"Heh..." Xie Yumin paused for a moment, then let out a cold laugh, her laughter revealing undisguised disappointment and sarcasm.

She stared intently at Gu Yinshen's face, the face that had once stirred her heart countless times, but now only chilled it.

"Okay...okay!" She seemed to have finally let go of something, speaking softly but clearly, "You handle it! I don't care anymore! Mr. Gu, good luck, and don't end up 'handling' yourself into jail!"

As soon as she finished speaking, she turned around abruptly, her steps quick and decisive, but a hint of moisture welled up in her eyes. With a loud "bang!", the door slammed shut, shaking the entire office and making the air itself tremble.

Gu Yinshen stood frozen in place for a moment, his chest feeling as if it had been struck hard by a stick. His throat was dry, and Xie Yumin's resolute figure lingered in his mind's eye.

Suddenly, he raised his arm and slammed his fist on the solid wood table.

"Bang!" A muffled sound echoed in the empty office. The tea set shook, water spilled onto the documents, and the strong scent of cedar mixed with the smell of gunpowder permeated the air.

His breathing was heavy, like a trapped wild beast, his whole body exuding repression and loss of control.

The veins on the back of his hand bulged, and he reached for the landline phone on the table, his voice low and hoarse, like a roar:

"Lin Feng! Immediately! Right now! Connect me to Dr. Li! No matter where she is!"

Soon after, Xie Yumin returned to the small house she was temporarily renting.

The heavy curtains completely blocked out all light from the outside world. The dim desk lamp was off, and the only light source came from the laptop screen, whose cold blue light made her face appear even paler.

The room was completely silent, except for the continuous, rapid tapping of the keyboard, like a night rain.

Xie Yumin sat at the table, her shoulders tense, her eyes focused and cold. The computer screen displayed a complex data tracking software interface, characters and images flashing rapidly. Her fingers flew across the keyboard, dissecting the opponent's online deception layer by layer.

This is the result of her seven consecutive hours of hard work.

She ignored Gu Yinshen's warning to "stop interfering."

Because she knew that as long as the venomous fangs lurking in the shadows remained uncut, the threat would not cease. Mengmeng would forever be exposed to the invisible storm, and she would not allow that to happen.

“Multi-level springboards…” Xie Yumin whispered, her brow furrowed.

The other party was clearly not an ordinary person; they used at least seven layers of VPN redirects and spoofed nodes, including an embedded overseas encrypted channel. Ordinary tracing techniques simply could not trace the source.

She worked tirelessly, relying on the network engineering and information tracing knowledge she had diligently studied in college, because she had to take this gamble.

His fingertips suddenly stopped, and a glint of light appeared in his eyes.

"found it……"

She stared at a string of communication records, her pupils suddenly contracting.

She quickly brought up the backend communication analysis module for "this number," comparing it back and forth in the database. In less than half a minute, the relevant page popped up.

The unusually well-hidden encrypted number in the communication record came from Lin Feng's backup phone!

The message was sent less than an hour after Gu Yin met with Dr. Li late at night!

Xie Yumin's expression changed drastically; her throat felt constricted, and she gasped for breath. She frantically unfolded the cross-reference table, and the receiving number on the other side clearly displayed...

Gu Chengji's secret contact!

"Lin Feng...?" she murmured to herself, barely audible.

At that moment, something in my mind suddenly exploded!

Ignoring the stiffness in her fingers and the cold sweat on her back, she immediately retrieved Lin Feng's other communication activity. As the data jumped, one time point after another surfaced.

Before and after almost every major event, he contacted that number about the board of directors, Gu Yinshen's schedule, the leak of Dr. Li's information, and even... the night when the investigation into Mengmeng's background had just made progress!

“This is no coincidence…” Xie Yumin gritted her teeth, her voice low and icy, “Absolutely not.”

She then switched to Lin Feng's cash flow module, a "special channel" she had established years ago when she was tracking her mother's estate without permission.

Shortly after, several gray warning messages appeared on the page.

Several large transfers, all originating from offshore accounts, circumvented normal channels and ultimately ended up in an account codenamed "LIMF".

And the transfer time...

The timing of Ruolan Law Firm's precise release of "key damaging information" was almost perfect!

"hiss"

Xie Yumin gasped sharply, her back suddenly tensing.

Lin Feng, Gu Yinshen's closest assistant, the one who knew almost all of his arrangements, whereabouts, plans, and weaknesses... was actually the mole!

It was he who leaked the information in the shadows of the night; it was he who precisely pushed one piece of "dirt" after another into the hands of Gu Chengji and Ruolan; it might even have been him who released that secretly filmed video, igniting the current crisis of trust and public opinion!

He... is the real venomous fang hidden in Gu Yinshen's backyard!

Xie Yumin's chest heaved violently, and she covered her mouth.

But it wasn't fear; rather, it was an extreme restraint born from a mixture of anger and shock.

She spent more than ten minutes packaging and sealing all the screenshots, call timelines, and financial transaction curves, setting up five layers of encryption, and backing them up to multiple cloud storage devices and two offline hard drives.

One copy was stored on my laptop's main drive, and the other was transferred to a hidden space using a spare phone.

She stared at the words "Lin Feng" on the screen, motionless, her eyes gradually turning as cold as knives.

"I never imagined that sometimes the person you trust most..." she murmured, her voice hoarse and almost broken, "would be the most deadly knife..."

The next day, at the Gu Group, in the president's office.

Xie Yumin, who hadn't slept all night, stepped through the door with a cold expression, holding a tablet computer in her hand, her palms turning slightly white.

In his office, Gu Yinshen was reviewing documents while quietly instructing someone on the other end of the phone: "Dr. Li's statement needs to be prepared by tonight, and the risk assessment needs to be submitted to the risk control team... Hmm... The media coverage also needs to be carefully managed; we absolutely cannot let the trending topics rebound..."

He wearily tossed the documents onto the table, a vein throbbing between his brows.

"Lin Feng, has the PPT been updated? I..."

The door was suddenly pushed open.

He looked up, his tone still tinged with impatience: "Yumian, I'm busy right now... Could you...?"

Before he could finish speaking, Xie Yumin walked straight up to him and shoved the tablet hard.

“Gu Yinshen,” she said in a low voice, yet her voice was sharp as a blade slicing through fabric, “look at what your most capable assistant has been doing.”

Gu Yinshen frowned and glanced down at the screen.

At first, it was just a casual glance, but the next second, his eyes suddenly froze and his pupils suddenly contracted!

The screen displayed a dense array of communication records, clearly showing a central node with a flashing "LIMF" label. Arrows pointed to Gu Chengji's contacts, accompanied by screenshots of fund transfers, time stamps, and red warning messages on the right.

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