The richest man's parents were kidnapped, and his adorable son captivated the entire family.

Her words, spoken slowly and deliberately, were like the sharpest blades, each sentence pushing Xie Yumin to the forefront of public opinion.

Then, she changed the subject, her eyes giving a meaningful look.

"What's even more chilling is that, as far as I know, this bodyguard was a trusted confidant of Mr. Gu Yinshen for many years... His death was so 'sudden,' so 'coincidental'... Was Mr. Gu really completely unaware of it? Or... was he covering something up?"

The whole place was in an uproar.

Subsequently, Ruolan and several directors from Gu Hongtao's faction jointly submitted a motion to the group's personnel and board of directors.

"Xie Yumin has been found by the investigation team to have falsified data, and recently, due to her unauthorized 'private investigation,' a bodyguard has died."

"This action has severely damaged Gu's image and internal order. In order to stabilize the overall situation and prevent more serious incidents from occurring, we strongly recommend that his employment contract be terminated immediately and that he be held legally accountable in accordance with the law."

But what they didn't know was that a silent counterattack was brewing in the shadows.

Under the cover of night, Gu Yinshen, dressed in casual clothes, stood alone in front of the French windows of his study, his eyes cold and sharp.

The death of the mountain eagle served as a wake-up call for him. Although he remained outwardly silent, he had already quietly begun to launch a countermeasure.

He recalled the private detective team that had conspired with him on the "reversal plan" and issued the following instructions:

“Investigate Gu Hongtao’s asset flows over the past five years. In particular, overseas trusts, real estate transfers, intellectual property rights… we must delve into the deepest layers of all of them.”

The detective team used offshore financial technology to bypass regulatory loopholes and combined satellite imagery analysis to track suspicious property movements. By bribing compliance officers at offshore financial hubs, they obtained a batch of transaction records that had been artificially "cleaned up."

The preliminary findings are alarming: the core patent ownership of three key subsidiaries under the Gu family has been quietly transferred to a trust fund in the British Virgin Islands through a low-price equity exchange via multi-layered shell companies.

And the actual beneficiary of the fund is Gu Hongtao!

Two of these strategic commercial properties, intended for the future "Xinghai Phase II" development, were also mortgaged by Gu Hongtao using "fictitious debts," and the right to their proceeds had already been quietly altered.

These operations would be virtually impossible to complete without an insider and the cooperation of the technical team.

Meanwhile, Gu Yinshen quietly contacted K, the chief cybersecurity officer of "PanShi".

In a closed meeting room, K sat in front of a triple-screen display, his fingers flying across the keyboard, his cold face expressionless. He bypassed the group's security control system and, through a backdoor program left by Rockchip, quietly took over several old cameras that had been "manually disabled."

Special attention should be paid to the surveillance footage of the eagle in the 72 hours before it fell from the building.

Soon, they saw a man dressed in an "elevator repairman" uniform, wearing a hat and a mask, briefly interacting with the mountain eagle in a corner of the underground parking lot.

The image was blurry, but K immediately switched to infrared trajectory and enhanced vision mode.

After a 10-second contact, Mountain Eagle's expression became unusual, and his fingers trembled slightly. Without saying a word, he stepped alone onto the fire escape stairs leading to the top floor, his face grave and his eyes complex.

K retrieved the track record of the "maintenance worker" when he left the building and discovered that a camera at the east entrance of the building had captured the moment he took off his mask and looked down.

K frowned, instantly locked onto the image, and quickly compared the face to the database.

A few seconds later, the result popped up in the center of the screen:

"Match successful: Target identity, Li Zhen, Gu Hongtao's direct security supervisor."

Only now has the true mastermind revealed its fangs.

The situation is increasingly in Ruolan's favor, but even so, she still has no intention of stopping. She wants to take this opportunity to completely crush Xie Yumin.

Soon after, the phrase "Xie Yumin, a corporate spy" appeared at the top of the trending search lists on various platforms without warning.

Within just one hour, the article garnered over ten million views, and the comment section was buzzing.

Under this topic, a deluge of screenshots, fabricated conversations, so-called "internal documents" taken out of context, and "suspected whistleblower letters" are mixed together, making it difficult to distinguish between true and false.

All of this was meticulously planned, deployed, and executed by a professional online troll team funded and mobilized by Ruolan.

In the comments, words like "spy," "traitor," and "undercover agent" repeatedly pierced Xie Yumin's already tarnished reputation.

Meanwhile, Gu Hongtao quietly made his move in the capital arena.

He instructed his trust fund to buy up Gu's shares from retail investors at low prices for several consecutive days through an offshore account registered in Seychelles.

This is especially true for small shareholders who are panic selling.

He circumvented the disclosure mechanism for large shareholdings without making a sound, quickly consolidated these scattered shares, and quietly built a wall of "control" in front of the shareholders' meeting.

Gu Yinshen, caught in the storm, was naturally unwilling to be defeated and quickly launched a counterattack.

At an online press conference hosted by "Xinghai Communications", the background was clean and simple. He was wearing a dark gray suit, with a cold expression and clearly visible bloodshot eyes.

In front of the camera, he slightly suppressed his voice:

"To all shareholders, partners, and the public who care about Gu's, I will only talk about three things today."

He held up a printed document and deliberately gave it a close-up shot to the camera.

"First, we have commissioned the 'Rock Security Team' to conduct a full-chain tracing and technical analysis of the so-called 'data fraud' and 'commercial espionage' allegations."

"The conclusion is clear: the 'evidence' was deeply forged by professional software. The modification traces, timestamps, and file IDs did not match. It contained many typos and illegally embedded scripts. The source IP was ultimately located to... a fake site registered in Eastern Europe that provides 'deep plagiarism' services to several public relations companies in China."

Then he slammed the paper down, his gaze piercing:

"Secondly, regarding the illegal transfer of some of the company's assets, we have obtained preliminary evidence. Below are some screenshots of bank statements."

The large screen switched to display several large cross-border fund flows, with the endpoint clearly pointing to a shell trust company registered in Panama.

Background information shows that the company has financial dealings with a private law firm under the name of Gu Hongtao's family.

"We have submitted the materials to our legal department and are preparing to file a criminal complaint against the senior executives suspected of embezzlement."

Although the press conference failed to completely reverse the situation, it successfully curbed the continued decline in stock price and won confidence for supporters.

But this battle did not truly quell the hostility.

The following night, as darkness fell, Xie Yumin sneaked alone into Gu Hongtao's administrative office building.

She was wearing a property cleaning company uniform, with the brim of her hat pulled very low.

During a shift change, he quietly went upstairs via the underground freight elevator. Behind the heavy wooden office door, she quickly searched with gloves on and found what she was looking for in a hidden safe in the corner on the right.