Nirvana Heiress: Reborn and Returning to Stir Up a Storm

Chapter 618 The Night Controls the Pieces

The night was deep, and the huge conference room in the old Shen family residence in the south of the city was eerily quiet.

The evidence Lin Chuyue had laid out was still on the large screen, showing frame by frame footage of Shen Yan meeting with Middle Eastern arms dealers. At one side of the conference table, several older Shen Group directors sat silently, heads bowed, their faces either pale or flushed.

"This is impossible……"

"This is a forgery! I don't believe Shen Yan would do such a thing!"

"But that video was too real..."

"Damn it, if this gets exposed, the entire Shen Group's stock price will plummet to its daily limit tomorrow!"

Lin Chuyue didn't speak. She unplugged the USB drive, turned and left, like a sharp knife piercing the core of Shen's power. She knew this was only the first step.

She had to force the Shen family to take sides completely.

Chen Yulan followed her out of the conference room and handed her a newly released document.

"This is a list of Shen Yan's assets frozen overseas. We have applied for an overseas tracking order. As long as the overseas banks cooperate, his cash flow will be cut off."

Lin Chuyue took it and turned the pages: "Very good, I want him to be unable to touch a single penny."

But Chen Yulan hesitated for a moment: "However, we have a problem."

"what?"

"Shen Yanyan... seems to be planning a counterattack."

Lin Chuyue frowned.

Chen Yulan lowered her voice: "Do you still remember the 'Hecheng Mine Disaster' back then? The source of funding behind that accident was unclear, but some of the funds were related to Shen Fang. Now it seems that Shen Yanyan has found someone who knew about it back then."

"What do you mean?" A cold glint appeared in Lin Chuyue's eyes.

"He's trying to turn the tables on you. He's saying that Shen Fang secretly manipulated the money using your company."

Lin Chuyue sneered: "He's just desperate."

Chen Yulan shook her head: "But you have to understand that once this kind of old case is brought up again, the media, regulators, and public opinion will go crazy. At that time, even if it's fake, you will be dragged down with it."

Lin Chuyue was silent for a few seconds, then looked up: "Can we find that person who knows the truth?"

"I have already sent people to investigate."

"Tell Li Zhanchuan to use Vision's connections in international law so I can take the initiative."

……

Meanwhile, Shen Yan stood in the tea room on the other side of the old house, lit a cigar, and exhaled a light puff of white smoke.

The man opposite him wore silver-rimmed glasses and a neatly tailored suit; he was a shady lawyer he had been secretly in contact with for years.

"Are you sure that the funds actually went to Lin Chuyue?"

“Of course.” The man smiled calmly. “We only need to publish the accounts of Shen Fang’s former name that are related to the company in Hecheng, and find two ‘witnesses’ who were present at the time. We don’t need real evidence, just reasonable suspicion—she must prove her innocence.”

"And self-proof is the biggest trap."

Shen Yan nodded, grinning maliciously: "Very good."

He took a deep drag on his cigar, his eyes sharp as knives: "I'll let Lin Chuyue know that if she wants to take a place in the Shen family, she'll have to pay the price."

……

Three days later, news broke that Shen's heir, Lin Chuyue, was suspected of manipulating the funding chain of the Hecheng mining disaster.

"The tragedy of the past resurfaces, and the mystery surrounding the succession within the Shen family is reopened!"

"Lin Chuyue refuses to respond; could her position as heir be in jeopardy?"

A stone stirred up a thousand waves.

Major media outlets reprinted the story extensively, continuously digging deeper into the "relationship between Lin Chuyue and Shen Fang" and the "unknown inheritance rights of wealth"...

Overnight, Lin Chuyue's social media accounts were flooded with comments and questions. Some people put up banners in front of her company, while others "doxxed" her birth, family, and upbringing online.

Even photos of her mother were dug up and used as illustrations, and labels such as "illegitimate daughter," "ambitious woman," and "murderous heir" spread rapidly.

Lin Chuyue stood in her office, her gaze sweeping lightly over the public opinion data reports.

"Two of the people who are setting the tone are being controlled by Shen Yan."

Chen Yulan opened the document: "He bribed two public relations companies to create a massive number of fake accounts using trending topics, specifically to smear you. It has already affected the company's stock price—your Chuxi brand has just had its investment withdrawn by an investment institution."

"Then I absolutely cannot back down."

Lin Chuyue turned to Li Zhanchuan and said, "Zhanchuan, let's fight back openly."

Li Zhanchuan leaned against the window, his eyes icy: "I've already made the arrangements."

He casually tossed a list onto the table.

“One of Shen Yan’s overseas companies has acquired a mining company that was on the environmental blacklist. We can directly identify him by having the Environmental Protection Administration re-investigate that company.”

Lin Chuyue smiled slowly: "You're even more ruthless than me."

Li Zhanchuan leaned closer and whispered in her ear, "If he dares to touch you even a little, I'll tear down his entire city."

……

The public outcry has been brewing for four days.

The Nancheng District Prosecutors Office suddenly announced the reopening of the investigation into the "Hecheng Mine Disaster," and pointed out that it would trace all related funding chains, especially the actual operators of several key accounts under Shen Fang's name at the time.

At that moment, an anonymous witness appeared in front of the media cameras.

He was wearing a baseball cap, and his voice was distorted by processing.

“Back then, the funds for the cleanup of the mine accident site were paid by Shen Yan’s secretary, and I saw him sign the papers with my own eyes. He was the mastermind.”

“I know that saying this might offend the powerful and influential, but I can’t live with a guilty conscience.”

The media went wild!

Before Shen Yan could react, the lawyer had already rushed into the office.

"This is bad. We just received a notice from the court that they have frozen half of your assets."

"what?"

"It was jointly initiated by the Environmental Protection Bureau and overseas anti-money laundering agencies."

Shen Yan's expression changed drastically, and he turned around and smashed the wine glass on the table.

"Lin! Chu! Yue!"

……

Meanwhile, in Lin Chuyue's office, Chen Yulan watched the "anonymous witness" on TV with a faint smile.

"You're really ruthless."

Lin Chuyue closed her notebook: "The witness is not important. What is important is that he appears in the media."

"But you arranged it too, didn't you?" Chen Yulan asked with a smile in her eyes.

Lin Chuyue turned and looked out the window: "We may never find out the real inside story of the Hecheng mine disaster back then. But what I want is not the truth, but the initiative in the battle of public opinion."

As Chen Yulan watched her retreating figure, she suddenly realized that Lin Chuyue had truly stepped into the spot where Shen Fang had once stood.

But the light in her eyes was even colder than Shen Fang's.

……

At the same time, a mysterious letter from abroad was delivered to Lin Chuyue's office by express courier.

There was no signature, only a yellowed page and a sentence:

"The chessboard is in disarray, but the real pieces have yet to appear."

Lin Chuyue picked up the page; on the back was a blurry photograph—a strange man standing next to Shen Fang when she was young.

She had never seen this person before.

But her intuition told her:

This is a new storm.

—To be continued

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