Forced to Marry a Female Billionaire CEO-Chapter 628: It Wasn’t Me

As everyone walked out of the morgue and headed toward the conference room, they started talking.

"Oh, please. As if you're that smart? I think you're missing a screw!"

Duan Chongfeng pushed Yuan Shang's hand away and leaned in closer.

Yuan Shang instantly flew into a rage. "You motherf... Who are you calling 'missing a screw'?"

"Whoever gets angry, that's who," Duan Chongfeng said with a mischievous grin before wrapping an arm around Xu Ke. "Come on, Seasoned Envoy, tell me how you plan to deal with Ye Yunfeng. Let me learn from you. I'm heading to Long Capital myself soon, and I'd love to show off the cunning schemes I picked up from you."

"There's nothing to learn. We'll just have to watch Ye Yunfeng's reaction and act accordingly. I'm really not sure what to do right now. His sudden attack on Ye Feng has shaken my confidence in being able to deal with him," Xu Ke sighed.

Seeing Xu Ke's earnest expression, they all exchanged looks. "Are you serious?"

"I'm serious," Xu Ke nodded.

Wong Qifu was right. Being adversaries with people like this truly required you to be cautious with every step.

He had wanted to use Ye Feng to steal more secrets about the Ye Family and even undermine Ye Yunfeng from within. Treating Qin Yu was part of that plan; the idea was to use her as leverage over Ye Feng. Then, once Ye Feng returned to the Ye Family, they could coordinate from the inside and outside to take down their target directly.

Unfortunately, Ye Yunfeng, in his quest for stability, had acted decisively. Even without knowing that Qin Yu was in Xu Ke's hands or that Ye Feng had helped Xu Ke in Sui City, he hadn't hesitated. He had unhesitatingly killed Ye Feng, shattering the father-son bond he had nurtured for thirty years.

His decisiveness had caught Xu Ke off-guard.

Anyone else, having personally groomed a chess piece—and a top-tier martial artist at that, one with the potential to reach the Great Perfection of the Innate Stage—would never have ordered the kill so readily.

Furthermore, Ye Yunfeng wasn't just ruthless—he was also incredibly cautious.

Xu Ke knew that Ye Yunfeng had come to the morgue specifically to check on Ye Feng's body for one reason: he needed to see Ye Feng dead to finally rest easy.

If it weren't for the medical skills Xu Ke had inherited from Ren Gu, anyone else would have failed to pull off the deception. In fact, Ye Yunfeng would have likely seen through the ruse and struck a second, final blow against Ye Feng...

"But from the looks of it, you don't seem that upset," Yuan Shang muttered.

"This kid is just humblebragging, don't pay him any mind. He's definitely thinking, 'My Plan A failed, so it's time for Plans B, C, and D. Now, which one should I use?'" Duan Chongfeng sneered.

He refused to believe Xu Ke was truly upset. The guy was too damn cunning!

Xu Ke, who had been deep in thought, couldn't help but laugh. "What nonsense are you spouting? I don't have any Plan B, C, or D."

Yuan Shang and Duan Chongfeng chorused, "Heh."

"Alright, stop pestering me," Xu Ke said. "Think about how to get Ye Feng out of here. I can't let him stay any longer."

He needed to bring Ye Feng back to the Junyue Residence. But given Ye Yunfeng's character, he would surely come back to claim the body.

Just then, Hua Xingxue walked in. Hearing Xu Ke, he immediately responded, "Mister Xu, don't worry."

"We'll announce that we identified the killer through an autopsy on Ye Feng's body. The injuries were caused by Elder Tian, a notorious name on the killer rankings. We'll also state that the body has already been cremated. Ye Yunfeng won't be able to blame us for anything."

"There have been similar cases in the Martial Alliance before."

Hearing this, Xu Ke gave a thumbs-up. "Old Hua, you're as experienced as they say."

"You flatter me, Mister Xu," Hua Xingxue replied humbly.

Duan Chongfeng asked, "What about Elder Tian? He's still locked up. If we could get him to provide evidence against Ye Yunfeng, it would bring the Ye Family one step closer to their doom."

"We've already interrogated him," Yuan Shang said, furrowing his brow. "The guy showed us his phone, claiming Li Shichuan summoned him to Tianhai a couple of days ago to kill someone. He says he wasn't told the target was Ye Feng at the Ye Family's back mountain until this morning. Nothing in his story connects to Ye Yunfeng."

"What's more, Elder Tian—who waited in Tianhai for two days—is convinced that Li Shichuan is the real murderer and has advised us to drop the investigation. He claims Li Shichuan had a reasonable motive: as an inside agent, he wanted to kill the Ye Family's most capable member, Ye Feng, to get back at Ye Yunfeng."

"It feels less like we're interrogating him and more like he's lecturing us," Yuan Shang scoffed.

Duan Chongfeng cursed, "Damn, Ye Yunfeng really covered his tracks perfectly."

It was obvious to anyone with a discerning eye that Ye Yunfeng had manipulated the situation using Li Shichuan's phone.

"Then let's just kill Elder Tian," Chen Xiong said, emerging from a side office with a cold voice. "We'll make an example of him. We can't let people think the Tianhai Martial Alliance is incompetent."

"Yes!" Yuan Shang nodded. He'd been thinking the same thing.

In the past week, the Ghost and Poison Elders had wreaked havoc. The Kang, Li, and Ye Families had all suffered incidents, one after another, yet the Martial Alliance hadn't caught a single culprit. The reputation Xu Ke had won for them during the Martial Alliance's selection tournament was nearly in tatters.

Of course, they were well aware that these incidents all seemed to be connected to Xu Ke in some way...

An hour later, the Martial Alliance publicly released all the evidence related to Elder Tian's murder of Ye Feng, including the weapon, transfer records, and chat screenshots. They confirmed that Li Shichuan had hired the assassin to retaliate against the Ye Family. Simultaneously, they announced that Ye Feng's body had been cremated following the autopsy and that Elder Tian had been executed. They further declared that Li Shichuan and Li Lang had committed suicide by hanging after their failed betrayal of the Ye Family, closing both cases.

Every procedure was legal, fair, officially documented, and handled with incredible efficiency.

This dumbfounded all the families in Tianhai.

They hadn't even left their homes, and in the blink of an eye, two major cases were concluded? Wasn't this a bit too swift and decisive?

At this very moment, Xu Ke had already brought Ye Feng to the Junyue Residence.

All the Silver Needles had been removed from Ye Feng's body, and with Xu Ke's help, he was hanging on by a single breath. However, due to his severe injuries, he remained in a coma.

On the way, Xu Ke had messaged Feng Wei, asking if Qin Yu was cleaning his or Xu Yi's house and telling him to get her out of there quickly. If Qin Yu saw Ye Feng's injuries, she would probably collapse in tears on the spot.

Back at home, Xu Ke finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Tang Yingchang said, "Mister Xu, rest assured. I checked carefully the whole way, and no one was following us. I imagine Ye Yunfeng isn't in the mood to bother you right now; he's probably going after the Martial Alliance."

"Haha, you're probably right," Xu Ke chuckled.

The ridiculously fast cremation had sent Ye Yunfeng into a rage. He stormed off to confront Yuan Shang and Chen Xiong, ostensibly furious that his son couldn't even be buried in the Ye Family's ancestral tomb and calling the Martial Alliance bastards. The real reason, however, was his unease at not having seen Ye Feng die with his own eyes.

Chen Xiong and Yuan Shang, however, couldn't have cared less. They just fed him some official lines and directed him to Elder Tian's corpse, telling him to "go look at the murderer." This only infuriated Ye Yunfeng further.

But none of that was Xu Ke's concern anymore.

At that moment, he was staring dumbfounded at a dozen missed calls on his phone.

"How did so many people call me in the short time I wasn't looking?" Xu Ke muttered, speechless.

The calls were from Wong Qifu, Zhou Qingzhi, even the Yin-Yang Elders, and Shi Hongda... 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶

He had a sneaking suspicion they were all calling for the same reason.

He dialed Wong Qifu's number, and she picked up quickly.

"What's up?" he asked.

Wong Qifu got straight to the point. "Was it you?"

"It wasn't me," Xu Ke stated succinctly.

"Really?" Wong Qifu asked in surprise.

Xu Ke covered his face. "Really, it wasn't me."

I knew it. That's what they were all going to ask.