The water on the washstand was still running, and Chen Qizhao felt a chill through his fingers, while the person on the other end of the line was still talking.

"Gu Zhengsong should have arranged it in advance. Although the police found him, they found out when they carefully checked the evidence that the actual owner of those industries was not Gu Zhengsong but Gu Shen. The incident that caused a lot of uproar a while ago turned out to be the one that benefited from it. Maybe Gu Zhengsong had anticipated that something would happen one day, so he made arrangements in advance."

Flowered shirt couldn't help but tut a few times after he finished speaking. The Gu family looked glorious but secretly devoured their own children. Gu Zhengsong would do anything for himself. "In order to make this thing look good and clean himself up, he made a lot of arrangements. I wonder if Gu Shen knows that his father is so cruel to him?"

"He may not know." Chen Qizhao turned off the sink and said calmly, "Gu Shen is still at the S City Police Department. The case is serious, and the number of visitors is strictly controlled. Even if they are lawyers, as long as they go in, someone will already know their identities."

Not only the police are keeping an eye on these matters, but the Chen and Shen families are also keeping an eye on them, as is Gu Zhengxun from City B.

The situation of the case is serious. Now anyone related to Gu Shen and Lin's will be classified as a key target. If Gu Zhengsong wants to clear himself, he will not take the risk of sending people to collude with Gu Shen at this time. He would like to sever all ties with Gu Shen. What's more, with Gu Shen's character, he may not necessarily become a plaything of Gu Zhengsong.

Gu Zhengsong was able to shirk all responsibility for these things and put the blame on Gu Shen. I'm afraid that the clues discovered this time were all clues that had already been given to Gu Shen. With him and Gu Zhengxun working together to suppress the enemy, Gu Zhengsong could still get out safely. This arrangement could not be carried out in a short period of time, so this arrangement should have been something Gu Zhengsong had planned long ago.

Gu Shen is most likely a chess piece in Gu Zhengsong's plan. He can be his general who charges into battle, but he can also be a scapegoat who can be abandoned at any time.

Gu Shen has used this method many times, from the Sun family to Lin Shizhong. If Gu Shen had not been sent to jail preemptively, he would probably have tried to clear his name by now, or like Gu Zhengsong, found a scapegoat in advance.

These father and son are cut from the same cloth. Gu Zhengsong is an old fox, and he must know his son's character.

"Boss, you know too much." The man in the flowered shirt laughed twice. "Gu Zhengsong has been released, but it may not be easy for him in a short time..."

At this time, Chen Qizhao turned off the sink switch and suddenly said, "He went in very quickly."

The man in the flowered shirt paused in laughter, "Huh?"

"Gu Shen's related personnel will continue to investigate. If Gu Zhengsong has any clues, I will give it to you at the previous price, as soon as possible." Chen Qizhao took a tissue to dry his hands. Yan Kailin's excited voice outside seemed to penetrate the bathroom door. "That's it."

After hanging up the phone, Chen Qizhao saw Yan Kailin standing at the door playing games, "What are you doing?"

"I need to pee urgently." Yan Kailin handed the phone to Chen Qizhao without even looking up. "Brother, help me play for a while. Kaizi, I need to go to the bathroom first."

"I told you not to call me Kaizi!"

Liu Kai: "Hurry up!"

Yan Kailin: “Right away!”

As soon as Chen Qizhao stopped outside, he heard the door behind him close.

Several other people in the ward were still playing games, and the noisy sounds filled the entire ward. A nurse passing by even knocked on the door politely, motioning for them to be quiet. Chen Qizhao looked down at the character stuck in the fountain in the mobile game, controlling the character as he walked, "How did he manage to die so many times?"

"He is a novice but loves to play. I really don't understand him." Cheng Rong said, "Hey wait, what group is he starting?"

Chen Qizhao sat on the hospital bed and read the email messages on his mobile phone. Yan Kailin and his friends quickly finished a game and asked amidst the cursing voices.

"Brother, are you here?"

"Come." Chen Qizhao closed the email. Before logging out, he thought of something.

The sun shines on a corner of the window, and a succulent potted plant is basking in the sun.

He adjusted the camera and took a picture of the pot of succulents, and finally sent it to Shen Yuhuai.

"I don't want Yan Kailin to be my assistant."

"Fuck, why, isn't it lucky to get my milk?"

“This kind of luck should be given to anyone.”

…

When Special Assistant Xu rushed to the hospital on his boss's orders, he saw several young men playing games in the hospital ward. They were served fruit milk tea and there was an air conditioner blasting overhead. Their life was as comfortable as it could be. When he entered the ward sweating profusely, he felt like he had walked from hell on earth to heaven.

"Xiao Xu, would you like some fruit?" Zhang Yazhi smiled and handed a piece of watermelon to Special Assistant Xu.

Special Assistant Xu hesitated for a second, took it shamelessly, and said thank you.

He looked up at Chen Ershao who was still playing games in the distance, and the document in his hand felt a little hot for some reason.

During this period of time, they were busy with the follow-up handling of the Lin Medical and Gu cases. Not many people knew about this matter, and there were only a dozen people in their team who were busy with it in the company. The Lin Medical matter was finally settled, but then Gu Zhengsong from City B showed up again... They had anticipated this matter before, and Gu Zhengxun had submitted a lot of evidence, but they didn't expect Gu Zhengsong to be so capable that he could pull this out.

After Chen Qizhao finished a game, he noticed Special Assistant Xu.

After a while, Chen Qizhao and Special Assistant Xu walked to the window.

Special Assistant Xu: "All the information is here. The boss told me to send it to you. He also said that if you have other ideas, you can communicate directly."

When the documents were sent over, his boss also asked him to mention the matter to the Second Young Master, and repeatedly reminded him to observe the Second Young Master's situation and report to him immediately if there were any problems.

As a worker for many years, Special Assistant Xu believed that he had a good ability in observing people's words and expressions, so when he saw the Second Young Master calmly reading the document, he asked a few more questions out of a bit of worry.

"Second Young Master?"

"Did Chen Shiming check all these?" Chen Qizhao asked casually after turning to the back.

Special Assistant Xu said, "Mr. Chen ordered that the company now has a team that is specifically following up on this matter, responsible for assisting the police in collecting evidence and summarizing the progress of the case. As soon as Gu Zhengsong came out, the news was sent to us, and we communicated with Mr. Gu Zhengxun as soon as possible."

Chen Qizhao was silent for a while after hearing this. Rarely, he was very calm when he saw the document, without the urgent impulse he had before.

He thought that it might be due to the medication he had been taking during this period, his emotional threshold seemed to have dropped to a controllable level, so that when he answered the phone or saw this document, he could feel excited, but he could also calm down quickly.

There was more information in the materials than he had imagined, and it was more detailed than what he had checked privately.

The information sent by Chen Shiming, together with the information from the previous few days, are all about the progress of the case. Some of the information was more detailed than what he had asked people to look up. The incident was just as he had originally guessed. Gu Zhengsong really had killed Gu Shen. Most of the industries involved in the capital were under Gu Shen's name. The evidence that originally pointed to him finally became evidence to identify Gu Shen. With so much evidence, Gu Shen was basically finished.

Gu Zhengsong did not take action immediately after he was released. He might have wanted to wait until he had gotten through this risky period before taking action... These were all taken into consideration by the Chen and Shen families. It was impossible for Gu Zhengsong to get through this period peacefully. Subsequent evidence was still being submitted, and the only problem was time.

Gu Zhengsong needs time, and they are also pressing for time and putting pressure on him to provide additional evidence. What they are most afraid of is that Gu Shen becomes Gu Zhengsong's scapegoat, and they submit more evidence. Gu Zhengsong is not afraid of these, and he may find another scapegoat.

Chen Qizhao finished reading the document and handed it back to him, "Got it."

Special Assistant Xu was a little slow to react: "Huh?"

That's it! ? Don't you want to ask something?

At the Gu family's home in City B, the curtains were half drawn, blocking out the light from outside.

In the dark, Gu Zhengsong was sitting on the sofa reading documents. Several men in black suits stood beside him, waiting for Gu Zhengsong's instructions.

"Gu Zhengxun has been very active recently. I don't know where he got the information from, but he has reported all our bases." The man in the black suit calmly reported the recent situation, "Including our previous attack on Gu Zhengxun's company, he probably has evidence, and it seems that the old man has issued an order recently..."

Originally, Gu Zhengxun gained the support of several old folks in the Gu family with the jade necklace, but then the matter of Gu Shen's illegitimate child was exposed, and finally his illegal trading den was busted. The Gu family was completely disappointed with them, and in order to prevent Gu Zhengsong's affairs from affecting the Gu Group, the Gu family gave several major projects to Gu Zhengxun recently.

After Gu Zhengsong came out, he got very angry because of this incident.

But this is not the point. The most important thing is that after Gu Zhengxun joined forces with others, he collected a lot of evidence. If Gu Zhengsong wants to distance himself from all ties, he basically has to give up two-thirds of his industries. Because of Lin’s Medical, he ended up in such a miserable state.

The man in the black suit continued, "And as for Young Master Gu, he seemed to have asked someone to pass on a message..."

His boss did these things secretly, and not much news has leaked out outside, let alone S City where Gu Shen is. Now Gu Shen's information network has been restricted, and the information inside and outside is disconnected, so that some of Gu Shen's confidants think that the boss wants to pull them in.

"Keep the news about Gu Shen under wraps. Keep everyone in the capital under control to prevent him from causing me any more trouble."

Gu Zhengsong flipped through the documents with a gloomy face. Fortunately, he had the illegitimate child incident before. He had previously distanced himself from Gu Shen in order to deal with those old guys, so this time the blame was pushed more smoothly. "Find a few trustworthy people to spread the news and say that Gu Shen and I have a bad relationship. Make the illegitimate child incident bigger and push the responsibility to him. It would be best to say that he was dissatisfied with my attitude as a father and had been planning revenge for a long time."

The man in the black suit: "But will there be any problems with Mr. Gu?"

"Don't you know all his people? Control the outside news. Gu Shen won't believe everything. Even if the police tell him the news, he will only think it is a means to deceive him into confessing. You can spread some news to appease him, and then don't worry about him. His people are under control, don't let the news get in."

Gu Zhengsong threw the document on the table, his eyes darkened, "What should you do during this period? Do you need me to teach you? Move carefully, there are people watching outside."

The man in the suit asked, "Do we need to send someone to deal with the Chen and Shen families in City S?"

He handed over the information of the two families, "They have been helping Gu Zhengxun."

"We will deal with it, but not now..." Gu Zhengsong suddenly thought of something, "Does Gu Shen still have some people in S City?"

Man in suit: "Yes, they also spread the news about Mr. Gu."

Gu Zhengsong: "Then let them do it. If they are discovered, just blame it on Gu Shen."

At the Ninth Research Institute, the experimental group conducted the last test. At the end of the experiment, Liu Sui came out with dark circles under his eyes and yawned. He had to lean on Shen Yuhuai's shoulders to walk. "I'm really hungry. I have devoted all my energy recently. Now I just want to go back to the dormitory and play games for three days and three nights."

“There’s still some finishing touches tomorrow,” Shen Yuhuai added, pulling out his phone from his locker.

Liu Sui leaned against the locker and shouted in pain: "Then let's have a good meal tonight. It's okay. It will be the weekend again in a few days."

Shen Yuhuai opened his phone and saw several new messages accumulated in the VX message, and his hand stopped swiping.

"I really admire you. You go out early and come back late every day and still have time to run experiments. You still have so much energy. Why are people so different?"

Liu Sui took something out of the locker weakly. "Why don't we go to S University to eat tonight? It should be summer vacation so there won't be many people there. Is your goddess on vacation? Do you want to meet her tonight? Didn't you go to S University some time ago? This won't work. If a man gives up halfway when pursuing someone, there is basically little hope. I suggest you confess first and then take the next step..."

He was halfway through his speech when he suddenly saw Shen Yuhuai replying to the message.

Liu Sui couldn't help but slow down his movements and glance to the side, vaguely seeing a chat interface.

But just as he looked over, Chen Yuhuai silently moved his phone away, and he couldn't see it anymore.

"Oh my god, are you chatting with your goddess?" Liu Sui immediately reached out to stop him. As soon as he got closer, he only saw a picture of a succulent plant and a familiar head portrait. "With Qi Zhao? I thought you were chatting with your goddess in a mysterious way."

Shen Yuhuai saved the picture of the succulent, and when he was typing in the message bar, he heard the voice next to him.

"Hey, did Qi Zhao change his profile picture?" Liu Sui suddenly said.

Shen Yuhuai glanced sideways, "Changed?"

The message input was paused, and when Shen Yuhuai clicked on the avatar, he noticed that the picture in the upper left corner was refreshed, and finally a familiar restaurant background appeared.

There is no one in the picture, but there is a mobile phone on the table in the restaurant. The screen of the phone is dark and the frame of the phone is a transparent phone case.

"You may not have refreshed the picture. I just saw it when I clicked on his Moments." Liu Sui clicked on the avatar and took a look. "Why is there only a photo of a mobile phone? Have young people changed their avatar styles nowadays? But this photo is quite artistic. If you want to take a photo, it would be better to turn the phone upside down. That's not right. Is this a transparent phone case?"

He just looked over to Shen Yuhuai, and his attention suddenly stopped on Shen Yuhuai's transparent phone case.

Liu Sui felt a little strange, "Are transparent phone cases popular now?"

Shen Yuhuai half-lowered his eyes and commented: "It's a good shot."

Liu Sui: "Do you want to go eat grilled fish?"

“You guys go, I have to go out for something.” Shen Yuhuai closed the locker and took a coat.

“No way, brother, it’s already past nine o’clock, why don’t you have a meal before you leave…” Before Liu Sui finished speaking, he saw Shen Yuhuai had already left the lounge.

In the hospital, Yan Kailin and a few others came to play during the day, and Chen Qizhao started to feel sleepy after taking his medicine in the evening. Zhang Yazhi, who was not far away, was packing her things. She would be discharged from the hospital the day after tomorrow, so she had some things to take away in advance. She also asked Uncle Zhang to prepare some things.

Zhang Yazhi stayed in the hospital for as long as she was needed. Even if she was busy at work, she would rush back immediately after finishing her work.

Chen Qizhao got off the bed and helped her put the other things in. He saw a pile of drawings on the table and said, "Just let the nurse collect the rest. Why are you so busy?"

"Just a few things. I'll go get them for Old Zhang." Zhang Yazhi walked out with the clothes, and the ward became quiet.

Chen Qizhao sat on the sofa, his eyes fixed on the uncollected drawings and work computer on the table. Out of the corner of his eye he saw several thick pencils scattered all over the table.

The ones closer are probably the ones Zhang Yazhi often uses, and the rest...

There was also a pencil sharpener pressed on the drawing. He had seen this pencil sharpener many times. Zhang Yazhi was used to it and had been using it for a long time. She even asked someone to replace the blade inside.

Chen Qizhao picked up the pencil sharpener and took the pencil in the distance.

When Zhang Yazhi came back from delivering the things, she met Chen Shiming.

"Is your dad working overtime tonight?" Zhang Yazhi asked.

"Something went wrong today. He was planning to come over, so he might come back later."

As Chen Shiming walked, he said, "I asked his assistant to keep an eye on him. He won't stay up late. I'll send him to the hotel at a certain time."

"Don't come if it's too late. Xiaozhao will scold him if you stay up late." When Zhang Yazhi entered the ward, she saw Chen Qizhao coming out of the bathroom with wet hands.

Chen Shiming paused when he saw Chen Qizhao. He asked Xiao Xu to deliver the documents in the afternoon, and he was surprised to hear Xiao Xu's reply.

Chen Qizhao used to pay close attention to these things, so when the news about Gu Zhengsong came out, he wanted to know Chen Qizhao's thoughts first. He knew that with his brother's ability, this news would reach him sooner or later. Even if Chen Shiming didn't want Chen Qizhao to worry or be anxious about this matter, he had to say what needed to be said. At least at the level of information sharing, he could know Chen Qizhao's thoughts.

But Chen Qizhao's calmness was beyond his expectations.

Chen Shiming approached and took the initiative to speak: "We mentioned the possibility of Gu Zhengsong's release when we communicated with Gu Zhengxun before. Because most of the evidence he handled came to Gu Zhengsong through Gu Shen, we considered that he might shirk responsibility, but we didn't expect him to be so cruel to his own son. There are many people watching him recently, and he should not take other actions. Just in case, I have asked people to keep a close eye on the people related to Gu Shen. He will not do it himself, but he may do it through Gu Shen's people..."

After listening to this, Chen Qizhao finally said "hmm".

"You..." Chen Shiming said, "If you have any plans, you can tell me or Dad."

"I don't have any plans. I'm a little sleepy now." Chen Qizhao looked at him, and then asked Zhang Yazhi behind him: "Mom, where are my clothes?"

Zhang Yazhi said, "It's over there in the suitcase."

Everything was normal in the ward. Chen Shiming watched Chen Qizhao take the clothes in with a worried look in his eyes. He walked closer for a while and saw the bathroom door that had just been closed opened again. Chen Qizhao glanced at him and asked, "What are you doing here?"

"No." Chen Shiming made way.

Chen Qizhao went to get a bath towel and then went back in.

Chen Shiming walked to the sofa and sat down, watching Zhang Yazhi collecting her drawings. "How is he feeling today?"

"Kailin and the others came over today and had a lot of fun playing games." Zhang Yazhi stopped talking halfway when she saw two pencils that she had been planning to throw away had been sharpened and were placed intact in her storage box.

She glanced sideways and saw some freshly rolled pencil shavings in the trash can next to her.

Chen Shiming: "Mom?"

Zhang Yazhi closed the storage box and said, "It's fine. You don't have to worry."

In the bathroom, the sound of the shower was layered, and there was also the sound of people talking faintly.

Chen Qizhao stood under the shower, letting the water wash over his face. Certain sounds seemed to be getting farther and farther away from him, and the only sound left was the faint sound of water entering the sewer. The water from the shower was just the right temperature, causing his body to gradually warm up. Finally, when the shower was turned off, his mood also calmed down.

There was a layer of fog on the mirror, and the figure in the mirror could not be seen clearly. There was only a human outline cast by the warm light in the bathroom.

Chen Qizhao reached out and wiped away the mist on the surface and saw the person in the mirror.

Her wet hair was still dripping with water, which trickled down her cheeks, onto her skin, and down her arms.

Chen Qizhao followed the drop of water with his eyes, watching it flow to an invisible place. He lowered his eyes to look at the few scars on his arm. There was still a shallow mark from the knife attack he had blocked in the hospital before, and the deeper one was the wound he got when he taught a few street thugs a lesson a while ago. All of them left marks on his body.

The reality of nightmares is not necessarily true, and the absurdity of reality is not necessarily false.

Chen Qizhao thought to himself, and when he looked back, he glanced at his body and paused for a moment: "I seem to have lost some weight."

The sound of running water in the bathroom stopped, and the whole space seemed to become quiet.

Chen Qizhao reached for a clean bath towel nearby, but he lost control of his hand and dropped his clean T-shirt onto the wet ground. He didn't have time to grab it, and the water quickly soaked his blue T-shirt, leaving dark marks on the surface.

He frowned slightly.

The clothes are no longer wearable.

Hospital bathrooms without dry and wet separation are troublesome.

"Chen Shiming?" Chen Qizhao called out, but there was no response from outside.

Outside the ward, Zhang Yazhi went to take out the trash. Chen Shiming just happened to receive a call from Special Assistant Xu and was answering the phone at the door of the ward.

"Have you found anyone related to Gu Shen?" Chen Shiming frowned slightly. "Don't alert the enemy. Send someone to keep an eye on them and see if they have any contact with Gu Zhengsong's people. Don't take any other risks if they make any moves. Notify us first..."

He was halfway through his speech when he saw Shen Yuhuai coming over with something in his hand.

Chen Shiming nodded at him, indicating that he was on the phone.

Shen Yuhuai said nothing, but greeted him politely before brushing shoulders with him and entering the ward.

There was no one in the ward, and Shen Yuhuai was just about to put down the fruit he brought when he suddenly heard a noise coming from the bathroom.

After a while, the door suddenly opened, and a shirtless boy walked in while wiping his hair.

The boy had a bath towel covering his head. When he was drying his hair, the shoulder blades on his back moved. There was an obvious light-colored knife scar across his exposed upper arm, which swayed a little bit as the other person's hand bones moved.

His originally skinny body became much whiter and thinner. His hair was wet, and the sunken spine could be seen in the middle of his fair back. His shallow muscles moved slightly, and his pants were loose around his waist. A few drops of water slid down his skin into the clothes around his waist and finally disappeared.

Chen Qizhao walked towards the suitcase and didn't look behind him. He thought it was Chen Shiming and said, "Chen Shiming, I asked you to take the things for so long..."

"He's on the phone." The person behind him replied.

Chen Qizhao was stunned and turned his head suddenly.

Shen Yuhuai stood at the door. He put down the fruit in his hand, and then gently closed the ward door that was originally wide open.

Today he was wearing glasses, and under the bright incandescent light, his eyes looked particularly dark. He looked at Chen Qizhao, "Do you need help?"