Huo Shaoheng heard that Yin Shixiong was able to arrest the PR manager very quickly and patted his shoulder, “Great work, Big Xiong! I’ll get you an extra chicken drumstick tonight!”
Yin Shixiong giggled, “Huo Shao, there’s no need for an extra chicken drumstick. But can you give me another bonus? For example, pass my marriage request…”
Huo Shaoheng instantly became selectively deaf.
He replied about something completely different, “Prepare the interrogation room so Cai Songyin and her PR manager can confront each other.”
But before that happens, he must interrogate the PR manager himself.
When Huo Shaoheng arrived at the PR manager’s interrogation room, he calmly sat down before him and said, “…What were you running away for?”
The PR manager forced himself to remain calm as he pushed the glasses up his nose bridge, “I wasn’t running, I resigned normally. Officer, there is no law that forbids resignation.”
Huo Shaoheng crossed his leg and listened to the PR manager speak nonsense while flipping through the bank details Yin Shixiong brought back. He replied calmly, “There is no law forbidding resignation, but the law stipulates that illegal funds will be confiscated and result in fines and sentences.”
“What?! When did I ever get illegal funds? I worked hard to earn every penny myself. You can ask around to see who the ‘hardest working man’ in the Cai family’s entertainment company is!”
The PR manager lived up to his name and was very adept at changing the topic.
However, Huo Shaoheng wasn’t part of the ignorant masses so he wasn’t that easily fooled.
“You worked hard to earn each penny yourself? Does that include buying out loser writers to publish these kinds of articles for money?” Huo Shaoheng slammed the article summary on the desk in front of the PR manager, “Read it for yourself. Is this kind of thing worth 90 million RMB?”
The PR manager’s face blanched with fear as he stuttered, “What nonsense are you saying? Who did I buy off? You can’t make false accusations!”
The PR manager composed himself. He recalled that Lu Dayong, the Weibo blogger “Churchill’s Garden” was already dead, so no one knew about his connection to the incident. As a result, he quickly put up his guard.
“I never say things I don’t have evidence to support.” Huo Shaoheng shook his head, “Start by telling me where the 90 million RMB came from. I don’t think you’ve paid taxes on it.”
Only an idiot would pay taxes on a random fortune of 90 million RMB…
The PR manager grumbled to himself and became even more unscrupulous as he crossed his arms, “Someone gifted it to me, so what? Is it illegal to give gifts? I’m not a government official, how is this any of your business?”
Huo Shaoheng raised a brow, “Who gifted this to you? This 90 million RMB will be confiscated if you can’t explain its origins.”
Actually, even if he explained its origins, it would still be confiscated.
The PR manager glared at him, “Which law stipulates I can’t accept the gift of a large sum of money? Can you speak reasonably to me?”
“…Do you know what money laundering means?” Huo Shaoheng looked at this legally incompetent person, “How can you rest easy knowing such a large sum of money was sent to your account?”
The truth was, there was also an issue with the bank surveillances. The Special Operations Forces was somehow not alerted that such a large sum of money was transferred to a normal bank account.
But when Huo Shaoheng thought about it more, he realized that domestic anti-money laundering was reported by the Secret Service and the Director of the Secret Service, which had always been Hong Kangquan…
So, clues that didn’t appear to be related to each other somehow intersected into a knot.
If the bank had reported such a large sum of money, then Hong Kangquan would have certainly heard about it.
But instead of ordering the bank to conduct an investigation, he concealed this piece of news.
This was somewhat interesting.
What role did Hong Kangquan play in this?
The PR manager panicked when the words “money laundering” were mentioned. He grumbled, “You’re saying I laundered money? Where is the evidence for that?”
“In the case of money laundering, people like you are the ones who will need to present evidence that you haven’t committed it.” Huo Shaoheng stared at him once again, with eyes like daggers, “Tell me, who gave you this money? Was it Cai Songyin?”
The PR manager’s expression fluctuated and after a while, his neck stiffened, “So what if she did? So what if she didn’t?!”
“If she did it, you’ll have to come with me to see someone.” Huo Shaoheng smiled subtly as he stood up.
He brought the PR manager to Cai Songyin’s interrogation room.
The PR manager looked like he saw a ghost as soon as he saw Cai Songyin and instantly wanted to kneel down.
“Director… Director Cai!” The PR manager’s forehead glittered with beads of sweat.
Cai Songyin glanced at him before telling Huo Shaoheng, “Right, he’s the one. I asked him to contact that Weibo blogger.”
The PR manager’s face blanched and he almost couldn’t stay standing.
Huo Shaoheng set down the banking details of the PR manager before Cai Songyin, “He just told me that you gave him the 90 million RMB.”
Cai Songyin was instantly furious when she saw this, “Nonsense! When did I ever give you this much money? I was generous enough to give you a 30000 RMB salary at the beginning of the year, but you…”
Suddenly, Cai Songyin realized something.
She lunged over to aim a kick at the PR manager who had already slumped to the ground.
“You backstabbing bastard! You really want to get me killed! Tell me! Who gave you this money? What did they ask you to do?!”
Huo Shaoheng pushed the article summary to the PR manager, “See it for yourself, what is this exactly?”
The PR manager took a glance at it but still tried to defend himself, “Director Cai asked me to find a writer to do it. Then, she paid me 90 million RMB to keep my mouth shut.”
“Nonsense! Why would I need to keep your mouth shut? You’re going to get yourself killed sooner or later!” Cai Songyin shook her head in disgust, “My entire family fortune is less than 90 million RMB, so where would I find 90 million RMB in cash for you? Major General Huo, he’s lying. Please don’t believe what he’s saying.”
Huo Shaoheng nodded, “We’ve already sent a search warrant to his house, so we should have results very soon.”
By this point, the PR manager had completely broken down.
He sprawled on the ground and sobbed, “I was blinded at the moment! Someone contacted me to change Director Cai’s article and promised to pay me 90 million RMB for it. I’ve never seen so much money before so… So… I accepted it. After all, Director Cai wanted to slander Miss Gu and Major General Huo…”
“Slander what?” Cai Songyin was enraged, “I was clearly only targeting Gu Nianzhi. When did I ever ask you to slander Major General Huo?! Where’s the email I sent you?”
“…I deleted it.” The PR manager replied sheepishly.
Huo Shaoheng replied casually, “It doesn’t matter, we can recover anything as long as the hard drive is still there.”
The PR manager, “!!!”
It was already too late for him to try weaseling out of it.
An hour later, Huo Shaoheng recovered all the deleted data on the PR manager’s laptop hard drive and found the original document containing the summary Cai Songyin had sent him.
Just as Cai Songyin had claimed, she wanted an article written to slander Gu Nianzhi but it actually supported Huo Shaoheng…
But Huo Shaoheng was endlessly disgusted by this substitute article.
He really didn’t know if the mastermind hated Huo Shaoheng or Gu Nianzhi more, or maybe he hated them equally.
Huo Shaoheng thought that it was no surprise for someone to hate him since his enemies would certainly hate him to the bone.
But he was truly confused by how someone could hate Gu Nianzhi so passionately.
Gu Nianzhi was only 19 years old and had never done any bad things. Who would hate her so much that they wanted her reputation to be destroyed and have her wish for death?
These methods somehow caused Huo Shaheng to recall the dangerous H2aB7 incident from two years ago. It was the same kind of underhanded and vicious trick.
As Huo Shaoehng contemplated this, he found another email in the PR manager’s inbox sent by someone else. It was the summary of the substitute article and even provided some very detailed descriptions.
Huo Shaoheng, “…”
He calmly read it for a while before permanently deleting the documents and using the program he had written to reformat the hard drive into a portion of the hard drive.
That way, even if the deleted data was recovered in the hard drive, the data that he had specially reformatted would never be recovered.
Since he found the email sent to the PR manager, he would be able to find the IP address that it came from.
When Huo Shaoheng saw the invalid IP address that he and Gu Nianzhi were all too familiar with, he finally understood it perfectly.
Their enemy had been the same person the entire time.
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