Chapter 308

Ji Xiaoling sprang up abruptly.

The girl laughed, "Hahaha."

"You're getting anxious!"

The girl, seeing Ji Xiaoling like that, didn't really want to speak. Now, she finally felt a sense of a great revenge fulfilled.

"Ha, I thought your will was so firm, but turns out you're also a coward who clings to life. Rest assured, whether you intended to die or not, you'll definitely die now!"

The girl left cheerfully, and as soon as she returned to the office, she was tapped on the forehead.

"Mom!"

The girl pouted and buried her head in the suit‑clad woman's arms.

"What are you doing?"

"How dare you ask me what I'm doing? Didn't we say these cases are confidential and can't be disclosed?"

The woman in the suit looked at the daughter in her arms. Back then, they had wronged her. They attended a banquet for wealth and fame, which caused their daughter to lose the right to be a mother at that banquet. Later, for the safety of the whole family, they swallowed that resentment.

"Hey, see, I didn't stay silent? The truth and lies are mixed; watch how she keeps talking, I'm going to make her furious!"

The girl wasn't that stupid; she wanted to irritate people, not to drag her whole family into trouble.

"Our great revenge is fulfilled; from now on we'll be a happy family!"

Resolving the lifelong shadows of her and her parents, their family can put the past down, stop climbing, and fully enjoy life!

"Hmm!"

Compared with this tender mother‑daughter scene, the Ji family abroad is accusing each other!

"Was it you who stole the money?"

"Why is your younger brother gone?"

"How would I know?"

"Aren't the first and second branches of your family bragging about being legitimate heirs, always wearing the same pants?"

In the Ji family's overseas villa, a group of children were making a huge ruckus! They knew calling the police abroad was useless, so no one reported it!

But the money that originally funded their education and future life was gone, and each of them was very anxious!

"But I really don't know! If I find out, can I still stay here to be blamed by you?"

"Then what should we do?"

"Go find someone!"

The children couldn't find anyone, so they were forced to ask the local police to look for someone!

But the police found a dying person, and they had no money to send him to the hospital! He also had no money on him!

When they found the person, a tourist from abroad filmed him. Upon learning they were Ji family members, well‑meaning netizens kept calling the local embassy, asking them to send the children back!

The embassy learned the children truly had no money, dispatched someone, intending to bring them back.

At first the children refused, but after the embassy checked their visas, they were told they held tourist visas and would be imprisoned if they didn't leave when they expired.

The kids didn't understand, but after looking it up online and confirming the adults were right, they obediently returned.

When they went back, staff contacted the children's mothers, but the women who came to pick up the kids were each more shabby than the last, some even wearing tattered clothes.

Live reporters, adhering to the principle of stirring things up, went to interview. One interview pierced a tear‑filled spot, and a group of women wailed and sobbed!

Besides Ji Tianci divorcing Xiao Fang, with Xiao Fang herself missing, the other women connected to the Ji family are also miserable! Their assets, which came from the Ji family, have all been seized. Over the years they have lived in luxury, have no work experience, and each is more arrogant than the last, unable to endure labor, so each falls into destitution!

Of course, they never admit they can't handle work; they only claim they're unlucky, can't find suitable jobs, and can't even guarantee basic food and drink!

They came to pick them up just to claim a share of the money the children brought back! The kids don't know, but the adults can always tell who hid the money, right?

Compared with the women who seemed to carry a halo of poverty, the boys returning home looked like wealthy young masters, each dressed in fine clothes and lugging large suitcases.

This stark contrast made some netizens extremely uncomfortable!

At that moment, the internet announced the crimes of Ji Shouguo and Ji Tianci, and netizens' attitude toward those children suddenly worsened!

In the afternoon, after Ji Xiaoling's verdict was issued, netizens' malice toward the Ji family men peaked!

Ji Xiaoling isn't a good person, but several things clearly not her responsibility were shifted onto her by Ji Shouguo and Ji Tianci; no matter how she defended herself in court, she could produce no evidence!

According to the official evidence, Ji Xiaoling's ten deaths were all at her expense!

Ji Xiaoling's lawyer objected in court each time, but the evidence slammed it down each time!

Viewers of the live stream all thought those deeds were done by Ji Shouguo and Ji Tianci, yet regardless of evidence or sentencing, everything fell on Ji Xiaoling!

Ji Xiaoling was ultimately sentenced to death, while Ji Shouguo and Ji Tianci received life imprisonment! Ji Shouguo is very old, and the second trial might even reduce his sentence!

Foreign public relations combined with domestic extreme feminism stirred the pot, pitting Ji Xiaoling against the father‑son duo Ji Shouguo, turning the whole internet into a storm of blood and mud!

Su Yu didn't go to the scene to watch the spectacle, but she spent an afternoon watching the drama online!

The people above weren't sure whether they wanted to regulate or just couldn't, and the high‑traffic sites kept on the brink of crashing now and then!

Ji Xiaoling's case became material for nationwide discussion! Scenes from dramas and reality where men replace or steal women's achievements, or men's mistakes make women take the blame, were all dug up by netizens!

【"Su Yu","Ji Xiaoling","Ji Tianci","Xiao Fang","Ji Shouguo","Su Family","Ji Family"】

Netizens even bring up the relevant department's issues to make a fuss!

Online there is a storm of scandal and bloodshed, and offline some people, affected by emotions, lose control, leading to minor public‑security incidents in certain areas.

At eight p. m., the entire internet began to mute and delete comments, forbidding discussion of the matter; on major sites, comments are posted normally but not displayed.

All major sites uniformly claim it's a server problem and that it will be fixed after a while!

Netizens do understand, but every platform is like this; they're angry yet powerless.

After a night, the hype naturally dissipated a lot.

Positive news and big celebrity scandals rose to the Hot Search, and fewer and fewer netizens cared about Ji Xiaoling and her group's affairs.

At the Su Family, Su Yu watches Ji Yan, who is eating as usual, looking bewildered, and says, "Mom, didn't you come home very late last night?"

"No, what's wrong, sweetheart?"

Ji Yan remembered that Su Yi said Su Yu had fallen asleep without a care; she still thought Su Yu didn't care about this matter.

"Dad lied to me, saying you were going to relax and wouldn't be back until very late!"

【If I'd known, I would have waited a bit longer; I didn't even have time to ask my mother how she felt. Ji Xiaoling, that timed bomb, is finally defused!】

"Hmm, your grandfather wasn't in a great mood; he said he'd take us to see the home I was supposed to stay in. Your grandmother felt it was inauspicious, so the three of us went together to the place where Maternal Grandparents often stayed, and also to the gifts they had prepared for me."

Preparing a gift once a year sounds a bit silly, but Ji Tianlin and Xu Mingyue really did it.

Last night, Ji Yan was moved when she saw those gifts. The gifts they had given before were compensation tailored to her current age preferences, and what remained at home were their memories from each year.

Seeing those gifts and hearing them recount their feelings at the time, Ji Yan's heart was completely free of resentment! She thought, even her enemies no longer have good days, her parents have been sad for so many years, many relatives will accompany her for the rest of her life; lingering in the past only punishes herself and her beloved daughter, so why bother?

"Mom has completely let go!"

"Good!"

Su Yu is very happy!

"Mom, shall we go see our studio together today?"

"Good!"

Having slept well last night, Ji Tianlin and Xu Mingyue went downstairs, "Sweetheart, do you welcome us going together?"

"Welcome! But only Grandma and Mom can go in; Grandpa and Dad cannot. The complex is now inhabited, so we must follow the rules!"

Su Yu thought, the apartment rules were set by her; she can't break them, otherwise more and more people will follow her, which would betray her original intention.

After a hard‑fought team building, he still couldn't go, and Su Yi, a bit irritable, asked, "Why did you set such a rule in the first place?"

Su Yu pouted, "I'm willing; I just want an all‑female community! Elder Uncle agreed, and Yan Le Yuan is my property, so I can arrange it however I like!"

Su Yi felt it wasn't about whether she liked it, "In your project, singing and dancing are fine, but acting—you can't possibly film a script with an all‑female cast, can you?"

It's not that Su Yi is sexist; in normal TV dramas the gender ratio is usually balanced. Even palace intrigue dramas never have an all‑female cast. If it were all women, she worries the ratings wouldn't be high, and the script would be very limited.

"Depending on your view, if it's about actors, they'd all be women, but the appearances and roles wouldn't all be female."

Su Yi shook his head helplessly, "You're too naive!"

The gender differences are huge!

"Hmph, I'm not naive; excellent actors should play men as men and women as women!"

【Now there are so many cosplay props, still afraid of not looking right?】

Su Yu was confident; Su Yi was forced by big brother to mute his mic and taken to the company.

Ji Tianlin also went to his own company to work.

Su Yu and the two of them cheerfully set off on the tour of the studio.

Reporters had long wanted to interview Ji Tianlin and Ji Yan, so they stationed themselves at various places. There were also reporters at the entrance of Yan Le Yuan; after spotting Su Yu's vehicle, some reporters tried to go in for an interview.

The female security guard at the gate stopped the photographer behind the reporters, "Ladies may enter, gentlemen may not!"

"We're just photographers; we'll be out in a moment!"

"No! That's the rule!"

"Can't make an exception?"

"No!"

The male reporters were infuriated by the scene! How can they interview if they can't get in? They wouldn't just die trying to block cars, would they?

Some reporters started a live stream, revealing what was happening here and questioning whether Ji Tianlin and the others had also gone inside.

Netizens, enjoying the spectacle, didn't mind the fuss and publicly tagged several people who claimed to live in Yan Le Yuan, urging them to take a look.

Su Yu was pulling out her phone to take photos and videos to show Dad and Elder Uncle, and when she saw the pushed notification, she simply let Mom start a live stream and explain the equipment here.

Su Yu didn't understand herself, so she obediently stayed by the side as a listener, hearing Mom introduce the uses of various things to everyone.

……

"Mom, you're great; you can recognize everything!"

Su Yu recognized most of it not at all! She hadn't seen this kind of knowledge before, nor had she asked Wulongcha to look it up; before Ji Yan's introduction, she knew nothing.

"Mom memorized the material in advance!"

The teacher Xu Mingyue sent to instruct Ji Yan told her that as a boss she may not be proficient in every company matter, but she must understand them clearly. For example, the most important part of running a restaurant is the kitchen; she doesn't need to be a master chef or have superb ingredient‑selection skills, but she must know the cooking process and basic knowledge about ingredients, so she won't be deceived by subordinates.

"Wow, Mom takes this so seriously!"

Xu Mingyue smiled and patted Su Yu's head, "Of course, this is your mom's first venture!"

Ji Yan also publicly announced her startup plans, sincerely inviting anyone who wants to enter the field to come here and try it out first.

At the end of the live stream, Xu Mingyue also urged those parents a bit.

"If kids are clamoring to study the arts, don't rush to oppose them; you can send them here to experience it. Often people have filters, and only by truly participating can they know whether this path suits them!"

Many people never hit a wall and never look back! But some have gained a lot of experience because of it. Xu Mingyue truly wants to tap into parental mindsets, hoping to ease parent‑teen conflicts and help genuinely talented individuals break away from worldly paths.

Online, opinions on the mother‑daughter invitation are mixed. Some think Ji Yan and Xu Mingyue make a lot of sense.

Instead of blindly following the crowd into the entertainment industry, recklessly gambling on a chance to go viral, it's better to first go see Ji Yan's side.

But some think Ji Yan and Xu Mingyue's motives are condemnable! They only invite girls and don't accept boys!

Why do they do this? Why does a talent‑search project exclude boys?

Some think Ji Yan is after money and a broken project, has no shame, and even lets her mom step in to endorse!

……

Various opinions flood the internet; everyone has their own view and no one can convince another. Nevertheless, the topic has generated discussion online, and many have signed up.

After preliminary screening, the schedule has already been set for three months!

Su Yu is especially happy!

"Lots of current university students; the quality will definitely be great!"

【College students are system‑trained adults, and after the gaokao selection most have decent temperaments, though I'm not sure exactly how. So excited!】

While Su Yu was rejoicing over her project, she received another good news!

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