Quick Transmigration: Why did you provoke him? He's love-struck!

Chapter 539 Keeping a Canary in Captivity (18)

Yan Zhen scrutinized Xiao Yun with a critical eye, then suddenly gave a cold laugh: "Do you want to repay a debt, or do you want to use this opportunity to climb the social ladder?"

Xiao Yun's smile froze.

Yan Zhen said sarcastically, "You have good looks and a great figure, but after twelve years in the industry, you're still just an unknown 18th-tier celebrity. That proves you're not very bright. Since you're not very bright, you should be content with your lot and do your job well instead of thinking about climbing the ladder to success overnight."

Xiao Yun's face turned slightly pale.

"If your intelligence doesn't match your ambition, there's only one outcome: you'll be devoured by your ambition and die without a burial place."

After Yan Zhen finished speaking, he brushed Xiao Yun's hand away, closed the car door, and said to the driver, "Let's go."

The luxury car sped away before his eyes, and Xiao Yun stood there, speechless for a long time.

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The next day, Yan Zhen received information about Yu Yanfei from a private investigator.

Yu Yanfei, male, 41 years old, worked as a model 20 years ago.

She had been in the modeling industry for ten years without making a name for herself, and instead lost her job because she got older and gained weight.

For the next ten years, he worked as a "talent scout" for a modeling agency, dedicated to discovering promising young men and women online. He earned referral fees by introducing these people to training companies and connecting them with modeling agencies.

However, this person has a bad reputation in the modeling industry. He has been exposed multiple times for ignoring the people he introduced after receiving the agency fee, leading to suspicions that he was scamming the agency fee.

The information sent by the private investigator was very detailed, including Yu Yanfei's social media account ID.

Yan Zhen searched for Yu Yanfei's Douyin account based on his ID. After browsing through the account, she found many group photos and videos of Yu Yanfei at gatherings. She saw Gao Shenghan in several of the videos.

Yu Yanfei operates under the guise of talent scouts and intermediaries, and "connections" are very important to him.

He seems to frequent various banquets, bars, and parties, and the captions of his videos are mostly things like, "I met my old friend XXX (a famous actor) today," "I took a photo with XX (a top star)," "I met XXX (a top celebrity) again," and "My good brother who used to be a model with me married into a wealthy family many years ago. I am truly happy for my good brother (photo of him with his arm around Gao Shenghan)." He uses these captions to show that he has extensive connections in the entertainment industry.

Yan Zhen exited Yu Yanfei's Douyin account homepage and was about to close the app when she suddenly saw the keyword "Yu Yanfei owes money and doesn't pay it back" appear in the related search terms.

When Yan Zhen clicked on the link, she saw an account accusing Yu Yanfei of borrowing 100,000 yuan from her, only to disappear on the promised repayment date, ignoring her calls and messages, and eventually deleting her as a WeChat friend after she kept asking him questions.

The video accusing Yu Yanfei was posted three months ago and didn't get much traffic. Several comments below described similar experiences, all of whom had borrowed money from Yu Yanfei and then ignored him when it was time to repay.

The amounts borrowed ranged from three thousand to tens of thousands of yuan.

Yan Zhen frowned slightly as he read this.

If he can't even pay back three thousand yuan, how poor is Yu Yanfei?

Combining this with what I saw on WeChat a few days ago about Yu Yanfei and Gao Shenghan's conversation, where Yu Yanfei was clearly being sarcastic towards Gao Shenghan, yet Gao Shenghan remained silent and didn't respond...

Yan Zhen had a guess in his mind—either Gao Shenghan owed Yu Yanfei money, and the amount was not small, or Yu Yanfei had something on him, so he had to put up with his sarcastic remarks.

Yan Zhen leans towards the latter.

The video shows Yu Yanfei looking out of shape with rough skin, covered in fake designer brands, and not like a wealthy person.

He himself was not wealthy, so he couldn't lend Gao Shenghan much money.

Moreover, even if Gao Shenghan borrowed money from Yu Yanfei, given that Gao Shenghan often took hundreds of millions of "pocket money" and "investment funds" from Yanfei's parents and the original owner, it wouldn't be difficult for him to repay Yu Yanfei's money.

So what exactly is it about Gao Shenghan that Yan Fei has leverage over?

Yan Zhen had a premonition that it wasn't evidence of gambling; this incriminating evidence was far more serious than gambling itself.

As Yan Zhen was pondering this, the nanny called up the internal line.

"Miss, the young master is back."

Yan Zhen responded and hung up the phone.

Instead of going downstairs to see Gao Shenghan, she went to the cat room next to the bedroom.

There were more than ten cats in the cat room, all of them stray kittens adopted by the original owner. When they saw her come in, a group of cats meowed and came over, circling around Yan Zhen's legs.

Xiao Huang was the most attentive among them.

Yan Zhen picked up Xiao Huang, pinching the bursa on its belly as she said to the veterinarian who was cleaning the litter box, "Keep an eye on Xiao Huang, don't let it leave the cat room, and don't let it out of your sight."

"Ok."

Yan Zhen petted Xiao Huang in the cat room for a while. Xiao Huang, who was lying comfortably in her arms with its eyes half-closed and purring, suddenly sat up after hearing some noise. It stared intently at the door of the cat room, arched its back, and puffed up its fur, assuming a defensive posture.

Yan Zhen knew that Gao Shenghan had come upstairs.

Just over ten seconds later, the elevator doors opened, and Gao Shenghan stepped out.

Apart from being a little pale, he seemed to have fully recovered.

Seeing Yan Zhen in the cat room, Gao Shenghan opened the gate to prevent the cat from running out and tried to come in.

Yan Zhen stopped him, saying, "Don't come in."

"What's wrong?" Gao Shenghan asked.

"Didn't you see that Xiao Huang is almost on edge?" Yan Zhen said impatiently. "Get out."

Gao Shenghan: "..."

He could only leave dejectedly.

A short while later, Yan Zhen came out of the cat room and went to the bathroom to wash his hands.

She stood in front of the sink, rubbing the soap foam on her hands, when Gao Shenghan came in and hugged her from behind: "Wife."

Yan Zhen got goosebumps instantly.

Gao Shenghan brought his nose close to her neck, sniffing and nuzzling, while his hands restlessly tried to lift her skirt: "You've been away from home for so many days, have you missed me?"

Yan Zhen calmly rinsed the foam off his hands under the tap before scooping up a handful of water and splashing it onto Gao Shenghan's face.

Caught off guard by the splash, Gao Shenghan quickly took several steps back, his romantic thoughts vanishing instantly.

"Honey, what are you doing?"

"You smell like disinfectant, it's awful," Yan Zhen said with disgust. "Don't come near me."

After she finished speaking, she grabbed a tissue to wipe her hands and walked outside.

Gao Shenghan watched her retreating figure, his brows furrowing involuntarily.

He is very sensitive to other people's emotions, and can tell whether someone likes or dislikes him just by observing their expressions and demeanor upon first meeting them.

The way his wife looked at him just now, and the way she acted around him, clearly showed disgust.

What's wrong with her?

Why did her personality change so drastically just because she was hospitalized?

Or did she find out something?

However, Gao Shenghan quickly overturned this conjecture.

Having been with his wife for so many years, he knows her personality very well; she is someone who cannot tolerate any flaws.

If she knew what she had done, she would have filed for divorce long ago.