But the other friends were dissatisfied.

"Xu Ke, who do you think you are? That's your mother-in-law! Your second mother!"

"You cheated and you still have the nerve to act so high and mighty, yelling at everyone. Does the Siao family owe you something from a past life?"

"Get on your knees and apologize to them right now!"

Siao Jia had intentionally called over friends who were on good terms with her to speak on her behalf. In their minds, what Xu Ke had done was inexcusable, and anyone else would have said the same.

Xu Ke sneered. "Saying I cheated? Where's the evidence?"

"Hmph, you still dare ask for evidence?" one of the friends scoffed. He pressed the play button on the remote and threw the photos from the coffee table at Xu Ke's feet. "Here's the evidence you wanted."

Seeing Xu Ke's consistently calm demeanor, Siao Jia grew more and more uneasy. Impossible! He can't possibly have any more evidence.

The video on the TV soon finished playing. Xu Ke looked at the photos, watched the video, and said nothing.

Chang Xiujuan taunted, "Didn't expect there to be evidence, did you? Lost for words now, are you?"

Seeing Xu Ke remain silent, Shen Fen trembled with extreme disappointment. Their perfectly good family had been completely ruined by Xu Ke...

Just then, Xu Ke suddenly let out a laugh. "That's it?" His contempt was unmistakable.

Anger flashed in everyone's eyes. He still won't admit he's wrong, even now?

Siao Fan stood up, his neck stiff. "This is irrefutable evidence! What more proof do you need?"

Xu Ke shook his head. "What kind of evidence is this? There isn't even a single steamy scene."

A powerful sense of unease washed over Yang Qing and Siao Jia.

Xu Ke suddenly unzipped his backpack and pulled out a stack of papers—screenshots of chat logs!

Yang Qing's eyes widened.

Xu Ke held up a printout showing a transfer of 10,000.00 yuan. "Siao Jia, this is the transaction record for your tuition fee. When your mother tried to stop you from going to school, wasn't I the one who borrowed money and worked overtime to pay for it?"

Chang Xiujuan said sarcastically, "So what if you paid for her tuition? You two were about to get married; it was your duty! So petty, haggling over every little thing!"

"Calling me petty?" Xu Ke gave a placid smile and held up another chat log. "This shows the money from me working day and night to buy you holiday gifts. Did you ever reciprocate?"

Though feeling guilty, Siao Jia retorted stubbornly, "Didn't I give you something?"

"You mean that nineteen-ninetynine yuan backpack? The one you threw in the trash?" Xu Ke sneered.

Siao Jia didn't dare to argue back.

Seeing this, the crowd began to waver. Xu Zhenguo and Shen Fen were especially taken aback.

Then, Xu Ke pulled out a key, walked to the front door, and inserted it into the security lock. It wouldn't turn.

"I slaved away for three years and borrowed money from relatives to buy this new house, but my key no longer opens the lock. Did you know that?"

Everyone exchanged bewildered glances. Xu Zhenguo and Shen Fen's faces fell.

The lock on the new house had been changed? The Siao family members looked grim.

「At that moment.」

CLAP. CLAP. CLAP.

Yang Qing, who had been silent for some time, suddenly stepped forward, clapping slowly. "I have to say, this is quite an eye-opener," she sneered. "You've really come prepared, Xu Ke. Your ability to twist right and wrong is truly something else.

"You were the one who changed the lock on the new house. The key is in your pocket right now, yet you're accusing us?

"It's true you paid for Jia Jia's tuition and living expenses, but what does that have to do with you cheating on her?

"She's a graduate student, already poor and struggling. You really expect her to buy you gifts in return?

"Are you even human?"

Yang Qing cursed him angrily, but inwardly she was gloating. After seeing his 'evidence', I know I've won. Xu Ke is really out of tricks. Relying on such baseless, irrelevant proof! Doesn't this just show he has no hard evidence of Siao Jia cheating?

Hearing Yang Qing's words, the crowd had a sudden realization. Everything Xu Ke had said had nothing to do with him cheating.

They turned on him angrily. "You're still trying to change the subject at a time like this?!"

"He's afraid to face the truth! Doesn't that just prove he really cheated?"

"And he said there were no 'steamy' scenes? Ptooey! Messing around with women at the gym is steamy enough. He's completely clueless!"

The Siao family members regained their arrogant demeanor. But Xu Ke wasn't flustered at all. Instead, he just smiled. "Yang Qing, what's the rush? Did I say I was finished?"

Yang Qing's smug expression froze.

Xu Ke held up his phone. "Let me show everyone an interesting video." He projected it onto the TV, and all eyes turned to the screen.

This was the video Wong Qifu had sent him. Xu Ke sneered, his tone chillingly indifferent.

"You say I cheated on you?

"You say I beat you while you were pregnant?

"Siao Jia, what kind of bullshit are you spouting?"

As the video began to play, Siao Jia saw the content and her face turned deathly pale. Yang Qing was struck with absolute horror.

How is this possible?

The first clip was from a hotel's security camera, timestamped one month ago. For seven consecutive days, at the exact same time, Siao Jia and Li Jun could be seen walking past the front desk, entering the elevator, and going into a room together.

The second clip was from a bar's surveillance camera, timestamped yesterday, at the Golden K Bar. It showed Siao Jia being viciously slapped across the face by Li Jun!

The video ended. The living room fell into a dead silence. Everyone stood completely dumbfounded.

Xu Ke then threw down a stack of photos, his gaze as sharp as a blade. "Siao Jia, let me tell you, *this* is what you call evidence."

The photos showed Siao Jia and Li Jun passionately kissing in an elevator.

Shen Fen felt a pain as if her heart were being cut. Xu Zhenguo's face was ashen. They had wronged their own son!

"No, that's not..." Siao Jia's mind was in turmoil. She couldn't believe Xu Ke had so much evidence.

The friends she had called over were already starting to distance themselves from her. They finally understood. From the very beginning, they had been played.

"No!" Yang Qing shrieked, her face panicked. "You edited all of this! It's all fake!"

"Fake?" Xu Ke replied with a smirk that wasn't quite a smile. "Funny, I haven't even mentioned how your video is fake yet."

He then played an audio recording. The sound was jumbled, but everyone could still hear it clearly. It contained the audio from the video Siao Jia had shown them earlier, covering the events of that morning. However, after listening to the full, unedited version, everyone's head snapped up. They glared furiously at Yang Qing and Siao Jia.

"Do you think it's fun playing us for idiots?!"

The content had been completely butchered by malicious editing! Looking at Xu Ke, flickers of guilt crossed their faces. They had just accused an innocent man based on a doctored video. They had nearly become Siao Jia's accomplices!

Yang Qing's face was as white as a sheet. How could he have been so thoroughly prepared?

As for the Siao family, they had given up all resistance. They were out of moves.

"And as for these photos?" Xu Ke bent down, picked up the gym photos from the floor, and scoffed. "The angles are clever, I'll give you that. But look closely. When did my hands ever actually touch any of them?"

Everyone looked closer and then ground their teeth in fury. They'd been tricked again! Another layer of anger toward Siao Jia and Yang Qing built up inside them.

Just then, Xu Ke walked over to Siao Jia and looked down at her. "You kept saying I abused you, didn't you? If I don't give you a little taste of it, wouldn't that be a disappointment?"

Xu Ke smiled, a smile that sent a chill down Siao Jia's spine. Her expression twisted in terror and she tried to back away, suddenly realizing what he was about to do.

She shrieked in panic, "Xu Ke, you dare!"

"Why wouldn't I?"

Siao Jia had assumed Xu Ke would be hesitant, that he wouldn't dare to actually hit her. But he simply raised his hand and brought it down in a heavy, powerful slap across her face.

SLAP!

The sharp crack of the slap echoed through the room.

"AHHHH!" Siao Jia shrieked, clutching her face as she crumpled to the floor in agony. The pain was unbearable!

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