Chapter 297 — Letting Bygones Be Bygones
Years of Heartflutter · Page 3 of 5
"Sit down, Uncle Tian. No need to stand on ceremony. What's past is past, and I don't want to dwell on it." Yang Ce pressed his hand downward in a gesture of invitation.
Tian Long nodded and, without being overly modest, sat down on the sofa beside him, then said to Yang Ce, "Mr. Yang... Ce, if there's anything, please just say it."
"It's about your backer behind the scenes," Yang Ce said. "Tell me everything you know."
"Very well." Hearing that this was what Yang Ce wanted to ask about, Tian Long relaxed. He knew he was desperately afraid Yang Ce might change his mind now—as long as Yang Ce did not go back on his word, he would answer whatever was asked, and he would certainly tell everything he knew without holding anything back!
"As for this backer... I've actually known him for some time now, though we weren't very close before!" Tian Long said. "We met at a banquet—he was introduced to me by a friend."
"What friend?" Yang Ce asked.
"It was President Hua. President Hua introduced us at the time." Tian Long thought for a moment, then said, "Yes, that's right—it was him!"
"President Hua?" Yang Ce's brow furrowed at once. "Which President Hua?"
"President Hua of the Hua Family Jewelry House!" Tian Long added.
"So it was him!" Yang Ce breathed a sigh of relief at once. When Tian Long had mentioned President Hua, Yang Ce had been badly startled—instinctively he had thought of Zhou Yanning's mother! Deep down, Yang Juehuan certainly did not want any backer to have anything to do with Zhou Yanning's mother. As long as it was not her, then anyone else did not matter.
What surprised Yang Ce, however, was that the man who had introduced Tian Long to the boss behind the scenes was none other than President Hua of Hua's Jewelry! Yang Ce knew this man; he had met him once at the very first dinner he had shared with Sun Jie. He was a man who looked utterly sinister, and it was said that he was also the one who had stirred up Guo Jianchao on the side, goading Guo Jianchao into drugging Sun Jie!
After that, the second time he saw President Hua was at Liu Yan's birthday banquet, but even then it was only a passing glance, with not a word exchanged—one brush past, and he had never laid eyes on the man again.
Little had he expected that this man was still in contact with the boss behind the scenes. But judging from the present, this boss behind the scenes had actually attended social gatherings of high society, so he did not seem as mysterious as Yang Ce had imagined—at least Tian Long had seen what the boss looked like.
"Go on," Yang Ce said to Tian Long, pulling himself back from his thoughts.
"Right!" Tian Long nodded and said, "It was like this—after I met the boss behind the scenes that time, I didn't see him again until the beginning of this year, when the boss behind the scenes came to me on his own initiative, wanting to work with me!
He provided me with a great deal of capital, telling me to buy off Sun Lin's subordinates so as to gain control of his company, and he had also, through some channel or other, got hold of certain incriminating evidence against Qu Daming and Liu Chan, telling me to work with those two. What Liu Chan and the others were digging at, naturally, was your company, while on my end what I was to bring down was Brother Jun's company..."
"By the way, have those two come running to you?" Yang Yanchuan asked.
"Yes, those two did come running to me, but they'd been exposed and were of no further use, so I gave each of them a bit of money and sent them packing." Tian Long said.
Hearing that the two had already fled, Yang Shuoxuan stopped concerning himself with them; they were nothing but small fry, and if they had run, then they had run. He nodded and said, "Continue."