Chapter 162 Wangwang Group

"Good morning, honey." Zhao Chen's voice was clear and pleasant, with the refreshing feeling of waking up in the morning. He walked to Yu Ling and very naturally placed the pleasing fruit plate on the coffee table in front of her, blocking Su Xiao's distorted smiling face on the computer screen.

"Eat some fruit to supplement your Vitamin C." He sat down on the carpet beside Yu Ling, his long legs bent casually, his posture relaxed and intimate. He picked up a fruit fork, picked up a plump and juicy strawberry, and handed it to Yu Ling's slightly chapped lips very naturally. "Old Wang grills a lot of heat, eat this to cool down."

The sweet aroma of strawberries filled her nose. Yu Ling looked at Zhao Chen's face, which was so close to her, and which was filled with the concern of a "good family husband." Then she looked at Lidya Su on the screen, who had finally stopped laughing and was trying hard to suppress his expression as he watched the show. A surge of anger shot up her forehead!

"Zhao Chen!" Yu Ling suddenly waved away the strawberry he handed over, her voice trembling slightly with excitement and anger, pointing to the screenshot of the business registration information of "Wangwang Shiba Inu Pet Products Wholesale Co., Ltd." sent by Su Xiao on the computer screen.

"What the hell is going on?! 'Woof Woof Shiba Inu'? The legal representative is Wangcai?! Is this your 'company'?! You used to sell dog food?! And you let your dog be the boss?!"

She bombarded him with questions, each word filled with anger at being fooled.

Zhao Chen paused in mid-air as she waved his hand away, the poor strawberry falling to the carpet. He looked down at the dusty strawberry, a barely perceptible frown on his face. Then he looked up at Yu Ling, a perfectly balanced expression of… surprise and helplessness?

"Wangcai's snack shop?" He repeated it, his tone a bit confused as to "Why do you think of asking this?" Then, as if he remembered something long ago and insignificant, he sighed softly, and even a nostalgic smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

"Oh, you mean that." He took a tissue and slowly wiped off the strawberry juice on his fingertips.

"That was a long time ago. When Wangcai was little, he was a picky eater. He wouldn't eat any of the dog food available in the market and he always had diarrhea. I had no choice but to research the recipe myself and have a contract manufacturer make some. Later, my dog ​​friends tried it and praised it, so they urged me to register a company to sell it and help supplement Wangcai's food expenses."

He picked up another strawberry from the fruit bowl and took a bite himself. His tone was casual, as if he was talking about something happening in his neighbor's house.

"Wangcai chose the name himself by drawing lots. He liked to hold the Shiba Inu stuffed animal in his mouth. We used his name to save time when registering the restaurant. We started it on a small scale, but after less than a year, Wangcai got tired of the formula, and there were some hygiene issues at the contract manufacturer, so we closed it down."

He shrugged, his face as if he was just a young fool. "It's been three years since the bankrupt, why did you suddenly think of checking this?"

The look he gave Yu Ling was clear and innocent, even with a hint of concern, as if to say, "Wife, are you feeling nostalgic because of too much work pressure?"

God damn Wangcai draws his own lot! God damn subsidizes food rations! God damn got tired of the recipe and closed down!

Yu Ling and Su Xiao (via video) were both speechless at this outrageous yet "reasonable" explanation!

Lidya Su wordlessly mouthed "I give up" on the other side of the screen and rolled his eyes.

Yu Ling's chest heaved violently. Looking at Zhao Chen's sincere face, she felt as if all her strength was hitting cotton.

She'd spent the entire morning searching, to no avail, and all she found was a dog food store that had been closed for three years! How different was this from the shocking "Bankrupt Pancake Man Foundation freezing the Gu family's billions of assets in the Cayman Islands"?

Was it really… that I was being overly suspicious? Had Gu Qianqian driven me crazy? Were all those so-called "suspicions" just coincidences and misunderstandings?

A deep sense of exhaustion and powerlessness washed over her once again, even more intense than last night. She hung her head in frustration, her finger unconsciously scrolling the mouse wheel as pages of "No such company" and "No such person" flashed across the screen.

As she was rolling, a thought popped into her mind like a ghost without any warning.

Shiba Inu…

Shiba Inu on an insulated box.

The Shiba Inu mark behind the ear.

Shiba Inu on a refrigerator sticker.

The Shiba Inu LOGO (? ) of the gaming team.

The bankrupt "Wangwang Shiba Inu" dog food store...

And the ubiquitous "Bankrupt Pancake Man Foundation" codenamed "Shiba Inu"...

All the clues, no matter how absurd, eventually converged on the same point strangely!

Yu Ling's heart beat uncontrollably!

She seemed to have grasped at straws, like she was putting all her eggs in one basket. She stopped searching for "Zhao Chen," "company," or "Stanford."

With trembling fingers, she entered two extremely simple Chinese characters into the browser search bar with an almost desperate impulse:

"Shiba Inu"

Then, he pressed the Enter key hard!

The screen was refreshed instantly.

Search results cascaded down.

Pet encyclopedia, cute pet videos, Shiba Inu emoticons, Shiba Inu cafes... countless irrelevant information fills the screen.

Yu Ling's heart sank. Sure enough... it was just her own random thoughts again...

Just when she was about to give up and move her finger away from the mouse—

At the bottom of the search results page, an inconspicuous link without any advertising logo quietly comes into view.

The link title contained only four words, but it split the fog in Yu Ling's eyes like a flash of lightning:

Wangwang Group

No suffix, no explanation, it's eerily concise.

Yu Ling held her breath instantly! For some unknown reason, she moved her mouse and clicked on the link.

Pages load extremely quickly, almost instantly.

An extremely simple, even plain web page interface was clearly presented in front of Yu Ling.

No fancy animations, no lengthy company introductions, no complicated navigation bars.

In the entire page, there is only one huge Shiba Inu logo in the center, which almost takes up the entire screen!

The lines are round and smooth, the shape is naive, the mouth is grinning, but the eyes have a hint of cunning and unfathomableness that looks down on the world!

It was the image she had vaguely seen countless times on the insulated boxes, behind Zhao Chen's ears, on refrigerator magnets, and behind those "coincidences"! Now it was magnified to the extreme, carrying a silent, majestic pressure!

Below the logo, there is only one line of English in the same huge and cold font:

WANG HOLDINGS

(Wangwang Holdings)

The entire page was completely empty. No address, no phone number, no email address, no business description. It was as clean as a blank sheet of paper, yet as heavy as a silent iceberg, revealing only a mysterious tip.

Yu Ling's pupils suddenly contracted to their limit! Her blood seemed to freeze at that moment! She stared intently at the huge Shiba Inu logo and the cold English words on the screen, her mind blank!

"Woof...Woof...Group...?" She murmured unconsciously, her voice dry and hoarse.

"Wangwang Group?" Zhao Chen, who was sitting next to her, seemed to have heard something interesting. He leaned over and looked at Yu Ling's computer screen.

When he saw the huge Shiba Inu logo and "WANG HOLDINGS" on the screen, a very natural smile with a bit of curiosity and appreciation appeared on his face.

"Huh? This Shiba Inu logo is really well designed. Quite impressive," Zhao Chen commented, his tone casual and relaxed, as if he were admiring an insignificant piece of art. He even extended his finger and swiped across the touchpad, but the page still only displayed the logo, nothing else.

"Wangwang Group?" He repeated the name, a playful smile on his lips, and turned to look at Yu Ling, who was shocked and looked as if she was under a spell. The eyes behind the gold-rimmed glasses were clear and frank, with a hint of just the right amount of doubt and ridicule?

"What's up, honey?" He picked up a sparkling blueberry from the fruit bowl and naturally fed it to Yu Ling's slightly open mouth due to shock. His voice was low and gentle, with a hint of coaxing, "Do you want to change the brand of dog food for Wangcai?"