Chapter 106: Scum Gong Regret; Winning a Round / Proactively Admitting He Is…
The air in the courtroom seemed to freeze in an instant; one could hear a pin drop.
Every gaze was fixed on the figure at the entrance. Wasn’t Jiang Chenyan dead? How could he be standing there, alive and well?
In the gallery, the media reporters who had been looking down at their notes were the first to react. Almost reflexively, they raised their holographic cameras, the lenses clicking frantically as they took rapid-fire photos of Jiang Chenyan’s face.
The livestream traffic instantly broke peak records, and the comments section was flooded with shock and skepticism: “Is this fake?” “Is it a body double?”
Thousands of miles away in a classroom at the Alliance Military Academy, a sudden “Holy shit!” broke the silence.
The professor’s pointer fell to the ground. He spun around sharply. “It’s one thing if you don’t listen to the lecture, but I’ve tolerated your private chatting and passing notes! We are currently discussing strategic defense—who gave you the nerve to shout out loud?”
As he spoke, the student who had shouted “Holy shit!” was already holding up his optical computer with trembling hands. The screen was showing the live broadcast of the trial.
His voice shook. “No, Professor! Look! Jiang Chenyan is alive! He’s really alive!”
The professor was speechless. “…”
The sentence was like a bomb exploding in the classroom.
The students froze for a moment before collectively pulling out their optical computers.
When Jiang Chenyan appeared on countless screens, the classroom was instantly filled with the sound of gasps.
“It’s actually true! He’s really alive…”
“Then where has he been these past two years? Didn’t the Alliance officials say there were no remains left?”
“This plot is too explosive. Could there be some kind of twist?”
…
Under the spotlights of the courtroom, Jiang Chenyan ignored the uproar and the stares. He led the people behind him toward the plaintiff’s area, step by step.
Jiang Chenyan stopped in front of Old Master Jiang and bowed slightly. “Sorry, Grandfather. I’m late.”
The old man’s body jolted, and his cloudy eyes widened. “You are… Chenyan?”
Jiang Chenyan nodded solemnly to reassure him. “Mhm, it’s me. A lot has indeed happened over the years that caused you suffering, but I am indeed Jiang Chenyan. I’m alive.”
The judge suddenly slammed the gavel, breaking the commotion in the room. “Silence! Jiang Chenyan has been declared dead. How can you prove you are him?”
“Bloodline does not lie.” Jiang Chenyan looked up at the judge. “I have already done a genetic identification in advance. The report is in the hands of my aide. If anyone present still has doubts, we can do it again right now, fully public.”
His gaze slowly swept across the defendant’s seats, finally landing on Qi Bai and Mu Sian.
Qi Bai’s eyelids were lowered, his fingers tapping the tabletop. He still maintained his calm and breezy appearance, but his tightly pursed lips betrayed a hint of tension.
Mu Sian, however, was already unable to maintain his mask of composure. His fingers were trembling uncontrollably beneath the table. The person he had been longing for wasn’t dead? Where had he been hiding all these years?
Facing the doubts of the entire room, Jiang Chenyan spoke slowly, explaining the truth behind his “death” back then. “I don’t know exactly how I survived either; perhaps it was luck. There was a lake near the area where I fell. When I woke up, I had already been rescued, but I had lost all my memories at the time. I only fully recovered them recently.”
The people in the room whispered to each other. Everyone knew that although there were lakes in the area where Jiang Chenyan fell, it was surrounded by vast dense forests, making the survival rate slim.
As for the details of his rescue, Jiang Chenyan didn’t say much, leaving enough room for everyone’s imagination.
“Since I am alive, the Jiang family’s industries cannot fall into the hands of outsiders.”
Hearing this, Qi Bai looked up, his gaze colliding with Jiang Chenyan’s. His eyes darkened inch by inch, an undercurrent surging in his ink-dark pupils that no one could decipher. His long lashes hid a flash of complex emotion.
“Naturally,” Qi Bai said. “But the technical documents of the Jiang family privately tampering with weapon core parameters, and those encrypted communication records—every single one of them proves they are a threat to interstellar stability. With these things out in the open, it makes things very difficult for us.”
Jiang Chenyan had changed. Qi Bai could be certain of that. He used to be easier to understand, though he was also very disobedient and opposed him at every turn.
“Besides, doesn’t your identity also represent the Alliance?” Qi Bai’s tone shifted. “If I recall correctly, you were a student who graduated early from the Alliance Military Academy due to outstanding performance, weren’t you?”
Jiang Chenyan frowned at this. Qi Bai had become quite shameless over the years. “The Alliance is the Alliance, and the Jiang family is the Jiang family. I haven’t even stepped through the doors of the Alliance—what kind of Alliance person am I?”
The faces of many people changed as soon as he said this. Jiang Chenyan’s words were practically smashing the Alliance’s brand in front of the entire galaxy. One must know how many people fought to enter the threshold of the Alliance, yet he cast aside this supreme glory as if it were trash.
A chill flashed through Qi Bai’s eyes. He somewhat understood this person’s nature—he was immune to both the soft and hard approach, and he had always been the hardest to control.
Sometimes he also worried about why this person was always like this, acting against his will.
What a pity. Back then, he was just one step away from marking him.
Qi Bai gathered his thoughts. Just as he was about to speak, Mu Sian beside him seemed to know what he was going to do and suddenly reached out to stop him.
Qi Bai raised an eyebrow, his tone carrying a trace of playful mockery: “What? Your heart aches? But he hasn’t even bothered to look at you from start to finish.”
Qi Bai was speaking the truth. Mu Sian’s face turned ashen, and he couldn’t say a word.
Seeing this, the cold smile on Qi Bai’s lips grew even sharper.
He looked up at Jiang Chenyan and spoke slowly, enunciating each word: “But then again, as an Omega, how much inheritance right could you possibly have?”
An uproar instantly broke out in the courtroom.
Watching the bodies of Shen Shiyue and Jiang Chenyan stiffen almost simultaneously, Qi Bai sneered in his heart.
As expected, Shen Shiyue was aware of most of Jiang Chenyan’s secrets. These two must have had many private trysts over the years.
Since he couldn’t have the person, he would simply destroy him. It was better to perish together than to let someone else have him.
The cameras focused precisely on Jiang Chenyan’s face. The high-definition images magnified his pursed lips and the coldness in his eyes with total clarity.
Jiang Chenyan could clearly feel the gazes coming from all directions. The irritation in his heart was about to break through his reason; all these people were waiting to see him deny it in a panic, to see him in a wretched state.
Everyone thought Jiang Chenyan would deny or explain, but he was only silent for an instant before curling his lips into a faint, very light laugh.
He lifted his eyes and spoke clearly and with certainty: “Yes. I am an Omega.”
The room fell into a deathly silence. Simultaneously, the livestream server crashed completely as the number of viewers exploded exponentially, far exceeding the platform’s capacity.
The moment Jiang Chenyan admitted his identity, the military academy classroom fell into an eerie silence, followed by a burst of discussion.
A girl sitting in the front row dropped her pen onto her notebook and was the first to cry out: “An Omega!?”
“I couldn’t have heard that wrong, could I?”
Someone pulled up Jiang Chenyan’s training records from the academy. He could take down several Alphas at once—it was completely incompatible with the “Omega” label.
It seemed their stereotypical impression of Omegas was far too rigid.
“My head is a mess right now—how did he, an Omega, manage to dodge all those layers of testing?!”
“Mainly because Jiang Chenyan was so good at beating people up that no one really suspected it.”
“…”
Jiang Chenyan looked around the room, not swaying in the slightest because of the shock of the crowd. “So what?”
“Article 1300 of the Interstellar Alliance Inheritance Law clearly stipulates: The decedent may, through a legal and valid will, designate any natural person with full civil capacity as the heir to the estate, without restriction by gender, secondary gender, or blood relationship. The Jiang family’s industries are to be inherited as designated by the will personally drawn up by my Eldest Brother, Jiang Xuanshen. The document will be certified by the Interstellar Notary Office and possesses the highest legal validity.”
The lawyer behind Jiang Chenyan bowed and took out an encrypted USB drive and a sealed envelope from his briefcase. It turned out Jiang Xuanshen had anticipated this; before he died, he drew up a will to pave the way for Jiang Chenyan.
“The audio can be played in court, and the copies of the documents can be verified by everyone.” Jiang Chenyan picked up one of the reports. “My Eldest Brother said that everything he owns belongs to me.”
The ripples finally appeared in Qi Bai’s dead-pool eyes.
At that moment, the audio began to play. Jiang Xuanshen’s steady voice echoed through the speakers across the entire room, every word declaring the ownership of the property beyond any doubt.
The subordinates behind Qi Bai and Mu Sian couldn’t hold back. One stood up and rebuked Jiang Chenyan: “You disguised yourself as an Alpha to enter the military academy—that’s not legal at all!”
Not legal? Jiang Chenyan wanted to laugh. “First, I never caused even a bit of damage to the academy’s interests. Second, I broke several records at the academy—is that not the most powerful proof? There is nothing wrong with an Omega standing on the academy’s training grounds.”
The other party was speechless, standing frozen with a face that shifted between green and white.
The relationship between Omegas and Alphas was a sensitive minefield in the galaxy. With Jiang Chenyan making it so public, the expressions of many present were unsightly.
Jiang Chenyan signaled for the lawyer to present the verification report for the arms industries. “Additionally, all the production qualifications and safety inspection reports for the arms industries under the Jiang family are here. They can accept dual verification from the military and the public at any time. They will absolutely not pose any threat to public safety.”
Once those words were spoken, the situation completely reversed.
Qi Bai couldn’t find any excuse for a rebuttal for the time being.
The pendulum of the gilded clock made a rhythmic sound in the silent hall. Jiang Chenyan stood in the center of the interweaving light and shadows as his lawyers presented stack after stack of perfectly sealed documents. These were the iron-clad proofs that he and Shen Shiyue’s group had stayed up all night with bloodshot eyes to find in the archives of the Jiang family’s old manor.
Everything was there—from industry cash flows and equity certificates to the compliance records of weapon production and Jiang Xuanshen’s personal handwritten approvals during his lifetime.
Jiang Chenyan looked down at the edges of the documents, the corners of his lips curling into a very faint arc. He was never fighting alone.
Qi Bai sat in his seat as cracks appeared in his usually cold eyes. He became increasingly convinced that Jiang Chenyan’s “amnesia” claim was nonsense. How could someone who lost their memories be so clear-headed and gather so much evidence overnight?
The judge sat on the high platform, fine beads of sweat breaking out on his forehead. The gavel in his hand hung in mid-air, but the result was already obvious.
…
When they walked out of the court, Jiang Chenyan was pushing the old man.
The plaza outside the court was already packed with reporters. The moment the two appeared under the porch, blinding flashes exploded instantly, and the clicking of shutters mixed with various questions surged toward them.
“Mr. Jiang Chenyan, how do you feel about this victory?”
“Did you really lose your memory for two years?”
…
The bodyguards were prepared. They quickly formed a human wall, isolating the crazy lenses and microphones.
Jiang Chenyan lowered his eyes, pushing the wheelchair toward the security passage at the side door with an expressionless face.
He had won after all.
Those deeply entrenched industries involving weapons were now entirely in his hands.
The light in the security passage was dim, with only the emergency lights casting flickering shadows on the walls.
The air was filled with the smell of dust and disinfectant, so quiet that the breathing of the two could be heard.
The old man suddenly reached out and patted the back of Jiang Chenyan’s hand on the armrest. “You’ve suffered a lot these past few years, haven’t you?”
Jiang Chenyan’s fingers paused for a moment before returning to normal. He looked at the deep passage ahead. “No.”
The old man gave a heavy sigh, his cloudy eyes reflecting Jiang Chenyan’s slender figure.
He knew all too well that the child before him was not as simple as he appeared on the surface.
Moreover, he was an Omega. In this Alpha-dominated galaxy, the price an Omega had to pay to reach this step was far more than that of an ordinary person.
Jiang Chenyan lowered his eyes. “You have the most authority in the Jiang family. The people under my Eldest Brother usually only recognize seniority, not people. There will surely be those who don’t submit to me. You’ll have to help me then.”
“Alright,” the old man responded. Currently, with the Jiang family facing troubles both inside and out, the people he could trust were few and far between. He truly had to rely on Jiang Chenyan.
Jiang Chenyan personally escorted the old man onto his private airship. Once the hatch closed, he turned to look at the shadows at the street corner, where Kai Lan and the others’ car was waiting.
Next, he had to quickly take over the industries and purge the remaining forces that refused to obey.
The airship roared as it rose into the sky, its tail flame drawing a sharp arc across the sky.
Almost simultaneously, another small starship landed silently on the nearby landing pad, the low drone of its engine covered by the wind.
Jiang Chenyan didn’t notice the sudden visitor and continued walking forward.
Just as he was about to turn the street corner, a low voice rang out from behind him, carrying an uncontrollable tremor as it called his name accurately: “Jiang Chenyan, is it really you?”
When Xie Huaijin saw the live broadcast from outside the court on the monitor, he confirmed the news that Jiang Chenyan was alive. Ignoring the attempts of his subordinates to stop him, he grabbed his coat and rushed into the flight vehicle. He rushed to the courthouse at maximum speed, thinking of nothing else but seeing Jiang Chenyan one more time.
When that familiar figure truly appeared before his eyes at the street corner, Xie Huaijin’s heart almost jumped out of his chest.
A living person—it was so good.
Over the years, Xie Huaijin had been startled awake countless times in the middle of the night by the image of the airship falling. Regret had gnawed at his heart like a poisonous snake. Only now, seeing Jiang Chenyan’s vibrant form, did he realize that the root of that surging regret and unquenchable longing was love. He had unknowingly fallen in love with the other person long ago.
On the other side, Jiang Chenyan stopped when he heard the voice. When he turned and saw Xie Huaijin’s face, his brow furrowed. Even if Xie Huaijin had never participated in the plot to destroy the Jiang family, Jiang Chenyan still loathed the man.
Xie Huaijin felt a pang in his heart, his face turning deathly pale from the undisguised disgust and murderous intent in Jiang Chenyan’s eyes.
True. How could he hope for Jiang Chenyan’s forgiveness?
Back then, it was because of his own obsession that he forced Jiang Chenyan to jump from such a high altitude.
Xie Huaijin regretted it beyond words. “I’m sorry.”
This apology had come very late.
It was as if Jiang Chenyan had heard something unbelievable. He slowly turned around and mocked, “A piece of trash like you actually knows how to say ‘I’m sorry’? Are you trying to disgust me on purpose?”
The color drained from Xie Huaijin’s face, his heart aching. His voice carried an urgent, near-supplicating tone: “I’ve always wanted to compensate you. Give me a chance.”
“I don’t need it.”
In Jiang Chenyan’s view, Xie Huaijin’s apology was nothing but crocodile tears. Could the sub-human actions from back then be wiped away with a single sentence of compensation?
Xie Huaijin watched Jiang Chenyan’s retreating back. He reached out, wanting to grab something, but only caught the cold air.
That “I don’t need it” was like a knife stabbing into Xie Huaijin’s heart, making his eyes turn slightly red with pain.
Xie Huaijin gave a bitter smile. He truly regretted it.
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