CH 23

Xue Yuan collapsed in front of the front camera of his mobile phone.

He swallowed nervously and said in a trembling voice, “Xing Hao bought this video from me. I thought he was just going to secretly mock Mu Qingyan. I didn’t know he directly uploaded it to the internet.” After speaking, he begged again, “Brother Huai, let me go this time! Brother Yan, I really didn’t mean it, Brother Yan…”

Shen Huai ignored him and directly ended the video call.

He asked Mu Qingyan, “You are the person involved, how do you want to handle this?”

“Xue Yuan has been scared like this, it’s already a lesson for him. There’s no need to really beat him up,” Mu Qingyan played with her phone and curled his lips.

“The important thing is that we know how the video ended up in Xing Hao’s hands.” As soon as he finished speaking, Mu Qingyan’s phone rang – it was Xing Hao calling.

“Speak of the devil and he shall appear,” Mu Qingyan answered the phone and said blandly, “Hello.” Xing Hao on the other end of the phone was obviously furious.

He shouted loudly, “Mu Qingyan, don’t go too far. Don’t involve Xie Ming in our grievances. He didn’t do anything to offend you. Why do you keep targeting him?”

It was like a divorced ex-husband questioning his ex-wife about his new lover, shameless.

Mu Qingyan didn’t answer, he just heard Xing Hao continue to shout, “Xie Ming almost committed suicide today because of you and your depression! If you keep targeting him like this, I won’t be polite to you!”

As for the so-called intentional targeting, Mu Qingyan couldn’t be bothered to explain. He retorted, “Laughable. You’ve already been impolite to me many times, do you think I’m afraid of you?” Xing Hao became even more angry at his words.

“Just you wait and see!” he yelled. “Okay, okay, I’ll be waiting,” Mu Qingyan rolled his eyes and hung up the phone.

Shen Huai made a face. “Your phone’s volume is so loud, I could hear it too.”

Mu Qingyan shrugged. “Doesn’t matter.”

“This Xing Hao is really ridiculous. It hasn’t even been two months since the divorce, and he’s shouting at you for someone else. And he even says he won’t be polite to you,” Shen Huai said indignantly, “What’s his relationship with Xie Ming? If he wants to commit suicide, then let him do it. Why does he have to get so worked up?”

Just after speaking, Shen Huai immediately realized something: “Could it be that Xie Ming is the person who… kissed and spent the night with Xing Hao by the window on the night you two got your marriage certificate?”

Seeing Mu Qingyan’s tacit agreement, Shen Huai exclaimed, “I only found out now! They were really good at keeping it a secret before your wedding!”

Mu Qingyan did not respond.

He opened Weibo and found that Xie Ming was rumored to have taken pills and was sent to the hospital by an ambulance.

Someone claiming to be Xie Ming’s friend had posted a photo of Xie Ming being taken to the hospital.

Looking at Xie Ming’s Weibo, which was posted an hour ago, every sentence implied that Mu Qingyan had intentionally set him up and framed him, making him feel extremely wronged, so he chose to commit suicide.

Netizens were discussing the situation, saying that there had been many scandals in the past month, especially today.

Shen Huai asked, “Did Xie Ming really commit suicide?”

Mu Qingyan stood up and stretched lazily, “Who knows? I’m going home now.”

EVOL Bar was half an hour’s drive from his villa.

He had just gotten into the car and was about to take a nap when he received a message from Ji Liyun, “I have a gift for you.”

“What gift?” Mu Qingyan asked.

Ji Liyun didn’t directly answer, he only replied, “Check the top trending topic in five minutes.”

“Tsk.” Mu Qingyan smiled and shook his head, thinking that when did this domineering President start to like being mysterious?

Although he said “I know” and “I’m not interested” on the surface, he still checked the trending topics on his phone, waiting for the five-minute mark to arrive.

Xie Ming took a large amount of effervescent tablets and falsely claimed to have committed suicide.

Mu Qingyan almost burst out laughing.

He clicked on the topic and found out that the hospital nurse had denied the rumors, saying that Xie Ming had not taken sleeping pills or cut his wrist as rumored on the internet.

He had only taken a large amount of vitamin C effervescent tablets and a melatonin pill.

He had woken up shortly after being admitted to the hospital and did not need to have his stomach pumped.

This caused another stir on the internet.

[The situation has changed again tonight, these scandals have filled me up.]

[Taking vitamin C and melatonin, this is hilarious!]

[Yeah, haha, it’s been a long time since I’ve had such a fun piece of gossip.]

[Thank goodness I didn’t join in on the criticism of Mu Qingyan, otherwise I would be the one getting called out right now.]

After experiencing two rounds of public ridicule in one day, Xie Ming silently closed the comments section on his Weibo.

Meanwhile, Xing Hao was preoccupied with his own thoughts. Despite knowing that Xie Ming had lost a significant number of followers and was being criticized by netizens, he didn’t feel like consoling his poor boyfriend.

This was because during the family gathering the next day, Xing Hao felt that his father was treating him coldly. His half-brother and sister-in-law were also increasingly mocking and suppressing him.

Xing Hao felt that all of this was Mu Qingyan’s fault, because he insisted on divorcing him, causing his father to take back 10% of his shares in the company and allowing his brother to continue suppressing him.

In addition, because of interference from the Ji Group, he had already gone bankrupt twice.

He began to formulate another plan for revenge.

Ever since Mu Qingyan agreed to enter the management of the Mu Group and participate in its business operations, she often had to shuttle between both the Mu Group and the Mu Company.

To his surprise, Ji Liyun would come and visit the Mu Company every few days, claiming that he was there to discuss business, but actually just chatting aimlessly. Occasionally, he would help her with some work and accompany her to work late into the night.

Ye Qiqi often joked that Ji Liyun was becoming Mu Qingyan’s assistant, just like his personal secretary.

Seeing that Ji Liyun loved to come to the Mu Company so much, Mu Qingyan had the security team issue him a special pass that would allow him to go directly to the general manager’s office on the 16th floor.

One day, after attending a meeting at the Mu Group, Mu Qingyan stayed late to work at the Mu Company. Just past 9 o’clock, Ji Liyun showed up.

“It’s a bit late today. Looks like the Ji Group has a lot of work these days,” Mu Qingyan joked.

Ji Liyun didn’t deny it, “Yeah, after finishing work, I wanted to take a walk and ended up at your place again.”

Seeing that Mu Qingyan was buried in her work, Ji Liyun poured himself a glass of water and asked, “Have you had dinner yet?”

“No,” Mu Qingyan glanced at the time, “but now that you mention it, I am getting a little hungry.”

Ji Liyun chuckled, “You can’t skip meals. What do you want to eat? I’ll buy it for you.”

Mu Qingyan didn’t hesitate at all, “Pan-fried buns.”

“Okay.”

Just as Ji Liyun left, Ye Qiqi came in and placed the organized files on Mu Qingyan’s desk, looking curious. “Why did President Ji leave so soon today? That’s rare.”

“He went to buy me Pan-fried buns.”

“…” Ji Liyun is the President of the top domestic corporation. Is it really okay to boss him around like that?

Mu Qingyan looked up, as if sensing Ye Qiqi’s thoughts, and said, “He’s happy to do it.”

“…”

“It’s getting late. You can go home first. I’ll have Lin and Shen escort you.”

“No need. I’ll drive myself home.” Ye Qiqi declined, knowing that Lin and Shen were Mu Qingyan’s personal bodyguards.

“You received a threatening letter this morning, didn’t you? Let them escort you tonight. Tomorrow, I’ll have two bodyguards from Shen Huai’s team pick you up for work.” Mu Qingyan said.

Ye Qiqi did receive a threatening letter, but she wanted to handle it herself and didn’t tell Mu Qingyan. She didn’t expect him to already know.

She could only accept and say, “Thank you, boss.”

After Lin, Shen, and Ye Qiqi left, only Mu Qingyan and two security guards remained on the sixteenth floor.

No one noticed that danger was approaching.

It was deep into the night.

A man dressed in black walked towards MU Building, wearing a black cap to cover his face.

The man deftly avoided the security guards’ gaze and climbed through a window, heading towards the safe passage.

He knocked out the two security guards on the sixteenth floor and disappeared into the darkness.

Just as Mu Qingyan finished his work and walked out of his office, he felt someone approaching, and a cold light flew towards him from the side.

Author’s Note:

Ji Liyun: Yeah, yeah, I’m happy to do anything for A Yan! (Wags tail)

Mu Qingyan (shrugs): See for yourself.