dognovel Chapter 670 The Shadow Play and the Outsider's Story
Chapter 670 The Shadow Play and the Outsider's Story
2:00 AM Paris time, ISA Global Security Center, eighth basement level.
This floor is not normally open to the public, and it's even deliberately omitted from the ISA website's architecture diagram. But at this moment, a dark figure is moving silently through the security blind spots, with a precision that seems to have been trained thousands of times.
She was tall and slender, with her black hair tied up high. She wore a specially made thermal shielding combat suit and had the highest-level ISA retinas processing module installed in her left eye.
"Entering the 'Image Archive Area'."
A deep, concise male voice sounded in her ear: "Target number S-0142, Chen Yulan."
"Initiate the 'Candidate Program'."
The woman stopped in front of an encrypted metal door, inserted the identification chip into the groove, and with a short "beep" sound, the heavy door slowly opened.
In the dim light, rows of yellowed paper files and encrypted chips were neatly arranged.
The woman pulled out the classified document numbered S-0142 and turned the pages one by one—
Page 1: Biographical record of Chen Yulan, former CEO of ISA;
The second page, codenamed "Project Yanbei," was launched under her leadership to lay out a plan for "investigating bloodline fraud."
Page 3...
The woman's fingertips paused—
On that page was a DNA comparison report.
It is clearly stated above:
Lin Chuyue is suspected to be Chen Yulan's daughter.
A strange light flashed in her eyes. She quickly photographed and packed the documents, then retreated towards the exit, saying in a barely audible voice:
"Mr. Shen, report complete."
"Chen Yulan is not only not dead—her daughter is now Lin Chuyue."
On the other end of the phone, Shen Yunsheng's voice instantly turned cold: "Confirm the source of the information?"
The woman replied, "The ISA biological database source has not been modified."
"Moreover... Chen Yulan's DNA was automatically matched and triggered by the system three days ago at a private clinic in the South Pacific region, indicating that she is very likely still alive."
There was a moment of silence on the phone.
Then Shen Yunsheng chuckled softly:
"What a wonderful Lin Chuyue."
"You not only want to abolish the old power of the Shen family, but you are also an undercover pawn."
"Chen Yulan...you actually put your daughter in the ISA Center?"
"How cruel."
"Fine, let her know what it means for a daughter to pay for her mother's debts."
"Shadow Network, fully launched."
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Meanwhile, ISA's temporary headquarters for the Asia-Pacific region.
Lin Chuyue stood in front of a row of electronic sand tables, personally coordinating with senior European regional coordinators on the latest resource deployment, her voice crisp and decisive:
"The first team of members has been deployed to the Middle East branch to initiate an investigation into international trade channels."
"The second team went to the London headquarters to investigate the Shen family fund's asset transfer records over the past twelve years."
"The third group entered the Asia-Pacific Port Audit System and froze the scheduling permissions of all seaports under ISA."
“From today onwards, ISA will no longer provide cover for any family.”
The team members responded swiftly and took immediate action.
Li Zhanchuan walked up from behind, holding an encrypted briefing in his hand, his tone slightly hesitant:
"The ISA system was briefly hacked early this morning, and the backend showed that unauthorized files were extracted."
Lin Chuyue's brow furrowed: "What file?"
Li Zhanchuan handed over the document: "Number S-0142."
Lin Chuyue's heart skipped a beat.
She remembered the number perfectly.
That was her mother's ISA number—
Chen Yulan.
She had heard that her mother was a senior advisor to ISA in her early years and led many institutional reforms, but when she was ten years old, Chen Yulan suddenly "passed away from illness," and her body was not even made public.
After that, Lin Zhengguo changed his tune overnight, claiming that "Chuyue was raised by him alone," and stopped talking about his mother.
Could it be... that she is still alive?
Just as she was deep in thought, the phone rang.
"The first moon, that is me."
On the other end of the phone, Lin Zhengguo's slightly hurried voice came through: "ISA's external news platform just released a bombshell report saying that your true identity may not be of the Lin family bloodline."
"Your mother... they say she is Chen Yulan."
"What's going on? Who leaked this information?"
Lin Chuyue was silent for a few seconds, then said calmly, "Don't you find that question ridiculous?"
"Don't you know whether she is my mother or not?"
Lin Zhengguo was speechless for a few seconds before he whispered his defense: "Chuyue, I was doing this for your own good back then—your mother acted too aggressively, she offended too many people, and ISA faced assassination threats several times. She had to disappear."
"She chose to leave on her own initiative, and there was nothing I could do about it."
Lin Chuyue scoffed: "So you brazenly stripped me of my identity and pretended to be the rightful heir of the Lin family?"
"You're not afraid of her being radical, you're afraid she'll leave me, the spark, behind."
"You're not protecting me, you're strangling the very source of my bloodline."
Lin Zhengguo's tone stiffened, and he remained silent for a long time: "Trying to bring up this old grievance now will not do you any good."
“Your position at ISA is not yet secure, and these controversial issues concerning your identity will raise a lot of questions from senior management.”
Lin Chuyue chuckled coldly in a low voice: "That's still better than continuing to cover for someone like you."
"From now on, don't contact me again."
She hung up the phone, her expression icy.
Li Zhanchuan walked over and took her hand: "Are you alright?"
Lin Chuyue closed her eyes and murmured, "They want me to give up the ISA reform, so they're using my most fundamental identity to force me."
"But I will not do as they wish."
"I'd like to see who's afraid when the truth is revealed."
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At 9 p.m. that evening, ISA’s Asian branch experienced a sudden power outage alarm.
Lin Chuyue was in the emergency exit leading to the dormitory when she suddenly realized that all the surrounding cameras were malfunctioning.
She instinctively took two steps back, and quickly drew her sidearm with her right hand.
——Click.
A faint metallic clang rang in her ears, and a dull thud as a bullet grazed past them.
She suddenly rolled over and crouched down, pointing the gun at the end of the corridor: "Who is it!"
A woman's soft laughter came from the darkness: "You don't even remember who I am?"
“But I am the successor personally chosen by your ‘mother’.”
A dark figure slowly walked out, his figure bearing a slight resemblance to Lin Chuyue, and he was only twenty-five or twenty-six years old, with a cold and stern face.
"ISA Project 'Candidate' B-03".
"My name is Chen Yuyao."
"Yes, she is your half-sister."
Lin Chuyue froze, as if struck by lightning, her hand holding the gun trembling slightly.
"What did you say?"
The other person slowly raised their head, a sinister smile spreading across their lips.
"I was born three years before Chen Yulan died in a secret experimental center."
"And you are merely bait she planted in the Lin family, a key to infiltrate ISA."
"But now, she doesn't need you anymore."
“I am the only heir she recognizes.”
"So—you should disappear."
"elder sister."
She suddenly drew her gun, and a cold bullet shot straight into Lin Chuyue's heart.
boom--!
Lin Chuyue dodged awkwardly and rolled around the corner.
I heard steady footsteps behind me, without any hesitation.
She practically ran away through gritted teeth—she realized that the so-called "candidate program" was not just a political manipulation by the ISA leadership.
This is a game of chess set up by my mother herself.
And she, Lin Chuyue, was just a "fake pawn" from beginning to end.
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Meanwhile, in London.
Shen Yunsheng stood on the terrace of the ISA's highest conference tower, watching the night fall, and suddenly laughed out loud.
"Lin Chuyue, you think you're standing in the light."
"But you don't know, you've always been a shadow."
"But the real 'daughter of Chen Yulan' is the king of this game."
The wind whistled as he slowly closed the folder.
It says:
“ISA Candidate B-03, Chen Yuyao.”
"Objective: Eliminate Lin Chuyue and replace her as emperor."
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The real storm has just begun.
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[End of Chapter]
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While continuing the main storyline of ISA reform, this chapter exposes two major points of conflict:
1. Lin Chuyue is not a true member of the Lin family by blood, but is the daughter of Chen Yulan, a former high-ranking executive at ISA;
2. Chen Yulan has another secret daughter, Chen Yuyao, who has been placed as the "legitimate heir" and begins to assassinate Lin Chuyue.
Meanwhile, Shen Yunsheng continued to control the overall situation and launched the "King Replacement Game".