76: Xi Yutang was deeply hypnotized

After tidying up, Xi Yutang took out her phone and showed the photo of A Cheng to Gao Ying.

The person in the photo looked like the gentle, jade-like type, similar to Yin Lin.

But his eyes gave people a very uncomfortable feeling.

Those eyes looked like they were smiling, yet they seemed to hide a gigantic abyss.

"How is he? Isn't he gentle and refined? I just like gentle boys." Xi Yutang looked at the photo with deep affection.

"Not bad, Yutang has excellent taste. When can you bring the real person over for us to meet?" Seeing Zhiwei give her a meaningful look.

Gao Ying instantly understood and praised A Cheng.

"Girls understand girls better. My brother is such a cold face, he won't even let me associate with A Cheng.

Hmph, I insist on being with A Cheng." Xi Yutang’s cheeks puffed up with anger when she mentioned Xi Yan.

"Alright, don't be angry. You must be tired from the flight. Hurry up and wash up, and then we can talk all night." Gao Ying said, pinching her cheek playfully.

"Okay, I'll go first then." Xi Yutang grabbed her pajamas and went to wash up.

"Wait a moment, I'll have someone check on him." While Xi Yutang was washing up, Gao Ying said to Lou Zhiwei.

"Thank you, Little Ying." Lou Zhiwei was genuinely worried about Yutang.

The Xi Family and the Lou Family have already found clues. If Little Ying helps too, they should be able to expose that man sooner.

[Sister, there's something wrong with this A Cheng. He is deliberately approaching Xi Yutang, and his ultimate goal is to bring down the Xi Family.]

"What's going on? The Xi Family has an upright reputation and no illegitimate children or anything like that. Why does he hold such great malice toward the Xi Family?" Gao Ying frowned as she looked at the person in the photo.

He didn't bear any resemblance to a Xi Family member, so he certainly wasn't one of them.

[Sister, although the Xi Family has an upright reputation, don't forget they are business people.

This person actually wants revenge, but he targeted the wrong people. You said he has no feelings for Xi Yutang, yet he never made a move until recently. I don't know what happened, but he actually performed deep hypnosis on Xi Yutang.]

"You mean this man has been watching Yutang for a long time, but has always treated her like a stranger."

If this man had made a move earlier, the Xi Family couldn't possibly be unaware.

[Wait, let me perform a deeper search and see what happened to this person during that time.]

Fugui deducted two points for the deep query.

Gao Ying even suspected he was trying to scam her points.

[Have you found anything about this person?] Gao Ying messaged Xi Yan.

[We can confirm he is deliberately approaching Yutang. We found out he has been living abroad and only recently returned.

I've already asked friends abroad for help. For now, we only know he ran some businesses overseas.

Also, he has been alone since childhood.] Xi Yan sent her the information he had found.

[Okay, I'm also checking on my side. I'll send you the information when I have it.]

No wonder they hadn't found any clues; it turned out this A Cheng had only recently returned to the country.

[Thank you, Ying'er.]

[No need to thank me. Yutang is my friend too.]

This time, Fugui's search took longer; he hadn't found anything even after several minutes.

[Sister, I'm back. This person has always lived abroad, but I finally found a clue by investigating him before he went overseas.]

"Is it because his family's company competed with the Xi Family, lost to them, and so he went abroad to lie low for years and is now back for revenge?" Gao Ying stated her guess.

That was usually the trope.

[How should I put this? His family used to be Fugui, only a third-rate family, but they were financially stable, at least.

However, when he was a child, he met a hypnotist and became obsessed after watching him just once.

He went home and insisted on going abroad to study hypnosis. At that time, his family happened to run into some difficulties, and his parents were already planning to send him abroad.

So he went abroad to study, and not long after, he received news that his parents had committed suicide.

When he returned to the country, finished dealing with his parents' funeral, and went back to pack their belongings, he found a notebook.]

"I see. It must have been someone familiar with A Cheng's parents, who knew they had a habit of writing diaries, so they imitated the handwriting of one of them and revealed that the Xi Family forced A Cheng's parents to commit suicide out of desperation." Hearing Fugui say so much, Gao Ying had already figured it out.

What a melodramatic plot—slander and frame-up.

"Who was the one who framed them?" That was the most crucial question.

[The Bai Family.]

"The Bai Family?" Gao Ying murmured.

"Little Ying, do you know anyone from the Bai Family?" Lou Zhiwei asked, hearing her whisper.

"I don't know, but the Bai Family is definitely connected to this matter," Gao Ying said.

"That's impossible. The Bai Family and the Xi Family are generational friends; the two families get along very well.

Our Lou Family didn't even know the Xi Family as early as the Bai Family did," Lou Zhiwei subconsciously refuted.

"But sometimes, it's the people closest to you who hurt you the deepest. This A Cheng studied psychological therapy abroad, and his most powerful skill is hypnosis, deep hypnosis.

Yutang was deeply hypnotized by him at some point, which is why she's acting so strange.

As for why he's doing this, that's the Bai Family's conspiracy." Gao Ying had Fugui send the investigation files to her computer and showed them to Lou Zhiwei.

"The Bai Family seems so good on the surface, I didn't expect them to be so despicable."

"Send this to Xi Yan. I'll handle Yutang here."

Gao Ying called the Hidden Doctor over.

The Hidden Doctor has superb medical skills, and hypnosis is child's play for him.

Xi Yan received the file and went to find Father Xi.

"What a ruthless tactic! I wrongly considered him a brother." Father Xi slammed his phone onto the floor.

"Dad, how are you planning to handle this?" Xi Yan asked.

"I will handle this matter. Help me thank Miss Gao."

"Yes, I will go thank her in person tomorrow."

With a direction for the matter, Xi Yan booked the earliest flight to the Demon Capital for tomorrow.

~

When Xi Yutang came out after her shower, Lou Zhiwei and Gao Ying exchanged glances.

Gao Ying nodded at her, then waved to Xi Yutang: "Yutang, come here for a moment. Help me choose a gift to send to Old Master Jiang tomorrow."

"I'm the best at choosing gifts! Grandpa, Grandma, Grandpa on my mother's side, and Grandma on my mother's side all love the gifts I send." Xi Yutang skipped along after her.

"Your Highness." Opening the storage room, the Hidden Doctor was tidying things inside.

"Wow! Sister Ying, you have so many treasures here. But why are you keeping them in the storage room?" Xi Yutang looked at the valuable treasures crammed into the narrow storage room, her face full of distress.

"They're temporarily stored here. The house meant specifically for these hasn't been renovated yet.

Let's not talk about that for now, let's choose the gift first." Gao Ying deliberately led her closer to the Hidden Doctor.

"Miss Xi, let me introduce you to these antiques. Look at the pattern on this vase." When the Hidden Doctor saw her gaze focused, he began the reverse hypnosis.

Gao Ying watched from the side, not daring to breathe, afraid of disturbing the Hidden Doctor.

"What is your name?" The Hidden Doctor saw that it was almost done and began to ask questions.

"My name is Xi Yutang." Xi Yutang answered with a blank stare.