After the tycoon went bankrupt, he was raised by the villainous female supporting character and beca

Having figured this out, Lu Yibai's violent temper suddenly subsided.

He casually raised his eyes, looking at Chen Zheng with a half-smile, and asked softly, "Zhao Siming is my secretary, as are you and Li Su. The three of you have always been very close. Did you know beforehand that Zhao Siming had sided with Pei Xingzhi?"

"...I don't know!" Chen Zheng was stunned for a moment, and then panicked after realizing what Lu Yibai meant.

“President Lu, Li Su and I knew absolutely nothing about this! Although Zhao Siming and we were both your secretaries, we had no other contact with him besides work! We really didn’t know that he had secretly sided with Pei Xingzhi!”

"Hmph..." Lu Yibai smiled enigmatically, his face darkening as he remained silent.

Chen Zheng was frightened by his expression, and his voice trembled uncontrollably.

"President Lu, please believe me, I really didn't know Zhao Siming betrayed you! If I had known, I would have reported it to you immediately!"

"..." Lu Yibai glanced at him indifferently, but still didn't say anything.

"Ding--"

A breaking news article suddenly popped up on his computer. Lu Yibai glanced at it casually, and then his body suddenly froze.

—Shocking! Pei Xingzhi revealed to reporters that he has found the inside culprit who caused the Pei Group's bankruptcy!

The Pei Group... an internal traitor?

These words completely captured Lu Yibai's attention.

He braced his hands on the edge of the desk, then suddenly leaned over the computer and read the news headline over and over again.

"An insider within the Pei Group?" These words truly terrified him, and a name involuntarily surfaced in his mind.

"President Lu, Li Su and I really didn't know about Zhao Siming's betrayal. Please believe us!" Chen Zheng was still trying to explain, completely unaware of Lu Yibai's ashen face.

"Chen Zheng!" Lu Yibai interrupted him, suddenly calling his name.

“…I’m here, Mr. Lu!” Chen Zheng quickly stopped talking and responded loudly.

He looked up from his computer and stared at Chen Zheng with a look that could only be described as fear: "Are you sure Fang Bo is dead?"

"Absolutely!" Chen Zheng said with certainty. "Our men saw him thrown into the crocodile pit by the casino owner. He's long dead!"

"Mr. Lu, why are you suddenly asking this?"

Lu Yibai's eyes showed a moment of confusion: "He threw him into the crocodile pool..."

Chen Zheng: "That's right! That crocodile pool was teeming with crocodiles. Fang Bo was thrown in and was devoured by the crocodiles in less than ten minutes."

Lu Yibai's condition was too strange. After Chen Zheng finished speaking, he asked again, "President Lu, what's wrong with you? Is there a problem with Fang Bo's matter?"

Lu Yibai shook his head nervously, his lips slightly parted as if he was about to say something, when Li Su suddenly burst open the office door and rushed in in a panic.

"Mr. Lu, something terrible has happened!"

Lu Yibai straightened up: "What happened?"

With a pale face, Li Su said in a trembling voice, "Someone in Yuncheng saw Fang Bo."

"..."

Lu Yibai's mind went completely blank for a long time.

He kicked aside the chair next to him, and somewhat dazedly walked around from behind the desk, his steps unsteady as he approached Li Su.

"...What did you say?" he asked, confused. "You said you saw someone in Yuncheng?"

"Fang Bo." Li Su suppressed his intense panic and uttered the name.

“…Fang Bo?” Lu Yibai frowned, his face full of incomprehension. “How could I see Fang Bo? Wasn’t he dead in Myanmar a long time ago?”

Li Su: "According to the information from those people, Fang Bo should indeed have died in Myanmar long ago, in the crocodile pool of the casino."

Lu Yibai stared at him in disbelief: "He's really dead? Then why would someone see him in Yuncheng?"

"..." Li Su didn't know how to explain, nor did he dare to make an excuse.

"Speak up!!"

The suffocating silence drove Lu Yibai to the brink of madness. He clenched his fists tightly and, unable to bear it any longer, shoved Li Su on the shoulder.

"Say something!! Why would anyone see him in Cloud City?! Isn't he already dead?!"

"..."

Li Su kept his head down, not daring to utter a sound.

Lu Yibai closed his eyes in annoyance, and when he opened them again a moment later, his eyes were bloodshot.

"Speak!!" he growled in a low voice, on the verge of collapse.

Li Su said blankly, "President Lu, I don't know what happened either... The message I received was indeed about Fang Bo's death, and they even sent me the video of Fang Bo being thrown into the crocodile pool. You've seen that video too."

"...So why would someone who had already been torn apart by a crocodile come back to life?" Lu Yibai didn't want to hear any of that; he just wanted to know why Fang Bo was still alive.

But how could Li Su know why? He didn't kill Fang Bo...

Seeing that Lu Yibai seemed to have reached a dead end, Chen Zheng quickly changed the subject.

"Li Su, who saw Fang Bo in Yuncheng?"

Li Su: "She is Zhou Limin's secretary. After Zhou Limin was taken away by the tax bureau, he has not returned. The work of Weilan Studio and Qiangsheng Design is now all managed by his secretary."

Chen Zheng: "Where did he see Fang Bo?"

Li Su glanced at Lu Yibai's face furtively and said in a low voice, "I saw it near the ZTE Building."

"ZTE Building?" Lu Yibai hadn't reacted yet.

Li Su nodded: "Yes, Zhongxing Building, Pei Xingzhi's new studio is also there."

"..."

"boom--"

A bolt of lightning struck Lu Yibai's mind, and all his reason vanished in that instant.

……

"Brother Pei!"

Ye Ci walked briskly into the courtyard, a bright and smug smile on her face.

Pei Xingzhi put down the caterpillar doll in his hand and beckoned Ye Ci to come and sit down.

Ye Ci didn't stand on ceremony with him at all and sat down casually on the sofa opposite him.

"Brother Pei, I have two pieces of good news. Which one would you like to hear first?"

Pei Xingzhi gently squeezed Xiangxiang's small hand and casually raised an eyebrow: "Let's talk about the one that has nothing to do with Lu Yibai first, because I've already heard about the one that does."

“OK.” Ye Ci reached out and touched Xiangxiang’s little face, and said excitedly, “I ran into Shen Yanhui on my way here. Shen Yanhui told me that she seems to have found out who the owner of that villa is.”

"Really?" Pei Xingzhi's eyes lit up.

Ye Ci: "Really. Shen Yan's information is always quick and accurate, and I think it should be right this time too. But she has more important things to do right now, so she can only come over to tell you in person later."

“Okay.” Pei Xingzhi’s lips curled up, his eyes barely able to contain his excitement.

Ye Ci frowned, but then suddenly remembered something else.

"No, I should have three pieces of news to tell you."

Pei Xingzhi adjusted his glasses: "Three? What's the last one?"