Reborn as a heiress, she transforms into a ruthless vengeful woman.

The defense ended last Tuesday. She had memorized everything two days in advance, but hadn't really put it into practice, and now she'd forgotten it all.

She had no choice but to bite the bullet and say:

"My graduation thesis is about...environmental protection...the general content..."

Seeing her hesitate, Grandpa Ye couldn't help but ask impatiently, "Did you write the thesis yourself?"

"Yes, it is."

"How come you can't even remember the title of your thesis!"

"I may be old, but I'm not dead yet! Don't try to fool me! As far as I know, this paper of yours was ghostwritten, wasn't it?"

Old Master Ye's face darkened further, his eyes becoming gloomy and sharp, which terrified Ye Shuang, causing her body to tremble even more violently.

"Dad! Xiao Shuang was just too nervous and forgot everything. You can't wrongly accuse our Xiao Shuang!"

Seeing this, Zhuang Xiuqing hurriedly defended her daughter, but when the old man ignored her, she suddenly became angry and said:

"Well, Ye Xinghe! I didn't expect you to be so malicious! You usually don't like coming to the old house, so I was wondering why you came so early today! Turns out you were spreading rumors that our Xiao Shuang was here!"

“Dad, Xiaoshuang has definitely been wronged by someone with ulterior motives. She is such a good girl and her grades are excellent every semester. How could she possibly have someone else write her papers?”

"What evidence does Second Aunt have for saying this?" Ye Xingchen suddenly asked.

He performed five surgeries in a row today and was exhausted by the end of his shift.

He had planned to go home and sleep after dinner, but hearing Zhuang Xiuqing talk about his sister like that naturally made him unhappy.

Ye Xingchen glanced at Zhuang Xiuqing and continued casually, "Hehe is already ranked first in the entire academy and will receive a reward. Is it necessary to spread this rumor?"

"Don't make assumptions about others. One of the Ye family's precepts is: Never do anything that harms others without benefiting yourself! Only people with brainstem defects would do that!"

"How do you know Ye Xinghe's thesis wasn't ghostwritten?" Unaware of the facts, Zhuang Xiuqing started spouting nonsense again, pointing at Ye Xinghe and shouting at Old Master Ye:

"You can't be this biased! You only question our Xiao Shuang, why don't you question your eldest granddaughter! You won't even let her talk about what she wrote in her thesis!"

"You keep saying you'll treat everyone equally, but in reality? All the benefits go to the second son's family. You're being way too obvious!" Zhuang Xiuqing said, giving the eldest son, Ye Mingmei, a meaningful look.

"Snapped!"

Grandpa Ye slammed his fist on the table in anger, "Ye Mingqi! Listen to what your wife is saying! Or is that what you think too?!"

Ye Mingqi lowered his head and denied it.

Under the table, he grabbed Zhuang Xiuqing's wrist tightly, telling her to stop talking.

Grandpa Ye slammed a stack of A4 papers down in front of Ye Mingqi and his wife.

"Take a good look at how Xiao Shuang's thesis came about!"

Zhuang Xiuqing picked up a stack of A4 papers in front of her.

The above contains a detailed record of all the chat logs that Ye Shuang had someone else write.

She found a shop online that advertised "paper plagiarism checking." In reality, however, the shop was actually offering paper writing services.

As long as you provide your major, whatever level of paper you want, we can complete it as long as the money is right.

Ye Shuang chose the highest tier, 20.

It includes not only the content of the thesis and subsequent revisions, but also the defense script, PPT, answers to questions, and so on—everything you could need.

Grandpa Ye angrily rebuked, "A college student majoring in environmental art doesn't even know what 'green building' is! How can such a student be the top student in the entire college?!"

Despite the overwhelming evidence, Zhuang Xiuqing remained unrepentant and continued to deliberately provoke trouble, saying, "You're rarely seen at the old house, but you always arrive right on time for family gatherings. Ye Xinghe, you've arrived so early today, are you deliberately tattling to Grandpa?"

Ye Xinghe glanced at her helplessly, "Snitching? Second Aunt is confirming that Xiao Shuang didn't write the thesis herself? Since you have questions, I'll answer them."

He then stood up, took out his phone, his face expressionless, and said calmly:

"I've recently been learning how to take meeting minutes by listening to recordings, so I've been researching some recording software. What I'm about to play is a recording I made right from the moment I entered my grandfather's house. My grandfather did ask me about Ye Shuang's thesis, so listen carefully to what I said."

The phone clearly played the conversation between the grandfather and granddaughter. Ye Xinghe didn't say a single bad word about Ye Shuang, and even recorded the questions Ye Grandpa asked Ye Shuang later.

Ye Xinghe paused the recording, raised her eyebrows slightly, and smiled sweetly as she said:

“I arrived early because I wanted to spend more time with my family. Second Aunt, don’t make unfounded assumptions. The second rule of the Ye family is: Never do anything that would belittle others rather than elevate yourself. Only a brain-dead person would do that.”

Zhuang Xiuqing's face was extremely gloomy at this moment, and she stared fiercely at Ye Xinghe.

The elderly Mrs. Ye, sitting in front, gently closed her eyes to conceal her cold gaze, and softly turned the prayer beads in her hand, saying:

"Xinghe, is this how a junior should speak to an elder? How rude! Mu Jinyue, is this the good daughter you raised?"

In her previous life, Old Madam Ye bullied Mu Jinyue quite a bit.

Ever since Ye Xinghe was a child, her grandmother had always been critical of Mu Jinyue's family or compared her to other people's daughters-in-law.

Being picky about money and spending a lot on clothes and appearance is commonplace for her. When Ye Xinghe makes a mistake, it's all blamed on her mother.

Fortunately, Ye Minghan dotes on Mu Jinyue and takes good care of his wife's feelings. He also occasionally defends his wife openly at family gatherings, so the couple's relationship has not been affected at all.

Upon hearing the old woman mention her mother, Ye Xinghe was instantly enraged. Suppressing her emotions, she put on a docile expression and retorted:

"Grandma! What did I say that was impolite?"

"Is it because of the Ye family's rules of manners? Or what?"

She blinked her big, innocent eyes. "Oh, you mean being brain-dead is impolite? Well, I wasn't talking about my second aunt! I meant that people who do this kind of thing are brain-dead!"

Ye Xinghe suddenly covered her mouth with both hands, looking as if she had said something wrong, and whispered, "Second Aunt, you wouldn't really have done such a thing, would you?"

Zhuang Xiuqing's face flushed red and then turned pale; she was so angry that she couldn't speak.

“And Grandma, if you want to educate me, just say it to me directly, don’t always drag my mom into it. I’m over 20 years old, I don’t need anyone to teach me these moral education lessons anymore.”

Grandma Ye opened her eyes, a cold glint flashing in her cloudy eyes. An anger rose on her wrinkled face, but it vanished in an instant, replaced by a kind smile.

She said to Grandpa Ye beside her, "Look at your eldest granddaughter, she's getting sharp-tongued and witty as ever."

Old Master Ye glanced at her out of the corner of his eye, but didn't respond. His shrewd and powerful gaze swept across the room.

"Ye Shuang, you've been expelled from school for ghostwriting papers. I've already arranged for you to get into Dongcheng University. Classes start on September 1st. You'll live and eat at the university, and you're not allowed to go home on weekends! You'll be interning at the Ye Group during winter and summer vacations. Starting next month, all your allowance will be cut off!"