“This is?” Leng Yueyue, who squatted beside them, also widened her eyes. “This looks like a pendrive. I wonder what the contents are.”
Han Muzi took the pendrive over and said, “Well, we’ll know after we view it.” She got up and plugged the pendrive into the computer, then opened the folder immediately. Leng Yueyue was dumbstruck when she saw this. “Is this all right? What if there is a virus in there?”
“That won’t happen.” Han Muzi shook her head. “If they wanted to harm us, they wouldn’t use such means.”
Hearing that, Leng Yueyue remained silent for a while. After thinking about it, she thought that Han Muzi’s logic made sense—if the people who sent them this information wanted to bring harm to them, they wouldn’t send a pendrive over. Who would dare to use it indiscriminately?
Both Yan and Leng Yueyue stood behind Han Muzi. After Han Muzi opened the contents of the pendrive, a video popped out.
“It’s Zhao Yiru and her manager!”
The conversation in the video was played.
“Yiru, let’s forget about this matter; it’s not very good. You are a popular celebrity. If this leaks out, it will probably ruin your reputation. Your entire career could be destroyed.” Zhao Yiru’s manager tried to persuade her.
However, Zhao Yiru did not take his words to heart and just scoffed contemptuously. “Why does it matter? Everyone knows that I am a popular celebrity, and I usually have a positive image. Even if they fabricated it, nobody would believe it; the public would only think that they are trying to take revenge on me.” With that, Zhao Yiru looked at the person opposite to her. “You’ll be responsible for carrying this out. You must find a good time to settle this matter properly and don’t leave any evidence. If there is any blunder on your side, you have to somehow chalk it up to be completely your idea. In short, I must not be implicated. After it is completed, you will have your fair share of benefits.”
The other person, who looked greedy for money, nodded with a smile. “That’s for sure. The biggest assurance we can give in this business is that we don’t betray our employers.”
Hearing that, Zhao Yiru smiled in satisfaction. “Not bad. If you do a good job, I will give you a bonus. I’m starting to get excited already. After that unknown designer’s work is destroyed, Lin Xinghuo will have no dress to wear at the press conference. She would have to temporarily find a replacement and she’ll lose to me. Just thinking about it makes me happy.” After speaking, she let out a burst of laughter that made her seem like a maniac. It was completely different from her seemingly innocent appearance.
Her manager, who was standing behind her, looked a little helpless. Since she had decided to do this, he had no choice but to look at the other person and say seriously, “Remember to do a good job and don’t leave any evidence behind, okay? Just carry out her orders dutifully. If you are caught, all the responsibility lies on you, understand?”
“No problem!”
The video ended here and Yan was full of anger at this point. “Damn, I knew that Zhao Yiru is not a good person. We shouldn’t have taken her order in the beginning. Popular celebrity, my a*s! How many people has she fooled with her innocent face? How could she be so famous in show business when she’s such a bad actress? I bet she has done her fair share of dirty deeds behind the scenes!”
Usually, one wouldn’t put too much thought into the words coming out of their mouths when they were angry. For example, even if Yan was just making assumptions, what she said wasn’t very nice. However, Han Muzi knew that the entertainment industry was very complicated. There were no innocent people in there.
“Who sent this pendrive?” Han Muzi suddenly looked at Leng Yueyue.
Leng Yueyue froze for a moment and stretched out her hand to scratch her head. “I-I don’t know who it was. He was just an ordinary-looking man. He stepped forward and handed this thing to me, saying that it is very important and that I must hand it over to you.” After saying that, she tried hard to recall. “I remember that he had a solemn expression on his face. Since many events have happened over the past two days, I didn’t hesitate and brought this over to you immediately. He probably would have left by now, and I don’t know if I can catch up to him anymore.”
“There’s no need for that,” Han Muzi said flatly. “It’s been quite a while; you can’t possibly catch up to him now. This video just helped us a lot—we now know who the culprit is.”
“We could’ve guessed it even without this video.” Yan looked at Han Muzi. “You already surmised this yesterday; this video just gave us concrete evidence.”
Leng Yueyue’s eyes widened. “Really? You are so smart!”
Hearing that, Han Muzi flashed a weak smile. “I have only returned to this country not long ago, so I know exactly how many enemies I have. I’m not particularly smart; I just narrowed the scope.”
“I see. No wonder you were so calm yesterday. In that case, the rest of the employees have wrongly accused Zhang Yu!”
“Yeah, maybe everyone is still suspecting that she is the culprit. I hope you guys can work in harmony as colleagues.”
“I know what you mean. Don’t worry, I will make it clear to everyone when I get back.”
“Good. By the way, don’t tell anyone that Zhao Yiru is the culprit yet.”
“I’m so angry!” Yan huffed while rubbing her hands together. “I was just too lazy to deal with her before, and now she’s up to such petty tricks! If you hadn’t dealt with it early, wouldn’t we be the ones suffering this time? I have to show her my true colors!” Yan squeezed the joints of her palms and quickly left.
Meanwhile, Leng Yueyue had also left.
After everyone had left, Han Muzi bent down and took out the pendrive; she stared at it pensively. Is it a coincidence? When she went to check the surveillance video yesterday, Ye Moxuan was there to help her. Today, an anonymous person directly sent the evidence to her and saved her a lot of trouble. If she had to find out about these things in person, it would be a lot of trouble. However, the HD video was now in her hands. In the video, both the conversation and the faces of the people involved were very clear.
Was this… done by Ye Moxuan? If their previous encounter was just for him to humiliate her, why did he bother to do these things to help her? However, except for Ye Moxuan, Han Muzi couldn’t think of anyone else. Ah, forget it. She closed her eyes and conceded that she owed Ye Moxuan another favor.
The press conference would be held tomorrow, so she hoped that everything would go ahead smoothly. After this incident is over, she would settle everything between her and Ye Moxuan. As such, there should be a clean break between them by then. Han Muzi also wanted to question him about everything that had been going on.
Time passed quickly. In no time, a day had passed, and the day of the press conference had finally arrived. Han Muzi took Leng Yueyue and Yan along with her. As she was specially invited by Lin Xinghuo, there were a few seats reserved for her.
Yan didn’t want to come at first as she was usually not interested in such events. But she wanted to tag along this time because she wanted to see Zhao Yiru making a fool of herself at the press conference.
