Chapter 1057: Chapter 287: Uncovering the Truth
Chapter 287: Guessing the Truth
When talking about the company’s matters with Yurong, her first concern wasn’t about personnel issues, but rather she suspected all his data.
She is someone with a lot of experience in investment. Although overseas venture investments may not necessarily require hardware support, they at least need an investment philosophy that can persuade people, along with a detailed and feasible plan. With these, venture capitals also need thorough investigation, discussion, research, and determination of risk indices to allocate funds for investment. It isn’t something you can just bluff your way into.
Earlier this year, when Li Yan mentioned it, she only supported him out of wanting Li Yan to start his own business, but didn’t expect him to secure investment so quickly. More importantly, during this period, she has been with him, and hasn’t seen him produce any materials or have close connections overseas. Everything seemed too abrupt, too urgent.
"Are you sure it’s not someone digging a pit, waiting for you to jump in?" Sitting at the desk in her home office, Yurong gently furrowed her brows, unable to resist reminding him. Although saying it might belittle him, watching him fail would be even more embarrassing.
Li Yan laughed inwardly, the person who dug this pit is himself, and the one jumping in is also him, of course, he won’t bury himself.
Understanding her concern, he earnestly replied, "This should be reliable; they’ve already delivered all the data to me through a contact. I’ve reviewed it myself, and there shouldn’t be any problems. But to be honest, I can’t understand a lot of it. Maybe you can help me check it out!"
Yurong perked up, as having reliable data rather than just verbal agreements would make it easier to ascertain the authenticity. She doesn’t know how many contracts or documents she reviews each year, and if there really is a trap, as long as it’s not extremely well-hidden, she believes she can spot it immediately. Li Yan isn’t at all professional in this area, so a fraudster shouldn’t be more sophisticated than she is.
After taking all the materials, Yurong immediately began to read through them seriously, line by line, sentence by sentence. She waved her hand, indicating that she needed some time, so there was no need for him to wait here.
Li Yan poured her a glass of water and then left the office.
After stepping outside, he saw Yue Yao on the balcony, walked over and told her about an arrangement regarding this matter. Yue Yao thought about it briefly and agreed.
"There’s no problem since my identity as a web writer is already a disguise. Going to work would be an even better disguise. Just..."
"Don’t worry, I’ll suggest to Yurong to ask you, so it won’t raise any suspicion. She always wanted to help you and feared your financial pressure but had concerns about your self-esteem, it shouldn’t be a problem."
Yue Yao chuckled wryly, "In this way, we’re deceiving her even more."
Li Yan also sighed, "Someday, I’ll tell her everything."
Yue Yao contemplated for a while, whispering, "If telling her would hurt her, it might be better to keep it from her forever..."
Li Yan was speechless, understanding Yue Yao’s intent. Her idea of keeping things from Yurong wasn’t out of selfishness but rather a willingness to remain hidden in the background, not wanting their exposure to cause issues between them.
"Right, I met the third one today..." Li Yan changed the subject, telling about meeting Zheng Yixuan mainly to discuss the first and second ones, and recounted his attitude.
Yue Yao was somewhat aware of their relationship. After listening, she thought for a bit, helping analyze, "Actually... he makes a valid point. Maintaining the status quo is undoubtedly the best state among you all. Even if we find someone else to do the same job, they may not be as trustworthy, and there will be larger commissions. Plus, Guan Ziyi provides tremendous support in information and intelligence, which is one of the most direct reasons why our assassin organization suffers fewer casualties. If things go sour and they decide to assist ’him’, it would severely impact us in all aspects... This is excluding the loss of friendship, purely focusing on the loss in terms of benefits."
She gazed at Li Yan wistfully. Having been with him for many years, she knew very well that Li Yan doesn’t have many friends, and those who are genuinely confidants and can share everything with him, there are even fewer. Perhaps aside from her, it’s just these few people. Even Yan Ping, Zhongtao, and others in ’their’ organization don’t know about these secrets.
Concerns over property and risk aren’t her main worry. She fears that if they fall out, he will lose even the best group of friends, which will only make him more lonely and isolated.
Li Yan smiled slightly, "I understand everything you said..."
He looked at the distant dark red murky night sky and sighed, "Unless it’s absolutely necessary, I also won’t fall out with ’him’. It’s not just me who’s involved; it’s not just about potentially using my parents and relatives as threats, nor just Yurong, or Xiaodi, or these new concerns. Including you, including ’them’, all these partners over the years will encounter major disasters because of this."
He turned to look at Yue Yao again and said softly, "I believe, within ’them’, there must be ’his’ spies. ’He’ will be very clear about our moves. Plus the help from people like He Bin and Guan Ziyi who have been helping us long-term. If we fall out with ’him’, ’his’ counterattack..."
Zheng Yuzun is still in the International Criminal Police!
Yue Yao also fell silent. Without going too far back, just talking about last year’s involvement in counter-sniping Si Country’s agents in H City, as long as they sold ’their’ information to Si Country, ’they’ would be hunted globally by the largest intelligence organization, SIA. Even if not immediately sniped, ’they’ would be forced into hiding, living anonymously.
"Haha, you don’t need to worry. All my concerns and actions are just preparations. As long as ’he’ doesn’t push me to the brink, I won’t let that happen." Li Yan laughed easily, "Don’t forget, before this, I took a break for two years. In those two years, I didn’t do any work, even not helping ’him’. ’He’ didn’t get angry either, so maybe I’m overthinking it. ’He’ hasn’t had much for me to do these two years."
Li Yan actually doesn’t care at all about helping ’him’ with tasks, because for an assassin, whoever you kill is still killing, just a free mission. Many of those he killed back then were people who deserved it, people who appeared successful but had done many bad things, so he didn’t feel any resistance. Although he didn’t understand ’his’ purpose, overall, like Zheng Yixuan said, this is ’repayment’ for nurturing.
What he cares about is interfering with his complete retirement!
"That would be best." Yue Yao smiled too. "You’ve worked for him for many years; maybe they already have someone arranged to take your place, but you don’t know."
Thinking of the young tenth member Wang Jiaqi, Li Yan chuckled, "It’s possible."
...
While the two were relaxed, keeping their suppressions hidden, Yurong had already found them and came over, seeing the two chatting on the balcony.
"How is it? Any issues?" Li Yan feigned concern and asked.
Zhang Yurong shook her head, "Although I don’t know how you achieved all this, but... after looking through, there’s really no problem."
Initially, she felt Li Yan knew nothing and might have been deceived, based on her typical impression of him. But after reviewing the documents and not finding issues, she suddenly recalled that during the New Year, he talked about his past, although only half-told, perhaps even less, but could roughly guess. It seems that this so-called venture capital might have been him utilizing past connections, maybe using the money he earned all these years in a more formal and legal way!
After realizing this, most of her suspicions were dispelled.
Yue Yao saw her hesitating, understanding that Yurong had something to say that might not be convenient with her around, she smiled and said, "I’ll check if Aunt Liu has prepared dinner, you two chat."
Yurong smiled at her, and after she walked away, Yurong became a bit more serious, thought for a while before speaking directly, "I won’t ask for more details, but I want you to honestly tell me, is this money... money you saved over the years that was brought in under the guise of overseas investment?"
Li Yan was a bit surprised to hear her words, then sighed inwardly, tricking dumb money foreigner wasn’t convincing enough. Seeing Yurong figured it out, he hesitated for a moment and nodded, "Yes. But I can’t directly tell everyone how I earned this money, so I can only use this excuse."
Since the first phase of money received was only tens of thousands of International Coin, which isn’t an exaggerated amount, after he admitted, Yurong felt relieved, confident that this is his money. She nodded, "Okay, since it’s your money, I feel relieved. You have your secrets; you don’t need to tell me how it came."
Li Yan spread his hands, "Long live understanding."
He didn’t expect Yurong to guess the truth nor expected her to accept it easily. Maybe just thought it’s money made through foreign speculation and smuggling? Knowing it came from murder and robbery...
"Why are you looking at me like that?" He noticed Yurong looking at him with a strange gaze, not like suspicion nor displeasure from being kept in the dark, he curiously asked.
(The procrastinator is back, although went to buy a ticket before the New Year, but couldn’t get a sleeper, luckily managed to buy a hard seat, better than standing, crowded for nearly thirty hours, exhausted) (To be continued, to know how it unfolds, please visit www.qidian.com, more Chapters, support the author, support legitimate reading!)
