A Contractual Marriage with the Best Leading Actor

A Contractual Marriage with the Best Leading Actor Chapter 128

Qi Qi (1)

Bai Qi froze, and his fingers stopped moving.

“Hm? What do you mean by that?”

Scenes that would’ve appeared in a novel about a love story with a CEO appeared in Bai Qi’s mind. With Bai Qi’s clever writing, in no time, the speculative accounts and the media companies would be forced into bankruptcy, and the anti-fans would be entirely obliterated...

“I’ll help you find the business partner who ditched your father.”

“And I’ll get the people who were injured in that year’s incident to give a testimony.”

“We’ll also have to disclose the entirety of what your father has been paying over the years; be it the penalty fees or the medical fees.”

Xi Chengyun paused for a moment before he said in a low voice, “Times are different now. These days, after you’ve done something good, you need to announce it to the world. If not, there won’t be a trace left on the internet, and it might be used against you in the future.”

“If we’re going to do this, we have to do it to perfection.”

Xi Chengyun spoke in a steady voice. His every word was filled with determination.

Bai Qi bit his lower lip and said, “Actually, I’d tried to do that in the past... When we first went broke, my relatives called us to ask if my dad would need to serve jail time since he ‘killed’ someone, but when I tried to explain that wasn’t the case, no one listened.”

Xi Chengyun stared at him as he explained.

For a moment, he had the urge to touch the corner of Bai Qi’s eyes. It was a sudden and weird urge. He desperately wanted to travel back in time to a decade ago and wipe the tears off of the corners of Bai Qi’s eyes.

Though, he wasn’t sure if Bai Qi would’ve been crying at that time.

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“Back then, the news wasn’t circulated online and was instead circulated through physical newspapers. A reporter from one of the newspaper companies came to our house to interview us. We told them we would pay for all the medical fees of the injured. However, the next day, they went to interview the family members of the injured worker. So, instead of reporting about what we had said, they reported about how the family members scolded us...” Bai Qi let out a soft sigh and continued, “Regardless, we wouldn’t be able to explain ourselves before we get hold of that business partner. But that person had made a run for it a long time ago, and we haven’t been able to find him since...”

“How much did he take with him?” Xi Chengyun asked.

“I think it was around 350 million. During the early days of the partnership, many regulations of the entity were imperfect, and they also weren’t aware of the importance of corporate governance. So, most of the important positions in the partnership were held by family members. The treasurer back then was his brother-in-law, and till this day, his brother-in-law is still in prison.”

Bai Qi didn’t think much of it when he was younger.

It was when he was older that he realized that the man was truly a cunning one.

He fled by himself, leaving even his wife behind, with his brother-in-law and biological sister in jail.

Xi Chengyun calmly said, “If only your family didn’t borrow that huge sum from the bank to cover the hospitalization fees and the penalty… The bank would’ve been more anxious than you guys and would initiate the search to capture the person.”

“But, the injured people in the hospital can’t wait for the money, and after the company went bankrupt, the employees who were waiting for their salary couldn’t wait either,” Bai Qi explained.

“Mn,” Xi Chengyun agreed in a low voice.

That is why the Bai family is different from others.

The debtor usually does as he pleases.

Some people would have been able to start afresh if they were to try again.

Yet, the Bai family was dragged into the mud.

“We’ll definitely be able to find that man. Have your father send me all the details about the incident. 10 years ago, the Skynet surveillance system* wasn’t in place yet, and neither was the DNA database and census records. However, it’s different now… Don’t you remember how the case of the Baiyin serial killer, which happened decades ago, was finally uncovered a few years back?”

*Skynet (天网) is an interlinked system of facial recognition software that enabled surveillance cameras, currently in operation in 16 Chinese provinces, to help public security organizations crack down on crime and identify citizens in public through cross-referencing with criminal and national identity databases.

Xi Chengyun dissected the situation systematically; it was as if this wasn’t a huge issue to him.

Bai Qi licked his lips and said, “What if he’s gone overseas?”

Xi Chengyun suddenly chuckled and said, “He should pray that he isn’t overseas right now.”

“Huh?” Bai Qi asked.

A thought suddenly appeared in Xi Chengyun’s mind. He calmly continued, “Since you’ve brought me home this time, do you want to follow me home to mine?”

Clearly, he wasn’t referring to the Jiang family home.

“Is it your overseas home?” Bai Qi asked, surprised.

“Mn.”

The only thought that came to Bai Q’s mind was whether Xi Chengyun was planning to bring him along just to allow him to arrest that person himself?

This was certainly a bit too absurd to be true.

However, Bai Qi was a little tempted to accept his offer.

Xi Chengyun didn’t seem to need an immediate answer from him, as he quickly changed the topic. “Did your father go to the hospital to visit the injured?”

“He went to visit them a long time ago but was chased out, and he’s never gone there ever since. After that, it’s always been a friend of my dad’s who’d go to visit them for us.”

Xi Chengyun raised his hand to tidy the collar of Bai Qi’s shirt. He looked down at him and said, “Qi Qi is all grown up now, so you can go in your father’s stead instead, right?”

Bai Qi felt his neck burn up. ‘Is the collar of my shirt too tight?’

The way Xi Chengyun called him ‘Qi Qi’ was different from how others did. Moreover, the way he said that he was ‘all grown up’ seemed unusually intimate.

“Mn,” Bai Qi answered in a small voice.

“I’ll go with you,” Xi Chengyun replied.

Bai Qi immediately understood what Xi Chengyun was trying to do.

The reporters went wherever Xi Chengyun went.