NOVEL NEXT Chapter 119: Simple Words
He glanced at the evidence he was holding in his hands.
If Wang Ye's words were true, then did that mean the items in his possession were fake?
All of this evidence wasn't real?
While Zhou Tianhao pondered this in his heart,
Wang Ye's gaze landed on him.
A hint of a smile appeared on his face.
"I have already taken the real documents back to Xia Qing Group. I told my senior sister not to disclose the recovery of the documents because I wanted to lure the person behind this out," Wang Ye said, with the corners of his mouth lifting into a smile that made Zhou Tianhao extremely uncomfortable.
Because Zhou Tianhao felt that Wang Ye's smile was brazenly mocking him,
brazenly ridiculing him as a buffoon.
Wang Ye spoke again.
"I have now lured out the 'fish'. Isn't that right, 'fish'?"
As Wang Ye spoke,
his gaze never left Zhou Tianhao.
It was as if he were telling a story to the people below, yet also speaking directly to Zhou Tianhao.
Feeling Wang Ye's stare, Zhou Tianhao began to feel guilty.
The items were naturally retrieved by someone sent by He Lei.
Did that mean the evidence in his hands was fake?
Zhou Tianhao started to panic, hands trembling slightly.
However,
Zhou rapidly came to his senses.
What if this wasn't true?
What if Wang Ye was just trying to bluff him?
If so, perhaps Xia Qing Group really was involved, but because he had been successfully bluffed, he would be unable to pursue Wang Ye and the others.
Instead, he would be the one who fell into the trap.
With this thought,
Zhou Tianhao steadied himself.
Showing a scornful smile towards Wang Ye, he retorted, "Ha! Do you really think anyone will believe what you say?"
"Why wouldn't anyone believe?"
The smile remained on Wang Ye's face.
"You may not have noticed, but all the evidence you have has a faint line of text on the back. Take a look, as well as everyone who has just received the evidence."
Upon hearing Wang Ye's words, people on the scene began checking their evidence.
And on the streets, the crowd watching the large screen, after hearing what Wang Ye had said, also began to speak up:
"So, it turns out that Wang Ye's documents are the real ones and we've just been deceived. In fact, the Xia Qing Group isn't as bad as we've been led to believe."
"I also feel like we've been fooled by Zhou Tianhao. After all, Xia Qing Group has always left me with a good impression and hasn't done anything to tarnish that. How could such Xia Qing Group be exactly as Zhou claims?"
"If that's the case, then isn't Zhou Tianhao the bad guy?"
Although the situation wasn't completely clear yet,
the plot, at this moment, had taken a twist.
Therefore, the onlookers watching the big screen on the streets were only discussing, and at this point, no one had come to a definitive conclusion about the matter.
After hearing Wang Ye's words, Zhou Tianhao began to check the back of the evidence.
The onlookers holding evidence also started viewing their own pieces closely.
Su Yuanqiao examined the so-called evidence he held in his hand.
Members of the official guard also took the evidence from someone's hand and began to look at it.
On the back of the evidence, indeed, there was a line of very faint characters.
Only, they were written in an exceptionally light color.
"Do you think this stuff is real? It's fake, the real ones have already been taken back by me,"
One sentence.
Written by Wang Ye.
Zhou Tianhao looked at this sentence, and his entire body began to tremble violently.
Out of anger.
He felt as if this line of text was ruthlessly grinding their intelligence, as well as He Lei's, against the ground without mercy.
Yet, they really did not notice anything at the time.
All they cared about was the content on the front, looking at the contracts from the Xia Qing Group, each appearing to be direct evidence capable of taking down Xia Qing Group.
That faint row of characters on the back was naturally overlooked by everyone.
However.
It was this line, which nobody cared about when they first got hold of the evidence, that now seemed so glaring and infuriating to Zhou Tianhao.
At the same time.
It prompted a sense of fear in him.
The items were fake.
And their theft from Xia Qingxin's office at Xia Qing Group, taking things from the password safe, had been exposed.
Had the evidence in his hand been real, even if everyone knew that the items were stolen, no one would say anything at this point.
But the problem was, the items in his hand were fake.
Which meant, from this point forward...
As Zhou Tianhao thought about this, he wanted to flee the scene immediately.
But it seemed Wang Ye had anticipated this.
A silver needle appeared directly from Wang Ye's hand and shot towards Zhou Tianhao.
As it penetrated a specific meridian in Zhou Tianhao's body, he could no longer move even an inch forward, his body completely immobilized at that moment.
Only then did Wang Ye turn to face the official guards.
He addressed the members of the guard, "Zhou Tianhao unauthorized sent people to our Xia Qing Group to steal our commercial secrets, a fact which in itself is a significant wrongdoing."
"Furthermore, Zhou Tianhao used fake evidence to defame us, committing the crime of defamation,"
"Without knowing the true situation, Zhou Tianhao directly called you out, so he is guilty of disturbing public order resources,"
"And..."
In what followed, Wang Ye clearly articulated each crime committed by Zhou Tianhao. Upon hearing these words from Wang Ye's mouth, Zhou Tianhao looked extremely uncomfortable.
But the facts were as such.
He had indeed committed these mistakes.
So, for a moment, even if Zhou Tianhao wanted to rebut, he found no means to do so.
Nor could he run away.
Zhou Tianhao could only hang his head and admit to the crimes spelled out by Wang Ye.
The official guard members who had come with Zhou Tianhao immediately handcuffed him, then turned to look at Wang Ye and spoke:
"We are aware of these issues now."
"We are very sorry for disturbing your wedding ceremony,"
"But we still hope that you can come tomorrow to make a statement."