In the end, Xu Tingyu managed to infer the general situation from his rambling words.
Back then, Brother Liu got the contact information of Qi Ye's assistant and immediately reached out to the assistant.
However, the assistant ignored him at first, not answering the phone or replying to the text messages.
Finally, having no other choice, Brother Liu went directly to Qi Ye's company to block him.
But in the end, he didn't get to see Qi Ye in person. The assistant said that Qi Ye was on a business trip and that Brother Liu could just tell him if there was anything.
Brother Liu then expressed his needs and also mentioned Xu Tingyu's name.
Unexpectedly, the assistant sneered and said, "There really are all kinds of people. They come looking for favors just by using Miss Xu's name?"
"Moreover, even if Miss Xu herself were here today, it wouldn't work. Do you know how much energy and money it takes to mobilize a medical team?"
"Really, any Tom, Dick, and Harry wants to pull strings. This is New York, not your home country. You always think about taking shortcuts through connections."
The assistant not only scolded Brother Liu but also resorted to regional discrimination.
Finally, he even called the security guards on the spot, asking them to remember Brother Liu's appearance clearly. In the future, if they saw him, they were not allowed to let him in.
Then he had the security guards drag Brother Liu away and throw him outside the company.
Brother Liu was, after all, the manager of the Try team. Over the years, he had always been flattered. When had he ever suffered such humiliation?
He was so angry that he went crazy at the door for a while.
But after calming down, he found a connection through Qi Ruixi and was finally able to get proper treatment.
After listening to his story, Xu Tingyu only asked him, "Are you sure that person was Qi Ye's assistant?"
It wasn't that she absolutely believed Qi Ye was innocent, but this whole thing didn't make any logical sense.
Even if Qi Ye didn't want to help, there was no need to make things so ugly.
As the saying goes, no one would do something that was strenuous and unappreciated.
What was he trying to gain?
Brother Liu was stunned by this question. "But I got the address and went there. And the things he said basically matched up."
Xu Tingyu was silent for a moment and then suddenly asked, "Did you communicate with the other person directly? Was the other person a foreigner or a Chinese? Did you communicate in Chinese?"
"What you're saying... Although I don't have a high education and my English is just average, I took a translator with me. That translator has been working for us for many years and is very proficient."
Brother Liu knew what Xu Tingyu meant, but how could there be a problem with the conversation?
Whenever they went abroad, the company would always assign a professional translator to accompany them.
This translator was also an old employee of the company, so there was definitely no problem with their professionalism.
However, Xu Tingyu didn't think so. She still felt that something was off about this whole thing.
But this wasn't something that could be argued clearly over the phone. She had to figure it out for herself.
"Alright, I'll figure this out. But I really won't cooperate with your company anymore. My assistant will contact you later. That's it."
She hung up the phone directly.
On Brother Liu's side, he let out a long sigh as he looked at the lit-up phone screen.
Sure enough, if a person was too easy to talk to, it would easily give others the wrong impression and make them overstep their boundaries.
He had indeed been a bit impolite to Xu Tingyu because he had overlooked the fact that she was the boss of the company and had always regarded her as an ordinary employee.
Alas, what a mess!
While he was feeling dejected, Xu Tingyu let out a sigh of relief on her side.
Sure enough, a person had to stand up for themselves. After scolding Brother Liu, she felt much better.
As for whether the other person felt comfortable or not, that was none of her business.
Now she had to get back to work.
She changed her clothes and was about to go practice dancing.
After all, the matter of refuting the rumors had already been handed over to the company's legal and public relations departments. She couldn't get involved personally.
The tasks she had assigned to Shu Shu and the others were also in progress.
So all she had to do was focus on her own job—preparing for the tour performance.
However, just as she opened the door of her hotel room, she saw a few sneaky people standing outside.
Judging from their outfits, they were probably paparazzi, and they were probably here to take pictures of her.
She never expected that they even knew where she was staying.
Before they could come over, she quickly closed the door again.
Now, if she said that there was no one behind all these things, she'd be crazy.
After checking that the door was properly closed, Xu Tingyu called the front desk and asked the security guards to come up and drive those people away.
Before she could hang up the phone, there was a knock on the door.
The person claimed to be a hotel staff member and needed to come in to repair some equipment.
What a load of nonsense. Xu Tingyu was a bit glad that she had just opened the door.
Otherwise, she might really have opened the door.
She had no intention of facing the media, so she kept silent.
The knocking continued for a while, and then presumably the hotel staff came up and "invited" them away forcefully.
But twenty minutes later, Xu Tingyu still saw relevant videos on the Internet.
There was even a live broadcast.
"We've now found the hotel where the boss of F&E Company is staying. It's said that she booked the presidential suite here. It can be said that her economic strength is truly formidable."
"Just now, some of our colleagues went up there trying to interview this lady, but in the end, they failed. We don't know if this lady is just keeping silent inside or has already moved out."
"We'll report any follow - up situations immediately. Don't forget to follow our account to get the latest scoop."
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It had to be said that in the era of self - media, everyone could just pick up a phone and start filming.
There were not only professional paparazzi but also some self - media people who had smelled the news and come around the Qi's Hotel, hoping to take pictures of Xu Tingyu by chance.
After seeing all these on the Internet, Xu Tingyu thought it was extremely absurd.
Were these people crazy?
Hadn't the entertainment company already issued a statement saying that Yan Zhou and she were not in a romantic relationship and that they were just ordinary friends?
Yan Zhou had also posted on his personal account, saying that he was not in a relationship and hoped not to cause trouble for his friends. He hoped that everyone would not believe or spread rumors.
But none of this stopped these people from staking out Xu Tingyu.
There were even some people who claimed to be Xu Tingyu's friends and said they wanted to expose some things.
"Actually, this boss of F&E is no ordinary person. Her first pot of gold was sponsored by the young master of the Chen family. Only later did she establish the company."
"After the company was established, the young master of the Chen family even had a big fight with his family in order to get resources for her."
"But this lady claims that she and the young master of the Chen family are not in a romantic relationship. I wonder, in this day and age, is there such a pure male - female relationship?"
"Alright, since someone has already exposed something, I'll also expose one. I was a classmate of this lady. She was actually married and even had a child."
"But she got divorced a long time ago, and the child was given to the father. She has always presented herself as single to the public, so not many people know about this."
"I heard that she went abroad to avoid debts. At that time, she cheated a lot of people out of their money. I don't know if she has paid them back yet."
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