The name of the person he was talking to was glaringly clear: Prosecutor Li!
"What you just said included your reaction to Aunt Wu's embezzlement of large sums of money and her maintenance of a lover, as well as your knowledge of the alleged violations at the Hongyuan Building Materials project."
Chao Youye's voice was like a cold judgment, "Prosecutor Li, and several important directors... I'm sure you all heard it clearly."
"boom--!!!"
Chao Nanxing felt his eyes go dark, and a fishy and sweet taste suddenly rushed up his throat. He staggered and held onto the edge of the table, barely avoiding falling.
A serious and steady middle-aged male voice came from the other end of the phone, and it echoed clearly in the silent study through the speaker.
"Mr. Chao, I'm Li Mingyuan. I'm here to discuss your wife, Wu Meng,'s alleged embezzlement of a large sum of money, and your son, Wu Zeyu's possible serious irregularities in the supply chain for building materials for the Chengdong project."
"Our procuratorate has already obtained some clues. Now, we have heard your attitude towards this matter firsthand... Please go to the Municipal Procuratorate immediately to cooperate with the investigation. In addition, we will also verify the recordings and other evidence provided by Mr. Chao Youye according to the law. Please cooperate."
"No... No! Chief Prosecutor Li! Listen to my explanation! It was this little bastard who framed me! He..."
Chao Nanxing was completely panicked and screamed incoherently into the phone, trying to save the situation. The blood drained from his face, leaving only dead despair.
"Mr. Chao Nanxing," Chief Prosecutor Li said in a voice filled with undeniable legal authority, "please remain calm. If you have anything to say, please go to the procuratorate. Our comrades are already on their way to your residence."
The phone was hung up. The cold busy tone echoed mercilessly in the luxurious study like a death knell.
Chao Nanxing felt as if all his bones had been pulled out. He slumped back into the large leather seat in a daze, his eyes vacant, and he muttered nervously, "It's over... It's all over..."
The empire of power he had carefully built throughout his life and the ruthless control he was proud of collapsed under the deadly web carefully woven by his son and his cold and ruthless backstabbing, leaving only cold ruins and endless shame.
Chao Youye looked indifferently at her father, who had aged ten years in an instant, looking like a defeated rooster. Deep in her violet eyes, there was no joy of victory, only a deeper, colder emptiness.
He forced himself to suppress the bloody smell rising in his throat and froze all his emotional fluctuations once again.
He turned towards Youye, without even glancing at the man slumped in the ruins of power, and walked towards the study door with unsteady but extremely determined steps.
"Why..." Chao Nanxing's hoarse and broken voice, like a dying beast, came from behind, "...I am your father..."
Chao Youye's footsteps paused slightly at the door. He didn't turn around, and his cold voice sounded like it came from the depths of the underworld:
"When you forced me to push away the only light for the sake of the so-called 'perfect heir'; when you tacitly allowed Wu Zeyu and his mother to attack me and the people I cherish time and time again; when you treated my mother and I as pawns to be manipulated and sacrificed at will..."
His voice paused, with a weariness and coldness that penetrated deep into his bones, "...you are no longer worthy of being my father."
He opened the heavy mahogany door, and the bright light from the corridor outside poured in, illuminating his pale, almost transparent profile, and also illuminating the dead wasteland in his eyes.
"Prison is the best place for you. At least there, you won't hurt anyone again."
The door gently closed behind him, separating the two worlds and also separating a father-son relationship that was completely twisted by power and cruelty.
The collapse in the study was just the beginning of the storm. In the following days, the Chao Group was like a magnitude 10 earthquake.
On the day Wu Meng was ordered by Chao Youye to "leave the house with nothing", she was almost mentally collapsed and tried to make a scene in the Chao family's old house, but was ruthlessly "invited" out by Chao Youye's confidants (who were quietly arranged by Ye Qingliu) who had been waiting there for a long time.
When she tried to contact Xu Jin, she found that her handsome lover had already become frightened and disappeared without a trace with the last huge sum of money that Wu Meng had transferred to him.
The huge blow and the fear of losing everything completely destroyed this once graceful and elegant woman. When she was finally taken away by the police on suspicion of massive embezzlement and misappropriation of funds, she was already insane.
Wu Zeyu's downfall came even faster and more completely. Under Chao Youye's direction, the audit storm for the Chengdong project's building materials supply chain unfolded with lightning speed.
There is irrefutable evidence that "Hongyuan Building Materials" inflated its bids and engaged in bid rigging and collusion, and several suspicious funds that flowed into Wu Zeyu's personal account further confirmed his crime of using his mother's influence to transfer benefits.
His once glorious "elite training camp" instantly became a cancer that everyone avoided, and the "elites" who once surrounded him turned against him and were eager to distance themselves from him.
When he was taken away from Dingfeng's office by the police, his face was no longer as sunny and proud as before. Only pale and unbelievable fear remained. He kept muttering, "It's Chao Youye! He framed me!"
As for Chao Nanxing, the once powerful tycoon in the business world, all his resistance seemed pale and powerless in the face of the ironclad evidence (Wu Meng's embezzlement, Wu Zeyu's bribery, and his own knowledge and even tacit coverage) and the recordings provided by Chao Youye proving that he tried to destroy evidence and threaten witnesses.
The procuratorate formally arrested him on suspicion of embezzlement (joint), harboring a criminal, and obstruction of justice. The throne of the Chao Dynasty Empire had completely changed hands.
In the center of the storm, Chao Youye was unusually silent.
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