77: Chapter 77 Pursuing Responsibility

Wu Ya rolled her eyes.

"I'm in no mood to eat right now. Didn't you hear what the police just said? They said the person is missing."

Chen Guangke clicked his tongue and said, "Do you think I'm not anxious? But the problem is, being anxious is useless."

"Since the police said they will help investigate, then let's go eat first. What else can we do?"

Wu Ya found it strange.

No matter what happened before, Chen Guangke was always the most impatient one. How could his handling style become so steady this time?

It wasn't just her who thought that way; Shen Yan thought so too.

"Why has your personality suddenly changed today?"

Chen Guangke was stunned and scratched his head.

"How have I changed my personality..."

"It's just that Xiao Xu was recruited by me personally, and he's a little brother I got along with quite well. I really don't believe he could do something like this..."

Shen Yan sighed.

Chen Guangke was good in every way, except he was too prone to emotional decisions.

As long as someone was slightly nice to him, he would think that person was a good person.

"Whether it was him or not, the police will give us an answer. Let's go, we should eat first."

This settled it.

The three of them walked side-by-side toward the roadside food stall.

Just as they sat down and ordered their food, Shen Yan's phone rang.

It was a call from He Yunri.

"Why aren't you answering it?"

"If I answer, I probably won't be able to have dinner with you guys."

Chen Guangke looked confused.

"What do you mean? Who is calling?"

Shen Yan picked up his phone and handed it to Chen Guangke.

"He Yunri... that big shot?!"

"If he asks you to dinner, then you should go. Wu Ya and I aren't incapable of eating."

Shen Yan lightly tapped Chen Guangke's forehead.

"How is your brain getting simpler? If he calls me at a time like this, can it be for something good?"

Chen Guangke rubbed his reddened head and asked,

"What do you mean? Is he going to hold you accountable?"

"No... why? It's not your fault that the company has an inside mole..."

Before he could finish speaking, Shen Yan directly interrupted him.

"But He Yunri is the investor in our project. If the project runs into trouble, shouldn't he come to hold me accountable?"

From their perspective, they couldn't predict that the company would have an inside mole, so they wouldn't blame themselves.

But from He Yunri's perspective, he invested twenty million into a project, and before the project even launched, someone else got ahead of them.

Anyone in this situation would be angry and want to hold someone responsible, right?

"So what do we do now? Should we return all the money?"

Wu Ya couldn't stand it anymore and tapped Chen Guangke's arm with a chopstick.

"Ouch! Could you be a little gentler? That hurts!"

Wu Ya glared fiercely at Chen Guangke.

"Gentler? You deserve to hurt!"

"Can you use your brain? Doesn't our company need money for daily operations? Is twenty million such a huge number that can be returned casually?"

Chen Guangke covered his hand aggrievedly and said, "Then what can we do now?"

"If it comes to that, Old Shen and I will go apologize to that big shot!"

Shen Yan couldn't help but laugh, feeling that the two of them were competing in humor.

"Alright, let's not cause more trouble here. Don't worry, I can handle this matter."

Chen Guangke was very skeptical.

"You don't even dare to answer his call, so what can you solve? Old Shen, the three of us have been sitting here from the studio until now; we've shared honor and disgrace. "

"If anything really happens, you must call us. We will bear it with you!"

Shen Yan nodded, picked up his phone, and got up to leave his seat.

"Then you two go ahead and eat. I'll go find him."

Chen Guangke and Wu Ya were still a bit worried.

"Are you going now? Do you really not need us to accompany you?"

Shen Yan shook his head while saying, "No need. It won't be of much use even if you go, so just eat here with peace of mind."

He didn't tell them about the gambling agreement he signed with He Yunri.

Because he felt it was unnecessary.

Telling them would only add to their worries.

Why bother?

After leaving, Shen Yan drove toward He Yunri's private villa.

An hour and a half passed.

Shen Yan finally arrived at the entrance of the private villa.

"Hello, I'm looking for Mr. He."

The person at the door recognized him, so he let him in without a word.

Walking into the villa, he saw He Yunri.

"Mr. He, long time no see."

The other party showed some surprise upon seeing him.

"Why are you here?"

Shen Yan chuckled and sat down opposite He Yunri.

"Didn't you ask me to come?"

He Yunri took a sip of his tea and replied, "You weren't answering my calls. I thought you wouldn't come looking for me."

Shen Yan scratched his eyebrow.

Originally, he planned to resolve the issue of the company's inside mole first before seeking out He Yunri.

But now that Xiao Xu had run away, he didn't know when he would be caught.

To be on the safe side, he could only come to find He Yunri first.

"Regarding the company project..."

Before he could finish speaking, He Yunri interrupted him.

"You lost. When are you coming to work for me?"

Shen Yan paused and asked,

"When did I lose?"

He Yunri smiled while shaking his head, took out the gambling agreement signed that day, and pointed to the clauses, saying to Shen Yan word by word, "It's clearly written here: once your project fails, you have to work for me."

Shen Yan nodded and admitted, "That is indeed correct."

"But the problem is, my project hasn't failed."

He Yunri couldn't believe what he heard.

He pinched his ear and said to Shen Yan, "What did you just say?"

Shen Yan replied word by word, "I said my project has not failed."

He Yunri burst out laughing.

He thought Shen Yan was playing word games with him.

But that was fine too.

If Shen Yan just admitted defeat, the game would truly become uninteresting.

"Hasn't the concept for your project already been plagiarized by Chen Ling and the others? It's quite popular on the online platform now."

Shen Yan curled his lip and replied, "It is indeed quite popular, but that's all thanks to the promotion."

"Believe me, her software can last at most one more month. After a month, her software will fade into obscurity."

He Yunri raised his eyebrows with great interest.

"Oh? What makes you say that?"

It was simple.

Because the software framework Chen Ling built was too hastily put together.

He had thought about it seriously and carefully studied the new software launched by Chen Ling's company.

He discovered that the software code released by Chen Ling's side was virtually identical to their code.

If it were just that, it wouldn't be a big deal.

But the problem was... their software code had issues.

Today, he reviewed a lot of data in the conference room.

His original intention was to find the inside mole.

But during the process, he realized that the database for most of that data was problematic.