freenovelworld Chapter 629 Love and Schemes
Chapter 629 Love and Schemes
Lin Chuyue stood at the door of the ward, looking coldly at the person who came in.
Gu Yanchuan, dressed in a long black trench coat, had a cool and aloof expression, bearing the weariness of a journey. He stood in the slanting light of the morning sun, as if walking out of a memory, or as if tightening the chains of fate once more.
"How did you know I was here?" Lin Chuyue asked, her voice calm but cold.
Gu Yanchuan's expression remained unchanged as he said in a low voice, "You disappeared for six days, and Li Zhanchuan couldn't contact you either, so I came looking for you."
She sneered, "So you do care about my whereabouts?"
“It’s not concern, it’s necessity.” Gu Yanchuan looked directly at her. “Lin Chuyue, you are a key figure for the Lin family, the Shen family, and Vision Capital. Your every move has already affected the entire game.”
Lin Chuyue's expression turned cold: "So you didn't come to see my mother, but only to see if your 'key piece' is still secure."
Gu Yanchuan remained silent for a few seconds before finally nodding: "Yes."
Lin Chuyue gave a cold laugh, turned around to close the door, but he reached out and pressed down on the door frame.
"Move aside," she whispered.
“I have met your mother,” Gu Yanchuan suddenly said.
Lin Chuyue stopped, turned to look at him, her eyes wary: "What do you mean?"
"Many years ago, Shen Fang first came to negotiate with me in the third month after your mother's accident. That day she brought some documents, including your mother's 'mental illness' assessment report and... a recording from before you were born."
Lin Chuyue froze: "You knew all along that I wasn't Lin Zhengguo's daughter?"
Gu Yanchuan did not deny it: "She made me choose—to stand on her and 'New Lin Yun's' side, or to be swept out with you."
Lin Chuyue clenched her teeth, her eyes flashing with anger: "You chose her."
“I chose profit.” Gu Yanchuan’s tone was undisguised. “I was too young then to see the root of the problem, and I couldn’t protect anyone.”
"So you personally cut off all possibilities of protecting me?"
Lin Chuyue's eyes reddened, but she forced back her tears. "Gu Yanchuan, don't you find it ironic? You think you're making a deal, but in reality—you're just a pawn in Shen Fang's hands."
“I know.” Gu Yanchuan took a step closer. “But now, I want to take back my move.”
Lin Chuyue suddenly took a step back, her gaze sharp as a knife: "Too late."
"She's still in a coma. Are you saying all this now to make me grateful and soften my heart towards you?"
Gu Yanchuan shook his head: "I don't need your forgiveness."
“But I want you to understand that I came to Switzerland not to win your forgiveness, but to tell you—if you want to win, don’t just rely on Li Zhanchuan.”
Lin Chuyue raised an eyebrow, clearly not expecting him to mention Li Zhanchuan: "What do you want to say?"
Gu Yanchuan took out a photo and handed it to him: "Do you recognize this person?"
Lin Chuyue took it, her eyes immediately sharpening.
The photo showed a strange man, but his features bore a resemblance to Shen Fang. The back of the photo read: Shen Yanli, Shen Fang's younger brother, the current de facto operator of the X Foundation.
“He returned to China a long time ago.” Gu Yanchuan said slowly, “You think the scheme is over just because Shen Fang is dead? She was just a decoy. The real person hiding in the shadows has never shown himself.”
Lin Chuyue's heart skipped a beat: "How did you know?"
“Because he approached me,” Gu Yanchuan said in a low voice. “Just a week before Shen Fang’s accident. He said he wanted to reinstate the old power of the Shen family, and that as long as I was willing to cooperate, I could obtain benefits from the Lin family, the Gu family, and Yuanjing.”
"He doesn't care whether Shen Fang lives or dies; what he cares about... is you."
Lin Chuyue lowered her eyes and remained silent for a few seconds.
"You came here just to remind me of these things?"
"It's also to tell you that the Shen family's true enemy has not yet surfaced."
Gu Yanchuan paused, his tone even lower:
"Your mother may not be crazy. She just saw something she shouldn't have seen."
Lin Chuyue's fingers tightened, remembering the words her mother had uttered in her sleep:
"They burned my father's diary, they... buried a person..."
She suddenly realized that things were far more complicated than she had imagined.
"And what about you?" she suddenly asked. "Which side are you on now?"
Gu Yanchuan looked at her and said, word by word:
"I'm on your side."
"Because I finally understand that only by standing on your side can I avoid being completely swallowed up."
Lin Chuyue looked at him, remaining silent for a long time.
The morning light outside the window was slightly cool, and a faint glow of dawn was already rising on the horizon.
She finally spoke slowly: "Okay, I'll trust you this once."
"But if you dare to hide anything again, I will not give you a second chance."
Gu Yanchuan nodded, a hint of tension finally easing in his eyes.
“I will arrange for your people to contact Shen Yanli, but you must be careful. He is currently using a charitable foundation as a front to operate funds, and he has a very deep background.”
Lin Chuyue nodded: "I will have Shen Chen make the arrangements."
Gu Yanchuan glanced at Shen Wanqing, who was still unconscious, and said in a low voice, "She will wake up."
"She has waited for you for so many years, she can't just fall asleep like this."
A hint of weariness appeared in Lin Chuyue's eyes, but her determination remained: "I believe in her too."
……
Meanwhile, in Haicheng, in the president's office of the Li Group.
"Are you sure?" Leng Yihan handed a report to Li Zhanchuan, his tone grave.
Li Zhanchuan opened the document, which contained an analysis of Shen Yanli's whereabouts and a chart of his financial transactions.
"He controls half of the fund left by Shen Fang after her death and is also investing in the elderly care industry and medical resources."
"Currently, there is an intention to acquire a stake in one of Lin's holding subsidiaries."
Li Zhanchuan's eyes were icy: "The old subordinates of the Shen family... have made their move again."
Leng Yihan cautiously said, "Gu Yanchuan has also intervened in Lin Chuyue's movements in Switzerland."
Should we stop him?
Li Zhanchuan said calmly, "No need."
"He wants to play—so I'll play with him."
Leng Yihan: "What about Lin Chuyue?"
Li Zhanchuan slightly raised his eyes, his gaze unfathomable:
"She'll come back once she's figured things out."
"She always thought I was standing behind her, but actually... I've always been standing beside her."
……
The camera zooms out to the hillside of a Swiss sanatorium, where Lin Chuyue sits on a bench, gazing at the rising sun. Suddenly, her phone vibrates; it's a text message from Shen Chen:
“We found a document, a copy of letters kept by the Shen family in the last century. It mentions that Shen Wanqing’s father had access to the earliest mind control technology data of the ‘Shen Medical System’, which was suspected to have been stolen and destroyed by the enemy.”
Lin Chuyue's heart skipped a beat.
This is not an ordinary struggle for interests.
Instead, it was the aftermath of a decades-long conspiracy to destroy the Shen family.
She stood up, her eyes rekindling with fighting spirit:
"Then let's win it back game by game."
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To be continued
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Next chapter preview:
1. Lin Chuyue officially returned to China and began investigating Shen Yanli's scheme;
2. Shen Wanqing's condition relapsed, and in her dream she uttered a series of startling names, which raised suspicions about the deaths of Shen's elders;
3. Li Zhanchuan began to use the hidden resources left by his mother and unexpectedly discovered clues to the death of Gu family's mother years ago;
4. Lin Yun, unwilling to be expelled, attempts to use external forces to launch a counterattack against the Lin family;
5. The power struggle between Lin Chuyue, Gu Yanchuan, and Li Zhanchuan intensifies, and their relationship and trust face their most severe test.
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