The Sweetest Marriage Ch.310

Chapter 310 – The Cunning Chen Family

However, when Chen Yunzeng attempted to call Chen Yunqi, the call went unanswered. After the phone rang for a while, a mechanical female voice replaced the ringing, indicating that no one was available to take the call at the moment.

There had been occasions before when Chen Yunzeng tried calling Chen Yunqi and received no response. However, this time, at such a critical moment, after Chen Yunzeng hung up, he couldn’t shake the feeling that something was wrong.

“Perhaps Chen Yunqi is in a meeting right now,” Chen Yunzeng consoled himself inwardly.

Half an hour later, Chen Yunzeng tried calling Chen Yunqi again, only to find that the phone was switched off this time.

Chen Yunzeng furrowed his brows tightly, a sense of foreboding suddenly spreading within him. Unable to sit still, he grabbed his car keys, descended the elevator in a hurry, and hastily started the car, intending to check the situation at the Chen residence.

Located within a large compound, Chen’s family home had been easily accessible for Chen Yunzeng on regular visits. However, this time, he was stopped by the guards at the compound’s entrance, who refused to let him in no matter what he said.

Chen Yunzeng felt a jolt in his heart. The ominous feeling seemed to solidify, weighing on him like a heavy stone, making it difficult for him to catch his breath.

Forcing himself to stay composed, Chen Yunzeng turned his car around and left. But instead of heading back to Changfeng Group, he felt a premonition that he couldn’t return there now.

As predicted by Chen Yunzeng’s premonition, shortly after he left Changfeng Group, narcotics police arrived, took away several employees from the Transportation Department, and forcefully entered Chen Yunzeng’s office, only to find it empty.

Chen Yunzeng was planning to return home when his phone started ringing urgently. It felt like an urgent plea. He switched to speakerphone and answered the call.

“Yunzeng, don’t come home right now! The police just raided our place. Though they’re gone now, I see police cars parked outside the window. They might be waiting for your return. You… you need to find a place to hide!” It was Chen Yunzeng’s wife speaking. Her voice was choked with emotion, as if she had said these words with her last breath.

Now Chen Yunzeng was certain of his impending doom, but he couldn’t fathom why everything had escalated so quickly, catching him off guard!

Chen Yunzeng steadied his mind and tried to keep his tone calm. “Darling, take care. Look after our son for a while. I’ll lay low for some time.”

“Okay… I’ll take good care of our son,” Chen Yunzeng’s wife, spotting another wave of armed police through the window, collapsed to the ground. Their child, not yet two years old, was sound asleep, oblivious to the turmoil outside. Tears welled up in Chen Yunzeng’s wife’s eyes as she looked at her child, but she held back, not letting herself cry aloud. She knew Chen Yunzeng couldn’t afford any worries right now.

“Yunzeng, I have to hang up. The police are here again,” Chen Yunzeng’s wife said and disconnected the call.

As the police entered the room, Chen Yunzeng’s wife wiped her tears and stubbornly faced them. “I don’t know where Yunzeng is. No matter how many times you ask, I don’t know.”

“Don’t worry, we’re not here to ask about Chen Yunzeng’s whereabouts. We’re here to protect you and your son.” The police, noticing the sleeping child, lowered their voices and, after saying this, left the bedroom.

The police didn’t explain why they were protecting Chen Yunzeng’s wife and child. Chen Yunzeng was involved in the dr*g trade, having collected money from several dr*g lords without delivering the goods. In retaliation, these dr*g lords, unable to find Chen Yunzeng, would likely target his wife and child, forcing Chen Yunzeng to show up.

Chen Yunzeng’s wife was unaware of this, but Chen Yunzeng knew. Upon hearing that the police had visited his home again, he knew his family was being safeguarded.

He tossed his phone onto the passenger seat, his mind racing. He pondered not just his next move but also how everything had unfolded.

Afraid not of god-like opponents but of pig-like teammates. Chen Yunzeng understood that most of his current predicament was due to the actions of those few individuals in the Transportation Department. If they hadn’t acted impulsively, trying to bring down Wei Chen, he wouldn’t be in this situation now.

But…

Chen Yunzeng was acutely aware that even if it were just these few reckless teammates, he wouldn’t have fallen so quickly. There must be something catalyzing the events.

After furrowing his brows for a long time, he suddenly hit upon the crucial point.

“Damn it!” Chen Yunzeng couldn’t help but hit the steering wheel. The inside informant in the police station had a problem!

It seems that the reckless management team from the Transportation Department remained tight-lipped during police interrogation, not divulging any useful information. As a result, the authorities traced the informant placed by the Chen family within the police station deliberately leaking some information to them. To prevent the exposure of their operations, they ordered the elimination of those members of the Transportation Department’s management team.

His action thoroughly infuriated those reckless members of the management team. Ready to face death together, they naturally confessed without hesitation!

Chen Yunzeng glared ahead with a dark intensity. He wished he could rush to those wastes and run them over with his car, one by one!

At that moment, Chen Yunzeng’s phone rang again. He thought it might be Chen Yunqi returning his call and picked up urgently. Yet, once again, reality disappointed him. The call wasn’t from anyone in the Chen family; it was Wei Chen.

Chen Yunzeng inexplicably answered the call.

“Wei Chen.”

“Surprised to hear from me? I’m calling you now,” Wei Chen’s voice came through the phone, cold and icy.

“What? Want to hear the voice of this miserable wretch? Or perhaps witness the downfall of this miserable wretch?” Chen Yunzeng smirked sarcastically.

Wei Chen didn’t waste time on banter, cutting straight to the point. “Are you waiting for a call from the Chen family? Do you think only the Chen family can save you now?”

Chen Yunzeng paused, neither confirming nor denying. “So what if I am? So what if I’m not?”

“Not at all.” Wei Chen’s voice remained cold. “I just want to tell you, you’ll never reach them by phone. And of course, you’ll never receive their calls.”

Chen Yunzeng’s heart tightened, but he masked it with indifference. “So what?”

Wei Chen didn’t answer that question directly. Instead, he asked, “You know about Reinhert, right?”

Chen Yunzeng didn’t reply. How could he not know about Reinhert? Reinhert was a psychologist from the United States and an important figure in the Chen family’s dr*g network.

“Last year, the police caught Reinhert and extracted information from him. You hoped the Chen family would come to your rescue, but now they’re trying to pin everything on you,” Wei Chen’s voice remained steady, devoid of emotion, but each word struck Chen Yunzeng like a needle, piercing his most vulnerable spots. “So, Chen Yunzeng, do you think besides cooperating with the authorities, you have any other way out?”

Wei Chen finished saying this sentence, then immediately hung up the phone. He believed that with Chen Yunzeng’s intelligence, he would surely make the best choice. Indeed, Chen Yunzeng had sensed Wei Chen’s underlying message. Besides dumping all the blame on him, the Chen family would also put him in a life-threatening situation because he knew too much about the dirty dealings behind the Chen family.

However, Wei Chen didn’t know, and the police hoping for his confession didn’t know either: even if he knew the dirty secrets of the Chen family, what difference would it make? Despite smuggling dr*gs for so many years, the Chen family remained a prominent dynasty in the capital city. Their methods were naturally extraordinary. Even though he was close to the Chen family, he had no concrete evidence to hold against them!

Chen Yunzeng chuckled in self-mockery but still turned the car around and headed for the nearest police station.

He wanted to confess.

It wasn’t that he aimed to expose the Chen family; he had already prepared himself to shoulder all the accusations. His actions were merely to leave himself an escape route. He had assisted the Chen family for so many years, and while he lacked direct evidence against them, he held many threads related to dr*g trafficking. Just by revealing one thread, he could surpass the police’s years of investigation.

Chen Yunzeng believed that by providing this information, the charges against him could be reduced. The Chen family wouldn’t spare him, and the dr*g lords who hadn’t received goods from him wouldn’t either. Whether he went out now or later, death awaited him—it was just a matter of time.

Given this, he might as well sit in a prison cell. He believed that as long as he held these threads, not only would the police protect him but they might even protect his wife and children.

In this way, why shouldn’t he act accordingly?

When Jiang Ye learned from the police that Chen Yunzeng had surrendered, he couldn’t help but admire Chen Yunzeng’s intelligence in choosing the safest path.

When Wei Chen learned this news from Jiang Ye, he wasn’t surprised. He knew this was the only path for Chen Yunzeng to survive, a path he himself had to tread.

Thus, Wei Chen and Jiang Ye executed a perfectly coordinated plan. The line of dr*g trafficking and smuggling planted by the Chen family within the Changfeng Group’s Transportation Department was completely exposed.

However, behind the seemingly simple conclusion lay the culmination of over a year’s planning by Jiang Ye and Wei Chen.

Since Reinhert was arrested, this plan had been set in motion. While indeed a lot of information was gleaned from Reinhert’s confession, Jiang Ye didn’t release this information or use it to confront the Chen family. He knew that these pieces of evidence weren’t enough to bring down the Chen family; they could easily find a scapegoat and make everything seem as if nothing had happened.

Jiang Ye had been holding onto this ace up his sleeve, waiting for the right moment to reveal it. Wei Chen entering the Transportation Department was that moment.

The swift takeover of the Transportation Department surprised Wei Chen, who attributed it to the enemy’s unwitting assistance. He had merely stayed quiet as a mouse in the department for a few days when suddenly, the department’s members couldn’t sit still. They even foolishly brought him a pillow, along with dr*gs, hoping to drag him down into the abyss of dr*g trafficking.

Handing over this leverage willingly, how could Jiang Ye and Wei Chen not make good use of it?

Afterwards, they let the mole, who had long been turned, pass false information to Chen Yunzeng, inciting murderous intentions in him. This led to the heads of the Transportation Department revealing not just Chen Yunzeng but also everyone involved in the interest chain of the Changfeng Group.

As for the matter of the goods being seized by the F-country customs, it was Wei Chen’s doing.

Sylvester, who had once taught Chen Li painting and considered him a student, was familiar to Wei Chen through his frequent visits to Chen Li during their time in F country. Through this connection, Wei Chen came to know that Sylvester was a scion of a powerful family in F-country.

This time, Wei Chen had enlisted Sylvester’s help to seize the Changfeng Group’s goods in F-country for two reasons.

Firstly, to gather evidence of dr*g trafficking within the Changfeng Group’s Transportation Department under Chen Yunzeng’s control, leveraging the business transactions of the Changfeng Group. Secondly, to assist F-country in rooting out some dr*g trafficking organizations. This was also Sylvester’s condition for agreeing to help Wei Chen.

The first point is easily explained. Customs directly found dr*gs in this batch of goods, but due to Sylvester’s influence, it wasn’t publicized; instead, the evidence was directly handed over to the authorities in China.

The second point isn’t difficult to explain either. When F-country customs seized these goods, upon hearing the news, the dr*g trafficking organizations in F-country naturally tried to leverage their connections to have the customs release the goods. As these adversaries emerged, Sylvester’s family could follow the trail and naturally eliminate one faction, thereby achieving success for the Sylvester family.

Naturally, the Chen family couldn’t just watch the dr*g trafficking link within the Changfeng Group’s Transportation Department severed and would definitely try to intervene. How could Jiang Ye let them intervene? He released the evidence obtained from Reinhert and launched a widespread investigation based on this evidence.

The evidence provided by Reinhert was quite crucial. If the Chen family didn’t act, this evidence would directly implicate them.

So, the Chen family’s attention was diverted elsewhere. They had no time to deal with the affairs of the Changfeng Group’s Transportation Department. By the time they regained their focus, control of the antenna of the Changfeng Group’s Transportation Department had already slipped from their hands.

In a decisive move, the Chen family, much like a lizard shedding its tail, completely severed this line within the Changfeng Group’s Transportation Department. Coincidentally, at this moment, the evidence presented from Reinhert’s side needed a scapegoat. Under the manipulation of the Chen family, all the arrows of this evidence pointed directly at Chen Yunzeng.

Despite Jiang Ye and Wei Chen breaking the dr*g trafficking link within the Changfeng Group’s Transportation Department, the Chen family, apart from some damage to their interests, didn’t sustain any substantial harm. They were too cunning, severing all tails that could point towards them.

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