Hidden identities of the AI Heiress-Chapter 983: Jiang Jing: Are you saying you’re Professor Qiao?
Pei Ya’s eyes were bloodshot, veins popping, as he said bitterly, "What did she say?"
Startled by Pei Ya’s demeanor, Jiang Jing took a slight step back and calmed herself before continuing, "After she said that phrase, she didn’t take it seriously, thinking that he was too timid to actually make a move."
"So she always thought you all died accidentally in a plane crash, and that’s what the other members of the Huo Family said too, until she met you and learned that it was actually a car accident, then she knew that he had really taken action."
Pei Ya fell silent, and after a while, murmured softly, "Car accident, airplane incident..."
He had always found it strange that everyone in the Huo Family thought they had died in a plane crash when it was clearly due to a car accident.
Now everything was clear.
More than just Huo Lin’s father had murderous intent towards them within the Huo Family.
Probably fearing that exposure would harm the Huo Family’s interests, they wanted to get rid of them.
But before they could act, Huo Lin’s father made the first move. 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶
So who was the other party?
In that instant, a person flashed through Pei Ya’s mind.
It was the deceased former Family Head of the Huo Family, a ruthless character; if it was him, he would indeed dare to do such a thing.
Underneath the former Family Head were four sons; it was unclear if they were involved as well.
The former Family Head of the Huo Family had already passed away; his later years were not good. His sons were too busy grappling for power to care for him, they even placed him under house arrest, hoping to outlast him.
The reason Huo Lin managed to take the position of Family Head was because, at a crucial moment, he found the former Family Head and secured the will.
At that time, Pei Ya was already the chairman of Shengqiao, and upon learning of the former Family Head’s tragic fate, he felt somewhat regretful.
He also admired Huo Lin’s capabilities.
Thinking back now, the tragic later years of the former Family Head were truly his retribution.
The former Family Head was dead; there was no way to confront him.
As for the others, as long as he found evidence, he would not let any of them go.
The more Pei Ya thought about it, the more depressed he became. Why hadn’t he realized sooner that the car accident was deliberate!
What had he been doing all these years!
He rubbed his hair irritably, a surge of rage stuck in his throat.
It couldn’t be spat out, couldn’t be swallowed down.
"Are you all right?" Qiao Yun looked at Pei Ya with concern, worried that he would get stuck in his thoughts.
"I’m fine." Pei Ya forced a smile, saying with disgust, "I just hate myself for not thinking to look into it sooner; then I could have taken my revenge personally."
At the time of the accident, he was only in his teens, entirely bewildered, and the sequelae of the car accident made him forget many details, so he had never suspected the car accident.
Pei Ya quietly took a deep breath and asked Jiang Jing, "Does Huo Lin already know about these things?"
"Yes, he knows," Jiang Jing’s eyes filled with resentment, and she said through clenched teeth, "He had someone spy on me, he found out when I reached out to you through Yan Ge, he promised me a lot of benefits, I told him, but I didn’t expect he’d take me abroad to kill me!!"
At that moment, her heart turned ice-cold, fortunately, she was smart enough to run away in time.
"It’s very normal for him to want to kill you," Pei Ya scoffed, "Since you know so much, if he wants to protect Fu Yun and the Huo Family, he’d have to get rid of you first."
He didn’t tell Jiang Jing.
He found out that Huo Lin had just arranged for Jiang Jing to attend a very bad school in O state, intending to crush her spirit.
Jiang Jing’s face turned pale, a look of regret flashing across her face.
She had been too arrogant, thinking she could control everything, and look how dire her situation had turned out to be.
Was this the retribution from the heavens?
Jiang Jing murmured, "I thought he was someone who kept his promises."
"You really are a dreamer."
Pei Ya silently cursed under his breath; he used to think Huo Lin was a good person.
He must have been blind.
But if it were him, he probably would have done the same thing as Huo Lin.
Therefore, he understands Huo Lin’s desire to cover up the truth, but it doesn’t mean he’d forgive him.
Pei Ya’s gaze turned grim as he pressed, "What else do you know?"
Jiang Jing glanced at Qiao Yun without a ripple in her demeanor, then shook her head. "There’s nothing left, I’ve told you everything I know."
"Oh, is that so?" Li Hanzhou suddenly spoke up from the shadows, his tone half-mocking: "Why did you look at Qiaoqiao?"
Li Hanzhou had been paying attention to Qiao Yun all along and naturally noticed Jiang Jing’s glance.
Jiang Jing licked her lips, about to lie.
Pei Ya’s expression turned frosty: "You’d better not play any tricks on me."
Under the intense scrutiny of Pei Ya and Li Hanzhou, Jiang Jing didn’t dare to mess around and gave up, "I’ve really said all I know; just suddenly remembered that Fu Yun has been paying too much attention to Qiao Yun recently. Maybe I’m overthinking it."
Qiao Yun blinked, a picture of confusion.
Why would he be paying attention to her?
Pei Ya had thought that Fu Yun hadn’t given up, still harboring ill intentions towards Qiao Yun, so he hurriedly told her, "You need to be more careful lately."
Qiao Yun nodded: "Hmm, she can’t get close to me."
She was very confident in Zhou You’s capabilities.
Last time, it was she who had approached at the conference of her own accord.
Li Hanzhou, however, took this to heart, thinking that it was best to have more people follow Qiao Yun around.
Jiang Jing had nothing more to say, her face twisted with humiliation as she asked, "Can you let me go now?"
Pei Ya drawled leisurely, "You can’t leave yet."
Jiang Jing was taken aback, then said in panic, "Are you going back on your word? You can’t do that."
Pei Ya sneered, "Don’t worry, I am not a despicable person like you. You know too much; of course, I have to arrange for someone to protect you properly until the matter is settled, right?"
Jiang Jing’s face turned ugly.
Talk about protection, but it’s really just a soft detention, isn’t it?
Forced by the circumstances, what could she do if she was unwilling to be under house arrest?
In the end, Pei Ya ordered Zhou You to bring Xu Qiao in, instructing Zhou You to watch over the two of them, without his orders, they couldn’t be let go.
Xu Qiao wanted to make a fuss, but one look from Pei Ya and she abandoned the idea.
Jiang Jing pursed her lips unwillingly, "If my dad can’t contact me, he will surely call the police."
Pei Ya said unhurriedly, "Don’t worry, I will have someone tell him you’re attending a closed training session."
Jiang Jing’s expression stiffened; in the end, she didn’t dare to act rashly. She just looked towards Qiao Yun and voiced the suspicion she had harbored all along: "Qiao Yun, are you really Professor Qiao’s student?"
Qiao Yun leaned to the side lazily, her voice indifferent: "No, you can think of us as inseparable."
Jiang Jing’s lips twitched into a sardonic smile, "What, are you saying you are Professor Qiao?"
Qiao Yun’s lips curled, "You guess."
Jiang Jing: "..."
Jiang Jing tried her best to suppress those crazy thoughts; she didn’t dare delve too deep, afraid that the answer would make her previous actions seem foolish.
After taking a deep breath, she said in a low voice, "You know, sometimes I really admire you. I admit that you are amazing; I might not catch up to you in my lifetime, but I still wanted to try. As it turns out, I was just too naive."
Qiao Yun replied as a matter of course: "I am indeed amazing."
Jiang Jing: "..."
Jiang Jing showed weakness to Qiao Yun for once, but received such a response, which made her expression sour.
So her targeting Qiao Yun wasn’t without reason; Qiao Yun’s haughty demeanor was truly annoying.
...
After coming out of the warehouse.
Pei Ya looked up at the dazzling sunlight with a complex and indiscernible expression on his handsome face.
Qiao Yun glanced at him a few times before asking, "Are you really okay?"
Pei Ya nodded in a daze: "I’m fine, you don’t need to worry."
He was just struggling to accept the sudden impact of the truth.
Qiao Yun asked, "Do you believe what she said?"
Pei Ya suddenly tasted bitterness in his mouth, his smile turning bitter and hard to look at: "At this point, Jiang Jing wouldn’t dare lie to me, unless she wants to die."
Speaking to this point, he couldn’t help but curse: "The Huo Family really doesn’t have a single good person, I was wrong about Huo Lin before."
Li Hanzhou scoffed: "A businessman only cares about profits. Did you really expect him to love and treat you as family? To defend your honor by choosing ’Justice Overcomes Kinship’ after knowing the truth. I didn’t expect you to be so naive."
Pei Ya’s throat tightened, anger flushing his face red.
Qiao Yun disagreed and rebuked Li Hanzhou: "Don’t bully him, he’s very vulnerable right now, he needs comforting."
Li Hanzhou: "..."
Fine, I must listen to my girlfriend’s words.
Li Hanzhou with a benevolent face: "Need a hug?"
Pei Ya: Ugh.
Li Hanzhou was clearly doing this to irritate him.
But after being teased like this, his mood wasn’t as gloomy anymore.
Li Hanzhou asked Pei Ya casually, "Tell me, why didn’t you suspect Fu Yun before?"
"It was my mother," Pei Ya said with a bitter smile. "She told me not to resent Fu Yun."
He paused, certain details flashing through his mind, his pupils slowly dilating.
"I remember something, on the day my parents prepared to leave for Hong Kong, my mother suddenly gave me the USB drive storing the core data of the AI system, and she stressed that I had to keep it safe."
His eyes reddened slightly, his voice strained as he said, "I was young then, why would she entrust me with something so important? Thinking back now, maybe she already knew something would happen. But if she knew, why did it still happen..."
Pei Ya was lost in thought.
Could it be that back then, his mother already knew the person who wanted to harm them was his brother-in-law, merely because she trusted Fu Yun she didn’t take precautions, yet for some reason, she still took a precaution and entrusted the AI system to him?
Before she died, his mother had been holding his hand, telling him not to resent Fu Yun—what was she thinking then?
Was she still holding onto hope?
Ridiculous.
Too ridiculous.
Pei Ya couldn’t say that he didn’t harbor resentment towards his parents; he resented them for trusting Fu Yun too much.
Seeing Pei Ya on the verge of losing control, Qiao Yun softly spoke, "Do you think I would harm you?"
Pei Ya snapped back to reality and replied subconsciously, "How could that be."
"Mm." Qiao Yun reminded him, "Nothing in this world is absolute."
Pei Ya understood, Professor Qiao was guiding him.
Indeed, Fu Yun was his mother’s only family, who could have thought she would betray.
Just like he firmly believes that Professor Qiao would not harm him.
Seeing that he had come to a realization, Qiao Yun then asked, "What do you want to do?"
Pei Ya’s eyes burned with a fierce intensity: "Now that I know, the death of my parents is related to her and the Huo Family, so an eye for an eye. I will make them pay the price they deserve."
In his eyes, Fu Yun’s current guilt and repentance were nothing but a joke.
If acknowledging one’s mistakes was useful, what would we need the police for?
Qiao Yun did not object; had she been in his place, she also would not have let these people go.
Pei Ya furrowed his brows: "Jiang Jing’s words can’t be taken as evidence, we still need substantial proof to be believed."
Li Hanzhou reminded him: "Knowing that Huo Lin is aware of these issues, he won’t just sit and wait for his doom. Perhaps he’s already arranged everything, the leads you’ll find later might not necessarily be real."
Pei Ya understood this principle, so much that it nearly made him spew blood in anger.
One step too late, and the advantage is lost.
What a coincidence.
It just so happened that Pei Ya had people investigating the driver’s family and got a response.
They said they had found someone.
Pei Ya contacted them directly, and once the phone call went through, he switched on the speaker and gestured for Qiao Yun and Li Hanzhou to listen in.
"Did you get the information?"
"Yes, we have results," the subordinate replied. "We found the wife of the driver involved in the car accident. She has remarried. Under our financial pressure, she divulged that a month before the accident, the driver received a large sum of money. However, after the accident, when she wanted to take the money and leave, she couldn’t find it."
"Further investigation revealed that this sum of money truly existed—it was retracted through virtual currency transactions right after the accident."
"But the driver’s wife told us she saw the driver meeting with someone."
"We showed her photos of all Huo Family members, and in the end, she identified Huo Yaozong of the Huo Family."
"With a target in mind, we looked into the virtual accounts and found that the account belonged to a mistress of Huo Yaozong from many years ago."
Pei Ya narrowed his eyes, "Good, I understand. Check who the driver’s wife has recently met, and if anyone else has sought her out."
"Yes."
After hanging up the phone, Pei Ya’s expression was complicated.
Qiao Yun asked curiously, "Do you believe it?"
Pei Ya, speechless, said, "Everything fits so well, even the evidence is in place, but that’s assuming I didn’t know that Huo Lin is already aware of these things. Now, I suspect that Huo Lin may have gotten to the driver’s wife before me and had her fabricate evidence."
Qiao Yun said with a face that showed she was impressed by his thoughtfulness: "That’s highly likely."
Pei Ya rubbed his hair, looking resentfully at Li Hanzhou, "Are you a jinx?"
"This is called foresight," Li Hanzhou replied leisurely, "You’re just too slow."
Pei Ya: "..."
"Alright, I was careless, but who has the upper hand now is not certain," Pei Ya chuckled, "Huo Yaozong won’t tolerate being Huo Lin’s scapegoat. Maybe we can seek his cooperation."
Li Hanzhou pointed out directly, "Do you think he’s a good partner?"
Speechless, Pei Ya choked up.
Huo Yaozong was tricky and cunning; he had previously tried to guide Pei Ya against Huo Lin, but fortunately, he was astute.
Qiao Yun furrowed her brows, thought for a moment, then said, "Hmm, I have a way to get substantial evidence."
"What is it?" Pei Ya looked forward in anticipation; in his eyes, Professor Qiao was capable of anything.
Qiao Yun glanced at Li Hanzhou, then seriously said to Pei Ya, "But I think, you won’t agree to it."
Pei Ya paused, considerably puzzled, and asked, "What is it? If you have a method, let’s hear it."
