Xia Yixin sincerely said, "Thank you, I really didn't expect you to still remember me."
"Don't say such things. You're our leader. Without you, we'd probably still be..." Thinking of the dark past, Li Rui suppressed the chill in her heart and changed the subject, "Alright, let's save the reminiscing for later. We can meet other people when we have time. The chairman asked me to help you. You can ask me if you don't understand anything."
"There's something I'd like you to investigate for me, but there's someone I want to ask first: how much do you know about Lu Yan?" Xia Yixin thought this might be a breakthrough.
“Lu Yan?” Li Rui frowned.
Meanwhile, Xia Jianguo, who was supposed to be "recuperating" somewhere, was actually in an ordinary nursing home in a certain township.
For the past ten years, in order to avoid certain people, he has had to act suspiciously, otherwise he might not have been crippled by one leg.
"You old man, you're so mean! You lied to me again!"
In the afternoon garden, several old men were playing chess. The old man playing against Xia Jianguo angrily threw down his chess piece and shouted.
Xia Jianguo was wearing the uniform gray uniform of the nursing home. He was completely different from the imposing figure Xia Yixin had seen before. He looked just like an ordinary old man in his seventies or eighties. He was smiling and about to make a joke when he suddenly sensed something and a glint of light flashed in his eyes.
"Alright, alright, I'm not playing with you guys anymore, I'm going to pee."
"Hurry up, hurry up! I'm not convinced yet! Old Xia, you go now, we have to win this time!"
Amid the old man's nagging, Xia Jianguo limped into the building, passing the restroom without stopping, and turned a corner to a secluded stairwell.
The sound of footsteps as light as feathers approached from afar. A cold glint flashed in the old man's weathered eyes. He turned abruptly, and a miniature gun was already raised, pointed at the approaching person.
After seeing the other person's face clearly, his pupils contracted slightly. "It's you."
Although they hadn't seen each other for many years, and he had deliberately never investigated, he wouldn't mistake the child he had personally sent away, especially those wolf-like eyes.
In the shadows, the man ignored the threat of the gun and said calmly, "My name is Lu Yan. It wasn't easy to find you."
Grandpa Xia seemed to have lost all his strength because of the other party's words. He slowly put down his gun, and the rainy night twenty years ago flashed through his mind. He let out a long sigh.
"What's meant to happen will happen." He took a deep breath and said in a negotiating tone, "I don't want the Xia family to be involved in our feud."
His response was a cold laugh from Lu Yanyang. He stepped out of the shadows, revealing an incomparably handsome face in the moonlight, but a cruel chill lurked deep within his wolf-like eyes.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Xia, your dear grandson has already made the decision for you." He said, waving the photo on his phone. "This is enough to ruin the Xia family, isn't it?"
"That wretched child!" Grandpa Xia roared.
Lu Yan's eyes were full of shrewdness. "This is my sincerity in seeking cooperation. What do you think, Mr. Xia?"
This wasn't the first time Xia Jianguo had been threatened, but his intuition told him not to underestimate this young man. He had been keeping an eye on him for the past few years, and he knew he couldn't escape it; his conscience also told him he couldn't escape it either.
"Alright, I'll take you to meet those people tonight, but whether you can get their support depends on your own abilities."
Inside the Xia family's ancestral home, Li Rui frowned.
"I don't know much about him. He was sent here around the same time as you. After you went abroad, he still didn't talk to anyone else. Then one day he suddenly disappeared. The dean said he was adopted. That was three days after you left. I remember seeing him once a year ago at the Capital Medical College. He was with Professor Hao and is now doing research. Yixin, you wouldn't have... about him, would you?"
Li Rui looked at her with a smile, her expression ambiguous.
The trail went cold again.
Xia Yixin was too lazy to explain. She handed the RP3 lab investment project to Li Rui and asked, "Don't overthink it. Let's get serious. Do you remember this research project?"
Li Rui became serious. "I remember this. Professor Hao is the research director. About a month ago, our senior management was quite opposed to it. But at that time, the company's finances were indeed tight. In addition, Wang Cheng brought evidence of similar failures in the same laboratory abroad that had done the same RP3 project, so everyone fell silent. Is there a problem with this project?"
Is Lu Yan in the crew too?
Li Rui shook her head. "No, I remember Professor Hao came to us to ask why we stopped investing. Lu Yan wasn't there. I heard from his junior that he went abroad."
Xia Yixin pondered. Lu Yan wasn't even in this. RP3 had brought him a great deal of wealth and fame, and he had become the youngest Nobel Prize laureate in Medicine. Now you're telling her that this project has nothing to do with him?
It's hard to believe he would steal someone else's research results.
After all, Li Rui had been learning from the chairman for so long. Although the chairman had stopped managing the company ten years ago due to health reasons, she had learned to read people's expressions. The seriousness in Xia Yixin's eyes made her feel that things were not simple.
"Yixin, what do you plan to do? Inform the chairman?"
"No, the situation is complicated. Let's start with the simplest thing. I'll go to the company tomorrow and search the entire project department, especially regarding RP3. Once we find evidence, we'll inform Grandpa. If he can't even handle something this simple, consider it a test."
Xia Yixin spoke decisively, and the calm confidence in her eyes made Li Rui smile.
She really is still the same "Queen of the Kids" Xia Yixin!
However… Li Rui asked somewhat nervously, “Yi Xin, I have a question for you. I remember that when you were little, you could crush steel beans with one hand. The more I think about it, the more unbelievable it seems. Other children in the orphanage said it was an exaggeration… So is it true or not?”
“…Uh.” Xia Yixin was embarrassed. She didn’t have the “power pill” to boost her morale, so she could only explain that it was something she had prepared in advance to encourage their enthusiasm.
Li Rui immediately believed it without question.
Just then, Li Rui's phone rang, and her face instantly darkened upon seeing it.
"Yixin, I think we don't need to go to the company to find evidence anymore. The chairman gave us this."
As she spoke, Li Rui showed her her phone.
It was a video from a surveillance camera. Judging from the background, it was inside an unfinished construction site. Several people were beating a young man and threatening an elderly man with white hair. It was Professor Hao.
"I'm warning you, hand over the RP3 formula right now! Or we'll kill your son!"
Standing behind that group of thugs was none other than Wang Cheng; the date was three days prior.
"How did Grandpa get this video?" Xia Yixin thought it was too much of a coincidence.
"The chairman didn't say, but what should we do next?"
Xia Yixin always felt like she had fallen into a trap, but she couldn't figure it out no matter how hard she tried, so she simply stopped thinking about it.
She tapped on the video. "First, find out where this is, and who Wang Cheng hired." The thugs in the video looked like hooligans.
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