WWY Chapter 32
by VolareWeiyu He also left a third will, with stricter triggering conditions. Xiaocheng Chu initially planned to shelve it, but unexpectedly, it was actually triggered.
The triggering condition is: If Ya Gu commits any of the following acts against Lan He, including murder, abuse, adultery, or violation of other laws, and there is conclusive evidence leading to a divorce, the previous wills will be invalidated, and the property will be redistributed according to the third will.
The third will essentially states: 59% of the shares of He Corporation and the Aerospace Charity Foundation belong to Si’nian He, and everything else goes to Lan He, including all other assets and houses under his name, totaling approximately 7.4 billion.
After listening to Xiaocheng Chu explain each clause, Lan He raised his eyebrows and asked, “Does Si’nian He know about this will?”
Xiaocheng Chu firmly said, “Young Master Lan, please trust my professional ethics! President He didn’t know before!”
“Then why did you tell me? Your professional ethics don’t seem so strong.”
“President He discussed with me this morning how to negotiate with President Gu to minimize losses. In the afternoon, the Gu family was engaged in public relations everywhere. From my point of view, the condition of President Gu’s adultery has been confirmed, so I dared to tell you! As the lawyer of He Corporation, I was worried that you would have concerns about inheritance and would be reluctant to divorce someone like her. You’re still questioning me!” Xiaocheng Chu’s tone revealed grievance.
But he did speak too quickly. He shouldn’t have said it before the evidence was sufficient. Perhaps it was out of sympathy for this sickly man betrayed by his wife and brother?
He suddenly felt guilty, “Young Master Lan, don’t mention this for now, and don’t let President He know either. To be honest, maybe Mr. He didn’t expect President Gu to…”
“I understand.” Lan He smiled twice, “Speaking of which, this will is much more normal than the previous two. Si’nian He understands management, so the company continues to be left to him, allowing him to thrive through hard work, while all the money is left to me, allowing me to sit and do nothing, left to fend for myself.”
Xiaocheng Chu was so angry that he shouted, “7.4 billion! Although it’s far less than the original amount, it’s unconditionally obtained! If you don’t have any bad habits, it’s enough to sit and do nothing for several lifetimes, my Young Master Lan!”
“Oh, okay, you’re right!”
“Starting tomorrow, I will collect relevant evidence. When it meets Mr. He’s ‘conclusive evidence’ standard, I will announce this will to the public.”
“Thank you, keep up the good work, the thank-you fee won’t be small!”
Xiaocheng Chu felt that Lan He’s mood had obviously improved. He didn’t seem to care about the adultery at all.
That’s right, suddenly being hit on the head with 7.4 billion plus three ultra-luxury villas, who would care about anything else?
So, why did this old workhorse with a monthly salary of twenty-one thousand suddenly feel sorry for him!
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At midnight, Shengbo Xia, who had just escaped from the major task force back to his own home, took a gulp of iced tea. He drank too fast and coughed violently.
Li Wu, who was dozing off at the table, was startled awake and glared at him angrily, “Finished the investigation?”
“Caught a few thugs who were collecting protection fees in the farmers’ market. They confessed that the boat of stinky fish at sea was sold by them.”
“What about the buyers?”
“I can’t find anyone, but according to the sellers, many unscrupulous merchants buy dead fish to process fish balls, the lower the cost, the better. He didn’t ask carefully anyway, it was a cash-for-goods deal!”
Li Wu made a “so disgusting” expression, “I don’t want to eat fish balls anymore.”
Shengbo Xia grinned, “By the way, I saw some gossip at the market today, hahaha—”
Li Wu glared at him, “What is it? What’s making you so happy!”
“Our young master He got cheated on!” Saying this didn’t tire him at all, “Amazing, amazing! Cheated on by his brother, that is, President He of He Corporation! I also took a look when the people at the market were gossiping, the photos online, tsk tsk!”
“Wow, really?” Li Wu wasn’t sleepy anymore, “Let me see!”
“The ones online have already been deleted. I didn’t save them either. The public relations of these two families are too powerful!”
“Rich people are really messy…” Li Wu still opened her phone to search, “Hey? They issued a statement saying it’s AI face-swapping and they’re going to hold that media company legally responsible.”
“Hold them responsible for what? Their upper-class circle stuff, there’s no smoke without fire, how many times has this happened? It’s all a routine!”
“That’s right, that’s right!”
This time the two people’s views were surprisingly consistent.
Listening to their enthusiastic discussion, Tuxi Ling, who was closely watching the screen with Xu Xiao, took out the phone in his pocket. He wanted to send a WeChat message, but the time displayed on the screen stopped him.
It was already past twelve o’clock, he should wait until tomorrow!
Xu Xiao was playing a shooting game on the platform, so sleepy he was nodding off. This was Ling Tuxi’s request—he couldn’t always wait for Qing Gu to go online. He had to create a persona of a boring internet addict to make his records on the platform look more “convincing.”
It had been three days.
Xu Xiao was so sleepy that he was swaying. He called Shengbo Xia, “Brother Bo, want to play for a while?”
Shengbo Xia rolled up his sleeves and was eager to try. Suddenly, a message notification slid across the notification bar in the upper right corner of the screen.
[Online again? Don’t you have anything else to do?]
Xu Xiao perked up and quickly clicked on the chat box.
[Brother Qing, I’m grounded, I can only play games in my room.]
[Want to play a couple of rounds?]
[Play what?]
[Blackjack, verified your real name?]
[Bro, I can’t! Think about it, I’m grounded, how could my dad give me his ID? Can you just transfer me some chips? I’ll transfer the money to your account. I’m a VIP, there’s no limit on online banking!]
[Alright, transfer the money first. How many chips do you want?]
[Start with ten thousand?]
[Ten thousand? Go play in the mud yourself!]
[Then a hundred thousand!]
[Too little, at least a million.]
[Okay!]
Xu Xiao agreed through gritted teeth. Tuxi Ling slapped him on the back of the head hard.
Shengbo Xia cursed him, “The budget is only ten thousand. Where are you going to get a million!”
Xu Xiao argued, “What’s wrong with that? Anyway, once he sends the account, we’ll investigate and find out who he is!”
Shengbo Xia asked in surprise, “You don’t actually want to transfer him money?”
“Huh! Otherwise?”
“Are you stupid? Wouldn’t that be alarming the snake? Are you just trying to close this one case? Ling, look at him! And I just praised him for being smart!”
Tuxi Ling rubbed his face, “Let’s pool together first, I have ten thousand here.”
Pooling together was impossible. Police officers could be said to be a low-income group, especially the young officers at the grassroots level. The four people present couldn’t even scrape together two hundred thousand.
On the screen, Qing Gu’s account was sent over.
Xu Xiao checked it. It showed that the account was opened at a certain state-owned bank, and the account holder was Qing Gu.
“Qing Gu, that name sounds a little familiar.”
“Who is it?”
“Check it in the system.”
Tuxi Ling frowned, and the person who was fighting to peel apples with him at the hospital flashed through his mind.
Li Wu quickly turned on the computer and entered the name into the internal information database, while Xu Xiao was still dealing with the other party.
[Transfer it, I’ll give you the chips once the money arrives.]
[Okay Brother Qing, wait a moment!]
Under Ling Tuxi’s instruction, he re-entered a line of text.
[Brother Qing, how about twenty thousand first?]
[What’s wrong? Don’t you trust me?]
[No, I’m afraid of losing, hehe!]
[Losing is inevitable, the beginning is always paying tuition. Once you pay enough tuition and know how to play, you can dominate everywhere, understand?]
[Oh, okay, but wait for me for a moment, Brother, my dad’s calling me! He came back drunk in the middle of the night, I guess I’m going to get scolded again. Wait for me two minutes!]
Xu Xiao stood up and ran to Li Wu’s computer with Ling Tuxi. She showed them the information she had found on the screen: “This Qing Gu is the son of Jiaan Gu, the chairman of Gu Trading, and the younger brother of Ya Gu!”
Tuxi Ling was stunned. In an instant, it was as if a thread had strung together all the beads around Lan He.
He took out his phone and dialed the number he hadn’t dialed just now. In order to facilitate the team members’ analysis of the case as soon as possible, he also turned on the speakerphone.
The phone was quickly connected.
“Hello? Officer Ling.”
“Sorry to bother you so late, Lan He, I have something I want to ask you.”
“It’s okay, I’m not asleep yet, ask away!”
Lan He’s voice revealed a hoarseness. Thinking of the gossip news just now, Tuxi Ling felt that he was very inhumane.
“Before you got married, did you know Qing Gu?”
“Yes, we were friends before.”
“Where is he now?”
“On vacation abroad, oh, Las Vegas.”
It matched up!
Everyone in the office held their breath and looked at Ling Tuxi.
Seeming to feel that the atmosphere was not right, Lan He asked, “What’s wrong?”
“You’re friends, so he knows Man Qin too, right?”
“Doctor Qin? They have indeed met, but it doesn’t seem like they have much interaction.” He keenly sensed the meaning in Ling Tuxi’s words and said uncertainly, “Perhaps… there’s some interaction I don’t know about?”
“Well, we’re just routinely inquiring.” The case was unclear, Ling Tuxi couldn’t say too much, “Did Qing Gu say when he plans to come back?”
“He said he’ll stay for at least two months.”
“Why did he go on vacation? Was it a long-term plan?”
“Not exactly early, it was a few days after my father passed away. He said it when he came to my house.”
“Why did he go to your house? Did you invite him?”
“He brought a private doctor to introduce me that time.” Lan He paused for a few seconds, and without waiting for Ling Tuxi to speak, he suddenly took the initiative, “Officer Ling, is he also related to my father’s death?”
The few people in the office looked at each other, and couldn’t help but admire his quick thinking.
In front of his colleagues, Ling Tuxi awkwardly didn’t know what to say. Lan He smiled and opened his mouth again, “It’s okay, Officer Ling, is there anything else you need me to cooperate with?”
“Not for the time being, thank you.”
“What’s there to be polite about!” Lan He chuckled, “We’re close, just treat me to a meal next time!”
After hanging up the phone, Ling Tuxi didn’t dare to breathe loudly, for fear of exposing his guilt.
The last sentence sounded like ordinary politeness, but he always felt that the eyes of the other three people looking at him were very strange.
He walked to Xu Xiao’s computer and directly forced the platform to quit.
Xu Xiao was dumbfounded, “Captain Ling?”
Ling Tuxi looked around at the three young police officers with dark circles under their eyes, “Pretend to go offline, go rest first, when everyone arrives tomorrow morning, we’ll hold a case analysis meeting.”
In the criminal investigation team’s lounge, Shengbo Xia snored loudly. Ling Tuxi lay down with his clothes on, unable to sleep at all.
He suddenly missed the soft bed at the White Oak Hotel.
This is probably a case of it’s hard to go from luxury to frugality!
He simply got up and went downstairs, sitting on the bench on the first floor of the criminal investigation team, watching the rain outside the door. The fine rain lines refracted the light of the streetlights outside, making it look bizarre.
For the sake of the He family’s property, Jiaan Gu, the chairman of the Gu family, didn’t know how he convinced Weiyu He to marry. At the same time, he had Qing Gu create a scheme online, coercing and luring Man Qin, the He family’s family doctor, to find a way to kill Weiyu He on the wedding day, intending to turn his property into an inheritance, so as to facilitate Ya Gu’s next operations…
Then, could the two suspects who killed Man Qin actually be assassins hired by the Gu family? Maybe they had two tasks, one was to kill Man Qin to silence him, and the other was to kill Lan He?
No, no, Weiyu He’s will was very clear, even if Ya Gu killed Lan He now, she still wouldn’t inherit a penny, because the inheritance hadn’t reached Lan He’s hands yet.
It was also that Weiyu He had foreseen this and left a will based on the “children” condition in advance. But the Gu family’s company was in deficit and couldn’t wait for three years. Recently, the police were investigating the matter of making false accounts, so Ya Gu had to hold back, bypassing Lan He and going directly to Si’nian He, with the purpose of having Si’nian He privately use the company’s property. As for the scandal that was exposed today, whether it was intentional or unintentional, it didn’t matter.
The biggest victim in the whole incident was Lan He.
Although it was all speculation, Ling Tuxi felt a tightness in his chest. He went to the small supermarket in the cafeteria and bought a pack of cigarettes for the first time, took a few puffs hard in the outdoor corridor, and his chest felt even more bloated and painful. Finally, he threw the whole pack of cigarettes into the rain.
He pulled out the agate chain that had been warmed by his body temperature from his collar bit by bit, held the dice pendant at the end tightly, and his lips pursed into a line.
On the other side of the city, Lan He turned over in bed, comfortablyClip the quilt with his legs, sleeping innocently.
The sound of rain was really the best lullaby.