"Look, they're here anxiously explaining, isn't this a cornered dog jumping over the wall? Look at the other party involved, Luo Gang, who hasn't said anything from beginning to end. It's really all talk. It would be a shame if this mother and daughter didn't enter the entertainment industry. It's a waste of talent."
"Alas, Luo Gang is truly pitiful. He's already become a traitor in Fan Xing, and now he's been used and discarded by this mother and daughter. Luo Gang, you really need to be more careful when choosing collaborators in the future!"
"I stand with Fan Xing. In any case, I don't believe a single word these two say. If it were true, why didn't they go to the police to resolve this matter instead of holding a press conference and live broadcast? Isn't it just to trick unsuspecting netizens into helping them!"
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"The champion among bitches!"
"Go to hell!"
"If I have sinned, let the law punish me, not let such scum disgust me! Honestly, what I just ate, I'm now disgusted enough to throw up."
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Netizens were dissing them one after another, and the insults were becoming increasingly unpleasant.
Luo Gang had been paying attention to all of this throughout. He watched it all with a blank expression. His assistant, Fan Si, however, began to get anxious. "Brother Luo, what should we do in this situation? If we don't respond, I'm afraid..."
"Don't you see it yet? Most of these comments are deliberate. Otherwise, how could it be that Mu Yinyin hasn't stepped forward to say a single word about Fan Xing's latest designs up to now?" Luo Gang interrupted with a cold smile before Fan Si could finish his sentence.
He saw through Mu Yinyin's little tricks.
However, by shifting all the blame onto the He Xia mother and daughter, he had successfully extricated himself. It was better than Mu Yinyin watching their鹬蚌相争 (yù bàng xiāng zhēng - when two opposing parties fight, a third party benefits) drama, so why should he bother?
Upon hearing Luo Gang's words, Fan Si instantly understood.
Fan Si even added, "Then Brother Luo, should we add more fuel to the fire?"
Luo Gang waved his hand. "That's not necessary. Mu Yinyin will fan this fire quite vigorously. We just need to wait and see."
Fan Si came to a realization.
Meanwhile, He Xia and Nan Shiqing, seeing the growing online backlash against them, directly pushed all the blame onto Luo Gang.
Nan Shiqing stood in front of the camera, tears streaming down her face. "This isn't our problem. It was Luo Gang who found my mother first, and this video just happened to record it. I have design drafts for the product from start to finish, so there's no such thing as selling internal information or plagiarism!"
"For someone like this, don't forget that Luo Gang is a shareholder of Fan Xing. Why aren't you thinking about that? Could it be that Mu Yinyin deliberately arranged an informant to trick my mother? And now she's dragging me into it too. How could I, a pure, promising, unmarried young woman, do something like that?!"
By the end of her speech, Nan Shiqing's emotions were somewhat out of control, but because she was facing the camera, she didn't vent too much.
However, the reporter closest to Nan Shiqing had already captured her clear facial expression. On the live broadcast screen, it was directly captioned: [Out of control, envious, tearful.]
Mu Yinyin had almost finished dealing with her work. Jiang Ling, unable to contain his anger, spoke to her in a low voice, "The netizens are absolutely right. How can this mother and daughter be so shameless? They clearly had malicious intentions to collude with someone inside Fan Xing to bring you down. Now that their scheme has been exposed, she's actually dragging you and Fu Siye into it. If a person is shameless, I happen to know someone, and I've decided to speed things up for her!"
If she's shameless, then Nan Shiqing's face should be utterly ruined.
Mu Yinyin had been focusing on her own affairs since she exchanged messages with Fu Siye. Hearing Jiang Ling say this, she finally shifted her gaze away from the screen.
She met Jiang Ling's gaze and said in a faint voice, "We mustn't do anything illegal."
Jiang Ling scoffed dismissively. "For someone as hypocritical as Nan Shiqing, do we need to go to such lengths to deal with her? Just get something..."
Although he didn't finish his sentence, Mu Yinyin understood everything.
Mu Yinyin shook her head. "At this critical juncture, you'd best not make a move, lest you get implicated."
Especially one very important person – Fu Siye.
If he hadn't tacitly agreed, how could Nan Shiqing have said these things?
Where would she get such confidence?
Suddenly, the ringing of her phone interrupted her thoughts. She picked up the phone and saw it was Fu Siye calling.
Answering it, Mu Yinyin said coldly, "If it's about personal matters, don't bother me."
Hearing this, Fu Siye immediately frowned. "I'm downstairs at your company. Let's go back to the old house together. We can talk about it face-to-face when you come down."
Before Mu Yinyin answered the call, the phone was placed on the table. Jiang Ling clearly saw the caller ID displayed as 'Fu Siye'.
Jiang Ling remained silent and quietly moved a step closer.
"And then? Mr. Fu, if you want to see me, why do you still have such a condescending attitude?" Mu Yinyin could guess some of Nan Shiqing's current predicament, including what Jiang Ling had just said.
Therefore, her intuition told her: Fu Siye was here for Nan Shiqing.
"You have quite a bit of hostility towards me." Fu Siye's lips tightened at Mu Yinyin's opening statement, and he spoke with extreme displeasure. "What do you think I might think of you?"
Mu Yinyin let out a cold snort. Of course, she didn't think Fu Siye had any thoughts about her; otherwise, he wouldn't have treated her so poorly for the past three years.
She directly stated her position and said faintly, "Don't you think Mr. Fu is here to question me?"
"I'm downstairs. Are you coming down, or am I coming up?" Fu Siye denied Mu Yinyin's assumption and gave her two options.
Mu Yinyin glanced at the time and chose the former. "I'll come down. You wait there."
It was almost time to get off work. If he came up, so many people would see him, and they were already divorced. She didn't want to be gossiped about regarding her and Fu Siye again.
Jiang Ling was worried about her. "Are you sure you want to go down to see him? Do you need me to accompany you?"
Seeing Jiang Ling like this, Mu Yinyin found it both amusing and exasperating. "Fu Siye isn't a devil that eats people, and I'm not some timid weakling. Look at you!"
Saying this, Mu Yinyin couldn't help but shake her head.
Jiang Ling immediately caught up, his face etched with worry. "It's his 'white moonlight' who's in trouble now. What if he gets furious and does something to you? I'm not reassured with you going down alone."