Chapter 71: Where is the New Investigation Progress? He Didn’t Know if He Should…
After seeing off Ben Nelson, Le Can moved to the sofa, his eyelids half-closed.
In the spacious room, the young man was immersed in a drowsy state brought on by carbohydrate intake, his thoughts drifting aimlessly. He maintained this semi-reclined posture for a long time without moving.
Outside the window, sunlight filtered through the stained-glass windows, casting large swathes of brilliant light and shadow indoors. The person, who seemed to have fallen into a deep sleep, was gradually enveloped by the dappled light.
Buzz—
On the low table next to the sofa, the phone sitting quietly suddenly vibrated.
Le Can, resting with his eyes closed, slowly opened them.
In those peach-blossom eyes, which appeared quiet and cold when not smiling, there was no trace of hazy sleepiness, nor any annoyance at his rest being disturbed.
Or rather, the current situation was exactly within his expectations.
Le Can reached out to unlock the screen and, unsurprisingly, received a message from the paparazzo Gao Dan—several long voice messages.
Sighing faintly, Le Can skillfully converted the voice to text and then tapped to play it on speaker.
“Boss, mission accomplished. There were just some small twists in the middle, so I’m only reporting back now.”
Glancing at the progress bar that had only gone for a dozen seconds, and looking at the full fifty-eight seconds of speech… sure enough, Gao Dan immediately explained exactly what situation had arisen.
“At first, I delivered those two test reports to Le Wenxin’s son, Le Ruisi. I thought the Le family would explode quickly, but unexpectedly, after waiting three days, nothing happened.”
Speaking of this, Gao Dan was also a bit puzzled. “I specifically checked the delivery status to confirm there was no problem. In the end, I asked someone to investigate, and that kid actually concealed the matter!”
Knowing the direction of events, Le Can also fell into a rare silence.
Among the group of people in the Le family, although Li Qianping couldn’t be considered a good person either, she treated Le Ruisi with absolute devotion.
But her ‘good son,’ for the sake of profit, didn’t even have the courage to confront his cheating father…
Gao Dan’s voice rang out again. “Fortunately, I not only made backups but also kept the originals. I asked an entertainment reporter friend to deliver the evidence to Le Wenxin’s wife and daughter.”
The friend, who was recently worried about the lack of material for the tabloids, made a trip and harvested two pieces of material, clamoring to treat Gao Dan to a meal. Gao Dan, who was executing the boss’s second investigation task while gnawing on bread, could only painfully refuse.
“The daughter is a bit tougher than the son. The next day, she dug out her dad’s second love nest.”
Thinking her family was harmonious and her marriage perfect, only to learn successively of her husband’s and father’s infidelity—how could Le Qiushan, who usually thought so highly of herself, endure such humiliation?
Le Can wasn’t surprised that the illusion was punctured.
He nodded nonchalantly, not curious at all about the future development of this family. Because the lawyer Xi Yun recommended to him had already prepared all the materials and evidence.
Le Can didn’t choose to sue them now. First, it coincided with his wedding to Xi Yun.
Regardless of the nature of Le Can and Xi Yun’s wedding, it was undoubtedly a joyous occasion. Although he couldn’t say the reason, he subconsciously didn’t want to stir these messy matters into it at this time.
Second, Le Can wanted to see what kind of scene this family would make over things that didn’t belong to them.
Clearly, there was no throne to inherit, yet Le Wenxin, at his age, still insisted on having a son… The young man smiled sarcastically.
He was now particularly curious: when things got too ugly to clean up, and this group of people suddenly ran out of money, would this good show become even more exciting?
His jade-like fingers tapped rapidly on the phone screen, and a new message appeared in the chat box.
“Where is the new investigation progress?”
The status at the top left of the chat box changed to “typing,” and soon a paragraph of text popped up along with an old photo.
The old photo wasn’t well-preserved; the colors had almost completely faded, and the corners were worn. Only the four people in the middle could barely be distinguished as they were years ago.
Le Can clicked to enlarge the image, carefully observing the four people in the photo.
In the center sat a man with gloomy brows and eyes—the only one sitting. Behind him stood a young woman holding a swaddled baby. In front of the woman was a little boy, about ten years old.
Le Can looked at the boy first. He pursed his lips in silence, his expression stubborn, his hands hanging by his sides clenched into fists. It was vastly different from how he looked as an adult.
The young woman had a beautiful face, but her eyes looking at the lens were full of exhaustion. That face, bare of makeup, was completely different from the heavy makeup Le Can had seen before.
Putting away the photo, Le Can tapped open the new voice message sent by Gao Dan while browsing the text.
“Boss, the person you asked me to investigate has a terrible family of origin.”
“His father was trash. Not only did he love gambling, but when he lost money and got drunk, he loved to beat his wife and children at home.”
Gao Dan’s voice was full of contempt for the scum. “He gambled bigger and bigger. after losing the house and fields, he even sold the younger son.”
That was the baby still in swaddling clothes in the photo.
“Probably even God couldn’t stand it anymore. One winter, he got drunk and fell asleep in the snow. When he was found the next day, his body was stiff.”
“Later, his wife ran away, and all the remaining gambling debts fell on the remaining child…”
Hearing this, Le Can paused the voice playback.
He didn’t know if he should continue listening.
The small boy in the photo later grew into a tall and large man. Relying on himself, he paid off his father’s gambling debts and found the family member lost in childhood.
Yet, because of the unease he couldn’t let go of in his heart, Le Can had uncovered the other party’s scars…
Throwing his head back and sighing lightly, Le Can ultimately chose to continue playing. Things had reached this point; it wasn’t a time when he could stop just because he wanted to.
Gao Dan’s voice continued: “His original name was Yin Ping. After paying off all debts, he changed his name to Yin Wuyu.”
“The woman you bumped into in front of Suhe’an International Hospital, Boss, is the same person holding the child in the photo—Yin Wuyu’s biological mother, Jiang Lian.”
“She later remarried with a child. This child is Tong Chen, who is currently lying unconscious in the hospital ward.”
“It is said,” Gao Dan paused here, “according to Jiang Lian, Tong Chen is the child who was sold to pay off debts in the photo, Yin Wuyu’s biological brother, Yin Chen.”
Recalling Jiang Lian whom he met in front of Suhe’an, Le Can frowned.
“Are you sure Tong Chen is Yin Chen?”
The moment he saw the question, the other side was quiet for a long while before sending a screenshot and a long paragraph of text explanation.
“The person Jiang Lian remarried was quite rich at the time. When he dumped his infertile original wife to marry Jiang Lian, who brought a ‘drag-along’ bottle (child from previous marriage), the tabloids in that area even reported on it.”
“Ten years ago, Jiang Lian’s public statement was that this child was her ex-husband’s child whom she had painstakingly found.”
“Because her current husband gave her great help in the process of finding the child, the two finally got together.”
Gao Dan stated his conclusion: “It should be the same person.”
Otherwise, what reason would Jiang Lian have to lie to everyone more than ten years ago? Was she bored out of her mind?
“Tong Chen became a vegetable due to an accident two years ago. It coincided with problems in the Tong family’s business. Just as they were considering giving up treatment, Yin Wuyu came to the door.”
“The huge medical expenses for the past two years were all shouldered by Yin Wuyu alone. With so much money involved, the other party wouldn’t just offer himself up as a sucker without confirming it, right?”
If it wasn’t for his biological brother whom he had found with great difficulty, who would be willing to take over this bottomless pit? Yin Wuyu didn’t look like a fool.
Le Can faintly felt something was still wrong.
He read the report over and over again, and then in the comment section that was arguing in a jumble, he found a follow-up update on Jiang Lian’s second marriage.
A netizen with an IP from the same city commented that Jiang Lian and her current husband later had a daughter. But even so, the couple still loved Tong Chen, the ex-husband’s child, very much.
Then someone commented below that this time Jiang Lian finally didn’t entrust herself to the wrong person. Immediately after, a bunch of people chimed in with envy and blessings.
Le Can intuitively felt it was wrong. Such a great mother image didn’t match the person with assessing eyes he had seen back then.
And if Jiang Lian really loved her children so much, why would she be so distant from Yin Wuyu? Even if the two hadn’t seen each other for more than ten years, it shouldn’t cause her to feel disgust toward her first child…
But, even among parents, there are those who can’t treat their children equally. Yin Wuyu looked strong on the outside, but inside he was trapped in that teenager version of himself. It was possible he held a grudge against the mother who abandoned him.
“Oh right,” Gao Dan remembered one more thing.
“This Yin Wuyu can indeed be said to have reached the depths of misfortune only for fortune to come. Not long after entering Simple Security two years ago, he quickly became Xie Jun’s private bodyguard.”
“Later, with Boss Jian Minglang pulling strings, he sent his brother to Suhe’an International Hospital and even got the internal hospital subsidy.”
“The help of two consecutive benefactors allowed his brother to receive the best treatment.”
It was just that he lived a tight life himself. When the Tong family, who originally thought they could get some benefits, found out, they ridiculed and distanced themselves from him.
This Tong family wasn’t like this when they had money before; how did they become like this now?
However, Gao Dan wasn’t surprised. After all, human nature indeed manifests differently in different environments. It wasn’t rare for it to become more vile and unbearable.
For example, don’t look at how human-like he seemed now. If it really came to a life-and-death situation, who knew what he might become? After all, people are selfish.
The things Le Can had doubts about were all answered.
He should have kicked Yin Wuyu off the suspect list and moved on to verify the next one. But inexplicably, Le Can just couldn’t completely let it go.
He sighed lightly and transferred the remuneration for the investigation to Gao Dan.
As to whether it was him or not… everything would naturally be revealed at the cruise wedding in three days.
Although he said that, after Le Can turned off his phone, he still remained silent on the sofa for a long time without moving.
Just then, a hurried knock sounded on the room door.
The second after Le Can looked up, the tightly closed door was pushed open violently. A graceful figure rushed in like a gust of wind, arriving in front of him from the doorway in the blink of an eye.
“Haha, Little Dazzler, surprise!”
Le Can’s raised hand was pushed aside, and a pair of hands with red nail polish pinched his face, kneading it again and again as if unable to put it down.
“Oh my, has your hubby been pestering you all the time recently? Look, your little face is thin from exhaustion.”
Still the same aggressive style as always. Le Can’s eye twitched twice, coinciding with meeting the gaze of Yuan Cheng, who stood behind Xie Jun with an awkward expression and a flushed face.
No, you guys really thought wrong.
Not only did that guy Xi Yun not pester him, he even came up with a stupid custom of not meeting for three days before the wedding.
“Did you see him when you arrived?”
She didn’t say who, but one knew who she meant immediately.
Xie Jun answered nonchalantly, “Yeah, right at the foot of the mountain.”
Beautiful peach-blossom eyes narrowed instantly. “Is that so…”
Not far away… then what came next would be easy to handle…
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