With your sister’s words, I could finally relax and smile, "I'm relieved he's not here." After speaking, I casually put my phone in my pocket. My sister scoffed, "Still thinking of avenging Lin Han at a time like this. Master thought highly of you, but you ended up ruined by your emotions."
"Let me make a call first, and then we can talk."
"You want to call the police now?"
"You're overthinking it. I'm ordering room service; I'm hungry and want to eat."
Pot-stewed chicken, Burmese spicy noodles... Perhaps my stomach was weak, as I broke out in a sweat after a few bites of the spicy dishes. Seeing my state, my sister handed me a tissue and advised, "If you want to recover quickly, this isn't the way to eat."
I nodded and took a few sips of the chicken soup, "Actually, I quite admire Old Ghost. He drank millet porridge for so long for the sake of a scheme."
This statement seemed to displease my sister. She said unhappily, "Tang Nan, are you implying this is a scheme?"
"What do you think?"
"Who are you trying to scare?"
After a few bites of noodles and some soup, my face flushed, and I smiled at my sister, "Cao Qian, you're too full of yourself. You always think you're a 'spirit' who can see the past and future. In reality, such creatures don't exist. Your schemes are so sequential, like a row of dominoes. Once I fell for the first one, the events unfolded like falling dominoes, beyond my control."
"Yes, and can you defy the rules?"
"I can't defy them. I'm human, living in this natural world, and I have to follow natural laws. But I've seen so many of your schemes that it's easy to find a fatal weakness."
My words made my sister's face darken. She gritted her teeth and asked, "What weakness?"
"In the end, everything is related to you."
"I don't understand."
"Simply put, if the first domino has nothing to do with me, then how many fall after that matters little?"
My sister frowned and looked at me without speaking. My appetite had slightly recovered, and I ate a couple more bites of noodles, "How much did you invest this time?"
"10.1 billion."
"Only one hundred million more."
"As long as it's more than yours, I can control this partnership."
I nodded, "That's the principle, but using a limited liability company with low registered capital for financing primarily serves to mitigate risk."
"What does risk have to do with me? As long as I have financial control, that's all that matters. I heard your limited liability company has a registered capital of 200,000. After I take the money, you'll still be responsible for the 200,000 debt," my sister said, sounding rather pleased.
"You still don't understand?"
"What do I need to understand?"
"When Tu Kela Lu Yao was operating, the antique business we financed was doing very well."
"Lu Yao wanted to eat your money, so of course, he had to expand the business."
"But your money and my money are together?"
"What did you do?"
"Ning Cai Shen is the person in charge now, right?"
"Yes, he's very vigilant. If you make any moves, he'll transfer the money."
I laughed heartily, "Ning Cai Shen can transform seventy-two times, but at most, he's just the Monkey King. How can he escape the palm of the Buddha? That's right, the funds can be transferred at any time, but there's one situation where they can't be."
"What situation?"
"Think about the nature of the business we're in: antiques, auction houses, unpolished jade, jade processing and sales, a full range of antique curios."
"You tampered with it?"
Hearing my sister's question, I nodded and continued eating my noodles. My sister pondered for a moment, then called Ning Cai Shen, speaking cautiously, "Did anything happen on your end?"
"The partnership's funds have been frozen."
"Which company?"
"All of them."
"How is that possible? Who has such authority?"
"The Criminal Investigation Bureau. Our group is suspected of massive financial fraud, and all accounts have been frozen."
"Okay, I understand."
My sister remained relatively calm. She hung up the phone and looked at me as I ate my meal with a serious expression, asking, "Lin's and Chinese Style are renowned for their integrity. Where does the fraud come in?" "From the moment I injected my funds into Lin's, Tu Kela has been selling fake antiques."
"Freezing the accounts of such a large antique group isn't just about one or two pieces of art."
"That's right, many of the antiques are fakes."
"Why wasn't it discovered? You found the pawns."
"Don't talk about me finding so many pawns. Even if I found just one, you would have discovered it."
"But you still have one."
"Yes, one pawn who doesn't need me to arrange things and understands my intentions."
This time, my sister's expression changed, "Tie Zhi Shan."
"Yes, it's Old Tie. He bought all the fake antiques. Then, Luo Bo's informant, Wu Sheng, gave the information to Luo Bo. These antique transactions involved nearly 2 billion in funds, making it a major case. Tie Zhi Shan was called to the Criminal Investigation Bureau and only then discovered that the antiques he bought were fake. He cooperated fully with the investigation. And our group, the largest antique conglomerate in history, had all its related enterprise accounts frozen due to suspected forgery and fraud."
After listening, my sister let out a cold laugh, "Very well, Tang Nan. You actually set a trap for me with such a ploy. To become destitute and lose your wife, all just to trap my 10 billion in funds? Tang Nan, your vision is a bit small."
"It's not over yet."
"From the earliest equity structure, all responsibility falls on the controlling limited liability company, and its legal representative is me. However, the company's business scope and decision-making authority are not mine, but determined by the person who invested the most capital. This is stipulated in the contract, isn't it? This is also the standard I set for 'the big fish eating the small fish' at the beginning. Because you injected your funds, you became that decision-maker."
"It wasn't me."
"Right, right, it wasn't you. It was Ning Cai Shen."
"Now Ning Cai Shen is involved in the murder of Lin's Group chairman, Lin Han, and has used the company's name for forgery. Most importantly, Ning Cai Shen has a prior record of counterfeit currency fraud. Do you think his ending will be good?"
"When did you start suspecting Ning Cai Shen?"
I thought for a moment and said seriously, "It all started with your 'gift.' After I returned, Lin Han disappeared. This immediately made me suspect that the 'gift' you sent me was meant to harm Lin Han. Gradually, I realized that the one who acted against Lin Han wasn't Si Se Lao K, but rather a pawn under Si Se Lao K. If Si Se Lao K didn't know the secret order, then someone must have known it. Wang Ze Yi, he was my first thought, but then I realized it wasn't right. Si Se Lao K and Lin Han formed a connection and jointly planned everything because of Wang Ze Yi. Thus, I returned to the 'gift.' Logically, a 'gift' usually brings pleasant surprises, not shocks. After much thought, the person who brought surprises was Ning Cai Shen. Talented, low salary demand, 5,000 yuan practically hired a god."
Hearing my words, my sister's face twitched, "You suspect him just because of this?"
"If he had remained as carefree and indifferent as he was back in his hometown in the Northeast, I would never have suspected him. But in Guangzhou, he was different. His schemes were always on point, and he could even fathom my intentions. Regarding the financing funds, he only presented two possibilities, intentionally leading me towards a third one. He wanted me to invest, to gain the initiative."
"Is there anything wrong with that?"
"Assuming Lu Yao is the intelligent schemer, he would definitely know that I acquired 10 billion in immense wealth in Hong Kong. To defeat me, he would need to exceed 10 billion. How could Ning Cai Shen, being so intelligent, not know that 10 billion wasn't enough? He knew, but he thought I didn't. I'm truly not a qualified financial manager. It's true, I don't understand money well, but I understand schemes. To win, you need to know yourself and your enemy. If I could turn things around so easily with 10 billion, what would be the point of my schemes? So, I started rambling, talking about donating money, telling him to take my money and gain control, and so on. He placated me with promises but did no work. Thus, I confirmed that Ning Cai Shen was problematic."
"You laid a trap?"
"Yes. Ning Cai Shen and I openly went to Ruili. Ye Qingcheng and Xiao Zian split into two groups, one contacting Mr. Ke, the other contacting Tu Kela. During this time, I needed to buy some time for Tu Kela to arrange the scheme. So, I went to the market and was lucky enough to meet Boss Xie. If I had just dallied about, Ning Cai Shen would have become suspicious, but running into Boss Xie made it impossible for anyone to voice their suspicions."
"What trap did you set?"
"The Red Jade Scheme."
"The Red Jade Scheme wasn't orchestrated by Tu Kela?"
I smiled, "Cao Qian, do you know why Tu Kela was abandoned by Li Jiu?"
"Because he didn't learn to scheme."
"Exactly. That's the truth. Tu Kela cannot scheme; at best, he's a tool with performance talent. But Ning Cai Shen didn't know that. He genuinely believed Tu Kela had an epiphany and became some kind of four-element fusion schemer. However, his response was good. Since he couldn't see through it, and I could, it meant Tu Kela was formidable, and he could perfectly utilize Tu Kela."
My sister sighed heavily, "Fine, you're brilliant. Even if you knew everything, so what? Lin Han is still dead."
I looked at my sister and asked her with a smile, "Cao Qian, you know Lin Han is my weakness, but can something you know is a weakness still be a weakness?"