Attention Sir, I Have Your Heart Handcuffed!-Chapter 452 - 325, Not Every Chess Piece is Obedient (First Update)

Visiting room.

George gazed at Tang Yan Yi and smiled slowly: "Xiao Yi, what’s going on? Why are you suddenly interested in my old uncle?"

Tang Yan Yi’s face was pale: "... I seem to have seen him before."

George raised an eyebrow slightly, "Oh?" But his expression wasn’t actually that surprised.

Tang Yan Yi’s eyes were dazed, avoiding George’s gaze: "I casually talked to you about him last time, and it was nothing. But when I went back home that night, I inexplicably dreamed about him. I just feel like I’ve seen him somewhere. Could it be... in the foster family I used to stay with?"

George laughed: "No wonder."

"Why?" Tang Yan Yi’s face grew even paler.

George stared at Tang Yan Yi for a long time but shook his head: "Forget it, better not say it, or it will hurt you."

"It’s okay, go ahead and tell me. Besides, if you don’t say it, I’ll just keep thinking about it."

George nodded: "...Okay, then I’ll tell you, but I hope you are strong because it’s all in the past: the Old Buddha was old and liked children. You understand what I mean."

Indeed, Tang Yan Yi grew pale and, despite trying to endure, eventually trembled lightly all over, lying down on the table.

After a long while, she finally raised her head: "I seem to remember a bitter smell of herbal medicine on him... Was his health really that bad?"

George thought for a while: "I told you he fell off a horse and fractured bones. Although he recovered, his age made it take longer. So he followed Huangfu Huazhang’s advice to adopt Chinese medicine and herbs. He didn’t use herbal medicine to cure illness, but for health preservation, I suppose. Other than this little issue, he didn’t have any major health problems, and besides—he liked children, you know, it was said that it made him feel youthful again."

Tang Yan Yi carefully raised her head to look: "Then how did he end up dying so early? In 2001, just a year after Huangfu Huazhang formally took control of the Buddha Group, he died."

George’s gaze suddenly flickered: "You suspect there’s a problem with his death?"

Tang Yan Yi nodded: "An old man who controlled the fate of the family, who could influence the fate of both you brothers, must have had Huangfu Huazhang’s every action under his control. Isn’t the timing of his death a bit too coincidental?"

"As long as we can prove his death is related to Huangfu Huazhang, we then have a way to bring down Huangfu Huazhang, no?"

But George closed his eyes: "However, the exact circumstances of the Old Buddha’s death, neither Jamie nor I know. By that time, we had already been exiled separately to Asia and Europe, and the connections with company headquarters and the family were tightly cut off."

Tang Yan Yi returned to the conference room with doubts. Tang Yanqing and the team members, including Shi Nian, were all waiting for her.

Tang Yan Yi reported the situation, still unable to hide her regret: "I thought George might know something about the Old Buddha’s death, unfortunately..."

"Actually, it’s good already," Shi Nian was the first to speak up to comfort her: "At least you helped us confirm that the Old Buddha indeed showed interest in little girls, thereby we can basically identify the old man in Rosa’s memory as the Old Buddha."

"Referring to the special experiences of the Ford family and the Buddha Group in 2000 and 2001, it could further link the identity of the clown toward Huangfu Huazhang. This is a significant breakthrough for us, as it’s almost the first time we can directly put the case’s main culprit as Huangfu Huazhang, to rework all the deduction steps." 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

Shi Nian spoke with a smile: "The Ford family has always been deeply secretive outwardly, but it’s rare to have someone as pivotal as George as a witness. And only Xiao Yi can get the truth from George’s mouth, if it were any of us others, we’d return unsuccessful."

Shi Nian specially affirmed Tang Yan Yi in front of everyone again, gaining everyone’s agreement. Only then did Tang Yan Yi’s face turn slightly red, and she glanced silently at Tang Yanqing.

Tang Yanqing, however, just propped his chin and tilted his head staring at Shi Nian.

He thought of his mother. In front of others, whenever mentioning Huo Danru, his mother only said good things about Huo Danru. During those years when he was rebellious, he felt unworthy for his mother’s sake. Yet his mother seriously talked to him once, saying, "Do you think Mom is just putting on a show for others, saying things she doesn’t mean? If you think so too, then you are not Mom’s biological son."

Mom said that all the enemies in one’s life are set up by one’s own heart. If you always find someone displeasing, the enemy within yourself grows stronger and more hostile. But if you don’t take that person as an enemy, you’ll find more and more that the person is actually insignificant in your heart, weakening the hostility inner self had toward that person.