The Mayor's Secretary Begged Me, So I Reported Him Instead

# The Mayor's Secretary Asked Me to Delete the Data. I Reported Him Instead!

His father jumped to his death after a P2P investment scheme collapsed. The blood-red words in his suicide note were barely dry when a creditor's knife was at Lin Shen's throat. A former financial crimes investigator, Lin Shen clutched the fake invoices his father had left behind. Hidden in their margins were unfamiliar account numbers, clues to the dark secret of Xinyuan Wealth, which had swallowed the retirement savings of hundreds of people.

"Delete the data on the flow of funds, and your debt disappears." The caller introduced himself as Wang Zhenbang, the mayor's secretary, and spoke with an air of arrogance. Lin Shen touched the old scar on his neck, a souvenir from investigating a financial case three years ago. He stared at a message from Zhang, one of the victims: "My grandson's life-saving money is gone." Then his fingertip slid across the report button.

An encrypted USB drive was hidden inside a pocket watch. Every split transfer had been designed to evade regulators. During a livestream, he exposed evidence of a stock market conspiracy, making a financial tycoon break down on the spot. At a wedding, he held up the watch face and confronted them: the words "Hongda Real Estate" on its back matched the mayor's bribery records perfectly.

From shell companies to powerful protectors, Lin Shen pursued the culprit with danger at every step. When Su Qing clutched a victims' petition and cried, "They stole the money for our chemotherapy," he finally brought down the political and business network that had been woven over twenty years.

At the moment his report connected, he seemed to see his father smiling as he held up a repayment slip. Justice is never a miracle. It is ordinary people gripping the evidence and finding the courage to shout the truth at the darkness.