I Treat You as My Sister, But You Want to be My Wife?!

"We’re partners now, so there’s no need for talk of trouble or inconvenience," Shen Dong said with a smile. "Helping you with this matter is also helping me. Our cooperation means our interests are aligned—no need for so much polite chitchat, okay? If I hear any more of this politeness next time, I’ll be the first to disagree."

Shen Dong also said this with a smile. Fine then, Zhang Tao didn’t quite understand it all yet, so he would tell him after completing his investigation. After all, things were already in such chaos on Zhang’s end, he would have to clean house himself. Once the matter was thoroughly investigated, he would go and talk about it—best not to spook the snake in the grass for now.

Not to spook the snake in the grass; the earlier one acts, the simpler it might be. That person would slip up eventually, all he needed to do was wait patiently. He knew Wang Xiaocon’s methods well—soon enough they would catch that person, and probably wouldn’t even need to wait for the software to launch. Considering this, the two ended up hanging up the phone without further discussion.

After solving a major problem, Zhang Tao exhaled in relief, sitting at his desk and watching the busy staff below, he felt reassured. It seemed that the launch of his software was just around the corner, and he couldn’t say for certain what might happen then.

And he couldn’t completely guarantee that the software would be a big hit, but what he could do now was to keep a steady mindset and stabilize the morale of the staff; not to let chaos reign, so that the creation of the software could proceed even faster.

After giving it some thought, he decided to go down and comfort them, telling them that even though the master hadn’t arrived yet, they could still assemble what they knew, making it much simpler when the master arrived.

Wang Xiaocong, seeing his boss had ended the call, quickly approached. Before Shen Dong could ask, Wang Xiaocong started explaining, "Big brother, that person isn’t the one who sold me the files. I’ve taken a quick look; the simplest information is already laid out. That person is a woman, at least at the beginning."

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"That woman even tried to threaten me. When I revealed her gender and some minor details, she didn’t dare to be presumptuous anymore. She probably thought that place was a dark web market that no one could trace the transactions on, but she didn’t know that I am the master of the dark web, so I can easily find any information I need."

"She was so scared by me that she didn’t even dare to ask for the follow-up payment, just took the first sum I gave and didn’t say anything further. She just sent the files and we’ve had no contact since, that’s how it is. If you want to continue investigating, I can do that too, none of this is a problem; it’s all up to what you think, boss."

After saying this, Wang Xiaocong laid all the dark web information in front of Shen Dong. Shen Dong swiped through it, initially shocked to hear the person was a woman, not Lin Kai.