Five years after my wife's death, she came back!

Shang Shijin believed that they met while studying abroad.

That's how it is for her, but he already knew about this person.

Yuan Song recalled that when he was in college, there was a business lecture that the school invited Shang Haisheng, a well-known entrepreneur in Jiangcheng.

At the time, he was in charge of venue and prop management. He listened to the entire lecture backstage, but after the lecture ended, he saw Shang Haisheng talking to a girl in the backstage corridor.

They stood right outside the storeroom, so that they could hear everything clearly inside.

Shang Shijin, his classmate, turned out to be Shang Haisheng's daughter.

Later, he began to secretly inquire about Shang Shijin. She was very low-key, so not many people knew her identity. At school, she was just an ordinary student.

In his senior year of college, he learned that she was going to study abroad.

Yuan Song already had good grades, and now he was even more determined to go to the same school as Shang Shijin.

He succeeded.

Being in a foreign country made it easier for him to get close to Shang Shijin.

Later, he successfully got together with her, but he never expected that the old fox Shang Haisheng would actually ask him to marry into the family.

So what if he marries into the family? He doesn't have any relatives anyway. As long as he can live the life of a rich person, what does it matter?

What he didn't expect was that even after pretending for so many years, Shang Haisheng never let him get involved in the slightest thing about the group, nor did he intend to hand the group over to Shang Shijin.

He could only secretly hook up with the restless people in the group and try to make a little money, but this way of making money was too slow, and Yuan Song's heart was being nurtured little by little.

Shang Shijin herself wasn't particularly interested in power struggles, and in the end, Shang Chenyan took over the group.

That kid was even more difficult to deal with than his father. After taking power, he showed no mercy and purged a large number of people.

The first to be targeted was Chen Wang, who relied on his seniority and authority.

Chen Wang was a long-time employee of Shang Haisheng. He had a bad temper, was dishonest, and colluded with Yuan Song for many years, making a lot of money.

Unwilling to be driven away like this, he instigated himself to take action against Shang Chenyan.

One day, Yuan Song overheard Shang Shijin talking on the phone with Shang Chenyan and learned that the guy and his wife were going to the park, so he told Chen Wang about it.

Who knew Chen Wang would be so useless, getting into a car accident on the way, which attracted the attention of the police.

The matter escalated, and Yuan Song dared not contact him. She could only threaten him, saying that if he dared to reveal his identity, his daughter abroad would be doomed.

Chen Wang did not confess, and the turmoil subsided for the time being.

However, Shang Chenyan later became increasingly ruthless, and Yuan Song's original path of making money through the group was no longer viable.

Having been in the business for so many years, Yuan Song has not enjoyed any core benefits. His mentality is becoming increasingly unbalanced. He has lowered himself to marry into the family for so many years, but in the end, he has gained nothing. Position, shares, and even things that Shang Yu and Shang Nian have, he cannot even touch.

On what grounds?

Harboring such resentment, Yuan Song began to use his status as the son-in-law of a merchant to engage in small, inconspicuous activities to amass wealth.

I met Wang Jianxiong at a dinner party more than 20 years ago. He and Shang Shijin had returned from studying abroad. He persuaded Shang Shijin to give him a sum of money to start his own business. When he was raising investment, he met Wang Jianxiong, who was the principal of Yancheng Elementary School at the time.

Although the two are nearly ten years apart in age, they get along very well in terms of mindset and actions.

His business failed, and when he learned that Shang Haisheng wanted him to marry into his family, Yuan Song was gloomy and dejected that day.

Wang Jianxiong said he would take him to have some fun.

The two men were having sex with a woman in a hotel. She was a female student who had been tricked into coming there and was very disobedient, so they went too far and caused her death.

Yuan Song panicked, but Wang Jianxiong remained calm. He drove Yuan Song and the girl to an abandoned factory, where the two buried her together.

"This factory has been abandoned for many years. These days, heavy industrial factories have all been moved to the districts and counties. Jiangcheng wants to develop a civilized and hygienic environment, so this place will not be rebuilt."

As Wang Jianxiong said, no one mentioned this land for the next twenty years.

Wang Jianxiong and his family paid money to settle the matter privately. The family moved away, and Wang Jianxiong lost his position as principal because of a corruption case at Yancheng Elementary School and went to work elsewhere.

The two gradually lost contact.

Just when Yuan Song had almost forgotten about it, last year, the government proposed to rebuild the land.

Yuan Song was now completely panicked.

With the police having such advanced technology now, if someone finds out something that happened 20 years ago, he's completely finished.

Yuan Song could only keep urging the merchants to bid for that piece of land. If they could acquire it, the developers would be their own people, and he could find a way to remove the corpse without anyone noticing.

But Shang Chenyan was unyielding to both soft and hard tactics, and Shang Shijin was also a good-for-nothing, so the land fell into the hands of Jiuzhou.

To make matters worse, after leaving Yancheng Elementary School, Wang Jianxiong wandered around for many years and a few years ago became the principal of a private international kindergarten in Jiangcheng, where Shang Nian happened to be studying.

He couldn't change his ways and continued to embezzle money in secret. When he was discovered, he pushed a cook out to take the blame.

The cook was also a man of strong character. He suffered unfair treatment and then committed a violent act in public, which happened to be witnessed by Shang Chenyan.

Wang Jianxiong's past was dug up and investigated. He was so scared that he ran away to the countryside to hide. But he felt unsafe and wanted to give him some money and send him abroad.

Wang Jianxiong threatened him every day, saying that if he didn't agree to his demands, he would expose everything that happened back then and everyone would be doomed if he got arrested.

Yuan Song could only try to send him money while persuading Shang Chenyan to try and win that piece of land.

That day, I went to his company to find him, but Shi Ying discovered me while I was making a phone call in the stairwell.

In his haste, he intended to have Shi Ying dealt with, but Shang Chenyan discovered it too quickly, and he didn't have time to act. Fortunately, Shi Ying didn't realize it was him.

Yuan Song lived in constant fear; he was terrified of being discovered and of losing everything he had.

So he brought Shang Shijin to this secluded island. Shang Shijin herself didn't care about anything; the people here had long been replaced by his own people, and they all obeyed him.

He is currently transferring his assets, but he dares not make any big moves lest Shang Chenyan discover it, so he can only transfer them in small batches.

Once the transfer is nearly complete, he will simply go abroad. No matter how powerful Shang Chenyan is, he can't possibly come all the way across the ocean to catch him.

The salty sea breeze blew by, and Yuan Song's mind cleared up a little.

He looked at the boundless sea and the surging waves, which resembled his restless heart.

He needs to prepare for both possibilities.

Before things escalate further, he needs to go back and settle all the property transactions, and then send his mother abroad first.

However, it would be difficult for Shang Chenyan not to notice him once he returned to China.

Yuan Song's eyes gradually turned sinister. If he were discovered, he would need to find a hostage.