As soon as the birthday party was over, the silent undercurrent seemed to be ready to explode at some point.

The next day, when Chen Shiming got up, only the butler Uncle Zhang was in the restaurant. "He hasn't come down yet?"

Chen Qizhao rarely sleeps in during this period, and his biological clock in the morning is somewhat similar to that of Chen Shiming.

And today is Monday, Chen Shiming remembered that Chen Qizhao had classes.

The housekeeper said, "The Second Young Master hasn't gotten up yet."

Thinking of what happened last night, Chen Shiming said, "Then let him sleep a little longer. If he gets up, arrange a driver for him in advance. He has classes today."

After finishing his meal, Chen Shiming went outside the villa to wait for the car. When he looked up, he could see the window corresponding to Chen Qizhao's room.

At this time, the window was half-draped with curtains, and from his angle it was completely blocked and he couldn't see clearly what was going on inside.

Chen Shiming was still thinking about what happened last night. He had not discussed the drug replacement with Chen Qizhao yet. However, when he recalled Chen Qizhao's expression at that time, he always had an indescribable feeling... It seemed that he would have to call him and explain the matter in detail later.

Chen Jianhong took a flight abroad this morning to deal with overseas market issues. Some tasks were briefly handed over to Chen Shiming. He had just finished handing over the content and was about to get started. The female assistant came in from outside the office in a hurry, holding some documents. "Mr. Chen, the manufacturer of the batch of goods that we contacted K City last week just told us that they are out of stock. It will take more than half a month for them to be replenished before they can be delivered."

Chen Shiming paused after hearing this and asked: "Have you contacted other manufacturers?"

"We've contacted them. The factories we work with are out of stock." The female assistant said as she hurriedly put down another document. "There are also several projects that you asked us to focus on. There seems to be some problems at the construction site. Special Assistant Xu has already rushed over..."

Chen Shiming's eyes shone, "Immediately activate the previous plan."

The Chen Group suddenly became busy this day. First, the supply of goods from several factories that had been prepared was cut off one after another, and then problems arose at the project's construction site. These things happened suddenly and all popped up this morning, making the entire Chen department visibly busy.

Chen Liyao was still sitting at his workstation, calmly sending out the information he had collected via text messages. After finishing, he deleted the text message records and looked at the busy Chen with a gloating look.

Although they are all members of the Chen family, Chen Jianhong's family can be the superior one, while their family can only depend on others because his father Chen Jianting is a loser.

The older Chen Liyao gets, the more he can feel the disparity, especially his family's growing gambling debts and his unrepentant father, which make him realize that he can only rely on himself if he wants to support his family.

Chen's suffering didn't matter to him, but he hated the Chen family. Every time his father took him to the Chen family to ask for money and power, he felt like his self-esteem was being trampled underfoot. It was obvious that the property was distributed equally in the beginning, so why was it that the South District assets acquired by Chen Jianhong's family were able to grow to their current size, while their scrap land has still not seen any progress.

So he took the initiative to contact that phone number and came to Chen's.

On the other hand, the person who received the message from Chen Liyao forwarded the text message to the Lin Group.

At this time, more than ten people gathered in the meeting room, coordinating the news from all directions, especially the contact person in charge of contacting Chen's internal affairs. He looked at the densely packed contents in the file and arranged the next tasks in an orderly manner. "The supply source at the factory has been contacted, and it should be able to delay for half a month. The task of C214 project has been arranged, and Chen Shiming has mobilized other people to check the situation."

"Don't rush to put the things in place. Let Chen's side mobilize people first, and then put other things in place." The contact person continued: "Boss Lin's goal is to make it impossible for them to control multiple parties in a short period of time. Whenever there is a loophole on Chen's side, our chance will come."

The meeting room was filled with Lin Shizhong's trusted elites, who also knew the internal arrangements of the Chen family.

After the Sun family's problems were eased, they received an arrangement from General Manager Lin to put Chen's capital chain into a huge crisis within a short period of time.

Chen's layout has been in place for many years. After Jiang Yuze's failure, most of the personnel were lost. The people who are left in Chen's company now are those who are hiding deeper. They had anticipated the opportunity. Chen Jianhong would fly abroad on a business trip today. The people over there would try to stop Chen Jianhong for a few days, and then use the existing bargaining chips to attack the Chen Group.

First, create a few minor problems to divert the elites under Chen Shiming, and then cause other problems to affect Chen in many ways. This approach is unsafe and short-lived. Once the Chen family survives this period, all their previous preparations will be wasted, and it will be even more difficult to defeat the Chen family in one fell swoop.

"Chen's side hasn't made any major arrangements yet. They probably think this is a minor crisis."

The contact person said to the others, "The rest will depend on the timing."

Everything went according to their original plan, the only change was that the time was advanced.

"Mr. Lin is making trouble at this time, could it be because of what happened to Young Master Lin yesterday?" someone asked.

The person in charge in the conference room also didn't know why Lin Shizhong would take such a risky move at this stage. According to their original plan, they should wait another two years and start the plan when all the time is ripe, so as to bankrupt Chen silently.

Although Lin Xuyan's matter was urgently suppressed, those who were involved in it basically knew about it.

Lin Shizhong has a high opinion of Lin Xuyan and has even been training him to take over Lin's business. It is impossible for Lin Shizhong not to be angry about what happened in the hotel. This incident may forever become a stain on Lin Xuyan's life for those who know about it.

The Lin family is very concerned about face, and that incident basically stepped on the Lin family's face.

The person in charge said: "Don't mention this matter again, just do our job well."

But General Lin’s arrangements must have been based on his considerations, and they only needed to act according to his orders.

No matter how powerful Chen Shiming is, it is impossible for him to resolve all crises in a short period of time. So their opportunity has come.

At the Ninth Research Institute of City S, Shen Yuhuai went to the laboratory to cancel his leave first, and sent the statistics of the data that had not been sorted out by the laboratory to the colleagues in charge of the laboratory. It was already 5:30 in the afternoon when he finished. He did not stay in the institute for too long. He handed over other matters to Liu and then drove to S University.

The classes in the afternoon were quite dense, and when I arrived at school, the last class in the afternoon had not yet ended.

Shen Yuhuai had Chen Qizhao's class schedule and knew which classroom he was in, so he didn't call to disturb him. He went directly to the corridor of Chen Qizhao's classroom to wait for someone. But when the classroom bell rang, Shen Yuhuai did not see Chen Qizhao among the crowd leaving get out of class.

"Hello classmate, is this Finance Class 3?" Shen Yuhuai had to stop a boy.

"Hey, yes." The boy looked at Shen Yuhuai, "What's wrong?"

Shen Yuhuai asked: “I want to ask, did Chen Qizhao not come to class today?”

The boy replied: "It seems that he didn't come. He must have asked for leave. The Discipline Inspection Commission just reported that someone asked for leave."

"OK, thanks."

"You're welcome."

The crowd after class went down the stairs, but Shen Yuhuai did not go downstairs. He looked at the message he sent to Chen Qizhao and received no reply, so he had to call Yan Kailin.

Yan Kailin had just finished class, and when he received Shen Yuhuai's call, he thought he had committed a crime again, "Brother Huai? What happened again?"

"No, I just want to ask you something." Shen Yuhuai asked, "Is Qi Zhao in the dormitory?"

"Brother Zhao? My brother asked for leave today." Yan Kailin's voice was a little noisy. "He asked for leave this morning. I even went to the office to get him a note. He asked for personal leave. Maybe something happened at the company. He didn't say anything and I didn't ask much."

Shen Yuhuai hesitated slightly, and then hung up the phone with Yan Kailin.

He carefully recalled Chen Qizhao's state when he called him last night, and felt a little worried.

In the Chen family of City S, the father and son of the Chen family went out to work. The hostess Zhang Yazhi had some things to deal with in the studio, so she also went out in the morning. Only the working servants were left in the empty villa.

In the room, the uneaten lunch was placed on the table, and a thin layer of oil floated on the cold meat dishes.

On the desk where the computer was placed not far away, there were many cigarette butts piled up in the ashtray, and beer bottles were piled casually on the other side of the long table. The boy sat in front of the computer, typing on the keyboard, and the email was successfully sent when he pressed the Enter key.

He closed the special webpage for anonymous emails, and there were a lot of densely packed documents on his computer desktop.

Chen Qizhao hadn't slept all night and there was no expression on his face. After he finished organizing his things, he quickly opened another email.

The project problems that occurred within the Chen Group had already reached his side at the same time. The opponent's counterattack came swiftly, releasing the nails hidden within Chen that had not been pulled out one by one. First, problems broke out in the project, and then the supply of important projects was blocked, dragging Chen into a situation of being consumed. Lin Shizhong had used such a plan and arrangement once in his previous life. Without the leadership of Chen Shiming and Chen Jianhong, the Chen family was hit by such problems one after another and soon encountered the first crisis.

Chen Qizhao's voice remained even: "Are you so anxious? Being anxious is not a good thing..."

The same method appeared before him again in this life.

Unlike the boiling frog in warm water in his previous life, this time Lin Shizhong's approach was obviously fierce and swift, which caused two problems on the first day alone.

It can be seen that the other party knows their current situation and wants to quickly resolve the issue with Chen.

Chen Qizhao reached out to grab the beer next to him, but when he picked up the can he found that the beer was already empty.

He frowned slightly and loosened the beer can in his hand. As soon as he looked away, he heard the continuous vibration of the table.

Shen Yuhuai's name appeared on the silent phone. Chen Qizhao came back to his senses and glanced at the system time, only to notice that it was already past six o'clock.

It was getting dark outside.

Chen Qizhao stared at the vibration of his phone. After a while, he reached out for the phone and swiped the answer button.

"Brother Huai?" Chen Qizhao controlled his voice and greeted him as usual: "Is the experiment over?"

Shen Yuhuai asked, "Are you busy? I sent you a message but you didn't answer."

Chen Qizhao turned on the speaker and when he switched it on, he found that he hadn't replied to Shen Yuhuai's message since noon.

He paused. "I didn't notice the message coming."

Shen Yuhuai said: “Well, I came to the school and you were not there. Yan Kailin said you asked for leave.”

"I have something to do, so I asked for leave and stayed at home." Chen Qizhao didn't expect Shen Yuhuai to go to school to find him, "Brother Huai, do you have something to ask me?"

There was a hint of helplessness in Shen Yuhuai's voice, "I'm going to school to find you. Do I need to report this? Boyfriend."

He looked at the Chen family villa in front of him and said, "I'm at the door, come down."

Chen Qizhao was startled when he heard this, he stood up and walked to the window to open the curtains, and saw Shen Yuhuai's car parked at the intersection outside the villa from a distance, and vaguely saw a figure standing next to the car, he couldn't see the person clearly, but he knew it was Shen Yuhuai.

"Wait for me a moment."

Chen Qi was about to go downstairs when he suddenly realized something.

He walked to the mirror.

At this moment, he looked terrible, had an unshaved beard, and was still wearing the clothes he wore to the birthday party yesterday, which smelled strongly of cigarettes.

He said to the person on the phone: "Wait for me for a moment."

After hanging up the phone, he randomly picked some clothes from the closet, went into the bathroom to take a shower, and tried his best to tidy himself up so that he didn't look as scary as he did in the mirror. After tidying himself up, he took his phone and hurried downstairs, all the way out of the villa to see Shen Yuhuai standing by the car waiting for him.

The sky in the distance had turned dark, and orange gradually appeared in the corners.

The man stood straight with a gentle expression, and the moment he waited for him by the car was just like the many times they had met. Chen Qizhao's eyes deepened slightly, and his chaotic thoughts seemed to have found a backbone at this moment. He suppressed the anxiety in his heart and tried to make himself appear more natural.

Shen Yuhuai looked at the boy who was coming over. He seemed to be walking in a hurry, and his chest was still rising and falling slightly when he got here.

The buttons on his clothes were not fastened tightly, and the slightly red skin on his neck was faintly visible. He moved his eyes upwards and noticed that the ends of the boy's hair were a little wet and stuck together.

"Have you taken a shower?" Shen Yuhuai asked.

Chen Qizhao nodded, "Yeah."

The two of them just looked at each other, and Shen Yuhuai's eyes almost swept over them.

The dark circles under his eyes, his pale face… it was as if he was hastily hiding something.

Chen Qizhao: "Will you come to my house for dinner later?"

"Just came to see you, I'm busy tonight."

Shen Yuhuai said, “Come closer.”

Chen Qizhao took a few steps forward, and just as he approached, Shen Yuhuai stretched out his hand and held the person in his arms.

Shen Yuhuai was holding someone, Chen Qizhao was wearing a little too little, and he could easily feel the bones on his body when he held him in his arms.

The feeling of a hug is indescribable. The scent of another person lingers on the tip of his nose. The person is really standing in front of him, not like the vague and elusive person in his memory, as if he cannot be grasped. If you look more carefully, you can hear the steady beating of the other person's chest.

Chen Qizhao raised his head slightly to kiss the corner of Chen Yuhuai's mouth, and the other party reacted and met his action tacitly.

When he let go, Chen Qizhao was still looking at him.

Shen Yuhuai asked, “What’s wrong?”

Chen Qizhao said: "I want to kiss you for a while longer."

The faint smell of cigarette smoke carried a hint of bitterness as their lips and teeth touched each other, revealing someone's clumsy disguise.

Shen Yuhuai's brows inadvertently frowned, suppressing the feeling of uncertainty in his heart.

Until the phone in Chen Qizhao's pocket vibrated continuously.

Shen Yuhuai reminded, "Are you busy? Your phone keeps vibrating."

Chen Qizhao lowered his eyes slightly, and there was an unclear undercurrent in his eyes.

He said, "Busy, but it won't be busy soon."

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After the engineering and supply problems broke out, Chen's side immediately adjusted the working group to deal with the temporary outbreaks. However, a few days after these two problems occurred, news came that an original project was investigated by relevant departments due to environmental problems and had to be suspended for a period of time... These problems seemed to be caused intentionally, and they popped up one after another within a few days, making the entire Chen Group extremely nervous.

Problems occurred externally at the board of directors and high-level meetings one after another, and internal directors and shareholders also seized the opportunity to attack a group of responsible persons. Different projects are managed by different project teams. Now three project teams have encountered problems in succession, which has aroused great concern within Chen.

The Chen Group's performance this year was mediocre due to frequent internal problems from last year to the beginning of this year. Now these things have affected the share price of the Chen Group. At this stage, it is necessary not only to solve the project problems, but also to stabilize the share price of the Chen Group... There is also a batch of supplies in the middle of this year, which is related to the progress of several projects. The longer it is delayed, the construction period and various consumption will increase exponentially.

One or two projects can be solved slowly, but when such a problem occurs in a short period of time, emergency manpower and deployment plans become very important. During this period, Chen Jianhong may not return for a week due to problems in foreign markets.

In Chen Shiming's office, several assistants reported on the status of various projects one after another.

Even though they knew in advance about Lin's layout within Chen's, the other party's action still caused huge problems.

"The board of directors is pushing us to do this." Special Assistant Xu was so busy that his head was spinning. "Should we still proceed according to the original plan?"

Chen Shiming frowned slightly: "Yes, we can't relax at this time."

At the same time, the news from both sides turned into a paper document and was presented on Lin Shizhong's desk.

On the sofa on the other side of the office, Gu Shen was looking at his phone. Seeing this, he said in a normal tone, "It's a good thing to take action against Chen's at this stage. Chen Shiming has been investigating so many things recently. The situation of Chen's in the first quarter of this year should not be as optimistic as last year. When dealing with a group, you can't just think of dealing with the Chen family. If there are problems inside, we will fan the flames. Some people will be more anxious than us."

Lin Shizhong flipped through the documents and said, "Time is indeed a bit tight. If you can't put Chen's company into a short crisis during this period, we will be in danger."

"What are you afraid of?" Gu Shen said calmly, "There will definitely be a crisis. A month is enough for Chen to fall into a short-term crisis. Even if there is no crisis, they can only seek help from outsiders, such as banks or other people, to deal with these problems. By then, we can do more."

Lin Shizhong looked at Gu Shen, "Are you going to completely break off relations with the Chen family?"

"That's right. What are you afraid of? As long as they don't have evidence, they can't do anything to you." Gu Shen shrugged. "Even if there is evidence, it's probably just surface evidence. You can't escape from the Sun family's counterattack. The Chen family may not know as much as the Sun family. If they really call the police and bite you based on the evidence, you can just push a few people out."

Lin Shizhong frowned slightly: "What you said is based on the premise that the internal affairs of Chen's company will not be discovered."

"Chen is so busy dealing with several projects, how can Chen Shiming have the energy to collect evidence? I'm afraid that once the project problems break out, the evidence will be destroyed by our people before they can solve them." Gu Shen knew what Lin Shizhong was worried about. When they used Chen to make profits, the channels, manpower, and project assets they used would inevitably leave traceable evidence in Chen's collective system.

They cannot completely destroy these evidences because the channels and manpower are still there, and they are still counting on these pawns to play a role in dragging Chen into the abyss.

Unless Chen goes bankrupt and their goal is achieved, these things of theirs will inevitably be completely exposed one day as Chen Shiming clears them out layer by layer.

But now it’s different. As long as they force Chen into a financial crisis and mortgage assets, some things can become theirs, while some things can be destroyed forever when the bankruptcy is declared.

Gu Shen sometimes hated Lin Shizhong's indecision. Even though things could be solved quickly, he had to maintain the surface of decency in order to gain more profits, which made things increasingly difficult to resolve. Lin Shizhong wants to delay the matter for two years. By then, the Chen family will have more evidence and the internal environment will be more stable. It will be more difficult to shake the Chen family's foundation and put them in crisis.

If Lin Shizhong didn't have something to be used for, the Gu family wouldn't have gone to so much trouble to protect this person and clean up the mess for them to prevent the fire from spreading to the Gu family.

"Chen Shiming already knows a lot."

Lin Shizhong frowned and said, "Don't forget that they have someone helping them over there."

"I know, but if you force them like this, the person who helped them will also surface. Wouldn't it be easy to deal with him then?" Seeing his nervous look, Gu Shen continued, "Don't worry, I have someone watching inside the Chen Group, and the other party has also sent news that Chen Shiming's actions are not as big as you think. The several projects we are moving this time are not included in his original inspection arrangements."

Lin Shizhong looked at the calm young man. On the one hand, he thought he was a lunatic, but on the other hand, he felt that his behavior was risky and arrogant.

If you hang out with a madman, sooner or later you will be dragged into the quagmire by him. He asked, “So what are you going to do next?”

"If we want to put Chen's company in danger, besides releasing our weapons step by step... there is another more important thing."

Gu Shen continued: "Of course, that would trigger public opinion and put more pressure on the Chen family."

The two were discussing and focusing all their attention on Chen.

Elsewhere in Lin's company, however, another problem arose.

In recent years, Lin's Medical has been busy expanding externally and stabilizing its foundation, and has also been seeking to expand and develop its business. This kind of expansion will inevitably encounter more competitors, and dealing with these competitors and snatching projects has become a major means of their expansion. According to the plan during this period, Lin's Medical intends to build an integrated medical product supply, first facing several major manufacturers in the south.

Everything is ready, the necessary relationships have been established, and they have even manipulated the internal relationships of those manufacturers, preparing to let them fight among themselves.

But for some reason, in the past two days, those big manufacturers suddenly united and attacked them together. The connected parties sent a message saying that the matter was difficult to handle, and the united manufacturers put pressure on their bidding projects.

"Manager, should we still handle this matter in the same way as before?"

The supervisor looking at a pile of documents heard this and said, "It's just a project here. We need to ask our superiors for funding. If the other party competes with us, we can only use money to win. They also have their own competition. They may not be able to outlast us if they want to."

He flipped through the documents and continued, "Don't be nervous when you encounter something like this. It's just a few manufacturers. Just follow our original method."

He had encountered this kind of thing before. It was just that a few sensible people suddenly figured it out and didn't fall into their trap.

It's not difficult to deal with this situation, it's just a bit troublesome.

Just as the supervisor arranged the tasks here, someone from another project came in.

"Boss, this is bad. We didn't win the bid in K City. Someone snatched it away!"