Xie Sui did not linger, instructing Ah Fei to accompany them for a few days before making further arrangements. He had no intention of keeping them in Hong Kong, wanting to take them back to the mainland.
With a mountain of company affairs, he and Lin Wanwan were each busy with their own work. They ate lunch together, went home to see the children, and their days were filled with a quiet busyness.
Ah Hua's investigation into the villa's history surprised Xie Sui. The villa had originally been inhabited by a gold robber. After committing the crime, the man was arrested, but the stolen gold was never found and remained missing.
More than ten years had passed, the robber was dead, and the gold was even harder to locate.
For some unknown reason, attention had once again fallen on his first residence, Xie Sui's villa. However, just two days into the investigation, Xie Sui had forcefully stopped it.
"Gold? How much?"
Ah Hua replied, "Over two tons."
"Hiss!"
Xie Sui gasped. Damn, how much was two tons of gold worth? He started calculating on his fingers, but Ah Hua couldn't stand it. "Brother Xie, do you still care about this little bit of money?"
"Nonsense, who wouldn't want more money? Over two tons of gold, even with today's price of over a hundred per unit, that's still two to three hundred million. Ah Hua, when did you become so casual, with hundreds of millions not even being a big deal?"
He couldn't earn that much even if he sold off multiple companies. He ran two factories, working himself to the bone, and only had a few million in assets.
"The key is the fun of treasure hunting. Alright, I know about this matter."
"It's only rumored, not necessarily actually hidden there. If this news gets out, your villa won't have a moment's peace, Brother Xie."
Xie Sui thought about it and agreed. This villa had become a hot potato.
Since it wasn't a critical matter, Xie Sui put it out of his mind and hurried back to work. Lin Wanwan was now solely focused on her cosmetics company and wasn't bothering him.
Old Master Du still hadn't woken up. Du Feiyang was busy fighting with the elder branch of the family and hadn't visited in a long time. He did call every day to curse them out, having never known they could be so shameless.
To ruin his reputation, they even fabricated an illegitimate child. Du Feiyang once again provided fodder for the tabloids, but the paternity test later proved it wasn't his son, merely an attempt to disgust him.
After listening to Du Feiyang's complaints, a cold smile flickered across Xie Sui's lips. "They want to disgust you? You can disgust them back. I'll tell you a secret about Du Yujie."
"What secret?"
Du Feiyang's interest was piqued. Brother Xie's methods, though devious, were effective.
Du Feiyun's successful tactic had disgusted Du Feiyang, causing the company directors who were about to support him to reconsider. This young master was fickle and decadent, unreliable, and could not be the head of the Du family.
The idea had been Du Yujie's. Seeing Du Feiyun so pleased, Du Yujie sipped her wine and said, "This small matter only damaged his reputation, not his core. But that Xie Sui, he seems to be doing quite well lately. Find a way to bring him down."
"How do we bring him down?"
"He's difficult to deal with, but what about his wife?"
Du Feiyun understood. She was still fixated on Xie Sui, or perhaps hadn't gotten her revenge yet and didn't want Xie Sui to have an easy time.
"You, Xie Sui isn't a good person either, but he's slippery and hard to grasp. Even Li Junhao fell for it, what can we do?"
"Doesn't he love his wife very much? Start with his wife."
Du Feiyun hesitated. If they really targeted Lin Wanwan, they would become mortal enemies with Xie Sui.
"What? You're scared?"
"No, it's just that we don't have suitable people."
Du Yujie said, "I do. Leave it to me. Do you think money can't buy people?"
Du Feiyun also hated Xie Sui to death and nodded in agreement.
However, before Du Yujie could find anyone, she ran into trouble.
She held a high-level management position at Du's Group. Having studied abroad, she had some capability and went to the group office every day.
Today, as she got out of her car, a family suddenly rushed out and grabbed her, refusing to let go. The leading elder woman had white hair, a face full of wrinkles, and wore an old-fashioned wide-belted trousers with a blue smock. Her small, sharp eyes stared at her menacingly.
She was a very ordinary rural old woman, but she made Du Yujie's face turn pale instantly. "You, how did you get here? Someone, quickly drag her away."
"You're my family's daughter-in-law, and you dare to drive away your mother-in-law? Eldest son, take your wife home. She carried a child for our family. Once she entered our family, she would be part of our Liu family forever."
A strong, honest-looking man directly grabbed her waist. "Wife, come home and have babies with me."
"Security, drag them away!"
The security guards were stunned. How could the third young lady be his wife?
Whoosh!
As the security guards approached, reporters suddenly appeared from nowhere, blocking their path. They swarmed Du Yujie, asking, "Miss Du, we heard you got married in the mainland and were pregnant. Is this your husband's family?"
"Yes, you guys come here. Let me tell you, she's our daughter-in-law. But after a few months, she couldn't stand the hardship and ran away. She even took our eldest grandson. It was with great difficulty that I found her. She must return my eldest grandson."
The reporters surrounded her again, eagerly reporting the scoop. The old woman, animatedly, revealed all of Du Yujie's secrets. She had lived with them for a few months. Despite her current high status, she had been beaten if she didn't do chores at their home.
The reporters were shocked. Some felt something was amiss and asked, "How could Miss Du marry into a family like yours? Old woman, are you lying?"
"We spent a lot of betrothal gifts to marry her. Why would an old woman lie to you?"
"How much were the betrothal gifts?"
"One thousand yuan."
The reporters couldn't believe it. With one thousand yuan, they thought they could marry Miss Du?
Du Feiyun also received the news and came to disperse the crowd, finally rescuing Du Yujie. Du Yujie pointed at the old woman and said, "She's a human trafficker, Eldest Brother. Kill her!"
Du Feiyun pulled her into the office. "If we act, wouldn't that confirm that you were kidnapped? Where would the Du family's reputation go?"
Du Yujie trembled all over, the humiliating experience resurfacing, tormenting her with shame and pain. "I don't care, I want them dead! You don't know how they treated me!"
"Calm down. Something is not right about this. Weren't they caught and locked up? How could they appear here from thousands of miles away?"
Du Yujie said venomously, "It's Xie Sui, it must be him. No one else would be this malicious."
Du Feiyun's expression grew serious. Xie Sui was indeed insidious, but the Du family really couldn't afford to move against those two now.
"Big Brother, you must help me get revenge."
"Xie Sui definitely doesn't just want to disgust us; there must be another trick up his sleeve. If we act now, we'll fall into his trap. Calm down, you must not act impulsively."