Chapter 50: The Missing Parents of Shi Yi

“Boss, we’ve arrived.”

In the suburbs of the imperial capital, several cars stopped beside a deserted grassy field.

Shi Yi stepped out of the car.

The glaring headlights stretched his figure, making him look even taller.

“Boss, it’s him.”

A man who looked almost exactly like Shi Yi’s assistant, Wei Lin, walked over beside Shi Yi.

He was Wei Lin’s twin brother, Wei Qian.

The two brothers could be said to be Shi Yi’s right and left hands.

One handled Shi Yi’s company affairs.

The other specialized in doing things behind the scenes that couldn’t be done openly.

“We searched for a long time and finally found this guy. That old bastard is pretty clever—he not only changed his name but also had plastic surgery. Otherwise, we would have caught him already.”

Wei Qian gestured toward a man who was currently tied up and lying on the ground.

Shi Yi walked slowly and steadily toward the man.

Looking down on him, he said, “Are you Shi Songlin?”

The man on the ground hurriedly shook his head. “No, no, I’m not. I’m…”

“Be honest!” Wei Qian kicked him.

“If you cooperate and tell everything today, you might live. If not, I have a hundred ways to deal with you!”

After saying that, he took out a small knife and lightly tapped the man’s face with the back of it, then slid the tip of the knife down along the man’s cheek to his throat, pressing slightly.

Immediately, a streak of bright red blood welled up from the center of the man’s throat.

The sharp pain made the man panic instantly.

He froze, unable to move.

“I’ll talk, I’ll talk! I’ll say everything!”

“I am Shi Songlin, I’m Shi Songlin!”

Seeing the man so scared, Wei Qian smirked.

“That’s better.”

He tapped the man’s face again with the back of the knife, then stood up.

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“The person standing in front of you is now the head of the Shi family. If he asks you anything, you must tell the truth, or else…”

He didn’t finish the sentence, but the warning look in his eyes said it all.

Shi Songlin glanced at Shi Yi fearfully.

“You… you are Young Master Shi Yi?!”

Shi Yi didn’t answer but directly asked, “Tell me, what role did you play in the disappearance of my parents, or rather…”

His gaze turned colder and colder, “They were killed because of you!”

Shi Songlin was his father’s driver.

Back then, his parents left the Shi family to attend a banquet.

But they never showed up at the banquet.

The Shi family reported to the police, but surveillance footage showed they left in the family car and never got out.

The car drove from the imperial capital outward, took the highway, and finally exited the highway at a county next to the capital.

Then it entered a rural path without surveillance.

After that, there was no trace of them.

At the time, the driver was Shi Songlin.

The Shi family spent a lot of manpower and resources searching along the route where the car disappeared but found nothing.

Not only had the couple disappeared, but Shi Songlin himself had also vanished without a trace.

The police visited Shi Songlin’s home and found he was an orphan.

Although married, he and his wife had divorced three months prior, and their son was living with his mother.

When asked about Shi Songlin, his ex-wife said nothing good, her attitude was bad, as if she didn’t want to mention him at all.

The police thought it was just an unhappy marriage, so his ex-wife refused to say anything about him.

Therefore, the police didn’t pay much attention to Shi Songlin’s ex-wife and son.

At the time, the Shi family was busy searching for the couple and didn’t focus much on people not closely related.

Only when Shi Yi became an adult, took over the Shi Group, and established himself within the company, did he begin to investigate the case.

Recently, his people found out that Shi Songlin’s ex-wife was living with another man.

Originally, this wasn’t something worth worrying about.

After all, she had been divorced from Shi Songlin for so many years, it was only normal for her to find another man.

But what was strange was that this man treated her son even better than his own biological son.

He even paid in full to buy the boy a new three-bedroom apartment and a car.

That was somewhat unusual.

Tell me, which stepfather would be so generous?

The seed of suspicion was thus planted.

So, Shi Yi had Wei Qian start investigating.

They didn’t realize anything until they checked—and then uncovered a shocking secret.

The DNA test results between this man and Shi Songlin’s son showed they were father and son!

So this man was most likely Shi Songlin himself, who had been missing for years!

Wei Qian immediately brought people to capture him.

Shi Yi had only rushed over from the Shi family home after receiving a call from Wei Qian about the DNA test results.

“No, no, I didn’t kill them!” Shi Songlin hurriedly defended himself, scared.

Knowing he couldn’t escape today, he looked at Shi Yi.

“If I tell you the truth, can you promise not to harm my wife and son? They are innocent.”

“Do you even have the right to negotiate with me?” Shi Yi gave him a cold glance.

“If you can’t guarantee you won’t touch them, I won’t say a word!”

“Threatening me?”

Shi Yi curled his lips into a cold smile.

He pressed his foot lightly on Shi Songlin’s shoulder.

Suddenly, the sound of bones cracking sharply rang out.

“Ahhhhh!”

Shi Songlin couldn’t hold back and screamed in agony.

But in this empty wilderness, no matter how loudly he screamed, no one would come to save him.

Just as his soul trembled from the pain, a voice like that of a demon quietly sounded again.

“Wei Qian, go and bring his wife and son here immediately.”

Upon hearing this, Shi Songlin’s pupils contracted violently.

Ignoring the sharp pain in his shoulder, he frantically shouted, “Don’t! Don’t go! I’ll talk now, I’ll say everything!”

All these years, he had been extremely cautious, afraid of being discovered by the Shi family.

He had secretly investigated Shi Yi and knew him to be ruthless, otherwise, he wouldn’t have taken over the Shi Group at such a young age against all opposition.

Not only had Shi Yi prevented the Shi Group’s decline, but he had also made it flourish, even showing signs of surpassing the other three top elite families.

Shi Songlin knew well that if caught by him, there would be no chance to escape or negotiate.

Shi Yi lifted his foot and looked down at Shi Songlin from above.

His relaxed and noble demeanor was completely different from the decisive and ruthless attitude he had just shown.

Shi Songlin swallowed nervously, still haunted by memories.

“One day, someone came to me and said that if I… brought your mother to their designated place, then…”

He glanced at Shi Yi furtively and continued in a trembling voice, “They would give me two million.”