Chapter 462:1 Thought I Was Lucky
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
From Shen Hanyu’s words, it was obvious that he had no intention of letting things go.
The mother and son looked at each other. Zhen Yishu was nervous as she asked, “Hanyu, what do you want?”
“Whether the poisoning was a coincidence or someone deliberately did it, we have to investigate thoroughly.”
Shen Hanyu said slowly, “We’ll deal with it as we see fit.”
“Cousin doesn’t believe us?”
Li Zhongjin’s face darkened. “Isn’t it obvious what happened? Is there a need to investigate?”
“Of course.”
Shen Hanyu’s cold gaze slowly swept across the mother and son, as well as Xu Meixi. “The police must intervene in this matter.”
“The police?”
Li Zhongjin was furious when he heard that. “No! This is a family matter. If the police find out, the media will know. By then, it might affect the Zhen family and Zhen Group.”
“Why are you so anxious? It doesn’t affect you in any way, right?”
Zhen Zhu was expressionless. “Or did you really do something wrong that you don’t want the police to investigate?”
Li Zhongjin’s face stiffened and he said angrily, “What are you talking about? Old Lady Zhen is your grandmother, but she is also my grandmother. How could I do anything to her? You’re going too far by slandering me!” “That’s right. Zhen Zhu, how can you be so reckless?”
Zhen Yishu also spoke up for her son. “You’re slandering people. You have to take responsibility!”
“Then let the police investigate.” Shen Hanyu made the final decision.
Seeing that the atmosphere was extremely stiff, Li Zhongjin rolled his eyes. “Cousin, if you want the police to intervene, it’s not impossible. It’s just that…”
He glanced at Zhen Zhu. “I have a special ident.i.ty now, and Cousin has always been close to Zhen Zhu. How do I know that Cousin won’t do something and sabotage me secretly for her?”
A few months ago, Zhen Zhu took over as Zhen Group’s chairman. With Tang Bochuan’s help along with the others, the company’s workers all settled down over this matter. Other than that, Shen Hanyu had smoothly handled the southwest issue according to his original plan. It did not bring too much negative impact to the company.
Originally, according to this situation, the group could have developed steadily. However, who knew that Li Zhongjin would suddenly appear out of nowhere? Not long ago, he obtained ownership over all of Zhen Group’s shares under Zhen Yishu’s name. He replaced his mother and became one of the group’s shareholders.
Relying on his ident.i.ty as a shareholder and the Zhen family’s grandson, he openly formed cliques in the company and went against Zhen Zhu everywhere, stirring up a mess within the company.
This matter was hyped up by the media, and news of the group’s internal strife could be seen online almost every day.
After that, Li Zhongjin became even more unscrupulous. He released photos of Zhen Zhu hanging out in bars as a singer, causing her image to plummet. Many of the group’s elders who originally supported her were also shaken by this.
As for his own image, after half a year of maintaining decent publicity, he had long transformed from a delinquent and incompetent playboy into a prodigal young master who had turned over a new leaf. He even had a large number of fans on the Internet.
Some media outlets even raised his status to the same level as Zhen Zhu, saying that Zhen Group’s future heir might be chosen between the two.
No matter what the investigation’s final outcome was, the Li family would be in the wrong.
Li Zhongjin didn’t want the media to know the inside story of this matter, because it would be a devastating blow to him.
Moreover, Shen Hanyu had been looking for Sang Qianqian for the past two months and had no time to care about the Zhen family. However, she had returned, and Shen Hanyu might even help Zhen Zhu.
If that happened, Li Zhongjin would be defeated and Zhen Zhu would be the one to benefit.
This was the last thing he wanted to see.
“How you and Zhen Zhu are doing in the company is your business. I only care about Old Lady Zhen.”
Shen Hanyu said calmly, “Also, the media won’t know about this. But if it’s not an accident but a plot, I won’t let the murderer go.”
“Okay, Cousin was the one who said that. I hope Cousin won’t interfere with our company matters.”
Li Zhongjin had only said those words to get Shen Hanyu’s approval. Now that he had received that promise, he naturally had no objections. He said straightforwardly, “Then let the police investigate. If someone really dared to poison Grandma, hmph.”
He glanced at Xu Meixi, who had been standing at the side with her head lowered. “I’ll be the first one to kill her!”
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While everyone was sending Old Lady Zhen to the ward, Sang Qianqian took a few steps back and pulled Xu Meixi. “What happened between you and Li Zhongjin? Didn’t you go to Ming City?”
Back then, Xu Meixi had been forced to resign from the hospital because of Cui Yi’s matter. She had been in a difficult situation.
Although Sang Qianqian had convinced the director to hide the reason behind her resignation, Cui Yi’s brother, Cui Ke, couldn’t take it lying down. He had received instructions from Xie Shi’an and didn’t do anything to Xu Meixi, but he had done a lot of things behind her back.
All the hospitals that received Xu Meixi’s application letter were initially quite satisfied with her. However, before the interview, they received an anonymous report that she resigned because she had caused a patient to lose his life.
Now, no hospital wanted to hire her. Xu Meixi could no longer be a doctor or even step into the medical field.
Living in Beijing came with huge pressure. She had no choice but to work as a waitress at a clubhouse through her cousin’s recommendation.
When Sang Qianqian heard about it, she couldn’t bear to see it happen. Thus, she called Director Xue and found Xu Meixi a job in a Ming City hospital’s Medical Imaging Department.
She had even sent the employment notice, as well as the medical books that Xu Meixi had left in her office when she resigned.
Sang Qianqian thought that Xu Meixi had left Beijing a long time ago, but she did not expect her to be together with Li Zhongjin…
“My dream in the past was to be a doctor. However, what’s the point of facing cold equipment all day long?”
Xu Meixi said lightly, “It’s better for me to not go.”
“But you can’t…”
…Joke around with your own happiness and get together with someone like Li Zhongjin.
Sang Qianqian wanted to say that, but she swallowed the words that were about to come out of her mouth.
Xu Meixi and Li Zhongjin were already engaged. It was inappropriate to say such things when it already happened.
Xu Meixi saw her pause halfway through her sentence. “Do you think I’m embarra.s.sing?” she asked softly.
Just now, she had been treated so harshly by the mother and son, and Li Zhongjin even said such violent words in front of her, but she didn’t dare to defend herself.
“I don’t think so. It’s Li Zhongjin and his mother who are too much.”
Sang Qianqian looked at her seriously. “Why are you with him?”
Xu Meixi was silent for a few seconds. “I was just an ordinary waitress at the club. I thought I was lucky that he took a fancy to me.”
He treated her quite well at first. To marry her, he didn’t hesitate to quarrel with his family several times.
This was the best choice she had at that time. She wanted to use the Li family to leave the life that she didn’t like and despised from the bottom of her heart. She wanted to fly up again and live differently.
She thought that Li Zhongjin was willing to marry her because he was more or less sincere. However, reality was very different from what she imagined.
Perhaps, it was even cruder than she could have ever imagined..