She abandoned her husband first, then her children, and was ecstatic after the divorce.

Chapter 110 What's gotten into him this time?

"What a madman," Bo Ye said through gritted teeth, emphasizing each word.

"Get out of here!"

Bo Ye shoved Shen Qiyan with one hand and pulled Lin Qingran into the room with the other, slamming the door shut.

Shen Qiyan was met with a cold shoulder, but he knocked on the door excitedly.

"Lin Qingran, get out here! You dare to do it, why don't you dare to admit it? Come out and explain yourself!"

"What's gotten into him this time?" Bo Ye said with a gloomy expression.

After all, Shen Qiyan and Lin Qingran are half-siblings, so even if Bo Ye doesn't like his brother-in-law, he should at least show him basic respect.

However, every time Shen Qiyan appears, he acts like a rabid dog, which is really annoying to some people.

He's not even as good as Fu Xiuheng.

Lin Qingran was completely wide awake. Listening to the loud knocking on the door outside, she sat on the sofa and fell into deep thought.

After a long while, Lin Qingran finally spoke slowly.

"Don't you think things seem to have deviated from our expectations?"

Bo Ye's expression also turned serious. "Indeed, the text message, which appeared to be from Zhao Quanying, was implying that the person we were really going to target you was Zhou Lan... It's truly baffling."

Lin Qingran nodded silently.

I've always felt that the threatening text messages they received while investigating Zhao Quanying were meant to discourage them.

But now I realize that these so-called threatening text messages actually contained a hidden secret.

Be wary of Zhou Lan?

We should be wary of her, but does Zhou Lan have any motive to harm Lin Qingran now?

Lin Qingran did threaten Zhou Lan, and she did indeed frighten Zhou Lan enough, but Zhou Lan's weakness was the Lin Group.

Without absolute certainty, Zhou Lan wouldn't even dare to trip me up with minor tricks, let alone commit murder to silence me.

No matter how I think about it, it seems unrealistic.

Or perhaps Zhou Lan truly possessed such abilities, but they were simply too arrogant to notice them.

Or perhaps, Zhou Lan had other people supporting her.

Lin Qingran became increasingly confused as she thought about it, but after understanding the implied information, her previous guess that Shen Pei'an and Zhao Quanying were colluding to threaten her seemed to be overturned.

Then Shen Qiyan suddenly appeared in front of her at this moment and went crazy, claiming that she and Shen Pei'an were colluding, which made Lin Qingran even more confused.

From what Shen Qiyan said, it sounded as if Shen Pei'an had been secretly protecting him all along.

But she and Shen Pei-an were clearly sworn enemies; not long ago, Shen Pei-an had sent people to vandalize her factory.

Although Bo Ye looked down on Shen Qiyan, he was not a careless person. At this moment, he began to patiently ponder what Shen Qiyan meant.

After a long while, Bo Ye suddenly spoke.

"Sister, don't you think some things seem too coincidental?"

"For example?" Lin Qingran looked at him.

“For example, we had just run into a cash flow problem when Fu Jingnian appeared. Then Shen Pei’an retaliated by attacking the factory in Nancheng, but just as the Nancheng issue was resolved, Zhang Yihong came knocking on our door. He even told you about his withdrawal of investment from the Lin Group.”

Lin Qingran's expression darkened, and a guess surfaced in her mind.

But even she herself felt it was too far-fetched and quickly dismissed the idea.

"You go on."

Susukino remained silent for a moment before speaking again.

"Su Mian knew about the land being re-tendered even before the Haicheng government held a meeting. And she openly and secretly asked you to invest. Actually, you've always suspected Su Mian, haven't you?"

Lin Qingran did indeed have doubts about her because many things happened too coincidentally.

But Lin Qingran and Su Mian have such a good relationship that she knows Su Mian very well.

Lin Qingran would never believe that Su Mian would harm her.

She may have been hiding some things from herself, but that doesn't necessarily mean she wanted to hurt her.

Perhaps Su Mian is just one part of the equation that helps him.

Is there someone else behind her?

"Don't alert them yet," Lin Qingran said.

“Su Mian has never done anything to harm me. Even if I have doubts about her, I can’t just conclude that she is innocent. And haven’t you noticed that we’ve been overlooking a problem?”

Lin Qingran looked at Bo Ye, "From the time we reunited with Fu Xiuheng until now, we have been relentlessly pursuing Fu Xiuheng and Zhou Lan. On the contrary, we have always been passive in our initial stages regarding Shen Pei'an, and have never conducted an in-depth investigation into him."

Susukino slapped his forehead. Yes, why didn't they think of that?

I used to think that Shen Pei-an's motives were the easiest to analyze.

Because of his bad background and his past involvement with organized crime, he was naturally categorized as a bad person.

But what if, what if Shen Pei-an is hiding more secrets than they have seen?

“I’ll go check for you.” Bo Ye stood up.

Lin Qingran nodded, and upon hearing the door close, her body trembled uncontrollably.

Could it be that I made a mistake from the very beginning?

The following day, Jiang Xinyuan was transferred to a regular ward.

Although her injury didn't kill her, it was still quite serious.

She was a little girl, and she kept crying because of the pain after waking up. We couldn't give her too many painkillers. Fu Rongrong stayed by her side and kept crying too.

Lin Qingran watched from the sidelines, feeling heartbroken as well.

She has two children. If they were to be harmed today because of something, and it were her own children lying here, Lin Qingran would probably go crazy.

Jiang Cheng was worried that Fu Rongrong would hurt herself by crying, so he persuaded her and Lin Qingran to go back to their own hospital room.

Fu Rongrong, with swollen eyes, sat on the edge of the bed.

"I really shouldn't have been in such a hurry to let Jiang Cheng bring Yuanyuan back." Fu Rongrong's face was full of regret.

"I really didn't expect them to be so ruthless. And this is the capital, right under the emperor's nose, how dare they do such a thing!"

Lin Qingran patted Fu Rongrong's back, patiently comforting her.

"Your family and the Lin family should have no enmity or grudge, and you've never had any interaction. But in all these years abroad, have you done anything that has touched the Lin family's interests? Or rather, has it touched Zhou Lan's interests?"

"Do you all suspect Zhou Lan?" Fu Rongrong looked at Lin Qingran with some surprise.

“Jiang Cheng said the same thing to me this morning. But when it comes to who has the guts and can spend so much money to frame our family, I always feel it is Shen Pei’an.”

Lin Qingran nodded solemnly, "That's right, Zhou Lan and Shen Pei'an are husband and wife, so he might really be involved in this matter."