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There was no signature, but the meaning was clear.

His grandson just got into trouble, and then the threatening messages came. Isn't the meaning obvious enough?

Old Zhou suddenly looked up at Su Qin, his lips trembling, his eyes filled with immense panic and struggle.

Su Qin's heart sank: "Old Zhou, is it Xiao Rui...?"

Old Zhou opened his mouth, but ultimately said nothing.

He turned around abruptly and stumbled out of the conference room.

The door slammed shut with a loud bang.

The meeting room was eerily quiet.

Zhao Dehai slowly leaned back in his chair, picked up his teacup, and blew away the foam.

Liu Meilan touched up her lipstick, a slight smile curving her lips.

Xu Ming lowered his head to adjust his cufflinks, as if nothing had happened.

All eyes were once again focused on Su Qin.

This time, there was no buffer.

She stood alone at the end of the long table, with cold projected light behind her and faces filled with calculation and indifference in front of her.

I closed my eyes briefly.

When he opened his eyes again, those once bright and lively eyes were now just a bottomless, icy pool.

The fortress was breached from within.

Li Guoming looked at Su Qin, who was sitting in her seat, her face full of exhaustion and resentment, and smiled.

He has gained a lot of benefits in the past two days, and if he can persuade these shareholders to make trouble for Su Qin, he will benefit even more.

As for the benefits for these shareholders, someone will naturally provide them.

He touched the villa key in his arms. Once he completely brought Su Qin down, everything would be his.

……

At Jiaxing Entertainment, the assistant watched as Yu Tinglan sat alone in the empty office, holding her phone, remaining silent for a long time.

She didn't push the door open and went in; instead, she silently turned and left.

Yu Tinglan was completely unaware of the commotion outside. Her phone was playing Li Chen's video repeatedly, and there were copies of the "evidence" left by Guo Huai on the table.

On the computer screen were Li Chen's current address, contact information, and his whereabouts for the past week, which she had found.

The address is in an old residential area in a third-tier city in a neighboring province.

The phone number is a local number.

Yu Tinglan stared at the string of numbers for a long time, her fingertips tapping lightly on the table.

Finally, she picked up her phone and dialed the number.

The phone rang for a while before it was answered.

"Feed?" came the voice of a young man, gentle, with a hint of weariness and caution.

"Mr. Li Chen?" Yu Tinglan asked, trying to keep her voice calm.

"...It's me. Who are you?"

"My surname is Yu. Two years ago, someone saved me by a river in South Korea. I watched your video."

There was silence for a few seconds on the other end of the phone.

Then, Li Chen's voice lowered, sounding somewhat hesitant: "Mr. Yu? Is it really you? I... I didn't know it was you calling..."

"You recognize my voice?"

"Back then... after you were rescued, you woke up once and said something." Li Chen's voice was very soft, as if he were recalling something. "You said 'cold'... and then you passed out again. I remember your voice."

Yu Tinglan's fingers tightened slightly as she gripped her phone. This detail wasn't in the information Guo Huai had given her, and she had almost forgotten about it herself.

"It was very cold that night," she said slowly.

"It was five degrees below zero, the wind was strong, and there was thin ice." Li Chen answered naturally, his voice still carrying a hint of fear. "When my hand touched the water, it felt like being pricked with needles."

"Your left forearm," Yu Tinglan stared at the blank wall in front of her, "was it cut by ice?"

There was a pause on the other end of the phone, followed by Li Chen's somewhat embarrassed voice: "How did you know? I got a cut, not deep, but it bled a little. I went to a small clinic to get it bandaged, and it left a small scar, which is still there."

He paused, then added, "Oh, by the way, when the ambulance arrived, a young female nurse rushed over first. She had short hair, and she even handed me a pack of tissues to wipe the blood off my hands. The ambulance was white with orange-red stripes."

Everything matches perfectly.

Yu Tinglan closed her eyes. The ambulance model, the nurse's features—these extremely fragmented details were blurry even to her, yet they emerged so clearly from the mouth of a "stranger."

"Do you remember," her voice was a little dry, "what I was wearing that day?"

"A long, off-white down jacket with a fur-trimmed hood." Li Chen said almost without hesitation, "but it was stained with water and mud, and dirty. The boots were black, and the right one seemed to have fallen into the water and been lost... Later, when you were carried onto the stretcher, you were only wearing one boot."

All correct.

Yu Tinglan leaned back in her chair, feeling a tightness in her chest.

These details could never be known so precisely without firsthand experience.

"The jade pendant..." she heard her own voice ask, "What does it look like?"

"It's... a small piece of jade, a bit bluish-white in color, not the best quality, but very smooth." Li Chen's voice lowered, filled with suppressed emotion. "It's strung on a black cord, the cord is a bit old, and it's tied with the simplest square knot."

He sniffled, his voice choked with emotion: "That was put on me by my mother before she passed away. I... I was so flustered that day, I don't know how it fell off. I searched along the riverbank for a long time, but I couldn't find it."

A clear, suppressed sob came from the other end of the phone.

Yu Tinglan held her phone so tightly that her knuckles turned white.

The jade pendant Li Chen described was exactly the same as the one she found, down to the details like the old cord and the flat knot.

The pain of losing his belongings was vividly transmitted through the radio waves.

"I'm sorry..." Li Chen tried to calm his voice. "President Yu, I didn't mean anything by it. I really had no other choice with that video. The jade pendant really is mine, and I'm the one who saved you..."

Yu Tinglan remained silent for a long time.

After a long pause, Li Chen cautiously asked on the other end of the phone, "President Yu? Are you still there?"

"Yes." Yu Tinglan's voice was a little hoarse. "Li Chen, thank you for telling me all this. The jade pendant isn't with me. Are you having a hard time right now? Come to my company, I'll help you."

"No, no need!" Li Chen hurriedly refused. "President Yu, I really don't care about that! I just want my mother's things back. I'm sorry to have bothered you, I'm so sorry..."

The call was abruptly ended.

A busy signal sounded.

Yu Tinglan slowly put down her phone and sank into the large office chair.

Every detail matches perfectly.

Li Chen's narrative is truthful and detailed, filled with trivial details that only the parties involved would know.

That feeling towards the jade pendant.

So, the person who saved her really was Li Chen.

What about Lu Fan?

Having spent these days together, she knew what kind of person Lu Fan was.

Lu Fan did have a reason to lie, but Yu Tinglan just refused to believe that Lu Fan would lie.

Or perhaps Lu Fan's acting was so good that she was so engrossed in it that she couldn't see it?