Ye Fei clicked the mouse to open the drive and starting rummaging through. The women observed over his shoulder nervously, especially Lin Qingwan. She held her breath with tense antic.i.p.ation until she was blue in the face, not daring to make a sound.
Soon, Ye Fei opened a folder and a list of video files appeared.
He and the two women reeled in shock.
Besides the videos of Lin Qingwan, there were hundreds of others. Ye Fei played a random file and an unfamiliar woman appeared on the screen.
She looked roughly in her forties, but very well-kept. She wasn"t wearing any clothes, unaware that she was being filmed in her own bathroom.
"I know her!" Lin Qingwan exclaimed. "That"s Guo Mei, a well-known entrepreneur in Shanghai. I had dinner with her a while ago."
Ye Fei frowned. Lin Qingwan was clearly not the only victim of Fire Dragon"s blackmail scheme. He played a few more videos and Lin Qingwan recognized most of the women on them. Two of them were even her personal friends.
Clearly, Fire Dragon had a system. About 80% of the female entrepreneurs in Shanghai had been secretly photographed or filmed in compromising positions.
Murong closed her eyes and her lips quivered with anger.
Fortunately, Ye Fei managed to recover the drives. If Fire Dragon"s plan had succeeded, he would likely have had almost all the female entrepreneurs in Shanghai under his thumb and made himself king of the Shanghai business sector!
Clearly, Fire Dragon was not content to just own the Burning Bar. His ambitions were far greater.
Murong abruptly stood up. "This is more than enough evidence to arrest Fire Dragon!"
Lin Qingwan looked at Murong with wide eyes, "Sister Murong, what do you mean? You mean to give these videos to the police?"
Murong nodded solemnly. "Yes, for justice! Don"t worry, the police will never let these videos leak out."
"No, no, no." Lin Qingwan vigorously shook her head. Her face turned bright red at the thought of a bunch of cops "investigating" her nude videos, but seeing Murong"s resolute att.i.tude, and considering Lin Qingwan also wanted to send Fire Dragon straight to the clink, she came up with a compromise. "Well, delete all my videos first... Do what you want with the rest."
Murong hesitated for a moment, but in the face of Lin Qingwan"s pleading eyes, she could only nod and say, "If it were anyone else, I would definitely refuse. But you are my sister; I won"t let anyone see these videos. Anyway, Ye Fei is the one who got them back, so you have the right to dispose of them."
"I love you so much, Sister Murong!" Lin Qingwan happily threw her arms around Murong and started kissing her cheeks.
Ye Fei was a little taken aback. Manager Lin was usually very impa.s.sive, but she was as buoyant as a little girl when she was happy.
Ye Fei selected all of Lin Qingwan"s videos and deleted them.
He clearly knew that even if the videos of Lin Qingwan were deleted, the forensics department could easily recover them, but she didn"t know that. She beamed with an unprecedented good mood.
Despite being the CEO of a major company, Lin Qingwan didn"t have much to boast about regarding computer skills.
Ye Fei simply refrained from mentioning it. He didn"t want to ruin her good mood.
He searched through the hard drive again to make sure her videos were really deleted before removing it from the computer and handing it over to Murong.
Murong was happy too. With this hard drive as evidence, she could not only arrest Fire Dragon, but also get another commendation in the process!
Ye Fei frowned thoughtfully, "Murong, don"t start the victory celebration before its due. Although these videos are the key evidence against him, they aren"t enough to convict Fire Dragon."
"What do you mean?" Murong stared at Ye Fei blankly.
"We must ensure Fire Dragon is convicted, but who can prove that he was the one who ordered the hidden cameras to be installed? We are still short of conclusive evidence to prove he"s the mastermind. If we can"t prove he"s behind it all, he will just have someone else take the rap for him. He has no shortage of subordinates he can scapegoat."
Murong sighed, "You"re right. We can"t send Fire Dragon to prison with this hard drive alone. If we arrest him and he ends up off the hook, a guy like that will definitely come back for revenge against us. If he does something serious, the consequences could be disastrous."
Ye Fei nodded, relieved that Murong saw things along the same lines.
He found that Murong was not as thick-skulled as he originally thought. In critical moments, she usually made the right judgment call.
Murong was about to leave with the hard drive, but Ye Fei stopped her and took the USB flash drives out of his pocket and plugged them into the PC.
One of the flash drives, which had the logo of the Ya Lai Group on it, obviously belonged to Xue Bing. With this, Murong could put Xue Bing away.
However, now that Xue Bing was dead, Lin Qingwan didn"t want anyone to know about his betrayal. After all, her reputation was at stake.
Inside the flash drive were copies of Lin Qingwan"s videos.
She gasped when she saw them. If Xue Bing had gotten his hands on these files, she would have been at his mercy. She looked at Ye Fei with eyes full of grat.i.tude.
Ye Fei handed Xue Bing"s flash drive directly to Lin Qingwan.
As soon as she had it, she mercilessly threw it to the floor and trampled it under her high-heeled shoes, completely crushing the drive.
After that, Ye Fei looked into the other five flash drives.
Four of them contained copies of the videos of the other female entrepreneurs.
Then he opened the last flash drive, which only contained a single doc.u.ment.
As Ye Fei opened the doc.u.ment and saw what was in it, his eyes went wide with dismay.