chapter 23

Madam Zhuo suppressed her anger and spoke coldly, “Who are you? I don’t understand what you are talking about.”

Su Yuanyuan smiled sarcastically and threatened arrogantly, “Madam Zhuo, do you think I would threaten you if I didn’t have some information? Zhuo Feng is your husband’s son, right? Didn’t you instruct my husband to drive into him just to get rid of your problems?”

Madam Zhuo was stunned and blurted out, “How did you come to know of this?”

“Not only do I know that Zhuo Feng is Mr. Zhuo’s son, but I also know that you were previously his mistress. You probably wouldn’t admit it because you might think we have no evidence against you, but tell me, if my husband exposed you and made this scandal public, would you be able to clear your name from suspicion?”

“You!”

Without waiting for Madam Zhuo to say anything, Su Yuanyuan said, “You have one day to comply with our demand,” and hung up the phone.

Su Yuanyuan squatted in the shadows and watched as Madam Zhuo broke into a furious rage, throwing anything she could grab. The little white fox couldn’t help but laugh and sent a recording of the conversation to Father Zhuo. She believes that even without other evidence, Father Zhuo would conclude that Madam Zhuo did it!

Sure enough, as Father Zhuo arrived home half an hour later, upon seeing Madam Zhuo, he looked bleak and asked, “You sent someone to kill Zhuo Feng? To kill my son?”

Su Yuanyuan had already turned on her mobile phone camera and moved to a prime position to clearly record their expressions and conversation. She happily waited for the show to begin.

Madam Zhuo denied this question and spoke with a sneer, “You are getting mad for your son? How dare you say that Zhuo Feng is your son? How could I possibly have anything to do with murder?”

Father Zhuo clicked on the recording on his mobile phone, and the conversation between Madam Zhuo and Su Yuanyuan immediately sounded out. Hearing the recording play out, Madam Zhuo panicked. In mental disarray, she rushed up to snatch the mobile phone but Father Zhuo slapped her face and she fell to the ground!

Father Zhuo was furious and said, “Since you know that Zhuo Feng is my son, why didn’t you tell me earlier? Do you want the two to kill each other?! Also, I didn’t expect you to be so ruthless and look for someone to run him over. Get rid of the problem? What are you doing? At the beginning, I listened to your words and avoided seeing Xu Mei. After that, you provoked her and caused her to get into a car accident. You wouldn’t let me raise my son too, so I sent him to an orphanage. What else do you want? Why do you have to get rid of him? Why have you never been able to tolerate them? Don’t forget, you are just an outsider!”

Madam Zhuo covered her face, jumped on Father Zhuo like crazy, and scolded him, “I am your wife, but you called me an outsider? You call him your ‘son’, but didn’t I didn’t give you a son as well? You still think about that wretched woman and your eldest son, don’t you? When the orphanage caught fire, I thought it was a godsend. My son didn’t need a brother, and the Zhuo family didn’t need a second son! Who knew that he actually came here with a changed name? He deserved it. If he didn’t show up, why would anyone remember him? What do you mean by mentioning him now? You want to acknowledge him? You want to share your property with him? I’m telling you, you’re dreaming! Everything in the Zhuo family is Yichen’s!”

Father Zhuo threw her off. He was furious. “If you hadn’t told someone to kill him, why would I have mentioned him? Right now, what does the driver’s wife want to do by sending me this recording? Think about it! If you don’t give her money, he will expose us. Even if he had no evidence, our family’s reputation will be ruined. Have you ever thought about what the company will become? You idiot!”

Madam Zhuo came back to her senses and panicked, “Then what should we do? Isn’t it just a matter of giving her money?”

Father Zhuo tore off his tie and sat down on the sofa. In a deep voice, he said, “Give it, isn’t it just 200,000? Tell someone else to give it and warn them. Remember to not associate with them again. No matter what people say, you can’t admit it. At the very least, make sure to not to leave such recordings again. When the limelight has passed and they come to blackmail us again, I naturally have the means to clean them up.”

“Then, what about this recording? Will she hand it over to the police?”

“She used a voice changer, and you didn’t clearly say that you ordered people to hit Zhuo Feng. It wouldn’t count as evidence. Don’t make waves if you’re stupid. Be a good Madam Zhuo and don’t make trouble for me!”

First his son, and then his wife. The father was bored with the successive messes he had to clean up for them. He got up and left without looking at Madam Zhuo.

Su Yuanyuan stopped recording, clearly satisfied with what she had obtained. She then ran out of the villa happily and dropped the driver’s wife’s mobile phone back. The driver’s wife had been looking for her mobile phone for a long time, and finally found the mobile phone in the sofa’s seam and muttered, “What junk! Always not in service, and always shutting down for no reason. I’ll change you once we get paid, and then I can enjoy the luxury of using an Iphone. It’s a pity he didn’t really hit that guy, and now half of our money is lost. What bad luck!”

Su Yuanyuan gave her a cold look, and waved her paws. Then, the light fixture on the roof dropped, scraping the woman’s forehead and slamming to the ground! With a scream, the woman dropped onto the sofa, patting her chest in shock. However, before she could catch her breath, the sofa collapsed inwards, leaving her stuck on it, screaming. Once she managed to collect herself, she got up and leaned against the wall. Looking at the half destroyed living room, she couldn’t help but wonder, was this divine retribution?!

After giving the woman a scare, Su Yuanyuan left quickly, satisfied with how pale and shivering the woman looked now. After meeting up with Zhuo Feng, she showed him the recording. Zhuo Feng was expressionless from beginning to end, as if the person in the video was not his biological father. After watching it carefully, he sent the video to the captain and Zhuo Yichen, and also sent it to the largest gossip forum on the Internet.

Su Yuanyuan asked softly, “Are you all right?”

Zhuo Feng put away the cell phone and smiled at her. “It’s okay, I didn’t really expect much of that old man. Nothing he does will affect me anymore. To me, they are just strangers.”

“That’s good… But is that all? No need to do anything else?”

This plan was designed by Zhuo Feng, and it reached this level in just a few moments, which made Su Yuanyuan take a step back and do a double take of him. She didn’t expect this scholar, who only studied all day, to be this cunning!

Zhuo Feng smiled as he said, “Zhuo Yichen is as impulsive and irritable as his mother. When he knows about this matter, he will definitely do something about it. With his meagre capabilities, he will definitely drag his dad down with him. You worked hard today. Take a rest first. I’ll go to the Boss and ask if they have retrieved anything by now. When the captain contacts me, he will probably keep an eye on the contact between the Zhuo family and the driver’s family.”

In reply, Su Yuanyuan said, “I’m not tired. I’m going to see what Zhuo Yichen will do. If the captain tails the Zhuo family and catches them giving the driver’s family 200,000 yuan, even if they refuse to admit that it is hush money, it will increase their suspicion. Then, things will be much easier.” Su Yuanyuan laughed happily. “It’s good that we are working together. It was inconvenient for me running around and doing everything alone before. I didn’t even think about swindling their true nature out so quickly.”

Zhuo Feng squatted in front of her and patted her head. He smiled and said, “I won’t let you get tired alone again. I’ll stay with you. Go, but be careful. Your safety is most important.”

“Okay!” Su Yuanyuan squinted as she rubbed his palm before running away.

After she left, Zhuo Feng also went to the pet shop to find that things went smoothly. The Mayor’s secretary wanted a town’s information, and within half a day, it was sent over. The records clearly displayed the relationship between Zhuo Feng and his parents, but his initial name was Zhuo Youlin instead of Zhuo Feng. When the orphans were transferred, the handover materials were soaked in water, and only a part of them could be read clearly. So, half of the orphans were renamed at that time.

Zhuo Feng remembers this incident. He once approached the orphanage to ask of his renaming. But maybe they had just received a group of orphans at that time, and they were very busy, so the orphanage didn’t go through the trouble to change it back for him. They said it was just a name, and it didn’t really matter. Later on, he got used to his name, and began to use it all the time.

With this, Zhuo Feng can prove that he was indeed Father Zhuo’s son. After his mother died, Father Zhuo gave some money to the orphanage and sent him in as an orphan. From the law books he read, he could use this opportunity to sue Father Zhuo for abandonment.

Thanks to Fang Linlin, Zhuo Feng could immediately go to the police station with helpful information. The captain was surprised to receive a video of the Zhuo couple quarreling, and upon looking through the evidence that Zhuo Feng and Father Zhuo are father and son, he couldn’t help but feel some sympathy for this hardworking child, and he couldn’t help telling him, “Zhuo Feng, it must be hard to find out all this, but the college entrance examination is the most important thing for you right now. You must remember that this is the only thing that belongs to you completely and can determine your future destiny. Don’t let your past hold you down.”

Zhuo Feng looked at him and nodded, “Don’t worry, Captain. I know the importance.”

“That’s good!” The captain patted him on the shoulder and continued, “I have perused the video here. Although indoor candid photos unfortunately can’t be used as evidence, they are enough to convince us that these two committed a premeditated crime. I will personally lead people to keep an eye on this matter, so no one can escape.”

“Thank you, Captain.”

As Zhuo Feng completed communications with the police, Zhuo Yichen finally came to know of the truth in the video he received from an anonymous mailer. At least he and his mother agreed on the same thing; the Zhuo family does not need a second son. For him, he agreed not only for his potential inheritance, but also because of Fu Xueqing. In the beginning, when he was a flamboyant young master, Fu Xueqing kept saying that she liked Zhuo Feng, but it was Zhuo Feng who didn’t want her, so she turned back to him. Now, if Zhuo Feng returns to the Zhuo family, compared to the way Zhou Yichen sits in a wheelchair all day recuperating from his injuries, will Fu Xueqing still follow him?

Zhuo Feng has always been such a nuisance. When he first saw Zhuo Feng and realized that Zhuo Feng looks a bit like his father, and Fu Xueqing also said she liked Zhuo Feng, he simply felt like he was swallowing flies. Otherwise, he wouldn’t even bother with Zhuo Feng. Now that he knew Zhuo Feng was his dad’s eldest son, his disgust for Zhuo Feng grew unabated. He would never let Zhuo Feng recognize his relatives!

And that driver’s wife, how dare she threaten them! He has seen so many such people, and he wasn’t scared of them anymore. Who do you think you’re talking to?! He wanted to call Father Zhuo, but when he thought that Father Zhuo always scolded him recently, he simply preempted and directly called Huang Mao.

“There’s someone I need you to help me clean up. Tell her to know what to say and what not to say. They should have children in their family, so scare her with them. I’ll wait for your good news.”

Su Yuanyuan thought he was shameless enough to abuse stray dogs, but she didn’t expect him to be even more shameless. Threatening people with their children was the lowest of the low. However, the bad luck charm she gave this b*stard was still valid. All the things he wanted to do wouldn’t be able to get done, and it would only drag himself down. She can already foresee that these people would soon be in a mess, and she was just waiting to see it happen!