Chapter 91: The Lucky Meng Bai

Shen Mo was speechless.

This piece of gossip is absurdly, ridiculously huge.

And absurdly, ridiculously far-fetched.

It's straight out of a romance novel.

But...

"Sister Meng Bai, this way you've made out like a bandit."

"With the Zhou Family parents not interfering, Qiu Siyu is a joke, and Zhou Xing's company is all yours."

Although Zhou Xing's company is plagued by scandals, it is after all a company that can prepare for an 'IPO', so it still has solid fundamentals.

For example, it holds plenty of rights to variety shows, hit TV dramas, and films.

Those rights are the hardest currency of all.

Shen Mo had once heard Liu Yue talk about a film subsidiary under a smartphone company whose boss had run off; relying on the rights to a single Qing dynasty palace drama, it pulled in tens of millions in revenue every year.

And that was just one drama.

So although film and TV companies never had the highest market value within a conglomerate, their profits had always been impressive.

Meng Bai burst out laughing at Shen Mo's words: "Exactly."

"But although this makes me happy, it's not the happiest part."

"What excites me most is that I'm actually not the Meng Family's biological daughter."

"Hahahahaha."

This sudden swerve left Shen Mo and Liu Yue completely dumbfounded.

【Wait, wait, what's this all about now?】

This twist came way too unexpectedly.

No—it's way too absurd.

Liu Yue was stunned too; this piece of gossip is absolutely wild.

Meng Bai couldn't contain her joy.

"While sorting through the Meng Family's estate, I found the paternity test between me and the Meng Family parents."

"It makes sense now why they never treated me well and schemed against me—because I'm not their biological daughter."

"After I investigated, I found out that back then, after I was swapped, a kind-hearted nurse swapped me back again."

"The Meng Family later discovered this, but for my 'value', they went along with the baby-swap and started putting on an act."

"They even went so far as to put me on the Meng Family's household register, so I successfully inherited the estate."

"I can only say, every good and evil deed gets its reward in the end; it only matters whether it comes early or late."

【6 flipped.】

Shen Mo and Liu Yue exchanged a glance and sighed together: "Sister Meng, you basically won without even playing."

From the phone came Meng Bai's unrestrained laughter: "With all those past hardships covered up by this anticlimactic ending, I don't feel the slightest bit bad anymore."

"They're all dead now; next comes my time to be happy on my own."

Meng Bai was genuinely happy.

Right now she just wanted to laugh up at the sky, spread this joyful news to everyone, and declare loudly: "Brothers and sisters of the wealthy clans, you must have a conscience—otherwise, every good and evil deed gets its reward."

After waiting for Meng Bai to finish laughing, Shen Mo brought up the collaboration between Baiyin Game Company and the Liu family.

After hearing him out, Meng Bai said with a smile: "Does it affect this year's year-end bonus?"

Shen Mo thought for a moment and said casually: "No, because otherwise we'd have to do free promotion in the early stages anyway."

Meng Bai said breezily: "Then what are we even discussing? You don't need to come to me for little things like this in the future."

"Big sis here is going to live a happy life from now on."

"Oh, right, can Baiyin Game Company's external endorsement be given to me?"

"I want to make some money off my own family's company first."

Shen Mo replied generously: "Sure, no problem." "Wait for my good news." Meng Bai said excitedly.

Shen Mo and Liu Yue were a bit confused—how was there good news again?

But the two of them didn't pay it much mind; this matter was settled after all.

Since Shen Mo had nothing else to do, he went back to his own Baiyin Game Company.

He also wanted to look at the upcoming coordination plan.

Liu Yue, meanwhile, had her own work to attend to, so after reminding Shen Mo to keep the time slot half a month from now free—they were going overseas to negotiate an investment from the Qin Foundation—she let Shen Mo leave.

The Qin Foundation is essentially not much different from an investment company.

The Qin Foundation mainly does two things: investment and financial management for retirement.

Its purpose is to make money grow, so that members of the Qin Family can draw a decent dividend from it every year to live on.

The Qin Family didn't set up trusts or anything like that; they mainly relied on investment.

Back when the old lady was alive, she never distributed money to everyone—she was always running the foundation.

It was only on her deathbed that she released this thing.

As for the reasons and such, Grand Uncle Qin Meng didn't say.

But Liu Yue guessed it was because the foundation was essentially the old lady's way of making up for the harm the Qin Family had suffered under her.

Before that, it had been accumulating wealth.

Incidentally, a large portion of the foundation's earlier investments in the Northeast went into factories.

The purpose was to provide jobs for the descendants of the fellow villagers who had fought alongside General Qin Li, the old patriarch, back in the day.

Liu Yue even found a list of those villagers' families from back then inside it.

I have to say, the old madam did everything a local prominent clan ought to do.

At the same time, Liu Yue understood why imperial edicts in ancient times were so hard to enforce in places where great clans and prominent families held sway.

A clan like the Qin Family, which maintained the local economy, whose scions quietly immersed themselves in every trade and industry, and ensured everyone had food and clothing — short of confiscating their property and exterminating the clan, it was truly hard to shake their foundations.

Because compared with court decrees whose future was uncertain, the Qin Family had tangibly guaranteed everyone's livelihood.

So, after taking over the Qin Foundation, Liu Yue decided to keep the old madam's original approach.

When Shen Mo returned to Baiyin Game Company, everyone was busy with their own tasks.

Seeing Shen Mo back, the operations girl immediately pulled him into the office, explaining documents one by one and analyzing projects one at a time.

In the operations girl's words, the boss needed to be given something to do.

Shen Mo could only sigh endlessly at this.

He felt like a giant baby, so Shen Mo also began to study seriously.

In the end, analysis aside, the environment matters, and the teacher matters.

But the operations girl also said that the reason she was willing to explain and analyze things for Shen Mo bit by bit was that these new bits of knowledge touched on company business — to prevent Shen Mo from coming up with all sorts of wild ideas later, she was giving him the preventive shot in advance.

Shen Mo was a little embarrassed.

But it was fine.

After an afternoon of study and work, Shen Mo confirmed that everything at Baiyin Game Company was safe and sound, everything was healthy, and he went home happy as could be.

Just back at the villa, just sitting down to dinner with Liu Yue, Shen Mo's eyes were drawn to a trending topic — and Liu Yue's as well.

The reason was that Meng Bai had made the trending searches.

Meng Bai had put the matter of the Meng Family and Zhou Xing online.

But the Zhou Family was concealed.

In the story Meng Bai posted, she became the complete victim, and ultimately the one who gained.

Meng Bai also laid out one by one the reason she had married Wang Chunsheng, and what she had been doing during all those years she was gone.

The whole pitch was sheer honesty.

This made the melon-eating netizens everywhere exclaim that Meng Bai was badass.

(End of chapter)