There was no joy of "great victory" on Sheng Yuan's face.
The girl had thin white eyelids drooping, with no emotion in her eyes. She opened the tablet in her hand and a recording was clicked.
There is a few seconds of noise at the beginning of the audio.
then.
A human voice came out, a male voice, sounding terrified.
"I was seriously ill and the medical expenses were very high. Someone found my brother and asked him to hold back the wealthy family when the fire started and lead them to a dead end..."
At first, Sheng Feng didn't understand what Sheng Yuan wanted to do. Until he heard the second half of the sentence, his cloudy pupils suddenly shrank and he pretended to be confused: "What is this... Why are you listening to this to me?"
Sheng Yuan did not answer.
She moved her fingers and handed the tablet to Sheng Feng again. This time it was not a recording, but two real-time news reports.
[WIE Security Company was investigated and punished by relevant departments for falsifying internal financial reports. The head of the group may face life imprisonment. ]
[Yesterday, at 9pm local time in the United States, the chairman of WIE and his wife were found to have committed suicide by drinking a gun in their villa. ]
Sheng Yuan's great-grandparents, Sheng Zhuo and Sheng Feng's parents, were a business marriage.
The maternal family of Sheng Yuan's great-grandmother Zheng started out as a security company. When she married into the Sheng family, her dowry included a subsidiary of WIE. Due to poor management, the company was saved from bankruptcy after the eldest son Sheng Zhuo injected capital into it.
Since then, the WIE subsidiary has been fully responsible for all security work of the Sheng family. In addition to protecting the personal safety of the employer, the job also requires checking the safety issues of the places the employer visits in advance.
But three years ago, at the celebration banquet for the Sheng Yuan Violin Gold Award, no security guard noticed that the cruise ship was carrying a large number of flammable and explosive materials, which resulted in the fire getting out of control and rescue efforts being unsuccessful.
People in the aristocratic family circle two generations earlier knew a secret that was not really a secret - when Madam Sheng Zheng gave birth to her youngest son Sheng Feng, she was in pain for two days and two nights, so she was particularly doting and loving him. On the other hand, she always treated her eldest son coldly and abandoned him like a worn-out shoe.
After Madam Sheng passed away, she left all her inheritance to her youngest son Sheng Feng in her will, including the security subsidiary company run by Zheng.
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Sheng Feng's pupils trembled when he saw the words "suicide by shooting himself" in the news. He almost subconsciously reached for his cell phone and made a long-distance call.
Sheng Yuan did not stop him.
The call took a long time to get through, and Sheng Feng heard the intermittent, fearful cries of the person on the other end of the line.
"Uncle Feng... our Zheng family was set up! Brother Xu and Sister Xu shot themselves to death. Brother Lei just... we found his charred body in his home. The police said he set himself on fire!"
"...I don't know who I have offended. They are coming at me aggressively, asking for nothing but our lives! Will it be my turn next? Brother Feng, please save me!"
In just a few short sentences, the amount of information was so huge that Sheng Feng felt colder every time he heard another word.
The "Brother Xu" and "Brother Lei" mentioned on the phone are the two direct sons of Sheng Feng's maternal grandfather, and they are the chairman and executive president of WIE respectively.
Sheng Feng thought about what the other party said on the phone, saying that he didn't know who he had offended.
He raised his eyes subconsciously.
He met the clear and bright almond-shaped eyes of the girl sitting on the soft stool beside the bed.
"You..." Sheng Feng had a hunch: "It's you?... What did you do to them?"
Sheng Yuan: "Why don't you tell me what you did in alliance with the Zheng family to my parents, my aunt and uncle, my aunt, and my three brothers."
"You...know everything?" Sheng Feng's breath was choked, and his voice trembled unconsciously: "When did you know...?"
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Sheng Yuan realized the complexity of this cruise ship accident earlier than his brother Sheng Qi.
During the year that Sheng Qi was lying in bed, Sheng Yuan had already found out everything clearly.
——Old Madam Sheng disliked her eldest son Sheng Zhuo, and as a result, Sheng Zhuo's relationship with the Zheng family was not close. After Sheng Zhuo became the head of the family, the Zheng family asked for investment many times in the name of family affection, but was coldly rejected by Sheng Zhuo. They had been holding a grudge against him ever since. Later, Sheng Zhuo passed away, and with Sheng Feng's easy instigation, they together came up with a shocking conspiracy.
Sheng Feng didn't expect it to be so early. His pupils trembled: "Then why didn't you expose me at that time?"
He heard the girl's indifferent voice say: "Pay your debts, and pay your life if you kill someone."
What Sheng Yuan wanted was never "public judgment". She didn't care whether the outside world knew the truth or not, nor did she care whether anyone would help her maintain the truth. What she wanted was for these people to experience the same thing as her - separation from their loved ones, extreme fear, and the feeling of having to die, one life for another.
An endless chill suddenly surged up in Sheng Feng's heart. The way he looked at Sheng Yuan was not as if he was looking at an eighteen-year-old child, but as if he was looking at some extremely terrifying monster.
He simply couldn't imagine that Sheng Yuan could face him calmly with this truth in mind.
She was probably only fifteen years old at that time.
How deep is this scheming mansion! Sheng Feng suddenly realized that his defeat did not start today, but was doomed from the beginning. The other party did not even regard him as an opponent. He was just a prey under the control of the other party without knowing it.
And now, it's time to strangle the prey.
It is said that when people are extremely scared, they will become guilty, impatient and angry. Since Sheng Feng's face was numb, he could not make an angry expression and could only stare at Sheng Yuan.
"It was Sheng Zhuo who forced me to do this! He was the one who forced me to do this!"
"Because he is my elder brother and was born earlier than me, my father only treats him as his successor and trains him carefully! He brings him hand in hand! But he doesn't even have me in his eyes!"
However, Sheng Yuan told Sheng Feng that his great-grandfather had once tried to cultivate Sheng Feng.
Unfortunately, Sheng Feng had mediocre talent since childhood. On the contrary, his elder brother Sheng Zhuo was incredibly smart. At that time, Mr. Sheng focused all his energy on Sheng Zhuo.
Sheng Feng was so jealous that he didn't know that being trained as an heir was actually a very cruel thing.
Sheng Zhuo was required not to make any mistakes. If he did, he would be imprisoned in darkness for endless hours without food or water. His mother was biased towards his younger brother, and Sheng Zhuo also lost his father's tolerance and leniency.
Because of this, Sheng Zhuo developed a cold-blooded and unemotional character, and it was difficult for him to get close to others since he was a child.
Until later, Sheng Zhuo met his wife.
A graceful and gentle woman.
The fact that the three sons of the Sheng family can live in such harmony and closeness is all thanks to Grandma Sheng Yuan.
"You're lying to me! You must be lying to me! How could I not be as good as Sheng Zhuo!"
Sheng Feng did not accept Sheng Yuan's statement. His last layer of psychological defense was completely broken and his eyes were distorted.
Sheng Yuan watched quietly, unmoved, then stood up and left.
Sheng Feng fell off the bed and instantly became extremely old and miserable. For some unknown reason, he burst into tears and kept mumbling:
"I just can't accept it, I just can't accept it... Why can Sheng Zhuo have such a good life, such a happy family, and three outstanding sons, while I... I have nothing, nothing..." (End of this chapter)