After breaking off the engagement, she became the CEO's favorite

As the saying goes, ideals are full, but reality is skinny.

Lu Ranran and Shen Xiling buried themselves in piles of old papers for several days, analyzing each article word by word.

But no relevant clues were found.

When Cai Wenshu arrived at the lake villa carrying the thermos box, she was startled by the messy pile of papers in the living room and the two haggard figures among the papers.

Seeing Cai Wenshu, Lu Ranran and Shen Xiling just greeted her and then went back to work.

"Auntie Li," Cai Wenshu came to the kitchen and stopped Auntie Li who was busy working, "How long have they been like this?"

"Madam, please try to persuade them. They have been sitting there motionless for several days after dinner. What are they watching? Is it so good?"

Cai Wenshu recalled the recent rumors about "plagiarism".

Looking at the two busy people in the distance, she nodded thoughtfully and comforted Li Ma:

"You go and have a rest. I'll come and talk to them. Oh, I brought some soup. Go get a bowl."

After Li Ma left, Cai Wenshu walked over to the two of them and tapped lightly on one of the piles of magazines.

"Okay, stop busying yourself and come eat first."

"Grandma, we—"

Lu Ranran raised his head and smiled at Cai Wenshu with some embarrassment, and was about to explain that they wanted to find clues quickly.

Unexpectedly, Cai Wenshu walked straight towards Shen Xiling and grabbed his ear without any hesitation.

"Grandma, please be gentle..."

Shen Xiling felt pain, and the 1.80-meter-tall man was forced to stand up from the pile of papers with his back bent.

"Be gentle? I don't think you've learned your lesson, have you? I've told you so many times that even if you're writing a doctoral thesis, you can't get yourself into this state! And now you've corrupted Ranran..."

Cai Wenshu grabbed the person and led him to the kitchen, with no intention of letting go.

Lu Ranran was also startled when she saw this, and quickly dropped the magazine in her hand, stood up and followed.

On the table.

Shen Xiling and Lu Ranran sat next to each other, while Cai Wenshu sat opposite them, holding a soup spoon and serving a bowl of soup to each of them.

"Drink the soup first. Look at you guys, if you don't know, you might think you're fasting."

"Ranran, drink more." Cai Wenshu specially scooped a chicken leg for Lu Ranran, "You are so thin, grandma is so distressed."

Shen Xiling rubbed his ears, looked at his empty porcelain bowl with only soup in it, and couldn't help but complain:

"Grandma, why don't I have any chicken legs?"

"How dare you say that!" Cai Wenshu slapped the table lightly and said angrily, "How old are you? Why don't you take good care of yourself? What have you done to yourself?"

"I'm not that big..." Shen Xiling was a little helpless.

Lu Ranran lowered her head, but her slightly trembling shoulders betrayed her.

In the end, under Cai Wenshu's strong request and unfair distribution, Shen Xiling was forced to drink three bowls of soup, while Lu Ranran grabbed all the chicken legs.

The two's state gradually returned to that of human beings from wandering souls at the beginning.

Seeing this, Cai Wenshu's serious expression finally relaxed a little.

"Tell me, what's going on?"

"Why did I hear that you were accusing Chu Yue of plagiarism? You said that "Small Town Past" was not her script?"

Shen Xiling briefly explained what happened on behalf of Lu Ranran.

After saying that, Cai Wenshu frowned slightly again.

"I've known that old guy Su Wen for a long time, and he's a pretty good person..."

Lu Ranran asked:

"Grandma, did you hear Professor Su accuse my mother of plagiarism?"

When Lu Ranran was in front of Su Wen, Su Wen did not say it explicitly, but his hints got the answer from Mao Qiu and Zhao Ruo.

Cai Wenshu shook her head.

"As professors, we shouldn't interfere too much in our students' affairs, but," Cai Wenshu's expression suddenly became serious, "I absolutely don't believe An Ning plagiarized."

"This is all one-sided, Ranran, you have to believe your mother!"

Lu Ranran nodded firmly, "I believe it."

The current testimony of plagiarism comes from Yang Nian, and there is no physical evidence. It cannot be ruled out that Yang Nian harbored resentment towards Chu Yue and deliberately provoked her.

To be honest, Lu Ranran didn't believe Yang Nian, but she believed in people's choices based on their own interests.

When Zhao Ruo clearly pointed out that An Ning plagiarized Chu Yue, Lu Ranran asked Zhao Ruo a question in private.

"Do you believe my mother would plagiarize?"

Zhao Ruo was silent for a while and only gave an ambiguous answer.

"It's no use whether I believe it or not."

In other words, even if she knew the correct answer, she would not tell it, because there was a greater interest for her to lie. In this way, even if it was finally proved that An Ning did not copy the words, she could still shirk her memory.

It's better than offending Chu Yue now.

Cai Wenshu turned sideways and looked at the pile of books not far away. "So, are you looking for evidence in that pile of magazines?"

"Chu Yue said that these are my mother's belongings. We found that my mother published many articles in this magazine, so we wanted to see if there were any clues..." Lu Ranran sighed, "But..."

"Weekly Film Review..." Cai Wenshu stood up and walked to the pile of papers, picked up a magazine and flipped through it.

When turning to a certain page, Cai Wenshu paused.

"what?"

Shen Xiling and Lu Ranran looked at each other, then quickly stood up and walked to Cai Wenshu, leaning over to look at the page Cai Wenshu had opened.

It turned out that Cai Wenshu just turned to the front editing and publishing page, and there was nothing special about it.

But Cai Wenshu just stared at it for a while.

Shen Xiling asked:

"Grandma, did you find something..."

Cai Wenshu quickly closed the magazine and smiled a little unnaturally.

"No, I didn't see anything..."

As he said that, he put down the magazine and walked towards the sofa.

Shen Xiling naturally would not miss this opportunity and hurried to catch up with Cai Wenshu.

"Grandma, if you knew anything——"

"What can I know?" Cai Wenshu firmly rejected Shen Xiling's inquiry.

But after so many years in the business world, Shen Xiling has already mastered a set of negotiation skills.

"Well, if I can't get the answer from you, maybe I'll ask Grandpa. Who knows—"

"Pa!" Cai Wenshu slapped Shen Xiling on the shoulder mercilessly, "You damn boy, you dare to threaten me!"

Shen Xiling quickly smiled and said:

"How dare I? If you tell me——"

"what?"

Lu Ranran, who was sitting on the pile of old papers, asked a question, interrupting the conversation between the two people on the sofa.

She was seen holding two magazines in each hand, both of which were turned to the editing and publishing pages.

"I discovered that there was an editor who had been there since the very beginning."

"After all the other editors had been replaced, he was still there, and it seemed that he was the editor of my mother's articles."

"Do you think he might know something?"

Unlike Lu Ranran's eyes that were sparkling with joy due to her new discovery, Shen Xiling secretly glanced at Cai Wenshu, and Cai Wenshu's smile froze on her lips.