Chapter 183 — My Word Is the Evidence

"Yang Ce... I... I owe you an apology..." Huang Ce had meant to wait a while before discussing this with Yan, but the matter had been pent up inside him, and he could not bring himself to talk of anything else—he simply did not feel right until he had said it!

Earlier, he had instructed Huang Yan and Huang Lin not to breathe a word to Yang Yanzhou about the four hundred billion patacas being swindled; he wanted to explain it to Yan himself. That was why Huang Yan and Huang Lin had not mentioned the money at all before now.

"Apologize to me?" Yang Ce was slightly taken aback. "Where does that come from? You don't know me at all, so not wanting Lele to follow me is only natural for a parent. It's simple human nature, and I understand it. I don't hold anything against you—besides, aren't things fine as they are now?"

"No, that's not what I mean!" Huang Ce sighed. "Yang Ce, you gave Lele forty billion patacas, didn't you..."

"Yes, that's right." Yang Ce glanced at Huang Yan, then nodded. Could it be that Huang Ce had only agreed to let him and Huang Yan be together because he'd seen how rich he was?

"That money... ah, I took it..." Huang Ce lowered his head in deep self-reproach. "It's all my fault—my head was turned! Li Shu said he had a way to win back the gold mine, so I gave the money to them, but... later I found out they'd deceived me, and I had not a shred of evidence on my side... That money is as good as thrown down the drain..."

"Oh? Is that so?" Yang Ce's brows knitted at once. He had only meant to give the Li family a good fleecing and be done with it, but now it seemed the Li family's villainy went well beyond that. They dared to swindle the pocket money he had given Huang Yan? They truly did not know death when they saw it...

"So I am here to offer you my solemn apology... it's all my fault..." Huang Ce said earnestly. "I hope you won't take it out on Lele. She was deceived by me too... I told her the money was needed to save the company..."

"Heh, forty billion patacas, that's all it is!" Yang Ce waved a hand. "But getting that money back is simple enough—no evidence is needed at all!"

"No evidence needed? Then how would we get it back?" Huang Ce was startled. "The court won't help us claim that money without evidence!"

"Heh, of course—in Singapore, evidence is needed." Yang Ce laughed. "But once we're in Country X, they don't get to call the shots. There, no evidence is needed at all!"

There was one more thing Yang Ce did not say: that his word was evidence enough. Indeed, in Country X, even General Karls had to speak to him in a subdued, deferential tone—let alone Li Shu.

So as long as Li Shu dared set one foot in Country X, his life and death would rest entirely in Yang Ce's hands.