Chapter 1716: Who is Ye Chen

Olivia was already scared out of her wits.

At the moment she faced Ye Chen and called out his name, she felt as if her whole person had completely collapsed.

Under Ye Chen's pressure, her legs subconsciously went weak, and she knelt in front of Ye Chen with a thud, choking out, "Mr. Ye... I was wrong... It was because of money that I had evil thoughts. Please spare me and give me a chance to make up for my mistakes!"

Olivia's father, Richard, also realized that the situation was gone at this time and hurriedly knelt on the ground, begging, "Mr. Ye, Olivia is young and acts impulsively. Please don't hold it against her..."

William's father, George, also hurriedly stepped forward at this time, saying with a face full of pleading, "Mr. Ye, we are willing to accept the five billion euros you mentioned earlier! Our Rothschild family is willing to take out four billion euros! We only ask you to show mercy!"

Ye Chen smiled and looked at Richard, asking him, "They are offering four billion, so will you pay the remaining one billion?"

"I... I..." Richard was so nervous he didn't know what to do.

A few minutes ago, he could have scraped together one billion euros if he gritted his teeth. That was because Olivia had basically been the uncrowned Empress of Northern Europe, just waiting for the current Empress to pass away to be successfully crowned, so she could basically control the financial power of the entire royal family.

But now, the Empress had woken up. In this situation, neither Richard himself nor Olivia could possibly have the power to mobilize royal funds, so asking Richard to take out one billion euros now was simply a pipe dream.

After thinking it over, Richard could only bite the bullet and say, "Mr. Ye... our own family's assets, including cash and various real estate, total about five hundred million euros. If you don't mind, I am willing to hand over all our assets to you as compensation!"

Ye Chen snorted and said, "That's only 4.5 billion. It's not enough."

After saying this, he looked at George and asked with a smile, "Old George, why don't you bear a little more?"

George almost collapsed and said with a bitter face, "Mr. Ye... four billion euros is already our limit... We don't have that much cash at all. Even to scrape together four billion euros, we have to wait for the stock market to open tomorrow and sell off a large number of stocks in our hands to have a chance..."

Ye Chen shook his head and said indifferently, "Your two families are a community of interests; you prosper together and suffer together. If you scrape together the money, I can spare your lives. Otherwise, I will kill you on the spot tonight as regicides, and tomorrow the Empress will announce directly that you conspired to rebel tonight and were killed by the Royal Guard! Then I will make the photos of you dead here public, and at that time, the whole world will think you deserved it!"

When George heard this, his heart trembled violently!

He didn't expect that Ye Chen would actually have murderous intent toward him!

Moreover, he also believed that Ye Chen indeed had the strength to kill them all at any time.

More importantly, even if Ye Chen really killed them, according to the reason Ye Chen just stated, the world would definitely not suspect anything.

After all, they did rush into the Empress's hospital room today. If Ye Chen really killed them and then announced to the outside world that they were killed on the spot for regicide, it would be logically seamless.

Even if the Rothschild family knew, they would likely not suspect anything.

In that case, Ye Chen killing them would not require bearing any risk...

Thinking of this, George looked at the Empress and begged crying, "Your Majesty, you are the monarch of a country and must uphold the national legal system. Even if you send us to court, you cannot let Ye Chen kill us..."

Hearing this, the Empress blurted out without hesitation, "My life was saved by Mr. Ye, and from now on, I will follow Mr. Ye's instructions in everything. If Mr. Ye wants to let you go, I will personally send you out of the palace immediately; but if Mr. Ye wants to kill you, I will immediately announce your crime of regicide and treason as Mr. Ye said!"

The Empress knew very well in her heart that how long she could live in the future depended entirely on Ye Chen, so at this time, she naturally had to be obedient to Ye Chen.

When George heard this, cold sweat soaked his whole body!

He really didn't expect the Empress to have this attitude!

If this was the case, then he and his son would likely die here today...

Thinking of this, he hurriedly begged, "Mr. Ye, don't be anxious. I will find a way for the remaining five hundred million euros and will definitely make it up to you as soon as possible..."

Ye Chen nodded, "If you have this attitude, then we can continue to talk."

George breathed a sigh of relief and asked hurriedly, "Mr. Ye, if 4.5 billion euros are given to you on time, can you let William and me leave?"

Ye Chen smiled, "Then you might be thinking a bit too much. What I can promise you is that if you come up with 4.5 billion euros, I will spare your and William's lives. However, we have an old saying in China: death penalties can be avoided, but living sins are hard to escape. So, what punishment you will receive next will be entirely up to me."

As he spoke, Ye Chen added, "Oh, by the way, there is also your wife. Her situation will be the same as yours."

George said in a panic, "Mr. Ye... 4.5 billion euros given to you, and you still can't give us our freedom?"

Ye Chen nodded and said indifferently, "If you continue to dwell on this question, then 4.5 billion euros might become 9 billion!"

When George heard this, he immediately closed his mouth.

Even though he had ten thousand unwillingness and anger in his heart, he didn't dare to bring it up in front of Ye Chen at this time.

When Olivia heard that both George and William had a chance to survive, and her own future was still uncertain, she asked cautiously, "Ye... Mr. Ye... I wonder if you can spare me and my father as well..."

Ye Chen looked at her and said coldly, "I can give you a chance to survive. Let your father honestly take out the five hundred million euros, and at the same time, you must send Helena's mother back unharmed. If you do these two things well, I can spare your lives!"

Olivia hurriedly said, "Helena's mother is being held in a nearby farm, and I have arranged for a few people to watch her. I can have someone send her over at any time!"

When Helena heard this, she blurted out, "Olivia, did you make things difficult for my mother?"

Olivia hurriedly said, "Other than having people lock her up, I didn't make things too difficult for her..."

Helena breathed a sigh of relief and subconsciously wanted to ask Olivia to send her back, but when she thought of Ye Chen being by her side, she didn't say anything more because she knew Ye Chen would definitely help her bring her mother back safely.

Ye Chen didn't let her down and immediately said to Olivia, "Notify your subordinates now and have them send the person back immediately!"

"Okay..." Olivia hurriedly took out her mobile phone, made a call on speaker mode, and said, "Send Helena's mother back to the palace, immediately, right now!"

The other party immediately said, "Rest assured, Princess, we will be there in twenty minutes!"

Olivia hung up the phone, looked at Ye Chen with eager eyes, and said nervously, "Mr. Ye, the person will be sent back in a while..."

Ye Chen nodded with satisfaction and said indifferently, "How about this, I will give you an account number. You arrange for someone to transfer the money first. Once the money arrives, we will continue to talk."

A glimmer of light flashed in George's eyes, and he hurriedly said, "Mr. Ye, rest assured. Give me the account number, and I will arrange for someone to transfer 2.5 billion euros first. The remaining 2 billion can be transferred tomorrow morning when the stock market opens!"

When he said this, George was thinking that if Ye Chen wanted to control him, the destination of this huge sum of money would be the key for his family to find his whereabouts.

If the core Rothschild family could notice this, it would be very easy to find Ye Chen through the flow of this huge sum of money.

However, he didn't expect that Ye Chen would make a call to Tang Sihai and say, "Steward Tang, have Wan Pojun give me a collection account, preferably one that can quickly launder the money! They have been in the gray area for so many years; they should still have this ability!" ===== CHAPTER 1717 =====