Chapter 46 [3 more]

"It's over, there's nothing here."

Grandpa Huo came down from upstairs, frowned and thought carefully, "I was at the Huo residence when she came, right?"

Shen Yuntang's heart suddenly moved.

"Is it the Huo residence with the eighty-year-old courtyard?"

Grandpa Huo nodded, "Yes, it's that house. Where am I hiding? It's hard to figure out if I move around so much. Where am I hiding? It won't move..."

Shen Yuntang was silent for a moment, then suddenly asked, "Grandpa, did you tell Huo Yuyan not to touch the yard?"

"..." Grandpa Huo pondered for a moment, then suddenly raised his head, "Really? I think I told you before! Oh, how could I have forgotten? I am old and my memory is not very good..."

"Could it be buried in the yard? Is there anyone in the Huo residence now? Send someone to check it out! Granddaughter-in-law, you really are the reincarnation of Conan! You actually figured this out." Grandpa Huo said excitedly.

Shen Yuntang smiled perfunctorily, picked up his phone and called Butler Li.

Huo Yuyan looked at the two of them in confusion, not knowing whether he should eat the mango in his hand.

What's going on? Why did we suddenly fast forward to the part of solving the case?

Did his grandfather tell him not to disturb the yard?

Huo Yuyan felt that his memory of this part was not very clear, but he seemed to vaguely remember that he could not move the yard for some reason. He had a small conflict with Shen Yuntang because of this a few months ago.

It was strange, he only remembered not to touch the yard, but he didn't remember why, and just thought it was his obsessive-compulsive disorder.

So in the end I just accepted my fate.

Now he finally found the reason, it turned out that his grandfather had told him not to move!

Huo Yuyan's eyebrows lit up with joy. He finally saved his face. He opened his mouth and said, "Look, I told you. I said at that time that it's best not to move the yard, although..."

He looked at Shen Yuntang with an unfriendly look, then automatically closed his mouth.

Forget it, sometimes it is not necessary to find a place.

After hearing about this, Butler Li hurriedly climbed down from the bed and called all the people in the Huo residence to search the yard together. He also asked carefully, "How deep is it buried?"

Grandpa Huo thought for a moment and said, "It shouldn't be deep. I got tired after digging for ten minutes."

Butler Li: "...Okay, old sir."

This is easy to solve. They dug up part of the land when they were planting flowers, and they didn't find anything in that area, so it is obvious that the virus must be somewhere else.

Shen Yuntang's heart was beating fast. Although she knew it would not be easy to find it, she was not ready to hang up the phone. She just listened to the butler Li on the other end directing everyone to dig the soil.

When they heard that Miss Shen was looking for something important, they all put in all their efforts, especially Ji Liang and Qin Xue. They were able to stay and keep their jobs because of Miss Shen, so they worked extra hard to find things for her.

Not long after, Huo Yuyan was about to say, "Why don't we go out for a walk first?" Butler Li said, "Found it!"

Huo Yuyan paused.

Well, it was really fast.

Shen Yuntang held the phone and let out a long breath.

She didn't know why she was so nervous. Was she worried about what truth she was about to discover? Or was she afraid of knowing that her only companion was really gone?

Shen Yuntang has never been afraid of anything.

She was never afraid.

She took a few more gentle breaths and asked, "What is it?"

"It's a note and a document. Miss Shen, please come back and read it yourself. I don't dare to open it..." Butler Li said tremblingly.

So Shen Yuntang and Huo Yuyan returned to the Huo residence with Grandpa Huo saying "Come again next time".

Huo Yuyan was steering the car, looking somewhat helpless.

He could understand Shen Yuntang's nervousness, but he felt that Shen Yuntang's emotions were a little too much compared to her usual self. However, with such a big thing, shouldn't she be excited?

But Miss Shen quickly returned to her original cold expression.

She was thinking about something.

This is a book with many ridiculous coincidences and developments, which is very consistent with the writing logic of an old-fashioned cool novel.

If she tries to explore the plot according to the author's thinking, will she get any unexpected results?

For example, there must be something hidden in the old yard, everyone around the protagonist has an extraordinary background, there can be no meaningless characters in the book, and everyone’s appearance has the mission of completing a plot.

As a vicious female supporting role, all the social relationships around her only serve as the background and reasons for her to become vicious, such as the oppression of her stepmother and stepsister, and the different treatment from her scumbag father.

So what is the role of the mother? If this book really has a creator, he/she would not have given so many highlights to a meaningless and non-dramatic supporting character.

The car finally arrived at the Huo residence. Shen Yuntang came to her senses and got out of the car and walked in quickly without Huo Yuyan opening the door for her.

When Huo Yuyan followed her in, Shen Yuntang had already opened the envelope and was reading it.

Inside was a simple note and a document. The note was handwritten and the ink on the document was not as clear as it is now, and it looked very old.

Shen Yuntang simply scanned the note and suddenly closed it.

Zhuo Mei said:

Don't listen to the plot.

You are the only one who is higher than the plot.

Take control of it.

After a moment, Shen Yuntang expressionlessly tore up the note, soaked it in coffee until it was beyond recognition, and then poured it into the sewer.

Butler Li held his breath and dared not move, for fear of attracting Miss Shen's attention.

Huo Yuyan looked at her and didn't ask what was written. He said from behind her: "Do you want to see the information? It might be a bigger piece of evidence."

Shen Yuntang raised his chin and said, "Look."

Huo Yuyan opened the document beside her, and the two of them read it together.

His expression became more and more solemn.

Zhuo Mei listed and summarized all the things Shen Anguo had done over the years and collected evidence, especially how she "died of illness". She kept careful and detailed records, even writing down in detail how much weight she had lost today in a table.

She seemed to have detached herself from Zhuo Mei's identity, and calmly watched herself deal with all this. She knew the outcome, but did not resist at all.

But she gave the opportunity to resist to Shen Yuntang.

Zhuo Mei believes that she can control the plot, break free from the shackles of the role, and have a destiny different from the original setting.

It seems that Shen Yuntang did it.

At least Ji Liang was not expelled, Huo Xihuai went to school instead of the hospital, Huo Yuyan had no intention of divorcing her, and the heroine Wen Yanyan did not succeed in getting promoted.

There are also many people whose fates are not mentioned in the book who seem to have changed as a result.

There have been so many changes.

She reversed many tragedies that were destined to happen.

Shen Yuntang paused.

I don’t know when it started.

In the book, there are characters who serve as tools, background boards, extras, cannon fodder, some with names and some without names.

In her memory, they were all alive.

No one is a paper man.

…

Huo Yuyan was still looking at the information solemnly, his face becoming increasingly gloomy, when suddenly his hand was grabbed.

He was stunned for a moment, and almost pulled his hand back without warning. When he saw that it was Shen Yuntang holding his hand, he was even more stunned, and even began to wonder if Miss Shen wanted to take her anger out on him?

Although he felt a little wronged, but since she...

"Huo Yuyan." Shen Yuntang lowered his head and said calmly.

Huo Yuyan was stunned for a moment, and said subconsciously: "Yes."

She pinched the information in her hand, with a faint flame burning in her eyes: "Kill him."

Huo Yuyan trembled unexpectedly.

Seeing her look like she was about to erupt like a volcano, he thought with a lingering fear that Miss Shen's terrible desire to win seemed to have come up again.

With Shen Yuntang holding his hand, he could only nod and say, "Okay, kill Shen Anguo."

Shen Yuntang paused.

Although she was satisfied with the decisive attitude of this fool, there were more people she wanted to kill than just Shen Anguo.

There are also those who stand behind the entire book and think they are the "author" who controls the fate of the characters and the plot.

Although I don't know whose hand is being used for the fight.

But Shen Yuntang has always been a winner since he was born.

Shen Anguo had been unlucky for several days since he was driven back by Huo Yuyan, and he kept cursing his bad luck.

Originally, he planned to wait until the news died down, remove the perfume from the shelves, put it back on the shelves with a new brand name, and at the same time increase the marketing efforts for other product lines.

But because of the matter of having to pay compensation to Bufan Perfume, he was so angry for many days that he couldn't recover.

The compensation was a whopping price, a whopping exorbitant sum. Even if they sold out all the perfumes they produced, they might not be able to earn that much.

Shen Anguo was furious, and he tried to smooth things over here and there all day long. Finally, his talk was fruitful. A friend who knew Charles promised to help him talk to Charles. Anyway, Charles was the most important part of this perfume, and as long as he didn't pursue it, the matter wouldn't get out of hand.

Shen Anguo was relieved, and felt proud of himself for cutting off Shen Yuntang's source of trouble.

I see Charles himself doesn't even want to pursue the matter, so why are you still biting me?

That friend was always reliable, and after Shen Anguo got his confirmation, he began to prepare for future marketing to mislead netizens, saying that Charles was willing to reconcile and that Charles did not disagree with them releasing perfume. With just a slight change of wording, the whole meaning was different.

He bought a large number of press releases and hired professional writers to painstakingly tell the story of the feud between Anguo Daily Chemicals and Bufan Perfume. He portrayed himself as an old-fashioned conscientious entrepreneur who was deliberately set up and suffered heavy losses in the end, while Bufan Perfume was an emerging force with a deep background, capital support, and good marketing skills.

Netizens love to see reversals. Even if no one believes it at first, people will be brainwashed if it is published too often. When Charles's settlement is announced, he will be back on the moral high ground, and maybe even start a trend of compensating An Guorihua.

Shen Anguo was waiting confidently, and Shen Yunhe was waiting anxiously.

Shen Anguo did not tell her the result of going to ST to complain, nor did she know that he later went to see Huo Yuyan. She was like a rat crossing the street, she dared not go out, and could only hide at home and worry.

That day, Shen Yunhe finally saw the news that Shen Anguo's whitewashing article had been sent out, and the Internet was flooded with questions.

She was worried and asked her father: "Dad, is it resolved? Why did you change the press release now?"

Shen Anguo was in a good mood. He waved his hand and said, "It's solved. It's been solved a long time ago. Someone has contacted Charles himself for us. My friend has a good relationship with Charles. He will be able to persuade Charles to reconcile with us in the next two days."

"Really? There are such friends?" Shen Yunhe still couldn't believe it, but since Shen Anguo had a solution, she felt a little relieved and continued:

"What about the extraordinary perfume? Will it still be suppressed?"

"Don't worry, I will. I'm already preparing to erode the extraordinary perfume. Just wait and see, I will definitely swallow it up in the future and make it a part of Anguo Daily Chemicals. Shen Yuntang is just a money-making tool that can only depend on my mood."

Shen Anguo flipped through the emails on the table. The good things that had happened in recent days made him feel inflated again. The worries he had before were no longer a problem. He was filled with the thought that he would once again turn the situation around, just like he had done twenty years ago.

This mother and daughter duo couldn't beat him at all.

Shen Anguo smiled and was about to hang up the phone when suddenly his hand paused.

Shen Yunhe only heard a burst of noise from the other end, but couldn't make out what was being said.

After a long while, she asked, "Dad?"

No one paid any attention to her.

She was a little puzzled, and called again after a while, but Shen Anguo's phone was turned off and she couldn't get through.

What were you doing? She hadn't yet figured out Shen Anguo's plan to swallow the extraordinary perfume.

Shen Yunhe frowned in dissatisfaction, but when she thought about what would happen to Shen Yuntang, she relaxed her brows and smiled slightly.

But soon her smile could no longer be sustained.

Her mother called her and said in a terrified voice: "Yunhe, your father has been arrested!"