Chapter 653: Chapter 653: The Scam
When the girl jumped off the building, they were all present.
She couldn’t let go of her mother, so how could she commit suicide?
Unless she had no choice but to die.
Chu Yin had spent time with this girl and often heard her talking about her parents.
Her parents were her hope to survive in that cage.
She looked at Lin Zhiyi in horror: "She was threatened."
Lin Zhiyi said, "She kept saying she didn’t want her mom to see those things. What things?"
"Could it be something from the curator’s computer? But weren’t those all deleted by Fang Sisi?"
Besides that, Chu Yin really couldn’t think of anything else that could threaten them.
Sang Li guessed, "The evidence in the curator’s hands was indeed destroyed, but that doesn’t mean the Bai Family doesn’t have any evidence."
"The Bai Family? But the last person who saw that girl was Fang Sisi. How could the Bai Family give the evidence to Fang Sisi..."
Chu Yin trailed off, her face going pale.
That’s right.
She thought of it too.
Fang Sisi sided with the Bai Family.
Thoroughly betrayed the sisters who had been by her side.
Even forced a good sister to death in this way.
The room fell into a strange silence.
Lin Zhiyi clutched the blanket, her mind full of the girl’s expression before she died.
She was the victim, yet she was apologizing before she died.
Lin Zhiyi gritted her teeth: "Fang Sisi will not have a good end."
Gong Chen looked at her, saying abruptly: "Is it related to your dream visions?"
Lin Zhiyi hesitated for a few seconds but still nodded.
She couldn’t explain the past and present, she could only say she dreamed of a very familiar yet unfamiliar face.
"It looks like Second Master Bai, but Second Master Bai..."
"Doesn’t look like him?" Gong Chen hit the nail on the head.
Lin Zhiyi nodded.
Second Master Bai didn’t quite resemble the photo Gong Chen had, nor did he resemble the person in her dream.
But there was an inexplicable familiarity, especially with those eerie eyes.
Upon hearing this, Sang Li took out his phone and looked at the photo closely.
"So you all feel the same way. Meeting today, I think his face looks younger than in the photo. But the photo was taken two years ago, technically, this feeling shouldn’t occur."
Chu Yin listened in a daze.
"What do you mean? Would he, an old man, get plastic surgery?"
With that, the hospital room door was pushed open.
Li Huan walked in quickly.
"What plastic surgery? Who had plastic surgery?"
Seeing no one answering, he pointed outside on his own accord.
"I just came with my colleague and saw Mrs. Bai, who is the man beside her? He seems very important."
"Second Master Bai," Gong Chen replied.
"Who? I’ve never heard Bai Family has a Second Master. He looks so young, my colleague... Oh, it was the colleague from the cosmetic surgery department before, he said this old man is quite fashionable, had a lot of work done on his face, and the surgeon is very skilled, preserving personal features."
After Li Huan finished speaking, the room fell silent.
He scanned around: "Are you talking about him?"
Sang Li directly handed over the phone.
Li Huan looked at the photo, frowned, and zoomed in on the area of his arm.
There was a small scar there.
"My colleague said he had some scar proliferation and probably also had laser treatment, generally used for removing moles, spots, scars, or tattoos."
His last words suddenly reminded Lin Zhiyi of the scenes in her dream.
In the news photo, there seemed to be a scar on that man’s wrist too.
If that’s the case.
Lin Zhiyi pointed at the photo: "Li Huan, is there any way to know his appearance eight years later, no, five years later?"
Li Huan was curious about her thought but didn’t ask further.
"It’s not difficult, his overall features have been preserved, as for other places, it’s mainly maintenance, so appearance changes just need a computer simulation."
After speaking, he sent the photo to a colleague to help out.
Ten minutes later, the computer-generated photo appeared in front of everyone.
Lin Zhiyi just glanced at it and nodded firmly.
"It’s him, it’s him."
"Who?" Gong Chen looked at her emotion, hurriedly soothing.
Lin Zhiyi took a deep breath: "The main culprit of the kidnapping case."
"How do you know?"
"It’s..."
Lin Zhiyi was stunned.
The eyes in front of her were full of suspicion.
She quickly thought and explained: "When that girl was trying to kill me, she kept babbling nonsense, she said Bai Family members kidnapped Bai Family members. When I opened my eyes and saw Second Master Bai, I felt his look at me was very strange, and he also used the girl’s death to stimulate me, definitely wanting to see what I knew."
The girl had been under the Bai Family’s control for more than a year, knowing some inside story wasn’t abnormal.
Fortunately, everyone didn’t think too much.
But Gong Chen stared at Second Master Bai’s photo five years later for a long time.
Lin Zhiyi asked: "What’s wrong?"
Gong Chen asked Li Huan: "Can you reverse-engineer the face?"
"That’s easier. How long ago do you want the photo from?"
"More than twenty years ago, before the Bai Patriarch’s kidnapping case," Gong Chen said slowly.
Lin Zhiyi paused, seemingly knowing what he wanted to do.
Li Huan answered and directly sent a message to the colleague.
Less than ten minutes later, a photo from more than twenty years ago came through.
Second Master Bai’s bone structure hadn’t changed, so excluding the altered places, his appearance from more than twenty years ago was easily obtained.
Lin Zhiyi immediately leaned forward and recognized the person in the photo.
"Old Master Bai!"
She almost instantly reached a conclusion.
"The kidnapping case is fake, it’s all his self-directed performance, the scar on his arm is left after removing tattooed skin."
"The so-called Second Master Bai is just the identity he prepared for his resurrection."
Sang Li frowned slightly: "No wonder after the kidnapping case, the Bai Family suffered so much loss domestically, but could quickly make a comeback abroad, they must have taken a large ransom."
"Not only that, I investigated a bit deeper into the cooperation between the Bai and another family from years ago. The supposed billions of cooperation was actually an investment scam. In the end, the money should have all landed in Old Master Bai’s pockets, but since he’s dead, the money naturally couldn’t be recovered."
Gong Chen spoke calmly, his face without a ripple.
Seemingly he had anticipated it.
Lin Zhiyi was slightly surprised.
"You guessed it long ago? That’s why you had Li Huan calculate Second Master Bai’s appearance from more than twenty years ago."
"I’m not that all-knowing, just some guesses, and the appearance simulation confirmed them."
Gong Chen’s tone was restrained, enveloped in a strategizing aura.
Even Sang Li teased: "Luckily we’re allies, not opponents."
"Who said we were allies? We’re love rivals."
Gong Chen’s long eyelashes drooped slightly, with an authoritative quality.
Sang Li laughed silently, even if his child was grown so big, why hold grudges.
Lin Zhiyi didn’t catch the undertone between the two men, stepped forward to interrupt.
"If Second Master Bai is Old Master Bai, shouldn’t he be staying abroad? Why take the risk to come back? Although his identity has changed, the matter back then made such a stir, isn’t he afraid someone might recognize him?"
"This question, thanks to your reminder," Sang Li answered.
Lin Zhiyi listened, feeling bewildered.
Chu Yin sneakily reminded nearby: "That was the day we had hot pot, you got drunk and with Third Young Master..."
Lin Zhiyi’s face, originally somewhat pale, showed a blush.
With an attitude of mutual destruction, she glared at Chu Yin.
"I remember, it’s when you said you wanted to sleep with Mr. Sang."
"Lin Zhiyi!"
Anyway, it was the hot pot that time.