I bought a secret manual of the Hehuan Sect for ten yuan.

"This is... the certificate and the invoice!"

"Two million..."

"Eight hundred thousand, one million two hundred thousand... eight million!?"

Fu Xixue exclaimed in surprise, her eyes widening as she rolled them back.

"You brat, what are you muttering about?"

Jiang Mingyue stepped forward and snatched the things from her daughter's hands, quickly flipping through them.

Fu Cheng's attention was also drawn to it.

Fu Xixue glanced at the shards scattered on the ground and cautiously began, "Mom, the things you just smashed are probably worth over ten million..."

"They come with invoices and certificates. These items were purchased from Guyuexuan, so they should all be genuine..."

Jiang Mingyue froze. She wanted to argue that it was impossible, that Qin Ge couldn't possibly afford something so expensive.

But what she held in her hands told her that it was real!

The family of three fell silent.

How could I not be heartbroken to have something worth over ten million yuan smashed like that!

Jiang Mingyue, in particular, was filled with deep regret and felt her heart was bleeding.

More than ten million!

When Shen Yulan brought those things back, she saw the certificates and invoices. After a moment's thought, she stuffed them into the large vase.

Since we've already given it away, let's go all the way. With the certificate and invoice, it'll be easy for the Fu family to sell these things for money if they ever encounter any difficulties in the future.

It doesn't look good to just leave it there; when you bring fruit to someone's house, you have to throw away the receipt!

She thought she could just make a phone call or send a message to let them know after she left the Fu family.

"Ring ring—"

Fu Xixue's phone ring broke the eerie atmosphere.

"Hello, Ms. Fu Xixue, this is the Human Resources Department of Qingyin Company."

"I'm calling you..."

Fu Xixue responded blankly, and remained in a daze for a long time after the call ended.

"Xixue, what's going on? Whose call was that?"

Jiang Mingyue initially thought it was Qin Ge calling, but as she listened, it didn't seem quite right.

"It's the Human Resources Department of Qingyin Company."

"They said there was a small internal issue during my last interview, and if I have time, I can come back for a second interview. If there aren't any major problems, they can sign the contract directly!"

Fu Xixue's mind was still blank; this happiness had come too suddenly!

"Is that so?"

"Didn't they say what the reason was?"

Fu Cheng couldn't believe that a company as big as Qingyin would call his daughter over such a trivial matter. Moreover, judging from the tone, the second interview was just a pretext, and the other party seemed to want to sign the contract directly!

"They said on the phone that their boss had seen my application materials and felt that I met all of Qingyin Company's requirements for signing a contract. I think it was just polite talk."

"Judging from their tone, I think they clearly want me to sign the contract right away!"

Fu Xixue looked at her father, "Dad, who is Qingyin's big boss?"

"It's just Jiang Hongxiu, I don't have any connection with her, why would she help me?"

Fu Cheng shook his head. "It's just on the surface. Jiang Hongxiu can't possibly be the real boss of Qingyin."

"Given the speed of Qingyin's development, it would be impossible to achieve this without massive resources behind it."

"I know a bit about Jiang Hongxiu. She is very capable and comes from a good family, but she is far from being considered a wealthy family."

"Besides, she's so young, it's unlikely she has such resources."

"She's only in charge of Qingyin's operations and management; she can't possibly be the real boss!"

......

Shortly after noon, a piece of news shocked the entire city of Jiangcheng.

Liu Tingwei and his group of bodyguards who went missing with him have been found, but what they found were their bodies!

The body was found in the river near the Winter Night Rose Club. When it was pulled out, it had turned somewhat white from being submerged, indicating that it had been dead for quite some time.

Judging from the timing, it is very likely that they were murdered shortly after leaving Winter Night Rose.

The Liu and Wu families are going crazy.

The uproar over the discovery of Liu Tingwei and more than a dozen other bodies in the river had not yet subsided when more than a dozen more bodies were discovered in another section of the river.

Seven or eight of these dozen or so corpses were Fu Xixue's friends, the same people who had gathered with Fu Xixue at Winter Night Rose last night!

The entire city of Jiangcheng was in an uproar; people were discussing the matter on every street corner, and various versions of the story began to circulate.

What do you think?

In a small courtyard by the river, a deck chair gently swayed under a tree, where Qin Ge lay leisurely.

Shen Yulan had just truthfully told Qin Ge the information she had gathered, which was naturally much more accurate and detailed than what was circulating outside.

"I don't watch it much, and I don't want to watch it at all!"

Qin Ge exerted a little force, making the recliner rock even more.

"I'm talking to you about serious business, can you please pay attention?"

"Click—"

Shen Yulan kicked the curved leg of the recliner and broke it. Qin Ge almost fell off the chair, but quickly rolled over and stood up.

She was frantic when she first heard the news of Liu Tingwei's death, but Qin Ge acted as if nothing had happened.

"Why are you so irritable? Can't you be a little gentler?"

Qin Ge inspected the recliner and found that it couldn't be repaired for the time being, which was quite regrettable.

He glanced at Shen Yulan. This woman, who seemed so well-behaved before, was now revealing her true nature once they got to know each other better.

She's clearly a tigress!

"There are people pulling the strings behind the scenes, but I don't know who they are or what they're trying to do."

"At first I thought it was aimed at me, but now it doesn't seem like it."

Qin Ge had already thought about it in his mind, but had no results.

If you can't figure something out, put it aside for now and don't think about it. Otherwise, it will only cause internal friction and serve no purpose.

"When you learned of Liu Tingwei's disappearance, you already suspected someone was targeting you, right?"

"Since you can't predict what the other party will do next, you might as well just disappear and make them lose their target!"

"That's why you were so decisive when Aunt Jiang told us to leave, and then you hid here."

"You've always had a plan in mind; it wasn't something you did impulsively!"

Shen Yulan mentally went through the whole process, but there was one thing she didn't quite understand: "But why do you now feel like it's not aimed at you?"

"Pay me back, and I'll tell you!"

"Accompany you? What do you mean, 'accompany'? You're dreaming! Say it or not, nobody cares!"

"Give me back my chair! Why are you getting so worked up?"

"..."

"Why are you blushing? Were you having impure thoughts just now?"

"roll!"

Qin Ge propped up one side of the chair with a piece of wood, so he couldn't rock it anymore, but it didn't affect his ability to lie down.

"I originally thought that someone saw that I had a conflict with Liu Tingwei, so they took the opportunity to make him disappear, sow discord between me and the Liu family, and let Liu Musheng deal with me."

"The reason for rejecting this speculation is that Fu Xixue's friends also died."

"If the people behind this are trying to get me, they should at least leave someone in the know, right?"

"Otherwise, how will Liu Musheng settle accounts with me?"

"The best way is to keep Fu Xixue's friends alive. As long as Liu Musheng investigates Liu Tingwei's activities before the incident, he will definitely find Winter Night Rose, find the people who were present at the time, and thus find me."

"But they're all dead!"