The beautiful CEO falls in love with me
Chapter 268 - 268 259 256 Investigation

268: Chapter 259: Chapter 256: Investigation 268: Chapter 259: Chapter 256: Investigation To Li Ruo, if she was being targeted for assassination, it had to be the work of the Si Yang Group because they were already at odds with the Tianya Group.

The conflict of interest between the two companies was too severe.

Consequently, Zhang Siyang sought to eliminate the Tianya Group by any means, and the only way to strike at the Tianya Group was to remove Li Ruo.

“Heh, anything is possible!” Ye Chen gave Li Ruo a glance and said, “Enemies in the light are not the most terrifying, it’s the enemies in the dark that are most fearsome.

As the saying goes, ‘A clear gun is easy to dodge, but a hidden arrow is hard to guard against.'”

“Then who do you think it could be?” Li Ruo frowned.

“That requires a thorough investigation!” Ye Chen glanced at Li Ruo.

“Investigate?

How do we go about that when the entire Hongrong Group employs over a thousand good staff?” Li Ruo frowned, burdened by the responsibility of sustaining these employees daily.

Now she also had to investigate these issues, which was simply too painful.

Ye Chen frowned and said, “Then let me handle this matter!”

Ye Chen knew of Li Ruo’s distress; as a man, he naturally wanted to share some of her burdens.

There was no way for Li Ruo to intervene in work matters, after all, that involved the interests of the Tianya Group, but in these other matters, he could certainly lend a hand.

“Alright!” Li Ruo nodded.

After accepting the task from Li Ruo, Ye Chen went downstairs.

Just as he returned to the office, Fang Fei immediately came up to him, glaring angrily, and said, “Hmph, you haven’t been around for days, and last time you left, you dumped all the work on me.

Have you forgotten what you promised me?”

“Ah?!” Ye Chen was startled and exclaimed in astonishment, “I…

what did I promise you?”

“Damn it, you promised to treat me to a meal!

A meal!” Fang Fei was hysterical, causing Chen Qiong and others around to burst into laughter.

Ye Chen hurriedly nodded and said, “Alright, right after work this afternoon, okay?”

“Hmph, to make up for my injured heart, I’ve decided you owe me two meals!” Fang Fei said through clenched teeth, seething with resentment.

“Alright, two meals then!” Ye Chen hurriedly agreed.

Then, everyone immediately returned to their desks, and Ye Chen reviewed the work progress for the week.

It seemed a bit behind.

He presented his plan for the next week’s work and urged everyone to pick up the pace to expedite various aspects of the job.

As interim vice president, Ye Chen was responsible for a massive project in the Northern City District.

To date, several companies had collaborated on this project.

Li Ruo had specifically reassigned a team from the Tianya Group to establish a company dedicated to the Northern City District project.

Meanwhile, Ye Chen was set to become the general manager of this subsidiary, specifically in charge of the project.

Ye Chen made a special round within the company to try and uncover something, but he found nothing.

Instead, he encountered some women who wanted his autograph.

The women inside Tianya Group revered Ye Chen after hearing that he shielded Li Ruo from a bomb with his body.

Not only was Ye Chen tall and handsome, but he also had a sense of humor and provided a strong feeling of security.

When he got to the Security Department, he found Li Cheng, this silly fatty, cracking sunflower seeds in the office.

Holding a handful of seeds at the department’s entrance, Li Cheng’s eyes lit up when he saw Ye Chen coming and he quickly approached with a big smile, saying, “Ye Chen, you’ve been promoted and made a fortune lately.

You must be feeling pretty good!”

“Heh heh, Fatty, look at you!” Ye Chen let out a laugh, then fished out two red banknotes from his pocket and said, “This is all I’ve got, the last two notes, especially for you!”

Li Cheng snatched the banknotes and held them up to the light, swiftly pocketing them with practiced ease and said with a smile, “Not bad, not bad, you remember who helped you along the way, you haven’t burned your bridges.

That’s the mark of a good man!”

“How could I forget?

Fatty, you’ve done me favor, and I mustn’t forget!” Ye Chen grinned.

His gaze turned serious as he stared into Li Cheng’s eyes, detecting the man’s restless gaze that seemed to hide something behind his expression.

Within the Tianya Group, Li Cheng was perhaps the person Ye Chen most suspected.

As the legitimate son who had not received his father’s inheritance, he was treated like waste.

Such circumstances could breed hatred, a story all too common.

Moreover, there was that time Ye Chen had seen this fatty in an apparently secret encounter with someone near the South Gate, further raising Ye Chen’s suspicions.

Although he hadn’t thought much of it before, this time, Yao Yue had given him a piece of information that made Ye Chen connect the dots and zero in on Li Cheng.

However, without conclusive evidence, Ye Chen would not rashly act.

That would only serve to alert the enemy prematurely.

Ye Chen’s skills in observation and deduction were exceptional, but Li Cheng was not even half his match.

After chatting for a while, Ye Chen felt he had thoroughly assessed Li Cheng, whereas Li Cheng still took Ye Chen for the same old person.

“Ye Chen!” Li Tieniu suddenly came out of the security room.

Ye Chen was surprised and looked at Li Tieniu, asking, “Haha, Tie Niu, what’s up?”

“I heard you were starting up a security company?” Li Tieniu looked at Ye Chen curiously.

“Correct!” Ye Chen nodded his head, and beside him, Li Cheng watched Ye Chen with surprise.

This guy was really something—starting as poor as can be when he joined the company, and now, not only had he risen to the position of vice-president, but he was also about to become the general manager of the Northern City District branch of the company.

And now he’s getting into his own private security company.

Truly impressive.

“Shit, why didn’t you tell us?” Li Tieniu frowned and said, “That’s not very brotherly of you, is it?”

“What’s up?” Ye Chen was taken aback.

“The boys want to roll with you!” Li Tieniu said with a grin.

“Shit, that’s not gonna happen!” Ye Chen immediately shook his head and said, “If you all come with me, what’s going to happen to Tianya Group?

Mr.

Li would flay me alive!”

“Come on, you think the boys don’t know about that little thing between you and Mr.

Li?” Li Tieniu scoffed, “You might fool others, but you can’t fool us.”

Ye Chen was suddenly horrified.

Shit, so the entire company knows about his relationship with Xiao Ruo.

And here he thought it was a secret.

Seeing Ye Chen’s astonishment, Li Tieniu laughed and said, “If it weren’t for that little connection with Mr.

Li, do you think you’d be in your current position?

Seriously, your promotion’s been as fast as a rocket in just a month!”

“Damn it!” Ye Chen couldn’t help but swear, “I rose to this position on my own merit!”

“Brothers, do you believe that?” Li Tieniu turned to look at the rest of the security room.

“We don’t believe it!” The crowd shook their heads one after another, and Li Tieniu looked at Ye Chen helplessly and said, “The brothers don’t believe it, so don’t blame me.

But hey, there’s nothing wrong with being kept, pretty boy.

Like us, we’re not able to be kept even if we wanted to; we don’t have the assets to be pretty boys!”

Pfft…

Ye Chen nearly spat out a mouthful of blood.

He had just made Zhang Bufen spit blood with his scolding upstairs, and now he was almost brought to spit blood by Li Tieniu.

Ye Chen fled crazily.

He left behind the security room filled with roaring laughter and Li Cheng’s darkly smiling face.

As the legitimate son of Li Tianya, Li Cheng had always served as the head of the Security Department, an idle office that was a very vexing occupation for Li Cheng.

Why should someone who came later, even someone who’d once worked under him, be able to climb over his head, while he had been stuck in the same position for so long, with no changes whatsoever?

Ye Chen ran back to Li Ruo’s office like the wind and discussed the security department matter with her.

Ye Chen planned to set up his own security company and pull Li Tieniu and the others into his company, outsourcing all of Tianya Group’s security business to Ye Chen’s Black Water Security Company.

This would not only bring business to Ye Chen but also save trouble for the Tianya Group.

Li Ruo agreed immediately upon hearing this; in fact, it was an idea she had initially brought up herself.

Lastly, Ye Chen returned to his office and began planning how to search for evidence about Li Cheng; this was no simple task, but an extremely complicated affair.

…

Meanwhile, a man in a Facebook mask arrived at the Flame Dragon Gang; on the rooftop of the Great Development Group, a man wearing a Facebook stood over the edge.

He turned to Yan Bu’er and said sternly, “Yan Bu’er, do you admit your guilt?”

“Yes, I admit my guilt!” Yan Bu’er knelt, trembling all over.

“Elder Mian Xu died just like that.” The Facebook man gritted his teeth and said, “Though it’s not directly your fault, you were the indirect cause!”

“Squad Leader, I truly had no idea how Elder Mian Xu died!” Yan Bu’er shivered all over.

“Hmph…” The Facebook man snorted coldly and said, “From what we’ve found at the scene, he was taken down by the China Dragon Team; if it weren’t for you, Elder Mian Xu wouldn’t have met such an end, even possibly attracting that old bastard himself to take the field!”