His men compiled Ni Qingguo's revelations into a written document and handed it over to Shen Jize.
Shen Jize carefully examined each item one by one.
It's no wonder Xiao Zeng thought it was ridiculous; Shen Jize thought so too.
"Second Master, do you really believe what these two people are saying? Rebirth and all that is just too far-fetched."
"How did Lin Wei know about Shen Qingji? It's impossible for anyone to have mentioned that name to her. And our people, we couldn't find any clues before, but starting with Shen Qingji, almost every piece of information matches up, doesn't it?"
“But Master Ji is your brother, how could he…”
"What brother? In the end, he's just the old man's illegitimate son. If our eldest brother hadn't died, the old man would never have brought us back to the Shen family. I've always suspected that it was the other illegitimate sons who did it, but now it seems... Zeng, go and investigate the cause of our eldest brother's death."
Zeng was enlightened, but his face was full of disbelief.
"Second Master, you now suspect...."
Shen Jize was silent for a moment. "There's nothing to doubt. If Shen Qingji can kill me, why can't he kill my elder brother? If I die, the family's property should rightfully be inherited by him. After all, those younger ones are all useless."
Shen Jize was clear-headed.
Actually, he wasn't unaware that everything he encountered was done by Shen Qingji.
He simply doesn't want to believe it.
He simply felt that since everyone was an illegitimate child, he wasn't in a hurry to take anything from the Shen family, nor did he care about any of their assets, so he shouldn't become a thorn in Shen Qingji's side.
But as it stands now, this grudge had been buried deeper and deeper without his knowledge.
"But Second Master, you simply..."
"I don't care about my attitude, but how could I possibly know what the elders' attitude is?"
After quickly finishing lunch, Shen Jize prepared to take Xiao Zeng out. "Let's go find Shen Qingji."
Zeng panicked, "Second Master, Master Ji didn't tell anyone he was coming. Are you planning to confront him? But we already know his identity, wouldn't it be better to be on guard this way?"
"Why should I be on guard? I'm going to confront him directly. If there's a next time, do you expect me to soften my heart and let him off the hook?"
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Seeing Shen Jize appear in her home, Shen Qingji felt it was only natural.
However, now that they've come, they must already know everything they need to know.
Shen Qingji stopped pretending. "Ji Ze, you're still too hasty. If you had pretended not to know anything and let me off the hook, wouldn't that have been the perfect opportunity to bring me down?"
"How can you pretend you don't know? I've already arrested Ni Qingguo. Even if I hadn't come, you should know that I already know the whole truth. Brother, why did you do this? I don't want anything from the Shen family. I'm not relying on the Shen family to develop myself. Why am I still a thorn in your side?"
"Are you very disappointed?" Shen Qingji asked. "You were locked in your room for three whole days before you came out. But Jize, we are brothers, but we are not brothers. We are just the old man's illegitimate children."
"If my eldest brother hadn't died, would he have taken us all home and raised us? Don't be ridiculous. He was just worried that there wouldn't be a suitable person to inherit those assets."
"I know, that's why I don't care..."
Before Shen Jize could finish speaking, Shen Qingji roared in fury, "What I hate most is your disdain. You don't care about anything in the Shen family and go out to make your own way. But do you know? The old man said that the spirit you have is too similar to his when he was young. He even intends for you to inherit the Shen family's wealth."
"I don't want those things."
Shen Qingji threw the ashtray off the coffee table with a 'bang,' and said through gritted teeth, "But what you consider trash is something that we all covet, fight for, and even resort to countless means to obtain. Don't you find that absurd?"
"So you want to kill me? Once I'm dead, no one will be able to defeat you?"
“That’s what I used to think, but now—I just want to kill you.”
At this point, Shen Qingji suddenly laughed, "Do you remember that abandoned warehouse? Weren't you very concerned about your savior? If you had gone there sooner, perhaps she would still have a chance to survive."
"But you need to understand, I set a trap there. I'm going there to kill you. Even so, are you still going to save her?"
Shen Jize rushed out of the villa without hesitation.
After getting in the car, he shouted urgently, "Go to the abandoned warehouse, quick, Lin Wei has been arrested."
Zeng was taken aback and immediately drove to that familiar place.
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Abandoned warehouse.
Lin Wei was utterly speechless.
She had just been taken home by Zeng, and before she even entered her own courtyard, she was drugged and taken away by two men who jumped out of the alley.
When she woke up again, she found herself with her hands bound and hanging in the same place as Lin Yuan.
There were even more hidden weapons underfoot than Ni Qingguo had prepared.
"Help! Is anyone there? Someone help!"
No one responded.
But there was a clear sense of movement around the warehouse.
Lin Wei shouted again, "Damn it, if you're a human or a ghost, make a sound! If you dare to do it but don't dare to admit it, you'll be a shadow of your former self forever."
"Who is it, and why did they kidnap me?"
Seeing that the other party still ignored her, Lin Wei felt extremely frustrated.
"So you look down on me? You've called me like this and you still don't respond."
However, it's not hard to guess who captured her; it should be Shen Qingji.
After all, Ni Qingguo had already been arrested, and apart from him, she hadn't offended anyone else.
But she didn't know the relationship between Shen Jize and Shen Qingji, so who knew if Shen Jize would come to save her?
Moreover, if her arm were to be lowered any further, she probably wouldn't be able to withstand it.
"No, we can't just sit here and wait to die."
She has to save herself.
Lin Wei sold boxed lunches for two months, scooping food and rice and pushing the cart back and forth to such a far place every day, so she had long since developed arm strength.
She lifted her body up her arms to make sure the rope was secure, then grabbed it with her other hand and slowly moved her body up the rope, alternating between her hands.
The rope was originally hanging on the railing of the stairwell. She climbed for a short while and then touched the railing. With a flip, her feet landed on solid ground.
"Phew, two months of training paid off, look at these arm muscles."
As she spoke, she tore the wooden hairpin off her hair, bit off the decorative pattern at one end, and a sharp knife about the length of a finger was revealed.
She bought this thing after arriving in Jiangcheng and wore it every day, originally thinking it would be useless, but unexpectedly—
"What a miserable life."
Fearing being caught red-handed, Lin Wei cut the rope as quickly as possible.
She carefully went downstairs and moved to the half-closed iron gate.
But the pungent smell of gunpowder at the entrance couldn't be masked at all—
"This smell... there must be a lot of it. Are they trying to blow me up? That's so vicious."
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