Ma Lan said a bit embarrassedly, “Ah, a few years ago, I once found a bank card in Ye Chen’s pocket. At that time, weren’t we on bad terms with that old lady, your mum? I was short on cash, so I thought I’d check if there was money in Ye Chen’s card and get some to go to a beauty salon for a facial or something. Bloody hell, I was unlucky enough to actually guess the password on that bank card…”
Xiao Changkun asked puzzledly, “You’re an interesting one. You could even guess Ye Chen’s bank card password. How do you call that unlucky?”
Ma Lan felt a twinge of pain from an old injury on her leg and gritted her teeth. “You couldn’t dream of it, but there were over a hundred billion in that card!”
“How… how much?!”
Xiao Changkun was completely stunned.
He grumbled, “Ma Lan, are you sleepwalking and talking in your dreams? Do you know what a hundred billion means? You could buy a whole fleet of planes! Even if Ye Chen looked at feng shui for the Jade Emperor, he wouldn’t give him that much money!”
Ma Lan thought Xiao Changkun didn’t believe her and immediately said annoyedly, “This is the pain of my life. Would I lie to you about it?”
Xiao Changkun laughed. “Come on, elaborate. How did Ye Chen’s bank card become the pain of your life?”
Ma Lan hesitated and struggled for a moment with her head down, then told the whole story of how she secretly transferred the money and was later taken away by the police.
Xiao Changkun listened with his mouth agape and said, “I always thought you were scammed by a pyramid scheme organisation and that’s why the police arrested you for cracking down on them. I never imagined… I never imagined there was such a backstory!”
At this point, Xiao Changkun slapped his thigh and sighed sincerely. “Ma Lan, oh Ma Lan, you woman have some real bloody guts! If I saw a hundred billion, my legs would go weak from fear. And you dared to transfer it all to your own card!”
“Not to mention that hundred billion being from a fraud group. Even if it was really Ye Chen’s, did you think the money was yours just because you transferred it to your card? If Ye Chen reported it to the police, with that amount involved, wouldn’t you be shot seven or eight hundred times over?”
Ma Lan also felt a bit embarrassed and said, “At the time, I was mostly just confused for a moment. You know, those years our family was constantly targeted by that old lady because Churan wouldn’t divorce Ye Chen. Xiao Changqian’s family was always against us too. We were so poor we could barely afford food. Seeing so much money, I couldn’t hold back all of a sudden. I thought we’d never have to be poor again, so I transferred it all to my own card. I never expected it to be a new trick from the fraud group…”
With that, she asked carefully, “Do you think Ye Chen was involved in that fraud group? The police said he was a victim too, but now it seems Ye Chen isn’t that honest either. Looking at feng shui for people this time also seems like a deceptive business…”
Xiao Churan’s face burned with embarrassment. Her mum had stolen a hundred billion from Ye Chen and still didn’t reflect on it to this day. She even suspected Ye Chen was connected to the fraud group. It truly made her feel ashamed.
So she interrupted Ma Lan’s speculation and said, “Mum, stop speculating wildly. Our good life these past few years was almost all thanks to Ye Chen. The path ahead is also paved by Ye Chen for us. Even if we don’t feel grateful, don’t think of him in a bad light.”
Ma Lan nodded and said, “Alright, alright, alright. I won’t say more.”
With that, she asked concernedly, “Churan, did Ye Chen give you any information about that little island? Let Mum take a look first?”
Xiao Churan shook her head and said, “There’s no information. Time was too rushed. How could there be time to prepare so much? But don’t worry, everything is there. The conditions are definitely no worse than Nanjing.”
Xiao Changkun said with a chuckle, “Ah, last time in the Maldives, I didn’t stay long enough. To have our own island, what kind of fairy life would that be? I’m already a bit envious now!”
Xiao Churan said, “This sea journey will take quite a while. To avoid our enemies tracing any clues, the people escorting us arranged by Ye Chen will make us change ships midway. You rest well and recharge. I’ll go say hello to them.”
By temporarily changing strategy, Xiao Churan hoped that the staff arranged by Tang Sihai could cooperate with her, making her parents fully believe that Ye Chen had arranged for their family to evade pursuit after his downfall. This way, she could ensure her parents would never have the idea of returning to China on their own or trying to contact Ye Chen.
