In early June, public opinion exploded quickly and fiercely. After Special Assistant Xu reported to others in the conference room, public opinion on the Internet seemed to be pushed by someone and quickly climbed to the front row of the hot search list. The headlines that were unfavorable to the Chen Group were so blatantly hung on the hot search. It happened to be the lunch break at that time, and there were quite a few netizens surfing the Internet. The title #Chen Group's Shoddy Construction# was very eye-catching, and netizens who saw the title clicked on it one after another.

The hot search mentioned a project of the Chen Group in Y City. The project was investigated by the local Housing and Construction Bureau due to possible engineering hazards. However, the problems raised by the hot search were not limited to this. The people who manipulated public opinion seemed to be very good at this kind of push. Various marketing accounts below joined forces to lead the matter to another situation, and also put up the problems that had occurred in the past and solved by the Chen Group, such as the contractor running away and wage arrears.

So many questions were seen on the hot searches that netizens’ impression of the Chen Group was directly affected. As a well-known domestic group focusing on real estate, Chen Group has projects spread across a wide range, and many of them are still in operation today.

[No way?] Is it really Chen? It seems that the residential complex that is just being built near us is contracted by the Chen family, right? ? ? 】

[That’s not necessary. Are you really being investigated?] 】

[Damn, it seems the previous developer of the place I live now was Chen. I have to call someone to come and take a look. 】

[Wait, isn't he suspected of being investigated? I saw that the media that broke the news said something like this. 】

[Is the popularity of this hot search decreasing again? Why did it drop in ranking? Are they removing the trending search? 】

The more violent the online public opinion exploded, the more at ease the people in the Lin Group who were watching the situation unfold felt.

Lin Shizhong and Gu Shen were sitting in the office, with real-time online discussions popping up on the tablet next to them.

"The matter in Y City can be delayed. I have asked the person in charge of the project to leave the country. Chen's side will not be able to produce results in a short period of time." Lin Shizhong looked at the comments online. First, he raised the problem of Chen Group's project in Y City, and then asked the general manager of the project to leave the country. The progress of the investigation can be slowed down. "Chen's side should want to suppress public opinion. I have arranged people to make trouble here. It should not be suppressed in this period of time."

Gu Shen said calmly, "The Chen family has too many accumulated problems. No matter how capable Chen Jianhong and Chen Shiming are, they can't plug so many holes in such a short time."

There was a hard-to-see deep meaning in his eyes. "What were you afraid of before? After the Chen incident broke out, your investigation by the Industry and Commerce Bureau won't attract much attention. At most, you just violated the rules of market competition. As long as we focus on the safety of life and property in the Chen issue, it doesn't matter which side attracts more attention."

"Once this incident involving Chen's company is exposed, your little problem will soon be alleviated."

Lin Shizhong knew what Gu Shen was thinking. This move not only put pressure on the Chen family, but also eased the situation where the Lin family was attacked from all sides. "This will completely break off relations with the Chen family."

"I'm not afraid of falling out, I'm afraid of people hiding in the dark."

Gu Shen's eyes deepened as he thought of the person who was still hiding behind the Chen family.

A glimmer of shrewdness flashed across Lin Shizhong's cloudy eyes, and he asked casually, "After dealing with Chen's affairs, do you still plan to develop in S City?"

Gu Shen's face calmed down when he heard what Lin Shizhong said. "The channels of the Sun family are cut off, and the channels of the Chen family are also difficult to use. We will see the situation when the time comes." He also added: "Wait until the Chen family goes bankrupt and everything that needs to be cleaned up, then we will consider changing direction. The transportation of drugs has been strictly controlled recently."

Lin Shizhong felt depressed, as a certain feeling had been growing more and more profound recently.

When Chen's problem is solved, this desperado may not really stand on his side. Driven by interests, he and Lin may become each other's scapegoats at any time when they are completely useless.

To conspire with a tiger is a risky thing in itself.

Lin Shizhong changed the subject and asked, "Hasn't the person you mentioned been found yet?"

"No, but it will be soon." Speaking of that person, Gu Shen said in a deep voice: "The more actions the other party takes, the harder it will be to hide. And now Chen is caught up in the storm of public opinion. If the other party wants to drag this opportunity out, he will definitely take action... This person is very interesting. He has done so many things but has not fully revealed himself. He only hides behind and acts as a pusher. If you want to deal with him, you have to force him out."

That person wanted to use Lin's to ease Chen's crisis, and he used such a provocative method, without even considering whether Chen's internal situation could withstand his indirect rescue... What's more, in this situation, Chen's itself has big problems. Now that it is under the spotlight of public opinion, every move will be magnified. With the supply of goods cut off, several large projects are burning money every day. Chen Jianhong and Chen Shiming are now adding money to save the situation, but their working capital is limited. When their working capital gets into trouble, Chen's will not be able to get up.

This guy is really good at hiding, but no matter how good he is at hiding, Chen is his weak spot, so this guy will definitely take action.

Gu Shen knew that the other party was arrogant and wanted to use Lin's to fight back.

But in this situation, he wants to see what the other side can do.

There were no extra sounds in the office. Gu Shen's attention was focused on the various public opinions on the Internet. He sat on the sofa, calm and composed as if he was controlling everyone.

Lin Shizhong said nothing. Chen must be eliminated. At least now he and Gu Shen are still in the same boat. Lin's Medical needs their support, and Gu Shen also needs Lin's status and connections in S City. From the current perspective, the alliance between the two can last for a long time... but just in case.

Thinking of this, Lin Shizhong listened to the rest of Gu Shen’s arrangements and clicked on the recording function on his mobile phone.

The project in City Y was like a trigger, which fermented quickly after it broke out.

Special Assistant Xu originally wanted to send someone to reduce the heat. There were indeed some minor problems in Y City. After being reported, the Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau went to investigate. The group had a clear conscience and was not afraid of being investigated by the Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau. However, not long after the Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau went there, public opinion on the Internet quickly emerged at this point, as if they had been prepared.

"It wasn't our people who removed the trending posts. Someone from another party was suspected of doing so." Special Assistant Xu contacted the public relations department and immediately reported, "We have encountered this kind of situation before. The people who manipulated public opinion and removed the trending posts should be the same group of people. They are directing and acting on their own, pushing the issue of removing the trending posts onto us in an attempt to stir up public opinion even more."

There should be a buffer period after news like this breaks out, and Chen's mechanism for dealing with public opinion is relatively complete, so they can fully cope with it with their speed.

It's just that the other party was too clever. They only used a title, but it was full of Chen's old problems. Even if the problem had been solved, this kind of intuitive statement of problems could easily make netizens who didn't know the full picture trust it, and they took advantage of the kindness of netizens to intensify public opinion.

In the current situation, regardless of whether they can produce evidence in the end, the other party’s purpose is most likely to use this wave of public opinion to put pressure on the Chen family.

Chen Shiming asked: "Is it still within our control?"

"Yes." Special Assistant Xu said, "But the other party seems to want to continue to ferment this matter and is still investing in water army, just like before, they pushed the project to explode step by step."

"The more vigorously this fire burns, the better it is for them." Chen Shiming frowned and said, "They should have more than just this purpose."

Special Assistant Xu continued, "At present, the public relations department has conducted emergency public relations for this public opinion. The main problem is the hidden dangers of the project in Y City. We have to wait for the local Housing and Construction Bureau to issue a report on this matter. We have already stopped the person in charge of Y City, but he has not yet leaked the news. What should we do next?"

This matter was very scary, because when they stopped him, the person in charge of Y City was carrying a series of important documents. If the person in charge of Y City had not stopped him and let him escape abroad, then this matter would have been even more difficult to handle.

"No hurry." Chen Shiming said seriously. They had used Lin's attack on Chen's company to find a lot of evidence. Now they were almost done, so they had to delay for a while. "Let the public relations department control public opinion and delay for another week."

Special Assistant Xu asked: "How to delay?"

"Delay it for a day, and then say you'll hold a press conference in a week."

Chen Shiming continued: "I will pretend to go on a business trip to Y City and see what else they do next."

"If there are any fish that slip through the net, they cannot be let go."

Special Assistant Xu stood in awe, writing down the itinerary, and suddenly remembered: "There is one more thing."

Ever since problems began to arise in Chen's various projects, this group of people have been collecting relevant evidence following the problems behind these projects so that they can fight back at any time.

If it weren't for the sudden public opinion, their plans would not have been disrupted.

Two weeks ago, the boss suddenly wanted to re-examine the people involved in certain channels and the internal files. The specific results should come out in the next few days. Their internal review of the group has entered the final stage and all the evidence has basically been gathered. Thinking of the horrific truth that the investigation revealed, Special Assistant Xu couldn't help but speak with caution: "Should we deal with the evidence we received first?"

Chen Shiming: "After the results come out, keep them on hold until I come back to deal with them."

Lin Shizhong's subsequent action was to use internal pressure.

Soon after the news broke, Chen's stock price was affected. Public opinion affected the overall interests of the group. The group's shareholders could no longer sit still and their remarks against Chen Jianhong and Chen Shiming became increasingly fierce. The person in charge of the project team in Y City ran away. The board of directors held an emergency meeting and asked Chen Shiming to put aside other work and deal with the matter immediately to prevent public opinion from further fermenting.

Chen Shiming did as he was told and went on a 'business trip' to City Y.

This kind of internal pressure is nothing but adding insult to injury for the Chen family, which is already in a state of unity.

At the first moment when the public opinion emerged, Chen Group did emergency public relations, but more and more people were paying attention to the development of the situation.

Under pressure from both inside and outside, everyone in the Chen Group became extremely nervous.

When Chen Qizhao arrived at the company, there were rumors everywhere, and some shareholders even believed the rumors and started selling their shares. Chen Qizhao entered the office and looked at several documents in front of him. Xiao Zhou stood nervously beside him, waiting for the next instruction.

"The situation within the group is complicated. Mr. Chen took several assistants to Y City to deal with it the day before yesterday. It seems that Mr. Chen is planning to hold an emergency press conference." Xiao Zhou told Chen Qizhao about the situation in the past few days as requested, and his eyes were on Chen Qizhao. His boss had not come to the company much during this period, and he didn't know that the company was under great internal pressure.

He looked at his boss's expression and found that there was no change in his expression.

It seems that this big event of the group is not a big deal.

Chen Qizhao asked calmly, "Where's Special Assistant Xu? Did he leave with Chen Shiming as well?"

"No, Special Assistant Xu is still at the headquarters. He seems to be very busy recently. He is often out and about and hasn't been back for several days." Xiao Zhou didn't know what Special Assistant Xu was busy with recently. After Mr. Chen left, Special Assistant Xu seemed to have suddenly had several times more work. This was the first time he saw Special Assistant Xu so busy. "But I seem to have heard that Special Assistant Xu will be back today. He has to attend a meeting on behalf of Mr. Chen..."

Chen Qizhao asked: "What time is the meeting?"

"It should be almost over." Xiao Zhou looked at his watch. Before he could finish his words, he saw his boss standing up. "Boss? What are you doing?"

Chen Qizhao: "The conference room is blocked."

Chen's internal meetings have been held one after another in the past few days. Both external and internal pressures have come together. It seems that Lin's side has arranged it well, pushing these things to ferment further step by step, and hitting Chen at the most critical moment, making the relevant personnel feel suffocated.

As Special Assistant Xu sat in the conference room listening to other people's reports, his tired brain was working hard. In all his years in the industry, this was the first time he had encountered so many lines of work and so many things were coming. Shareholders of the entire group were instigated by people with ulterior motives to attack them. Big problems would arise if they were not careful.

The boss waved goodbye and went on a business trip to Y City, so he was the only one who insisted on attending the meeting.

Not only that, his boss also asked him to gather all the evidence after the investigation. He finally finished his work today and had to listen to these meaningless complaints from the senior executives. It would be more cost-effective to get more things done with this time than to attend meetings. He thought that if he could hold on for another four days until his boss came back, all these things would be over.

The meeting finally ended. Special Assistant Xu avoided other people's conversations and inquiries. Just as he walked into the corner of the office, he suddenly saw a familiar figure.

Young Master Chen was standing at the door of his office, seemingly answering a phone call. His peripheral vision lingered on him for a moment, and he continued to talk to the person on the phone, "Well, I'm at home now. I'll go out with my mom later."

Special Assistant Xu didn't dare to say anything. He just watched Young Master Chen lie to the person on the other end of the phone in a different tone. He was stuck in a dilemma and didn't know where to go for a moment. Dealing with Chen Ershao was more difficult than dealing with his boss. Among all the assistants, he was the only one who could deal with Chen Ershao. The more he dealt with Chen Ershao, the more he felt that this man's character was difficult to guess and he felt that he was a little unfathomable.

Like now, he already felt nervous before the other party even spoke.

Chen Qizhao continued, "Chen's company does have a lot of things to do these days, so I will ask for a few days off from school. I will go to school then."

The person who connected with Chen Qizhao was Shen Yuhuai. After hearing the explanation on the phone, he lowered his eyes and looked at the piles of reports in his notebook. There were a lot of things going on in the Chen Group. Even he, an outsider, felt the pressure coming in the current situation, not to mention that his father and eldest sister had been discussing the Chen Group these days.

Not only that, he thought of another thing.

After talking with Dr. Xie last time, the other party suggested that he take Chen Qizhao to the clinic for a comprehensive examination, but after Dr. Xie came back from his business trip, Shen Yuhuai couldn't find a chance to take Chen Qizhao to the clinic. Chen Qizhao took more frequent leave from school, and he couldn't find anyone at school several times. Then something like this happened suddenly. He knew that Chen Qizhao would not put down other things and follow him for the examination at this point.

Shen Xuelan was right next to Shen Yuhuai. When she saw him hang up the phone, she said, "It may take a long time for the Chen family to deal with this matter. Chen Shiming went to Y City to solve the problem in Y City in the shortest possible time. I guess the Chen family has more tricks up their sleeves, but I still can't see clearly what the Chen family wants to do."

Chen Yuhuai was worried. The sense of urgency was getting stronger and stronger recently. "I know."

Inside the Chen Group, Chen Qizhao hung up the phone and glanced at the call records.

He retracted his gaze and then looked directly at Special Assistant Xu, and said straight to the point: "Have you finished checking the channels that Chen Shiming asked you to check?"

Special Assistant Xu: "We have checked it, but the boss said he will deal with it when he comes back."

Before his boss went to City Y, he specifically instructed that the processing of the evidence and intelligence collected during this period should be slowed down and a decision should be made after he returned.

Chen Qizhao's eyes stopped at Special Assistant Xu, then he looked away and said, "Give me what you found."

Assistant Xu paused for a moment, remembering that his boss had asked him to send it to the Second Young Master in the past, so he said, "I'll sort it out right away."

The offices were not far away. While Special Assistant Xu was sorting out documents, Chen Qizhao walked out into the corridor and saw people coming out of the large conference room in the distance. He leaned against the glass fence and watched those people walk away quietly. In the corner of his eye, he saw several familiar people, including Chen Liyao who was following behind others with documents in his hand.

When the voices and footsteps became farther and farther away, Chen Qizhao swiped a strange number on his mobile phone, and there was no ripple in his deep eyes.

Using public opinion as pressure, he forced Chen Shiming to leave Chen Corporation and go to Y City. He tried every means to put pressure on Chen Corporation and slow down its work progress... Just like he pushed him to the top in his previous life, he wanted to repeat the same trick and make Chen Corporation go bankrupt again.

The extremely evil people were spreading their conspiracies in a hurry. Lin Shizhong and Gu Shen's method of pushing people into the abyss step by step was exactly the same as in their previous life. Some people thought that their plan was foolproof, but they didn't know that their plan had actually entered another dead end at some point, as if all the endings of the two lives were combined together.

Chen Qizhao lowered his eyes slightly, suppressing the hatred that was about to burst out.

The excitement of the upcoming ending filled his chest, he opened his hands slightly, his eyes resting on the lines on his palms.

It would be too easy to just send these people to jail.

If you want to do it, of course you have to do it in a grand manner, using the means that the other party is most proud of.

Inside Chen Jianhong's office at the Chen Group, Chen Jianhong had just finished a phone call with Chen Shiming from City Y. Facing pressure from both inside and outside, his expression was more serious than ever before. The documents recorded the actions of certain shareholders in the past few days. The rats lurking in the dark could not wait to run out and disrupt the situation within Chen's group. He wrote down these people one by one, signed several important documents, and instructed his assistant: "Convene the board of directors tomorrow morning. There is an important plan to be promoted."

Amid the undercurrent of competition among various forces, the struggle in the capital city has not stopped.

Gu Zhengxun also received the news that the Chen family in City S was troubled by public opinion, and on the table was the result of his discussion with Chen Jianhong.

He looked at his assistant and said directly, "Please clear your schedule for the next three days. I'm going to City S. Please don't let anyone know."

The assistant immediately checked with him about the next schedule adjustments.

As he was speaking, a phone number from S City suddenly popped up on Gu Zhengxun's phone.

He paused for a moment, signaled his assistant to stop talking, and he answered the phone.

A slightly unfamiliar young voice came from the other end of the phone -

"Hello, Mr. Gu Zhengxun, I want to discuss a business with you."

Three days later.

Amid the increasingly intense public opinion storm surrounding Chen, Lin Shizhong was waiting for a predetermined outcome. The messages coming and going undoubtedly declared that Chen was overwhelmed, and the outcome he had been waiting for for several years seemed to be coming this year.

"Yes, Chen Shiming is still in Y City, but Chen's press conference will be held in the morning." The assistant sorted out the various intelligence messages he received, "Our informant inside Chen's company reported that Chen Shiming seems unable to take care of both sides, and now some shareholders have started to make trouble."

Chen Shiming can't come back, but the press conference that Chen announced to the public will continue.

Everything is just as they expected. The series of problems will make the already impacted Chen Group even more vulnerable.

By restraining Chen Shiming and Chen Jianhong and then using other means to stir up problems, the balance of the Chen family can be broken.

"Is the press conference going to start live soon?" Lin Shizhong said calmly, "Start the live broadcast and let us see Chen Jianhong's true face."

The affairs of the Chen Group have been a hot topic during this period. The press conference was attended by many important media in the industry. The public and the media are waiting for a reasonable explanation for this incident. As soon as the video on the live broadcast platform started, several senior executives of the Chen Group gathered in the shooting angle, and sitting in the first seat was Chen Jianhong.

Those who were paying attention to the situation were also paying attention to the live broadcast results. Chen, the chairman who founded the Chen family empire in one fell swoop, sat quietly.

A person in charge nearby responded to all the online questions in an orderly manner and gave a sincere explanation: "Regarding the recent public opinion storm of Chen Group, we will make the following explanations. First of all, we will clarify the misunderstandings caused by the "Chen's shoddy construction, contractors running away" and so on. Our company does not have shoddy construction. We have summarized and processed the incidents listed on the Internet. It was a construction incident in 2012. For this reason, we can provide the inspection report given by the inspection party that year. The construction inspection was qualified at the time of delivery. The claim of shoddy construction is pure slander.

The contractor ran away. This happened last year. When the contractor had problems, our company immediately contacted the person in charge at the time and handled the matter properly. The project is still in operation. There is no delay in the payment of employee wages or replacement of inferior building materials..."

The press conference was proceeding in an orderly manner, and the person in charge of the press conference explained the main parts of the online public opinion.

Lin Shizhong looked at Chen Jianhong. The more they got along over the years, the more clearly he could see the figure of the former leader of the Chen family on Chen Jianhong's face, the one who had used tricks to scheme against their Lin family... He thought that after all these years, his hatred for the Chen family should have eased, but in fact, at this moment, he realized that the hatred that came from his bones was difficult to eliminate.

If it weren't for the Chen family, the Lin family wouldn't have ended up like that, his father wouldn't have changed his temperament so drastically because of the Lin family's crisis, and his family wouldn't have become as fragile as it did later. He has kept the Chen family to make profits for so many years, and now the end is approaching. The Chen family should also taste the pain that was inflicted on their Lin family in the past.

He and Chen Jianhong were not close friends, as the long-standing friendship between the two families had long since ended.

Lin Shizhong sneered. Even if these could be explained, the Chen family might not be able to explain what happened in Y City. The person in charge of the Y City project has left the country as they requested, and also took away the project's information documents. It is simply a fantasy for the Chen family, who lacks the information documents, to pass the inspection of the Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau and produce useful certificates in such a short time.

Sure enough, not long after, the reporter at the scene asked a question, "Hello, regarding the hidden dangers of Chen's Shengxing project in Y City, is this true?"

Chen Jianhong said: "Regarding this matter, we will let the person who is specifically responsible for this matter come to explain."

At this time, the live broadcast angle suddenly swept to the left side of the scene. Chen Shiming, wearing a suit, was standing aside, and next to him was a pale middle-aged man.

Lin Shizhong's face froze, and he looked straight at Chen Shiming and the middle-aged man: "Why is he here!?"

The person in charge of Y City had already been sent abroad by him, and shouldn’t Chen Shiming be kept in Y City by the people from the Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau?

He looked at his assistant angrily: "Didn't you say that Chen Shiming didn't return to S City?!"

The assistant's face turned pale. "But the news we received was indeed like this. Our informant in the Chen Group did report it this way. In addition, the Chen Group held an emergency meeting last night. According to their original plan, they would avoid talking about the Y City incident at this press conference..."

In the live broadcast, Chen Shiming had already walked onto the podium and began to explain the Y City incident fluently.

No, it shouldn't be like this. The informant's information cannot be wrong.

Lin Shizhong's veins popped out on the back of his hands and his face turned ashen. These informants were hiding. Chen Shiming had not been able to find those people in all his actions from last year to now. Some of them were arranged by him to avoid Jiang Yuze. Even if the other party got the list, they would not be able to find these people. All their plans revolve around these people. If Chen Shiming had paid attention to these people, their plans would not have been able to proceed so smoothly.

Could it be that Chen Shiming didn’t return to the company! ?

That's impossible. Then what was the emergency meeting last night about? ?

And the person in charge of Y City should have left long ago before they caused public opinion. How could he be blocked by Chen Shiming! ?

Lin Shizhong's eyes were fixed on the press conference in the venue, and an inexplicable terrible thought occurred to him, unless this matter was a setup from the beginning to the end?

It was drizzling outside the live press conference site.

While all the reporters focused on Chen's press conference, a young boy stood downstairs of Chen's Building holding an umbrella, watching several media people coming in and out one after another. He had a black and white coat and hat on his head, covering all his expressions, and his white headphones hung loosely.

The boy was holding a mobile phone, and the screen was showing the live broadcast of Chen's press conference.

Several staff members looked at him in surprise, not understanding why the boy was standing outside watching the video when the press conference was taking place inside.

Not long after, the boy walked into the rain with an umbrella, his back straight, and hailed a taxi on the roadside.