Chapter: 6500

Ye Chen put down his phone, smiled at Steve, and said: "Steve, as your friend, you are indeed very loyal. However, this amount of money has just been paid by them. I received a message before the payment was made, so this matter is now complete."

Steve's heart sank as he heard this, thinking to himself: "Oh no, what a good opportunity! Too bad it's gone!"

As soon as he finished speaking, his phone suddenly received a push notification from BBC with the title: "10 billion US dollars in redemption - an awe-inspiring Mrs. Hogwartz!"

Unconsciously muttering to himself, Steve said: "Just gave the money to BBC and they're already reporting it... this timing is too fast!"

"BCB?" Ye Chen asked curiously: "What did BBC report? Did they report on the Hogwartz family's affairs?"

"Yes!" Steve replied while quickly scrolling through his phone news, saying to Ye Chen: "Ye Mr., it turns out that Mrs. Jean Hogwartz accepted full-scale tracking and interviews from the media, and all her photos are in the news... she must have a very heavy heart, and she already packaged herself before spending the money."

Although Ye Chen hadn't seen the news content, he didn't seem surprised at all, saying: "If someone spent 10 billion US dollars, packaging themselves is not unreasonable."

Steve couldn't help but say: "But she doesn't know that the kidnapper will see this news report and what attitude they'll take... her husband and son are still in their captors' hands. Won't she worry about them getting angry and killing her husband and son after seeing this news?"

After saying that, Steve handed his phone to Ye Chen: "Ye Mr., look at many of the photos taken by media reporters at her home, which proves that she might have contacted the media yesterday."

Ye Chen glanced at the phone's content, which was nothing more than an introduction to the Hoggetts father-son duo going missing overseas and then introducing the kidnapper's demand for 10 billion US dollars. After that, they recorded every detail of Jane Hoggett's decision-making process, as said by the media, recording her difficult choices.

After reviewing the news, Ye Chen was about to hand the phone back to Steve when he saw that Steve's phone received a push notification from CNN with the title: "Jane Hoggett, an awe-inspiring wife, mother, and family leader!"

Ye Chen didn't open it, and instead said with a smile: "BBC and CNN are both reporting on this. It's probably been planned in advance. Looks like she has someone high up behind her. In any case, the money spent can't bring people back, so might as well capitalize on this opportunity to promote herself."

As he was saying that, Ye Chen asked curiously: "By the way, what's the connection between Anne Hoggett and your Rosenthal family?"

Steve said: "She is my father's cousin, his sister's daughter. The relationship has already become quite distant."

Ye Chen nodded and said: "Although the relationship is quite distant, your father still sent you to look for them in Jinling. This shows that your father is very concerned about this matter. Perhaps Jane will go ask your father for advice, which might be an idea given by your father."

Steve furrowed his brow, thought for a moment, and then suddenly understood: "Your words, Mr. Ye, are indeed very possible. Spending money to get a return that exceeds the investment is exactly my father's style."

Ye Chen smiled: "It seems you still understand your father well."

Steve chuckled: "After all, it's said that one knows their children better than anyone else, and their children know them better. I do understand him indeed."

Steve thought, since this matter was father's behind-the-scenes strategy for Jenny, then this was a good opportunity to humiliate his father in front of Leaf.

Right now, the interests of two people are extremely subtle; if Leaf leans towards one side, it can directly threaten the interests and lifespan of another person, so it would be beneficial to let Leaf have some reservations about his father.

Leaf naturally knew what Steve was implying, even more so that he was subtly undermining his own father's position. However, Leaf didn't seem to take this seriously; such things wouldn't cause any substantive trouble for him.

After all, no one could find the true whereabouts of these two people, and if someone were to leak the news one day, it would definitely be Steve's doing, so Leaf was certain he couldn't dare to speak out.

However, to satisfy Steve's cleverness, Leaf pretended to be displeased and said, "I'll make your father pay for this behind-the-scenes plotting; I'll let him know what it means to scheme foolishly when he goes to Northern Europe in a few days."

Steve was secretly delighted and hastened to express his attitude: "But Mr. Leaf doesn't need to worry about this matter; only I, an outsider, know, but I will definitely keep my mouth shut and won't let anyone else know that the Hogwart's father-son affair is connected to you."

Leaf nodded slightly, just as Hong Wu knocked on the door and entered. He told Leaf, "Master Leaf, can we have some hot food?" JrNovels.com