In the face of this crisis, the De Mare family displayed their skillful public relations methods. They controlled the comments and deleted the posts in one go. As a famous financial group in the M Country, it was possible for them to do this. In addition, Allen's image was not bad. Although he was a bit flirtatious, it was normal for rich and good-looking people to be flirtatious. Therefore, the Chinese were more willing to accept his explanation. One by one, they ran to his Twitter to support him and dissed Wei Jingjing. As people in the M Country, they were more inclined to believe their own citizens. Wei Jingjing was also labeled as "scheming" and "vain". She became a street rat that everyone wanted to beat up.
It's just that while foreigners might be able to accept this, in China, it would not be able to accept it. As a thriving market, China was increasingly valued internationally. Therefore, the De Mare family also spent a lot of money to whitewash Allen's reputation in China. Although they bought fake reviewers, no matter how many fake reviewers they had, they were drowned by the onlookers. To the majority of the Chinese public, Xu Manqin's incident was like a large-scale drama series. The plot had all kinds of ups and downs, and it was much more interesting than the idol dramas on the market. They were so sincere in their pursuit of Xu Manqin. Now that they saw Allen apologize, they felt like they had chased the finale.
When Allen was pursuing Chan Ka-yin, he registered an account on Weibo. Therefore, the onlookers went to his Weibo account and left comments. They despised him the most. People hated people who pushed things to women. They were not like men.
[I, who scolded Xu Manqin before, hereby apologize to Xu Manqin! I'm sorry for being led astray by them and following the online violence!]
[Apology + 1. Xu Manqin is still the most miserable. Her husband was stolen, her daughter was bullied, and she was slandered.]
[I despise him! Is Allen still a man? He pushed all the blame to a woman! Shameless!]
[Haha, do you think that you can whitewash yourself by smearing Wei Jingjing's reputation? You caused his company to close down, and now you want to erase it with a simple apology? If you have the ability, then compensate for all their losses!]
[Get out of China, foreign devils!]
[Don't you guys think that Chan Ka-yin's admirers are all very complicated? Chan Ka-yin is simply Mary Sue.]
[Pick your nose. Normal people wouldn't cause others to go bankrupt just to woo someone.]
[Can you show some sincerity in your apology? At least pay up!]
Allen, who had been overturned by public opinion in China, could only ask his assistants to close his account. Out of sight, out of mind. On the other hand, he also went to see Wei Jingjing. The house Wei Jingjing lived in now was bought for her by Allen. Other than this place, Wei Jingjing had nowhere else to go.
Wei Jingjing didn't want to see him, but she had given him a set of backup keys to facilitate Ellen's arrival. Too many things had happened in the past few days. She was so upset that she had forgotten about it. Thus, when she heard the door open, she was like a frightened rabbit, and her whole body was about to jump up. She looked warily at Allen, who walked in with a faint smile on his face.
She remembered what Xu Manqin had done to her and instinctively wanted to turn on her phone to record it. However, because someone exposed her phone number on the Internet, her phone was bombarded with calls. In order to be quiet, Wei Jingjing turned off her phone three days ago. It was too late to turn it back on now.
When Allen saw her actions, he kicked the door shut and sneered, "Do you want to record it or do you want to broadcast it live?"
"Don't forget that this is M Country. Even if you upload it, I can delete every single video." His family had already made the necessary preparations and would never give Wei Jingjing a chance to make a comeback.
"I can even sue you for defamation and put you in jail for the rest of your life. You know that it is very easy to make someone disappear. "His tone was vicious and his gloomy expression gave people a lot of pressure.
Wei Jingjing, who had stayed in M Country for two years, deeply understood the power of a large financial group like the De Mare family. As long as the De Mare family was willing to spend a lot of money to hire a lawyer, it was enough to reverse the facts in court. An ordinary person like her, who had no background and had offended people, had no chance of winning at all. Before going abroad, she had always yearned for the freedom abroad. It was only now that she realized that the so-called freedom only belonged to the rich. When she heard this, she couldn't help but show a desperate and resentful expression.
Allen put on a fake smile, "Of course, you can do a live broadcast now if you want. You can also do a live broadcast of this video so that the whole world can enjoy how you look in bed."
He swiped the screen of his phone, found the saved video and played it. A voice that made people blush came out of the phone.
This familiar voice made Wei Jingjing's face turn pale in an instant. She looked at Allen in disbelief. She didn't expect that he would even use such a despicable method. Originally, she still kept the relevant evidence that Allen had bribed her at that time and wanted to use it to make a comeback. However, after knowing that Allen had the video of her, she was afraid of taking action.
Allen took in her angry and resentful expression and felt a twisted joy in his heart. During this period, he had hit a wall several times with Li Xiao and suffered a lot. He almost doubted his life. Now, with Wei Jingjing, who was much weaker than him, he found a strong sense of superiority by trampling on her self-esteem.
"You are so shameless!" Wei Jingjing's eyes overflowed with tears, and her heart was filled with despair and regret. She regretted that she had been obsessed with cooperating with a man-eating tiger like Allen. Now, not only had she lost her job, her reputation had been ruined, and her future was dark. If she had told Xu Manqin back then and allowed her to be mentally prepared, she would still be Xu Manqin's trusted subordinate. With Xu Manqin's support, it was only a matter of time before she gained a foothold in the country and even internationally. Unlike now, where he had become a stray dog with nothing left.
She regretted it. She had betrayed her great benefactor and wanted to climb to a higher position, but she had fallen into a quagmire.
It was a pity that there was no medicine for regret in this world. She could only taste the bitter fruit day and night.
Allen put his hand on her cheek and the corners of his mouth curled up. "There is a saying in China that goes like this: a wise man submits to circumstances. I think you should know what to do."
"You don't want your video to be circulated everywhere, do you?"
He didn't care about the video being circulated. To him, it was just another label of being a playboy. When the time came, he could say that he had lost his phone and that someone else had uploaded the video to clear his name.
Wei Jingjing's hands clenched into fists. Allen's facial features were as handsome as ever, but in her eyes, he looked disgusting. She hated him so much that she couldn't kill him, but she still wanted to live.
Her tightly clenched fists finally loosened and hung down weakly.
Her eyes were unfocused. "I understand."
She had no other choice but to follow the path that Allen had arranged. She still wanted to live. She didn't want to disappear silently from this world. She only hoped that someone would come and make the De Mare family pay the price. She didn't know how long she had to wait for this day.
*****
Soon, Wei Jingjing's statement was released.
In the video, she was dressed simply. Her face was so thin that it was sunken in. She looked so thin wrapped in a coat. Her eyes were red as she shouldered all the blame by herself. According to her, she had taken the initiative to find Allen, lie to him, and smear Xu Manqin's reputation because she was jealous. It was also because she had been abandoned by Allen that she went to find Xu Manqin and wanted to use Xu Manqin to suppress Allen.
Li Xiao watched the video, clicked her tongue, and turned it off.
Although her mother's injustice had been successfully cleared, it wasn't enough. The De Mare family had abandoned Wei Jingjing and made her take the blame. Although Allen had lost some of his reputation, he hadn't been hurt.
This wasn't enough. As the real mastermind behind the scenes, this was too easy for them.
Xu Manqin let out a long breath. For her, things were much better than she had imagined. She looked at Li Xiao, who was still frowning, and smiled. "Are you still unhappy?"
Li Xiao nodded. "The foreign consortium is indeed very powerful. This ability to point a deer as a horse really makes me gasp in amazement."
Xu Manqin said softly, "You've already done very well." It was much better than she had imagined. If she had been alone, she wouldn't even have had the chance to clear her name. She was going to reopen her company after a while.
Li Xiao lowered her eyes. If she had asked the two Grand Dukes and was willing to pay a price, such as giving them some talismans, they would definitely have been willing to help her. But in this case, it wouldn't be considered her revenge. She was going to use her own way to make the De Mare family get the retribution they deserved.
From the Wei Jingjing incident, she could see the family's style of doing things. They were unscrupulous and had no bottom line. There were definitely many victims. She didn't know how many innocent souls had shed blood and tears behind this seemingly glamorous consortium.
Cough, cough, cough. A kind-hearted person like her couldn't ignore them just because they were foreigners. She had to help them! The so-called boundless love was referring to her! She was almost moved by her own noble sentiments.
Xu Manqin didn't know what her daughter was thinking. She asked her, "The De Mare family is coming over to apologize in the afternoon. What do you think?"
She had already developed the habit of discussing things with her daughter first.
Li Xiao's expression became serious. "Mom, how much assets did your company have before it closed down?"
Xu Manqin's expression didn't look very good. "Around ten billion."
Her company had a very high market share at that time. She had spent nearly ten years developing the original small company to that scale. That company belonged to her completely. When she thought of this, she felt extremely uncomfortable. She had invested a lot of effort into that company.
Li Xiao nodded. "Yes, then no matter what, we have to ask for twenty billion in compensation!"
Twenty billion? Were they planning to double it? Would the De Mare family be willing to buy it?
Li Xiao understood the doubt in her mother's eyes. She said with conviction, "Now that there's inflation, of course we have to include this loss. Oh, and your company also lost three years of prime development time! Just asking for twenty billion is already letting them off easy. It's good enough that we didn't ask them for compensation for psychological damage. "
Xu Manqin thought that it made sense and decided to do as she said.
Li Xiao looked up at the sky. Yes, before the De Mare family's assets shrink, we have to hurry up and extort them. Otherwise, we won't have this opportunity in the future.
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