Chapter 350 These are all bargaining chips to bring down Pang Daiyao
Ji Ying put on her coat, but didn't even glance at him.
His tone was even colder.
“My husband will definitely come back safely. No matter what happens, I can handle it myself. Madam Shen doesn’t need to worry.”
She walked to the door, turned her gaze to Shen Jingxiu who had been silent, and softened her tone.
"Dad, I'm leaving."
Shen Jingxiu nodded. "If anything happens, call home."
Ji Ying took Jiang Ran and left the Shen residence without looking back.
Looking at her stubborn and lonely figure, Shen Jingxiu sighed, "In the end, we are the ones who have failed this child."
Madam Shen stood there, her fingertips unconsciously clenching the tassels of her shawl...
...
Ji Ying returned to No. 17 Dingbu Street and waited until two or three in the morning, but there was still no news of Liang Yizhi.
Jiang Ran last received their message an hour ago, saying that the two groups had reached international waters.
After that, the satellite phone could not be reached, and no further news came.
"Sister Ying, go and rest for a while. I'll call you immediately if there are any new developments."
Ji Ying sat in the chair, rubbing her head and shaking it.
Just as she was about to speak, her phone rang.
It was Shu Tang calling.
"You probably haven't slept either, have you?" Shu Tang asked.
"What's wrong?" Ji Ying asked.
Shu Tang paused for two seconds, then said, "Come to my house."
Ji Ying hung up the phone and got up.
Jiang Ran stopped her, "Pang Shijun and Mr. Liang are locked in a fierce battle right now. If she asks you to meet at this time, especially at her house, shouldn't you be more careful?"
Ji Ying patted her shoulder, "If you doubt someone, don't use them; if you use someone, don't doubt them. Besides... Shu Tang wouldn't do that."
Although Jiang Ran still disagreed, she said no more, simply checked her personal equipment quickly, and followed after him.
The two arrived at the Pang family villa.
Shu Tang had given prior notice, so Ji Ying was able to enter smoothly.
Upon arrival, Shu Tang pulled her to Pang Shijun's study, while Jiang Ran stayed in the living room to wait.
"Before leaving, Shi Jun said something very strange to me. He said that if I got bored while waiting, I could come to his study to play on his computer. He even gave me the password, but his computer didn't have a password set at all."
As Shu Tang spoke, she pressed Ji Ying down into the chair in front of the desk.
Ji Ying quickly checked Pang Shijun's computer.
It's so clean, unusually clean.
Suddenly, her gaze fell on several icons on the desktop.
She pointed to an icon and asked, "Have you opened this audio file?"
Shu Tang looked closely and said, "The color of this file is too similar to the surrounding icons. I didn't even notice it until you pointed it out."
Ji Ying immediately double-clicked the mouse, but a password box popped up on the screen.
She looked at Shu Tang.
It was only then that Shu Tang realized that the password Pang Shijun mentioned might be used here.
But... how could you possibly use her birthday as a password to protect important documents?
She didn't believe Pang Shijun could love her to this extent.
To prove her idea was correct, she immediately entered her birthday.
The audio software starts up the next second.
This is a video recorded by Pang Shijun himself.
In the picture, he is sitting alone in the study, which is the same spot where Ji Ying is sitting now.
The time displayed below the video is four hours ago.
He adjusted the angle of his phone again, straightened his clothes, and smiled at the camera, his sullen expression replaced by amusement.
"Tangtang, by the time you see this video, I probably... won't be able to come back."
Shu Tang's heart skipped a beat.
“For the past ten years or so, I have been working for my uncle. Openly and secretly, cleanly and dirtyly... The Pang family’s current status is inseparable from his ‘forceful acquisition’, and I am the most handy knife. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that. For the Pang family, someone has to do those things.”
At this point, Pang Shijun frowned and paused for a moment.
“Because I’ve handled so many shady things for him, I absolutely cannot make a mistake. But this time, Shen Ruofu has evidence that I sent people to Kun City to hunt down Ji Ying, and that I had someone strangle Shen Aizhu in prison. Tonight, regardless of whether Liang Yizhi will let me go, my uncle will definitely not let me live.”
He suddenly looked directly into the camera, his gaze seemingly piercing through the screen and landing on Shu Tang's face.
"Wife, I didn't marry you out of necessity; I truly love you."
His voice trembled slightly for the first time in the video, but he quickly regained his composure.
“But there’s no turning back on the path I’ve taken. The only thing I can do is make sure you’re clean. Over the years since we got married, I’ve been secretly cleaning up the traces of the past, trying to give us a clean future. I want to stay with you forever, and I want you to become the glorious Mrs. Pang… Unfortunately, things didn’t go as planned.”
He gave a bitter smile, then a fierce glint appeared in his eyes.
“But wife, don’t worry. I’ve kept a backup plan while I’ve been working for Uncle all these years. If he tries to make things difficult for you because I’m gone, just give the things I left for you to Liang Yizhi. Remember, you’re too weak. Even with those things, you can’t do anything to him, but Liang Yizhi can. But you also need to think carefully. Once those things are made public, the entire Pang family will be finished.”
"Wife..." In the last few seconds of the video, Pang Shijun's gaze was exceptionally tender, "I wonder if I can move you in the next life and let us have a child?"
The video freezes here.
Shu Tang stood there, stunned, as if frozen in time.
It took her a long time to free herself from her complex emotions.
"What...what does he mean by recording this video? Is he trying to tell me he's not coming back?"
Shu Tang's eyes gradually reddened.
Ji Ying quickly got up and hugged her.
"He's relatively clear-headed; he knows that Liang Yizhi might be lenient with him, but Pang Daiyao definitely won't, so he's prepared a way out for you."
Upon hearing this, Shu Tang burst into tears.
“My family can protect me. What’s the point of me preparing these things if he’s gone? He knew it was illegal, yet he still did it. Does he even have a brain?”
Ji Ying didn't respond to her words, but instead gently patted her back to comfort her while looking around the study.
Shu Tang quickly composed herself, sniffed, and said, "Then where is the evidence he left behind? How am I supposed to get it if he doesn't tell me where he hid it?"
Ji Ying was just thinking about this question too.
Suddenly, her gaze fell on the computer screen.
The video finally freezes on a close-up of Pang Shijun's face, his gaze slightly turned to one side, looking in a certain direction.
Ji Ying sat back in her chair and imitated his movements. Looking in this direction, there was a large landscape painting on the wall.
The two struggled to move the picture frame, revealing a very well-hidden secret door behind it.
The door wasn't locked and was easily pushed open.
The interior space was very small, containing only a combination lock box.
Ji Ying took the suitcase out, and Shu Tang entered her birthday again.
The lid of the box popped open with a "click," revealing neatly stacked hard drives, file folders, and several handwritten notebooks.
These are all bargaining chips to bring down Pang Daiyao.
Ji Ying quickly glanced at the titles of the top few documents and immediately closed the box.
“This box is very important. We must wait for Liang Yizhi to return and hand it over to him to handle.”
No sooner had she finished speaking than Jiang Ran began knocking urgently on the door from the outside.
Ji Ying walked over in a few steps and opened the door.
"What happened?"
“Sister Ying,” Jiang Ran’s voice was tense, “Duan Cheng sent word that Mr. Liang and Pang Shijun both fell into the sea during the conflict and are currently missing… The rescue team is searching for them.”
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