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

“Mom…” Mei Yusheng choked up, not knowing how to explain to her mother.

"Hmph!" Mei Zichen glared at Yue Jiangting hatefully, then turned to his mother. "Mom, don't you know? That bastard Yue Jiangting is having an affair! My sister wants a divorce, so he kidnapped you to threaten us!"

"Huh?" He Qingmin paused, looking at Mei Yusheng and her brother in disbelief, then at Yue Jiangting and his son. "You, Jiangting! You cheated on me? No wonder... you bastard!"

Yue Jiangting gritted his teeth and gave a sheepish laugh: "Mom, I'm sorry I scared you. You don't know, it was Mei Yusheng who threatened me with the account book first. This account book is related to the survival of the company, and also to the life and death of me and Xiaozhi. She can't tell the difference between inside and outside, and she colluded with outsiders to scheme against our family. I was forced by her to bring you here. Please help me persuade her. I really don't want to divorce her."

“Yes, yes, Grandmother,” Yue Guangzhi covered his left cheek and glanced timidly at Mei Zichen, “If someone else takes that ledger, not only will the company go bankrupt, but Dad and I will also go to jail! Think about it, things have gotten to this point, and my mother has been hiding from us. We had no choice but to bring you here.”

He Qingmin looked at them with suspicion, but when she turned to look at Mei Yusheng, her eyes were filled with trust and heartache: "Yusheng, I believe in you. You are not an unreasonable child."

She then glared at Yue Jiangting and said angrily, "Don't try to downplay the issue. What about your affair? My daughter was wronged. If you hadn't pushed her to the limit, why would she have threatened you?"

Upon hearing the sound of rain, Mei Yu was immediately overwhelmed, and tears streamed uncontrollably down her face.

Seeing that Yue Jiangting's eyes were darting around and he was still trying to deny it, Mei Zichen told his mother about how he had been keeping a mistress for twenty years.

He Qingmin was furious. Her hand trembled as she pointed at Yue Jiangting and cursed, "You shameless bastard! This is too much! You've been keeping a mistress for twenty years, how could you do this to Yusheng? What did you promise back then? You said you would treat Yusheng well for the rest of your life and take good care of her! And what happened? You turned around and went out to find another mistress! How dare you criticize Yusheng? Your conscience has been eaten by dogs!"

Yue Jiangting's face turned pale and then dark, a sinister glint in his eyes: "Don't put it so harshly, calling her a mistress all the time! She's my first love! She's in trouble, what's wrong with me helping her out? Besides, I've never hidden it from Mei Yusheng from the beginning; I do have deep feelings for my first love, and it was Mei Yusheng who wanted to marry me! Over the years, I've provided you with a comfortable life. The nursing home Mom lives in costs over 100,000 yuan a month. And Zichen's family—if they didn't work at my company, they would have been unemployed long ago. I'm supporting your whole family! Don't you know how to be grateful? Huh?"

"You've got a little bit of leverage over me and you want to drive me to my death? Do you have even a shred of gratitude?" Yue Jiangting became more and more agitated as he spoke. "And Xiaozhi and Xuanxuan, when Mei Yusheng was threatening me, did she think about them? Did she want to send her son to prison and have her grandson's family destroyed from a young age?"

He Qingmin blushed, tears welled in her eyes, her lips trembled, and she couldn't utter a single word.

"Yue Jiangting!" Mei Zichen shouted angrily, "Can your care for our family offset your betrayal of my sister? These are clearly two different things! You say you've sacrificed a lot, but did my sister sacrifice little? Who took care of your paralyzed father? Who looked after your mother who was unable to move after her car accident? My sister devoted all her heart and soul to you and your family, growing from a beautiful young woman to a woman with gray hair, and all she got in return was your betrayal?"

"You've been cheating on me for twenty years, don't you feel even a little bit guilty towards my sister? You say you've been kind to us, but in the end, my sister is penniless and being blackmailed by you!" Mei Zichen looked at Mei Yusheng, who was crying in her mother's arms, with heartache. "She didn't make any unreasonable demands, she just wanted you to divorce her and give her enough compensation, but you gave her a house with a mortgage and said you wouldn't give her a single penny. If she dares to divorce you, you'll make her go through a mountain of debt!"

"This is the mess you've made! If it were me, I wouldn't even try to negotiate with you anymore; I would have just handed the ledgers over to the police and ruined your reputation!"

"You dare! You!" Yue Jiangting was so angry that he was panting heavily, his eyes bulging as he stared at Mei Zichen. "You and your whole family, quit your jobs! I'm not going to support you!"

"Pah! I wouldn't come even if you invited me!" Mei Zichen spat and said resentfully.

“Uncle,” Yue Guangzhi said timidly, but his body was poised as if he were ready to run away at any moment, “Don’t be angry. Even if you can resign, you have to think about Aunt and Meizi.”

"I think you deserve a beating!" Mei Zichen pretended to hit him, which scared Yue Guangzhi so much that he hurriedly hid behind his father.

"Enough!" Yue Jiangting roared. "What are you here for today?"

He swept his gaze over the people in the private room with an air of authority and said in a deep voice, "Have you brought the ledger?"

Mei Yusheng raised her swollen eyes from crying, hugged her mother tightly, and dared not let go for a moment, afraid that Yue Jiangting would take her away again.

"Stop talking nonsense! Mei Yusheng, hand over the ledgers, and you can take your mother away immediately!" Yue Jiangting stared at Mei Yusheng with a gloomy look in his eyes. "Otherwise, how about a bet? You two siblings definitely can't take her away!"

Mei Yusheng trembled involuntarily, fear showing in her eyes. She dared not joke about her mother.

Taking the ledger out of his bag, Yue Guangzhi suddenly jumped over, snatched the ledger away, and quickly returned to his father's side.

Yue Jiangting impatiently grabbed the ledger, flipped through a few pages, let out a long sigh of relief, and quickly stuffed the ledger into his bag.

"I'm warning you, if I find any copies of this, I won't let you off the hook!" Yue Jiangting said coldly, his eyes sweeping over Mei Yusheng with a sinister glint.

He winked at Yue Guangzhi, and the father and son walked out of the private room together. At the door, Yue Jiangting stopped again, turned back and glanced sideways at Mei Yusheng: "Don't forget what you promised me. Stay put and don't cause trouble, and in six months it will be as you wish, otherwise..."

Mei Yusheng looked back at him warily, her eyes surging with hatred.

Yue Jiangting chuckled and walked away smugly with his hands behind his back.

“Rain Sound, Zichen,” He Qingmin called softly twice.

"Mom, are you alright?" Mei Zichen walked over, half-squatting down next to He Qingmin, looking up at her. "Where did Yue Jiangting take you?"

He Qingmin sighed, "I don't know where it is either, but it's a residential building with an elevator, and the location is—"

She pondered for a moment: "It seems to be in a rather remote area. The occupancy rate of the community is very low, and I hardly saw any pedestrians on the road."

Mei Zichen thought carefully and said, "I don't know where it is, but I guess it's a house they just bought."

“He said Yusheng missed me and wanted to take me home for a few days, but the place looked strange to me. Just as I was wondering about it, Yusheng called,” He Qingmin said. “Then he changed his mind and said that we were going to have a family reunion dinner. We had just arrived there when he brought me out again.”

Mei Yusheng broke out in a cold sweat. If he hadn't called the sanatorium in time, when did Yue Jiangting plan to tell him?

If it's delayed for two days, how scared and worried will Mom be?

She gritted her teeth in hatred, thinking to herself, "Yue Jiangting, you dare to use my mother to threaten me? I won't let you get away with this!"