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402: Chapter 402: Preferring Sons to Daughters?

The System Captures the Culprit!

402: Chapter 402: Preferring Sons to Daughters?

The System Captures the Culprit!

Wu Jie was somewhat baffled.

Was Tang Xiao sleepwalking?

He had seen people sleepwalk and heard them talk in their sleep.

But to be disturbed by the sleepwalking Tang Xiao…

Damn it!

She couldn’t possibly be pretending to sleepwalk, could she?

Tang Xiao suddenly stopped.

“Hello?

Wu Jie?”

“Mr.

Wu?

Integrity?

Jie?”

Tang Xiao whispered several times, realizing Wu Jie had no response whatsoever.

Whew!

She let out a long breath and stealthily moved back to the left side of the boundary.

Curled up in the blanket, she berated herself.

“Why?

Why am I dreaming again!

Do I have some kind of illness?

Is it somnambulism?”

“They say you dream at night what you think about during the day, could it be…

could I actually be falling for him?”

Tang Xiao murmured to herself for a while before slowly getting up.

She gently pulled open the nightstand drawer, took a sanitary napkin, and then headed for the bathroom.

Hearing the door close, Wu Jie finally exhaled a long breath.

This is killing me!

Well played, Tang Xiao!

Suppressing his irritation, Wu Jie continued to sleep.

Having sought out Yuan Zihan last night, and then going to the hospital, he was exhausted and slumbered until daybreak.

Upon opening his eyes, he saw no one beside him; the master bedroom door was wide open.

Did she do something wrong in the wee hours and was now making breakfast as an apology?

Picking up his phone and getting out of bed, Wu Jie followed the sound of a voice and walked into the living room.

Tang Xiao was sitting cross-legged on the sofa with two laptops on the coffee table, wearing a headset and talking on the phone.

“…Five years ago, it was normal for some small hospitals not to have computers, recording prenatal checkups in notebooks, so make sure to add more staff and look thoroughly.”

After hanging up, Tang Xiao dialed another number.

“From the list of suspects, prioritize those suspected of preferring sons over daughters, like those who already have daughters, they can be ruled out immediately!”

“One thing to note, Yuan Zihan is a good-looking kid, such a sweet and adorable child, her parents’ genes definitely won’t be bad!”

After another call, Tang Xiao picked up a laptop and started scrutinizing the spreadsheet that had been compiled.

“Are you looking for Yuan Zihan’s biological parents?”

Wu Jie walked over to the sofa and asked, staring at the spreadsheet.

Tang Xiao turned to look at Wu Jie, a flicker of panic crossing her eyes.

But she quickly recovered her composure, her face not flushing, and her breath steady.

“Yeah!

It’s not just me helping you look, a lot of netizens are also helping!”

Tang Xiao said and switched the display to show a webpage.

Many well-known online influencers had posted calls for help, mobilizing the power of netizens to find Yuan Zihan’s abandoning parents so she could get a bone marrow transplant.

“Strange!

Who started this campaign?” Wu Jie was somewhat taken aback.

“It must be Lin Yuan and them, of course.

The orphanage also provided a lot of information and clues, letting netizens brainstorm and help search!”

Tang Xiao pointed towards the dining room: “Hurry up and eat!

We’ll go to the hospital in a bit!”

Wu Jie had only taken a few steps when his phone rang.

It was Chu Yunxuan calling.

“Mr.

Wu, you finally answered your phone!”

“What happened?

Is there a problem with the company?” Wu Jie asked in alarm.

Chu Yunxuan hastened to say, “It’s not the company.

I saw a ‘Save Yuan Zihan’ campaign kicking off online, and it reminded me of Yuan Shikui!”

“Yuan Shikui?”

Wu Jie raised an eyebrow, recalling no such person.

Chu Yunxuan explained, “It’s Yuan Yutong’s real dad!

Remember, downstairs from where you bought the wedding house, after I showed you the apartment, Yuan Yutong was nearly bitten by Yang Weiye’s dog, and you kicked the dog’s head in right there.

Have you forgotten?”

Wu Jie suddenly remembered.

“Right!

He also has the Yuan surname, but Yuan Shikui, able to buy a house in Tianyuan Haoting, doesn’t seem like someone who would abandon his own daughter, does he?

Could he not afford to raise a daughter?”

Chu Yunxuan chuckled softly, “I’ve chatted quite a bit with their old lady.

Their family wasn’t so wealthy a few years ago, they only made a fortune recently with the online lending business.

And the day after you saved Yuan Yutong, I even paid a visit to their house!”

“I clearly remember the old lady saying how lucky they were that the child was okay, otherwise their family would have no descendants left.

I was curious and asked; she said that Yuan Yutong was hard to come by since his mother had two daughters in quick succession before finally having this boy!”

“And having children was no small ordeal for her, she no longer has the ability to give birth!

But now that I think about it, their family has no girls.

Where did those two previously born girls go?”

“The most important thing is, Yuan Yutong is three years old this year.

Adding pregnancy and preparations for birth, it proves his second sister should be at least four years old.

Coincidentally, isn’t Yuan Zihan exactly four years old this year?”

…

The more Chu Yunxuan spoke, the more agitated she became, and the more Wu Jie listened, the more he felt it was very possible.

“The clue you provided is very important.

Whether it’s his daughter or not, we mustn’t make it public yet.

I’ll have someone verify it immediately!”

Chu Yunxuan smiled, “Don’t worry, my lips are sealed!

This is just conjecture anyway, without solid proof, who would dare to spread rumors and slander a billionaire for preferring sons over daughters?”

“So the more it is like this, the more we need to get to the bottom of it, only incontrovertible evidence can leave no room for dispute!”

After hanging up, Wu Jie immediately turned and shouted:

“Check out Yuan Shikui quickly!”

Tang Xiao nodded slightly, having heard some of the earlier conversation.

So she immediately made a call to arrange for a detailed investigation of Yuan Shikui.

While Wu Jie was having breakfast, he also went online to check out Tianyuan’s famous businessman, Yuan Shikui.

According to public records, he had worked in a bank years ago and resigned to start his own business, focusing exclusively on small loans.

He had even made news for attempting to jump off a building because of a broken capital chain and threatened suicide.

But who knew, with the rapid development of online lending, his company experienced explosive growth.

In just a few years, he became a billionaire with assets of tens of billions.

And his Tianyuan He Ying Credit had gone public three years ago.

It is now a very famous online lending enterprise in the country, absorbing the idle money of millions of people, lending to tens of thousands of small and medium enterprises, self-employed individuals, and private parties, and earning the spread.

However, there was no shortage of negative news.

Some netizens even exposed that Yuan Shikui’s company was involved in serious deceitful and fraudulent practices.

For renting a place, in collusion with agents, they’d confuse tenants into taking on installment loans.

Borrowing a bit of money, for a thirty-thousand loan the fee alone was three thousand, only twenty-seven thousand was actually received, and if it was overdue, they’d employ various debt collection methods.

Investing in him, return rates weren’t high, but the interest on the money he lent out wasn’t low either, the profit margin was too hefty.

Even Yuan Shikui was ruthless, scamming even banks.

There was a small bank that had tried to work with him to boost their performance and increase deposits through a loan scheme.

The result seemed to involve an insider, and then through contractual traps, he swindled a large amount of money.

Because of this, the two sides fought many lawsuits, but in the end, he presented ironclad evidence, and the bank incredibly lost the case.

Anyway.

Yuan Shikui himself came from a banking background and was very familiar with various financial operations.

With a huge amount of capital, he could gather significant power, exploit various legal loopholes, and thus make large amounts of illicit wealth.

Even when collecting loans, he ruthlessly drove many people to their deaths, but managed to cleanly absolve himself of any blame.

To be so purely profit-driven to this extent, he was indeed quite formidable.

After finishing breakfast, Wu Jie hastily tidied up and went downstairs with Tang Xiao to rush to the hospital.

On the way, Tang Xiao received a phone call.

“President Tang, we’ve found out that Yuan Shikui had a daughter six years ago but the couple did not raise her; instead, they gave her up for adoption to his wife’s uncle.

We’ve located the girl, she’s been found and is attending kindergarten!”

“And four years ago they had a second daughter, given up for adoption to Yuan Shikui’s business partner, who fled the country with his family four years ago due to involvement in a financial fraud case.

He has since gone off the grid, and it’s currently unclear whether he took the child with him!”

“Three years ago, the son Yuan Yutong was conceived abroad through artificial insemination.

I’ve contacted the agency, and they said that for the right price, they offer choices of single birth, twins, or even different genders.

You can pay half up front, and the rest after successful birth!”

“So, whether his second daughter is indeed Yuan Zihan and whether she was abandoned by his partner is still not clear!”

Tang Xiao glanced at Wu Jie and said into the phone:

“Look into Yuan Yutong’s mother, this woman giving up her biological daughters twice, what kind of person is she?

Dig deep!”

After giving the order, Tang Xiao was about to speak when Wu Jie pulled out his phone and made a call to Chu Yunxuan.

He had thought of a good way to indirectly use the system to help verify the facts.

The call connected quickly.

Wu Jie immediately asked, “Yuan Yutong’s grandmother gave me a business card, but I lost it.

Could you find me Yuan Shikui’s phone number?”

“Sure!

I have the contact details of homeowners who buy houses in Tianyuan Haoting.

I’ll send it to you right away!”

As soon as the call ended, the text message arrived promptly.

“What are you up to?” Tang Xiao asked with a frown.

Wu Jie gave a devilish smile and quietly activated the system’s congratulatory message feature, then dialed Yuan Shikui’s number directly.

The call connected very soon.

“Hello, who is this?”

A gritty, metallic voice came through from the other end.

“This is Wu Jie!

I helped with your son Yuan Yutong’s situation, blowing the whistle.

You can’t possibly be unaware of this, right?”

“Oh, oh, Mr.

Wu!

I have heard much about you!”

Yuan Shikui’s voice suddenly rose, filled with immense excitement as he eagerly said:

“Gosh, I should have been the one to thank you, and here you are reaching out to me.

I really shouldn’t have!”

“So, are you free for lunch?

I’d like to invite you to a meal to express my gratitude properly!”

Wu Jie listened and shook his head with a cold laugh.

So damned insincere!

All these days had passed, and with Yuan Shikui’s connections and background, contacting Wu Jie would have been no problem, right?

But he hadn’t made contact, proving not that he didn’t want to thank him, but that he didn’t want to get in touch with Wu Jie.

After all, Wu Jie is the son-in-law of the Tang Family of Tianyuan.

The forces behind him might not wish for him to have dealings with the Tang Family of Tianyuan.

Even if he was inviting him to lunch, it was likely to be just a formality.

Such a hypocritical person like him would probably bring along many others for company.

This was both to serve as witnesses for him and to demonstrate that he had no private relationship with Wu Jie.

After pondering for a moment, Wu Jie replied with a smile:

“Lunch?

I’m currently rushing to the hospital, I might not make it!”

“The hospital?

Mr.

Wu, what happened?” Yuan Shikui asked with concern.

Wu Jie snorted, “It’s not me who has a problem, but your daughter Yuan Zihan!

You gave her up for adoption, and now she’s been abandoned, causing an uproar online.

Are you not aware of this?

She’s now suffering from leukemia, and you still haven’t stepped up.

Are you still human?”

“How can you, a beast in human clothing, even have the nerve to invite me to lunch?

Such a beautiful and adorable daughter, you abandoned her, did a dog eat your conscience?

You…”

As Wu Jie furiously ranted, even Tang Xiao sitting beside him was momentarily stunned.

Damn!

What was this approach?

Still in the suspicion and investigation phase, without solid evidence in hand, and Wu Jie was already confronting Yuan Shikui with such fury?

However, Wu Jie hadn’t even finished his tirade when suddenly…

Ding!

Ding!

Ding!

The system began to go crazy with good news!