Bai Xiu remained behind at the entertainment agency to familiarize himself with the environment, while Su Mu went out shopping with Yu Hui.
Unlike the fast-paced intensity over in the God of Slaughter Department, the rhythm of life here was far more relaxed and gentle.
It would be even better if there weren’t so many mission targets, male leads, and male side characters to deal with.
Su Mu had only just spared a fleeting thought on the matter when—speak of the devil—she looked up and immediately spotted Xiang Qing handing out flyers inside the shopping mall. Beside her was her senior schoolmate, Male Lead No. 1 Lu Xu, accompanying her.
The two didn’t look like they were working so much as flirting with each other. After handing out flyers for a brief moment, Lu Xu whispered something, causing Xiang Qing to smile bashfully, her eyes sparkling with watery tenderness as she gazed up at him.
This sight was not only witnessed by Su Mu, but Yu Hui caught full sight of it as well.
Given how fiercely the original owner of this body had targeted Xiang Qing in the past, Yu Hui was clearer on the situation than anyone else.
“Holy crap, why is she everywhere?! No way, I have to take a picture of this!”
As Yu Hui spoke, she had already raised her phone and snapped several photos in quick succession.
Just at that moment, Lu Xu seized the opportunity to kiss Xiang Qing on the cheek. Xiang Qing’s face flushed red instantly, and she promptly began playfully swatting and fooling around with Lu Xu again.
Su Mu: “…”
“Let’s go.”
Recalling that foundational mission, Su Mu decided it was better to take her learning seriously after all and resolve the mission first. That way, if the male side character turned out to be unreliable later on, she would have already dealt with the matter herself.
In the blink of an eye, two months passed. Su Mu successfully graduated from university, and having learned extensively under Su Chen’s guidance, she was gradually getting the hang of company operations.
With a big boss like Su Chen steering the ship, things within the company ran infinitely smoother.
The Shen Corporation, however, was not quite so fortunate.
In the original novel, the Shen Corporation had invested in a plot of land. However, this land project—into which the Shen family had poured virtually all of their liquid capital—ran into major trouble, leaving their funds completely trapped inside with no way out.
The Shen Corporation hit a crisis right at this juncture: stripped of liquid capital, even the banks viewed them unfavorably and refused to extend any further loans.
In the original plotline, Shen Yeyi had been forced to compromise and marry the original owner of this body to save his family, relying on the Su family to pull the Shen family through the crisis.
Yet unexpectedly, Shen Yeyi harbor deep resentment over this, believing that the original owner had coerced him into marriage. He directly used this affair to lay a trap for the Su family.
In the end, it was the Su family that was forced into bankruptcy.
As for now…
What did the Shen family’s corporate downfall have to do with them?!
“Little girl, what are you daydreaming about?”
While Su Mu was contemplating the Shen family’s affairs, a warm chest suddenly pressed against her back as arms wrapped around her, warm breath brushing past her ear.
Su Mu squirmed uncomfortably.
This Male Lead No. 2 was getting increasingly brazen, hugging and cuddling right here in the office. What was so great about hugging anyway? It was just uncomfortable and stiff.
“Stop messing around. I was just wondering—is the Shen Corporation about to crash completely?”
“Are you worried about Shen Yeyi?”
The temperature around Su Chen suddenly plummeted into a chill.
Su Mu shook her head.
“No, I was thinking—if they aren’t completely finished yet, when would be the best time to deliver the final blow?”
“Leave that to me.”
With Su Chen pulling the strings behind the scenes, the Shen family collapsed even faster than imagined.
Just as the Shen family was desperately clinging to survival, begging to maintain the marriage alliance with Su Mu, the Su family bypassed them completely and published an official statement breaking off the engagement directly on the Su Corporation’s official Weibo account.
The statement was nothing more than a formal declaration of parting ways amicably on good terms.
Netizens across the internet were buzzing with heated discussions.
If anything, the tone of the Su Corporation’s official Weibo post was far too gentle; driven to desperation, the Shen family took to the internet to violently denounce the Su family for being ungrateful and treacherous.
In the past, the Su family and the Shen family had enjoyed a close relationship. Now that the Shen family had fallen on hard times, the Su family had directly kicked them to the curb; if any other companies were to partner with the Su Corporation in the future, there was no guaranteeing the Su family wouldn’t throw them aside first.
Father Su had originally held onto a lingering sense of past affection for the Shen Corporation, never expecting that the Shen family would bite the hand that fed them in their desperation.
Su Mu didn’t care about any of that. She directly retweeted the Su Corporation’s official post and immediately published a statement of her own:
【Mr. Shen was the one who cheated first while engaged to me. Out of consideration for our past relationship, the Su Corporation did not wish to push things to extremes, but we never expected you to turn around and bite us back. In that case, we might as well throw this past affection away—holding onto it is nothing but revolting!】
【Furthermore, I hold video evidence of Mr. Shen’s infidelity. If you displease me, it will be your Shen family losing face when it gets released. My Su family has only me as our little princess—I am not meant for political marriage alliances, and I certainly will not marry such a disgusting scumbag!】
Once this statement was published, the Shen family was instantly thrust into a storm of public outrage.
In particular, the Su Corporation’s official account retweeted Su Mu’s post, elevating the discourse surrounding the matter to a whole new level and even driving it to the top of the trending topics.
A torrent of condemnation poured into the comment section beneath the Shen Corporation’s official account.
Just when everyone assumed the Shen family was completely ruined, people were shocked to discover a few days later that the Shen family had actually formed a marriage alliance with the Zhao family.
Both the Zhao family and the Su family were top-tier elite dynasties, and the Zhao family had always been at odds with the Su family.
More importantly, Zhao Shanshan, the second daughter of the Zhao family’s primary line, had been in love with Shen Yeyi for a very long time.
In the original plotline, the original owner of this body had frequently clashed with Zhao Shanshan over this exact matter, causing major scene after scene that kept the internet buzzing with gossip for quite some time.
As for Xiang Qing, Zhao Shanshan didn’t hold her in her eyes at all; to Zhao Shanshan, Xiang Qing wasn’t even a worthy opponent.
She had always believed that her only true rival was Su Mu alone!
Later on, when the Su family fell into ruin, the Zhao family had played a hand behind the scenes as well.
Otherwise, how could the Shen Corporation alone have brought down the Su family in such a short amount of time?
However, during this recent period, Su Mu had almost exclusively traveled back and forth between the company and home, rarely going out. Since she had no opportunity to meet Zhao Shanshan, naturally no drama had broken out.
Following the marriage alliance between the Shen family and the Zhao family, every bit of negative news on the internet was scrubbed clean.
However, no one dared to delete the posts on the Su Corporation’s side—even the Zhao family lacked the power to pull that off.
“Little girl, now that the Shen family has backed themselves up with the Zhao family, bringing them down won’t be so easy.”
Su Chen patted Su Mu’s hair, only for Su Mu to directly dodge his touch.
Getting my hair ruffled is so annoying.
“Then we’ll just drag the Zhao family down along with them.”
She had never intended to spare the Zhao family in the first place; otherwise, the Shen family issue would have been dealt with long ago instead of dragging out until now.
Using someone else’s blade to do the dirty work was always best. A man like Shen Yeyi was naturally petty and vengeful; now that he had climbed onto the Zhao family, he would undoubtedly bite back or focus on building up his own power first.
The wedding schedule for the Shen and Zhao families moved along rapidly. After the public announcement, the engagement ceremony took place just ten days later, with the formal wedding set for a month after that.
Moving at such a frantic pace suggested that the Zhao family had pulled some financial levers; otherwise, the Shen family wouldn’t be in such a hurry.
Even though the Zhao family and the Su family had always been rivals, invitations to the wedding were still sent to the Su family.
Su Mu was naturally very interested in attending this grand drama.
After all, in the original novel, the original owner of this body had been the main character subjected to public mockery. Now that the tables were turned, she naturally had to see it unfold.
“Mumu!”
The moment she arrived at the venue, Su Mu spotted Yu Hui waving to her from not far away. Su Mu immediately released Su Chen’s hand and walked over.
Feeling the warmth on his arm instantly cool down, Su Chen pressed his lips together in a tight line, feeling a wave of irritability rise in his heart. He grabbed a glass of wine and downed it in a single gulp.
It had been several months already, yet this little girl seemed completely unable to sense his feelings, avoiding him like the plague in front of outsiders.
Did she really dislike him that much?