Meng Chao's gaze flickered slightly. "What project?"
"A very, very minor project. Nothing that mattered."
Shen Yulin said, "I swear to heaven that I truly never did anything that harmed the interests of the Group or the Lineage—the project was never a priority for Cosmos Group to begin with, and dozens of people had handled it before and after me. The detailed information had long since become common knowledge. Even the higher-ups didn't think much of the project; it could have been shelved at any time.
"Under those circumstances, whether I agreed to do them the favor was irrelevant. They had a hundred ways to get the detailed information, and ninety-nine of them would have cost far less than going to such lengths to find me!"
"That makes sense."
Meng Chao nodded. "If they'd demanded that you seriously damage the interests of the Group and the Lineage from the outset, you definitely wouldn't have submitted.
"They first used several insignificant projects that didn't really violate your principles, things that merely skirted the line, to lower your guard and draw you ever deeper in. Only in the end would you sink completely.
"So, you fell for it?"
"I had no choice but to fall for it!"
Several scarlet bloodspots burst across Shen Yulin's paper-white face. "I'm not a three-year-old child. Although the tone of the anonymous letter was very gentle, and it claimed that all the evidence had already been destroyed, telling me to put a hundred and twenty hearts at ease—how could I possibly have truly relaxed?
"I guarantee that if I hadn't done as they said, the very next day, that anonymous letter would have appeared across the front pages and forums of Dragon City's major media outlets, self-media channels, and websites. I would have become the disgrace of