Soon He Wenjie figured out the reason Jian Yan had sought him out. Xia Dong's previous client was a Japanese private equity firm, and the case they had asked him to investigate was related to the Hefeng Dairy acquisition. Yet the person Jian Yan wanted him to look into today was actually a senior executive at Hefeng Dairy. If Xia Dong's team was now servicing clients tied to Hefeng Dairy, Xia Dong had violated an investigator's code of ethics. He Wenjie recalled what Susan had said to him earlier; it seemed the trap headquarters had laid for Xia Dong was right here.
Since he was already reeled into the matter, He Wenjie no longer had any reservations about digging deeper. The assignment headquarters had handed Xia Dong this time was an investigation case codenamed "The Safe." Simply put, a certain real estate developer had an accountant from their own company steal twenty thousand US dollars, and the client's current demand was for He Wenjie to track down that accountant.
At a single glance, He Wenjie knew he would be lucky if even ten percent of what was written in the brief was true. As a top-tier investigator team, Xia Dong's rates were extremely expensive—a mere loss of twenty thousand dollars wouldn't even cover the team's service fees. Galaxy would never react so strongly over a lost twenty thousand dollars; the only reason they were in such a rush to find that accountant, and too afraid to involve the police, was that there had to be an untold story hidden within.
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