Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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At Ninglu Media Company, employees discovered that a sum of money had mysteriously been added to their paychecks.
“I heard Longteng stumbled, and the boss is happy,” someone whispered. “Apparently, everyone in the online marketing department got a 5,000 yuan bonus.”
The employees who received their bonuses were all quite impressed. They felt their boss had many virtues, the best being her consistent generosity in giving bonuses. This also made them worry: with their CEO Jiang being so generous, would she one day go broke from paying salaries?
Jiang Shining was indeed pleased; she had been involved in driving every topic throughout the day. The accumulated buzz ultimately led to a major setback for the Xiu family. Xiu Lingfei looked down on netizens, but not Jiang Shining. Longteng’s public image would decline rapidly; they didn’t care, so she would wait and see the consequences.
However, Xiu Jingrui being attacked by entertainment reporters had nothing to do with her.
Xiu Jingrui was surrounded in a remote suburb of P City, a place where wealthy people hold private gatherings and entertainment, and where secrecy was extremely high. Jiang Shining only decided to expose Xiu Jingrui’s affairs again after Xiu Lingfei provoked her, but she didn’t have the ability to figure out Xiu Jingrui’s daily schedule in just three days and have someone wait there to ambush him.
It could only be guessed that the Xiu family offended someone else, and that person knew Xiu Jingrui’s schedule very well, which led to another attack by entertainment reporters.
This time, it will be difficult for Longteng to maintain its public image through public relations.
“I really want to know who leaked this to the reporters and made them wait,” Jiang Shining said. “It would be better to get to know them and work together to screw over Longteng.”
If she was the one who dug the pit, then this person kicked Xiu Jingrui into it.
Jing Xuan smiled. Seeing Jiang Shining happy made him happy too.
Leaving aside the jubilation on Ninglu’s side, on the other side, the Xiu family’s villa seemed shrouded in dark clouds, with a somber atmosphere.
Xiu Lingfei frowned. On one hand, he was furious with his spendthrift son, Xiu Jingrui, who only had women on his mind, and even felt that Xiu Jingrui’s words were just a defense of himself. But on the other hand, after calming down and thinking about it, he realized that Xiu Jingrui’s words had some credibility.
The place where he was besieged by reporters was very secluded; without prior surveillance, so no one could have known that Xiu Jingrui would be playing golf there that day. But who was following him?
Xiu Lingfei first ruled out reporters. Entertainment reporters weren’t prophets; they wouldn’t know Xiu Jingrui would get into trouble and would lie in ambush in advance. The golf course was frequented by wealthy young people, so there was no need for paparazzi to lie in ambush there.
It wasn’t Jiang Shining either. Xiu Lingfei knew that Jiang Shining was the one who exposed Xiu Jingrui, but she wouldn’t send anyone to follow him. She was not that kind of person.
Chu Jingxuan? That was a suspect.
Regardless of whether it was Jiang Shining or Chu Jingxuan who did this, it was not a big deal. What was truly worrisome was if it was someone else— that was what it meant to have an enemy in the shadows. The inability to guess the motives behind their pursuit of Xiu Jingrui was the most troublesome aspect.
“Strengthen security for everyone, and report any suspicious individuals immediately,” Xiu Lingfei instructed. “Also, retrieve all the previous CCTV footage and see if we can find anything.”
He didn’t know this before because he wasn’t paying attention, but now that he was investigating it with some basis, the results were shocking.
“Dad, we’re all being watched.” Xiu Jingran, the eldest brother of the Xiu family, said solemnly. “It’s not just Xiao San, the three of us, and Aunt Qiao are all being watched.”
“The people following us were very discreet; they never showed themselves in the front, so the bodyguards didn’t know. There were no cameras at our home or company either,” said Xiu Jingbo, the second brother. “We found them in the surveillance footage of several other shops where we often appear.”
Xiu Lingfei took the tablet, which contained copied surveillance footage. Sure enough, there was a coffee shop diagonally opposite the Tianxia Longteng headquarters, which could see their cars driving in and out of the underground parking lot. The coffee shop’s video showed a man wearing a mask and a hat always sitting by the window playing on his computer, but he took out his phone to take a picture of the scenery outside when the cars were driving in and out.
However, no one would find it strange, as so many people wear masks these days.
“He probably wasn’t alone, because half an hour later, we also spotted someone like that tailing the second son, who was attending a meeting in the west of the city.” Xiu Jingran said gravely, “Could our family be being followed by a gang?”
More clues were found, and Xiu Lingfei had to confirm that his family was indeed being watched.
He had experienced this feeling of being watched closely when he was emperor. But back then, he had shadow guards and skilled fighters around him. In today’s modern society, even the best security personnel could only see the obvious dangers; they simply could not detect this kind of surveillance.
Without the shadow guards, Xiu Lingfei felt a sense of insecurity, as if his house was wide open.
“You should all stay home as much as possible recently,” Xiu Lingfei said in a deep voice. “But you should continue to use your cars as scheduled, and have someone keep watch over them. See if you can find these people.”
What exactly did the people following their family want? Money? But if they wanted money, wouldn’t they have kidnapped them? What kind of behavior was it to expose their whereabouts to reporters?
By the way, reporters.
Xiu Lingfei then sent people to find the entertainment reporters who were besieging Xiu Jingrui. The reporters didn’t know what was going on, but someone told them that Xiu Jingrui would be there at 6 pm this Thursday, so they went.
After investigating for a long time, the clues went cold again.
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