Chapter 75 Spoiled Girlfriend VS Obsessive Doomsday Boss 21
That night.
A list of 100 names was presented to Yuan Rong's desk.
Jiang Zhiyi stood in front of the table, her face serious.
"Chief Yuan, on behalf of everyone on the list, I would like to apologize. This is all our fault."
"Please punish us severely, don't let any of us off the hook, otherwise we will have no peace of mind!"
Yuan Rong held the list, utterly puzzled. It was almost entirely the names of elderly people living alone in the resettlement area. "What do you mean by this?" she asked.
Jiang Zhiyi said with great embarrassment, "Do you still remember the delicious dishes I prepared for the elderly in the resettlement area that day?"
"We accidentally burned the documents as firewood."
Yuan Rong felt as if Jiang Zhiyi's words had struck her like a blow to the head, and for a moment she didn't know what to say.
Jiang Zhiyi then carefully recounted to Yuan Rong everything that had happened in the resettlement area that day.
Yuan Rong clearly did not expect things to take such an outrageous turn.
However, she did not believe it was just a coincidence; there must have been something else that went wrong.
She glanced at Jiang Zhiyi, whose face was full of seriousness, and closed her eyes briefly. "Go back and have Huo Linchuan come over. I still need to ask him about this."
Yuan Rong was not someone who couldn't distinguish right from wrong; now she needed to find Huo Linchuan and get to the bottom of things.
“Chief Yuan.” Huo Linchuan stood in front of her.
Huo Linchuan had already learned the whole situation on his way here.
Jiang Zhiyi was still very worried and kept telling him to shift the blame to everyone. After all, everyone had eaten the meal, so everyone should bear the consequences.
Huo Linchuan reassured her that he knew what he was doing and nothing would happen.
"What exactly happened with the documents being burned?" Yuan Rong asked him.
In fact, what Yuan Rong lost this time was not ordinary information, but a notebook that Huo Linchuan and He Zhishan had finally managed to find, which was classified as top secret.
However, in order to avoid suspicion, she only marked the notebook as "secret" when she first stored it.
“The notebook was indeed burned by her, and I’m very sorry about that. But there’s more to it than meets the eye. Li Yang took the notebook on purpose. He probably didn’t know it was so important and thought it was just a regular classified document. He framed Jiang Zhiyi to drag me down with him.”
Huo Linchuan handed her the results of his investigation, which were all written very clearly.
"Actually, the current situation isn't entirely unfavorable to Chengdu. District C only knows that we obtained the notebook, but they are unaware of this change, so we still hold the initiative."
"I suggest you kill Li Yang as soon as possible, before he realizes something is wrong. Only by killing him can we eliminate future troubles and prevent this matter from being leaked. Besides, ultimately it was his fault."
Yuan Rong carefully considered Huo Linchuan's words. Given the current situation, his suggestion was indeed reasonable.
Li Yang ruined her big plan this time, how could she not hate him?
Such people should not be kept around.
“How should I kill him? He’s my deputy. If I execute him just because of a ‘normal document,’ people will definitely suspect something.”
Huo Linchuan smiled knowingly.
“Chief Yuan, I can play the villain for you. I was just about to leave City C soon. You promised me I could leave anytime.”
"Previously, he incited a group of people in Rongcheng to condemn my girlfriend and me for our extravagance. I'm sure you, Chief Yuan, are well aware of that matter. I used that as an excuse to settle accounts with him, and then pretended to have accidentally killed him in a moment of impulse. And you used that as a pretext to punish me and expel me from Rongcheng."
“Okay, then we’ll do as you say,” Yuan Rong nodded.
On the way back, Huo Linchuan was still thinking about what had just happened.
In fact, the notebook was not burned; what was burned that day was just a fake document that he had already replaced.
He had so many people around Jiang Zhiyi that he knew everything from the moment Li Yang was about to make his move.
Li Yang was also an idiot, only able to come up with such a brainless method to scheme against himself.
Although Yuan Rong had previously promised Huo Linchuan that he could leave at any time.
However, Huo Linchuan also knew very well that if that moment really came, Yuan Rong would only try to find a way to gloss over it, after all, he was indeed a sharp and useful knife to her.
So everything that followed was just him using a counter-strategy to kill two birds with one stone.
He could both find a way to get Yuan Rong to agree to let him leave and successfully obtain the notebook—such a useful thing, of course he wanted to keep it for himself.
A few days later, everything came to an end.
Huo Linchuan then prepared to leave City C and head to City A with Jiang Zhiyi.
Before leaving, for the first time ever, he took Jiang Zhiyi to the mall, saying he needed to prepare some things.
"What do you want to buy?" Jiang Zhiyi asked, puzzled.
"Let's pick out a gift. It will take us at least half a month to get to City A from here. Let's buy the gift here first, so we don't run out of time to prepare it when we get there."
"A congratulatory gift? What congratulatory gift?" she asked.
Huo Linchuan seemed not to hear and did not reply.
He examined the silver pistol intently, quite satisfied, and headed straight to the counter to pay.
Jiang Zhiyi followed, looking around, thinking that since she was already there, she should buy something too.
Then, she heard Huo Linchuan reply—
"Are we really going to Jiang Yue's wedding empty-handed?"
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