Ye Xiaoqiong examined the photographs one by one.

Yuan Han’s vulgar behavior made her feel nauseous, but she forced herself to look through them all.

After finishing, Ye Xiaoqiong handed He Shiyuan an envelope:

“There’s some money in here. It should be enough for you to use for a while.”

It contained colorful Hong Kong dollars, several tens of thousands worth. He Shiyuan was extremely satisfied.

After He Shiyuan left, Ye Xiaoqiong locked all the photos in the cabinet, and then took out another set of documents:

“Xia Ziyu, born in 1963, from Dahe Village, Anqing County, Yunan Province. Entered Capital Normal College in 1983, disappeared after being wanted by police in 1985… Elder cousin of Xia Xiaolan.”

Ye Xiaoqiong carefully studied Xia Ziyu’s information.

She tried to match it with her memory.

The Xia Ziyu in the documents fit mainland aesthetic standards but not Hong Kong’s – she looked too provincial.

What if her face was made sharper?

And her eye corners were refined?

With exquisite makeup and a completely new style of dress, wouldn’t she become… Vivi?!

Chairman Du’s fifth concubine was Xia Xiaolan’s elder cousin!

The Second Young Master was right – the Fifth Concubine belonged to the Eldest Young Master Du Zhaohui.

Ye Xiaoqiong couldn’t understand the logic behind this. She had thought Xia Xiaolan and Du Zhaohui were business partners, but the documents clearly stated why Xia Ziyu was wanted by the police.

Xia Xiaolan cooperated with Du Zhaohui, Xia Ziyu had a grudge against Xia Xiaolan, yet worked for Du Zhaohui.

Ye Xiaoqiong was only sixty percent certain that Xia Ziyu was Vivi.

She hadn’t come to Shenzhen to investigate the Fifth Concubine’s identity – this was just an unexpected discovery.

Ye Xiaoqiong didn’t touch Yuan Han’s compromising photos.

After pondering for a while, she still faxed Xia Ziyu’s information back to Hong Kong.

Whether Vivi and Xia Ziyu were the same person – the Second Young Master would naturally make that judgment.

Du Zhaohui’s “Chengrong Plaza” had won Du Chengrong’s approval. With such aggressive advertising and positive response to external leasing, they just needed to wait until opening day to truly evaluate the plaza’s value and potential.

Honestly, even the Second Concubine, who didn’t understand much about business, felt her son would lose.

Five percent of the group’s shares.

If that wasn’t enough, what about the money Du Chengrong privately gave Du Zhaohui?

Yes, Du Zhaoji indeed hadn’t followed the agreement and used more than 20 million Hong Kong dollars – money that Second Concubine had raised together with Liu Keying and others. Nobody wanted Du Zhaohui to win.

Du Zhaoji originally had support from three households, but Du Chengrong, fearing his eldest son would be at a disadvantage, openly supported Du Zhaohui!

Using over 200 million Hong Kong dollars – did they think everyone was blind?

The Second Concubine originally thought they still had a fighting chance, even though Liu Keying and Liu Tianquan had ulterior motives, they could still be utilized.

Who knew Du Chengrong would suddenly take a Fifth Concubine, completely muddying the waters? That fool Liu Keying insisted the Fifth Concubine was arranged by the second household.

The Second Concubine wanted to curse.

Except for seducing men, did Liu Keying have any brains at all?!

At this time, what was the point of the second household sending a woman? To break up the alliance and hinder Du Zhaoji?

“Fool, when Du Zhaohui wins, your siblings will be the first ones he deals with.”

That wolf cub hated everyone in the Du family, the Second Concubine knew this.

But if all the Du family members were lined up and Du Zhaohui was given a gun with only two bullets to choose from, he would undoubtedly kill the Liu siblings first!

While other Du family members were eyesores to Du Zhaohui, Liu Keying had betrayed his trust – a crime upon crime.

The Second Concubine was anxious.

She couldn’t bear to lose that 5% share.

She also didn’t want to watch her son lose.

Her son was so excellent, always studying hard since childhood – why should he lose to that good-for-nothing playboy Du Zhaohui?

Just because Du Zhaohui was born to their first wife, Zhaoji had to yield to him.

Bah!

She was also legally married to Du Chengrong, recognized by law and society – of course, her son could be the heir.

The Second Concubine didn’t want to admit defeat, but her son Du Zhaoji seemed to have given up trying. After Liu Keying withdrew her funding, instead of going to Thailand, Zhaoji stayed in Hong Kong for extended periods.

What did Zhaoji want to do?

The Second Concubine was extremely worried.

Having been with Du Chengrong for many years, she understood his personality.

Du Chengrong wanted an heir like a wolf – someone with a fighting spirit and ruthlessness who could control the group’s veterans and expand the Du family’s wealthy empire further.

If not a wolf that could expand territory, at least it should be a fierce dog that could maintain what they had.

Du Chengrong wouldn’t want an obedient pet dog!

The Second Concubine was in a bad mood. That Vivi was proud and aloof, yet particularly polite to her.

Even Du Chengrong was curious and asked Vivi once. Vivi had a ready answer:

“I naturally respect those who came first.”

Listen to how pleasant those words were.

The Second Concubine had indeed entered the family before Vivi, but so had the Third Concubine and Liu Keying – why didn’t Vivi respect those two?

The Second Concubine felt like she was being roasted over a fire – no wonder Liu Keying misunderstood.

Unable to sit still any longer, she went to the company to find her son.

Du Zhaoji had just received Ye Xiaoqiong’s fax.

“Elder cousin? A fugitive and Vivi?”

This was getting more and more interesting.

The Second Concubine entered the office smoothly. “Zhaoji, what are you holding?”

Du Zhaoji closed the door and handed the documents to his mother:

“I just found the Fifth Concubine’s identity information. Take a look.”

The more the Second Concubine read, the deeper her brows furrowed.

It wasn’t strange that Vivi was a mainland female university student, but she was also a fugitive who had plastic surgery and came from rural Yunan Province – including herself, the Du family had been played by a rural mainland female student?!

“You want me to expose her to your father?”

It wouldn’t be much use.

This bombshell might work in other families but in the Du family… The Du family hadn’t even cleaned up their mess, what was a fugitive? Du Chengrong might even find it more exciting.

The Second Concubine hesitated, “Even if we tell your father she’s a woman arranged by Du Zhaohui, it still—”

Still wouldn’t help much.

Du Zhaoji shook his head, “No, we won’t expose her. I just discovered something very interesting.”

Du Zhaoji opened his drawer and pulled out another document:

“Look at this.”

The Second Concubine leaned in – the girl in the photo was beautiful and somewhat familiar:

“Oh, she is…”

“Her name is Xia Xiaolan, Vivi Xia Ziyu’s younger cousin, and also the woman secretly advising Du Zhaohui.”

This woman was truly formidable, able to transform a good-for-nothing playboy into what he is today.

If he hadn’t been meticulous, he definitely wouldn’t have discovered this.

“Giving advice? She sent her cousin to your father, destroying our alliance with the fourth household – indeed quite clever.”

The Second Concubine stared at Xia Xiaolan’s photo, somewhat lost in thought.

You couldn’t tell anything special about a person from a photo, except appearance.

As for appearance, Xia Xiaolan was indeed flawlessly beautiful.

If Vivi had plastic surgery, clearly Xia Xiaolan was the template.

But no matter how beautiful, she wasn’t an eyesore to the Second Concubine, who didn’t have much reaction – surely the sisters wouldn’t serve the same husband, with the elder cousin leading the way before she came as the sixth concubine?