Miss Song, the wealthy young lady, left while wiping away her tears. Young Master Xiao stood in place, clenching his fists tightly—he looked as if he couldn’t bear it, but in the end, he didn’t move.
At that moment, his elder brother Xiao Hong walked over and asked him something. Young Master Xiao immediately turned cold, threw him a face, and walked away directly.
Just from this scene alone, Ruan Yaoyao could already guess what had happened.
It must be that the “suit-clad tyrant” had driven the female lead away in anger, but then couldn’t bear it afterward and wanted to chase after her. However, his elder brother discovered it. Worried that if Young Master Xiao got involved with Miss Song from the Song family, he might gain powerful backing in the future and compete for the family inheritance, the elder brother came over to probe the situation.
And Young Master Xiao clearly understood his brother’s intentions, which was why he gave him that cold attitude.
【Tsk tsk tsk… this is getting interesting!】
Hu Xiaoyan chuckled after hearing this: Heh, yeah! It really is interesting!
Ruan Yaoyao quickly flipped through Young Master Xiao’s profile page and found that at this moment, he was indeed in a bad mood. However…
Wasn’t this novel called “The Suit-Clad Tyrant, Young Master Xiao’s Beloved”? The focus was supposed to be the man doting on the woman, right?
So after Young Master Xiao had just “tormented” the female lead, he went back and started pacing back and forth, regretting it.
【Oh right, he’s also a professional overthinker!】
【In his mind: Miss Song is heartbroken, lost, crying her eyes out.】
【In reality: Miss Song is heartbroken, crying her eyes out… but she’s being gently comforted by the second male lead.】
Hu Xiaoyan: Second male lead? Who?
Ruan Yaoyao’s gaze swept across the crowd, and soon she spotted a man walking out with the label “Second Male Lead Aura.”
Tian Xiu, male, 20 years old, Miss Song’s next-door neighbor and childhood friend—her “childhood sweetheart.”
His role was relatively normal: he genuinely liked her since childhood and treated her sincerely from the heart.
But childhood sweethearts couldn’t beat the “newcomer from the heavens.” He could only watch as Miss Song fell in love with someone else, passionately and dramatically, while he stood nearby as background decoration and a tool man—forced in the end to “bless” them.
Just as he was preparing to leave heartbroken, he discovered his family had fallen apart. Relatives were either dead or injured, and in rage he turned against the suit-clad tyrant, wanting revenge.
Everyone understood the trope—how could a sweet romance story let the male and female leads not end happily?
So the blackened Tian Xiu was eventually killed by the suit-clad tyrant.
Hu Xiaoyan: “……”
No, sister, are you okay?
You call this normal?
Do you misunderstand the word “normal”?
After the banquet, Hu Xiaoyan immediately told her family to stay far away from the Xiao and Song families—especially the newly returned Young Master Xiao. Anything related to him, they should avoid as far as possible.
No need to ask why.
Hu’s parents: ????
She went to a banquet and came back… “stimulated”?
Meanwhile, the Xu family also gained valuable insight. Everyone who could hear Ruan Yaoyao’s inner voice began consciously avoiding business dealings with the Xiao and Song families.
After all, Young Master Xiao was a so-called “suit-clad tyrant.” Who knew what might happen in the future? They were in long-term business, not looking for quick short-term profit.
Based on everything he was going to do later, if they got involved with those families, they might not even recover their investment—let alone avoid being dragged into trouble.
Yu Xiangqiao quietly asked in the group chat: “How do we deal with this suit-clad tyrant? Are we just going to leave him there? He’s going to be extremely ruthless in the future…”
Yun Jinxian: “Same question.”
Xu Lianghan: “@Ru Anzhi, give us a status update.”
Xu Chengyan: “@Ru Anzhi, where are you?”
After a long while, Ru Anzhi finally appeared: “The old kidnapping case has already been filed. Just wait.”
Xu Nannan: “So you’re planning to send his brother in before he even makes a move? Will that even work?”
After that, Ru Anzhi stopped replying.
Everyone @’d him for a long time without response, but they understood—this involved confidentiality.
Fine. If it’s confidential, so be it. As long as they knew the higher-ups weren’t ignoring it, that was enough.
They didn’t want such a terrifying person in their social circle anyway.
Meanwhile, Ruan Yaoyao didn’t stay idle either. She found several more chances to approach Young Master Xiao, carefully reviewing his profile page and recording all his “criminal records.”
Whatever he was going to do later wasn’t something he did alone—he must have “helpers.”
She dug out everything: ready-made organizations, fugitives, unclear-background financial criminals… she compiled them all into a dossier and anonymously reported them.
Ruan Yaoyao thought coldly: 【So you’re the suit-clad tyrant, huh? I’ll cut off all your tools and see how you’re supposed to tyrannize anyone!】
As a result, before Young Master Xiao even met that street thug who would later become his sharpest blade, that thug was arrested for petty theft.
The financial criminal who had never been exposed was reported in advance and caught by the police before he could defraud another company.
A certain organized criminal network that had already formed a complete industry chain was completely taken down—none escaped.
In an instant, the air itself felt cleaner.
“What?! What did you just say? The Sima family did what?!” Ruan Yaoyao asked in shock.
Earlier, she had even been “admiring” the wealth of the Sima family with her future daughters-in-law, but now her third son told her they were investigating them.
“What did the Sima family do to get targeted by the national task force?!”
Ru Anzhi coughed lightly and said, “It’s not confirmed yet, but there are clues suggesting that the Sima family’s ‘Heaven on Earth’ nightclub may be involved in human trafficking. Isn’t Young Master Xiao the one who was found in that high-end club? Mom, you should remember—he was abducted…”
“He was abducted, what does that have to do with ‘Heaven on Earth’? It’s not like they kidnapped him,” Ruan Yaoyao said, confused.
Ru Anzhi replied, “Then where do you think all those hostesses and escorts in Heaven on Earth come from?”
Ruan Yaoyao was aware that the club wasn’t clean, but she didn’t expect it to be this dirty—human trafficking involved?!
【Wait, isn’t the Sima family an old-established top-tier noble family?】
【A top-tier wealthy family still needs money that badly?】
【Or did they become what they are today precisely because of this kind of fast-money business?】
There are two kinds of fast money: one is legal, paying high taxes, long-term sustainable business; the other is illegal, high-risk, fast cash but not sustainable.
Although she wasn’t a businessperson, she still understood what could and couldn’t be done.
She said, “Are you sure you’re not mistaken? Is it possible this is just their subordinates acting on their own?”
Ru Anzhi said, “We’re not sure yet. Based on the current evidence, the Sima family is indeed not clean. That’s why we want your help—to see if you can find any additional clues.”
In short, they had reached a point where normal investigation was slow and risked alerting the Sima family, so they needed her ability to take a look first.
If the Sima family was clean, they could proceed slowly. But if not, then they needed to adjust their strategy carefully—after all, a top-tier family like that might have influence everywhere.
For such a major operation, they couldn’t afford to harm their own people.
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