Villain: After Intercepting the Female Lead, the Protagonist Collapses

Chapter 66

Chapter 66: Ye Chen Can’t Clear His Name Even If He Jumps into the Yellow River

The product launch was progressing smoothly, with the Beauty Pill being sold out immediately under the influence of the popular celebrity Zhao Yaqi. The Lin family was harmonious, and the event even made it to the hot searches.

Jiang Che, watching the hot search news on his phone, smirked sinisterly, “I hope the Lin family won’t be crying in a couple of days.” Putting down his phone, he went to the backyard of Wolong Villa.

“System, I want to upgrade my cultivation,” Jiang Che commanded.

“Ding, deducting 5000 villain points… Upgrading ‘Limitless Pure Yang’.”

The upgrade took a bit longer than before, around three hours.

Jiang Che exhaled deeply, opening his eyes that shone with a golden light, having reached the late stage of the Innate level. Now, he felt no fear towards Ye Chen, who was only at the early stage of the Innate level.

…

Three days later, a sensational hot search appeared in the media.

“Shocking! Lin Corporation is a fraudulent drug merchant.”

“Shocking! Lin Corporation’s Beauty Pill, priced at 2500 yuan per pill, is fake!”

“Shocking! Lin Corporation’s stock market value evaporates by ten billion overnight!”

Inside the office of Lin Corporation’s chairman, Lin Zhentian looked at the hot searches on his phone with a dark, angry expression, a stark contrast to his earlier cheerfulness.

“What exactly is happening here?” asked Lin Xiyan, who had rushed over immediately after seeing the hot searches. Her expression was equally troubled.

In the past two days, Lin Corporation had received thousands of complaints and was subjected to official inspections. The customers who had bought the Beauty Pill demanded refunds.

Faced with public pressure, Lin Corporation had no choice but to return the five billion yuan they had earned. Including the cost of production, as well as the manufacturing and processing fees, the company had lost nearly ten billion yuan!

“It must be someone plotting against our Lin family, or perhaps there’s something wrong with the pill formula your junior brother gave us,” Lin Zhentian sighed deeply, looking utterly defeated, as if he had aged a decade in a moment.

“That’s impossible. The formula for the Beauty Pill should be correct. Haven’t we been conducting random tests all along?” Lin Xiyan shook her head, disagreeing with her father.

She didn’t believe Ye Chen would sabotage her like this, as there was no need for it. After all, she had no deep grudges against him and had been helping him in every way possible.

“Could it be an internal issue? Maybe someone intentionally produced substandard pills,” Lin Xiyan suggested uncertainly.

“That’s also a possibility,” Lin Zhentian nodded in agreement. “Let’s go to the factory and see what exactly happened.” He then led Lin Xiyan directly to their cosmetic factory that produced the Beauty Pill.

…

“Speak up, everyone, where do you think the problem lies?” Lin Zhentian, in the office of the cosmetic factory, frowned at several silent minor shareholders.

From their expressions, it was hard to tell who was at fault, as these veterans were adept at hiding their emotions.

The shareholders looked at each other in confusion, genuinely unaware of where the error occurred.

“None of you admit it, huh? Then all of you can get out!” Lin Zhentian, typically a deep and calculated person, rarely lost his temper.

But today’s events had infuriated him, especially seeing these people refusing to speak. The entire meeting room fell into utter silence, with no one speaking up.

“You all may leave for now,” Lin Xiyan intervened, seeing the situation getting tense. “Dad, don’t be too angry. I have a way to probe them.”

After all the minor shareholders had left, Lin Xiyan comforted Lin Zhentian in a soft voice.

“Oh? What’s your plan?” Lin Zhentian looked at his daughter, puzzled.

“We can question them one by one. If there’s really a mole among them, they’ll definitely slip up under high pressure.”

“Let’s do it your way,” Lin Zhentian agreed after a moment of contemplation.

…

Thus, a questioning session of the cosmetic factory’s minor shareholders began.

“Jiahao, do you have anything to say?” Lin Zhentian’s tone softened considerably when addressing Lin Jiahao.

The other party was also an old man in the cosmetics factory. In order to inherit the Lin family from the old man, he opened this cosmetics factory with 50 million yuan of start-up capital. Lin Jiahao had been with him since then.

From a small worker to a minority shareholder, Lin Jiahao could be said to have witnessed the development of this cosmetics factory. Therefore, Lin Zhentian’s attitude towards him was different from that of others.

It was said that businessmen valued profits more than parting, but Lin Zhentian was the opposite. As long as the brothers who had fought alongside him did not betray him, Lin Zhentian would make proper arrangements for them.

Even though they were old and had already retired, Lin Zhentian would still give them a large retirement fund every year. He would even visit them personally.

Lin Zhentian’s personality naturally attracted a large number of ambitious young people. Therefore, Lin’s Group had increased in value by tens of billions in Lin Zhentian’s hands over the years. This was all due to him alone.

“Chairman…” Listening to Lin Zhentian’s tone and attitude, which was obviously different from the others, Lin Jiahao felt that he could not hold it in any longer. He had originally wanted to play around, but now he might as well lay all his cards on the table.

“Chairman… I was foolish… When I first started producing the Beautifying Pill, a young man came to me and asked me to add a kind of potion to the Beautifying Pill.”

“As long as you add this potion, the Beautifying Pill will lose its original effect. He kidnapped my wife and child. I couldn’t do anything about it…”

“I was confused… I apologize, Chairman…” Lin Jiahao said with snot and tears. He directly poured all the blame on Ye Chen… As he spoke, he began to slap his big mouth, looking extremely regretful.

“Therefore, you used the convenience of your position to start producing fake Beauty Pills?” Lin Zhentian sternly asked Lin Jiahao, glaring at him intensely.

“Yes…” Lin Jia Hao admitted, looking defeated and remorseful. “You can call the police, or even kill me. I have no complaints.”

Lin Jiahao said as if he was facing death with equanimity. Tears kept falling from the corners of his eyes. A forty year old man suddenly shed tears, not because of anything else, but because he felt that he had let down Lin Zhentian’s trust.

However, he was forced to do so. If he did not agree to Jiang Che’s request, he would be the one who would end up going six feet under. Human nature was selfish. In the face of life, loyalty becomes a little ridiculous.

“Do you remember what that young man looked like?” Lin Xiyan’s heart skipped a beat and she quickly asked. She already had a bad feeling in her heart.

The Lin Group’s production of the Beautifying Pill was absolutely confidential. Other than the company’s upper management, not many people knew about it.

“I don’t know his appearance, but I can recognize his voice. He was wearing a mask when he came to me,” Lin Jia Hao said after some thought, knowing he needed to make his lie convincing.

“Then listen to this. Is this the voice?” Lin Xiyan played a video on her phone with Ye Chen’s recording for Lin Jiahao.

After listening for a while, Lin Jia Hao nodded affirmatively, recognizing the voice from the video as the same one he had heard from Jiang Che.

“Show me the medicine he gave you,” Lin Xiyan said after a deep breath, her suspicions almost confirmed.

“It’s in my office. I have to go and get it.”

“Go ahead…”

After receiving Lin Xiyan’s affirmation, Lin Jiahao directly left the meeting room and went to fetch the medicine from his office.

“Is it Ye Chen?” Lin Zhentian asked uncertainly after Lin Jia Hao left the room.

“We can’t be sure yet,” Lin Xiyan replied, shaking her head. The truth would be known once Lin Jiahao returned.

About ten minutes later, Lin Jiahao came back with a bottle of medicine in his hand. This was the medicine Jiang Che gave him before. He said that as long as he gave this to Lin Xiyan, she would not ask any more questions.

Although Lin Jiahao did not understand what he meant, he still did as Jiang Che said because he had no other choice.

“Miss, this is the medicine he gave me.” Lin Jiahao put the medicine on the table and stood aside with some trepidation.

Although Jiang Che said that he would arrange a special plane to send him abroad, it was unknown whether he could get out of here alive today.

He also came from that era. He knew that although Lin Zhentian was very good to his own people, he was also known for being cruel and merciless.

Lin Xiyan opened the bottle and sniffed it, her expression turning complex.