Mr. Bigshot Is Obsessed with His Hidden-Marriage Wife
Chapter 162: Courting Death on One’s Own Accord

Chapter 162: Chapter 162: Courting Death on One’s Own Accord

Pei Ye and Zeng Qian were taken onto the vehicle, and the attitude of several staff members became noticeably worse than before.

"What kind of attitude is this? I want to make a complaint." Pei Ye shouted discontentedly.

"Complaint?" One of the staff members lifted the broken thread in his hand, "There’s no surveillance equipment in this car, what are you going to complain about?"

Having said that, he suddenly punched Pei Ye in the stomach, making Pei Ye scream in agony.

"How can you hit people?" Zeng Qian, who was sitting on the side, was too scared to move, "Is there no law left?"

"Of course, there’s law, but it’s not for people like you." The staff member said, and then threw two more punches at Pei Ye’s belly, causing him to see stars and rendering him unable to even shout.

The instructions from above were clear, to make him suffer without leaving any marks.

Complaint?

Did he have any evidence?

"Why, why are you doing this?" Pei Ye could not understand. Even if he had taken bribes, he had not been convicted yet, and no legal proceedings had been followed. This was just like private vengeance.

But he had no grievances or enmities with these people; he didn’t even recognize them.

"Stop hitting me, please stop." Pei Ye felt his insides were being turned inside out, and he began to cry tears of pain, unable to catch his breath, "Please stop hitting me."

The space in the vehicle was too cramped; otherwise, he would have definitely knelt before these men, "Brothers, what have I done to offend you?"

The staff member looked at him coldly, "Who knows who you’ve offended? We’re just following orders."

By now, Pei Ye was certain that he had offended someone.

He had been taking bribes from drug company representatives for more than a few days; from the start of his career, the amount had grown from small to large, collecting who knows how much dirty money.

Accepting bribes, and then recklessly prescribing medication to patients regardless of the consequences.

There had been complaints against him, but as the son-in-law of the former Vice Dean and the grandson-in-law of the current Dean, nobody could touch him.

All along the way, Pei Ye wondered who he could have possibly offended and who had the ability to get him locked up.

And it wasn’t just him; even Dean Zeng was caught like him, not exempted from charges.

Was it Dean Zeng who had implicated him?

Thinking about it, he felt increasingly irritated at the sight of Zeng Qian.

What made Pei Ye collapse was that, after his arrest, no lawyers would take his case.

"No matter the cost, I need a lawyer." Pei Ye was utterly disheveled, "I have money, I will find a lawyer."

"Give up that idea, no one in Ao City dares to take your case." The staff member looked at him with pity.

"I’m begging you, tell me who I have offended?" If he knew who was targeting him, he could find a way to seek forgiveness, and he would do anything they asked.

He had money; he had not been short of corruption over the years and had taken a lot from Xia Mengyao as well.

If the other party wanted money, he would pay, just to avoid prison.

Once he went to prison, his life would be over.

"You see, you had a good life, but you just had to provoke someone you shouldn’t have. Well, now, not even the gods can save you."

The staff member raised an eyebrow, "You’ve offended someone from the Fu Family."

"Who?" Pei Ye thought he had heard wrong, he had no connections to the Fu Family at all.

"Since you won’t be getting out in this lifetime, let’s just tell you the truth," the staff member said, "remember the thing where you spread rumors in the name of someone from the Fu Family?"

Pei Ye felt like he had been struck by lightning, "I... I was taking the side of Mr. Fu. That Ye Yan offended Mr. Fu, and I definitely wouldn’t let her get away with it."

"So according to you, Mr. Fu should thank you?" the staff member gave him a hopeless look, "What business do you have interfering in a couple’s quarrel?"

"What couple?"

"Literal meaning." The staff member stood up, "A good life wasted by your own doing, you’ve really done yourself in."

Pei Ye slumped back in his seat.

How could this be, Ye Yan and Fu Xingzhou were a couple?

Ye Yan left Holy Land because of a marital spat?

And he, believing that Ye Yan had offended Fu Xingzhou, had exacerbated the situation, ensuring she couldn’t find work anywhere.

He had just recently become close to the granddaughter of the Dean, and could have had a bright future.

He never imagined that by trying to take revenge on Meng Tian’s best friend, he would bring such disaster upon himself.

At this moment, Pei Ye was filled with nothing but regret, but no matter how much he pleaded, no one paid any attention to him anymore.

Pei Ye dared to provoke someone even Fu Xingzhou wouldn’t touch; from the moment he decided to target Ye Yan, his fate was sealed.

After Ah Si finished the phone call, he reported, "The person has been sent in. How should the Zeng Family be dealt with?"

Dean Zeng, biased and gullible, had taken his granddaughter’s words at face value and refused to hire Ye Yan.

Moreover, with Pei Ye’s instigation, he caused other hospitals to blacklist Ye Yan as well.

His granddaughter, even more ignorant, had the audacity to ask Ye Yan to take off her shoes for her.

She hadn’t seen that during the days when Madame had a twisted ankle, Fu Xingzhou had personally taken her shoes off and put them on for her.

Now, thanks to Pei Ye’s own actions, he had dragged himself and the entire Zeng Family down with him.

"The medical industry probably doesn’t need the Zeng Family anymore."

Fu Xingzhou was flipping through documents in his hands, speaking indifferently, "And that Pei surname, find someone to take ’good care’ of him."

"Yes." Ah Si thought for a moment, "Should this be mentioned to the Madame?"

"No need to tell her," Fu Xingzhou considered briefly, "Make a call to the Dean of Holy Land Hospital."

~

Ye Yan was prescribing medicine for a customer when she overheard a conversation between two people.

"Did you see the news? The Dean of Ao City Third Hospital was arrested."

"Heard it was for taking bribes, and quite a sum at that. Along with him, a good-looking doctor from their hospital was caught too; I remember his last name was Pei."

"As the saying goes, ’A fish rots from the head down’—they truly deserve it. The money they embezzled came right from our pockets as the common people."

After the two left, Ye Yan hurriedly searched online for related news.

Ao City Third Hospital was the first place she’d applied to, and where Pei Ye worked.

There were clear pictures online, and despite being blurred a bit, she recognized Pei Ye at a glance.

Thinking about what Pei Ye had said at the drugstore that day, Ye Yan had an intuition that there was more to this than met the eye.

Bribery had, in fact, become a sort of "unspoken rule" in the healthcare industry, where if the people do not report, the officials do not investigate.

Why had Pei Ye suddenly been arrested—was he implicated by Dean Zeng, or was it the other way around?

Ye Yan moved to a quiet place and called Vice Dean Fang; perhaps he might know some details.

With Dean Zeng’s arrest, Vice Dean Fang had become the acting Dean, and it probably wouldn’t be long before he assumed the position permanently.

Finding Ye Yan’s call a surprising coincidence, Vice Dean Fang answered

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