Seeing her gasping for breath, Chu Shenyu kissed her hard, punishingly biting her lip. "Do you have any idea how much you scared me!"

Zhu Yun looked at him, completely bewildered.

Chu Shenyu gritted his teeth. "When you got into an accident and were sent to the hospital, a well-meaning family had their kid run to my office to give me the message."

"The message got to me fast, but who knows how many mouths it passed through. By the time I heard the story, it was that you’d been pushed down, endangering the baby. They said you were rushed to the hospital, leaving a trail of blood on the ground, and that things looked so bad it was going to be one body, two lives lost!"

When he heard that, he nearly collapsed. He sprinted all the way to the hospital, his legs feeling like jelly, completely forgetting that vehicles even existed.

Zhu Yun instantly flew into a rage. "Which jinx said that? Who curses people like that for fun?"

"They made it sound so real. Couldn’t they even tell if there was any blood?"

"But when I was taken to the operating room, that Doctor Zheng also said I’d been a careless mother and had bumped my belly. I hadn’t said a word, so how could she have assumed that?"

Her voice was hesitant. "Am I just being paranoid, seeing enemies behind every tree? Why do I get the feeling someone deliberately fed you false intelligence?"

A chill ran through Chu Shenyu as well. He stood up at once. "I’m going out again."

Zhu Yun pulled him back. "Oh, right, Shen Yu. After you left, I heard Qingqing from across the hall muttering something. She said her aunt was going crazy, playing with strips of old cloth in her room and then hanging them out on the balcony without even washing them."

"I thought it was strange, too."

Chu Shenyu nodded. "Get some sleep. I’m really going to be busy for a while this time. Don’t wait up for me for dinner."

After he left, Zhu Yun finally relaxed. She rubbed her belly, a proud smile revealing her small canine teeth as she whispered, ’Son, look how smart your mommy is. The entire factory’s survival depends on me.’ 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮

’Even your dad is only able to get busy because of the clues I provided...’

The little one in her belly gave a kick, creating a cute little bump on her stomach.

’You’re going to be smart, too. We’ve got good genes in this family!’

She was a pregnant woman, after all. After a long and busy day, she was mentally and physically exhausted. She fell into a deep sleep, and when she woke, she found herself wrapped in a warm embrace.

Breathing in the familiar scent, Zhu Yun lazily clung to him. "When did you get back? Is it all sorted out?"

"Mhm," Chu Shenyu said in a low voice, gently stroking her back. "Lin Jin was indeed passing information to an outside party. We found her contact but didn’t tip our hand. We’re letting them continue to pass the message down the line."

"Our organization has plenty of capable people. It only took a few phone calls to crack the code on those cloth strips. It was the perfect opportunity to turn their own plan against them!"

"Sure enough, two thieves showed up at the warehouse tonight. They accidentally stabbed Wang Xianbing, and we captured them alive as they tried to escape."

At this, Chu Shenyu gave a wicked grin. "We had already moved the grain out of the research institute beforehand, without Wang Xianbing knowing."

"Though the two thieves were just a feint, the fact they could get into the research institute means they could only have been after the latest research results. The organization has already sent a task force to investigate the matter thoroughly."

"And the best part is, Wang Xianbing is being kept in the dark by his wife. He still thinks he’s some kind of hero for protecting the grain."

"With the task force on the case, the truth will come to light very soon!"

Over the next few days, Chu Shenyu periodically updated Zhu Yun on the case’s progress.

For instance, one of the captured men couldn’t stand the pain and was the first to crack. He was an inconspicuous construction worker, but he was actually from Luqing Village, and Lin Jin was the village chief’s own granddaughter.

That single breakthrough was enough to reveal the tip of the iceberg, a small part of everything Dad Lin had painstakingly tried to cover up for the Lu Family.

The investigators sent by the organization were skilled in psychological tactics. Hoping for the leniency promised to those who confess, the small-time thugs from Luqing Village began turning on each other, one after another.

This wasn’t the old war-torn era anymore, where one couldn’t survive without the protection of the powerful Luqing Village.

On the contrary, Luqing Village had become like a deeply buried time bomb, ready to detonate at any moment. This made the men—who were getting used to working jobs, earning salaries, and supporting their families—want to break free from their shackles and stop living in constant fear.

And to put it bluntly, they were just a ragtag mob of uneducated thugs who knew how to be vicious. How resolute could people like that really be? Could they truly withstand round after round of questioning?

Everyone from Luqing Village was rounded up to await judgment and sentencing. As the one who devised the code, Lin Jin naturally couldn’t escape, either.