Chapter 99: Making Connections
Bao Rujian hadn’t expected that, just a day later, her younger brother would bring her such a big surprise.
Bai Qingyin hadn’t anticipated that simply joining her brother’s little commotion would suddenly connect her to the police.
Gu Qinghuan: [Hello, two sisters.]
Gu Qinghuan: [I’ve created the group. You can start communicating now.]
Gu Qinghuan: [Analysis of intelligence and in-depth investigations will rely on the police sister.]
Gu Qinghuan: [As for school-organized events and performance arrangements, please leave it to the artist sister to handle, and find suitable people among the artists under the Yan family’s company.]
Gu Qinghuan: [I’m turning on Do Not Disturb to do my homework.]
Seeing the word “homework,” Bao Rujian and Bai Qingyin finally felt a sense of reality: this Gu Qinghuan really was still a student.
Gu Qinghuan fell silent, and the group chat quieted instantly.
Several minutes later, Bao Rujian tentatively asked first: [Hello, what do you know about the Yan family’s Jin Ding Entertainment?]
Bai Qingyin, who had been hesitating on what to say, immediately became blunt: [A rotten company, a scam, filth, a bunch of beasts…]
Normally, she wouldn’t have access to the police, and in her circle, such things were extremely sensitive; if discovered, it could bring public backlash.
But now, who would have thought she had connected to the police through a high school student?
After all, this was just one of the countless alternate accounts Xia He had prepared for Bai Hanshan, and the account owner’s identity couldn’t be verified.
Moreover, she was testing the other side. Everything she had said so far was public knowledge in the circle, not traceable to her personally.
She glanced back at Gu Qinghuan’s messages and clicked her tongue in approval.
The girl even knew to protect their personal information, only referring to them as “police sister” and “artist sister”—truly a “good kid.”
Bao Rujian had initially wanted to remind Bai Qingyin that there was a student in the group chat, but as Bai Qingyin’s insider information grew, she had no time for that.
As someone in the economic investigation department, a few months ago she had received an anonymous tip claiming Jin Ding Entertainment was committing tax crimes.
The bureau took it seriously. However, it seemed the other side had discovered the leak in advance. By the time the investigation began, all problematic accounts mentioned in the tip were gone, leaving only minor, inconsequential issues.
Although the bureau wanted to investigate further, another company was also under investigation, with more detailed evidence. They had to focus their manpower there first.
Bao Rujian continued investigating Jin Ding Entertainment but had hit a deadlock.
Upon learning about conflicts between two classes, Bao Rujian considered that perhaps starting with Yan Zhengqing might lead to some clues, which is why Bao Qingsong had reported the situation to her.
But she didn’t expect that a student would independently come up with the same idea—and act even more decisively.
She rubbed her forehead, glanced at Bai Qingyin’s chat content, and realized she had to bring in more people. This already involved criminal, traffic, legal… even anti-drug investigations?!
Bao Rujian inhaled sharply and decisively reported it to her superior.
The system silently observed for a moment and said to Gu Qinghuan, who was concentrating on her homework: [I feel like you’re exploiting my loopholes…]
“Nope,” Gu Qinghuan said without looking up. “I haven’t done anything to Yan Zhengqing, haven’t interfered with him and Lin Xiaoxue, and haven’t stopped him from appearing in front of Xie Xiangxue, right?”
From the human perspective, this might be considered a violation, but according to the system’s rules, it wasn’t.
As the system had told Gu Qinghuan before, human fate continues through interweaving with the fates of others.
Gu Qinghuan hadn’t forced Xie Xiangxue to avoid Yan Zhengqing, hadn’t eliminated the possibility of their fates intersecting, nor prevented Yan Zhengqing from acting.
In fact, she was adjusting probabilities.
After all, whether the Yan family fell or not, Yan Zhengqing might treat Xie Xiangxue as a substitute for Lin Xiaoxue. But if the Yan family declined, the likelihood of him doing so would decrease.
Increasing the probabilities of other outcomes would create more possibilities, aligning with the system’s requirements for shaping destiny.
However, this did reduce the likelihood of Xie Xiangxue’s most desperate fate and increased the difficulty for her rebirth.
The system watched Xie Xiangxue’s progress slowly but steadily increase and found it somewhat absurd.
It reluctantly said, [Alright, I’ll let it slide this time. Next time, host, don’t do this. I’m worried that too much action could disrupt your own balance.]
At this time, Gu Qinghuan was still in an abnormal state. Only by completing enough of the mission and gaining sufficient energy could she escape the fate of “dying in a car accident” and stabilize her current destiny.
Too much disturbance might alert those entities, who would then find ways to eliminate Gu Qinghuan, the “heretic” obstructing them.
“Honestly, if Yan Zhengqing’s harm weren’t so great, I wouldn’t make such a big move,” Gu Qinghuan paused her pen. “System, you know the rotten apple effect, right?”
The system acknowledged: [Yes. In a crate of apples, if you don’t remove the rotten ones in time, the others will quickly spoil too.]
“I used to think that if I just helped the students in my own class, like I helped Xin Bao, Xie Xiangxue would gain more possibilities too.”
“But when I heard Yu Yuan say that the students in Class 12 didn’t want to cause trouble, I realized Class 12 was the rotten apple of Mingde, and the root of this rotten apple lies partly in Shen Mingzhe and partly in Yan Zhengqing.”
“Even if I can prevent it from affecting my class, it will still affect other classes and students.”
Yu Yuan couldn’t solve this problem alone. Relying only on the school’s power, even with class teachers and administrators intervening, only minor punishment could be given to Shen Mingzhe.
So she considered bringing in outside forces.
Coincidentally, she knew the Yan family ran an entertainment company, Bai Hanshan had a sister in the entertainment circle, Bai Qingyin, and Bao Qingsong mentioned that the police sister, Bao Rujian, seemed very interested in the matter.
She approached Bao Rujian to ask about the situation. Bao Rujian didn’t reveal much—only that the Yan family’s company had some issues and was under investigation.
Bai Qingyin’s involvement was coincidental. Gu Qinghuan had originally intended to get closer to Bai Hanshan first, then later contact Bai Qingyin after the plan was set.
Unexpectedly, the timing aligned. Bai Qingyin had suffered losses at the hands of Jin Ding Entertainment before. When she heard Bai Hanshan say Gu Qinghuan wanted to go after the Yan family, she added her as a friend immediately.
Gu Qinghuan was surprised. Bai Hanshan’s sister was so proactive, completely unlike Bai Hanshan’s steady personality.
From then on, the plan moved into action. She only outlined her idea and left the execution to the professionals.
Her logic was simple: Yan Zhengqing had once picked a fight with Class Three just because of Lin Xiaoxue’s change in attitude.
Class Three had Jiang Chuchu, so he failed. Therefore, it was certain that before this, someone of lesser status than the Yan family had been punished by him.
Since the Yan family indulged him, they would assign a trusted and experienced person to clean up after him.
Thus, finding this person would provide a lead to start an investigation.
The police would handle these operations better, and Gu Qinghuan didn’t intend to participate.
Bai Qingyin would contact artists under Jin Ding Entertainment who wanted to rebel but lacked the power to do so. During school events, the student council could invite them over, providing a platform.
Whether through live streaming or media coverage, they could stir up publicity. School events also allowed inviting parents, and the backgrounds of Mingde students’ families… were quite interesting.
This was Gu Qinghuan’s plan. Given her age and experience, even if she had many idealistic thoughts, the system had to admit she was exceptional.
One more thing: the system didn’t know if she did it intentionally or not, but she had involved Bao Rujian.
Who were the students of Class Three? Reborn reserves.
Given this, what about the fates of their families?
The system quietly checked backend data.
Bao Rujian, 26 years old, exposed during the investigation of Jin Ding Entertainment, was kidnapped by forces linked to the company and fed prohibited drugs, and killed while resisting.
Her younger brother, Bao Qingsong, originally admitted to a university computer program, voluntarily gave up his admission, went abroad for cosmetic surgery, assumed a new identity to infiltrate Jin Ding Entertainment to collect evidence, but was discovered during extraction, staged as fleeing with funds, and died in a car accident.
The system closed the backend file.
It didn’t think the host’s actions were wrong. This was part of guiding the mission to create a new destiny.
So when Gu Qinghuan had asked, “Are Bao Rujian and Bai Qingyin trustworthy?” it gave an affirmative answer—just to assist the host in completing the mission.
Although it seemed the host didn’t plan to manage things afterward, the system decided to keep an eye on her anyway.
