As the plane slowly descended, Ding Qing had many, many thoughts.
Although he believed that Jiang Chenghao indeed wanted him to provide evidence to the police so they could deal with Lee Joong-ku, allowing him to rise in power, he couldn't bring himself to do it.
Not to mention that he had long considered Goldmoon Group his own, but to deal with someone like Lee Joong-ku, if he still needed police intervention, wouldn't he be too incompetent?
"Damn it! To think of me as useless, he really underestimates me!"
After getting off the plane and getting into the car with the person sent to pick him up from the Shanghai branch, he directly instructed the secretary in front, "Find me the top hackers in Huaguo to hack into the Korean police headquarters. I need some interesting things."
Facing Ding Qing's instructions, the secretary in front nodded in agreement, then said, "Hackers in Huaguo tend to charge higher prices. Is that okay?"
Ding Qing waved his hand, "It's just a bit of money, give it to them. What I want is results."
The secretary nodded at his words and began to make arrangements.
In Shanghai, Ding Qing quickly got into work mode, resuming the business that had been interrupted last time, and the negotiations went very smoothly.
After leaving the meeting center, he got into his car. At this time, the secretary handed him a file bag.
"These are some of the initial materials obtained; more will follow."
Ding Qing opened the file bag; inside were some materials from the Korean police headquarters, including active personnel and undercover agents.
"This efficiency is quite fast."
After looking at the materials in his hand, Ding Qing's expression gradually turned cold.
Then, he said, "Find some people to do these things. Their work must be clean. I don't care about the cost; find the best to handle it."
The secretary nodded and left, beginning to arrange the tasks Ding Qing had assigned.
He had initially thought of using Johnny for this matter, but after some thought, he decided against it. There was no need for such a high-level assassin to do such a low-level job; he had other plans for him later.
And not long after the secretary made a phone call, four simply dressed men crossed the border and arrived in Korea.
Meanwhile, Jiang Chenghao also began his operations. After all, they had made no attempt to conceal the fact that they had taken Ding Qing from the airport, and many people knew about it.
So, the next step was for him to send people to arrest Lee Joong-ku. When a group of police officers rushed into Lee Joong-ku's office and handcuffed him, Lee Joong-ku still hadn't realized what was happening.
"We meet again. No need to look like that."
Looking at the grim-faced Lee Joong-ku, Jiang Chenghao merely shrugged, then leaned closer to him, "You're being arrested for illegal business operations, not because of our personal grudges."
Then he stepped back, waved his hand, and had his subordinates take Lee Joong-ku away.
This scene unfolded within Goldmoon Group, and the news immediately began to spread like wildfire. After all, this was a major event; the group's ostensible first-in-line successor had been taken away by the police, which was not good news to spread.
Ding Qing, far away in Shanghai, received the news immediately. He frowned deeply; Jiang Chenghao's move had disrupted all his plans.
Furthermore, he couldn't quite grasp Jiang Chenghao's intentions anymore. He had just stepped out of the station, and then Lee Joong-ku was arrested by the police. This looked as if he had betrayed Lee Joong-ku, which was not a good thing.
Thinking of this, Ding Qing could only angrily throw his chopsticks to the ground, then paid the bill and left for the airport; he had to hurry back to clean up this mess.
On the other side, Li Zicheng also began to get a headache, because he knew nothing about Jiang Chenghao's actions and had no way to form an effective strategy, which led to increasing pressure on him.
Moreover, all his plans were disrupted, and he simply couldn't proceed as planned.
Worried, he found his wife, Meizhen, and asked, "How about we go abroad for a trip?"
Meizhen looked at Li Zicheng with some confusion, "Are you not busy with work lately? Why suddenly think of traveling abroad?"
Li Zicheng said while driving, "Let's go abroad for a trip first, and isn't the baby due soon? I want him to be born abroad so he can have a foreign household registration. Perhaps that would be much better, and it's also a plan for the child's future."
Li Zicheng's words seemed flawless, but Meizhen immediately rejected them, "It's precisely at a time like this that it's inconvenient for us to go abroad. Who knows when the baby will be born?"
Meizhen's tone was very firm. Knowing Meizhen very well, Li Zicheng's head ached even more.
"Are you really not going to consider it?"
Li Zicheng, somewhat unwilling, asked again, but Meizhen still shook her head, refusing, "I don't want to go abroad."
With one sentence blocking all avenues of retreat, Li Zicheng could only continue driving helplessly.
To be honest, he already felt the impending storm growing more and more severe, with both Ding Qing and Lee Joong-ku, plus the police headquarters, pressing in on him.
Moreover, more and more things were happening recently, and he was finding it increasingly difficult to handle them. If he delayed even slightly, neither side was someone he could afford to offend.
And his child would become a new bargaining chip to threaten him. After dropping his wife off at work, Li Zicheng drove away.
Johnny also encountered trouble. Although his duty was to protect Li Zicheng, especially since Ding Qing had gone abroad, the problem was that he also seemed to be targeted.
This feeling was indescribable; it wasn't that someone was continuously following him, but Johnny could clearly feel that he was indeed being watched.
Ever since he left Goldmoon Group, that feeling had been subtly lingering behind him. No matter what methods he used, he couldn't detect anyone. Although he didn't know who was watching him, Johnny understood that the other party was a master.
To be able to follow him without him knowing, and for him not to be able to detect them—what else could that be but a master?
This continuous feeling of being followed made Johnny very uncomfortable.
One must know that his anti-surveillance level was not low, yet he couldn't find them, which indicated that the other party's methods were more advanced than his own.
At the same time, at the police headquarters, Jiang Chenghao sat in his office chair, looking at a clue map covered with densely packed photos.
"Ding Qing, ah, Ding Qing, this time I don't believe you won't make a move!"
Jiang Chenghao murmured.
Just then, his phone rang. He picked it up, pressed the answer button, and a woman's voice came through, "I want to retire properly and go back to enjoy the life I deserve."
Jiang Chenghao listened to the woman's voice and suddenly laughed. He, of course, knew what the woman was thinking now, so he just said in a cold tone, "What time do you leave? What time do you come home? Report all his movements to me!"
Jiang Chenghao changed his posture and continued, "You, a hostess from a restaurant, what right do you have to bargain with me? I gave you a chance to start anew; you should learn to be grateful and cherish this hard-won life!"
Listening to Jiang Chenghao's almost ruthless words, the woman choked up, tears slowly falling from the corners of her eyes, "You bastard!"
"Yes, that's right, but this is my job. In short, do well, understand?"
After saying that, he hung up the phone.
Meizhen looked at the phone in her hand, wiping away tears from her eyes. Was this truly what she wanted?
Jiang Chenghao, meanwhile, picked up a stack of documents from his drawer, which conspicuously contained Li Zicheng's information.
Arresting Lee Joong-ku this time was a new move by Jiang Chenghao, aimed at disrupting all of Ding Qing's plans. Although Li Zicheng had always been by Ding Qing's side, he didn't trust Li Zicheng very much.
After all, Li Zicheng had climbed up with Ding Qing from the bottom, and after so many years, people's hearts can change.
Therefore, Jiang Chenghao did not believe that Li Zicheng always belonged to the side of light. Perhaps he had already fallen, or perhaps he had already entered the sequence of chaos; who could know?
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