Chapter 26: Silencing potential problems before they appear

From the man's reaction at the restaurant, Raven knew she had caused a problem. Until he realised who she was, or that Li Naihe was there, the man was likely to want to take action against her and she couldn't allow it. This was not her body, and she didn't want to jeopardise Liehen's life in any way. If it was her 24/7, of course she could protect herself, however she was not.

If she suddenly left this world without settling the man's grudge, she would be endangering this poor woman for no reason.

Raven had a very strong sense of justice and right and wrong, and she wouldn't allow anything to happen to the people around her, especially if she had caused that threat or harm.

Slowly she headed to the lobby waiting area and pulled her laptop out of its bag powering it on. She realised that it was not password protected, yet again, and she sighed. Either this woman was not very smart, or she didn't have any information on this laptop that could endanger the company.

Without thinking further about this issue, she opened a window and started hacking into Shenshen Corp. She needed to find some information to silence the man and make sure he would not be coming after Liehen.

It didn't take long for her to find his trace, it would seem this world worked similar to hers. She dug out a lot of damaging information, ranging from proof of embezzlement to very inappropriate sex tapes. This guy was a festering pool of absolute shite, she thought, looking at the information she had uncovered.

She was about to let it go and not dig deeper, when suddenly something in the financial records of Shenshen Corp got her attention. Initially, she was looking for information about the small start up that man was the CEO of, and only wanted to scare him, but what she was looking at, was a much bigger issue.

She started reading attentively piecing together the information she had. This was an issue.

As soon as she got the full picture of what was going on, she stopped before pressing the send button on the email she had prepared for Li Naihe with all the information.

She hesitated. Should she not get involved in this? It was a concern since this was a parallel universe, and the potential consequences of her actions were quite big.

If this was her reality, it wouldn't be a problem to change things and take action, but here, she didn't know if it could lead to anything more than just a small change. All change affected something in the world, and could cause a ripple effect that she wouldn't be aware of until it was too late.

Deciding to put the information aside for a while, she got on with her next task.

She hacked the man's phone and started playing a video of his sexual activities at full volume.

Shengua Xiu was in the hospital getting his wrist patched up, when leud noises started coming out of the pocket of his jacket.

"What the hell man?!" his friend and busines partner shouted at him "You were watching porn earlier?! " he looked at Shengua Xiu with a look of disbelief on his face.

Utterly embarrassed he ran to his suit jacket to stop the sounds coming out of his phone. He wasn't watching porn on his phone, but he thought this might be some stupid add or a virus that might've caused this. Still very embarrassing.

The doctor left the room to give the two men some privacy. He wasn't judging them, after all they looked quite young, so they were bound to do some silly things.

Shengua Xiu quickly pulled out his phone and tried to mute the volume. As soon as he realised he couldn't do that, he looked at the video playing on his screen and he froze. The video was showing him and his business partner in very compromising positions. As soon as he realised what the video was, he was livid. Before he could smash the phone to stop the sounds, it suddenly went silent and text appeared on the screen.

"No judgement, we love who we love, but if you even think of retaliating for today, this will be on the 5 o'clock news. XoXo CheshireCat" the text was followed by a purple, graphically drawn smile of the Cheshire Cat, with the smile fading into blackness on his screen.

"That bitch!" he sneered.

His friend didn't know what was going on, but he could sense something was amiss.

"Xiu what's wrong" he asked, hoping for an explanation.

Shengua Xiu understood in a second what the message was about, and tried to calm down. He did indeed plan to find that woman and humiliate her, but then he saw the business card that she threw at him, and realised he couldn't. If he wanted his family's plan to work, he couldn't go against Lanhua Corp. Not yet anyway. He still turned up late at today's meeting, just to take a jab at the President, but he had no intention of engaging in open warfare with him. He wouldn't have done anything, but it seems like that woman had a different idea, and was now threatening him.

He thought she hired someone, of course, but this person was good. Whoever this Cheshire Cat was, they were able to dig out stuff that he didn't even know existed.

He didn't know what to do, since he could be in big trouble with his family over a scandal like this, so he just had to bury his fury and anger deep inside and not react.

His friend, and lover, was now looking at him expectantly.

"Don't worry about it, I'll handle it" he said in a cold tone. Even though his father might end his life if this got out, he wasn't a complete asshole. He would protect his lover as much as he could, as long as it didn't interfere in the family business and their plans.

He wasn't a saint, of course the family business would take precedence over anything else.

He wasn't an idiot, and he knew his father was just using him to try to wrestle control over Lenhua Corp and oust President Li, but if he didn't get involved, he would likely be disowned and thrown out. There was really no love between his father and his children, and if they stopped being useful tools he would discard them.

He always wondered what issues his father had with Lenhua but he never got any answers.