Chapter 108: It’s Time to Reward You [Superpower Lost to Money Power?]
“I didn’t expect Assistant Liang to move so quickly?”
In the backseat of the black sedan, the youth, leaning against the seat with one hand supporting his chin, lifted his eyelids. He looked at the man beside him with a relaxed and loose posture.
Xi Yun quickly finished processing the matters in his hand, then turned off his phone and set it aside. He reached out to grab Le Can’s hand, which had started to retreat, back into his palm.
“Perhaps Yao Yao has praised the wrong person?”
Hearing the words that carried a slight hint of jealousy, Le Can burst out laughing. His clear, bright peach-blossom eyes rippled with light as he caught the man’s subtle expression.
“Is that so?”
He asked back.
Le Can intentionally leaned forward, crossing the partition in the middle of the seats with half his body, invading Xi Yun’s personal space.
The distance between them closed instantly. Their two exceptionally handsome faces faced each other just a palm’s width apart. Between breaths, their warm exhalations brushed against each other’s skin.
Within the limited space of the backseat, a silent ambiguity surged. Seeing this, the driver in the front silently raised the divider and skillfully turned on the privacy sound-shield button.
Xi Yun looked up at the person before him, lightly squeezing the youth’s thin, light palm, silently insisting on his thought with his gaze.
Xi Yun believed the answer was affirmative.
Shouldn’t the person Yao Yao praised be him?
After leaving Ming Huarong’s side, Le Can had wasted no time in handing the unexpectedly obtained information to Liang Yusheng.
Assistant Liang was indeed reliable. He quickly submitted this ironclad evidence along with some things investigated previously to the police. Jian Minglang, in his wheelchair, accompanied them.
With both witnesses and material evidence present and the situation being indisputable, the police acted without any hesitation. Ultimately, through the joint efforts of many parties, the result was that before the auction had even ended, the culprits had already been arrested.
It seemed like Xi Yun hadn’t put in much effort.
But if calculated carefully, Liang Yusheng was Xi Yun’s employee. Xi Yun had hired him and recognized his talents first. Later, because of Xi Yun’s instructions, the capable Assistant Liang often worked “part-time” for Le Can.
The same went for Jian Minglang. To be able to survive the fall from the cruise ship into the sea—on one hand, it was because Xi Yun didn’t give up on rescuing Le Can and happened to fish him out. On the other hand, the professional emergency rescue personnel on the cruise ship also played a large role in the successful resuscitation.
Mhm, besides that, there was the investigation into the estate lawyer, and the invitation to this auction also came from him. Even earlier, Le Can had come to Xi Yun’s side because the man had dropped one hundred million…
Thinking of this, Le Can felt like laughing.
[What is this?]
[Did superpower lose to money power?]
Le Can reached out to hook Xi Yun’s chin. Under the man’s burning gaze, he dropped a kiss on his favorite thin, monochromatic lips.
“Right, it’s time to reward you.”
“If it weren’t for you, I, the biggest variable, would probably have been unable to exert such a massive amount of energy…”
When Xi Yun told him about Jian Yu’s internal thought, Le Can was absolutely delighted.
Wasn’t he here specifically to take Jian Yu down?
Although Le Can had only read about a hundred thousand words of the original work, based on the information he got from his colleagues, he could infer that although Xi Yun won against Jian Yu in the ending, it was likely a pyrrhic victory…
But this time was different.
The information Le Can obtained from Ming Huarong was none other than proof that Jian Yu was not the boy named Yuan Yu from the Salim Maintenance Orphanage.
That young boy, who had died on the operating table due to an “accident,” finally had his identity reclaimed after more than ten years through the persistence of a companion named Yuan Yuyan.
A truth that had been covered up for more than a decade was finally brought to light—
Jian Yu had not only replaced Yuan Yu’s identity, but Bai Xiaotong had also traded the heart intended for the boy, along with the boy’s own kidneys, to the child of a high-ranking figure her second husband was trying to curry favor with…
The former used Yuan Yu’s identity to approach Jian Minglang’s parents and was adopted by them, meticulously lurking within the Jian family for many years.
Precisely because of the so-called heart disease, almost no one held much guard against Jian Yu, who showed himself as weak year-round. They didn’t expect that the other party was a venomous snake skilled in hiding and disguising itself…
The latter used this to enter her second husband’s sight and successfully married him.
After being driven out of the Nian family, Bai Xiaotong’s standard of living improved significantly. Later, she even used the auction house in her second husband’s hands to occasionally cause trouble for Wei Yuanjing in Xi Yun’s hands…
But everything was built upon the life of a young boy.
Fortunately, these two villains who had been free for over a decade would finally receive the punishment they deserved…
Besides this, there was another thing in the information provided by Lady Ming that shocked Le Can: Jian Yu and Bai Xiaotong were actually biological mother and son!
Jian Yu was the child of Bai Xiaotong and her first husband.
That sweet-talking man had coaxed Bai Xiaotong into marriage, thinking she was a daughter of a wealthy family, only to find out shortly after that she was an adopted daughter who had been kicked out of the Nian family.
Bai Xiaotong was used to spending money lavishly, which is why she was targeted. In reality, the things she had brought out from the Nian family back then were almost entirely spent.
The two entangled for a long time before finally divorcing. During this period, between one person’s scheme and another’s “accidental” child, the boy became a ball to be kicked around.
That was Jian Yu’s childhood.
Later, both mother and son were abandoned by the man. For all those years, under Bai Xiaotong’s daily malicious curses, Jian Yu not only grew up twisted but also hated the Nian family and Xi Yun, whom his mother constantly grumbled about, to the bone.
This person, who inherited the malice and cunning of his parents and became distorted through years of wrong values, was also the mastermind who proposed replacing the identity, changing his face, and ultimately usurping the nest.
Le Can found it hard to imagine that a minor in his teens at the time could have such a mind and strategy…
After knowing the truth, he also felt a sense of complete absurdity.
So many people had lost their lives just because of the greed of a foolish woman like Bai Xiaotong…
Thinking of this, the joy of the villains being caught was diluted by a few degrees.
Le Can sat back in his seat with a neutral expression. After a few minutes of silence, as if suddenly remembering something, he turned his head to look at Xi Yun beside him.
“This time, they truly won’t be able to escape, right?”
Looking at the expression on the youth’s face that showed disgust through its indifference, Xi Yun lightly patted the back of his hand in a comforting gesture. “Correct.”
From now on, they would never appear before anyone again.
Hearing the affirmative answer, Le Can finally relaxed his tensed nerves and leaned back against the soft seat back.
To shake off the deep feeling of nausea in his heart, Le Can tried to find a lighter topic to change the subject.
“By the way, what news were you looking at on your phone just now? You were looking so intently.”
Xi Yun looked at the youth’s smiling brows and eyes, hesitated for two seconds, but still replied: “It’s nothing. I just received a message from Yuan Cheng.”
The name Yuan Cheng was like an invisible hand lightly touching the nerves Le Can had just relaxed. He fell silent for a moment, and his other hand hanging by his side quietly touched his jacket pocket.
Inside it were two sheets of paper that had been folded multiple times. They were… two sheets that Le Can had pulled out separately from the pile of documents related to Jian Yu.
They had nothing to do with Jian Yu.
But… they were related to Yuan Cheng…
After Le Can read them, he didn’t know how to speak to Yuan Cheng, so he temporarily withheld them, planning to find a suitable time to give them to him.
As for whether to explain to Xi Yun? Once he spoke of this matter, he would have to speak of the reservations in his heart as well. Doing so would inevitably involve some things he previously wanted to keep…
Le Can was somewhat hesitant.
Because he was hiding something, Le Can subconsciously shifted his gaze to their interlaced hands and spoke absentmindedly, “Oh, I see.”
Since his thoughts were quite chaotic, he simply followed up with, “What message did he send?”
Xi Yun, keenly sensing the youth’s abnormality, gave a light sigh and spoke words he hadn’t originally intended to say—or rather, words he hadn’t intended to say tonight.
He first slowly tightened his grip on Le Can’s hand, and then, when the other party cast a puzzled look, he spoke:
“While Jian Yu was walking out of the hotel, he swapped identities with a prepared body double and fled the scene.”
It was impossible to know if someone had tipped him off in advance, but it was certain that Jian Yu had planned various escape routes for himself long ago.
Just by a hair, he almost really did get away.
“What?!”
Le Can nearly jumped out of his seat.
Xi Yun, who had already predicted this scene, quickly used the hand holding Le Can to grab his arm, then pulled him firmly into his embrace.
The moment the person entered his arms, he used his other arm to pin the urgent youth against him.
While lightly patting the back of the person in his arms, he said softly: “Good, listen to me finish. Don’t worry.”
“Did you forget? I told you. They will never appear before us again.”
Le Can, who was struggling to lift his head to speak, slowly slowed his movements and quietly pressed his head against the man’s shoulder and neck.
Seeing this, a flash of tenderness passed through Xi Yun’s lowered eyes. He lowered his head and dropped a kiss on the youth’s crown.
“At first, it was indeed not discovered that the person had been swapped.”
Mainly because under Bai Xiaotong’s hysterical struggling and shouting, almost everyone’s attention was drawn away.
Jian Yu, who was very silent and even remarkably cooperative, was initially just guarded by two police officers on either side.
“However, someone later sent news, along with the bound Jian Yu. Only then did they realize the person in their hands was a fake.”
Someone had their eyes on Jian Yu, and after he played everyone with his “golden cicada shedding its shell” trick, they beat him up and sent him to where he belonged.
Hearing this, Le Can, who had truly calmed down, lifted his head. “Who?”
Xi Yun slowly loosened his hand, moving it down to support Le Can’s soft yet firm waist and hips, propping him up slightly so he wouldn’t have to use his own strength to sit up and could also sit more comfortably.
“It was Yin Wuyu.”
An unexpected name.
Le Can instantly fell silent. He touched the two folded sheets of paper in his pocket again, knowing it was time for this matter to be spoken.
Along with…
How he had come to this world.
Xi Yun, who had faintly guessed something through the inner voice, also waited silently.
“Xi Yun, when we get back, I want to tell you something. No, it should be two things.”
One about Yuan Cheng’s background.
One… about his origin, or perhaps part of the truth of this world…
T/N: “Money Power” (钞能力 – Chāo néng lì) is a popular Chinese pun on “Superpower” (超能力 – Chāo néng lì), as both are pronounced the same. It refers to the “ability” to solve any problem with money. “Golden cicada shedding its shell” (金蝉脱壳) is an idiom for a strategic retreat or escape by leaving a decoy behind.
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