Su Yurou's Choice

Guo Yuan and Lin Yumo spent the night in a short-term rental. The double room had two beds, and neither of them had taken off their clothes, so nothing happened between them. Early the next morning, they left the room together and returned to the residential complex.

Lin Yumo did not have a card reader at home, but Guo Yuan did, so the two of them went straight to Guo Yuan's place.

Guo Yuan connected the memory card to his computer and read its contents.

There was quite a lot on the memory card, so Guo Yuan briefly sorted through the files.

Broadly speaking, the contents fell into three categories: Longcheng International Publishing House's book publication information, Longcheng International Publishing House's accounts, and a variety of miscellaneous documents.

What Guo Yuan needed to do now was find that piece of evidence among those documents.

Lin Yumo sat beside him, watching his fingers fly over the keyboard and the dialog boxes that popped up from time to time. She thought, This guy really is something else. What mystery novelist? He's clearly a computer expert!

"Found it! This should be the folder." Guo Yuan pointed at the folder numbered 0817 on the screen.

"August 17th... that was the day something happened to my father."

"Then this is definitely it. This folder is password-protected. It should be a fairly standard six-digit numerical encryption. Wait a moment—I'll figure out a way to crack it." With that, Guo Yuan opened the dialog box labeled 01 and entered commands into it.

A flood of data began streaming across the screen, while Guo Yuan's computer tower started roaring loudly.

About half an hour later, the folder's password was successfully cracked. The folder opened, and inside was a video.

Guo Yuan and Lin Yumo watched it together. The footage appeared to have been recorded by a dashcam, and Wang Qiu, Lin Zhengdong, and Lin Zhengbei were the main figures in it.

Wang Qiu asked the two brothers, "Have you prepared the medicine?"

"It's ready. Lin Zhengnan has heart disease and high blood pressure. When the time comes, we just need to make him take this concentrated Doxofylline, then give him a little stimulation, and his heart disease will flare up," Lin Zhengdong said.

"Remember what we agreed on."

"Don't worry! Once us brothers take control of the company, you'll get 5% of the company's annual dividends. It'll come directly from our accounts," Lin Zhengbei said.

Wang Qiu nodded in satisfaction and accepted the medicine. The video ended there.

"Doxofylline is a methylxanthine derivative. It is a bronchodilator that relaxes smooth muscle by inhibiting phosphodiesterase within smooth muscle cells, thereby suppressing asthma.

"But this drug dilates the bronchi and increases lung capacity, which can cause arrhythmia in heart disease patients. Whether it's rapid arrhythmia or slow arrhythmia, neither is good for heart disease. And your father also had high blood pressure."

By the time Lin Yumo finished watching the video, she was already visibly shaken. After hearing Guo Yuan's explanation, her eyes immediately reddened. She had suspected before that her father's death was not so simple.

So it turned out... all of this had truly been premeditated.

Her uncles had actually been capable of doing such a thing just to take over the company. They were blood brothers—how could they go this far?

Lin Yumo pulled out the card reader, turned, and left Guo Yuan's home.

Guo Yuan sighed. To be honest, he could not understand how Lin Yumo felt right then. Both his parents were still alive, and aside from him, their unfilial son, his family got along well. It was hard for him to imagine what it would look like for siblings to turn on one another over money.

A little after 2 p.m., Lin Yumo knocked on Guo Yuan's door again.

It seemed that she had already regained her composure.

"Guo Yuan, how did you know about Doxofylline's effects?" Lin Yumo asked after entering.

"I studied medicine in college! This drug is commonly used to treat asthma, so of course I know about it," Guo Yuan replied casually.

Hearing his answer, Lin Yumo stared fixedly at him. Is this what one should expect from someone from a mysterious organization?

He had studied medicine in college, yet he could write mystery novels that won the Edogawa Ranpo Award, and he was also a computer expert. More importantly, Guo Yuan seemed to be only twenty-four years old.

A person's energy was limited. Lin Yumo found it difficult to imagine how Guo Yuan had mastered so much knowledge by the age of twenty-four.

Guo Yuan felt uncomfortable under Lin Yumo's stare. He cleared his throat and said, "Ahem! Yumo, you came to see me because you have something to ask, right?"

"Mm. Guo Yuan, I want you to help me contact a trustworthy law firm—or a law firm under your organization—and help me sue Wang Qiu, Lin Zhengdong, and Lin Zhengbei for civil damages."

Guo Yuan's mouth twitched. She was even calling it an organization now. Anyone listening would think it was the Black Organization from Conan!

But at that moment, the narrator gave him a hint: Lawyer Hu has an old classmate, a famous lawyer in the country. His surname is Zhang. You can contact him through Lawyer Hu.

Guo Yuan immediately felt reassured. He turned to Lin Yumo and said, "Got it. Leave this matter to me!"

That evening, Guo Yuan contacted Lawyer Hu and briefly explained the situation. After Lawyer Hu heard what had happened, he immediately sent Guo Yuan a WeChat contact.

After adding the contact and chatting for a while, Guo Yuan felt a chill run down his spine. Lawyer Hu's classmate was Lawyer Zhang San—Zhang San, the man ruthless enough to send judges to prison.

After Guo Yuan explained the case to Lawyer Zhang, Lawyer Zhang accepted it out of consideration for Lawyer Hu. Guo Yuan then forwarded Lawyer Zhang's WeChat contact to Lin Yumo.

After adding him as a friend, Lin Yumo was startled as well. She had not expected Guo Yuan to find such a formidable person.

At the same time, she grew even more curious about—and awed by—the mysterious force behind Guo Yuan.

Two days later, Wang Qiu, Lin Zhengdong, and Lin Zhengbei were taken away by the police.

Longcheng International Publishing House had been Wang Qiu's one-man domain. The moment Wang Qiu was taken away, the company immediately descended into chaos.

That afternoon, Su Yurou, Wang Qiu's secretary and the only person capable of holding things together, also disappeared.

At that moment, Su Yurou and Lin Yumo were sitting in a café.

"Yurou, thank you so much for this."

"Don't mention it. Without General Manager Lin, my mother and I would have starved to death long ago. How could I have what I do today? I'm only returning the favor," Su Yurou said with a smile.

"But the sacrifice you made was too great. I..."

"Stop, stop, stop! Since I decided to help you, I'd already thought through the price I'd have to pay. Besides, I'm not helping you for nothing. You were going to give me 5% of Longcheng Biology's shares, weren't you?"

"You'd better work hard to run the company. Once I get out of there and receive the shares, I'll be able to enjoy life properly.

Besides, I might not even have to go to prison. I never took a single cent of Wang Qiu's dirty money. After I turn myself in, I'll report him directly. I should be able to get a lighter sentence."

"What about your friend?"

"He'll turn himself in later too."

"His gun—"

"What gun? It was just a model. It's not that easy to get a gun in this country.

Oh, and one more thing. If he turns himself in, the police might suspect you based on Wang Qiu's testimony. When that happens, push the matter of how you got the video onto me. Just say I gave it to you.

All right! That's enough. I should get going."

Lin Yumo nodded, her eyes red-rimmed.