Chapter 698

Since Ye Chen came to Jin Ling, for so many years, he had only seen one old friend, and this old friend was the butler of the Ye family, Tang Sihai.

Back then, it was Tang Sihai who suddenly appeared in front of him, representing the Ye family, and gave him the Dihao Group and 100 million in cash.

However, since then, he had never returned to Yanjing.

A very interesting thing is that although the Ye family gave him money and a company, when they heard that he was unwilling to go back, no one from the Ye family came to Jin Ling to find him.

Regarding this, Ye Chen was also happy to be quiet.

After all, he himself was very repulsed by the grievances between large families, and he didn't want himself and his wife Xiao Churan to be involved. Being able to live safely and undisturbed in Jin Ling like this was much better than letting him return to Yanjing and fight for trillions of family assets with the Ye family.

And now, he met a second old friend, the daughter of his late father's good brother, his so-called arranged marriage object, Gu Nannan.

So, at this moment, Ye Chen couldn't help but sigh with emotion. Childhood memories emerged from the depths of his mind, which also reminded him of his late parents.

Perhaps it was because he had experienced too much suffering over the years, Ye Chen was no longer so sad when thinking of his late father and mother. He just sighed in his heart that if he hadn't been born into a wealthy family, his parents would probably not have died young, and he himself would probably not have experienced such ups and downs in life at the age of eight.

If a family of three could live an ordinary life, then his childhood would definitely have been much happier, right?

Gu Qiuyi saw Ye Chen fall into silence and hurriedly asked: "Brother Ye Chen, why don't you speak? Do you really have no impression of me?"

Ye Chen came back to his senses at this time, smiled bitterly, and said: "I remember you."

"Really? You really remember me? You admit you are Brother Ye Chen?"

Ye Chen nodded and said: "I am Ye Chen, Ye Chen of the Yanjing Ye family. I didn't admit it just now, I just didn't want to expose this identity in front of others."

Gu Qiuyi grabbed Ye Chen's arm, clutching it tightly with both hands, and said with red eyes: "Brother Ye Chen, for so many years, my father has been looking for you. Since Uncle Ye and Aunt Ye were buried in Yanjing, my father has taken me to sweep their graves every year, and every time he repents to Uncle and Aunt, repents that he couldn't find you back..."

Ye Chen sighed: "What is Uncle Gu still looking for me for?"

Gu Qiuyi said with tears: "My father said, he was afraid that you would suffer and be tired while drifting outside, afraid that something would happen to you, and he wouldn't be able to explain it to Uncle and Aunt..."

As she spoke, Gu Qiuyi added: "For so many years, my father has turned the whole country upside down, but he has never found your whereabouts. Back then, the Ye family kept your whereabouts and situation highly confidential. Even when Uncle and Aunt were buried in Beijing, my father didn't know where they died or why they died..."

Ye Chen frowned: "You mean, the Ye family has been hiding this information?"

"That's right." Gu Qiuyi nodded and said: "After you and Uncle and Aunt left Yanjing back then, everything about your whereabouts and whereabouts was erased by the Ye family. My father had been investigating back then, but never found any clues. He was so angry that he cursed at home several times, saying that the Ye family was simply following behind your family, erasing all footprints, information, and even the smell in the air..."

As she spoke, Gu Qiuyi cried like rain, saying: "After my father learned that Uncle and Aunt had passed away, he had been wanting to find you, but the household registration files of all the people named Ye Chen in the country were in chaos. Your identity information couldn't be found in the household registration system at all. He had no idea where you had been for so many years..."

Ye Chen said coldly: "For so many years, I have been in Jin Ling."

"Ah?!" Gu Qiuyi exclaimed: "Brother Ye Chen, you... you have been in Jin Ling?"

"Yes." Ye Chen nodded. Seeing her expression so surprised, he frowned and asked: "I have been in Jin Ling, is it strange to you?"

Gu Qiuyi said indignantly: "Jin Ling has always been my father's key suspect. My father came here several times personally. He used his connections to check all the boys about your age in Jin Ling, and he checked them repeatedly several times. My father checked every rescue station, orphanage, and private welfare group in the city, but there was no information about you at all."

"That's impossible!" Ye Chen blurted out: "From the age of 8 to 18, I lived in the Jin Ling Orphanage for these 10 years, and I never changed my name from the day I entered the orphanage. My parents named me Ye Chen, and the personal information I filled out in the orphanage was also Ye Chen. If Uncle Gu had come, he would definitely have been able to find me."

Gu Qiuyi said firmly: "Impossible! For these ten-plus years, my father came to Jin Ling personally no less than five times! He sent people even more times! He used all kinds of connections, but just couldn't find any clues related to you."

"I also remember the last time my father came to Jin Ling was the summer vacation of the year I was eighteen and preparing to go to university in the UK. Because that time, under my strong request, my father brought me here. We stayed in Jin Ling for two weeks, used hundreds of subordinates, informants, and private detectives, and sorted out various clues, but still didn't find any information related to you."

Ye Chen listened to Gu Qiuyi's words, looking at Gu Qiuyi's extremely serious and excited expression, and a sense of panic surged in his heart.

Since his parents passed away, Ye Chen rarely lost his composure, but at this moment, he suddenly had a sense of tension like needles on his back.

He began to suspect that his miserable childhood seemed to hide a shocking scam.

He stayed in the orphanage for ten years. Gu Yanzhong tried so hard to find him several times, it was impossible to ignore the Jin Ling Orphanage.

So what on earth made him unable to find or unable to find him who had been living in the Jin Ling Orphanage?

Is there something wrong with the orphanage?

Is it that the orphanage deliberately hid his personal information?

Then who instructed the orphanage to do so?

Then what was the motive of the person who instructed the orphanage to do so?

He suddenly thought that the Ye family was so powerful that he shouldn't have been left to drift in Jin Ling for so many years.

And they were able to take away his parents' remains and bury them in Beijing, which proves that they knew the trajectory of his parents and his family of three like the back of their hands.

In other words, the Ye family must have known long ago that he was in the Jin Ling Orphanage.

It is even very likely that for so many years, he had never escaped the surveillance of the Ye family.

This explains why Tang Sihai was able to find him easily in the hospital.

The real reason hidden behind this seems to be getting more and more complicated...

Gu Qiuyi saw Ye Chen fall into silence again and asked with great concern: "Brother Ye Chen, are you suspecting that there is some conspiracy behind this?"

Ye Chen nodded: "I think there are some problems that don't seem right, but I haven't sorted them out yet."

Gu Qiuyi hurriedly said: "Why don't I call my father and ask him to come over as soon as possible!"

As she spoke, she reached out to take out her mobile phone.

"Don't, absolutely don't!" Ye Chen hurriedly stopped her: "Don't tell anyone about meeting me for the time being, including your father!"