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"So...you mean."

Chen Yuanzhen looked at the bank statement in front of her. The dense numbers and English on it did not slow down her reading speed. She scanned it, slapped the statement on the table, and looked up suspiciously at Zhou Ming who was standing opposite her. .

Zhou Ming nodded, indicating that the second half of Chen Yuanzhen's unfinished sentence was indeed true.

"Reliable news?"

"Don't you already know it in your heart?" Zhou Ming asked back, "You also know that this kind of thing is illegal in our country, and judging from that person's prudence, he probably would not choose to toss in the black market of our country. So I checked some well-known foreign institutions, and among the ultra-high VIP customers, I found a pseudonym, and guess what it is?"

Chen Yuanzhen smiled and glared at Zhou Ming, "What's the point?"

"It's Zhang Kecheng."

Chen Yuanzhen thought for a moment, "Chen Yuanshuo's special assistant?"

"That's right, that kid is my college classmate, and he's working hard for Chen Yuanshuo now. You know that the deputy general manager will go crazy when he's fine. He doesn't know how many times he has been beaten by the deputy general manager over the years. , Naturally, I have long been dissatisfied. He helped me get the recording of the meeting that you were not allowed to attend before."

"So, you went to ask him?" Chen Yuanzhen asked.

"Of course not. Even if he is dissatisfied with the deputy general manager, if you ask him directly, he will definitely not say it. So I asked him out for a drink two days ago. When he was drunk, I took his mobile phone and saved him. Wife's number."

"Wait a minute," Chen Yuanzhen interrupted, "Is his phone unlocked? Are you..."

"It's a pattern unlock. I took a photo of the phone at the light and immediately knew the password." Zhou Ming said proudly.

Chen Yuanzhen also laughed out loud when she heard the words. She pointed at Zhou Ming and joked, "It seems that I won't be able to use patterns as lock screens anymore."

"It's meaningless for you to say that." Zhou Ming also laughed, "After all, is there any password in this world that can never be cracked?"

"Stop," Chen Yuanzhen waved his hand, "You kid just can't boast, stop talking nonsense and keep talking."

Zhou Ming curled his lips a little aggrieved, "Obviously it's you..."

Chen Yuanzhen quickly gave him a sharp look.

"After saving his wife's number, I used a disposable number to send a text message to her mobile phone, which vaguely mentioned the matter of the surrogate mother."

"You want to test whether Zhang Kecheng's wife knows about it?"

"Yes, and not only that." Zhou Ming laughed, "Sure enough, Zhang Kecheng contacted me the next day. He is not a fool after all. After he came home, his wife must have turned him upside down, and he also understood , I should have messed it up. So the next night, he asked me to go to his house and talk to me about it. "

"He talked to you?" Chen Yuanzhen raised his eyebrows, and then asked with interest: "What are you talking about?"

"How terrible it is to talk about the deputy general manager. He is trying to scare me."

"Oh?" Chen Yuanzhen chuckled, "So, you were scared?"

"I don't know if I was scared or not, but there is one thing I can confirm." After Zhou Ming finished speaking, he gave Chen Yuanzhen a smile.

Chen Yuanzhen understood what he meant, raised his hands and clapped slowly.

Crisp applause sounded in the quiet room, and the chill in Chen Yuanzhen's eyes gradually increased.

"Cui Jinxian is really a brave woman. I originally guessed... I thought she was doing a test-tube baby without telling the old man, but I didn't expect that she is even crazier than I imagined."

"But the boss," Zhou Ming frowned, "is she..."

"That woman, do you think she will really love Chen Yuanshuo?" Before Zhou Ming could finish speaking, Chen Yuanzhen asked first.

"No..." Zhou Ming blurted out the word "no" subconsciously, but in an instant, he kept silent again.

Seeing this, Chen Yuanzhen turned to look at Zhou Ming, and said with a smile, "What?"

"No..." Zhou Ming scratched his head, "I've heard about that person's reputation. She didn't lack any young talents to pursue at that time. If she didn't like the deputy general manager, why bother..."

"Young talent?" Chen Yuanzhen chewed the four words repeatedly between his lips and teeth, then raised his head and smiled: "Zhou Ming, let me ask you, if I really get the Chen family in the end...why? "

"Of course it's your wisdom?"

"Wisdom?" Chen Yuanzhen snorted coldly, "You are wrong Zhou Ming, if I succeed in the end, I rely on that I am his daughter Chen Zhishan."

"You are..."

"Because I am Chen Zhishan's daughter. So, I had money to support you to study at that time, so you can be used by me now. Because I am Chen Zhishan's daughter, so even if I am an illegitimate daughter, as long as I am willing to kneel down for one night, I also have the qualifications to study abroad. And more importantly, because I am Chen Zhishan's daughter, so even if the hope is slim, I have the right to inherit."

Although Chen Yuanzhen's tone sounded very displeased, Zhou Ming knew that what she said was the truth, so he stopped talking and just listened to her quietly.

"You said young talents just now, why are those so-called young talents called young talents? The education they have received since childhood, and the things they have seen, are essentially related to Zhou Mingyou, and your point. People who climb up a little bit are different. The word "young talent" in this circle just tells others that there is capital accumulation behind this young man. So did you think that Cui Jinxian didn't choose them before? Is it because they have no talent?"

Chen Yuanzhen gradually restrained his smile.

"No, it's because the capital behind them is not strong enough. How can the capital behind those people be as strong as the Chen family? As their wives, even if they get their business in the end, they are just one of the countless dignitaries in City Z That's all. But the Chen family, the wife of the head of the Chen family, and even the actual power holder of the Chen group in the end, can satisfy Cui Jinxian's insatiable ambition like a glutton."

Speaking of this, Chen Yuanzhen suddenly laughed again, and laughed at himself:

"It's just that I don't have the face to say that Cui Jinxian is insatiable? It's just a joke."

"Then what are you going to do?"

"Cui Jinxian's bomb cannot be detonated now." Chen Yuanzhen said almost without hesitation, "If the matter of Cui Jinxian and Chen Yuanshuo was detonated in advance, without the combined effect of other events, the old man is likely to be killed because of Cui Jinxian's father. At that time, Cui Jinxian will become even more difficult to deal with."

"Boss, did you just say that Cui Jinxian doesn't love the deputy general manager?"

Chen Yuanzhen looked at Zhou Ming when he heard the words, and saw that he looked thoughtful, so he asked, "What did you think of?"

"The deputy general manager is now working together with Cui Jinxian, so it is naturally troublesome. But if..."

Chen Yuanzhen understood Zhou Ming's meaning in an instant, and said with a smile, "You are really smart. However, I still have one thing to confirm."

"what?"

"Zhou Ming, don't you also know a lot of paparazzi who specialize in gossip about entertainment stars? You let them dig into Cui Jinxian's past at any cost. I want to see if this flower of Gaoling is really like the legend in the outside world It’s as otherworldly as it is.”

"No problem." Zhou Ming readily agreed.

"Speaking of which," Chen Yuanzhen stretched out his hand, and the fluorescent light in the room poured milky white light through his fingers onto Chen Yuanzhen's fair face.

"Zhou Ming, what was your childhood dream?" She said, moved her hand away, looked at Zhou Ming and asked with a smile.

Zhou Ming was slightly taken aback, then smiled a little embarrassedly.

"That was all my imagination when I was a child."

"Dreams are sometimes just wishful thinking. Tell me." Chen Yuanzhen persisted.

"Hmm..." Zhou Ming scratched his head. He really didn't know how to say no in front of Chen Yuanzhen, so he could only whisper: "Actually... I also thought about being an astronaut or something."

Chen Yuanzhen smiled gently when she heard the words, "That's pretty good." After finishing speaking, she stretched out her hand and patted Zhou Ming's shoulder.

"I'm sorry, I'm the one who blocked your way of chasing your dreams."

"How can you say that?" Zhou Ming became serious, "If it wasn't for you, how would I have my current life?"

Chen Yuanzhen is not the kind of hypocritical boss, she nodded and admitted: "You are right."

"Did you... remember something?"

Zhou Ming was actually a little worried about Chen Yuanzhen. He had been with Chen Yuanzhen for a long time. Although she was very straightforward in everything she did on weekdays, she never seemed to be entangled by her inner emotions.

But Zhou Ming always felt that Chen Yuanzhen was often entangled by the emotion of sadness.

Later, the appearance of Ji Cixi seemed to make Chen Yuanzhen better than before, but Zhou Ming could still sensitively perceive this emotion on Chen Yuanzhen.

He was worried about Chen Yuanzhen, but he also knew that he was not qualified to sympathize with her.

"When I was young, I mean before my surname was Chen." She said, Zhou Mingxu's hand shrank slightly when she added the following sentence.

"At that time, the female teacher in the small county town asked all the children in the class what their dreams were, and I said at that time that I wanted to be a painter."

Chen Yuanzhen laughed while talking, and she looked at Zhou Ming.

"Later, my last name was Chen. Then I knew that what I said before was really a child's fantasy."

Speaking of this, Chen Yuanzhen suddenly became excited. She clapped her hands, as if she had discovered some new continent, and said to Zhou Ming cheerfully:

"However, when I was chatting with Teacher Ji a few days ago, I asked her about it. She said that she always wanted to be a teacher, but she actually did for a while!"

Chen Yuanzhen smiled contentedly.

"She is much luckier than me to be able to do what she wants to do."

"It's great that she's luckier than me."

Looking into Zhou Ming's eyes, she said from the bottom of her heart.

The author has something to say: The "lead" mentioned in the last chapter is a foreshadowing that has been buried in this book since more than twenty chapters. You can guess who it is... It is not far from revealing the answer~