Chapter 88: The Truth Comes Out, Crush Them to Death (Requesting Subscriptions)

The next morning, the ship's whistle blew with a "Doo-doo" sound.

Song Yuncheng slowly opened her eyes; last night she had dreamed that after graduation, she joined an e-commerce company in Shanghai, started in sales, and rose to become a top executive at a listed company, earning a million in annual salary.

At that time, Chen Yansen's business had failed, Meng Jie had abandoned him, and at his lowest point, she, like a domineering CEO in an idol drama, had told Chen Yansen: "From now on, big sister will support you."

Just as she was enjoying the dream, a sudden clamor woke her up.

Struggling to sit up, the towel wrapped around her suddenly slipped; only then did she realize she wasn't wearing a single piece of clothing.

Turning around, she saw that the "pillow" that had been digging into her in the dream was actually Chen Yansen's body.

Instinctively, she wanted to slap Chen Yansen awake, but suddenly remembered she was completely naked, so she decided to put on some clothes first.

As she quietly got out of bed, her peripheral vision caught the thermometer, fever patches, fever medicine, and thermometer on the bedside table.

Song Yuncheng then remembered that the last scene in her mind had been her showering, so, did I have a fever?

"But how did I end up lying in Chen Yansen's arms all night?" Song Yuncheng couldn't figure it out.

Chen Yansen was a light sleeper; even though Song Yuncheng's movements were extremely gentle, they still woke him up.

"You're awake. Do you still have a fever?"

Chen Yansen saw her bare feet on the carpet and asked with a light smile.

"Close your eyes!" Song Yuncheng hurriedly wrapped the towel around herself and shouted loudly.

"I've seen enough last night, what's there to cover up?" Chen Yansen yawned and teased lightly.

Song Yuncheng froze; her pale, smooth oval face instantly turned red. With an "Ah!" she grabbed her clothes and rushed to the bathroom.

Three minutes later, Song Yuncheng returned.

"Why are you looking at me? You fainted in the bathroom, and I took care of you all night!"

Chen Yansen rolled his eyes, unbuttoning his shirt as he spoke, preparing to take a shower to wake himself up.

"I don't believe you didn't take advantage of me." Song Yuncheng, now fully dressed, said poutingly.

"Just a matter of convenience."

Chen Yansen admitted it openly, then took off his shirt and walked into the bathroom with his upper body bare.

Seeing him undress, Song Yuncheng quickly turned her head; only after hearing his footsteps fade away did she steal a glance.

That bastard, such a good body!

Song Yuncheng swallowed hard, sighing inwardly, but then she shook her head repeatedly, as if trying to shake out those messy thoughts.

"As long as Chen Yansen is fine, Song Yuncheng, you must stay away from him; his girlfriend is next door. If she finds out, it will be impossible to explain."

Song Yuncheng propped her head with her hand, silently admonishing herself in her heart.

"Did you forget about the confession yesterday? You were originally a bad girl who wanted to ruin someone else's relationship; stop pretending."

Just as one thought flashed through, another popped up.

Restraint, panic, guilt—various negative emotions came flooding in; Song Yuncheng grabbed her backpack and ran out the door.

The more she had longed to see Chen Yansen yesterday, the more she didn't want to see him now.

"Clang!"

Chen Yansen, who was applying body wash, looked completely confused; he thought Song Yuncheng was hungry and had gone downstairs to the restaurant for breakfast.

By the time he finished washing and came out, he found even her backpack was gone, and there was a new text message on his phone: "I'm going back to Xucheng."

Does this woman have a mental illness!

Chen Yansen threw his phone onto the bed, looking helpless, and muttered a curse.

He couldn't help but miss that girl, Cheng Guo, who used to perform cosplay for him in all sorts of creative ways—Spider-Man, Black Widow, Avatar, Angemon, and so on—always managing to make President Chen happy.

But thinking of Cheng Guo in 2010, she was probably still in kindergarten, so the thought immediately vanished from his mind.

Chen Yansen put on clean clothes and, while walking out, sent a text message to Meng Jie.

Meanwhile.

Keywords like "Fox Tao reported to police" and "Fox Tao fake one compensates ten" silently surged into the top ten of the trending search list.

A bottle of Feitian Maotai sells for 1,499 yuan; any user who places an order can contact Fox Tao customer service to claim 14,990 yuan in compensation by presenting an authentication certificate from the China Inspection Institute or the Feitian Maotai Anti-Counterfeiting Office.

The comment section, originally filled with curses, suddenly became harmonious.

Wang Zihao, through inspection channels, obtained the contact information of 23 users who jointly filed complaints and arranged for the customer service team to contact them one by one, using simple and rough methods to soothe them.

Ask for the card number, then transfer the money directly!

As soon as users opened the Fox Tao homepage, a "Fake One Compensates Ten" announcement would pop up.

Before the news of "Fox Tao selling fake liquor" could fully explode, Chen Yansen used the apology method of "Fake One Compensates Ten" to quickly regain user trust.

"Lost 15,000 yuan! If I had known, I would have used two more queue-jumping codes!"

"@Fox Tao CEO Chen Yansen, President Chen, when will you sell Feitian Maotai again? I'll definitely support you!"

"Pah! Is that really about supporting? Just say you want to make money!"

"I think this young man Chen Yansen is not bad; he dares to act and take responsibility. Besides, the matter hasn't been fully investigated yet; maybe he was wrongly accused."

In the Weibo comments, some regretted not grabbing any Feitian Maotai, some mocked sarcastically, and others began to whitewash Chen Yansen and Fox Tao.

Moreover, this trend became increasingly obvious, with more and more people speaking well of Fox Tao.

Until several netizens from Shanghai who bought fake Feitian Maotai spoke up: "President Chen's character is no problem; just for his courage to shout the slogan 'Fake One Compensates Ten', I will continue to buy from Fox Tao in the future."

After the tenfold compensation arrived, users who bought fake liquor changed their attitude completely and began speaking well of Chen Yansen.

Combined with the interview footage of Chen Yansen broadcast by "E-commerce Morning Post" and "Shanghai News", public opinion instantly turned 180 degrees.

They had originally thought that a CPS referral platform like Fox Tao only cared about collecting money and paid no attention to product quality.

Only after watching the video did they realize that every flash-sale item on Fox Tao is sent for sample testing and strictly controlled by professionals.

This batch of problematic Feitian Maotai had a compliance report issued by the China Inspection Institute, proving that Fox Tao had done its utmost.

The problem most likely lies with the Wine God Network!

In an instant, Fox Tao became the innocent victim, while Jiushen Wang was treated as the main culprit.

Netizens clamored, demanding the inspectors thoroughly investigate Jiushen Wang, suspecting it of mixing real and fake goods; some even called the Industrial and Commercial Bureau and the Market Supervision hotline, giving Jin Zhicheng an agonizing headache.

Fortunately, that evening, the inspectors brought good news.

Following the transport chain, they traced it from Yancheng all the way to Hucheng, and finally discovered clues at the Yizhou sorting center.

The surveillance footage from December 20th was mysteriously missing 27 minutes.

Surveillance technology these days is relatively simple, lacking automatic recognition of abnormal behavior or package tracking functions; if the other party hadn't deleted the surveillance, the inspectors really wouldn't have noticed.

But these people, with guilty consciences, went and tampered with the surveillance anyway.

This fake liquor incident involved funds amounting to hundreds of thousands; buyers filed a report, sellers filed a report, and it even implicated an eighteen-year-old entrepreneurial college student.

Trending on the hot search every day, the inspectors were under enormous pressure too.

Once the lead was captured, the rest became simple.

It turned out to be two sorting workers and a surveillance security guard; they swapped real liquor with fake, resold it to liquor peddlers, and made 76,000 yuan.

Upon hearing this news, Chen Yansen let out a cold laugh; he hadn't expected that over a few tens of thousands of yuan, he'd end up making a trip to the inspector's office.

The truth was revealed!

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief!

Jiushen Wang immediately contacted several big-V Weibo accounts overnight, publishing the full story from start to finish.

And posted a lawyer's letter on Weibo, making demands to Yun Speed Express Company:

First, compensate Jiushen Wang for reputational damages;

Second, bear the user complaints and refund costs caused by the fake liquor;

Third, compensate for indirect economic losses such as reduced orders and user attrition caused by this incident.

An hour later, Fox Tao's legal team also sent a lawyer's letter to Yun Speed Express, with demands similar to Jiushen Wang's.

The two joined forces, dead set on running this express company into the ground!

No way around it—there's no absolutely innocent person in this world; if it hadn't been investigated clearly, Fox Tao and Jiushen Wang would have been the ones taking the blame.

Not to mention the ambitious Jiushen Wang, which had planned to make a big splash in the liquor e-commerce track, only to suddenly suffer this disaster; it might never recover.

Just the impact on Fox Tao's financing and valuation alone would be enough to give Yun Speed Express a serious headache.

Even if they couldn't get much compensation in the end, Yun Speed's reputation was ruined—who would cooperate with them in the future?

Furious, Yun Speed Express's boss Liao Wei took out all his anger on the few handlers involved, even going so far as to use his connections to demand severe punishment for the three.

Even though the three employees' families actively offered refunds and compensation, Liao Wei wouldn't budge; he issued an announcement overnight: "Due to management loopholes, we caused significant losses to Jiushen Wang and Fox Tao. We sincerely apologize. We are now dismissing the three employees involved, and will subsequently strengthen our surveillance procedures..."

Sincere attitude, putting on a show of backing down.

Liao Wei first called Jin Zhicheng; the moment Jin Zhicheng picked up, without a word, he hung up directly.

He hurriedly pulled strings to find someone to plead his case; the other party advised him: "Jiushen Wang and Fox Tao have been on the hot search for two days, with orders cut in half—this is the moment they need to vent. You should just endure it for now."

Jiushen Wang's big boss is from the Tsinghua business circle, different from rough-and-tumble types like Liao Wei; that person has wide connections and abundant resources, and right at the start of his business he secured the Feitian Maotai partnership—he doesn't take Liao Wei seriously at all.

On the other side, Chen Yansen's Weibo followers skyrocketed to 2.6 million; the first pinned Weibo post was the lawyer's letter targeting Yun Speed Express.

Sitting in his office, Liao Wei panicked—if Chen Yansen drags Yun Speed out to curse it every day, then I might as well just die.

"Boss, the three employees' families are still causing trouble downstairs. Should we call the police?" The assistant knocked and entered, asking quietly.

"Where are the security guards? Getting paid for nothing? Kick them all out for me!" Liao Wei was furious, slamming the table hard.

"Yes, boss!" The assistant nodded, planning to go out and call the security guards.

"Wait!" Liao Wei suddenly had an idea, called the assistant back, and whispered a few instructions.

"Boss, what if they're heartless?" The assistant was stunned, feeling Liao Wei's idea was unrealistic.

"They're determined to take me down—what can I do?" Liao Wei spread his hands, putting on a rogue's face.

"Fine, I'll handle it right away." The assistant understood the boss's predicament; Yun Speed had only been established for four years, and its development momentum had originally been quite good, having even signed an exclusive cooperation agreement with Jiushen Wang.

Who could have predicted that right as the cooperation began, it planted such a huge landmine for Yun Speed.

The assistant left the office, went downstairs to say a few words to the troublemaking family members, then turned and walked back.

He really didn't want to deal with these shameless scoundrels—caught stealing and still have the nerve to come cause trouble at the company, what the hell, every kind of person exists.

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Chen Yansen, taking Meng Jie with him, played until the afternoon of the 26th, then took the high-speed rail back to Xucheng.

Three days had passed since he was taken to the inspector's office.

On the second floor of the startup park, things had returned to calm, except a few people were missing from their workstations.

"Sen-ge, you're finally back!"

Xiang Pengfei had sharp eyes; catching a glimpse of Chen Yansen at the stairway in his peripheral vision, he shouted and spread his arms wide, lunging toward him.

Chen Yansen dodged sideways, looking at him with disgust, as if to say: Big men, what kind of hugging is that.

The others also crowded around, eyes full of grievance; seeing Chen Yansen was like seeing their father.

During the few days Chen Yansen was away, they had truly panicked.

(End of chapter)