Chapter 054: Another “Brother for Life”!

Chapter 054: Another “Brother for Life”!

Lei Cheng would never forget that night ten years ago.

The heavy truck roaring toward them. The blinding glare of its high beams. The accident came too suddenly. The Mercedes S-Class Lei Cheng had been riding in was struck by the truck and sent rolling more than ten meters before catching fire and exploding a dozen seconds later.

At the time, Lei Cheng had been in the back seat with his wife. Up front sat the driver—also his bodyguard—and his assistant.

Four people. Three died on the spot.

Lei Cheng survived only because he was lucky.

As the car rolled, Lei Cheng hadn’t been wearing his seatbelt. He was thrown from the vehicle and landed in the roadside greenery. Though he suffered more than a dozen fractures and his neck was severely punctured by a branch, and though by the time the ambulance arrived he’d already lost massive amounts of blood—

In the end, he didn’t die.

He spent seventeen days in intensive care, then nearly three months in a high-grade nursing ward.

He survived.

While Lei Cheng was hospitalized, Hongfa Industrial was in constant turmoil. Personnel shifted. Factions stirred. Internal storms rose one after another. Even before the accident, Lei Cheng had already had open conflicts with Lei You over power—conflicts that had been building for nearly half a year, though they hadn’t yet torn the mask completely off.

So at the time, many inside Hongfa were saying Lei You had done it.

During his hospitalization, Lei Cheng cooperated with police questioning multiple times. He understood the progress of their investigation. His confidants reported to him regularly.

So he knew—no one was obstructing the investigation.

No one dared.

Because whoever obstructed it would become the prime suspect.

But they never found out who’d done it.

After causing the accident, the heavy truck had fled.

The truck was found that same night. It was a stolen vehicle whose owner had reported it missing two days before the incident. The original owner was interrogated overnight but ultimately cleared of suspicion and released without charges.

It truly wasn’t him.

As for whoever had actually been driving the truck that caused the crash—they couldn’t find him at all.

The only lead police had on the driver came from traffic camera footage along the route before the accident. It had captured the driver’s clothing and appearance through the front windshield.

Male.

Black leather jacket.

Black baseball cap.

White mask.

The camera had caught his face, but the surveillance image was relatively blurry, and the man had only exposed his eyes. Impossible to tell who he was.

Lei Cheng knew the mastermind was his elder brother Lei You. Though he had no proof, he was certain.

Because no one else bore him such hatred. Minor grudges weren’t enough to lead to murder.

And he wasn’t the one running the company, so it couldn’t have been a business competitor.

Lei Cheng also remembered that four days before the accident, he’d had a fierce argument with his brother Lei You in the office. Both of them had said harsh things in anger. Lei You had even brought up their mother’s death again.

Lei Cheng remembered the look in Lei You’s eyes just before he’d left the office.

The look of someone who wanted him dead immediately.

After being discharged, Lei Cheng had for a time committed many extreme acts, but he’d been stopped each time. Then he began investigating personally—not only all of Lei You’s confidants, but everyone inside the company who was even somewhat close to his brother or wanted to curry favor with him.

He understood his elder brother well.

He knew Lei You only trusted people who’d been with him a long time, whose backgrounds he knew thoroughly. Decisive when handling matters, but extremely cautious.

So if Lei You had moved against him this time, he probably hadn’t hired an outsider or professional killer. The risk would have been far too great.

Lei Cheng had a clear direction for…