After five bigwigs in Beijing's elite circle fell into their trap, I fled.

Chapter 186 Old friends meet
"What do you mean... the last time we saw each other?" A chill ran down Jiang Shu's spine.

"They will be transferred to a secret medical laboratory later, and we may not see them for a long time afterward."

"..." Jiang Shu found her voice, "Are they in danger?"

Nie Zheng paused for a moment, then said, "They all look perfectly healthy and lively."

Jiang Shu took a deep breath:

"I'll be there right away."

Flying from Wuhan to Beijing takes several hours.

"I should have called Nie Zheng before returning to Jiangcheng." On the way back, Jiang Shu was both worried and annoyed.

“It’s no use fighting him. He just returned to the capital from abroad an hour ago.” Rong Jingchen looked at the messages from his subordinates on his phone. “He went straight to the hospital with a group of… wounded soldiers.”

Jiang Shu immediately picked up her phone and dialed a number in Shanghai: "Send me all the pills you have left."

Magic City.

Xia Ruo was holding her divorce certificate when she came out of the Civil Affairs Bureau.

She stood at the entrance of the Civil Affairs Bureau, expressionless, watching her ex-husband, radiant with joy, re-enter the marriage registration office with his young mistress. A mocking smile played on her lips before she spoke seriously into her phone:
"Okay, I'll send it out in an hour. Why does Master Jiang suddenly need the elixir so urgently? Has he encountered some difficulty?"

"The situation is unclear, I don't know yet. But someone in the family is injured and may need a lot of wound medicine."

"Don't worry, Mr. Jiang. I have plenty of time lately. I'll refine a few more batches for you this afternoon."

"Thank you!"

After hanging up, Xia Ruo dialed another number: "Remove President Liu from his post, and revoke all privileges granted to his daughter and current son-in-law, Li Yishen, within the company. Also, arrange a secret villa for me. I'm going to be refining medicine, and no one is allowed to disturb me."

"Okay, boss! Also, congratulations on escaping your misery."

imperial capital.

When Jiang Shu and her group stood on the ground of the capital city again, the sky was already as dark as ink.

As soon as Li Yubai and the others turned on their phones, dozens of missed calls appeared.

When Assistant Shen dialed the ninety-eighth number, Li Yubai finally answered: "What is it?"

At the same moment, Ning Yunzhan, Yan Yu, and Feng Li's phones also rang like alarm bells.

Each of them answered the phone, and for a moment they were all dumbfounded.

Then, Yan Yu looked at Jiang Shu with a complicated expression: "The two video files I sent to my sister this morning..."

Jiang Shu replied absentmindedly, "Yes, I received it. It's still on the computer at the micro-drama club. I'll copy it out when I have time."

"..." Yan Yu felt a little embarrassed. "Sister notified the Micro Drama Club to put both dramas online?"

Jiang Shu was taken aback: "Is that so?"

"Well, my sister might not know, but 'Chronicles of a Fallen City, Volume 1' was accidentally posted online and viewed by billions of people." Yan Yu sighed softly. "Fengshen Group has already taken it down, and I just arranged for the technical department of Yanxing Group to conduct a thorough cleanup, but..."

"But for a long time to come, we will inevitably become the subject of others' conversations, or even the prototypes for their creations," Ning Yunzhan said helplessly.

Yan Yu looked helpless: "My agent said that my sister has already dragged me down from my pedestal and my innocent image has collapsed. Since I even went so far as to take off my clothes and be brutally assaulted in the short drama, he received hundreds of scripts for passionate scenes in just one hour..."

Li Yubai looked at the statistics table sent by Assistant Shen: "The video was online for a total of one and a half hours before it was taken down. During that time, more than 300,000 vulgar CEO novels based on us appeared on major literary websites. The Weibo accounts of Li's Group, Yanxing Group, and Yunduan Group crashed three times. Some small companies under Fengshen Group that defied the trend produced five 'Alluring Beauty' comics and sixteen short dramas on the same theme... In addition, major newspapers and self-media outlets sent many paparazzi to infiltrate our respective villas..."

Feng Li lazily scrolled through the 'congratulatory message' sent by Nie Hongnian: "There are more than twenty CP pairings for the six of us online, among which the most popular are Bai Yu CP, Bai Li CP, and Zhan Li CP..."

Jiang Shu recalled her conversation with member Zhang Tao when she hurriedly left the micro-drama club:

"President, there are so many documents?"

"No matter how many, upload them all." They were referring to file categories.

She thought it referred to the number of episodes of the short drama "The Richest Man's White Moonlight".

Jiang Shu remained silent for several seconds before guiltily clearing her throat:

"The situation is beyond repair. Next, I will teach you a skill."

Li Yubai hummed in agreement: "What skill?"

"Be thick-skinned and deny it to the death," Jiang Shu said seriously. "The rest will be left to time."

Feng Li glanced at her and said, "This is something a seasoned scumbag like you would do."

Imperial Capital Military Hospital.

Inside the VIP ward, Guan Muyun coldly looked at the man whose body was covered in tubes, her tone indifferent: "Guan Ze, all these years, have you been sending people to look for Yunyun and that possible child?"

The man, his eyes filled with fear, stammered, "No, it's not..."

"Not you?" Guan Muyun said casually, "Then it must be your mistress and daughter? After all, there are only the two of us brothers in the Guan family. When it comes to vying for power and profit, it's not up to anyone else."

Guan Ze shook his head frantically: "No..."

"No, you will. Your mistress and daughter are just as vicious and disgusting as you, they will be too." Guan Muyun chuckled softly. "I will continue to investigate. As long as I find even the slightest connection with them, I will send them to hell with you."

"I...I'm your older brother..."

“From the moment you used your mistress to scheme against me and Yunyun, I no longer have any brothers, only enemies.” Guan Muyun sneered. “But don’t worry, as brothers, I will take good care of your mistress and daughter, and I won’t let the Guan family become a laughing stock among other families.”

“Mu Yun…” Guan Ze was filled with fear and unease.

Guan Muyun paused for a moment: "Arrange for a doctor to increase the dosage of the medicine, so that he lives in a daze every day, unable to hear, speak, or move, just keep him alive."

The assistant glanced at Guan Ze, whose eyes were filled with venom, and said, "Arrange it immediately."

"Let's go, push me out. The air in the ward is stagnant, I feel nauseous if I stay there too long."

Guan Muyun was pushed out of the ward by his personal assistant.

He glanced casually at the densely packed special forces soldiers armed with weapons at the other end of the corridor, and paused slightly in surprise:
"Who's the important person here today?"

The assistant glanced through the crowd and, amidst a sea of ​​camouflage, spotted the entrance to the VIP ward, where a tall, slender figure in black stood with a cold expression.

The assistant paused for a moment: "Sir, it's Nie Zheng."

Guan Muyun paused for a moment, then said, "Push me over there."

The assistant hesitated: "They look...like they have something very important to say."

"When old friends meet, they should always exchange pleasantries." Guan Muyun smiled indifferently.

Nie Zheng stood at the door of the ward, enjoying the breeze.

The autumn wind was slightly bleak, and his cold and handsome face also showed a trace of fatigue and vicissitude.

The sound of a wheelchair approached from afar.

A sarcastic, obnoxious voice rang out:

"Hey, isn't this Nie Zheng from the Nie family? Back in the day, he was a little snotty kid who followed me and Yunyun around all day. Now he's like a piece of old cured meat, tsk!"

Nie Zheng looked over and met Guan Muyun's teasing eyes, which seemed to look at a dog with deep affection.

(End of this chapter)