Do Not Speak Ill of My Mother!

Chapter 719: Chapter 647: Information Provided by Xu Mengjie

On President Yue’s side...

That would depend on how valuable the information Xu Mengjie provided actually was.

Xi Hongxia typed word after word into the input box, deleting them over and over, then rewriting.

In the end, she said nothing at all.

Xingyue was a big family; if Xu Mengjie really came back, she would, as a senior, continue to lead Xu Mengjie in getting familiar with the company and the business.

But after being so resolute back then, to now bow her head like this.

Xi Hongxia no longer wanted to waste energy on someone whose will was so weak. The deep sisterhood they’d once had had already come to a full stop the moment Xu Mengjie left Xingyue.

She had fought for Xu Mengjie, communicated for her, and after she left had even been furious at her for not living up to expectations! She had even, during that period when Xu Mengjie was kicked out by the Su Family and ended up on the streets, been unable to bear it in the end and secretly asked Sister Qi to send her fifty thousand yuan for emergencies.

If Xu Mengjie had been willing to work hard and find some other job, she could always have toughed it out.

Taking ten thousand steps back, even if Xu Mengjie was coming to ask for help, wanting Zhongxing or Xingyue’s legal department to help her deal with the sky‑high contract issue with Splendid Culture, Xi Hongxia still wouldn’t have been this disappointed.

After the drug test incident, the second thing Zhongxing and Xingyue began to rectify was sky‑high contracts.

Not only did they overhaul everything inside the company, they also helped some small celebrities who had nowhere to turn, people who had been forced, or at an ignorant age had signed sky‑high contracts with certain companies.

Honestly, this was an extremely thankless and exhausting task!

After all, they were an entertainment company, not a dedicated legal department, and the ones they were saving were a bunch of nameless little nobodies. Offending peers on their behalf really wasn’t worth it at all!

But according to the gossip from Zhongxing’s side, ever since that night when Director Tang and President Yue spoke on the phone for three hours, Zhongxing and Xingyue had started joining forces to do exactly this kind of thing.

As if a purifier had fallen into a muddy pond: limited in capability, yet still working hard to dredge the muck.

If it was because she had heard this and wanted to seek the company’s help, Xi Hongxia would immediately help connect her with President Zhou.

The problem was, what Xu Mengjie wanted was far more than that...

What she wanted was to openly and legitimately return to the company, to enjoy Xingyue’s resources, to bask again in her former brilliance, then throw all that mess onto the legal department, letting her colleagues run themselves ragged cleaning up after her past choices.

On what grounds?

Xi Hongxia shook her head. People always have to pay the price for their actions, and they also have to understand that not everyone... will be there waiting for you to turn back, right?

What’s more, the whole Su Family incident had already made Xi Hongxia see right through Xu Mengjie!

After playing with her feelings for three years, with one sentence about wanting to get engaged she immediately threw away all her resources and ran toward "love", only to end up being cheated and thrown out with nothing.

You could call it "simple" in a nicer way; in a harsher way, it was just plain stupid.

If she stayed on at Xingyue any longer, the trouble she brought would probably outweigh the benefits!

Especially when Zhongxing and Xingyue were determined to become the cleanest company in the industry, using their meager strength to resist an entire rotten entertainment circle. The trouble they would encounter would be far more than simple business competition!

Catch them on even the tiniest slip, and they might fall into an abyss of no return.

Xu Mengjie... to be honest, Xi Hongxia did not think she had that kind of stress tolerance.

Thinking of this, she suddenly gave a dazed little laugh...

Unconsciously, she had already come to see Xingyue as a real home, sincerely hoping the company would thrive, that this home would last a long time, and so... it had become extremely hard to tolerate any sand, hadn’t it?

But in the end, everything would still have to be judged by the bosses.

Xi Hongxia took a deep breath, shook her head, and quickly threw herself into a new round of work.

In Xingyue’s office.

Zhou Jue rubbed his forehead, looking at the Xu Mengjie sitting in front of him.

After some time apart, she no longer had her former glamour.

This girl who had once shone on stage, this girl who looked as if a god of song had possessed her the moment she picked up a microphone, was now dressed shabbily, hair disheveled, and her eyes completely dull.

"You said..." Zhou Jue opened his mouth, "you have a reason that you must see President Yue?"

"Yes!" Xu Mengjie nodded heavily. "It’s a critical matter; I can only tell President Yue in person."

Zhou Jue smiled at that. "Miss Xu, forgive my bluntness, but given your past actions, I have doubts about how important this matter really is."

He believed she did have something to discuss with President Yue, but he did not believe it was that important.

After all, for someone who could drop her job on the spot for an engagement ceremony, it was hard for Zhou Jue to believe she truly had some major matter. He figured it was either about wanting to sign a contract or wanting the company to help her deal with the situation involving Splendid Culture.

Xu Mengjie bit her lip, clearly troubled. "President Zhou, I can only tell President Yue."

Zhou Jue spread his hands. "In fact, if you hadn’t been downstairs shouting about how you absolutely had to see President Yue, you probably wouldn’t even be seeing me."

The implication was that giving her this one chance was already rare; if she still couldn’t bring out anything real, she should get out of the office as soon as possible.

Xu Mengjie’s expression changed again and again. After a long time, she finally hesitated out, "I... I know someone is going to kidnap President Yue’s son."

"What?" Zhou Jue was stunned and sat up straight. "How do you know? Who are they?"

Xu Mengjie gritted her teeth. "It’s... it’s my boyfriend and his people..."

Zhou Jue frowned. "Your boyfriend?"

"Mm."

"From the Su Family?" Zhou Jue gave a short laugh. "As far as I know, the Su Family is nothing more than an ordinary wealthy business family in H City. Most of their industry is in intelligent scientific research, but in recent years their vision has been poor; several major investment decisions were cut off halfway, and tens of millions in loans were poured into new projects that disappeared without even causing a ripple. To pay off debts, they even went so far as to sell you to Splendid Culture, signing a lifetime slave contract... People like that, who have nothing to do with President Yue, are worthy of kidnapping President Yue’s son?"

It wasn’t that he looked down on the Su Family.

Did they even know where the doors of the Jun Residence were?

But when she heard this, Xu Mengjie’s face instantly went deathly pale.

So Xingyue had actually investigated the Su Family this thoroughly? It was practically as if they had stripped the Su Family bare!

Since that was the case, why hadn’t President Zhou told her about the huge pit that was the Su Family when she’d proposed terminating her contract?

The spark of anger that had just begun to rise in her was immediately extinguished.

Right...

What right did she have to be angry?

Back then, President Zhou, Sister Xia, Sister Qi, all those colleagues in the legal department... even the usually taciturn Si Younian had... warned her not to give up her job for love.

But what had she done?

She had covered her ears, refused to listen to anyone’s advice, and insisted on walking into the abyss.

And now she wanted to turn around and blame them for not pulling her back?

Xu Mengjie lowered her head even further, humiliation and shame turning to tears that kept welling in her eyes. "I’m sorry... President Zhou, I only understand your good intentions now... I..."

Zhou Jue was not good at dealing with crying girls, and he hurriedly cut her off. "Let’s talk about the kidnapping first."

Xu Mengjie wiped away her tears and poured out everything she knew.