Rebirth Counterattack with Space
Chapter 488 - 470 Arrest

Chapter 488: Chapter 470 Arrest

Xia Yuan couldn’t help but think of Lu Jinsheng sneaking off early in the morning when she saw him like that. She glared at him fiercely and casually tossed his phone to him, "Take it. You’ve grown wings and become bold now, and that’s just fine. I won’t need to manage you anymore. Your wife will take care of you."

Lu Jinsheng caught it quickly and said with a laugh, "Mom, if I hadn’t sneaked off today, how could I have brought you a daughter-in-law?"

His words made both Xia Yuan and Lu Yun burst into laughter. Only Zhao Xuan blushed with embarrassment, glaring at Lu Jinsheng with a stealthy look.

It seemed that ever since the moment in the Lu Family courtyard when Xia Yuan questioned her, Zhao Xuan’s mentality began to shift gradually, starting to see Lu Jinsheng as "one of her own." Especially after putting him in his place once, it appeared she’d been intentionally or unintentionally testing his boundaries.

Now, seeing that Lu Jinsheng wasn’t angry about her glare, she couldn’t help but show him a smile again.

Lu Jinsheng saw her cautious manner of giving a thrashing only to offer a carrot right after, and he helplessly returned the smile, feeling quite satisfied inside. Since they were going to be husband and wife, he didn’t want his future wife to feel too respectful and not close enough to him because she felt indebted. It seemed that Zhao Xuan’s occasional show of her claws was quite amusing to him.

While they were talking, the Lu Group’s lawyers finally arrived. Zhao Xuan glanced over the power of attorney, and feeling that everything was in order, she signed her name in the designated space.

Almost at the same time, Zhao Xuan’s grandfather, Zhao De’an, accompanied by medical staff, was directly lifted into the helicopter dispatched from a special hospital in Capital City. The helicopter was already on the hospital’s helipad, marked with a large red cross on its body.

Seeing the deployment of a helicopter, Zhao Xuan couldn’t help but feel astonished—such a display of power was something she had never experienced, even with her affluent background.

Observing the brisk and professional demeanor of the medical personnel who came with the helicopter, they seemed different from ordinary medical staff. Even the dean of XH Hospital was alerted to come out personally.

Her grandfather’s former attending doctor, who had always seemed impatient with her and difficult to approach, now looked like a completely different person. He appeared particularly patient when questioned by the other medical personnel, continually smiling...

After boarding the helicopter, Zhao Xuan’s last traces of doubt finally dissipated, and her heart settled completely.

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Baili Group’s conference room.

The door was suddenly pushed open, interrupting the ongoing meeting. Before Baili Xiangsong, seated at the head of the table and leading the meeting, could reprimand the intruders, several people in uniform came in, showing their badges and an arrest warrant, "We’re from the Economic Investigation Bureau, and we suspect you’re involved in an economic case concerning the Zhao Group. Please come with us for questioning."

"You must be mistaken; I’ve always obeyed the law, and you can’t just arrest someone like this," Baili Xiangsong stood up suddenly, his hands and feet trembling as he spoke loudly and insistently.

"Whether we’re mistaken or not, you will find out by coming with us. We won’t let a criminal go, nor will we wrongfully accuse an innocent person," the officers told Baili Xiangsong sternly.

Baili Xiangsong collapsed on his luxurious black leather chair.

...

It wasn’t long after Baili Xiangsong was taken away that the phone in the Bai Family’s living room started ringing off the hook. Cheng Ping, who was seated on the sofa meticulously applying nail polish, rolled her eyes at the sound of the phone and called out in the direction of the kitchen, "Xiu Hua--"

After calling out twice, she suddenly remembered that the housekeeper Xiu Hua had just informed her she had gone out to do some shopping. Cheng Ping had no choice but to reluctantly put down the half-finished nail polish and, full of resentment, pick up the phone. Her tone was quite impatient, "Who is it?" What kind of phone call is this at such a time?

"Madam, it’s terrible, the police from the Economic Investigation Department just took the chairman away. They said it was to investigate the Zhao Group’s economic case. The finance office has been taken over as well... Please come quickly, the company is in complete chaos..."

As soon as she picked up the phone, Cheng Ping was greeted by the other person’s panicked voice, which transmitted through the receiver. She turned pale as a ghost and collapsed onto the floor. Fortunately, the thick carpet cushioned her fall so she didn’t hurt herself. But even if she had been hurt, she probably wouldn’t have felt it at this moment.

Sitting on the floor with the receiver still in her hand, Cheng Ping’s mind was blank except for the words "The chairman has been arrested." The rest of the voice coming from the receiver was just a buzzing noise; she could no longer understand what the person on the other end of the phone was saying.

With a blank stare, she sat there dazed for a long time before suddenly leaping to her feet—her son.

She immediately hung up the phone with a slap and, with trembling hands, dialed her son, Baili Chengye. She had to dial several times before she got it right, but the call went unanswered. Listening to the incessant beeping in her ear, Cheng Ping repeatedly pressed the redial button, enduring the same beeping over and over...

Eventually, in frustration, she yanked the telephone cord out of the wall and hurled the phone across the room. No sooner had she thrown it than she regretted her action and sat down, sobbing uncontrollably. After crying for a bit, she suddenly seemed to remember something and bolted towards the bedroom...

Baili Group.

Baili Xiangsong’s secretary, whose call had been hung up with a continuous beeping, pursed her lips and gave up on the idea of trying to call again. She began to pack up her personal belongings, preparing to leave at any moment.

Meanwhile, Baili Chengye was in his apartment outside B University. Qi Xinrou had fallen into a deep, sweet sleep, exhausted from last night’s antics, when suddenly the buzzing vibration of a phone woke her from her slumber.

"Who’s in such a rush to be reincarnated this early in the morning?"

She cursed as she opened her eyes and looked for the source, quickly realizing it wasn’t her phone ringing but Baili Chengye’s.

Baili Chengye had a habit of setting his phone to vibrate without any ringtone, so at that moment, on the bedside table, she could see Baili Chengye’s silver-red phone shaking incessantly, emitting a mosquito-like buzzing vibration.

Grabbing it without a second thought, she saw that it was displaying the Bai Family’s landline number. She rolled her eyes—no doubt it was Baili Chengye’s overbearing mother who had remembered her precious son at this hour. She probably didn’t have anything important to say; that woman was always impulsive, making calls for the slightest issue that came to mind.

Make a call if you must, but the problem was that if no one picked up, she simply didn’t care about the time of day, whether you were available or not, in class or busy with something else. Once she decided to reach someone, she would have the housekeeper call over and over until someone answered. Then it would be a barrage of scolding—a nonstop half-hour lecture.

Having experienced this a few times, Qi Xinrou couldn’t help but shiver every time she saw the Bai Family’s landline number.