Chapter 84 She was also...reborn.
In the darkness, Huo Yanzhi's body tensed instantly.
Qin Feng continued his report: "The other party seems to know everything about Su Mingyuan's every move. The fatal contract that Su Mingyuan signed was not prepared by him, but was switched and placed on his desk beforehand."
"The terms of that contract were designed to be extremely ruthless. Not only would it cause the Zhou family to lose all their investment, but it would also drag the Zhou family into the legal quagmire of illegal fundraising."
“Following the trail, we discovered that the source of this force pointed to Chairman Ruan’s assistant, Lin Weiwei. However, she was just a recent graduate and did not possess such counter-surveillance capabilities or legal knowledge.”
Qin Feng continued, "But after our in-depth investigation, we discovered that there is another person behind Lin Weiwei."
"All her actions, including forging the fake risk assessment report that lured Su Mingyuan and the Zhou family into the trap, and contacting overseas legal teams to set a snare, all originated from an encrypted email address with an untraceable source."
"We couldn't crack the email address, but we found the only number that email address had ever contacted."
The air in the study seemed to freeze.
Huo Yanzhi could almost hear his heart pounding wildly, one beat after another, making his chest ache.
His throat was dry and tight, and it took him a long time to squeeze out a few words through his teeth.
Who is it?
On the other end of the phone, Qin Feng quickly sent over a file, seemingly unaware of his tension.
He gave an answer that nearly shattered all of Huo Yanzhi's reason.
"It is Madam."
"Boss, this number is a secondary number registered under your wife's name."
The air seemed to freeze in that instant.
Huo Yanzhi lowered his eyes and looked at the document.
Among the densely packed call logs, there was only one number, which belonged to Lin Weiwei.
The calls lasted for more than a month.
The earliest call was even earlier than when Ruan Yao joined Lexing Island.
All the fragmented, incongruous pieces suddenly came together in this moment.
She took the initiative to get closer to him for no apparent reason.
She was intimately familiar with the Huo family.
When she saw the plate of king crab on the dinner table, a fleeting look of repulsion crossed her mind.
She stood there in the study, in front of the unlocked drawer, momentarily stunned.
And there was her complete knowledge of all his preferences, everything that went too smoothly and perfectly, as if it had been pre-arranged.
A thought he had desperately suppressed, dared not think about, and even found absurd, has now become a reality.
She was also... reborn.
"Bang!"
His coffee cup was accidentally swept to the ground, the brown liquid splashing onto the carpet, creating a messy stain.
"Boss? Boss, are you still listening?" Qin Feng's voice carried a hint of worry.
Huo Yanzhi snapped back to his senses, his hand holding the phone turning a frightening bluish-white.
Why did she return to his side?
I feel a little guilty towards him, so I want to make it up to him.
Or... does she want to use him again, using him and the Huo family as tools for her revenge?
Neither of them was acceptable to him.
He thought he had won her love.
Pure love, untainted by any past events, belonging solely to Huo Yanzhi.
But now, all of this has become a joke.
In her past life, her eyes, forever filled with fear and tears, lay beneath him; in this life, she nestled in his arms, her eyes brimming with dependence.
The two images intertwined, overlapped, and tore at each other wildly, almost ripping his sanity apart.
She smiled at him, acted coquettishly towards him, kissed him, and depended on him... Was it all an act?
He forced down the bloody taste rising in his throat, closed his eyes briefly, and when he spoke again, his voice was hoarse beyond recognition.
"Let her do whatever she wants."
Qin Feng was stunned.
"Boss... what do you mean?"
"Cooperate with her secretly." Every word Huo Yanzhi uttered seemed to be squeezed out from between his teeth. "Give her whatever she wants. Pave the way for her and clear away all possible obstacles."
"But don't let her find out about us."
Qin Feng was completely bewildered.
"boss……"
Do as I say.
Huo Yanzhi didn't give him any further questions and cut off the call immediately.
The study returned to its deathly silence.
He sat in the darkness for a very long time, like a stone statue.
Then, he slowly stood up and walked to the huge bookshelf.
His hand touched the picture book about the history of ancient Greek architecture. With a slight movement of his fingertips, the bookshelf silently slid open to the side, revealing a dark, secret room behind it.
Huo Yanzhi went inside.
*
The next day, the Nguyen Group was completely devastated.
"Su Mingyuan forged the company seal and embezzled 50 million yuan of the company's working capital!"
This news was like a bombshell, causing a huge uproar in the board of directors.
Ruan Minghui stared at the report the finance department had painstakingly compiled overnight, trembling with rage, his face turning a deep purplish-red. He slammed his hand on the conference table, the loud bang silencing the entire room.
"Bring him here! I'm going to break his legs today!"
When Su Wanqing received the phone call at home, she was completely stunned. The teacup in her hand crashed to the ground, and she fainted on the spot.
She couldn't believe that her sweet-talking nephew, whom she treated like a son, would be so heartless as to stab her family in the back.
Ruan Sheng was so angry that his eyes turned red. He grabbed a golf club and was about to rush out to settle the score with Su Mingyuan.
"That traitorous bastard! I'm going to cripple him right now!"
“Brother!” Ruan Yao grabbed him. “What’s the use of you going now? What’s done is done. The most important thing now is to solve the problem.”
"What are we going to do! Are we just going to watch those bastards destroy our home?!" Ruan Sheng was about to explode.
In his past life, he impulsively went to find Su Mingyuan, only to have his leg broken by the men Su Mingyuan had called, and he spent half a year in the hospital.
Looking at her brother's bloodshot eyes and her mother's pale face, Ruan Yao felt a pain in her heart that made it hard to breathe.
But she couldn't panic.
At that time, she was the only one in the family who could keep the situation stable.
“Brother,” Ruan Yao took a deep breath, “things haven’t gotten to the worst yet. Trust me, I have a way.”
Ruan Sheng stared blankly at his sister's overly calm face for a moment, and his anger seemed to be doused with a bucket of cold water, extinguishing most of it.
He then realized that Ruan Yao had been alone at home the whole time, without the slightest sign of panic.
While the Ruan family was in complete chaos, the Zhou family immediately launched a media offensive.
The front pages of major financial media outlets are reporting on the news that senior executives of the Ruan Group embezzled funds, causing huge losses to the Zhou family, a partner company.
In an instant, the Ruan Group's stock price plummeted, banks were inundated with debt collection calls, and partners demanded to terminate their cooperation, plunging the entire company into an unprecedented crisis.
The Zhou family adopted a victim's stance, publicly stating that they had filed a lawsuit demanding that the Ruan Group fulfill the "guarantee contract" and compensate them for all their losses.
Faced with the Zhou family's aggressive attack, the Ruan family's board members panicked.
The top-floor conference room of the Ruan Group.
The atmosphere was so oppressive that it was almost suffocating.
The veteran directors who had followed Ruan Minghui in building the empire all had grim expressions.
The company's crisis and Su Mingyuan's betrayal weighed heavily on everyone's heads like two mountains.
“Minghui, now is not the time to assign blame. The most important thing is how to plug this 50 million hole! The bank has already issued an ultimatum. If the funds are not in place by tomorrow, they will initiate the asset freeze procedure!” A director surnamed Zhang spoke first.
"The Zhou family has also issued a statement disclaiming all ties, claiming they are also victims and were deceived by Su Mingyuan's forged guarantee contract! Public opinion is now very unfavorable to us!"
"That guy surnamed Zhou, he's got wolfish ambitions!" Ruan Minghui slammed his fist on the table.
Just as everyone was at a loss in the conference room, the door was pushed open.
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