Chapter 157: Chapter 157: The Secret Is Out

“What promise? What internet army? What are you talking about? I don’t understand what you mean?”

Bai Lingling’s tone was filled with confusion and disbelief, as if she genuinely didn’t comprehend what Lu Ming had said.

There was a pause on the other end of the phone, then Lu Ming’s tone turned chilling and angry.

“You’re playing this game with me now, Bai Lingling? I have evidence in my hands!”

“Lu Ming, are you being too naive? Do you think I would leave any evidence for you? Next time before you act, you should really use your brain more. This time, consider it a kind gesture from your sister, a little lesson for you!”

Bai Lingling laughed wildly and hung up the phone. Lu Ming looked at his phone, baffled, unable to believe that Bai Lingling dared to be so brazen!

Doesn’t she fear that he might expose her true nature?

Or does she think that with the support of the Bai Family, she has nothing to worry about?

Lu Ming clenched his phone tightly, and after taking a deep breath, he pulled up a recording on his phone.

This recording was none other than the conversation he had with Bai Lingling that day.

Lu Ming clicked on the recording, and the next moment his confident expression turned to astonishment.

The recording that was supposed to capture their conversation was now nothing but noise!

Disbelief mounted on Lu Ming’s face and eventually, he couldn’t help but angrily smash his phone.

It seems he had truly underestimated Bai Lingling; she had employed a jammer! No wonder she wasn’t scared of him having evidence of their transaction!

He now had no way to touch Bai Lingling!

If he hires an internet army to backlash at Bai Lingling, it might be misunderstood as Qiao Yi’s doing, and it could even earn Bai Lingling more sympathy.

But if he lets it go, he would be even more upset!

What’s worse, Bai Lingling’s promised financial support turned out to be nothing but empty air, and debt collection calls have been bombarding his phone every day. If he doesn’t fill this one billion hole soon, his troubles would become severe!

These days, Lu Ming had sold everything he could, and after scraping everything together, he had barely managed to gather five billion, only one-third of what was needed!

Of course, his shares in Lu Group were worth more than ten billion, but those were his last resort!

Once he sells off his shares in Lu Group as well, he would truly have no chance of turning things around!

“It seems there is only one path left for me to take now…”

Qiao Yi and Lu Yanchuan were both monitoring the stock market. When they noticed a sudden change in Gong Group’s shares, Qiao Yi couldn’t help but exclaim.

“How do you know that the ten percent of the shares were hidden in Lu Ming’s hands? Lu Ming and Old Madam Gong have never even met!”

“They might not have met each other, but that doesn’t mean Lu Ming can’t get hold of the shares. We only need the results, not the process.”

Lu Yanchuan was as succinct and decisive as ever, focusing on the new stocks. The moment they were put up for sale, Lu Yanchuan immediately intercepted them.

Qiao Yi was thoroughly convinced; her judgment was nowhere near his level!

“But even so, how did you know Lu Ming would collaborate with Bai Lingling? And how did you come to think of forcing him to sell Gong Family’s shares with that method?”

“The last time I monitored his account, I installed a listening device on his phone, similar to the tracking system Qiao Xin put on your phone previously.”

“So you eavesdropped on Lu Ming’s conversation with Bai Lingling!”

Qiao Yi suddenly realized; she thought so, Lu Yanchuan couldn’t be clairvoyant, how could he possibly predict things so accurately!

Lu Yanchuan remained noncommittal, still intercepting the sale of the stock in the market at his own pace.

Under an anonymous identity but constantly being intercepted, Lu Ming was nearly driven mad. It was like the other party was a cat playing with a little mouse, clearly able to kill him in one fell swoop, yet always giving him a glimmer of hope before intercepting him again just as he was about to seal the deal!

Is this person sick?

Lu Ming cursed loudly at the computer screen, losing all patience with the successive setbacks and ready to explode at the slightest provocation.

Despite the interception, Lu Ming, still not giving up, clenched his teeth and tried over and over again to break through the other party’s defense.

“Lu Ming must be about to explode in anger now!”

Qiao Yi didn’t understand the reason behind Lu Yanchuan’s actions, but every time she saw the success prompt on the computer, she couldn’t help but want to laugh.

She wondered if Lu Ming, after being messed with so many times, was on the verge of collapsing.

Whether Lu Ming was collapsing or not, Lu Yanchuan had already unplugged a portable hard drive from the computer and started to corner Lu Ming for the final takedown.

Encircling him hardly took any effort, easily freezing Lu Ming’s account.

Judging by Lu Ming’s direct cessation of resistance, he was about to break down from Lu Yanchuan’s manipulation.

“Is it enough?”

“It’s enough, let’s go.”

Lu Yanchuan, carrying the hard drive from the table, took Qiao Yi back to the Lu Mansion.

He was toying with Lu Ming because he needed to remotely intercept the data from Lu Ming’s computer.

In order not to alert Lu Ming, he had to ensure that Lu Ming was occupied with something more important, thus the stock market ploy.

The two soon arrived at the Lu Mansion, and Lu Yanchuan wasted no time in showing the results of his investigation to Old Mr. Lu.

“Lu Ming is not only involved with Dianrui Pharmaceutical Factory but also entangled with some overseas companies.”

As Lu Yanchuan laid out the evidence before Old Mr. Lu, his face grew particularly ugly.

“Dad, the project between Lu Group and Qiao Family a few days ago that ended up with drunk personnel, wasn’t it you who agreed to let Qiao Xin get involved?”

Neither Qiao Yi nor Lu Yanchuan meant to blame Old Mr. Lu, but by the look on Qiao Yi’s face, Old Mr. Lu knew there must be a problem with the project!

Sure enough, in the hard drive that Lu Yanchuan brought, Old Mr. Lu found evidence of Lu Ming swapping construction materials!

“How dare he do something so outrageous!”

Old Mr. Lu was irate and flung his arm, overturning the coffee table and scattering everything on it, creating a loud noise that startled Lu Ming who had just arrived at the mansion.

“Grandpa, why are you so angry? Who annoyed you…”

“Lu Ming! Roll over here!”

Lu Ming wasn’t even done speaking when Old Mr. Lu called him over.

Seeing Lu Yanchuan and Qiao Yi standing next to Old Mr. Lu, a bad feeling welled up inside Lu Ming, which was confirmed as soon as Old Mr. Lu spoke again!

Under Lu Ming’s horrified gaze, Old Mr. Lu slammed the files and documents brought by Lu Yanchuan down in front of Lu Ming, cursing all the while.

“Look at the mess you’ve made! Colluding with foreign companies to manufacture contraband drugs! Switching construction materials for company projects! Even stealing shares belonging to the Gong Family!”

“You tell me! Did you do all these things or not!”