Chapter 140: The Great Conspiracy

Ye Jiangxue said with grief and indignation, "There is a massive conspiracy hidden inside this..."

I started and asked, "What conspiracy?"

Ye Jiangxue said, "Have you ever seen the news report about how the eldest daughter of the Capital's Ye Group vanished along with the company's cash reserves...?"

I nodded and said, "Sister Ye, it turns out you are that eldest Miss Ye!"

In truth, I already knew; I said that merely to confirm it once more.

Ye Jiangxue nodded and said, "That's right, I am that Ye Jiangxue. Didn't I already tell you my name last time?"

I nodded and said, "Well, I just didn't expect such a coincidence."

Ye Jiangxue said bitterly, "I originally thought that old bastard Lin Jiajin was being kind when he let me inherit my father's enterprise. In reality, the financial deficit of my father's company was already extremely severe. Among the accounts, several transactions were deeply suspicious, repeatedly and inexplicably wired to a mysterious overseas account. When I briefly calculated the total, it amounted to over a billion. At the time, I found it strange—what kind of account was this, and why would the company transfer such a massive amount of funds overseas?"

Having heard about many export-oriented enterprises maintaining overseas accounts, I kept silent because I figured Sister Ye had undoubtedly already thought of whatever I might come up with.

Ye Jiangxue continued, "At the time, I asked that old bastard surnamed Lin what was going on. He explained that these funds had been wired out during my father's lifetime, supposedly to acquire an overseas enterprise—a rather good high-tech company. I didn't probe any further back then. Later, after the car accident occurred, I entrusted an overseas friend to investigate discreetly, only to discover that it was merely a shell company. There is no way my father would have spent a fortune to acquire an empty shell."

I thought to myself that in order to transfer assets overseas, some people often use the pretext of investing in or acquiring foreign companies to funnel funds abroad. I couldn't help saying, "Perhaps your father intended to transfer the funds overseas during his lifetime..."

Ye Jiangxue said, "I thought so at first too. Later, after my overseas friends investigated, I found out that these funds had already been siphoned away long ago..."

I was startled and said, "Are you suspecting that old bastard surnamed Lin transferred these funds?"

Ye Jiangxue said with a desolate expression, "I suspect that my stepmother and that old bastard surnamed Lin joined forces to transfer these funds away, leaving behind a debt-ridden shell company for me to inherit... What's even more vicious is that they engineered my mysterious disappearance so that everyone would suspect I had fled overseas with over a billion from the company, making me the ultimate culprit..."

Thinking back to that suspicious car accident, had I not happened to cross paths with her, Sister Ye and her car would have sunk to the bottom of the reservoir. It would have taken at least months, or even years, for them to be discovered, and even if they had been found, it would have been dismissed as an ordinary traffic accident.

This conspiracy was truly terrifying; just thinking about it made my hair stand on end.

Ye Jiangxue said, "I only discovered these bizarre plots through the secret investigations I started conducting after the car accident. Now, I even more strongly suspect that my father was also murdered by them..."

I nodded and said, "It is very likely that your father discovered their conspiracy..."

Ye Jiangxue said in agony, "That's right, that's what I suspect as well."

I asked, "Then how did you end up injured?"

Ye Jiangxue said with fury, "On the night of the accident, after you saved my life, I began to suspect that Lin Jiajin and his son had conspired to murder me so that a dead person could take the blame, and I started investigating in secret. Because Lin Wensheng rammed my car into the reservoir that night, they assumed I was unquestionably dead and let their guard down, which allowed me to uncover even more sickening truths..."

Seeing the intense pain on Ye Jiangxue's face, I remained curious but did not dare to ask further on my own initiative.

Ye Jiangxue said angrily, "That bastard Lin Wensheng actually hooked up with my younger sister. To exact revenge, and to prevent this bastard from continuing to harm my sister, I cast all caution to the wind and prepared to find an opportunity to kill him."

Suddenly enlightened, I said, "So, Sister Ye, you were injured when you went to assassinate that bastard..."

However, a question immediately popped into my mind: logically speaking, Sister Ye's company was in the Capital, thousands of kilometers away from here. If she had gone to assassinate Lin Wensheng over there and gotten injured in the process, there was no way she would travel thousands of miles back here to recover.

Noticing my puzzled expression, Ye Jiangxue said, "The night of the car accident, you saved my life. Having survived a catastrophe, I began secretly tailing Lin Wensheng, looking for a chance to kill him. Not long ago, this bastard came to Mingzhou again, likely to confirm whether my car, which had been rammed into the reservoir, had been found, or to verify whether I was truly dead."

I nodded, thinking this was only natural; after driving Sister Ye's car into the reservoir, Lin Wensheng naturally had to return to check the outcome.

Ye Jiangxue continued, "The night before last, I saw him get out of a car at a large hotel in Qingxi. Sensing it was the perfect opportunity for an assassination, I threw a flying dart that struck one of his eyes. However, his screams alerted his two bodyguards. Seeing them give chase, I had no choice but to turn and flee, and as a result, my back was hit by a sleeve arrow fired by one of his bodyguards..."

I said, "And after you were hit by the sleeve arrow, you fled here."

Ye Jiangxue said, "There were no other suitable hiding spots for me in the vicinity, so I had no choice but to hide here."

I said, "Weren't you afraid that they would track you down to this place?"

Ye Jiangxue smiled bitterly and said, "The most dangerous place is often the safest. I had no other option; hiding here was all I could do."

Noticing the empty instant noodle cups piled up on the table, I remembered that this box of instant noodles had been left behind the last time I brought Sister Li over here. It seemed Sister Ye had been surviving on instant noodles while hiding out in this place.

I asked, "Have you been hiding here since the night before yesterday?"

Ye Jiangxue nodded with a bitter expression.

I said, "Sister Ye, going on like this is no solution. If the sleeve arrow isn't pulled out, your wound won't heal. Eventually, it will become infected and putrefy, or even endanger your life! Why didn't you call me?"

Ye Jiangxue said bitterly, "This is a matter of life and death; I didn't want to drag you down into this..."