The man in the surveillance video was wearing a suit, holding a cup of coffee, and was dressed reasonably neatly.

But if this person doesn't have a familiar face.

In a busy office area, it is not uncommon for people to drink coffee during their free time to relax, but if you walk around with a cup of coffee and follow someone with an obvious purpose, three days is enough to be certain.

The person in the surveillance video was not just anyone. He was not some manager in Chen’s company, nor was he an ordinary employee. Instead, he was a person that the Chen family was very familiar with - Chen Liyao.

Chen Jianting's son came to work for Chen in 2000 and was arranged by him to study in a department in the administrative district where the work was easy.

Special Assistant Xu went out with a confusing order, and just after he went out, he suddenly thought of something.

That's not right. Assistant Zhou is Chen Ershao's subordinate. Can he just take this leave casually?

After Special Assistant Xu left, Chen Shiming called Chen Qizhao.

The latter was still in the office. After Chen Shiming answered the call, he spoke directly: "It is most likely Chen Liyao. He is indeed a person that none of us would doubt."

Chen's company has recently tightened its internal controls, and many middle and senior management are walking with their tails between their legs, fearing that the fire of the internal review will get on them.

Coupled with the much-rumored wave of layoffs at Chen's, most employees are also working diligently at their posts. After the incident with Jiang Yuze's computer, Chen Shiming focused on the investigation of key figures. He thought that the person involved in Jiang Yuze's computer incident might be someone on the known list, so he focused on those people.

But I never paid attention to Chen Liyao.

In other words, Chen Liyao is not worthy of their excessive attention. This person's behavior in the company is similar to that of his useless father. He has been in Chen's for a long time, but he does a mediocre job every day. He occasionally works overtime and even asks someone to cover for him. On the surface, he is just a relative who comes to fish in troubled waters.

Chen Qizhao sat cross-legged on the office chair, scratching his mouse wheel with his fingers, and said in a relaxed tone: "My office is on the same floor as mine. If you are sharp-eyed, you can see where Xiao Zhou goes. His workstation is close to the entrance and exit, so he can judge his destination by observing the elevator's stop floor... He doesn't look like a second-generation rich man who has achieved nothing. His actions are very purposeful."

"But Chen Jianting's relationship with the Lin family is average. I haven't seen them interacting much." Chen Shiming frowned. The main reason his family had a good relationship with the Lin family was because of Chen Jianhong, while the rest of the Chen family had no dealings with the Lin family. When he checked Lin Shizhong, he didn't find any records of Chen Jianting's dealings with Lin Shizhong. "He would help Lin Shizhong. This is very suspicious."

"If I were to put someone around you, it would definitely be someone inconspicuous or someone you don't care about." Chen Qizhao clicked on the surveillance video, his eyes fixed on the man playing with his phone in the administrative district surveillance video, and said in a general tone: "Having accomplished nothing is the easiest way to let down one's guard. No one would care about a fool."

Chen Shiming paused for a moment after hearing this, and suddenly asked, "Are you talking about yourself?"

"I'm just a fool, and I haven't achieved much." Chen Qizhao lowered his eyes and clicked on another surveillance camera: "How do you plan to deal with Chen Liyao? Keep him alive. It's rare that the other party thinks this move is brilliant. It would be a pity not to keep him alive."

Chen Shiming had no intention of taking action against Chen Liyao. Given the nature of Chen Liyao's current job, he would not pose much of a threat to Chen's project. On the contrary, Chen Liyao was a special person and would not arouse suspicion from others. Lin Shizhong might even instruct him to do other things. Keeping such a person would be of great use.

The most important thing is that Chen Liyao is now targeting Chen Qizhao. If he wants to make the other party not suspect Chen Qizhao, he can use Chen Liyao to spread false information.

"Oh and..." Chen Qizhao changed the subject, "I checked the surveillance footage of the conference room that day."

The conference room surveillance was thoroughly pored over by Chen Shiming and his assistant some time ago, but the conference room was not located in a remote corner. There were several important offices inside, and many employees passed by. Many of them could notice what was happening in the conference room.

However, as a relevant department of the administrative district, there are personnel in charge of the day arranged near the conference room. Chen Qizhao knew that this schedule must have been read to pieces by Chen Shiming, but looking at it again now, he could always find some interesting new things. "A lot of people from the administration department came up with shifts that day. There were a total of 15 employees involved that day. What's interesting is that Chen Liyao was on the list, but there were very few surveillance footage of him appearing near the meeting room that day."

"He was removed from the investigation list that day." Chen Shiming frowned. Chen Liyao was taking advantage of the situation in the company and didn't do much real work. But as a relative of Chen, his direct superior in the Chen company still arranged a job for him, probably wanting to give Chen Liyao more work experience. However, although the job was arranged, Chen Liyao did not actually do much.

When the scheduling staff was investigated that day, Chen Liyao's supervisor informed him of the matter, and Chen Liyao's suspicion level was sharply reduced, and he was ruled out as a major suspect.

"But in fact, he didn't need to do anything." Chen Qizhao continued: "You and I both know that there were actually other relatives of Jiang Yuze in the conference room at the time. Because of the situation, these people were not able to move around conveniently, and they did not use mobile phones or other communication tools, but it is not ruled out that they could not send signals to others."

"Chen Liyao doesn't need to stay outside the conference room often. He only needs to receive the signal of change in the conference room and spread the news. Naturally, someone will take action on Jiang Yuze's computer." Chen Qizhao continued: "As the person on duty that day, he can freely confirm the situation in the venue and quickly analyze the signal problems transmitted. Therefore, he can accurately transmit the information that Jiang Yuze is in trouble, so that the people behind the scenes can make judgments and choose to destroy the data information on Jiang Yuze's computer as soon as possible."

What Chen Qizhao had suspected before was that the behavior in this matter was too decisive.

The police and the network center confirmed that the computer deletion was caused by a remote virus operation. As long as Jiang Yuze's computer was turned on, anyone from the outside could tamper with it.

The question is how the other party judges this situation. After all, Jiang Yuze's computer was deleted too thoroughly. If Jiang Yuze was not in trouble, the deleted data would be a huge loss for them. Moreover, such a big flaw in the chief assistant's computer would only make Jiang Yuze passively fall into suspicion.

Chen's network center does not work in vain. Traces of remote intrusion can be found through the company's intranet.

Therefore, the decisive action of deleting the computer must have been taken after careful consideration and knowing that Jiang Yuze was in a difficult situation, so he chose to do it. However, if it was a seemingly unrelated staff member on duty that day, whose identity was reasonable and whose suspicion level was low and who was not on the key suspect list, and who cooperated with other people in the meeting room, he could indeed determine the situation in a short period of time, make a correct judgment on it, and take action before the police seized the computer host.

Chen Liyao is really an extremely useful chess piece.

If used properly, it can convey information within a reasonable work scope without arousing anyone's suspicion.

If they had not followed Xiao Zhou too closely and were not too relaxed this time, they would not have focused their attention on Chen Liyao at all. They would only wonder whether Lin Shizhong would arrange deeper chess pieces instead of Chen Liyao, who had only been in the company for a few months and had a very low attendance rate.

"In this way, Chen Liyao is a very useful chess piece." Chen Qizhao turned off the surveillance and said in a relaxed tone: "The other party is so confident in using Chen Liyao as a transfer, so why not take advantage of this opportunity to expose more of the other party's people?"

There is a clear sky outside the glass window and a lot of documents piled up on the desk.

Chen Shiming frowned slightly and said, "Leave this matter to me, don't interfere."

Chen Qizhao was about to come up with two more ideas with Chen Shiming, but when he heard what the other party said, he paused for a moment and asked, "Why?"

"Since you know that the other party has already found out about you, if you intervene in this matter, it will only further deepen the other party's suspicion." After Chen Shiming finished speaking, he immediately took over Chen Qizhao's words, "I know you want to say that this matter is well used and will not be exposed. I also know that you have your own reasons for hiding so many things, but I don't want you to take the risk of any more problems."

Chen Qizhao said nothing.

When Chen Shiming heard that someone was following Chen Qizhao that day, he was actually already worried. He didn't know what Lin Shizhong's purpose was in doing such a thing, but since the other party was able to plan the aromatherapy and the car accident, it was possible that he would wipe out the entire clan once he was forced into a corner. After he told Chen Jianhong about this, his father's first thought was to get Chen Qizhao out of the matter.

On the surface, Chen Qizhao is the least threatening person in their family, but often when suspicion deepens and the other party loses patience, Chen Qizhao will become the most vulnerable person in their family.

"You have to trust me and Dad." Chen Shiming said in a deep voice: "You can discuss any problems with us. At least don't take risks alone anymore, okay?"

Chen Qizhao suddenly asked, "What if I'm just talking nonsense, do you believe it?"

Chen Shiming said: "Believe it."

There was silence on the phone for several seconds.

Chen Qizhao suddenly turned off the computer and said, "You're overthinking. I don't have that much time to investigate other things. You take care of the rest. I'm leaving get off work."

Chen Shiming asked: "Where are you going after get off work?"

"Go to class." Chen Qizhao picked up the schoolbag on the sofa. "If I don't go to class, will you take the class test for me next week?"

Chen Shiming: “…”

He changed the subject and said, "If you can't keep up with your studies, I can find a tutor for you."

"Forget it. Even Yan Kailin's brother is not so annoying when he is still looking for a tutor in college." Chen Qizhao said in a normal tone, "Xiao Zhou has been used by you like this these days. Remember to pay him at the end of the month. My assistant is very expensive, so he will be paid three times his performance fee."

Chen Shiming didn't expect Chen Qizhao to change the subject so quickly, and said, "Don't worry, I just asked Xiao Xu to give him a holiday."

Chen Qizhao: “?”

"If you give him the day off, who will take me to school? I didn't drive this morning."

Chen Shiming had a headache: "They should not have left yet, I'll ask Xiao Xu to stop them..."

Before he could finish his words, the person on the other end hung up.

There was a beeping sound from the phone. Chen Shiming frowned and called Special Assistant Xu through the internal line.

In the office, after Chen Qizhao hung up the phone, he stared at the screen of his mobile phone. When he swiped down, he saw that five out of ten calls in the recent communication records were from Chen Shiming.

I've made more phone calls in the past few weeks than in my last two lifetimes combined.

Chen Qizhao couldn't describe the feeling. He just looked at it for a while, then closed the communication interface and called his assistant Xiao Zhou.

-*

When Shen Yuhuai arrived home, he noticed that there were guests at home.

Usually, few people visit the Shen family. Shen Yuhuai wanted to go back to his room to rest, but when he passed the living room, he was suddenly stopped by Shen's mother. Only then did he notice that the person who came was an acquaintance, his mother's former best friend, and he had met him several times.

The elegant and beautiful woman saw Shen Yuhuai, “Yuhuai just came back from the research institute?”

"Hello, Auntie." Shen Yuhuai did not leave, but sat down beside her, "Why are you here in S City?"

Mother Shen smiled and said, “Your aunt is here on a business trip with your uncle Gu.”

"Lao Gu has been here on a business trip recently. Didn't you guys go to Beijing for the New Year this year? I thought I'd come over to take a look." The beautiful woman said, "Lao Gu has also been thinking about moving to S City recently, so he'll probably stay here for a while."

The Shen family made their fortune in S City, but Shen's mother was originally from the capital of B City. Later, she followed her family to settle in S City and then married Shen Yuhuai's father. When Shen Yuhuai was studying abroad in his early years, he often settled in City B. Even his current student status is at University B, but he came to the Ninth Institute of City S for practice with his supervisor because of exchange study.

When he was in City B, he met his mother's best friends several times and also visited Gu's house.

The Gu family has developed very well in City B. In addition, their ancestors made a fortune and have a deep foundation, which is different from the level of the Shen family that developed later. When Mrs. Gu was young, she married the eldest son of the Gu family. The couple loved each other very much and her career developed smoothly.

But the Gu family is a famous family, and there is fierce competition within the wealthy family. Shen Yuhuai remembered hearing his parents mention it some time ago. The old man of the Gu family is ready to give up power. Now the Gu family is facing a struggle for property rights. The two people with the greatest momentum are Mrs. Gu’s husband and her husband’s younger brother.

Because the two parties fighting for the property are only at peace on the surface now, this internal power struggle will be difficult to end before the old man lets go. It is estimated that Uncle Gu’s business trip to City S this time is most likely related to this matter.

Shen Yuhuai was not very interested in the fight for power among the wealthy families, but judging from the situation within the Gu family, it was estimated that it had become more serious now, otherwise Uncle Gu would not have come to S City. The Shen family did not get involved in the power struggle of the Gu family, but because Shen's mother and Mrs. Gu were close friends, they knew a little about it.

"Why did you come back today?" Shen's mother asked Shen Yuhuai, "Will you stay at home for dinner tonight?"

Shen Yuhuai said: "I have something to discuss with my sister, eat at home."

Mother Shen called the servants and asked them to prepare more food. "Since you are all here, why don't you invite Lao Gu to come to our house for dinner in the evening. You have been in S City for so long, and you haven't come to our place to get together."

Mrs. Gu smiled and said, "I do have time, but it's not certain with Mr. Gu."

With guests at home, Shen Yuhuai couldn't leave, so he sat beside them and listened to the two elders talking.

He flipped through the messages on his phone, found a photo of succulents that he had never posted before in his phone album, and sent it to Chen Qizhao. Chen Qizhao seems to be very busy recently. Several times when he asked someone out, the other party was not in school.

He didn't find any clues from the last tracking incident. The employer behind the man in black was very secretive. Even when the case was reported to the police, they only found out that the two people's transactions were private and the hired man had never met the employer. Every time he took the money to do the job, and then sent the photos via email.

He also checked the email address, but it was an overseas email address, so it was difficult to check the ownership.

Someone was deliberately following Chen Qizhao and went through such a big detour. It was hard not to doubt the other party's purpose.

I came back to see Shen Xuelan today, intending to find some breakthrough from her.

Recently, the Shen family and the Chen family have also had business cooperation, and Shen Xuelan knows some things about the Chen family.

Chen Qizhao did not reply to the message he sent. Shen Yuhuai's fingers moved slightly, swiping the chat page, his face not showing that he was thinking about something. He half-closed his eyes, and while considering what to send next, he suddenly heard a voice next to him.

Shen Yuhuai was slightly doubtful and glanced over.

The only sounds in the living room were those of Mother Shen and Madam Gu.

After chatting about family matters for a while, Mother Shen said, “Before you came, you said you had something to ask me. What was it?”

"It's like this." Mrs. Gu lowered her eyes slightly, "I went to a party a while ago and unexpectedly met Mr. Chen Jianhong's wife."

"Are you talking about Yazhi?" Mother Shen smiled and said, "You are talking about the party held by the Jiang family last time. I heard that Yazhi also went there, but I didn't have time last time, otherwise I would have introduced her to you. Yazhi has a good personality and should be a good match for you."

Mrs. Gu said, "Mrs. Chen does have a very good personality. I talked to her at the last party. It was very relaxing to talk to her."

Mother Shen noticed Mrs. Gu's attitude and felt that she was worried. She asked hesitantly, "Why did you suddenly ask about Yazhi?"

"Actually, I came here this time to ask for your help." Madam Gu sighed, "You also know that Mr. Gu's situation has been tense recently, and his brother's momentum has been strong recently. He has made several deals in succession, and the attitude of the old man is also a bit biased."

Mother Shen had also heard about the character of the second son of the Gu family, which was different from the character of her best friend’s husband. That man acted ruthlessly and without regard for feelings. Given the Gu family's situation, if they lose in this power struggle, given that person's personality, I'm afraid my best friend's family will be directly squeezed out of the Gu family's power center, and may even face an even more serious situation.

Shen Yuhuai frowned slightly and listened attentively to the conversation between the two elders.

Mother Shen had met that person several times, and the other person's gloomy personality always gave her a bad feeling, "But what does this have to do with the Chen family?"

"The last time I saw Madam Chen, I had some impression of a piece of jewelry she was wearing. After I went back, I asked someone to check it out. It was extremely similar to the jade necklace that Grandma Gu lost that year." Madam Gu handed the phone to Mother Shen, "I also had some impression of it because I saw a picture of it in the old house of the Gu family. If it is really the necklace from that year, it is very important to the Gu family."

After Mother Shen finished reading it, she saw that Shen Yuhuai next to her was also interested, so she let him take a look and continued: “I know this necklace, Yazhi likes it very much, and I often see her wearing it.”

"This necklace was taken by Qizhao at a charity gala last year, and then given to Aunt Zhang, who liked it very much." Shen Yuhuai was deeply impressed by this necklace. He was present when Chen Qizhao took the picture of the necklace. "Is this the necklace lost by the Gu family...? I remember that the donor at that time was Mr. Xu Ziyun."

"Not many people know about this, and only a few relatives of the Gu family know about it." Mrs. Gu said, "The Gu family also looked for it in the early days, but there was really not much information, so they gave up later. I didn't expect to come across it when I came to S City. I haven't mentioned this to Mr. Gu yet. Whether it is a real necklace or a replica, we can only confirm it in B City."

It’s not good to let too many people know about the internal affairs of the Gu family.

Mother Shen knew her best friend's temperament, and knew that she didn't make the matter public and didn't want to involve the Chen family in the Gu family's dispute. She would talk to her about this matter in private, and she probably had other plans.

But if it is a more valuable item, she can also understand her best friend's urgency.

"I saw that Madam Chen liked this necklace very much that day, so I didn't ask directly." Madam Gu sighed and said this with some embarrassment, "After all, this matter is very important, and it's not good to let too many people know. I heard that your family has a good relationship with the Chen family. I came to you today to ask for your help to discuss this matter with Madam Chen."