Chapter 420: His Mastermind

Rejected 99 Times, the Aloof Campus Belle Comes On Strong

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"But what?" Jiang Muye asked, his voice steady.

He seemed to sense that a turning point was coming.

Yu Xi's adoptive father hemmed and hawed, "Someone got in touch with him."

"Who?"

"We… don't… don't know either. It seems like a friend from his old orphanage. Yu Xi didn't have any friends before, but ever since he got in contact with this person, he's become very rebellious, and he even throws tantrums at us," Yu Xi's adoptive mother said timidly.

Yu Xi's adoptive father sighed. "And that wasn't all. He also threatened us with the pimping business, and deliberately gave us your photo…"

Yu Xi's adoptive father was carefully watching Leng Ruoli's and Jiang Muye's expressions.

Leng Ruoli was confused. "What did he want with a photo of my boyfriend?"

Jiang Muye answered, "He wanted to use my photo for plastic surgery."

Leng Ruoli was astonished, but after a moment she understood. "No wonder he looks identical to you. This is going too far."

"Except I never imagined he'd want to get plastic surgery to look like me." Jiang Muye's thin lips were pressed tightly together.

"I… I don't understand either. Back then you weren't famous yet, I didn't even know who you were, so when he told me to do the surgery to make him look like you, it gave me a shock too. I immediately thought he was crazy. Um, Young Master Jiang, don't think I'm being sarcastic about you!" Yu Xi's adoptive father explained, clearly desperate to survive.

He was afraid Jiang Muye would get angry.

Yu Xi's adoptive father continued his description. "You really are very handsome, but Yu Xi used to have that androgynous beauty, ambiguous between male and female, the kind that both men and women would like. He fit a lot of people's tastes. If he got surgery to look like you, he'd be too handsome, and maybe… not so popular. Um, I mean, he wouldn't be so popular in the switch-hitter market."

Jiang Muye glared at Yu Xi's adoptive father.

You think I want to be a switch-hitter! Bah, why would I want to be popular in this weird market!

After being glared at by Jiang Muye, Yu Xi's adoptive father looked pitiful, and he didn't dare say anything more, afraid that the more he said, the more mistakes he'd make.

It was Yu Xi's adoptive mother who choked out, "We're doctors, after all. He threatened to report the pimping business, so there's nothing we could do. Naturally, we could only agree."

Jiang Muye roughly understood the ins and outs of the matter.

But there was still one thing he didn't quite understand.

If he hadn't been very famous back then, why did Yu Xi want to get plastic surgery to look like him?

That was a bit hard to explain. How did his photo end up in Yu Xi's hands?

"Did Yu Xi's voice used to sound like mine?" Jiang Muye thought of a key point and asked.

Yu Xi's adoptive parents said in unison, "No."

"Alright, I understand." Jiang Muye's eyes darkened.

Leng Ruoli looked at Jiang Muye. "Did you figure something out?"

"Since he wanted plastic surgery, and his voice didn't sound like mine, yet now his voice does sound like mine, that proves he's imitating me, and his goal is completely to replace me." Jiang Muye's gaze was firm. "Just like he said before, he wants to take away everything I have."

"This is absurd. What's his motive! There's no need for that! Could it be that he wants to get Chen Group!" Leng Ruoli's brows knitted tightly.

The words she blurted out made Jiang Muye's eyes light up.

Jiang Muye immediately grabbed Leng Ruoli by the shoulders. "What did you just say?"

Leng Ruoli was stunned for a moment. "This is absurd?"

"No, the next sentence."

"His motive?" Leng Ruoli asked, confused.

"Not that either!"

"Could it be that he wants to get Chen Group?" Leng Ruoli ventured.

After hearing her words, Jiang Muye nodded in satisfaction. "Right! Maybe that's exactly his goal! He might want to impersonate me, replace me, and become the heir of Chen Group."

Leng Ruoli's eyes widened in shock. "That… that's too terrifying. If I weren't familiar enough with you, he might have actually succeeded."

After all, Jiang Muye and Yu Xi really were identical.

Outsiders would basically mistake the two of them for each other.

Earlier on, Yu Xi still dressed differently from Jiang Muye.

But eventually the day came when Yu Xi dressed exactly like Jiang Muye, and Jiang Muye disappeared. Wouldn't everyone then naturally assume that Yu Xi was Jiang Muye? If anything, Chen Group might also…

Leng Ruoli had already started breaking out in a cold sweat.

Jiang Muye immediately grabbed Leng Ruoli's hand and comforted her. "Don't be nervous. Weren't the two of us smart enough not to let him succeed? I think the turning point for him was probably meeting that friend from the orphanage. That's our breakthrough."

At least the clues they had in hand now weren't so few.

Jiang Muye had a way to uncover all the truth.

So Jiang Muye continued looking at Yu Xi's adoptive parents. "I have another question for you. How did you get out of the country?"

Yu Xi's adoptive parents answered honestly, "Yu Xi suddenly sent people to force us out of the country. We were completely baffled at the time, and entirely unprepared, but Yu Xi insisted on us leaving, and he deliberately skipped the visa step, sending us straight to the visa-free J Island."

After hearing that, Jiang Muye had a good idea of what was going on.

So it had been Yu Xi's sudden decision. It seemed his threats had landed, catching Yu Xi off guard.

"Do you still have the list of clients you made Yu Xi accompany?" Jiang Muye looked at Yu Xi's adoptive parents.

The two of them looked troubled, and answered instinctively, "No, it's gone!"

How could Jiang Muye possibly believe the words of these two big liars?

Answering that fast meant there had to be a trick.

"Really? Are you sure you don't want to think about it again?" Jiang Muye directly signaled the bodyguards around him with his eyes.

The bodyguards quickly stepped forward.

This scared the couple badly.

They were really afraid the bodyguards would get physical, especially since Jiang Muye was such a ruthless person.

Now they were so frightened that they just blurted out, "We know, we know, we know one!"

Jiang Muye wasn't entirely satisfied, but at least the couple could name one, which was enough to satisfy him.

"Good. Now tell me, who is it?" Jiang Muye looked at the couple with his head held high.

The couple asked awkwardly, "Then after we tell you, you'll keep it confidential, right?"

Jiang Muye shot them a glare.

They were terrified and immediately confessed. "There's the wife of the Langda Group chairman. She's especially fond of our Yu Xi! She even helped buy me lots of luxury goods, and introduced quite a few socialites and heiresses to me for facials!"

Jiang Muye was quite satisfied after hearing that.

The Langda Group chairman?

That was his business partner.

If the man found out his wife had cuckolded him, he'd probably blow his top.

By providing this intelligence, he could gain quite a bit of benefit.

Just as Jiang Muye had imagined, after he sought out the Langda Group chairman for tea and probed around, revealing that Yu Xi had been kept by the chairman's wife, the Langda Group chairman was astonished.

He was completely in the dark.

He was entirely unaware that his little wife at home was actually playing so wildly out there.

She had even kept a pretty boy, playing around right under his nose for so long.

At this rate, the chairman didn't even know whether his son was his own flesh and blood.