Sober and beautiful, my husband and son begged for my forgiveness on their knees.

Ning Yao didn't take it seriously, reached out and fiddled with her long hair, chuckled and looked at Chen Yalin.

"You're right, I did design Ms. Jiang's dress. May I ask who you are...?"

Upon hearing her admit it, Lu Jingmo felt as if he had been struck by a powerful electric current.

My mind went blank for a moment, and I couldn't help but recall the time I went to Shattered Star Company to meet the designer.

Since she knew she had misunderstood, why didn't she clarify things instead of letting herself be misunderstood?

Was she deliberately making fun of me? Did she want to see me make a fool of myself?

Upon realizing this, Lu Jingmo's shock instantly turned into fury.

Before he could speak, Chen Yalin, who had just entered, had already turned her anger on Ning Yao.

“I am a victim of your ‘Shattered Star’ scheme. I spent five million to have you personally design my dress, but the design you gave me was far from ideal. I wanted to communicate with you, but you kept making excuses. I had no choice but to seek help from the all-powerful netizens.”

"Ms. Chen, right? I have a question. I've never taken any orders from you, let alone designed any dresses for you. Are you sure you're not mistaken?"

Ning Yao registered every order she received in the internal system, arranging them in chronological order.

She confirmed that Ms. Chen's name and order were not on the list.

Upon hearing whether she was a human being, Chen Yalin's anger surged to the top of her head.

"Ning Yao, your denial is useless! I did contact your 'Shattered Star' company. I still have that mediocre original design draft. If I hadn't contacted you, how could I have your draft? I advise you to apologize to me immediately and clarify online that your 'Shattered Star' company is incompetent and uses inferior materials. Otherwise, I will sue 'Shattered Star' until it goes bankrupt!"

Lu Jingmo's suppressed anger finally found an outlet: "Ning Yao, face reality."

"Although you managed to take first place at Xingyi Group, a five-million-dollar haute couture design is not something a novice designer like you can create. Before things get worse, you should apologize and clarify things quickly, otherwise I can't help you."

If a newly famous designer is tainted by a bad reputation, he or she will be expelled from the entire industry.

He wanted Ning Yao to return to her family, but not in this infamous way.

Ning Yao retorted impatiently, "If you're going to be useless with your mouth, just donate it."

Then, she looked at Chen Yalin, her expression neither angry nor fearful.

“Ms. Chen, it’s quite a coincidence that we at ‘Shattered Star’ are also considering suing you.”

"Sue me?" Chen Yalin pointed at herself, her face full of disbelief.

"Yaoyao, don't be like this. I believe there must be some misunderstanding. Tonight is a welcome dinner for our friends. Let's not spoil everyone's fun. Shall we go to the next private room to talk?"

Seeing that the situation was getting out of control, Ning Yan was afraid that her scheme would be exposed, so she quickly spoke up to persuade them.

Ning Yao completely disregarded her and nodded to Chen Yalin, "Yes, I'm going to sue you. You deliberately hired someone to steal my design drafts from 'Suixing' and then modified them into complete drafts, trying to pass them off as genuine and slandering 'Suixing' for selling inferior goods as superior ones."

Chen Yalin felt extremely humiliated and no longer cared about listening to Ning Yan's words, so she pointed at Ning Yao's nose and cursed.

"Ning Yao, are you out of your mind?! I've already offered five million, and you still need to find someone to steal your manuscript! And it's a worthless manuscript! Do you think I, Chen Yalin, am some kind of country bumpkin who's never seen the world?!"

"Yalin!" Ning Yan quickly grabbed her, letting her know with her eyes that Lu Jingmo was still there.

When Chen Yalin met Lu Jingmo's unfathomable eyes, her imposing aura immediately weakened.

Although they all looked down on Ning Yao, they all knew she was Lu Jingmo's wife and couldn't scold her in front of Lu Jingmo.

Ning Yao's purpose tonight was not to clarify this matter; she just wanted to find out what really happened.

By now, she basically understood that Ning Yan was the one who was behind the whole thing.

Therefore, she did not continue to entangle with this group of people.

“Ms. Chen, believe it or not, the design draft you posted to criticize ‘Shattered Star’ was indeed a discarded draft that we just threw away a couple of days ago. It not only has ‘Shattered Star’s’ company logo, but also the discarded draft number 09853.”

Ning Yan turned around abruptly to look at her, her eyes filled with disbelief and astonishment, as well as a growing anger.

The rejected drafts have numbers? How is that possible?

She carefully checked the draft when she received it; if there really was something wrong, how could she not have noticed it!

Chen Yalin was stunned by her confident tone. She even recited the serial number. Was it fabricated or was there something else going on?

But the design was given to her by Yanyan, so Yanyan had no reason to lie to her!

Seeing the two men's different expressions, Ning Yao didn't continue, leaving them with a cliffhanger.

"That's all I have to say. As for what to do next, that's up to you."

“If the news about ‘Shattered Star’ is not clarified by tomorrow, I will file a formal lawsuit against the two of them.”

Two people?

Ning Yan glared at her fiercely, her body involuntarily tensing up, while a storm raged within her, violently assaulting the defenses she had carefully constructed.

Others who saw this also found the matter quite strange, but dared not ask any further questions.

Ning Yao turned and left. Lu Jingmo hesitated for a few seconds before following her.

Seeing Lu Jingmo leave with Ning Yao, Ning Yan made a move to follow, but was stopped by Chen Yalin.

"Yanyan, I have something to ask you."

Ning Yan's heart skipped a beat as she watched her gaze grow increasingly cold...

Outside the club, Ning Yao had just stepped out of the door when she heard footsteps approaching from behind.

She ignored it and saw a taxi parked at the door, so she quickly went over and opened the car door.

"stop."

Lu Jingmo's deep, cold voice was like ice as he slammed the car door shut behind him and pulled her back.

The taxi driver was about to say something, but noticing the man's extremely unpleasant expression, he stepped on the gas and drove off.

Ning Yao pulled her arm back and asked coldly, "Does President Lu have any further instructions?"

Lu Jingmo noticed that she subconsciously stepped back and turned her body slightly to the side, and his dark eyes suddenly darkened.

All her little gestures revealed her resistance and alienation from him.

"Why did you lie to me? You're clearly not the cleaning lady from 'Shattered Stars,' why didn't you deny it? Are you deliberately trying to embarrass me?"

Ning Yao raised her slender neck, like a white swan that never yields.

"Those are all your own assumptions, what do they have to do with me?"

"Of course it's related! If you had let me know earlier that you designed Jiang Tian's dress, I wouldn't have made a fool of myself in front of others today, and I wouldn't have lost face."

"Ha! Lu Jingmo, have you forgotten that we're already divorced? What I do has nothing to do with you."

Lu Jingmo was very dissatisfied with Ning Yao's tone at that moment, just as his car was parked on the side of the road.

"boarding!"

Ning Yao refused, but she was no match for Lu Jingmo's strength and was forcibly taken into the car...