My Unexpected CEO Wife

Chapter 842 842: Rewards for Meritorious Service

Chen Xuan shook his head with a smile. "That possibility is even less likely."

Hm?

Yang Leshan stared at him in a daze. "Why are you so sure? Chen Xuan, you can't be that arbitrary!"

Chen Xuan chuckled softly. "It's not being arbitrary. I have my reasons for saying that."

"Back when I was very young, my master took me away to learn from him. At first my parents didn't know. They thought I'd gone missing and went crazy looking for me everywhere."

"Later, a message was sent to my parents, telling them about my situation and asking them to keep it secret. From then on, I became a missing child, completely out of contact."

"At that time lots of people were speculating that I'd been abducted by human traffickers or even killed. Later on, by coincidence, my parents adopted my younger sister Chen Yi, which made people even more certain I would never come back."

Saying this, Chen Xuan looked at Yang Leshan. "Under that kind of background, would those people still have any reason to factor me in?"

"They all assumed I'd been dead for a long time. How would it even cross their minds I'd come back for revenge? So this hypothesis doesn't really hold."

Yang Leshan suddenly understood and nodded slightly. "Yeah, put that way, there's really no need to factor this in."

Lin Wanxi pondered for a moment, then said softly, "There might also be another possibility—that Lady Lan in the provincial capital has some secret collusion with the people from Dongyang."

"Lady Lan had the men in black abduct your parents not out of any personal grudge, but as a kind of利益 exchange."

Yang Leshan said hurriedly, "If that's the case, then there's a high chance Chen Xuan's parents were taken away by the Dongyang people!"

Lin Wanxi gave a bitter smile and shook her head. "Let's not jump to conclusions. It's all still just our speculation. It may not be true."

Chen Xuan sighed. "The deeper we dig into this, the more tangled and complicated it gets instead."

"We don't even know which part is real. We have to make accurate judgments. Once we head in the wrong direction, it won't just be a joke—we'll waste a lot of precious time."

Lin Wanxi comforted him softly. "Stay calm. I believe the truth will come out sooner or later."

"Given the current situation, we don't need to overthink it. We still focus our investigation on Lady Lan in the provincial capital."

"That general direction shouldn't be wrong. At least we won't be going down a blind alley and wasting time."

Chen Xuan nodded slightly. Lin Wanxi's view was exactly the same as his.

As the saying goes, no matter how things change, the core stays the same.

Lady Lan in the provincial capital—whether she exists or not—played an important role in this blood case involving his parents.

Yang Leshan's expression kept shifting. "I'm getting a headache too. It's just one big tangled mess."

"Chen Xuan, my ability is limited. I can't help you that much. But I feel… the more it's like this, the more careful you need to be. You must not expose your identity lightly."

Chen Xuan nodded with a smile. "Yeah, Leshan is right about that."

"Faced with a situation this complicated, I have to hide my tracks even more, not let them know I'm still alive and that I'm investigating my parents' blood case, so as not to alert the enemy."

…

The next morning, with the Xu Family wiped out, this round of struggle between the families was officially over.

Luo Yuanming and the four Patriarchs gathered in the Zhang Family's main hall.

It was the day to discuss merits and distribute rewards.

Chen Xuan had already allocated the Xu Family's assets. The Luo Family got one of the most profitable businesses as a reward.

"Young Master Luo, strictly speaking this reward isn't much, far from matching the contribution the Luo Family made."

"But I can't give you too much, or it'll spark jealousy from the Wu Family and Qi Family and push them to join forces against the Luo Family."

Chen Xuan said softly.

Luo Yuanming nodded slightly. "I understand what you mean, Mr. Chen. If my Luo Family took over more of the Xu Family's assets, it would inevitably create a 'dominant single family' situation."

"The Wu Family and Qi Family definitely wouldn't be able to sit still. They wouldn't just let my Luo Family develop in peace. This way is best—we let the Luo Family gain some benefit from the Xu Family, but don't break the balance."

Chen Xuan was very satisfied with Luo Yuanming's attitude—he could see the essence of things clearly.

Next, the four Patriarchs split up nearly two-thirds of the Xu Family's assets.

You could say they took the majority of the benefits.

But averaged out to each family, it still wasn't that much.

It's just that, in terms of overall strength, these four families now far surpassed the other four second-tier families.

The four Patriarchs had no objections to Chen Xuan's distribution plan. Each of them got benefits and was very satisfied.

In the end, Chen Xuan handed the remaining one-third of the Xu Family's assets to the Zhang Family.

"Once you get these businesses, the Zhang Family basically steps straight into the ranks of the second-tier families." Chen Xuan looked at the Zhang Family father and son, fulfilling the promise he'd made earlier.