Glancing back at the shut door of Ying Youan's room, Meng Nianchu pressed down her doubts for the moment and lifted her feet to walk upstairs. The moment her feet reached the study door, she heard Mu Xionghai's extremely imposing tone coming from inside.
"You say it's unimportant and it's unimportant? If this matter continues like this, we don't even know how much of the Mu family's hard work you'll lose! You still think Meng Nianchu is that pure lotus flower from before? Look at the way she's been scolded!"
"You want the entire Mu family to bear this huge disgrace for the two of you and become a laughingstock in the business world. You may be okay with it, but we're not!"
"Taking care of it." Mu Junze replied with three cold words.
Mu Xionghai sneered coldly. "The matter has happened for so many days already. What have you taken care of? Anyway, all I see is Meng Nianchu being chased and scolded by people. The Mu family is also soon going to be affected! Don't think that just because Big Brother left the company to you, it really belongs to you! This company was built by the old man himself. We're also from the Mu family!"
"Right! We can't just watch the company be destroyed by you!"
Hearing them echo each other one after another, Meng Nianchu, who was eavesdropping outside the door, sneered in her heart.
The Mu family company was being managed very well. Even though the netizens were angry and many of them sold off their stocks, Mu Junze had signed a project worth tens of millions these few days. With the offset, the Mu family company had lost very little.
At this moment, they were using the matter of the scandal to spout nonsense. It was obvious they had long had ill intentions. They wanted to use this 'east wind' to fight for the right of inheritance of the Mu family company.
Meng Nianchu was about to push open the door when her small hand just touched the doorknob. Suddenly, Mu Junze's loud and clear words reached her ears.
"My woman, I'll take responsibility. My company, I'll bear the consequences."
What he meant was, it had nothing to do with them!
Her heart thumped very quickly. Meng Nianchu's lips rose uncontrollably. She quietly retracted her hand and stopped her impulse to rush into the room.
Mu Xionghai was so angry with Mu Junze's words. There was a loud 'bang' in the study. It seemed as though something had been smashed on the floor.
"You're just so unruly. The Mu family will be destroyed by you sooner or later! If the old man knew that his precious grandson was about to destroy all the hard work of his life, we don't even know how angry he'll be! You're simply a bastard!"
"Finished?"
The chair made a creaking sound as it rubbed against the floor. Mu Junze stood up. His cold eyes stared straight into Mu Xionghai's angry eyes. "Even outsiders know how the company's economic development is. Uncle Er, you keep saying you're from the Mu family, but you don't know these things?"
His unhurried question rendered Mu Xionghai speechless.
"I, I just…"
"Since I took over the company, the profit margin has increased by how much. How much do the shareholders earn every year? Everyone in the company knows it clearly. There's no need for Uncle Er to worry if the company will be destroyed."
"Because these things have never appeared in my plans."
He was domineering!
When Meng Nianchu heard Mu Junze's words outside the door, she almost jumped up to cheer and clap! Her small hands were clasped in front of her face. Meng Nianchu was shouting in her heart: He's really my husband!
Mu Xionghai was clearly shocked by Mu Junze's words. He stared at Mu Junze directly. His lips were tightly pursed together. He could not say a single word.
"I still have matters. I'll take my leave first."
Seeing them looking at each other, and no one daring to provoke him again, Mu Junze did not have the time to waste on them. After saying that coldly, he turned around and opened the door.
Meng Nianchu, who was eavesdropping outside the door, was still immersed in Mu Junze's domineering words. She was unable to extricate herself from it. Without any warning, she met Mu Junze's eyes.
"Ah." Her face looked embarrassed.
The seniors from the Mu family in the study also saw her. Having lost face in front of Mu Junze, Mu Xionghai could not find a place to vent his anger. When he saw Meng Nianchu, he immediately roared. "A girl eavesdropping on people outside. What does it look like? You don't have any sense of shame at all! It seems that most of the news on Weibo is true. You really don't have any morals!"
"Shut up." Mu Junze's tone was colder. He looked at Mu Xionghai coldly. Then he gently held Meng Nianchu's small hand. "Let's go home."
The two of them walked downstairs shoulder to shoulder. Mu Xionghai had wasted so much effort but had not obtained any benefits. His chest was filled with anger. He was very unhappy.
The other people's emotions were not much better. But they were helpless. They could only watch as Mu Junze and Meng Nianchu disappeared from their sight.
When they left the old mansion, the weather outside suddenly turned cold. Mu Junze took off his suit jacket expressionlessly and put it on Meng Nianchu. He hugged her and sat in the car.
"Why didn't you let me take out the backup card?"
When the car drove past a shaded path, Mu Junze suddenly asked.
Meng Nianchu rubbed the lace on the side of her dress. Hearing his question, she lowered her eyes and thought quietly. Should she tell him that matter…
Hearing her silence, Mu Junze asked again. "Reason."
"It's just that when I woke up in the hotel that day, I saw Ying Youan nearby. I'm not sure if this matter has anything to do with him, or if he's colluding with the person who knocked me out. I was afraid that if you took out the backup card in front of him at that time, he would know that we have these evidence. It'll startle the snake."
In the end, Meng Nianchu decided not to tell him the real culprit. She passed it off gently by saying that Ying Youan had appeared in the hotel on the day of the incident, and not that he was lying beside her.
The car suddenly stopped.
Mu Junze turned to look at her. Then he took out his phone and called Tracy.
"Send people to follow Ying Youan these few days. No matter who he contacts, tell me immediately."
"Okay."
After giving the order, Mu Junze reached out and gently rubbed Meng Nianchu's head. "Don't look at your phone these few days."
"En." Knowing that he was worried that she would see the idle gossips on Weibo that were bombarded by netizens and be hurt, Meng Nianchu smiled sweetly. Her eyes were crescent-shaped.
After Mu Junze directly retorted the Mu family seniors who were looking for trouble, they did not take the initiative to provoke him again. They fell silent. They probably knew that it was a pipe dream to use these things to deal with Mu Junze and force him to give up the right of inheritance of the Mu family company. They were too embarrassed to show their faces again.
At the same time, Tracy was not idle these few days. Every day, she was like a paparazzi. She crouched around the Mu family's old mansion. Whenever Ying Youan left the house, she would immediately follow him.
Three days passed in a row. Finally, heaven paid off. There was further progress in the matter!
Putting on the knitted hat on her head, Tracy deliberately covered her face with a newspaper. She stared at a man and woman on the right front without blinking.
She sighed silently in her heart: So it's really related to her.