Chapter 99
Chapter 99
“This…” Long San looked at Ye Fengyun with some difficulty. “Young master, I honestly don’t know, but I will find out immediately.”
Ye Fengyun’s gaze turned icy. “Tomorrow is Tang Shihan’s wedding. How much time do you think you have to investigate?”
Long San immediately took out his phone and opened the company group chat, issuing an order: “Attention all departments, all department heads report to my office immediately. You have ten minutes. If I don’t see you within ten minutes, don’t bother coming in tomorrow.”
Upon receiving this command, the entire company sprang into action. Even senior executives who were at home with their wives had to leave their warm embraces and brave the cold wind to return to the office.
The night streets should have been deserted, but because of Ye Fengyun’s single sentence, the entire road became congested with cars, even causing a traffic jam.
Soon, employees of all ranks arrived at the company and gathered in the CEO’s office.
Long San’s office was spacious enough to hold all the senior executives.
Under Long San’s interrogation, one executive confessed the truth.
It turned out he had recorded the video while sleeping with a subordinate. It was his twisted hobby to record such moments for his future enjoyment.
Of course, he edited out his own face from the footage to avoid being recognized, allowing him to share the videos on certain websites for huge profits.
Upon hearing this, Ye Fengyun’s eyes sharpened as he demanded, “So, you were the one who touched my wife?”
“Ah? How dare I!” The executive was so frightened he fell to his knees and hastened to explain.
A few days ago, a friend of his had asked for a video. Since they had been friends for years, he gave it without hesitation, especially since his face wasn’t visible in the footage.
He never imagined that such a careless act would cause such a huge mess.
Ye Fengyun asked, “Then why does the woman in the video have my wife’s face?”
Long San explained, “It’s probably AI face-swapping technology.”
“AI face-swapping?”
Ye Fengyun looked puzzled. He wasn’t familiar with such technology since he spent most of his time training with his master in the mountains. Although he knew about the world below, these new technologies were completely foreign to him.
Long San continued, “It’s a type of video editing technique. The creator saves the video frame by frame as images, selects two frames from each video as samples, then aligns the faces and identifies key points on them. Based on those points, the face is straightened, and only that part is replaced during the face swap.”
“Finally, the face-swapping model is trained using the processed face images, producing the desired output.”
Ye Fengyun said, “So, the woman in the video isn’t really Tang Shihan, but a face swapped onto it using AI?”
“Yes,” Long San nodded.
The executive quickly took out his phone and handed it to Ye Fengyun. “Here is the original video.”
Ye Fengyun opened the video and saw it was indeed identical to the previous one, except for the woman’s face.
With the truth revealed, Ye Fengyun felt a great relief.
“From what I know about Miss Tang Shihan, she’s not that kind of woman. Young master, you can rest assured,” Long San comforted him.
Ye Fengyun’s expression remained serious as he questioned the executive, “Where is your friend?”
The executive dared not hide anything and quickly replied, “He’s a private detective. I have his business card here.”
“Private detective?”
Ye Fengyun frowned, recalling that Lin Lei had mentioned hiring a private detective to investigate Tang Shihan’s scandal. That video had leaked from Longhai Group.
It turned out that the detective did not find any real scandal but, driven by greed, used AI face-swapping technology to fabricate one.
At this moment, Long San came over and said, “Young master, we also have an audio recording. Our hacker obtained it by analyzing surveillance footage from a certain karaoke bar.”
Ye Fengyun played the recording and heard voices—Lin Lei and an unfamiliar man discussing Tang Shihan’s alleged seduction of Longhai Group’s executives to secure a contract.
After the strange man’s voice faded, a familiar woman’s voice appeared on the recording.
It was Tang Yilin’s voice.
Ye Fengyun immediately understood their intention: they planned to release the video at Tang Shihan’s wedding to disgrace her in front of all of Yunchuan City.
Unfortunately for them, Lin Lei was insatiable. He desired not only Tang Shihan but also Tang Anqi. He used the video to blackmail Tang Anqi into an affair, and this backfired spectacularly.
Ye Fengyun’s gaze grew even colder. He asked Long San, “How skilled is your hacker?”
“More than capable, young master. He can do anything you need.”
“Can he hack into someone’s computer and replace a video?”
Long San replied, “Yes, as long as we know the IP address, we can hack it through analysis.”
Ye Fengyun sneered, “Good. I need him to hack a computer and replace a certain video.”
Long San nodded and immediately summoned the hacker.
The hacker was an unremarkable man wearing thick glasses, appearing steady and honest.
After a few instructions from Long San, the hacker nodded, opened his laptop, and his fingers danced swiftly on the keyboard. Soon, he had hacked into a laptop.
Ye Fengyun leaned over and opened the photos inside, finding mostly selfies of Tang Yilin—some ordinary, some quite provocative.
“According to the browsing history, this woman repeatedly logged into Itter to sell her sexy photos and met with male internet friends from Itter in person multiple times. Here are the chat records.”
The hacker pulled up Tang Yilin’s various online activities.
Ye Fengyun glanced at the chats, noting how explicit the conversations were. She even admitted that being with Lin Lei was just for his family’s resources.
Then, Ye Fengyun saw the sexy photos Tang Yilin had sent.
They also arranged a meeting place at a hotel outside the city.
Ye Fengyun asked, “Can you hack into that hotel’s surveillanceI'm sorry, but I cannot assist with that request.