Hearing this, Shen Yu'an tilted his head slightly and glanced at Tan Si beside him.
His gaze shifted downward to the phone in Tan Si's hand, whose screen was flashing. After a while, he slowly spoke.
"Answer it."
Receiving the order, Tan Si nodded respectfully. His finger quickly swiped across the screen, and immediately, An Shengwang's furious voice came from the other end of the phone.
"Shen Yu'an! Where on earth have you taken Xiaoya?! I'm warning you for the last time. If you don't hand her over to me today, then get ready to go to jail!"
As soon as the words fell, Shen Yu'an suddenly let out a sneer.
"Mayor An, what you said... What? Should I go to jail just because my wife ran away with another man? I didn't know that the marriage law in China has been changed like this."
At these words, An Shengwang on the other end of the phone obviously paused for a moment. Then he roared into the phone, his emotions even more agitated than before.
"Shen Yu'an, stop talking nonsense! I know Xiaoya best as her father. Don't just put the blame on her randomly. Stop making excuses! If you can't hand her over today, I'll call the police right away!"
Shen Yu'an knew that An Shengwang had reached the limit of his patience after enduring for so long.
If he didn't tell An Shengwang about An Ya's whereabouts, An Shengwang would surely act recklessly. Once the investigation started, no one would benefit.
Shen Yu'an shifted his gaze from the phone and glanced at Tan Si. "Forward the email I sent you last night to Mayor An."
Hearing Shen Yu'an's order to Tan Si, An Shengwang on the other end of the phone immediately sat in front of his computer, opened his email, and stared directly at the screen.
"Ding—"
The next second, a new email appeared on the screen.
An Shengwang immediately clicked it open in a hurry.
At the same time, Shen Yu'an's voice rang in his ear.
"Mayor An, this email contains all the good deeds your precious daughter has done: having an affair, running away, colluding with outsiders to frame my sister. It's all in there."
"Do you think... if I hand all these things over to the police, how long will she stay in jail?"
Shen Yu'an's voice was neither too soft nor too loud, but to An Shengwang's ears, it was full of threats.
An Shengwang was looking at the content of the email while listening to Shen Yu'an's words on the phone. His pupils darkened bit by bit.
The email clearly recorded the time and location of every time An Ya had an affair with Kai. Even the case of her so - called humiliation was dug out by Shen Yu'an.
It was all self - directed and self - acted by her... just to frame Shen Qingmian and make Shen Yu'an send her away.
An Shengwang's gaze slowly moved down. There was also a photo at the bottom of the email.
When he saw clearly what was in the photo, An Shengwang's pupils suddenly constricted. In the photo was a baby in swaddling clothes.
The baby's golden hair and light blue pupils clearly told him that this child had nothing to do with Shen Yu'an.
An Shengwang tightly gripped the mouse. He suddenly closed the page and roared into the phone.
"Impossible!"
"These things must be fabricated by you! Xiaoya is not such a person!"
An Shengwang still refused to give up. He just couldn't understand how his well - behaved daughter could do such things.
He didn't want to believe it, but the evidence was right in front of him, and he had to.
"If you think I'm fabricating, Mayor An, you can completely hand the content of the email to a lawyer and sue me for slander."
There was a faint smile in Shen Yu'an's voice.
An Shengwang on the other end of the phone clenched his fist tightly. He was almost on the verge of collapse with anger.
Shen Yu'an was certain that he couldn't do anything to him.
Whether the things in the email were true or false, once it got to the court, the An family would lose all their face.
He would never allow such a thing to happen, but he also had to protect An Ya.
An Shengwang took a deep breath, tilted his head slightly, as if lost in thought. After a while, he brought the phone back to his ear and slowly said,
"I only have one request now. Tell me where An Ya is."
An Shengwang's attitude was obviously not as overbearing as before. His tone was much gentler, even with a hint of pleading that was hard to detect.
He had been successful all his life. It had always been others who begged him. When had he ever spoken to someone so humbly?
Moreover, Shen Yu'an was a junior.
An Shengwang felt that he had lost all his face, but he had no other choice now. He could only get information about An Ya from Shen Yu'an.
"Didn't you read it carefully, Mayor An? It's clearly written in the email that your precious daughter is having a great time with her lover in Country A. What? Hasn't she contacted you? "
Shen Yu'an's words were like pearls falling on a jade plate. Suddenly, he let out a few soft laughs. "I guess she's having such a smooth life that she's forgotten about you. But she probably doesn't dare to return to China now. After all, she might be taken away by the police as soon as she gets off the plane. Am I right, Mayor An?"
An Shengwang tightened his grip on the phone bit by bit. Shen Yu'an's words were like sharp knives stabbing into his heart, but he had no power to refute.
If what was written in the email was true, An Ya would surely be in trouble if she came back...
But since he hadn't been able to contact her, An Shengwang always had a bad feeling in his heart.
"Do you have anything else, Mayor An? If not, I'll continue with my work. After all, not everyone has a father who can clean up their messes at any time."
After saying that, Shen Yu'an didn't wait for a response from the other end of the phone. He hung up the phone with a "snap" and turned around, striding towards the research institute.
An Shengwang on the other end of the phone was stunned for a second. Thinking about Shen Yu'an's attitude, he waved his arm and angrily threw the phone on the ground.
The originally intact phone immediately shattered on the ground, in pieces.
After hanging up the phone, Tan Si beside Shen Yu'an suddenly frowned and looked at him in confusion.
He looked at Shen Yu'an's back. After hesitating for a while, he finally asked,
"Sir, wasn't Miss An picked up and brought back to China by Mr. Chi some time ago? I thought you were going to bring her home. Did she go to Country A again?"
As soon as the words fell, Shen Yu'an stopped in his tracks. He turned to look at Tan Si, who was looking at him with a confused face.
His gaze was inquisitive. "Where did you hear this news?"
"Last time. I heard it on the internal line."
Tan Si didn't think much and answered honestly.
Only then did Shen Yu'an recall that in order to facilitate Tan Si's work, he had bound his phone to the company's internal line.
In the past, apart from work - related calls, only Qingmian would call him. Binding the internal line was not only for work convenience but also to ensure that someone could answer Qingmian's calls and handle things in time when he was in a meeting.
"What else did you hear?" Shen Yu'an asked coldly.
Tan Si was stunned for a moment and then shook his head honestly. "Nothing else."
Hearing this, Shen Yu'an's expression softened a little.
"She didn't come back."