Chapter 64: The Big Scandal

Liu Yue hated that Shen Mo was wasting his potential, and gave him a harsh lesson — in bed.

Afterward, running her hand over Shen Mo's eight-pack abs, Liu Yue agreed to take him along to watch the drama.

Watching Shen Mo walk out of the bathroom mist — evenly built and muscular, wearing only a towel, every muscle on full display — Liu Yue swallowed and, in a daze, finally understood why Qin Shi Huang's mother had been so utterly bewitched by Lao Ai.

One glance at the bulge beneath the towel — no one could endure this.

This kind of temptation aimed at a female CEO — who could resist?

"Little Mozi."

"Here."

"This palace shall punish you once more, to teach you the consequences of giving up the gaming summit to come watch drama instead."

"Yes, Empress Dowager."

The next morning, Wang Ma and Li Sao reheated breakfast again and again.

Li Mingming, who had come to ride with Liu Yue to work and drop her child off along the way, saw Liu Yue and Shen Mo and couldn't help sighing: "This is truly 'a single backward glance outshines a hundred charms, the six palaces lose their color, and from then on the king neglects court, indulging in pleasure and feasting without a moment's leisure.'"

Liu Yue and Shen Mo laughed together.

Quite the smooth talker.

At the dining table, Li Mingming reported to Liu Yue some financial matters that could only be discussed in private.

Shen Mo listened, completely lost, but tried hard to memorize it all.

This made Shen Mo sigh inwardly.

【Damn, those novels where someone spots a problem in a big company's financial report and reports it are total bullshit.】

【Listening to this every day and still not understanding — how would someone who's never dealt with it actually discover a problem?】

Shen Mo thought of a TV drama he'd watched while slacking off at the company some time ago, where the male lead, a firefighter, somehow spotted problems in the financial report of his girlfriend's family — a listed company worth hundreds of billions — and reported it successfully, nearly sending her father to prison.

Looking at it now, it's utterly absurd.

Liu Yue heard Shen Mo's inner thoughts and smiled.

Later, the group went to the company to handle some matters, then headed off to watch the scandal of the fallen CEO up close.

This fallen CEO was named Chu Tianjiao, thirty-eight this year, a famous rising star in the industry. He ran a top-tier design firm that many companies collaborated with.

After all, his company covered architecture, jewelry, ancient building restoration, and more.

Combined across multiple sectors, plus some jewelry and commerce ventures, his market value was also in the hundreds of billions — extremely powerful.

Chu Tianjiao had always had a very good reputation in the industry, because he had built his fortune from scratch and never abandoned his wife who had shared his hardships.

Everyone praised him as the new-generation Shen Yilong.

Unfortunately, a few days ago, Chu Tianjiao's wife, Ms. Sheng Mingyue, publicly stepped forward to announce she wanted a divorce.

And she quickly spread the news of the divorce throughout the industry.

Everyone knew Ms. Sheng Mingyue — a famous architectural designer in the industry, who in recent years had mainly focused on ancient building restoration, and was the face of Sheng Chu Group.

Everyone was baffled by Sheng Mingyue's announcement of divorce — why?

And why make it public?

Today they were going to a private mediation court set up by lawyers.

Sheng Mingyue had made the address public herself — she wanted to force Chu Tianjiao into a divorce.

This kind of behavior was absolutely crazy.

In the words of Zhou Fei, who had also come to watch the drama, this kind of scorched-earth behavior usually only happened in novels.

After all, once this public fight was over, no matter the outcome, Sheng Chu Group would surely suffer a devastating blow.

The only silver lining was that Sheng Chu Group was a design firm that valued its people above all.

When Shen Mo and Liu Yue arrived at the scene, they found many heads of prominent families had come.

Even some CEOs were present.

Among them were CEOs of old-money families like the Liu Family, passed down for several generations.

Each of these CEOs had untold personal wealth — certainly no less than those on the rankings — they simply didn't flaunt it in normal times.

Shen Mo did a quick count — roughly a hundred and twenty people had come.

If someone blew up this room, it would probably shake the nation's economy to its core.

It was a hotel banquet hall. People sat scattered below, while up front stood Sheng Mingyue with an icy expression, Chu Tianjiao looking extremely uncomfortable, and a young woman holding a child.

The child was the son Sheng Mingyue had always kept by her side, yet he was now calling that young woman "mommy."

This made many in the audience frown.

Seeing that quite a few people had arrived, Sheng Mingyue slowly rose, picked up the microphone, and said clearly: "I know everyone is wondering why I invited you here."

"Now, I'll reveal it."

"The reason is simple — I want to divorce Chu Tianjiao and take the entire Sheng Chu Group. I hope everyone here can bear witness."

Shen Mo saw the audience below all frown, clearly displeased. Sheng Mingyue continued: "Normally this is my family's private matter, and I shouldn't bring it out in public, but who would have thought I'd gotten firsthand information that concerns everyone here."

"Please look at the big screen."

On the big screen appeared a group chat record.

The messages above detailed how to scam a CEO of a conglomerate into raising someone else's child.

As the chat scrolled down, name after name appeared, detailing in full how to seduce a CEO, how to set up a CEO, where to start, how to be a mistress, when to get pregnant, paternity testing, and how to handle the hospital.

In the chat records above, Shen Mo found the name of one of Liu Xinhua's former mistresses.

Shen Mo observed the CEOs around him and found their expressions had all changed.

As the chat records shifted, there also appeared instructions on how to seduce CEOs' wives, how to devour female billionaires' family fortunes, and so on.

This made some of the women present change expression.

Shen Mo couldn't help but complain inwardly.

【Why does it feel like this is a bunch of lunatics?】

【Also, why am I not in this group?】

Liu Yue shot Shen Mo a look — kid, you sure do overthink things.

Sheng Mingyue said with a smile: "The organizer of this group is my dear husband, Chu Tianjiao."

"I was the first test subject. My son turned out to be fake — he'd been swapped out. My real son had long been dead."

By the time she reached that last sentence, Sheng Mingyue was grinding her teeth.

Sitting across from her, Chu Tianjiao was already in despair. He hadn't expected Sheng Mingyue to pull this out.

Sheng Mingyue simply gave him a choice: report the baby-swapping to the police, or have her expose his true face before the wealthy elite and destroy everything he had.

Chu Tianjiao naturally chose to have the baby-swapping exposed — after all, it wouldn't kill him.

But Chu Tianjiao hadn't expected Sheng Mingyue to have gotten her hands on his secret little game — the one called Stealing Heaven and Swapping the Sun.

Some of the CEOs and socialites present picked up their phones, dialed a number, and murmured a few words.

In less than ten minutes, quite a few more CEOs and socialites walked in, each with bodyguards in tow, and instantly took control of the scene.

The moment these people arrived, quite a few of those present jumped to their feet, rushed over, and directly restrained Chu Tianjiao, the young woman, and the youth Chu Jiao.

Chu Tianjiao's and the young woman's phones were pulled out. The newly arrived hackers cracked them in an instant and found no small number of records.

The names on those records implicated more than half of the CEOs and socialites present whose private lives were less than savory.

Sheng Mingyue, still smiling, handed the equity transfer contract to Chu Tianjiao.

"I won't sign it. Not even if it kills me."

Chu Tianjiao was in despair.

He hadn't expected it to come this fast.

These CEOs and socialites had actually mobilized their resources on the spot and thoroughly investigated every record.

A CEO who had arrived later, wearing a mask, asked coldly: "Where did the swapped children all go?"

Chu Tianjiao clenched his jaw tight.

Soon, masks were handed out one after another. The CEO behind the hotel appeared and announced that the surveillance had been shut off.

At that moment, Shen Mo finally understood what it meant that only when people put on masks do you learn what cruelty really is.

Chu Tianjiao's hand was broken. Chu Le was pinned down by others, staring fixedly at the scene.

That beautiful young woman would never again be able to make a living off her looks.

Chu Tianjiao still said nothing, jaw clenched tight.

After the assembled CEOs and socialites took a deep breath, the matter was simply allowed to pass.

Shen Mo and Liu Yue returned home.

The next day, Shen Mo saw the news that Chu Tianjiao had died in an accident. Sheng Mingyue, tears in her eyes, inherited Sheng Chu Group.

Chu Tianjiao's memorial was held in the suburbs. Everyone watched with their own eyes as Chu Tianjiao became one with a stinking ditch.

Later, the mistresses and side-pieces Shen Mo had seen at various gatherings, certain celebrities and internet stars, as well as some socialites who had climbed their way up, and male managers — they all mysteriously vanished.

Rumor had it they all came down with the flu.

Sheng Chu Group landed a massive order.

But not long after, Sheng Mingyue left the country.

Oh, and a few paternity testing centers that everyone had previously trusted went bankrupt for issuing fake reports. The directors and doctors inside were hit with enormous fines and had already ended up on the streets.

Shen Mo couldn't help sighing — what a massive piece of gossip.

When the schemers set traps, even the shrewd CEOs and socialites can end up the unlucky ones.

(End of Chapter)