Rebooting the top stars, starting with Extreme Challenge

Jiang Chengyu drank some wine at the dinner table, but not much.

A slight stimulation from alcohol can actually make the brain's senses more acute.

So Jiang Chengyu changed his shoes in the entryway after returning home and walked into the living room.

Seeing Zhang Ruonan sitting on the sofa, holding her phone in both hands, lost in thought, she immediately noticed something was wrong.

"Ruonan, what's wrong?"

It wasn't until Jiang Chengyu spoke that Zhang Ruonan realized he had come home, and she answered instinctively.

"Nothing happened to me?"

Jiang Chengyu sat down next to Zhang Ruonan and looked directly into her eyes.

"You never lie to me. I'll ask again, what's wrong?"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Ruonan instinctively avoided Jiang Chengyu's gaze.

After a long pause, he stammered out the absurd things that had happened that afternoon.

"This afternoon, someone from the police station called me."

"what?"

Jiang Chengyu was very surprised.

In his subconscious, Zhang Ruonan had absolutely nothing to do with the police station.

How can these two things be connected?

"What happened?"

"Why is the police station calling you?"

Zhang Ruonan still dared not look Jiang Chengyu in the eye.

She had just regained some confidence in her appearance after lunch.

To her utter surprise, in just one afternoon, all her confidence crumbled.

With her eyes closed in anguish, Zhang Ruonan began to recount what had happened to Jiang Chengyu.

"My mom called the police."

"She told the police I was missing."

"Then this afternoon I received a call from the local police station in my hometown, and they asked me to go to the nearest police station to give a statement."

"I got home from the police station and immediately received a call from my mom."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Chengyu's expression turned sour, and he interrupted Zhang Ruonan.

"She speaks very rudely, doesn't she?"

Zhang Ruonan nodded: "Yes."

"Understood, no need to think about it carefully."

"Just tell me, besides yelling at you, what else did she say on the phone?"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Ruonan glanced timidly at Jiang Chengyu, but did not speak immediately.

Jiang Chengyu comforted him upon seeing this.

"Don't be afraid, with me here, what are you afraid of?"

"She wants money."

How much do you want?

Five million.

"Ha!" Jiang Chengyu snorted coldly, and continued, "What else did she say?"

She even said she would sue me.

"Sue you? Sue you for what?"

"She said she was going to sue me for not supporting them."

Jiang Chengyu was initially very angry, but upon hearing this, he couldn't help but want to laugh.

"How seriously ill must she be to say something like that?"

Did she say anything else?

As she finished speaking, Zhang Ruonan's eyes suddenly reddened, and when she spoke again, her voice was already trembling with sobs.

"She somehow found out about you."

"She told me that she would give her family one million yuan every year as living expenses from now on."

"If you don't give it to her, I'll take you to court."

She also said she would contact the media to smear your name.

Zhang Ruonan started crying as she spoke.

Seeing Zhang Ruonan's pretty face streaked with tears, Jiang Chengyu reached out and pulled her into his arms with a tender feeling.

"Silly girl, she's just trying to scare you, and you actually believed her?"

"Didn't Lawyer Wang take you back to his hometown back then?"

"That letter severing parent-child relationship has no legal effect."

"But you still paid her the full amount of the mandatory monthly alimony of two thousand."

"And those two are only in their early forties, right?"

"It's simply not time for us to be obligated to support each other."

"Don't worry, she's just trying to scare you."

"Even someone like me who doesn't understand the law knows they have no chance of winning."

Zhang Ruonan shook her head in Jiang Chengyu's arms.

"That's not what I'm worried about."

"She knows about you."

"If she sues me, it will definitely affect you."

"Then she said she'd contact the media to ruin your reputation, what should I do?"

Jiang Chengyu patted Zhang Ruonan's head: "What's so important about this?"

"Attorney Wang is the full-time legal counsel for Huanyu Real Estate."

"If someone wants to investigate, they can easily find out about me."

"Besides, she's going to contact the media to smear my reputation."

"She doesn't know, but you don't?"

"Even if our affair gets exposed, it'll just be another 'achievement' for me online."

"On the contrary, it's you... haha."

Jiang Chengyu seemed to have thought of something and suddenly chuckled.

"If our relationship were made public, it wouldn't affect me much, but it would have a huge impact on you."

"I reckon you'll probably get more offers for gigs than I will."

Zhang Ruonan caught Jiang Chengyu's teasing tone and reached out to pat him.

"Stop messing around, you know what I'm worried about."

"When I first started dating you..."

Jiang Chengyu interrupted, his words undoubtedly revealing his understanding.

Does she have any evidence?

Do you have any evidence?

Do I have any evidence?

"Neither of us are parties involved and we have any evidence. Who can believe her just by making things up?"

"You don't need to worry about it, leave this to me."

Jiang Chengyu's words were somewhat disregard for Zhang Ruonan's feelings.

But at this moment, Jiang Chengyu's attitude actually reassured Zhang Ruonan.

Quietly resting her head on Jiang Chengyu's chest, feeling his heartbeat for a few seconds, Zhang Ruonan looked up and said.

"It's getting late, shall I prepare a hot bath for you?"

Jiang Chengyu thought for a moment and said, "Then you go."

After watching Zhang Ruonan enter the restroom, Jiang Chengyu took out his phone and made a call.

"Lawyer Wang, I, Jiang Chengyu, have something to tell you."

After recounting what happened to Zhang Ruonan that afternoon, Jiang Chengyu shared his thoughts.

"Cut off the alimony payments you're sending her every month."

"Tell her that this money will only be sent to her when she really needs support."

"Then, given that she has four children, calculate the minimum amount Zhang Ruonan can give her and tell her."

"Tell her again to act like a dead person, and not to contact Zhang Ruonan all the time. Just shut up."

"If she can make me happy, I don't care about her small amount of money. I'll make sure the old couple can have a comfortable old age."

"If she insists on making a scene, she should think more about her precious son."

"Are you still in school?"

"And they even threatened to extort money from me?"

"What can't I do if I have money?!"

While chatting with Zhang Ruonan, Jiang Chengyu was suppressing his anger.

By calling Wang Lu, Jiang Chengyu finally vented his anger.

Who are the people in Zhang Ruonan's family?

No, that's giving them too much credit!

What kind of creatures live in her house?

Here is a brief introduction to Zhang Ruonan's family background.

Mr. and Mrs. Zhang were extremely sexist and favored sons over daughters.

In the era of the one-child policy, it was terrifying that her family could have four children!

The first three were girls, and the last one was a boy.

Zhang Ruonan is the eldest among them.

She was taught various traditional values ​​from a young age, with the preference for sons over daughters being the most important.

She was expected to ingrain caring for her younger brother into her very being, to shoulder an excessive amount of housework, and to fulfill her duties as a daughter by being filial to her parents...

Zhang Ruonan's academic performance wasn't great, but it wasn't terrible either.

But after she finished junior high school, her parents wouldn't let her continue her studies.

They suggested she drop out of school and go to another city to work and earn money to support her family.

Then Zhang Ruonan earns four or five thousand a month outside, but can only keep eight hundred; the rest all has to be sent home...