She took one wrong step and ended up standing in front of the assistant behind Lu Qingyu, then pressed her lips together.
“Hello. May I ask whether the project letter of intent that Su Corporation submitted last time is managed by the business division of Tianfeng Group?”
Su Jingsheng spoke rather quickly, but her voice was clear and crisp, like silver bells, and very pleasant to hear.
“I would like to meet the person in charge of the business division. There is something I believe your company should know.”
The assistant froze. Although he had witnessed many major situations while accompanying Lu Qingyu, he was now completely baffled.
What does she mean, the person in charge of the business division? The biggest boss of the entire Tianfeng Consortium is standing right in front of her, and it seems the two of them even know each other. Did this miss come here to joke with him?
The assistant instinctively turned to Lu Qingyu for help, only to meet a pair of icy eyes.
He had been by Lu Qingyu’s side for years and could be said to understand President Lu’s work-related instructions perfectly. Usually, a single glance from Lu Qingyu was enough for him to know how he should respond next.
Yet now, the usually sharp and perceptive assistant was stunned for quite some time.
What did President Lu’s expression mean now...?
Su Jingsheng looked anxiously at the man before her.
This concerned the survival of Su Corporation, so she had no choice but to be anxious.
Strangely, however, the man before her only kept wiping away his sweat. After hearing what she said, he did not react at all.
“Well—the director of the business division isn’t at the company right now. How about you come back later?”
Lu Qingyu said nothing and merely stood there, watching coldly. The assistant dared not say anything more, so he could only resort to stalling, dragging things out for as long as possible.
Su Jingsheng was about to speak again, but the assistant was already sweating profusely. He hurriedly apologized, turned around, and walked outside.
He looked as though he were fleeing in panic.
Su Jingsheng suddenly frowned.
Could it be that there was something she did not know? Or had the Tianfeng Consortium known from the beginning that Huarui’s idea was plagiarized, yet invested in Huarui anyway? So now this was... guilt?
At that thought, Su Jingsheng’s brows drew together even more tightly.
She had to meet the person in charge of this matter today!
Lu Qingyu glanced at the watch on his wrist and was just about to leave.
But Su Jingsheng suddenly grabbed his sleeve.
She pressed her lips together and spoke softly.
“How is Xiaobao?”
They had agreed that she could visit only once a week. Su Jingsheng still worried about Xiaobao deep down, so seeing Lu Qingyu, she could not help asking.
The man froze, and the alarm clock in his pocket rang at just the right moment.
It reminded him that his upcoming meeting was about to begin.
Without saying a word, he pulled his sleeve from Su Jingsheng’s hand and spoke indifferently.
“You can see her yourself next time. I have something to do, so I’m leaving first.”
Lu Qingyu strode away, two documents still in his hand.
Su Jingsheng did not dare leave. After all, the su corporation matter had not been resolved, and she had to wait here.
But seeing how emotionless the man looked when Xiaobao was mentioned,
her heart still ached uncontrollably.
……
The assistant waited outside, occasionally raising a hand to wipe away his sweat.
When he saw Lu Qingyu come out, he hurried over to greet him.
“President Lu, just now—”
Lu Qingyu was in a hurry and did not let him finish.
“Go and listen to what she wants to say.”
The man’s voice was deep and cold. As soon as he finished speaking, he got into the car on his own.
The car window slowly rose.
The assistant stared blankly.
What kind of difficult and terrifying mission was this?
……
Soon, Su Jingsheng was led by the reception desk downstairs to an elegantly decorated office.
The man sitting opposite her happened to be the same person she had seen downstairs just now.
Su Jingsheng knitted her brows but still greeted him politely.
She reached into her bag, took out the documents she had prepared long ago, and handed them over.
“This is the project letter of intent we previously submitted to Tianfeng. What I want to say is that, judging by the timeline, Huarui clearly plagiarized the ideas and planning for our new product.”
“At a time like this, shouldn’t the Tianfeng Consortium’s investment in Huarui be unfair to the original creator?”
When Su Jingsheng got down to business, her expression immediately turned serious, giving her quite the air of a career woman.
The assistant froze, already beginning to understand what had happened.
Clearly—the woman before him did not know Lu Qingyu’s identity.
Only then could everything that had happened just now be explained.
He cleared his throat awkwardly and lightly tapped his fingers against the tabletop.
“I personally reviewed both the letter of intent and the product reports from Huarui and Su Corporation.”
“Miss Su, if you’re saying Huarui plagiarized you, why don’t you take a look at this first?”
Su Jingsheng froze and instinctively reached out to take the document he handed her.
It should have been Huarui’s product research and development report. There were several more pages behind it.
But when Su Jingsheng saw the first page, her pupils involuntarily contracted.
She was extremely talented in the shopping mall. Even su family patriarch, despite favoring others for years, had been forced to admit this.
Su Jingsheng immediately spotted the discrepancy.
Although Huarui’s letter of intent was indeed submitted several hours later than Su Corporation’s, the product research and development report made one thing perfectly clear.
She had been wrong.
The true plagiarist should have been Su Corporation.
Huarui was the true original creator.
Her face suddenly felt hot and burning.
Su Jingsheng fell silent.
“If I remember correctly, President Su did come to the company seeking a partnership, but it seems we never agreed.”
Assistant Xiao smiled and looked at her. “Now, isn’t it your turn to give us an explanation?”
Su Jingsheng’s pretty face turned somewhat pale.
The facts clearly written in the letter of intent told Su Jingsheng that Su Corporation had not only stolen someone else’s idea but had also blamed Huarui for it.
Wasn’t she now accusing someone else of the very crime she had committed?
“I’m sorry.” Su Jingsheng suppressed the anger rising within her and said calmly, “There seems to be some misunderstanding. I’ll go back and clarify everything before giving you a response.”
Her mind involuntarily flashed back to the way her father had confidently insisted in front of her that Huarui had plagiarized Su Corporation’s idea.
Could it really have been him?
Knowing perfectly well that the proposal had been plagiarized from Huarui, he had still Shifted the blame in front of everyone. Had greed made him abandon even his bottom line?
“Does Miss Su have anything else? If not, I won’t see you out.”
Assistant Xiao sat uneasily in the seat of honor.
After all, this was not his position. He was merely carrying out the task Lu Qingyu had given him.
The chair inevitably felt scorching hot.
Su Jingsheng bit her lip. Understanding the order to leave, she stood and began gathering her things.
“Oh, I’m sorry.”
She seemed to suddenly think of something and hurriedly asked another question.
“By the way, did I do something wrong just now?”
Thinking of the other person’s expression earlier, Su Jingsheng genuinely believed that she must have done something wrong at the time to make his expression so strange.
Assistant Xiao froze. For no reason, he remembered his own president’s gaze, cool enough to intimidate the human heart. He shook his head. “It’s nothing.”