hopes for his mother.

But as great as the hopes were, so was the disappointment.

For what Jiang Yun had done to Fu Yanhe, she did not deserve to be his mother.

After finishing, Qi Fang turned and walked towards the manor, instructing the bodyguard standing by the side, "Kick them out."

The bodyguard nodded, "Understood!"

As they watched the bodyguard approaching them, both Fu Yu and Jiang Yun panicked.

Fu Yu struggled to stand up from the ground and reached out towards Qi Fang’s retreating figure, pleading desperately, "We were wrong! It was my loose tongue in the past! I shouldn’t have cursed my second brother like that online! It was my fault! I beg my second brother not to do this, not to kick us out!"

In a frenzy, Jiang Yun said, "It was Fu Shuqin who insisted on abandoning Fu Yanhe! I had just given birth at the time! I had no strength to stop her! If you seek revenge, it should be on Fu Shuqin!"

For years, they were accustomed to being waited on, living the life of wealthy mistresses.

If they were really kicked out, how were they supposed to live?

"And there’s Fu Weizhi!" Jiang Yun’s eyes were bloodshot with hatred as she spoke, "It was he and his mother who abandoned Yanhe. I had no idea at the beginning..."

"These two, the Fu Family won’t let them off." Qi Fang smiled slightly and gestured to two bodyguards, "Take them away."

Fu Yu realized that neither gentleness nor toughness worked; she completely broke down and began cursing Qi Fang wildly, using every foul word she could think of.

Even as she punched and kicked the bodyguards, she still couldn’t prevent the two from being thrown out.

Jiang Yun remembered there was still the Fu Family’s old house to live in, and hurriedly packed up the things on the ground into suitcases with Fu Yu, heading for the old house.

But upon arriving at the old house, they found that it had already been taken over by Fu Yanhe’s people; all the servants had been dismissed, and the housekeeper was gone.

Outside, the old lady’s personal belongings were left lonely and unclaimed.

They had lost the manor, and now the old house as well.

Jiang Yun and Fu Yu were completely at a loss, their hearts filled with regret, unable to stop themselves from holding each other and crying out loud.

But no matter how much they regretted, there was no way to turn back.

After Qi Fang had thoroughly investigated all of the Fu Family’s assets, he dialled Fu Yanhe’s number, "Master Fu, everything has been handled. Those two have been kicked out of the manor. Should we renovate the manor before selling it?"

Fu Yanhe’s voice was indifferent, "No need, just deal with it and sell it."

Qi Fang responded, paused for a moment, and then asked, "By the way, Master Fu, there are the ancestral tablet and urn of Fu Yanheng in the manor. How should those be dealt with?"

Fu Yanhe fell silent for a while, then said in a flat tone, "Buy a gravesite with good Feng Shui in Haicheng and bury his ashes there. Place the ancestral tablet in the Fu Family’s old house."

Fu Yanheng was the only one in the Fu Family who had not harmed him.

In this way, he was accumulating some virtue; he would leave him be.

Qi Fang, "Okay."

-

The Fu Family went bankrupt.

Everyone in the circle of the wealthy couldn’t react; they were unable to believe that the once great Fu Family had vanished within three days.

All the rich young ladies who used to hang around Fu Yu were frightened, scared to be seen in public lest their families be the next to vanish.

Other families, however, saw the terrifying power of Fu Yanhe and became even more wary of him.

Quite a few families with ambitions and unmarried daughters began to slyly scheme for their girls to get close to Fu Yanhe.

After all, if they succeeded, their family would be the next wealthiest in Haicheng!

Jiang Yun and Fu Yu, with their tails between their legs, left the old house and returned to a small villa in the city that Fu Yu had bought in her name when she came of age.

Without servants, without a cook, the two could only order takeout and learned, bit by bit, how to clean.

Life was like falling from heaven into hell.

Jiang Yun’s entire being lost its vitality as if she had aged a decade; white hairs appeared at her temples and fine lines formed at the corners of her eyes.

Fu Yu would argue with Jiang Yun every day, blaming her for severing ties with Fu Yanhe, accusing her of being heartlessly extreme. If not for her extreme actions, the Fu Family would never have gone bankrupt.

Jiang Yun was in a daze, completely uninterested in arguing with Fu Yu.

She persisted in calling Fu Weizhi every day, but never got through.

Her heart grew more and more desperate, living each day filled with regret.