Chapter 108: Almost Exposed

She dared not return to the Securities Regulatory Commission; she wasn't afraid of being investigated, but she was afraid of running into Sheng Hanyu again!

Her mobile phone had been confiscated, but fortunately, she had her ID card on her, along with a small amount of cash; although it wasn't much, it was enough for a hotel.

After settling in, Shi Youxuan used the hotel phone to call Jian Yining: "A Ning, it's me."

"Don't speak, listen to me..."

When Jian Yining heard Yingzi's voice, he almost cried out in surprise!

Then, she stopped him in time, and he could only respond: "Mm, mm, I understand."

Hanging up the phone, Jian Yining looked relaxed.

With a face full of smiles, he said to Yun Zhe Hao and Sheng Zerong: "It's getting late, let's all go home, go back and get some rest early. I expect there will be a tough battle to fight tomorrow morning, I'm leaving first."

His sudden change in demeanor was so stark that the two were just about to ask if the call had been from Sheng Hanyu when Sheng Hanyu walked in from outside, and the two grown men nearly collided.

"Slow down."

After Jian Yining said this, he left like the wind, not asking him a single word.

Sheng Hanyu came in and said something similar to the two of them as Jian Yining had: "It's getting late, you should all go back. I'm not leaving today, I'll stay here."

These two were acting very strangely, and Yun Zhe Hao asked him where Yingzi was.

Wasn't he going to find Yingzi? Why did he come back alone?

It wasn't strange that he came back alone, but what was strange was that he didn't even mention her after returning, and Jian Yining hadn't asked a single question either.

"I'll tell you tomorrow. You two go back first, let me have some peace and quiet."

Sheng Hanyu's mind was currently filled with the moment he saw Yingzi; his head was a bit of a mess, and he needed to clear his thoughts.

"Knock, knock, knock."

Shi Youxuan pressed her eye to the peephole and saw that the person standing outside was Jian Yining, and he was alone, so she felt relieved and opened the door to let him in.

She wasn't wearing a mask, and her beautiful little face was filled with irrepressible anger.

"Tell me, how did Sheng Hanyu suddenly end up at the Securities Regulatory Commission? He almost saw through my identity, he scared me to death!"

She was shouting about being "scared to death," but the way she was gesticulating didn't look like she had been scared at all.

Jian Yining was puzzled: "How did he get in?"

Shi Youxuan didn't know how he got in either; she only knew that he had suddenly appeared in front of her, his eyes like knives, as if they could pierce straight into her heart!

The one speaking hadn't explained it clearly, and the one listening was also completely confused.

"Don't talk, I'll call him."

Jian Yining decided to call Sheng Hanyu and ask him personally. The call went through, but Sheng Hanyu wouldn't say how he had gotten in.

They were trying to discuss a solution now; how could they discuss anything if he kept secrets?

Jian Yining said over the phone: "You're at the company, right? Wait for me, I'm coming to find you right now."

"Don't come."

He was investigating Yingzi's background; if Jian Yining found out about this, wouldn't it cause an explosion?

"It's fine if I don't come, but you have to tell me how you got in! Do you know you scared Yingzi to death? She originally had a way to get out safely, but now look, you've messed it all up. Now that you've alerted the enemy, we're on the defensive..."

The more he spoke, the more worked up he got; with Jian Yining's mouth, if he didn't achieve his goal, he probably wouldn't stop talking until dawn.

Dawn arrived.

Sheng Hanyu stood up from his chair and stretched his stiff body; his eyes were bloodshot, he hadn't closed them all night!

Last night, he still hadn't been able to withstand Jian Yining's pestering and had told him about his movements.

After finishing, he put his phone on the table and listened to at least five minutes of laughter before they began to discuss how to deal with this crisis.

After discussing it, Sheng Hanyu continued to investigate Yingzi.

Investigating until dawn, he finally reached a conclusion—Yingzi and Shi Youxuan could not be the same person; he had overthought it.

He had carefully checked the information on Ying Zi, and the content was authentic.

Sheng Hanyu could never have imagined how much effort and money Jian Yining had spent to create this "authentic" identity file for Yingzi.

Yingzi's growth trajectory and Shi Youxuan's growth trajectory had no overlapping points at all. He felt that it was because of the immense pressure recently that he had experienced mental lapses and made a misjudgment.

Before office hours had even begun, Tianma Group welcomed an uninvited guest—the man with gold-rimmed glasses brought people to the company to look for Yingzi, aggressive and with ill intent.

Jian Yining had been waiting for him at the company since early morning.

The man with gold-rimmed glasses walked into Jian Yining's office, and before saying a word, he slammed his hand on the table and flared up first: "This is too outrageous, what exactly do you people mean?"

"Oh, Liu Zhuren is here. Please don't be angry, please sit down. What happened to make you so angry?" Jian Yining smiled innocently and hurriedly asked the Secretary to serve tea, good tea, to the "distinguished guest" from the Securities Regulatory Commission.

Seeing Jian Yining's good attitude, the man with gold-rimmed glasses' anger subsided a little.

He sat down and said to Jian Yining: "You, that Ying Zi of yours is too outrageous. She refused to accept the investigation and even snuck out. Where is she? Hurry up and have her come out so she can come back with us to accept the investigation."

Jian Yining said in a daze: "That's not right, our Chairman was taken away by your people yesterday, hasn't come back yet, and her phone won't go through..."

The man with gold-rimmed glasses didn't think much of it and blurted out: "Her phone was confiscated by us; she escaped last night."

"Oh, you've worked hard."

The Secretary served the good tea, and Jian Yining personally poured him tea: "You people at the Securities Regulatory Commission work too hard, working overtime in the middle of the night, I admire you, I really do."

The man with gold-rimmed glasses didn't notice anything amiss and followed Jian Yining's lead: "No, we had already gotten off work. She was locked in the fourth-floor interrogation room; she actually broke the lock and ran out. She's got some nerve..."

Jian Yining's expression suddenly changed: "What right do you have to say that our Chairman ran out by herself? Do you have proof?"

"Nonsense, of course I have proof."

The man with gold-rimmed glasses didn't know it was a trap and pulled up the surveillance footage on his phone to show him.

When Sheng Hanyu went, he specifically looked for blind spots in the surveillance, so the footage only captured the scene of Yingzi running out of the Securities Regulatory Commission building, and no one else was captured.

When Jian Yining transferred the surveillance footage to his own phone, the man with gold-rimmed glasses realized something was wrong, but it was only when Jian Yining truly turned hostile that he realized he was in big trouble.

"Slap!"

Jian Yining slammed the table and stood up, his temper looking even worse than when he first came in to demand an explanation.

"As a director of the Securities Regulatory Commission, what right do you have to detain a hostage privately?"

The man with gold-rimmed glasses was unconvinced and tried to argue back: "Don't put it so harshly. What detention? I call this law enforcement, I call it an investigation..."

Jian Yining seized the loophole in his words and wouldn't let go; the man with gold-rimmed glasses had misspoken.

The Securities Regulatory Commission has no right to "enforce the law," only the right to investigate.

And when requiring the person under investigation to cooperate, if they cannot return home at night, the family must be notified; they are not allowed to detain them privately, and staff must be present throughout the investigation period to prove that it is indeed an investigation.

What they were doing was a serious violation in itself, but for many years everyone had held to the principle that it is better to avoid trouble, so even when bullied, they didn't speak up, which had spoiled these people.

But Jian Yining had returned from abroad and knew that if this matter were blown up, it would have a greater impact on whom!

He immediately wanted to push this matter to the headquarters of the Securities Regulatory Commission and make the people at the headquarters give an explanation.

After only a few rounds, the man with gold-rimmed glasses was defeated and began to soften his stance and speak nicely.

Seeing that the timing was about right, Jian Yining began to pull the conversation back.

He started to build rapport with the man with gold-rimmed glasses, going in a big circle.

He even "unintentionally" let slip that Shi Yuke and Sheng Yukai had registered their marriage; the man with gold-rimmed glasses had been absent-minded about everything else, but when it was mentioned that Shi Yuke had already registered for marriage and was just waiting for a wedding ceremony, he reacted.

His eyes widened, and he appeared very agitated!

Yingzi was right.

Shi Yuke was using the feelings the man with gold-rimmed glasses had for her, causing him to take risks for her sake.

Now that he knew he had been played for a fool by Shi Yuke, he immediately turned against her and stopped caring.