Chapter 39: Chapter 39

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Before Chu Jingmo returned, the news had already exploded. The hotel under the Chu Corporation was haunted, and the first to expose that were a few celebrities. This was because the Chu Corporation’s hotel in L City was near the film studios. It was the most luxurious hotel in the vicinity, so the celebrities would naturally choose to stay there.

When Chu Jingmo came out of the conference room, he saw Song Liangjiang and dragged her into the office. Li Chuan and the other two staff members followed them in.

Song Liangjiang was pushed into the lounge by Chu Jingmo. Then he went out to deal with the haunted hotel situation.

She was locked in the lounge before she could retort. This man was as domineering as ever.

“Issue an official announcement to sue everyone who is spreading rumors. Anyone with an account who has reposted this rumor more than 500 times will be sued.”

“But there are a few celebrities among them.”

“Can celebrities spread rumors? All of them have graduated from universities. Don’t they know if it’s really ghosts or rumors?” Chu Jingmo replied in a low voice. He had already instructed Li Chuan to book a flight to L City.

The two staff in charge of the Chu Corporation’s official website looked at each other. Not offending celebrities was the most important thing, but their new president obviously didn’t understand.

“President, this matter…”

“The principle of the Chu Corporation is not to curry favor with anyone. From now on, this shall be engraved in your bones. If there’s a problem, ask them to look for me directly. Is there anything else?”

The two of them didn’t dare to utter a word of protest and could only do as Chu Jingmo had commanded, even if they were unconvinced.

Song Liangjiang was listening to the conversation outside the lounge. It was little wonder that almost everyone in the Chu Corporation had something against him.

“President, could those people be behind this?” Li Chuan asked worriedly.

Chu Jingmo leaned back in his chair and pinched the bridge of his nose. Song Liangjiang came out of the lounge and looked at Chu Jingmo. “If I ask you for money now, will you strangle me?”

Chu Jingmo put down his hand and glanced at her. “You really had the guts to come and demand money from me.”

Song Liangjiang said, “That’s because I’m confident that I would have won.”

Chu Jingmo looked at the proud little woman in front of him and felt a little better. He looked at Li Chuan and said, “Transfer a million yuan to each of her seniors from my private account.”

Song Liangjiang’s twinkling eyes resembled a little fox. In that case, she still had three million yuan. She was waiting patiently until she realized that Chu Jingmo was no longer talking.

“Where, where’s mine?” She stretched her hands and blinked at Chu Jingmo. Where was her money? Where was that thick stack of money?

“I’ll add it to the thirty million. I’ll give you all together when the time comes.” Chu Jingmo had learned the trick from her, as she had previously asked him to deduct from that amount.

Song Liangjiang was speechless.

It felt like her money was flying away.

“I have something to do in L City. Is there anything else?” Chu Jingmo stood up and planned to go to the airport.

Song Liangjiang retracted her hand angrily. She really felt that Chu Jingmo was trying to cheat her of her money.

“Are you bankrupt? You even have to owe me three million yuan,” Liangjiang mumbled unhappily.

“You better hope that I will never go bankrupt, or I won’t have thirty million to divorce you.”

“It’s thirty-three million!” He can’t try to scam her money.

Chu Jingmo adjusted his suit and looked at the woman who was still fixated with the three million yuan. He instantly felt that it was a blessing to be dumb sometimes.

Chu Jingmo and Li Chuan departed. Song Liangjiang noticed that Chu Jingmo had smiled when he left. Although it wasn’t obvious, she saw it.

Chu Jingmo went to L City that day. Song Liangjiang received a message from her senior saying that she had received a million yuan and asked her what was going on.

Song Liangjiang was waiting for a ride downstairs. She sat on the edge of the flower bed and talked to her senior.

“Chu Jingmo gave it to you. You deserve it.” Song Liangjiang looked back at the Chu Corporation’s building. “The corporation is about to collapse. How can an ant survive alone?”

“What’s that?” Tang Yi didn’t understand why she suddenly started to sound philosophical.

“For the sake of the thirty million, I can’t let Chu Jingmo go bankrupt. No, thirty-three million.” Song Liangjiang got into the taxi.

“Chu Jingmo is going bankrupt? That can’t be. A starving camel is still bigger than a horse. Don’t be deceived.” Tang Yi felt that it was almost inevitable that her junior would be deceived. “But I saw on the news that the hotel under the Chu Group is haunted. This scandal seems to be quite huge. Several celebrities have exposed it. What happened?”

“Senior, do you think there are really ghosts in this world?”

“I think you’ve run into a ghost. How can there be ghosts in this world? Most of them are just people being mysterious.”

“That’s right. It’s a logic that any normal person can understand. Don’t those celebrities understand?” Song Liangjiang took out her phone and looked at the social media accounts of those celebrities. One of them was an A-list celebrity with more than twenty million fans. Wasn’t he afraid of getting himself into trouble by posting such rumors?

The Chu Corporation acted very swiftly. The prosecution and the police were activated at the same time. And then, the scandal turned into entertainment news. Fans from all over the world began to go online to berate that the Chu Corporation had a guilty conscience. The main thing to note was that the A-list celebrity’s fans were the ones who were the most aggressive.

“Tsk, tsk, tsk. The internet is going to be turned upside down. Do these fans know what they’re doing? They’re trying to kill their precious idols. The corporation has already officially posted a message, and they even accused them of having a guilty conscience. Don’t they know that their idols are promoting superstition?” Tang Yi was obviously also refreshing the news. As a fan, she naturally had more sources of news than Song Liangjiang.

Wasn’t it promoting superstition? Chu Jingmo was helping these people to add fuel to the fire and allow more people to witness these celebrities who had promoted superstition. Chu Jingmo was a man of action. No matter who they were, they had to pay the price if they provoked him.

It felt good to be ruthless.

Official social accounts quickly began to repost posts that believed in science. Several celebrities instantly deleted their posts and apologies were posted. The general idea was that as a public figure, they should not post anything unproven. They should not listen blindly and blame it on ghosts and gods.

It had been merely an hour since the scandal broke out.

The Chu Corporation had already called the police about the haunted incident. They would give the public an explanation within 24 hours. Even so, the Chu Corporation shares still plunged .

Just as Song Liangjiang was crunching on melon seeds, she received a message from her senior.

Senior typed, ‘I found the kind of wood you asked me to find yesterday. A timber market in L City recently registered that a batch of wood will be put on sale the day after tomorrow. Among them is the kind you’re looking for.’

Jiang Miao’er typed, ‘L City? I remember that L City doesn’t produce such wood.’

Senior typed, ‘Maybe the timber merchant bought it. Do you want to go over and take a look?’

Jiang Miao’er typed, ‘Yes!’

Song Liangjiang asked the taxi driver to change direction and to head to the airport. If she could catch up with Chu Jingmo, she could save money on her flight ticket. She was really a little genius.

The genius Song Liangjiang didn’t see the message from her senior saying that he wanted to go with her.