Su Jingsheng was driving, while Mia sat in the front passenger seat.
“Really, Jingsheng, I keep feeling that the person just now looked so familiar.”
“Mm.”
Su Jingsheng responded perfunctorily, her mind occupied with how to explain everything that had happened over the past year to Mia.
But she never expected Mia to speak again the very next second.
“I remember now. That person just now looked so much like Uncle Lu. Really, Jingsheng, I was completely stunned just now. They looked exactly like father and son!”
Su Jingsheng froze and turned to look at Mia.
“Which Uncle Lu?”
“The one from the Tianfeng Consortium, Old Master Lu. You saw him at my house last time, didn’t you?”
Mia was referring to the banquet held by the Mi Family, which had been attended by all the prominent families.
The Tianfeng Consortium was one of the leading industries in Mainland China, and the Lu Family was an even more powerful wealthy family than the Mi Family.
Su Jingsheng had indeed seen Old Master Lu from a distance, but as for his appearance, she truly had not gotten a clear look.
After all, he was someone who stood so high above everyone else.
“You said that person’s surname was Lu, didn’t you? Jingsheng, don’t you know about his family?”
It was rare for Mia to persist over something, and it was clear that she genuinely cared about Su Jingsheng.
“Don’t joke around, young miss. He’s just a—”
an insurance salesman who happens to have the surname Lu.
Su Jingsheng stopped halfway through her sentence and pressed her lips together.
“Forget it, Xiao Ya. You must have seen wrong.”
“But…”
Mia froze for a moment and instinctively murmured a response, but then she suddenly caught sight of Su Jingsheng’s grave expression in the rearview mirror.
She immediately fell silent.
After dropping Mia off at the Mi Family residence, Su Jingsheng turned the car around and drove home.
In the end, she still did not have the courage to tell her about Xiaobao.
Forget it. She would wait a little longer.
She had not expected father to be home when she returned.
Su Jingsheng instinctively glanced at the clock, and su family patriarch spoke with a slightly darkened expression.
“You went to meet President Chen of Huarui today?”
His tone contained anger, and the atmosphere instantly became tense and hostile.
Su Jingsheng immediately realized that father had come back specifically to question her.
She simply had not expected the news to spread so quickly.
There was no need to think about it. This must have been another piece of information revealed by Su Yuning.
She frowned.
“I went to the airport to pick up Mia and happened to run into him.”
“Su Jingsheng.”
The man’s voice was deep, and his tone carried a strong warning.
“I’m warning you. The company has a major project recently, and Huarui must not hear even the slightest hint about it. If anything goes wrong later, I’ll hold you responsible!”
Su family patriarch had no intention of hearing Su Jingsheng’s answer. After saying that, he left immediately.
Su Jingsheng stood there in a daze for several seconds. She said nothing and simply headed upstairs.
From the time she had left the hospital until now, not a single person in the enormous Su Family had asked where that child had gone.
Everyone remained completely indifferent.
In this family, she lived like a ghost.
If not for the shares her mother had left her before her death, allowing her to barely participate in some of the company’s affairs, father would probably have driven her out of the Su Family long ago.
…
Several days later, Su Jingsheng had not expected su family patriarch’s words that day to become a prophecy.
The battle between Huarui and Su Corporation officially began, with smoke already filling the air from the very start.
The Su residence.
Su Yuning crouched beside su family patriarch, her expression pitiful.
“Dad, I believe older sister wouldn’t be so foolish. Even if Huarui released the product before us, that doesn’t necessarily mean older sister was the one who leaked the information to them.”
“Although older sister was the only one who met someone from Huarui before the incident, what if you really have wronged her?”
Su Jingsheng stood to the side, barely managing not to roll her eyes.
Su Yuning had always been like this.
Her words were full of concern, but hidden beneath that concern were nothing but sharp knives.
As expected, su family patriarch was provoked into a fury by Su Yuning’s words. He pointed directly at Su Jingsheng’s nose.
“Su Jingsheng, tell me, did you do this?”
“No.”
She pressed her lips together.
She had said those words countless times already.
But no one would believe her.
Her fingers clenched together, and her voice was somewhat hoarse.
“Su Corporation embodies all of my mother’s painstaking efforts. More than anyone, I don’t want to see anything happen to Su Corporation!”
The air fell silent. After steadying herself, Su Jingsheng continued.
“I will definitely find out exactly what happened.”
After saying that, she turned around and walked out.
Su Jingsheng drove straight to the Tianfeng Consortium.
She had previously asked Mia to investigate, and the Tianfeng Consortium was Huarui’s largest investor.
In other words, the reason Huarui had been able to release its product first and suppress Su Corporation without the slightest ability to fight back was largely because it had obtained this investment from the Tianfeng Consortium.
Su Jingsheng parked the car and walked all the way upstairs.
She remembered that at the beginning of the project, Su Corporation had also submitted a letter of intent, but she had not been responsible for that matter.
Su family patriarch repeatedly claimed that Huarui had copied Su Corporation’s core technology and released the new product ahead of them.
She had to find someone from the Tianfeng Consortium and get a clear answer.
Why could the plagiarizer obtain investment, while the original creator had to suffer such a crushing defeat?
At that thought, Su Jingsheng unconsciously clenched her fingers.
She waited outside the elevator. After all, the Tianfeng Consortium was one of the largest companies in Mainland China, with strict regulations.
“Miss, you can’t go upstairs without an appointment.”
The reception desk unceremoniously reached out and stopped Su Jingsheng.
She froze and bit her lip.
“Then I’ll wait downstairs.”
She refused to believe that the person in charge would not leave work.
The girl stood there with her back ramrod straight for over two hours.
When Lu Qingyu came down, he took the president’s private elevator.
He turned a corner and headed toward the entrance.
When the man’s tall, slender figure entered Su Jingsheng’s vision, she froze for a moment.
Then someone in a suit hurried after him and handed him two documents.
“President Lu, these are the materials needed for the meeting later.”
Lu Qingyu took them without slowing down, raising his hand to check the time.
He was tall with long legs, and his strides were swift.
The assistant struggled to keep up.
But suddenly, Lu Qingyu came to an abrupt stop.
Su Jingsheng parted her lips and silently gazed at his slender figure, slightly dazed.
“Why are you here?”
Lu Qingyu frowned and lightly tapped his fingers twice against the folder.
“I came to take care of something.”
He instinctively raised his hand to check the time, but caught sight of Su Jingsheng’s sharply tailored skirt suit.
“What are you doing here?”
Su Jingsheng froze, her gaze involuntarily shifting to the person behind Lu Qingyu.
That person was dressed formally, even his tie perfectly arranged. He appeared to be a staff member of the Tianfeng Consortium.
She hurriedly replied to Lu Qingyu.
“I have something to discuss with the person in charge of the Tianfeng project.”