The car drove very smoothly and it took nearly an hour to get to Chen's house.

Shen Yuhuai didn't speak to Chen Qizhao. When he occasionally looked to the side, he saw that the other party was resting with his eyes closed.

The silence was like a silent lullaby. Chen Qizhao closed his eyes, and a feeling of sleepiness that he hadn't felt for several days suddenly came over him.

When I closed my eyes, the mint scent in the car seemed to be a little stronger. Although I couldn't see Shen Yuhuai, I could still feel that the other person was less than half a meter away from me.

But no matter how sleepy he was, he couldn't fall asleep.

At this time, the red light stopped. Chen Qizhao opened his eyes slightly and found that the person next to him was looking at him.

Chen Yuhuai said: "If you are tired, take a nap. I will call you when we get there."

When Chen Qizhao heard his words, he suddenly felt like something had been taken away from his body, and he felt empty.

He was thinking about the next sentence, but Shen Yuhuai freed one hand and held Chen Qizhao's hand that was placed aside.

Shen Yuhuai's palm was broad, and when he held it, it was tightly wrapped. His thumb rubbed the back of Chen Qizhao's fingers one after another, "Go to sleep, I'll drive slower."

Chen Qizhao looked at the man, his calm eyes seeming to be thinking about something.

He lowered his eyes slightly and stared at the man's hand that was resting on the back of his hand.

The force of the fingertips that brushed against the back of his hand was light. Although he was only holding his hand, he felt that the aura of Shen Yuhuai seemed to spread along the touching hands, enveloping him little by little.

Chen Qizhao thought aimlessly.

Do they look like they're dating now?

What would a normal relationship be like?

As he thought about it, his attention stopped at Shen Yuhuai's hand and he stopped thinking.

As his fingertips rubbed repeatedly, his breathing seemed to slow down.

When the car entered the city, Shen Yuhuai noticed that the eyes of the people around him stopped moving.

When he arrived outside the Chen family's villa, he did not rush to drive to the door of the Chen family. Instead, he parked in a temporary parking space on the road in the villa area and turned off the engine quietly.

Shen Yuhuai did not wake up Chen Qizhao, but watched him quietly beside him.

Under his fingertips was the other person's delicate skin. He lowered his eyes and his gaze stopped on Chen Qizhao's hand.

Chen Qizhao didn't know how long he had slept. When he opened his eyes, it was already dark outside.

The car was parked not far away and the villa in front could be seen through the windshield.

Chen Qizhao came back to his senses slightly, noticed the touch on the back of his hand, and when he turned his head, he saw the man in the driver's seat.

The man was holding a cell phone and seemed to be reading a message, his eyes half-closed under his glasses, his expression did not change.

But his other hand was still in the same place, rubbing it with his fingertips from time to time.

As if noticing Chen Qizhao's gaze, Shen Yuhuai tilted his head: "Awake?"

"Yeah." Chen Qizhao lowered his head and looked at his hands, "Why didn't you call me?"

Shen Yuhuai: “It won’t be long.”

After a good sleep, Chen Qizhao felt much better.

Shen Yuhuai opened the door and got out of the car, and Chen Qizhao followed suit.

Shen Yuhuai said: “You can call me when you are going back to school on Sunday. I will be in the city these two days.”

"Yes." Chen Qizhao: "Then I'll go in first."

Shen Yuhuai responded with a "OK".

On the way home, Chen Qizhao glanced at the time on his mobile phone.

He thought of what happened when he just woke up, and narrowed his eyes, which softened.

According to the normal journey, Shen Yuhuai should have stayed in this place for more than half an hour.

The driveway outside the villa was very quiet until the figure turned into the villa. Shen Yuhuai retracted his gaze and opened the car door to go in. He raised his eyes slightly and saw a loaf of bread falling out of the slightly opened bag on the back seat in the rearview mirror. It seemed as if there was still the scent of another person in the car.

At this time, his cell phone rang, and the vibrating phone on the dashboard moved. Shen Yuhuai came back to his senses, saw the name on it, and immediately answered the call.

"Not in the lab?" Shen Xuelan's voice came from the other side of the phone.

Shen Yuhuai took off his glasses and pinched his eyebrows, “No, just say it directly.”

In the office, Shen Xuelan heard Shen Yuhuai’s voice pause for a while, and then continued: “A lot of things have happened to Lin’s Medical recently, and thanks to this, I got the clues of Lin’s Medical’s transactions with those institutions outside the capital, and found a breakthrough.”

Shen Yuhuai frowned: “Go on.”

"You know that domestic drug control is strict. Drug production must have a registration number. Basically, industries that are eligible to apply for the approval number can be found. Lin's cooperation with Beijing began about eight years ago. At that time, domestic control was not as strict as it is now. After Lin's Medical applied for the approval number of the special medicine, it began to invest in research and production." Shen Xuelan continued in a serious tone: "And I used the search engine within the group to check the production details of the batch number, and found that the information there did not match, and the drug's flow channel was also very suspicious."

Shen Yuhuai asked, “What is the flow of the channel?”

"The products produced by Lin's and the Beijing institution are registered under Lin's name, and these 'medicines' are distributed all over the country. What's more interesting is that the buyers of these products are private hospitals, and some private hospitals have declared bankruptcy." Shen Xuelan knocked on the table. "Not long ago, the Sun family, which had a cooperation with Lin's Medical, was investigated because contraband was found in the transportation channel."

"Do you know why?"

"It has to go bankrupt." Shen Yuhuai immediately understood the problem: "Lin's Medical uses legalized transportation routes to transport these drugs, allowing the drugs to enter the hands of appropriate 'hospitals or institutions', and then finds a way to deal with these institutions. After that, the whereabouts of these drugs has become a mystery."

Gu Zhengsong's people cooperated with Lin Shizhong to produce "medicines", and registered them under Lin Shizhong's name. They used Lin's medical channels and connections to distribute these "medicines" to all parts of the country, and finally they were purchased and received by private hospitals or clinics in various places, thus completing their illegal transactions in private without anyone noticing. Moreover, judging from the evidence currently available, these illegally smuggled drugs are very likely to be certain addictive neurological drugs, which are strictly prohibited in the country.

The institution in the capital was an industry under Gu Zhengsong. Shen Yuhuai specifically confirmed this after he went to the capital. At that time, the suburban area had not only medicines but also food. This industrial line is terrifying, or perhaps the Lin’s Medical that they found out is just part of Gu Zhengsong’s greedy ambitions.

Shen Yuhuai hesitated for a moment: “Can you find these medicines?”

Shen Xuelan: "This is a bit difficult. This special medicine was discontinued at the beginning of last year."

“Uncle Gu doesn’t touch these, right?” Shen Yuhuai asked.

"What are you thinking? Uncle Gu is an upright man, and the Gu family has other businesses. These things are probably what Gu Zhengsong did behind the scenes. I seem to have heard Dad and Uncle Gu discuss that Gu Zhengsong's source of funds is not transparent." Shen Xuelan said: "From the current evidence, the evidence we have is not enough for the police to directly arrest Gu Zhengsong, because these are all the actions of Lin's Medical. If they try their best, the only one that can be taken down is Lin. With Gu Zhengsong's ability, it is very likely that Lin will be pushed out as a scapegoat, just like Lin pushed out the Sun family."

"It's not easy. Touching the Lin family would be like alerting the enemy. Gu Zhengsong will deal with these first."

"Have you told the Chen family?" Shen Yuhuai asked.

"I just told you that I will tell the Chen family soon." Shen Xuelan sighed: "But the Chen family has also encountered some problems recently, and Chen Shiming may not have time to continue to take care of this matter."

Shen Yuhuai knew that the Chen family had also encountered big problems recently, but at the same time as the Chen family encountered them, the Lin family also made great moves.

It is obvious that the Lin family should have arranged a lot of things for the Chen family. The only good news is that the investigation of the Lin family by relevant departments seems to have slowed down the pace of some people. Recently, fewer people have followed him, and the people who had made arrangements at the birthday party have also slowed down their actions.

The situation is actually very advantageous to them now. Gu Zhengsong may not notice the progress of their investigation. Without alerting the enemy, they can take the initiative as long as they collect evidence.

What is missing is the most direct evidence that can point directly to Gu Zhengsong.

"Send me the documents." Shen Yuhuai said.

Shen Xuelan responded with a "OK".

Shen Yuhuai hung up the phone, his eyes slightly lingering on the phone.

Shen Xuelan spoke very quickly. Not long after he finished speaking, his mobile phone received an electronic document sent from the other side. After Shen Yuhuai downloaded the electronic document, he opened Chen Qizhao’s chat box.

So many things happened during this period of time, from the beating incident at school to the birthday party, and the phone call from Chen Qizhao in the early morning last time.

Chen Qizhao may know a lot of things, otherwise he wouldn't appear in these occasions every time... What Shen Xuelan told Chen Shiming will probably also reach Chen Qizhao.

Shen Yuhuai did not hesitate and sent the document over.

But after sending it, he dialed a phone number on his mobile phone.

Soon, a man's gentle voice was heard from the other end of the phone.

"Hello, Dr. Xie."

Shen Yuhuai said, “I have something I want to consult you about. Are you free tomorrow morning?”

Outside the Chen family villa, when Chen Shiming's car turned in, he happened to see a car leaving.

He looked at the vehicle in the distance and felt it looked familiar, so he got out and asked the servant at the door.

The servant said, “It might be Mr. Shen. The second young master just came back not long ago. Mr. Shen sent him back.”

There was no one else in the living room. Zhang Yazhi seemed to be in the kitchen, and Chen Qizhao was not there. He probably went back to his room.

Not long after, Chen Jianhong's car also turned in. Chen Shiming's gaze lingered on Chen Jianhong who was entering the door. The latter handed the briefcase to the butler. His serious face did not change, but when he looked at people, his gaze paused for a moment in the living room.

The father and son looked at each other in tacit understanding, and Chen Jianhong took the initiative to ask: "Where's your mother?"

"Busy in the kitchen." Chen Shiming said, and then said, "Qizhao went upstairs."

Chen Jianhong nodded and said to the housekeeper beside him: "Arrange dinner and ask someone to call the second young master down to eat."

The housekeeper was used to it. The Chen family often worked overtime. In the past, one meal could always be divided into two.

But I don’t know when it started, but my husband and eldest son try to get off work on time on Fridays even if they get off work overtime on weekdays, so the family has more time for meals.

After going to the kitchen to say something, the housekeeper quickly went upstairs.

After knocking several times on the second young master's door, the latter finally opened it.

"What's wrong?" Chen Qizhao looked at him.

Butler: "Second Master, the Master and the First Master have arrived home, we can prepare dinner."

Chen Qizhao paused for a moment and said, "I'll be down in a moment."

When going downstairs, dishes were being brought out from the kitchen one after another. Chen Qizhao glanced at the restaurant and when he turned into the kitchen, he saw Zhang Yazhi still talking to the chef, apparently asking about the key points of making the big pot of soup.

Chen Qizhao listened to two sentences and stopped talking. He took out a can of beer from the refrigerator and started talking.

Zhang Yazhi was still asking her master about something when she suddenly heard a clanging sound. She immediately turned around and saw Chen Qizhao standing in front of the refrigerator and a beer can that had fallen to the ground and was leaking water.

The kitchen suddenly became quiet, and Chen Qizhao seemed to come to his senses. He bent down, picked up the beer can, and threw it into the trash can next to him.

He said, "I didn't hold it firmly."

Zhang Yazhi's eyes stopped on him, "You are so careless, are you wet? Go change your clothes."

Chen Qizhao responded with a no, took another can from the refrigerator, and quickly went to the restaurant.

Zhang Yazhi's gaze stayed on his back until the kitchen chef next to her called her twice, and then she came back to her senses.

"That's about it, ma'am. I'll prepare the ingredients for you later," said the chef.

Zhang Yazhi: "Thank you for your help."

She looked at the pot of chicken soup, but her mood was not as high as before.

The table was relatively quiet during mealtime.

A lot of problems have arisen in the Chen family during this period, and Chen Jianhong and Chen Shiming have not been home for several days. This time, work was not mentioned during the meal, which was rare. Instead, Chen Jianhong asked a few questions about family matters, his eyes falling on Chen Qizhao from time to time.

Chen Qizhao didn't say anything. He just drank the chicken soup that Zhang Yazhi brought to him without eating many mouthfuls of rice.

Zhang Yazhi was stunned: "You're done eating now?"

Chen Jianhong's eyes stopped at Chen Qizhao's bowl, "You only ate this much?"

"You guys eat, I have something else to do."

Chen Qizhao responded and quickly turned around and went upstairs.

After returning to the room, Chen Qizhao went to the bathroom to change his clothes, and only after coming out of the bathroom did he deal with the piled up messages. He first processed the messages in the email and downloaded and organized the files sent by Xiao Zhou and Special Assistant Xu. Chen Shiming acted quickly. After the internal affairs of the Chen family were handed over to him, even if there was an emergency such as an attack from the Lin family, he would be able to arrange all the work in the first place and dig out evidence of Lin's illegal and criminal activities in an orderly manner.

Although Lin Shizhong's actions were deeply hidden, once some things were exposed, those he thought were pawns would become his potential opponents. The investigation of Lin by the Industrial and Commercial Bureau was just the beginning. Lin wanted to buy time to drag Chen into a crisis, but the prerequisite was that he himself would not get into the crisis first.

Lin Shizhong thought he was attacking Chen, but the climax was yet to come.

Chen Qizhao closed his email and only noticed when he checked his WeChat account that Shen Yuhuai had sent him a message two hours ago and noticed the attached document.

He paused and downloaded the document.

The line that Chen Yuhuai followed almost followed the original aromatherapy, and he gradually unearthed the truth about the source of the aromatherapy. From the special compound extraction agency in S City, to the cooperating agency factory in Beijing, to the illegal transactions between Lin’s Medical and Gu Zhengsong.

The fact that the investigation was completed so quickly must have been caused by the Shen family.

[-Chen Yuhuai: All the things that have been investigated so far are roughly like this. The possibility that Lin is related to Gu Zhengsong is 95%, but direct evidence cannot be found. ]

[-Chen Yuhuai: Gu Zhengsong is too cautious. It is not easy to catch him. ]

Chen Qizhao finished reading the document and saw Shen Yuhuai’s message below.

He paused for a long time, and finally typed "thank you" in the chat box.

As soon as this thank you was sent out, Shen Yuhuai responded.

The other party seemed to be waiting for his reply.

[-Shen Yuhuai: I will tell you everything I know. ]

[-Chen Yuhuai: When something happens, don’t hide it from me, okay? ]

When Chen Qizhao saw the reply, he paused for a moment, as if something was choking his throat and he couldn't speak.

After a long time, he replied to Shen Yuhuai.

[-Zhao: Yeah. ]

[-Shen Yuhuai: Don’t lie to me? ]

Seeing this sentence, Chen Qizhao seemed to be able to imagine the expression of the other person when he said this.

Shen Yuhuai's eyes will look at him.

[-Zhao: Well, I won’t lie next time. ]

Chen Qizhao lowered his head, and an indescribable emotion seemed to spread in his chest. He didn't know where this emotion came from, the indescribable feeling just popped up.

I was caught off guard, yet filled with an indescribable excitement.

He thought maliciously that this was the last time and he would not lie next time.

The Chen family's dining table was filled with nothing but work, study, and daily matters. Chen Qizhao rarely spoke while eating in the past, but he ate a lot of food. Today, he ate so little that even Chen Jianhong and Chen Shiming noticed something was wrong.

"I told Lao Zhang that he didn't eat much at home recently." Zhang Yazhi's tone was a little worried: "He has lost a lot of weight. I wanted him to come home for dinner today and eat more... Why did he just drink some soup?"

In fact, she has seen a lot during this period of time. Chen Qizhao is not as rebellious as before, but at least he would quarrel with Chen Shiming some time ago, but now he has become much more introverted and quiet. Zhang Yazhi also lost her appetite and continued with some worry: "When he was watching TV with me in the living room, I always felt that he was distracted. Sometimes when I spoke, he didn't respond to me, as if he was thinking about something."

"I asked him to tell me if he had anything wrong, but the kid kept saying it was nothing."

Chen Jianhong and Chen Shiming were silent for a moment, but Zhang Yazhi's tone could not conceal the worry, and she couldn't sit still at all, "Old Zhang, save the chicken soup in the kitchen for now, and send some to the second young master later."

She added, "I'll call Dr. Li to ask."

After Zhang Yazhi finished speaking, she left the table, leaving only the Chen father and son at the table.

Chen Jianhong: "Has he talked about anything else recently?"

"No." Chen Shiming's heart sank slightly, thinking of Chen Qizhao's indifference and actions during this period of time. In the afternoon, he asked his assistant to send over all the information that Chen Qizhao requested from the company. He discovered that the information Chen Qizhao requested was a report on Chen’s internal problems over the past half month. The main content of that report was about the loopholes caused by Lin.

Since Chen Shiming started investigating the internal loopholes of the Chen Group, he has removed all the nails that could be removed. The remaining ones are some complicated loopholes without evidence. He can move on, but the problem comes. No matter how complete the list is, there may be people or things that are missed. Doing this without certainty is likely to lead to serious consequences.

So at the very beginning, when Lin Shizhong hadn't made any move yet, he discussed with Chen Qizhao a plan to lure someone into a trap.

Lin Shizhong failed one after another. Seeing that the situation was about to fail, he was likely to take further action. So he gave some false information to Chen Liyao and others who were undercover in the group, pretending that the time was ripe and forcing the other party to take further action. Only if Lin Shizhong took the initiative could he find out all the clues hidden by Chen and find evidence of how Lin Shizhong had used Chen to do evil things over the years.

It is inevitable that Chen will suffer some losses, but this is the best way to completely free Chen from the current situation of being controlled by others and to catch Lin Shizhong, the manipulator behind the scenes.

Now the Lin family has indeed taken action against the Chen family. Any discerning person can see that the many problems caused during this period are malicious.

His progress in searching for evidence is also progressing step by step, and he has already gained control of some of the evidence.

But this was just his original plan. He now felt that Chen Qizhao’s real plan was more than that.

Chen Shiming: "I'll go upstairs and take a look."

Chen Jianhong was the only one left at the dinner table, and the surroundings instantly became quiet.

Chen Jianhong looked at Chen Qizhao's position, and what emerged in his mind was the toddler who was just learning to walk when he was young, and later the little boy who was only as tall as his legs. Young Chen Qizhao was lively, cheerful and smart. Unlike his elder son Chen Shiming, who had a stern face since childhood, Chen Qizhao lived like a happy child.

But he didn't know when all these things started to change. The young child who would follow him and call "Dad" suddenly grew into a different person, as if he had entered the so-called puberty, with thorns all over his body. His words only became sermons in the eyes of the child, and quarrels and parting on bad terms seemed to have become a daily routine in this family.

Chen Jianhong couldn't describe the feeling. He couldn't hate his own child, even if this child was a useless idiot in front of outsiders, even if this child was mediocre compared to his older brother, but in his eyes this child was his child after all. He only hoped that this child could have his own abilities and be independent in the long journey of life. He hoped that his strictness could bring certain growth to the child.

A few years ago, the father and son always quarreled and parted unhappily at the dinner table.

In the past two years, the child has shed some of his immaturity since becoming an adult and has matured visibly.

Problems exposed within the Chen family, Lin's deliberate targeting... these things popped up one after another. The youngest son shed his childish appearance in front of them, and maturely and rationally threw out some unprecedented evidence clues. Finally, the matter became bigger and bigger, and a huge and strange conspiracy appeared in front of him.

Chen Qizhao has matured, but Chen Jianhong can no longer see through him.

He didn't know when Chen Qizhao noticed these problems and when he started investigating them?

How long had his child been hiding, how long had he endured, how much did he know, how many dangers had he encountered, how much of all the time that had passed was true and how much was false, all of this was completely unknown.

The butler waited for a long time and asked, "Sir, shall we take away the remaining things?"

Chen Jianhong came back to his senses and suddenly asked, "Lao Zhang, am I an incompetent father?"

The butler didn't say anything, he didn't know how to answer.

"Forget it, take it away." Chen Jianhong stood up and ordered, "Send a cup of tea to the study later."

But the housekeeper said: "Second Young Master doesn't like you drinking tea."

Chen Jianhong paused and said, "Then water."