Chapter 09.2 – Fu Sheng’s Abandoned Kingdom

Title : Pheromone Scam

Translator : System Yaoi

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Chapter 9 Fu Sheng’s Abandoned Kingdom

Fu Sheng’s intuition told him that something was amiss. He returned to the military department and issued an order to investigate who interrogated Fang Gaomin during his time in custody and what he experienced. He also had the surveillance footage of the day Fang Gaomin was hit by the truck to be brought in. At the same time, he didn’t overlook the investigation of He Xingwen, He’s mother, and the jade smuggling.

What connections existed among these various elements?

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Fu Sheng chuckled in exasperation. The scars on He Yuan’s glands were actually caused by a surgical procedure to forcibly inject fake pheromones!

He continued reading the ongoing investigation report. Merely charging Fang Gaomin with jade smuggling wouldn’t be enough to bring down the deeply-rooted Fang family. However, the involvement of drug traffickers in the jade trade, resulting in a bloody incident, became a crucial opportunity.

With proper manipulation, they could force the Fang family to abandon their important trump cards.

Fu Sheng replayed the events in his mind. Wang Yuanyao seized the truck carrying jade materials, but the investigation dragged on lazily until the next day, missing the optimal moment to handle the public opinion explosion…

The misdeeds of the younger generation of the Fu family had no connection to the family itself, but Fu Jie refused to help and the bar also had Fu Sheng’s shares. The Fu family couldn’t and shouldn’t intervene at this time to save the He and Fang families. They had to discreetly sever their ties with them.

After all, Fu Jie’s refusal to help was merely a moral issue that affected the image of the Fu family. Fu Sheng, who was young and arrogant at the time, accepted Fang Gaomin’s shares in the bar out of self-importance, but he hadn’t committed any real crimes. Therefore, there was no need to take the risk of being tied to the Fang and He families.

This was a chain reaction.

At this point, neither the Fang nor He families had any backing.

Next, it would be the time for that influential figure behind Wang Yuanyao to make a move. He Yuan would relay the message through Wang Yuanyao and make a deal with that person. They would first bring down the accomplice, the He family, and then personally deal with the Fang family.

Fang Gaomin had been involved in too many things, and his grey-area business was about to be exposed, implicating numerous individuals. Therefore, Fang Gaomin wouldn’t be killed, and he might even serve only two or three years in prison.

He Yuan understood this very well. He had never relied on the law from the beginning; he intended to take matters into his own hands.

When Fang Gaomin was released from the detention centre, he didn’t seem right mentally. Fang Gaomin’s mother invited a doctor to their home, and the diagnosis revealed that Fang Gaomin had been subjected to military interrogation methods and injected with a certain type of mind-control drug in the detention centre. Combined with electric shocks, he was psychologically manipulated to induce fear until his mental state reached the brink of collapse before being released.

And then…

And then it would be the time for He Yuan to make his move.

The surveillance footage showed Fang Gaomin entering the cafe opposite Soulmate. An hour later, He Yuan entered. In the cafe’s surveillance footage, He Yuan showed Fang Gaomin a few photos and said something that appeared to agitate him.

Fang Gaomin went mad, rushed onto the road, and was struck dead by an oncoming truck.

According to the investigation, He Yuan had private contact with Wang Yuanyao before this, and Wang Yuanyao was the primary person responsible for interrogating Fang Gaomin.

Even the incident of Mother He stealing the truck carrying jade materials showed traces of someone’s manipulation.

This was a brilliant murder.

At first, Fu Sheng speculated that Wang Yuanyao helped He Yuan kill Fang Gaomin as part of their deal. However, for Wang Yuanyao, the trade-off seemed unworthy unless there were other reasons for him to assist He Yuan.

Or perhaps Wang Yuanyao also wanted to kill Fang Gaomin.

Fu Sheng pondered the reasons and suddenly thought of Ji Baishu. On a whim, he retrieved a photo of Ji Chang’s appearance before his death—it wasn’t Ji Baishu’s face.

But it wasn’t necessary for the two faces to be identical for Ji Chang and Ji Baishu to be the same person. “Ji Chang” perished in the fire, and if he didn’t die, he would have suffered severe burns.

With current medical technology, it wasn’t impossible to perform skin grafts and even replace limbs on a patient with full-body burns.

So, was Ji Baishu possibly the surviving Ji Chang?

Did He Yuan know that Ji Chang didn’t die?

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In a small town in the south, which served as a tourist attraction for the city, not particularly well-known, only a few thousand tourists flocked there each year, some staying for a few days and others for one or two months.

In one of the guesthouses, where guests were common, an unfamiliar face wouldn’t attract much attention during the peak tourist season.

Inside a suite facing the azure lake in the town, a figure sat with their back to the window, engaging in a video call with someone.

“Mhm, I’ll be back soon. Is Daddy taking good care of you? Have you finished your homework? You can’t always rely on me to cheat for you. Don’t you remember the scolding we got last time when Daddy caught us?”

In the video, there was a well-behaved child, around four or five years old, with two little pigtails. She was poking a doll with a pen while talking to He Yuan.

He Yuan looked at the child with tender eyes. The child was Ji Chang’s child, protected in the fire, with only minor burns. She miraculously survived and underwent several skin graft surgeries. Although now healthy, she seemed a few years younger than her peers.

Yes, Ji Chang didn’t die, and Ji Chang’s child didn’t die either, but He Yuan didn’t know.

At the time of the incident involving Ji Chang, He Yuan and he were not registered in the same household, and later, their household registrations were independent, making it impossible to put them together. Additionally, Ji Chang remembered He Yuan’s number but hadn’t added it to his contacts. This resulted in the hospital and the police not being able to contact He Yuan immediately after Ji Chang’s accident.

By the time He Yuan arrived at the hospital, the news he received was that Ji Chang and the child were burned to death together. Since no one claimed the bodies, they were directly cremated according to the procedure, and he was given an urn with their ashes.

He Yuan couldn’t understand why Ji Chang and his nephew were burned to death. Why were they unclaimed after their deaths? What about Fang Ji? As Ji Chang’s husband and the father of the child, where was Fang Ji?

It wasn’t until he investigated and discovered that the burned-down bar was mysteriously occupied by the Fang family and that Fang Ji had married an omega and gone to the south, He Yuan learned what Ji Chang had experienced alone.

He Yuan deeply regretted it and went through a period of painful torment.

Ji Chang was a gentle and kind person, and He Yuan learned from him by example.

If it was just being abandoned by an alpha, Ji Chang wouldn’t have wanted revenge, and he wouldn’t have agreed to He Yuan seeking revenge against Fang Ji.

Ji Chang was softhearted, and because they couldn’t afford to offend the Fang family, he had concealed many things from He Yuan.

He Yuan also wanted to choose not to seek revenge, but what if Ji Chang was murdered?

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