Villain mode unlocked

It was Seven Star who quietly answered Big Dipper. "If we recorded them like this and Sis Feng turned it in as evidence to the courts, what would the viewers of this clip think?"

"I don't know." Big Dipper shook his head.

"They'll only treat this recording as evidence captured through the extortion of a confession. It would be perfect if this confession was revealed in the midst of a casual conversation between Liang Meixuan and Huang Mingkun," Seven Star explained.

…

"Do as I say and you'll be able to have a good sleep. Understood?" Third Elder asked them before having someone lower and release them.

At that moment, Liang Meixuan and Huang Mingkun's psychological defenses had collapsed already.

"Huang… Huang Mingkun, say, our act of hiring someone to kill Ye Shao'an and framing Ye Shaoting and Ye Mufan… won't be exposed, right?"

Liang Meixuan tried her best to resist her fatigue as she spoke to Huang Mingkun.

"Don't worry… It won't. Our plan was absolutely perfect, and no one will realize it. Those two idiots, Ye Mufan and Ye Shaoting, deserve it! Their whole family is idiotic…

"This whole family is rather comical if you think about it. Back then, Ye Shao'an owed a large sum of debt, so he embezzled a giant sum from the company's funds. Later, he befriended people from the mafia behind the back of the old geezer, Ye Hongwei, and framed Ye Shaoting for the whole thing…

"Ye Shao'an teamed up with Ye Yiyi and Gu Yueze to abduct Ye Wanwan and injected her with illegal drugs and recorded her… In the end, Ye Shaoting actually willingly took the fall for his daughter. Wasn't he dumb?"

Third Elder smiled and ended the recording after Huang Mingkun finished speaking.

"That's good now, right?! Quick… let me sleep!!!" Liang Meixuan growled.

Perhaps it was truly too painful, but both of their acting skills were decent and the recording was taken in one shot.

"Heh, not bad." Third Elder swept his eyes over Liang Meixuan and Huang Mingkun and nodded with a smile. "You should've done this a long ago. You wouldn't have needed to suffer like this, am I right?"

"D*mn! You're awesome, Third Elder!"

Big Dipper walked toward Third Elder and gave him a thumbs up. "You're a lot more awesome than First Elder, Third Elder!"

When Third Elder, who intended to ignore Big Dipper, heard this, he became invigorated immediately. "Of course! How could First Elder, that old geezer, compare to me? When has he ever outmatched me?"

"Um… What should we do with Huang Mingkun and Liang Meixuan? Let them sleep?" Big Dipper asked.

"Sleep?" Third Elder glanced at Big Dipper. "Did your brain turn crusty? Keep pumping them with sleeping pills. They can sleep in four hours."

"Why do we have to wait four hours?" Big Dipper didn't understand.

Third Elder snorted. "Because we'll reach the humanly limit in four hours. If they don't get to sleep by then, they'll die, and the President made the order that we can't have any lives on our hands, so I'm naturally strictly adhering to the President's orders."

Big Dipper was amazed. "To the tee indeed!"

Not willing to cut them any slack by a single second…

After saying that, Third Elder left the house with his recording and went back with Big Dipper in tow.

Third Elder sincerely pleaded for forgiveness. "President, because you requested for them to remain alive, I couldn't act uninhibitedly and this was all I could do."

After listening to the recording, Ye Wanwan's expression was indescribable. She rubbed her chin as she murmured to herself, "Isn't this solution too… villainous? I suddenly feel like I've become a bandit or some evil power…"

Big Dipper looked bewildered. "Sis Feng… weren't we evil bandits to begin with?"

Ye Wanwan was startled and chuckled involuntarily.

Alright, I subconsciously used "Ye Wanwan's" line of thought to consider this situation.

Ye Wanwan turned to Big Dipper, propping her chin on her hand and grinned. "Heh, you're right."