Love letters are not allowed in the exorcism notebook!-Chapter 541 - 119 Who Exactly is the Villain After All

"According to the investigation, for many years, someone has been secretly recruiting these unemployed vagrants from the lower echelons of society. Basically, they all disappeared without a trace, never to be heard from again. Since they were all alone in the world with no family or friends, no one cared about their wellbeing or fate."

"It is also because the quiet disappearances of these unemployed vagrants didn’t spark a more serious problem that we didn’t pay much attention to them. After all, unregistered immigrants aren’t considered human; if they die, they die. We can barely keep up with normal smuggling cases, who has the time to worry about whether they are alive or dead?"

"While I was following this lead, I found a pharmaceutical company called Yamazaki Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. ’Kabushiki Kaisha’ in Fusang language means a limited company. I did some research on the history of this company, and it turned out to be quite interesting."

Yan Yu’an said this and turned his head toward someone," Miss Cheng, you should have gathered some relevant information by now, right?"

Wang Yunxiao was startled, following his gaze, he saw Cheng Xuefei, who was quietly chewing on her braised mackerel.

When had she arrived?

Wang Yunxiao carefully recalled, certain that he had absolutely not noticed any movement from Eldest Miss Cheng. She seemed to have appeared out of nowhere.

Do you also like to raise Golden Retrievers and provide psychotherapy to people?

He quickly realized that this must be the talent of Flower Amidst Guests.

Passing through the myriad flowers without a single leaf sticking to the body!

Flower Amidst Guests are best at hiding in the shadows, weaving through the crowds, beguiling hearts with their laughter and conversation, all while gathering secret information from others.

The Righteous Path and Heretical Path of cultivation in Advisor Dharma Gate focus on objective recording and subjective inference, respectively. One protects secrets, while the other uncovers them; they represent different angles of understanding the "truth."

So, when everybody initially thought Eldest Miss Cheng was unreliable, was it because she was genuinely unreliable, or did she use her talent to make everyone underestimate her?

Considering the earth-shattering cry, "An Ran, don’t die!" from before, Wang Yunxiao thought it more likely that she had turned shame into motivation and emerged stronger after breaking down... with so much time passed, it’s only normal for her level to have improved.

"Yamazaki Pharmaceuticals becoming an irreplaceable conglomerate and the sole modern medicinal manufacturer in Fusang, and even the whole of East Asia, has an indispensable status on its home turf. Many years ago, introduced by Shen Jianzhen, they came to Tianmen to establish a branch and brought in several pharmaceutical production lines. Why Shen Jianzhen could be the connection behind this needs to be traced back to his life experiences."

"In his early years, Shen Jianzhen was well-versed in Confucian classics, participated in the imperial examinations of the former dynasty, and became an Advanced Scholar ranked third. He joined the Hanlin Academy to compile history and literature. Later, commissioned by the Imperial Court to investigate Fusang, he recognized the superiority of Western learning and resigned to retreat from official life. He dedicated himself to reading Western philosophy and, after a recommendation, became a professor at Northern University."

"This man held a high reputation within officialdom, widely read in both Chinese and Western literature, with profound knowledge. His many progressive and feasible ideas at the time provided young scholars, poisoned by conservative feudal thoughts, with a new path."

"However, in other respects, this man’s level of awareness was quite limited."

"Nowadays, Yamazaki Pharmaceuticals has grown into a huge corporate giant in Fusang, with its various western medicines almost monopolizing the entire Asian market, even being sold abroad. However, the Tianmen branch is left with only a nearly defunct sales agency responsible for selling finished medicines from the homeland, without any capacity for research and development."

"Failure to collaborate with the Fusang people led to a severe blow to Shen Jianzhen’s reputation, causing him to fade back into academia."

"Shen Zhidong, in his early days, went to study civil engineering in Fusang, and indeed could be called an expert in planning and construction, but he was also not good at business management."

"He took on this construction project of his own volition, surely investing his own funds and responsible for his own profits or losses. At the time, everyone thought the real estate industry had great prospects, that money would come in even while lying down— the question was just how much. But unfortunately, just after the development of the Seaside District was completed, it coincided with the outbreak of the domestic financial crisis. It was the time when the Imperial Court issued new currency and due to a lack of relevant expertise, excessive Money caused hyperinflation and led to a financial disaster."

"Shen Zhidong had borrowed a substantial amount of cash from banks for urban construction, and before the funds could be recouped, he faced bank demands for repayment. With no choice, he had to surrender all his properties used as collateral, and the Shen family was once brought to the brink of ruin..."

"Wait a minute!"

Wang Yunxiao raised his hand to interrupt her: "Is the Shen family you’re talking about the same Shen family we’re talking about?"

Going by what you said, did the name Half-City Shen come about because the Shen family owed the bank half a city? Does that even make sense?

Why does that sound so tragic? Who is the villain here?

And what about the Imperial Jade Seal? Weren’t you supposed to investigate the Imperial Jade Seal?