The Sweet Rival (Mango Shen and Nathaniel Ye)
Chapter 981

"What's the matter? I thought they dropped the issue. So, why is it trending even worse now?"

Mr. Shen couldn't catch his breath, and he fainted immediately. Thus, Mrs. Shen had no choice but to call his students herself.

After investigating, his student found out that the topic was trending again because of Nathaniel's orders.

Nathaniel was a powerful figure!

Nobody in the entire Ocean City dared to reject him.

Mrs. Shen knew what was going on after the student told her what had happened.

"Urgh! Mango did this! How dare she attack us so ruthlessly? How did she become like this?"

Mrs. Shen could not accept this fact.

Mr. Shen's gaze darkened, and he said in a low voice, "I remember that she was just seven years old when I drew that drawing. She was so young but had such a good memory, and she even remembered it after so many years. I guess underestimated how calculative she could be all these years!"

"Calculative? She's just..."

Before Mrs. Shen could finish her words, she was shocked by Mr. Shen's gaze.

"I heard that she opened a film production company in B City, but it isn't famous yet. Hah! I should return the favour since she's so ruthless! Call the news organization. I want to expose something." "What do you want to do?"

Mrs. Shen was a little worried.

Mr. Shen said coldly, "What's the worst that could happen? I need to do something for my biological daughter, no matter what. Now that Mango has made such a big fuss out of this, my connections will definitely be affected too. Plus, someone has to be responsible for this plagiarism incident. Heh...I won't let her go now that she dares to report us!"

Suddenly, a new piece of news broke out all over the internet.

It was said Mango was the one who drew the plagiarized painting, not Mr. Shen.

She was only seven years old at that time, and she wanted to test out her drawing skills, so she drew a drawing like this. Mr. Shen amended her artwork later on and wrote his own name on it because he was afraid that the public would criticise her for doing this.

This news trended all over Twitter once it was released.

Mr. Shen said with grief that he never realized that it was Edvard Munch's artwork. He just loved his daughter. Thus, he was willing to take the blame if the public didn't want to drop this issue. Mango couldn't help but sneer when she saw this.

She never knew that Mr. Shen was so shameless!

How could he blame this incident on a seven-year-old child? Of course, people would believe what he said as she was a designer, and she had shown off her skills when she was young. Furthermore, Mr. Shen's disciples acted as his witnesses. Thus, this pushed Mango to the centre of attention.

Not long after this news broke out, another media reported that Mango was the one who had used her money to hire someone to expose the matter of Edvard Munch's descendant suing Mr. Shen. This was because Mr. Shen's biological daughter, Gisella, had come back and stolen her parents from her. Hence, Mango did all of these because she was unhappy about this.

Furthermore, the media said that Mango had used her relationship with Nathaniel to confiscate all of Mr. Shen's properties. She even accused Gisella of some unknown crimes and put the latter into prison. Therefore, Mr. Shen used up all his assets to rescue his daughter.

Mr. Shen had sent his daughter to overseas over the night because he was afraid that Mango would harm his daughter again.

Of course, he had contacted Gisella to get her to post some pitiful stories on Twitter. Therefore, Nathaniel and Mango wouldn't be able to turn the tables around by then, no matter how powerful they were. After all, he could ruin both their careers by cyberbullying!

A cold smile appeared on Mango's lips when she saw all of these.

"Hah... Mr. Shen really used a lot of effort to ruin my reputation for the sake of her biological daughter."

Mango was lying on the bed, and the wound on her back was burning with pain.

She was the victim, but she never expected the public to attack her instead.

Did Mr. Shen really think that she wouldn't stand up for herself and seek justice?

Nathaniel's face also darkened.

Mr. Shen was obviously trying to ruin Mango!

How could he treat this daughter whom he raised and doted for twenty years so ruthlessly?

"Leave it to me. I promise to clear your name."

Mango knew that Nathaniel would keep his promises once he had given his word.

She thought for a moment and whispered, "Oh well, even if he plans to blame me, I can choose not to agree to it, right? Why do I have to accept all the sh*t that he's dumping on me?" "Do you have an idea?"

Nathaniel's eyes, which were fixed on Mango, suddenly became slightly mesmerized.

He really liked Mango's how Mango looked when she was crafty.

The last time he saw Mango so confident was when she was talking about her design. At that time, she had a brilliant look on her face as she was dealing with something that she was passionate about. Nathaniel's heart skipped a beat as he saw her looking so confident again.

Of course, Mango did not ignore the expression in Nathaniel's eyes.

After all, she believed that all women should have their own career after marriage too.

She was also a fool as she had obediently stayed at home after she became Mrs. Ye. Thus, she had even almost ruined her own future!

Now that she had her own goals, she could make plans to achieve them.

Mango shook her head and put these thoughts aside for the time being. She said in a low voice, "I remember that Mr. Shen did this painting when I was young. I was listening to the MP3 player when he talked about this matter. At the time, I turned on the recording function because I was learning a new song. Ah... I don't know whether I can find the players. Even if I manage to find it, I'm not sure if we can still play the recordings inside it!"

"Don't worry. This is a minor issue. I'll get someone to go to the Shen family to look for it. Does anyone else know about this matter?"

"No, Mr. and Mrs. Shen weren't alert at the time, so they wouldn't think that there will be something inside the MP3 player. Hmm... if I'm not mistaken, it should still be in the storeroom. Nathaniel called Ned to go to the Shen family to find the MP3 player just as Mango finished her words.

Seeing how positive Nathaniel was, Mango smiled and said, "Anyways, it might not qualify as evidence even if we find it. After all, it's just a recording. Mr. Shen could just accuse us of faking it."

"I'm sure that he has left traces of plagiarism somehow. Maybe I'll get someone to check his work throughout these years thoroughly. There have to be some clues!"

Nathaniel did not find it troublesome.

Mango immediately thought of something as she heard him say this.

"By the way, I remembered that I have one of Mr. Shen's paintings. It was one that he mortgaged so that he could pay for Gisella's violin fees. I was kind to help them redeem it after they have left. Um... I wanted to return it to Mr. Shen one day because he really cherished that painting. However, I got busy with something after that and forgot about this. I think we probably can find some clues in this painting since he likes it so much."

Nathaniel narrowed his eyes slightly after listening to her words.

"Hmm... no matter how one treasures their artwork, they will never keep it away this carefully, right?"

"The drawings Mr. Shen treasured were all well-known. I've never doubted the originality of his drawings, but it looks like we can start investigating from here."

"Alright, leave it to me."

Nathaniel patted Mango's head and said gently, "What do you want to eat? I'll make something for you."

"No, I don't have any appetite..."

Mango really did not want to eat anything.

Her back hurt so much that it was burning hot, and slight movement would affect her nerves. So, how could she have an appetite at this time?

Nathaniel suddenly narrowed his eyes as he saw the wounds on Mango's body.

"Mr. Shen always portrayed you as a heinous criminal, and he always mentioned how innocent Gisella was. Hah! I wonder how embarrassed he will be when other people find out how ruthless Gisella can be! Nathaniel's tone was solemn, and he sounded as if he wanted to kill someone. However, Mango knew that he was worried about her.

"Hmm... what can we do, though? Gisella probably would never leave any evidence of her whipping me. Plus, Diago was the one that found that place. I don't think he would set up a camera to watch me, right?"

Nathaniel blinked when he heard Mango's words.

"Maybe he would..."

"What?"

Nathaniel called Ned in a hurry.

"Bring Diago up for an interrogation. Ask him if there are any monitoring equipment near the place where he kidnapped the Mango."

Ned quickly did as Nathaniel instructed, even though he did not know why Nathaniel gave such an order.

Ned came back with some news not long after that.

"Mr. Ye, Diago said that there are cameras."

"Really?"

Mango and Nathaniel were both stunned as they did not expect this answer.

Ned continued, "Yes. Diago said that they didn't allocate any guards there because there were cameras there to monitor Madam. Plus, Madam was being tied very tightly, so they weren't afraid that she would escape. He wanted to look at Madam's panic and anxious state from the camera and take action against her when she slowly lost her will. However, Madam got into trouble before they could even take any action."

Mango was a little speechless by this explanation.

Diago was... was insane!

However, they had a chance to expose the truth because of this.

"I'll do it."

Nathaniel immediately understood what Mango wanted to do when he saw how she was looking at him.

It would be unsafe to ask other people to get this clip forthem. Therefore, Nathaniel decided to do it personally as he was an expert in hacking, so it was easy for him to hack into the system to get the clip. When Mango saw that Nathaniel was volunteering, she smiled and said, "Thank you, honey."

"Hmm? What did you call me?"

Nathaniel's mood suddenly became much more cheerful.

Mango lowered her head and stopped talking, but the corners of her mouth were slightly raised.

Nathaniel knew that she purposely did not want to say it.

"You don't want to divorce me anymore?"

He gently wrapped his hands around her neck and asked intimately.

"You're on probation!"

Mango did not reject him immediately, and she gave him a vague answer. However, to Nathaniel, this was a good start.

"Alright. You're welcome to assess me anytime!"

Nathaniel took his laptop over as he smiled faintly. He then quickly hacked into Diago's computer system and found the footage of Gisella whipping Mango effortlessly.

In the video, Gisella's expression was vicious, and everyone could see how she was whipping Mango harshly

When Nathaniel looked at the footage, he felt as if he was experiencing what Mango went through. He was enraged and was close to losing his temper!