"Yaoyao, I've found the origin of this third - party scandal. I still need to confirm some things with you."
When Pei Yan returned to his office, he immediately resumed the air of a top - tier lawyer. He pushed his glasses and told Su Yao about the tactics of Yuyan Entertainment.
After listening, Su Yao found that Pei Yan, a criminal lawyer, had really put in a lot of effort to understand the hype tactics in the entertainment industry so well. "It's about the same as I thought. Usually, they use such tricks."
"Yaoyao, I've checked the shareholders and the board of directors of Yuyan Entertainment. There's no one else who has a connection with you or me. So this should be a simple incident, aiming to sign you with lower - cost terms."
Pei Yan now thought that the reason why Su Yao's scandal with him was exposed was the competition for resources and popularity in the entertainment industry.
"Yeah, I've always shown interest in Yuyan Entertainment. Why did they smear me, even get me blacklisted, and then try to sign me?" Su Yao pointed out the very thing that had been bothering Pei Yan.
"I don't know for the time being. But since I've found the evidence, once we file a lawsuit in court, we can find out the account transactions between Wu Tian and the rumor - mongers. We're bound to win." As a lawyer, Pei Yan was most concerned about winning. This was probably his occupational habit.
Pei Yan continued, "Yaoyao, the other thing I need to confirm with you is that during the expiration of the contract with the Wang Group last time, did you already know that there was another force targeting you?"
Pei Yan asked Su Yao. He now knew that Su Yao was much more familiar with the entertainment industry than he was. After all, she had been in this circle for seven or eight years.
"I knew. It's quite normal. Everyone has some black - fans. They just follow the trend."
Su Yao replied. She did know that during the last scandal, there was an unusual wave of remarks. The content of these remarks was not simply to smear Su Yao, but to try to provoke her and make her persona collapse.
Although Su Yao's persona was always just herself, in other words, she didn't really have a specific persona, there were still fans who might have fantasies about what kind of person she was.
Su Yao had also analyzed these remarks. The people who made them knew her to a certain extent and were aware of some of her past events.
She hadn't associated this with Yuyan Entertainment before. Now it seemed that Pei Yan had also noticed this force. However, this force was very likely initiated by Chu Chao, but Chu Chao no longer had a reason to do so.
Even so, she couldn't tell Pei Yan clearly for the time being, so she just glossed over it.
Pei Yan looked at Su Yao for a while. "Yaoyao, what exactly happened to you during those years?"
He finally didn't ask this question out. Because he knew that Su Yao wasn't ready to let him share the memories of that period with her.
"By the way, aren't you investigating a drug case?" Su Yao remembered the matter of Chu Dianlan. "Lanmao lost his memory because he was drugged with a drug additive called Duansan Powder. Do you have any leads on this?"
"Yes, I've found out that a batch of Duansan Powder has recently flowed into City C. We haven't found the supplier of this batch of drugs yet, but we've grasped the distribution channels in City C," Pei Yan told Su Yao the leads he had. "It's Yu Hui. He's responsible for receiving the goods and then distributing them."
"Yu Hui? The Yu Hui in the Hu Zong case?" Su Yao was a bit surprised. According to Su Yao's speculation, this matter was related to a man named Wu Tian.
"Lanmao said that the person in charge of drug distribution in his family is Wu Tian. This Wu Tian can't be the same one as the Wu Tian from Yuyan Entertainment, right?"
"They are the same person. The Chu family has shares in Yuyan Entertainment, and Wu Tian is the executive sent by them." Pei Yan was already very clear about the structure of Yuyan Entertainment.
"Yu Hui is under Wu Tian." Pei Yan then told the result of his investigation.
"Interesting." Su Yao fell into deep thought. If according to Lanmao's description, this Wu Tian was very likely to have targeted Lanmao in order to get the position of the head of the Chu family.
And Yu Hui and Hu Zong were Wu Tian's subordinates. Both Yu Hui and Hu Zong had been found to be involved in the illegal drug business. Did it mean that the Chu family was involved in the illegal drug business? If so, telling Pei Yan about this would just drag the Chu family into trouble, wouldn't it?
"Are you suspecting that the Chu family is involved in this drug case?" Pei Yan saw Su Yao's hesitation. "I don't think the Chu family directly instructed Wu Tian and the others to do this. So, solving this case can also clear the Chu family's suspicion in the drug case."
"Right. Lanmao lost his memory because of the drug additive, and you're investigating the drug case. According to my detective instincts, these two cases are probably related. Let's join hands this time." Su Yao reached out her hand and held Pei Yan's.
So, Su and Pei walked into the City C Police Station together again.
However, this time they didn't cooperate with Bai Linglong, but Hu Jingtian, a drug - busting policeman with many years of work experience.
Pei Yan was quite familiar with Hu Jingtian. When Hu Jingtian saw Su Yao, he was a bit curious about her status as a movie queen. But he was a middle - aged man with a son and a daughter. He wasn't overly interested in idol stars like Su Yao. He just casually asked some simple questions.
The three of them came to an office at the end of the corridor. This room was very big, but there were no windows. The lighting relied entirely on the chandeliers on the ceiling.
Hu Jingtian turned on the projector and analyzed the latest progress for the two of them.
"At present, we've locked in a drug network in City C, an import channel led by a person codenamed Dazhong and a drug distribution channel led by Yu Hui. Our task this time is to cooperate with City A to uproot the entire drug supply network from the upstream to the downstream."
Hu Jingtian held a laser pointer and marked the key points on the projection. "According to our joint plan with City A, our job is to start with Dazhong and dig out the drug source and the purchase channel in City A."
"Who is Dazhong?" Su Yao wanted to know how far the case had progressed.
"We have no clue about this Dazhong yet. This name is just a code name. We have no information about him. This is our current focus." Hu Jingtian looked at Su Yao.
"Officer Hu, we've also brought you some leads." Pei Yan motioned for Su Yao to tell the situation of the Chu family.
After listening to Su Yao's account, Hu Jingtian turned around and wrote and drew on the whiteboard. Soon, another network diagram appeared in front of the three of them.