Episode 70 The Sin Revealed
Wang Duo was obviously caught off guard by the punch. After being forced back two steps, his vision became blurred - his gold-rimmed glasses were shaken off.
But he just reached out and stroked his numb nose, not at all disturbed by Jiang Shu's sudden intrusion.
"Why are you running here like crazy instead of cleaning up your mess?"
His voice was not loud, but it was full of oppression.
Jiang Shu was raging with rage at this moment. He walked up to him without any decency and grabbed his collar fiercely, just as unreasonable as when Yan Yiming questioned him that year.
"A mess? I don't know who put this in front of me, spreading rumors and ordering people to kidnap children. It's not enough for you to destroy my reputation, but you also want to destroy Lin Ying's?"
Faced with this shocking accusation, Wang Duo still smiled as if it had nothing to do with him, and even retorted seriously:
"I ruined her? Jiang Shu, do you want to listen to what you are saying? Who was the one who led her to cheat and got her pregnant? Do you know the hardships she went through when she broke up with her family? Do you know how she grew up to be what she is today? I am a witness to her rebirth, and I can give her everything she wants.
And what can you give her? Your company is in chaos now. Even your mother refuses to acknowledge her and Ruxing, and even threatens them to leave Shanghai. Jiang Shu, you are the one who destroyed her peaceful life. It is obviously you who implicated Lin Ying, and it has always been you! "
Seeing Wang Duo being so aggressive for the first time, Lin Ying couldn't help but feel a sinking feeling in her heart, which was extremely subtle.
Jiang Shu wasn't intimidated by him and pulled out his phone. "How do you explain this? Did you allow him to post this photo? Just to keep Lin Ying by your side, you resorted to such despicable means to destroy her reputation. Wang Duo, you are absolutely shameless!"
On the phone screen, there was an anonymous text message received forty minutes ago. The content was as horrifying as the picture.
"Kill a life, pay a debt, pay your debt, and redeem your daughter with 50 million, or the next big thing will be your sister's nude photos."
The picture below shows the back of a half-naked woman. The lighting is dim and the angle looks like a candid shot...
Lin Ying naturally recognized his own waist and back.
Seeing these words and pictures, she couldn't help but zoom in on the picture, trying to find some clues from the background details. Until she saw the fingertips on her waist in the lower right corner of the photo, almost fading from the picture, she felt a chill down her spine...
It’s Cen Shuo.
This photo clearly showed a scene of her and Cen Shuo together, but she was too careless and didn't expect that he would take a secret photo, let alone use it in such a place.
She suddenly recalled what Wang Duo said in the hospital that day -
There was indeed selfish motive in persuading Cen Shuo to quit, but the reason behind it was not so dirty, but it was not upright either.
She felt a shock throughout her body, as if all her nerve endings were electrified. Her pupils suddenly shrank, and she looked at Wang Duo in disbelief. It was as if her throat was being strangled, and the sound didn't seem to come from her throat:
"…You ordered him to do this?"
When Wang Duo persuaded Cen Shuo to withdraw, his selfish motive was not only that he felt Cen Shuo's existence was a threat to himself, but also that he accidentally saw the contents of Cen Shuo's photo album.
When persuading him to resign, he also used this as a condition, asking him to sell the photos and video content to him and promised to give him a sum of money. Of course, he bought this content not for entertainment, but to restrain Lin Ying.
Wang Duo has always been that Wang Duo. He seems to have given her enough trust and ceded her the right to choose, but he is just trying to please her. If the situation he wants cannot be achieved 100%, then he will definitely use every possible means to improve it.
"Lin Ying, I know this is unfair and selfish, but I truly love you. I just hope you can stay with me willingly. If you don't want to work at the gallery, I can arrange for you to go to other companies, even to Hong Kong. I want to marry you, not just for a formality, but for a real married life."
He wanted Lin Ying to marry him willingly, to follow him physically and mentally, to face irreversible changes in her life and be forced to compromise and stay by his side. He wanted her to be his confidant and continue to work hard for him, and to take care of his two children when he was too busy to look after them.
He wants her to be a wife, a subordinate, and a mother.
He knew that his position in her heart would never be as high as Jiang Shu's, but at least he could make her willingly ask for his proposal. However, he didn't expect that after she asked for it, the result would be the exact opposite of what she wanted. She wanted to quit her job to develop in Europe, and he also wanted to leave the child to her to raise. This was simply a joke.
Previously, Lin Ying was threatened by Jiang Yueling, and she was worried about her daughter and her own situation. That night, she got carried away and came up with a conditional marriage. Now look what happened - she has shot herself in the foot.
She sarcastically said, "Just so I can stay with you willingly, you're willing to make such a big scene, even sacrificing your own son to play along?"
"Lin Ying, what I just said counts. As long as you give up going to Europe, the child will return to you safely, and public opinion will be cleared in an instant..."
"Shut up!"
Lin Ying roared, interrupting his absurd remarks - this was simply the stupidest moment she thought Wang Duo had been at.
He thinks he is too clever, but his cleverness is actually his own fault.
She had a moment of remorse, so much so that tears seemed to well up again.
But this time, she did not let go of this moment of regret.
She calmly walked over to Wang Duo and handed the crooked pair of gold-rimmed glasses back to him.
"Where is Ruxing now?"
Wang Duo seemed to be still hesitant until Jiang Shu threatened:
"Either you tell me now, or I'll call the police and accuse you of instigating the kidnapping of a child and spreading rumors. These two charges alone are enough to land you in jail for several years. Don't think you can get everything you want here."
The threat didn't really move him, but Lin Ying's murderous gaze made him realize that there was no turning back.
"...I didn't specify a specific location. But perhaps you could look for it at the recently completed construction building in the nearby Jianglin area. After all, that was the last project Cen Shuo's father undertook before his death. I originally told him to only take Ruxing with him for two hours, but I think he probably didn't trust me, so he took Jiaze with him."
Snap——
As soon as he said this, his face instantly turned red.
That was the slap that Lin Ying had been unable to hold back.
"This is the slap you gave me for ordering someone to kidnap Ruxing. As for the slap that ruined my reputation, someone will pay it back for me."
Seeing the "arrogant" expression on her face for the first time, Wang Duo was stunned for a long time. When he came to his senses, the car keys in his pocket were snatched away by Lin Ying.
Jiang Shu, who had just been ridiculed by him, also left with her.
It was also because Jiang Shu was too careless. When the public opinion about the contractor who suffered from heat stroke was making a big fuss, he was only thinking about resolving the public opinion itself and attributed everything to Lin Jidong's maneuvering. He did not dig deep into the background of the contractor himself. The unconscious arrogance of the superior made him accustomed to not delving into the intentions of the "tool man".
Thanks to the efforts of the mother and son, the heat surrounding Jiang Shu finally cooled. An hour ago, however, entries related to Jiang Lin resurfaced. This time, however, the topic wasn't just about him, but also about the long-absent Lin Ying, and even Ru Xing, whom she had always cherished...
Jiang Yueling initially thought that the Lin family was going to fight to the death, but Jiang Shu disagreed - it was obvious that someone was trying to take advantage of the situation.
When he heard about the child's suspected kidnapping, he immediately realized the seriousness of the problem. He had to rush to Lin Ying immediately - but before he could call her to confirm the situation, he received photos and text messages demanding ransom from an anonymous number. The content of the pictures almost petrified him... naked threats and provocations.
Jiang Shu was also very alert and immediately asked the team that had helped him recover the data last time to help him check the IP address of the number. However, the other party was very aware of anti-detection. The number itself was anonymous and destroyed after use. When he called back, it was still an empty number and the signal could not be detected.
It was not until his assistant sent him the background of the contractor who had gotten into trouble that he understood the whole story.
It turned out that he was Cen Shuo's father, and he was the contractor he had met once that year. The project was not favored at the beginning. Lin Jidong had been making things difficult for him. The construction budget was extremely low, and no one was willing to take it. He had no choice but to look for a distant project, and finally got the opportunity from Cen's father.
Unfortunately, he was soon transferred to Hong Kong by his mother, and the projects he had handled had to be handed over to others. He naturally had no reason to put his attention on those projects that Lin Jidong had never been optimistic about...
This was probably God's will. Father Cen eventually failed in this project.
But what was strange was that, despite such a serious matter as the death, no one in the Jianglin Group had revealed anything, whether it was the previously heated online public opinion or the scattered criticism that had finally been temporarily shelved due to the compensation settlement. Only now, along with the doubts about Lin Ying personally, did they begin to ferment...
The news was kept so secret that it was obviously intentional.
Cen Shuo had the motive, but he might not have the means to do it so easily - so the only person helping him, besides Lin Jidong, was Wang Duo.
He instantly understood Wang Duo's plan, and naturally understood why this provocative video was sent only to him.
They are the only two people who know everything about Lin Ying and what happened between him and Lin Ying.
Lin Ying was always on the phone when he contacted her several times. Facing such a situation, she must be even more anxious than himself. Jiang Shu learned about Lin Ying's whereabouts tonight from Cheng Xinran, and expected that she might go to question her father, so he decided to go all out and take a gamble.
Who knew that he came at the perfect time - just in time to expose Wang Duo's ulterior motives.
Lin Ying had no time to care about anything else at the moment. He walked down to the first floor of the hospital without stopping as if he was on a roller coaster. However, when the elevator door opened, both Lin Ying and Jiang Shu were stunned at the two unexpected people in front of them.
It was Jiang Yueling and Luo Suqin.
Jiang Yueling was naturally the most embarrassed, especially when he saw his son and Lin Ying together. He seemed to have something to say, and said something in a veiled manner -
"Jianglin is now in chaos. Are you satisfied?"
Lin Ying was so emotional at the moment that his ability to taunt others actually increased. "Instead of wasting time on sarcasm, why not go up and check on Lin Jidong? There are only a few people he truly cares about in his life, and you are one of them."
After saying that, she brushed past him in the elevator, walked out of the hospital lobby, and headed straight for Wang Duo's car...
Just as she pressed the unlock button, Jiang Shu finally caught up and stopped her forcefully——
"You're not in a good condition to drive now. Let me do it."
He took the key from Lin Ying without saying anything. After confirming that Lin Ying had fastened her seatbelt, he stepped on the accelerator, and the car started moving, gradually reaching the speed limit of the road section...
"Relax, Ah Ying. Kidnapping the child isn't their intention, and Cen Shuo probably won't harm the child. Besides, he doesn't completely trust Wang Duo, otherwise he wouldn't have tied his son up with him."
But Lin Ying, upon hearing this, shook his head with a serious expression:
"It's because Jiaze was also taken away by him that the situation is more serious than we imagined."
She gripped her phone tightly with her sweaty palms, occasionally unlocking it to read messages as the light on the screen flashed...
Jiang Shu thought that she must be extremely worried and self-blaming at the moment, and any inappropriate words could ignite her anxiety and make her burst into tears. However, throughout the journey, it seemed that apart from anxiety, she not only did not shed tears, but she did not even lament.
"Don't worry, I'm not broken yet. The rumors they spread about me can't hurt me at all. I just feel bad for Ruxing... She didn't have to face all this. It was my carelessness that gave them the opportunity to hurt me."
"Aying, don't look for the reasons in yourself."
"I know."
Lin Ying replied to someone's message with certainty - "So this time, I must make them pay the price."
After saying that, she locked the screen and held her breath. The sweat from her palms had already soaked the phone case. As she looked at the increasingly clear road conditions ahead, a long-lost sense of control arose from her uneasiness.
Timely stop-loss of overflowing emotions and rational response to possible situations.
About half an hour later, the pitch-black night enveloped the bare-bones building that looked like a ghost market. The surroundings were as quiet as a grave, with very little light.
She had already sent the exact location to the police, but still reminded them not to act rashly. There was no guarantee that Cen Shuo had any weapons in his hands. If they forced their way in and hurt the child, it would be more trouble than gain.
At this moment, news about Xu Yiwei suddenly came, and Lin Ying was stunned.
Looking at the two children in the photo who were still safe and sound, she breathed a sigh of relief, but couldn't help but wonder -
Why is she here?
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