Divorced at fifty, I embarked on my path to success.

Mei Yusheng was mentally prepared to face everything, but when Yue Jiangting's cold voice came, she couldn't help but feel a jolt in her heart, and her hands and feet trembled slightly involuntarily.

Shen Yingying glanced at her cautiously, then tactfully picked up Xuanxuan and coaxed him to the kitchen.

The mother-in-law shifted her gaze from the television to Mei Yusheng, a gleam of schadenfreude shining through her cloudy eyes.

Mei Yusheng braced herself, inwardly encouraging herself: "It's bound to happen sooner or later, the sooner the better! That shameless old man wronged me first, what do I have to be afraid of? I'm the one in the right, and besides, I already have leverage over him. At worst, we'll both go down together, what am I afraid of?!"

He entered the study with a cold face and saw Yue Jiangting sitting at his desk with a livid expression. The key in the hidden compartment was on the table, and the door of the safe by the wall was open.

Mei Yusheng felt a chill run down his spine; he had really discovered it!

She was so unprepared to deal with him!

It seems he can keenly sense even the slightest changes in the room. It must be because Qin Chu came today, and he sensed the presence of a stranger in his territory.

From the moment he stepped inside, Yue Jiangting stared at her with a sinister look in his eyes, making her hair stand on end.

"Take it out!" Yue Jiangting's voice was vicious, as if he was about to swallow her whole.

Mei Yusheng shivered, mustered her courage, and looked him straight in the eye: "What do you want?"

"Don't play dumb!" Yue Jiangting's patience quickly ran out. Before Mei Yusheng returned, he had been holding his breath for more than half an hour. At this moment, he was like a volcano that had been suppressed for a long time, on the verge of erupting.

If his head hadn't been feeling so foggy all day, he wouldn't have come home so early. But as soon as he walked in, he sensed something was wrong.

The chair in front of the desk was moved back two inches, and the wooden pen holder was turned fifteen degrees to the west.

He looked around warily, sniffed, and caught a whiff of an unfamiliar scent. Who had come in?

His nerves tightened instantly, and he instinctively reached for the hidden compartment in the desk, took out the key, examined it carefully, put it into the keyhole of the middle drawer, turned it, and opened it.

His pupils suddenly dilated violently!

That leather notebook has been tampered with!

A flicker of fear flashed in his eyes, and his breathing quickened. He suddenly stood up, rushed to the safe, and turned the button.

When he finally saw everything inside, his legs went weak, and he collapsed to the ground, his eyes staring blankly at the safe. A large section of it was empty; the gold bars were gone, and even more alarmingly, the ledger had vanished without a trace!

His head buzzed, and he felt a sudden tightness in his chest. His first thought was: His house has been burgled!

But how could that be? There's always someone at home. Even when Mei Yusheng goes out, the nanny is always there.

Besides, a safe with a combination lock isn't so easy to open.

It couldn't be a petty thief stealing randomly. Thieves usually operate at night; why would someone openly enter a high-end residential area with strict property management to commit a crime in broad daylight?

Could it be an inside traitor?

A cold sweat suddenly broke out all over my body.

Who is it?

It definitely wasn't my elderly mother!

nanny?

Only he and his son Yue Guangzhi knew what was inside the safe.

Yue Guangzhi would never take anything from inside; even if he did, he would tell him.

That leaves Mei Yusheng, her daughter-in-law, and the nanny.

He took a deep breath, tried to calm himself down, stood up while holding onto the armrest of the chair, and slowly walked out of the study.

He first asked the nanny, Xiao Zhao, who said that she had asked Mei Yusheng for two hours off in the afternoon. Mei Yusheng said she was at home, but when she came back, no one was home.

Yue Jiangting shifted his suspicions to Mei Yusheng.

Not long after the nanny picked Xuanxuan up, Shen Yingying got off work.

Yue Jiangting then asked Shen Yingying, who looked blank and said that she hadn't gone home in the afternoon and had been at the company the whole time.

He returned to his study and, recalling the changes in Mei Yusheng's voice during this period, became increasingly convinced that she must have come in and taken those things.

As for how she opened the safe, he assumed that she had seen the combination by accident, or that she had gotten it from Yue Guangzhi.

I have never regretted not installing surveillance cameras sooner than I do now.

He's not used to working under cameras; he always feels like there's a pair of eyes watching him, which makes him uneasy, even if it's electronic eyes.

He thought that no one would spy on him in his own home and that nothing would happen that was beyond his control, but reality slapped him in the face!

The sound of rain—how dare she! What is she planning to do?

He was holding his breath, waiting for Mei Yusheng to return. When he heard her voice, his anger flared up even more.

Looking at her nonchalant expression, I really want to slap her!

"Did you lack food or clothes? You actually stole my things!" Yue Jiangting pretended to focus his attention on the gold bars, trying hard not to let Mei Yusheng realize the importance of the ledger. "You return what you stole today right now!"

The mother-in-law peeked in through the doorway, and upon hearing this, she flew into a rage: "What? Mei Yusheng! You dare steal the gold bars from our house? You heartless bastard!"

She rushed in, ready to tear Mei Yusheng apart, but Yue Jiangting stopped her and forcefully pushed her out the door: "Mom, don't make things worse!"

The door slammed shut, and Yue Jiangting's cold gaze fell on Mei Yusheng like a knife, as if he wanted to pierce several holes in her.

Seeing his angry and embarrassed expression, yet his desperate attempt to suppress his inner panic, Mei Yusheng calmed down immediately: "You mean gold bars? I've already saved them. Consider them compensation for the emotional distress caused by your infidelity."

"What? You!" Yue Jiangting pointed at her a few times with trembling fingers, seemingly very angry and helpless. He sighed, "Fine, take it if you like. Actually, you could have just asked me for it, and I would have given it to you. Why steal it! Return that ledger. It's useless to you. It records the company's accounts over the years."

His eyes were fixed on the single-shoulder leather bag that Mei Yusheng was carrying, as if he would pounce on it and snatch it at any moment.

"How could it not work?" Mei Yusheng relaxed at this moment, feeling the pleasure of having his weakness exploited and making him feel so frustrated that he was internally injured. She looked at him with a smile, "That ledger is probably not a company ledger, is it?"

"What do you know?" Yue Jiangting's eyes widened, a hint of panic in them. "Who did you show it to? You traitor! You showed the company's accounts to outsiders! Do you even have a brain?!"

He lunged at her, grabbing her shoulders and shaking her frantically: "Take it back! Do you know what that is? You want to destroy this family! Destroy me and Xiaozhi?"

Mei Yusheng felt dizzy from being shaken by him. Seeing his bloodshot eyes, she felt a little scared and struggled hard, saying, "Let me go!"

Yue Jiangting snatched the bag, ripped it open, and the contents fell to the ground. Not finding the ledger he wanted, he turned around abruptly, his beast-like, predatory gaze fixed on her face.

Mei Yusheng felt he was out of his mind and hurriedly rushed out the door. Yue Jiangting followed closely behind and grabbed her hair in a few steps: "Where did you put the account book? Tell me! If you don't tell me, I'll beat you to death today!"

Xuanxuan burst into tears in fright, and Shen Yingying cried out in alarm, "Dad! Mom! What's wrong with you?"

The mother-in-law was terrified and stared at them in disbelief.

The nanny, Xiao Zhao, was at a loss and wanted to step forward to mediate the fight, but when she saw Yue Jiangting's furious appearance, she shrank back in fear.

Just then, Yue Guangzhi returned home. Upon entering and seeing this chaotic and horrifying scene, he rushed over without even taking off his shoes, grabbing his bag and forcefully grabbing Yue Jiangting's hand: "Dad! Let go of Mom! What happened?"

Mei Yusheng, still shaken after escaping Yue Jiangting's clutches, tidied her messy hair and hid behind Yue Guangzhi.

"Ask your mother what she's done!" Yue Jiangting said breathlessly, his eyes red. "She wants to ruin us, her son and me, she wants to destroy this family! And you're still protecting her?"

Yue Guangzhi stopped his father and loudly advised, "Dad! Talk it over calmly, why resort to violence? Sit down and tell me what happened."

Yue Jiangting's eyes practically spit fire as he pointed at Mei Yusheng and said hatefully, "She stole that ledger and doesn't know who she gave it to!"

Yue Guangzhi's eyes widened suddenly, and he asked blankly, "What ledger? Could it be that..."