Volume 4 Chapter 3

Volume 4 + Chapter 3: The Plan For Revenge

Ding-dong.

Not long after Ouyang Qianxue left, Xiao Liu arrived outside the apartment and pressed the doorbell.

“I’ve been waiting for you. Hurry and come in.” Not long after the bell rang, Bai Yuxuan opened the door.

“Young Master, your second uncle has already been taken away by the police for questioning,” Xiao Liu whispered quietly into Bai Yuxuan’s ear after entering and shutting the door.

“Hmph. Now this should become entertaining.” Bai Yuxuan showed no surprise whatsoever upon hearing the news, as though she had already anticipated the outcome long ago.

Meanwhile, at the police station, Bai Yuxuan’s second uncle was baffled over why exactly he had been summoned there. At that moment, the police officer across from him finally spoke.

“This morning, we received an anonymous tip-off letter. According to the letter, the culprit responsible for the shooting incident involving the Sakura Academy student was silenced afterward, and the body was hidden inside an abandoned livestock farm in the eastern suburbs.”

The moment the officer finished speaking, Bai Yuxuan’s second uncle felt his heart tighten violently.

However, after spending years battling in the business world, his mental composure was far stronger than ordinary people’s, and he managed not to let anything show on his face.

Seeing no visible reaction from him, the officer continued.

“Following the information provided in the letter, we actually found a corpse there. After comparison and verification, we confirmed that the deceased was indeed the fugitive suspect responsible for the shooting at Sakura Academy.”

“And what does that have to do with me?” Bai Yuxuan’s second uncle asked while pretending to remain calm.

“It has quite a lot to do with you. Take a look at this.”

The officer handed him a glove.

“Do you recognize this glove?” the officer asked.

“This looks like the glove I lost during the family meeting last time…”

Now that he thought about it, during the family meeting the previous week, the temperature had suddenly dropped, so he had brought along that pair of gloves. After the meeting ended, he accidentally left them behind in the conference room. By the time he remembered and returned to look for them, one glove was missing.

Since gloves were hardly worth much money, he had not paid much attention to it.

But now…

Why did the glove in the police officer’s hand look exactly like the missing one?

Could it be?!

At that instant, Bai Yuxuan’s second uncle seemed to realize something, and his face abruptly turned deathly pale.

“We visited the stores that sold this type of glove,” the officer explained. “Very few were stocked. After investigating the other customers who purchased them, we found that all their pairs were complete. Which means this glove belongs to you.”

“And this glove was discovered near the corpse.”

“What?! That’s impossible!”

The officer’s words instantly threw Bai Yuxuan’s second uncle into panic.

Although he had indeed participated in the assassination attempt against Bai Yuxuan, his role had merely been auxiliary. For example, the firearm used by the assassin had been supplied by him.

As for contacting the killer and investigating Bai Yuxuan’s travel itinerary during the school outing, that had all been handled by Bai Yuxuan’s third uncle.

So why would his glove appear beside the assassin’s corpse?

“Officer, someone must be framing me!” he hurriedly argued. “Why would I spend money hiring a killer to murder some student I don’t even know?”

At that moment, it seemed he had finally realized something.

“Is that so?” the officer replied calmly. “But according to our investigation, although the girl who was shot had no connection to you, before the shooting occurred, she had been accompanying a certain male student.”

“And that student was your nephew, Bai Yuxuan.”

The moment those words fell, Bai Yuxuan’s second uncle could no longer maintain his composure.

“And according to our surrounding investigation, the Bai family was selecting an heir around that time. Your nephew happened to be the most outstanding candidate among them…”

By now, cold sweat had completely soaked his back.

“So we suspect you hired someone to eliminate a competitor on behalf of your son. However, because it was dark that night, the assassin mistakenly targeted the girl standing beside your nephew instead.”

“And afterward, fearing exposure, you arranged for the assassin himself to be silenced.”

“You’re talking nonsense! I didn’t kill anyone! Someone is definitely trying to frame me!” Bai Yuxuan’s second uncle shouted anxiously.

“Then tell us,” the officer said coldly, “who do you think is most likely trying to frame you?”

The question caused Bai Yuxuan’s second uncle to fall into deep thought.

The first people he considered were Bai Yuxuan and the Bai family patriarch. Perhaps their actions had already been exposed?

But after thinking it through carefully, that theory no longer made sense.

If Bai Yuxuan and the family head truly knew what he and his younger brother had done, then the first target of retaliation should have been the third uncle, the mastermind, not him, an accomplice.

After going through countless possibilities, one figure suddenly appeared in his mind.

His third brother.

First of all, the assassination plan had only been known between the two of them. Nobody else knew he had participated.

Secondly… his younger brother was absolutely capable of doing such a thing.

If he dared to murder his own nephew, then framing his own older brother was hardly impossible.

At that moment, he suddenly realized something else.

From beginning to end, his younger brother had never actually told him any details regarding the assassination.

The only things he had been informed of were that the assassination was planned, and later, that it had failed.

At most, he had only been asked to provide the firearm.

Only now did he realize the truth.

His younger brother had never truly trusted him from the start.

Which meant that even if he himself got dragged down, he possessed absolutely no evidence capable of implicating his brother.

The thing that shook him most was the assassin’s corpse.

The cleanup afterward had been handled entirely by his younger brother’s people. Only they would have had the opportunity to deliberately leave his glove at the scene.

And that glove had disappeared during the family meeting.

His younger brother could easily have stolen it there.

The more he thought about it, the more twisted and sinister his expression became.

“Did you think of something?” the officer asked after noticing the sudden change in his face.

“N-No… nothing.” Bai Yuxuan’s second uncle immediately denied it.

Just because he lacked evidence against his younger brother did not mean his younger brother lacked evidence against him.

After all, the firearm and funding used in the assassination had come from him.

Although his brother claimed afterward that the gun had already been destroyed, who knew whether that was actually true?

What if his younger brother got arrested and used the weapon to testify against him instead?

Thus, he never mentioned his third brother a single time.

Because Bai Yuxuan’s second uncle possessed an alibi for the day the assassin died, the police ultimately concluded that he was likely being framed. A few days later, he was released.

But after several days spent stewing inside the police station, the more he thought about it, the angrier he became.

He had helped his younger brother assassinate Bai Yuxuan, yet in return, his own brother had stabbed him in the back.

And so, he decided he would prepare a “gift” of his own for his third brother.

The reason Bai Yuxuan’s second and third uncles had maintained such a close alliance was not merely because they both opposed the Bai family patriarch.

Their businesses were also deeply connected.

The third uncle controlled electronics manufacturing, while the second uncle controlled the majority of shopping malls and retail stores throughout Xijiang City.

Thus, Bai Yuxuan’s second uncle abruptly terminated all business cooperation with his younger brother.

The consequences were immediate.

Massive amounts of products from the third uncle’s electronics factories became unsellable, resulting in catastrophic financial losses.

Whenever the third uncle personally came to demand an explanation, he would simply be driven away with a single sentence.

“You still don’t know what you did?”

Meanwhile, back at Bai Yuxuan’s apartment, Xiao Liu stared at the declining profit charts of the third uncle’s electronics company and smiled.

“Young Miss, I finally understand now why you didn’t hand all the evidence over to the police. Instead, you deliberately guided suspicion toward the second uncle, the one with lesser responsibility.”

“You wanted them to suspect each other… attack each other…”

“And once they fight until both sides are badly wounded, that’s when we deliver the fatal blow.”

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