Translator: Deyonna
There was only a three-hour gap between He Yu’s awakening from a coma and his discharge from the hospital.
The doctor tried to stop him with the medical examination report, but it didn’t work. In desperation, he had no choice but to look at the assistant who had been running in and out of the hospital these days, hoping that he would persuade his boss to take his health seriously.
However, the assistant happily packed up, handed the cleaned briefcase to He Yu’s hand, turned his face, and said, “Doctor, where should we pay the bill?”
Doctor: “……”
Under the repeated requests of the other party, He Yu was finally forced to agree to wear a health monitoring device throughout the day and also paid a huge amount of medical treatment fees. The assistant on the side was feeling painful. He secretly criticized those people who had connections with Zhou Mushi are nothing good.
After this encounter, the matter was simply murder for gain, ruthless, really ruthless.
He walked out of the hospital with a heavy complexion, but the boss next to him was radiant and energetic. He didn’t look like someone who had been seriously injured and had not fully recovered yet. On the way back in the car, the assistant even heard the man in the back seat hum a military song.
His hand holding the car’s control device trembled. He suddenly regretted that he didn’t listen to the doctor’s advice to let He Yu stay in the hospital for a few more days.
Is his brain really not broken?
Fortunately, the commander was still the commander, and he quickly used his strength to prove that his worries were unnecessary. After returning to work, He Yu resolutely dealt with the backlog works and then began to deal with Cheng Huanqing.
With the evidence left by Zhou Mushi, coupled with He Yu’s secret contacts, the removal of power from that surnamed Cheng became a certainty. Later, He Yu got in touch with the Vice Secretary-General surnamed Liu. And as a vice minister, he put weight on the balance of power of the other party, while secretly and anonymously releasing the evidence bit by bit. The plan to impeach the Secretary-General began to move forward in an orderly manner.
On the other hand, the decision of Yu Chengshan’s second trial also came down, and the result was to dismiss the appeal and upheld the original judgment.
When a wall is about to collapse, everybody would give it a push. For some time after the Yu family lost its pillar, various accusations and investigations that followed forced the various industries under the Yu family’s name to stop operating. Counting from the bankruptcies and seizures, the loss of funds was in the hundreds of millions. For a moment, the whole family was anxious, and no one could take charge of the overall situation.
Being the center of two political storms, He Yu’s office has been in an endless stream of people coming and going in the past few days. Because of his busy schedule, he shut out all the Yu family members who came to see him. He has never been idle. In order to get the important things at hand done as soon as possible, he compressed almost 24 hours’ worth of work into seconds. Even if he’s dragging his injured body to work, his efficiency is still surprisingly high. Every morning, when the assistant yawned and crawled into the apartment door, He Yu was already dressed and sitting in the study, working.
After nearly a week of going on like this, the health monitoring device began to issue warnings, and the doctor sent several messages in succession to scold the assistant. Between his words, he insinuatingly criticized the alpha, who was still reading the documents with the infusion bag hanging on the side, and finally added helplessly, “Why are you and him so alike?”
He Yu raised his eyebrow and put down the document in his hand.
Due to health reasons, he had to give himself a day off to rest at home and went to work two hours later than usual the next day.
Before going out, he stood in front of the closet and pulled out a tie, and put it on. Then he touched the empty space on his chest as if thinking of something. He opened the drawer and rummaged through it.
From behind, the assistant blew the hot coffee and asked, “What are you looking for?”
He Yu closed the drawer and shook his head thoughtfully. “It’s nothing.”
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“What?” He Yu noticed his hesitant gaze, tilted his head, and asked.
“You… aren’t going to cover it up?”
He Yu glanced at him indifferently and raised his eyebrow. “Cover what?”
The assistant met his eyes and immediately closed his mouth knowingly.
After a while, the elevator opened, and he finally couldn’t help but say, “Of you two… Are you an alpha or is he an alpha?”
He Yu straightened his tie, stepped out, and sneered. “What do you know?”
The assistant felt that he had been maliciously attacked by 100,000 points, and was about to talk back with grief and indignation, but when he took a step twice, the person in front of him suddenly stopped.
He then looked up and found an omega woman standing in front of them.
It’s Yu Min.
“Should I call the security?” the assistant asked.
He Yu raised his hand to signal that he didn’t need to and stepped forward to greet the dull-faced woman calmly. “Miss Yu, what can I do for you?”
“Yu Yuan, can I talk to you?”
He Yu didn’t speak, just looked at her quietly. “Yu Chengjiang asked you to come?”
Yu Min bit her lip, lowered her head, and said nothing.
“Really stupid.”
Yu Min said, “Uncle also has no other choice. Do you think he wants to…”
“No, I’m talking about you.”
Yu Min raised her head abruptly and saw a bit of taunting and pity in He Yu’s eyes. “The culprit at the beginning was your father, and now he’s in prison, and Yu Quan is dead. At this time, he pushed you to me. What’s his plan? Can’t you think of it?”
Yu Min’s thoughts twisted and turned, then her pretty face turned pale in an instant.
He Yu glanced at her face, looked at his watch without interest, and walked past her.
“Don’t be too nervous. I won’t target you, rest assured.” The alpha’s tone was flat. “I won’t let anyone go.”
Yu Min came back to her senses, turned around, and said to his back, “It’s not enough for you to destroy my father and my brother. Do you have to drag the entire Yu family to hell too? What about you? Yu Yuan, you’re also surnamed Yu. How can you be so indifferent?”
He Yu’s footsteps paused, and without turning back, he said, “You’re wrong. I didn’t drag anyone to hell.”
In the past ten years, this seemingly prosperous family has been gradually hollowed out, sliding into the abyss little by little. He only gave it a light push.
As for the name Yu Yuan, this name had sunk into hell ten years ago.
**
That night, news of Yu Chengshan’s suicide in prison spread.
When He Yu heard the brief report on the way back after he got off work, there was no fluctuation on his face, he just nodded lightly, as if what had died was an insignificant ant.
When he got home, he took off his coat and walked into the dining room. He sighed helplessly at the sight of the empty wine storage, so he made himself a cup of coffee instead.
When did he start relying on red wine to fall asleep?
Probably since he escaped death at the age of nineteen, when he was haunted by nightmares every night, only the smell of wine could make him find a little peace.
It’s an addictive sleeping pill.
Later, nightmares no longer bothered him, but half a glass of wine before going to bed became a habit.
He Yu is well known in the military for his amazing alcohol tolerance, thus, both colleagues, superiors, and subordinates like to cater to his preference. His residence in the Federation even has a large wine cellar with a rich collection.
He has tasted all kinds of red wine, rare and expensive, but none of them tastes like the one in his memory. They more or less differ, some are not sweet enough, and some are too sweet.
Until that night, on the balcony of Yu’s banquet hall, after ten years, he smelled the familiar scent in the same place again.
Like a fine wine hidden under the snow, it buries the fragrance of flowers and fruits throughout the spring and summer.
When he first tasted it, he thought he was merely tipsy, but who knew after indulging for too long, he was already intoxicated that he had forgotten who he was.
He Yu sat in front of the desk with a cup of coffee in his hand.
He didn’t change his clothes. If it were before, Zhou Mushi would definitely not allow him to step into the room. This omega is a bit of a clean freak.
The coffee has a very bitter aftertaste. He drank less of it when he was in the Federation. When he got here, it was his first time making coffee for someone. The steps were all rigid, and he followed the instructions without any skill, making the taste of the brewed coffee just average. He doesn’t understand how Zhou Mushi came to like it.
On that rainy night when he was attacked, when he handed the coffee to the omega, he was ready to be rejected, but Zhou Mushi stepped into his clumsy trap without thinking, which made He Yu unexpectedly stunned.
He slowly stroked the wall of the porcelain cup, imagining the touch of Zhou Mushi’s fingertips, and opened the location map of the terminal for the umpteenth time.
The coordinates on the small offshore island are still flashing constantly, like a lost diamond. In the past few days, He Yu had thought of throwing everything away and flying to Purang Island countless times. Only when he looked at this coordinate did he feel a little more at ease.
Zhou Mushi didn’t leave and even stayed in one place for him.
This is a great gift, but also a long torture.
This canny omega is too good at tormenting people. When he’s intoxicated, he would slap you awake and exchange a kiss for blood.
If you can’t hold it in your palm, you have to hold it in the hollow of your heart.
He Yu put down the cup, took out an old data disk from his chest, and plugged it into a smart brain.
After entering the password, a string of folders appeared in front of him again.
In the past few days, he took advantage of the few breaks and browsed the information in the folder intermittently, and now’s the second time.
The files are sorted by year. They contain a large amount of text and images, organized from biggest to smallest. They’re all information about the lives of more than a dozen people in various categories. Except for Cheng Huanqing, the rest have a variety of names. Most of them are people who have had names in political and commercial circles. It is worth mentioning that most of them are surnamed Zhou.
Some of these people have died, some disappeared a few years ago, and a few are in jail.
There’s no doubt that Zhou Mushi’s hands are behind these fates.
This ordinary data disk includes all the connections he has mastered and all the obstacles he has removed in the past ten years of politics. The latter even includes his half-brothers and sisters.
In one of the earliest folders, there’s a file about an alpha named “Zhou Heng”. The file shows that he is the illegitimate son of the Zhou family’s patriarch and the eldest brother of Zhou Mushi. When he was running a mining company, he was involved in a gang fight and died at the border ten years ago.
Ten years later, that company appeared in Cheng Huanqing’s name, becoming the biggest evidence of his suspected arms smuggling business, kicking the Secretary-General from the throne to the bottom.
There are only objectives and cold data in the information. There is no subjective narrative, but He Yu can still guess from this file what Zhou Mushi did.
After the death of Zhou patriarch’s eldest son, the property under his name should have belonged to Zhou Mushi, but he gave up his shares and threw this piece of fat meat, which was used for arms smuggling in the name of mineral trade, to the original shareholders’ meeting. A few years later, when the company was on the verge of bankruptcy due to poor management, he pulled some strings and transferred it to the Cheng family.
He already had the remote control in his hand, and he detonated the time bomb at the most appropriate time.
Ten years ago, Zhou Mushi didn’t even know Cheng Huanqing by then. This was probably just a fuse he left for himself in preparation for future use.
In the interpersonal connections presented by this data disk, such and such fuzes are everywhere, buried deep in every corner, weaving out the cold and ruthless ambition of this omega.
Translator’s Corner: I’d never realized I would be this busy when I say I would finish the main chapter last month, how foolish of me. I won’t promise this time. I will just try my best to post a chapter whenever I can coz my schedule is really a mess right now. Gosh it’s so late in my place and I really need to sleep. I haven’t been able to sleep well these past few days. Thank you so much for your patience. Lysm!
No worries! Focus pn your health and get plenty of rest. Thanks for the chapter. 💕
Ooooh… Two masterminds at work. Not all stories read well as serialization and I think this story falls into this category. I’m going to reread it all in one swoop once finished and then I’ll be able to follow the threads and plot convolutions.
Thank You for the new chapter (ฅ^ω^ฅ)♥
Damn I absolutely love the mc