Chapter 276 - Such a Long Chapter and All I Got Was This Lousy Title [4 in 1](2/2)
Qian Qianxiang’s face straightened and then directly vetoed the romantic ideals of little girls. “Even if he saves you during period of danger, it does not mean that he is a good person... Even if there is a guarantee of his personality, what if this man has a weakness that you cannot stomach at all? You’ll need to consider something from all sides and do not make a decision that you might regret for the rest of your life due to the emotions within the moment! This is especially true for something that will affect you for as long as you may live!”
Do you hear that, little sister! Even though the man might have saved you, the idea that you have to surrender your body to repay him for his kindness is something that you should never consider.
Mo Xiao Xia blinked several times and nodded after some hesitation. “...Ok.”
Even though Rong Su’s cousin was still quite a bit of a stranger, what he said seemed to be directed at her... right?
Rong Su was confused. “Brother Xiang, why are you so agitated?”
Naturally, Ye Shuang could understand Qian Qianxiang’s hidden meaning, and as sad as it was, she could not help but sigh for Lin Yu. This was the best chance for him to turn things around, and the beauty was almost falling into his arms, but he definitely would not have expected someone to dirty his business when he was not around. With his words, Qian Qianxiang pulled the affection level back to zero. He wanted Mo Xiao Xia to consider it calmly and carefully... The saddest thing was that this was collateral damage; the target that the man was going after was not even him...
After taking Mo Xiao Xia back to Boss Mo’s home, Ye Shuang bade farewell to Qian Qianxiang and Rong Su. The former guarded against him like he was a thief going after their money.
After returning to the hotel, Ye Shuang took a shower to unwind. Then she sat at her computer to think. She tried to summarize the events that happened that day as best as she could in an email and sent it to Han Chu’s address. She also coupled it with her own opinion.
From the way the gang members were willing to give up everything to do this, this went to show the pressure that the Lin family had applied on their gang in Xiang Jiang. Since the small gang had been targeted, even though Xia Cheng had not yet been exposed at Tian Wang Media, it was certain that his power at the company would become even more limited.
If everything had still been within a barely controllable situation before this, then the issue that day where Lin Yu was assaulted would definitely cause Lin Chen to deal with Xia Cheng. This was where they would tear at each other. Whether he gave Xia Cheng the chance to explain his situation or not, or perhaps even after Lin Chen heard the reasoning from Xia Cheng, he would not have believed it. Ye Shuang did not think that the man would be dumb enough to allow such an uncertain element to continue working for him at Tian Wang Media.
If Xia Cheng stopped working at Tian Wang Media, then their method of following his trail to find the other people on his connection and his money would not be so simple anymore. Then, should they volunteer to provide another platform to Xia Cheng, or should they wait patiently to see what the man might do next?
Ye Shuang had not interacted with Xia Cheng enough to predict what he might do next. Other than the lead that she had with Tian Wang Media, the only other lead that she knew had connection with Xia Cheng was the latest spokesperson for LPA, Rong Su, and LPA’s chief designer, Karen.
Ye Shuang arranged her thoughts and then tried to adjust the rest of her plan based on her prediction. After some time, the notification for a new email came from her computer. Opening it, there was only a simple sentence that was written in reply.
“Do it whatever way you want.”
As expected... Ye Shuang smiled, closed the computer, dried her hair, and went to sleep.
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The next day, the explosive news that happened yesterday naturally... did not appear on the news. At most, it was only briefly mentioned in several smaller articles.
“Yesterday an incident with armed men occurred in City XX, and with the cooperation of the police officers and several brave citizens, they managed to capture XXX people...”
Such news.
Of course, the real news happened in Xiang Jiang. The whole member of the small gang was wiped out—this news practically shocked the whole San He Gang in Xiang Jiang. After all, everyone knew how many men Lin Yu carried with him. In terms of numbers and firepower, everyone expected the small gang to succeed. There was no possibility of them failing.
Who would have thought that things really did not happen like that. The whole of San He Gang was incredibly curious about what happened, and then people started to spread rumors about hidden masters residing in China. Could there really be a hidden master?
Regardless, Lin Chen managed to hear everything right from Lin Yu’s lips. For everything that happened to his youngest brother, this mature businessman had nothing else but “F*cking good luck!” to say about this whole incident. While he listened to the gossip, it did not deter Lin Chen from planning what to do next.
Just as Ye Shuang predicted, even though this thing had no proof that it was directly related to Xia Cheng, the point that it was not safe to keep Xia Cheng around was enough. Lin Chen did not want to keep an unstable element by his side, and he did not want to use his own brother’s personal safety to test out this possibility. Therefore, that morning, Xia Cheng received news from the main company in Xiang Jiang that he was fired.
Lin Chen followed the contract and paid Xia Cheng more than enough money as part of the severance package. He even went a step further and face-slapped Xia Cheng all over Tian Wang Media. He announced to everyone at the company from the highest manager to the lowest toilet sweeper that Xia Cheng was no longer an employee at their company. He made sure that even the auntie that cleaned the toilet knew about that. Other than that, he banned Xia Cheng from taking away his personal affects from the company and from the accommodation that had been provided by the company... other than the clothes that Xia Cheng wore on his back, his wallet, and necessary documents.
Probably afraid that Xia Cheng would turn on him after he was cornered and spread company information to others when people were not paying attention, Lin Chen went about doing this quickly and efficiently. It had to be said that what he did indeed flustered Xia Cheng. He did not even know what had really happened.
The man had originally entered the company with negative intentions anyway. Even though he might not have gained access to important details due to his identity, he did manage to copy some company accounts and internal information. Lin Chen had his assistant take over Xia Cheng’s accommodation in Shanghai immediately.
When the assistant was going through Xia Cheng’s computer, he found some documents that Xia Cheng had illegally copied from the company server. They were encrypted document that contained company accounts and a few documents that detailed the future development of Tian Wang Media. That evidence complemented the lie that Ye Shuang had made up earlier and supported her suggestion that Xia Cheng was a traitor.
“This is not enough to bring him to court, but it does not matter anymore. After all, my brother has found out the problem. He only needs to fix some clauses afterward.” Lin Yu had called Ye Shuang. He sounded lazy, and Ye Shuang could hear the sound of the television at the hospital in the background. “Even though you still have not come up with any investigation result, you are the reason Xia Cheng got exposed, so my brother says that the money can be considered our gift of appreciation. If there’s any news regarding our company in the future, I hope that you’ll be kind enough to inform us.”
“We also wish the best for your company. Of course, we welcome a generous client.” Brother Shuang buttoned up his shirt as he talked on the phone. “But I have a favor to ask. We still have other things to follow up on Xia Cheng. If your brother manages to find out information before we do, do you mind sharing some information with us? Of course, only within the acceptable range.”
“Within the acceptable range?” Lin Yu yawned weakly. He was so unhappy that Mo Xiao Xia did not come to visit him at the hospital. Even his tone sounded bored and weak. “For example?”
“I remember that Xia Cheng once offered someone a contract with LPA, right? At the time, didn’t you say that your company would not have that resources? Since you have already taken over Xia Cheng’s personal computer, do you mind looking through his company to see if there are any similar clues?”
“No problem,” Lin Yu said casually. “Xiao Xia said that you have a very good hacker, right? After we go through the computer, your people can come to our company to do some searches, but you cannot recover the files that we have deleted. Those will be our company’s confidential files.”
With the consensus made, Ye Shuang temporarily had no other requests. Even though Xia Cheng would not have kept any truly incriminating information on his computer, it was not impossible to find some valuable clues. He probably also did not expect Lin Chen to do something so drastic and cruel. He had banned him from reaching his personal stuff, which meant that even though Xia Cheng might want to stop it, it would already be too late.
How was he going to stop it? The man had already compensated him with more money than was stipulated in the contract. Furthermore, Lin Chen could have said that he did this to prevent company secrets from being leaked. Lin Chen had plenty of reasonable excuses for his actions.
On top of that, the Lin family came from a complicated background. They had connections to the mafia. This kind of local power was what the money-laundering organization hated to deal with the most. Therefore, what else could he do but let them keep his stuff? After all, they would not find anything important from the computer. Even if they did find something... with the intellect of the Lin family’s people, did they really plan to fight them as agents of justice after such things had been exposed?
Most likely, they would simply maintain their silence.
In the following few days, Mo Xiao Xia was busy running between the hospital and the film set; Lin Yu was busy trying to win his girl; Rong Su was busy shooting the spokesperson reel for LPA; Qiu Yu was busy translating...
Ye Shuang was the freest. She was so free that she even had time to go play mahjong and golf with Qian Qianxiang. This was not because she was willing but mostly because this man was too cunning. He knew that Ye Shuang was dangerous, but at the same time, he knew that Ye Shuang worked under Han Chu, so after giving it some thought, Qian Qianxiang came up with a solution. He sent a case directly to Han Chu and requested Ye Shuang to accompany him. With five thousand a day, he purchased the big bad wolf to stay by his side so that the wolf would not have time to go and find Little Red Riding Hood.
When Han Chu sent the case over, even though Ye Shuang was speechless, she did not mind it. After all, her schedule was wide open, and since someone was going to gift her money, she was not going to refuse. Therefore, she signed a contract with Qian Qianxiang. She changed into Brother Shuang and accompanied Qian Qianxiang. Qian Qianxiang got his wish—he would take Brother Shuang as far away from his cousin as possible, meaning they would leave the city every time.
Then he would be heavily face-slapped!
After Brother Shuang potted yet another hole in one, Qian Qianxiang pushed away the group of screaming girls that had gathered around them. He patted Ye Shuang on his shoulder and smiled faintly. “Your golfing technique is not bad. How many years have you been playing?”
“Actually, I just started not that long ago.” Ye Shuang smiled humbly—if she said that this was just her second time playing, people would have something to say, so she could only be vague.
Noticing the scowl on Qian Qianxiang’s face, Ye Shuang put the golf club away and planned not to rile up the man anymore. “I see, Mr. Qian, you are quite tired already. Shall we go to the side to rest?”
Qian Qianxiang gritted his teeth and glared at Ye Shuang for half a minute before nodding unwillingly. “Fine.”
The both of them reached the parasol, and the people who were standing around them served them drinks on the table. After taking their seats, Ye Shuang took a sip of the fruit juice and then sighed. “Actually, there is really nothing between me and Xiao Su. Mr. Qian, you do not need to be so cautious around me.”
Even though the money was easy, the atmosphere was too awkward. Furthermore, Ye Shuang thought that this was not going to affect her official business, but when she started doing this for real, she realized that there were many inconvenient places—like she was unable to carry her laptop with her. Yes, she had her phone, but many things needed the computer to understand. Sometimes, when Ol’ K or Anthony sent something to her, she would need to return to the hotel before she could see the message.
Qian Qianxiang smiled coldly. “It is because there is nothing between you that I am so angry!”
The man already did not show any interest in her, so why did his sister not get the hint?
Ye Shuang looked at Qian Qianxiang in confusion and then turned her head away because she did not know what to say. The man looked like he was so worried that he might explode. If he found out that Ye Shuang had promised Rong Su that she was going to Paris to meet up with her at the shooting spot, Qian Qianxiang would probably have a stroke on the spot.
“Hey! Why aren’t you saying anything anymore?”
Ye Shuang did not want to ruffle Qian Qianxiang’s feathers, but it did not mean that the other had the same feeling. He saw Ye Shuang turn his head away, and Qian Qianxiang felt annoyed and disrespected immediately.
Ye Shuang sighed. “It’s nothing, I just thought the scenery here is really not bad. The natural environment... Eh? Isn’t that people from the Yan Family?”