Chapter 372: Building a New Neighborhood

【Your mother is on her way back.】

【Alright, I'll rest a bit; when Mom returns, please call me.】

【Okay!】

Su Yu went upstairs to sleep, while Su Yi held his new proposal waiting for Su Xi to come home.

Su Yu didn't know Su Yi's plan; after Wulongcha woke her up, she only saw her mother.

"Mom!"

Ji Yan hugged her still clingy daughter and asked, "Why haven't you eaten?"

"Waiting for you~"

Su Yu hugged Ji Yan and gave a little shake, a happy smile on her face.

The mother and daughter ate together, then enjoyed the concert co‑produced with Su Yu's game in the study.

"Their singing and dancing are both great!"

【Wulongcha, we're going to replicate it in the game later so that characters can use their dance moves. Does that make sense financially?】

【You go send out a questionnaire to test it.】

【Got it!】

Ji Yan thought to herself, why does her daughter always think about making money?

"Mm!"

"Mom, I'll send out a questionnaire later to see if they have time to cooperate with the team on making dance animations."

Su Yu's game studio already has a professional team. She handles the more difficult portion of major projects, while the studio's team takes on the smaller ones.

"I'll ask the person in charge."

Ji Yan sent a message over; the person overseeing the concert, who was watching from backstage, heard a special alert, clicked it, got excited, and replied instantly.

Ji Yan saw the reply, "Okay."

"Great!"

Su Yu pulled out her computer and drafted a questionnaire for all users.

"Alright! Once the questionnaire results are in, we'll decide which animation to launch."

Players grinding quests in the game received the questionnaire notice; interested players clicked the link in the questionnaire, jumped to the co‑produced concert's playback page, watched the concert attentively, and evaluated which animation offered the best value.

The concert's viewership surged, and the platform immediately boosted the stream. Su Yu watched the numbers keep climbing, feeling very satisfied.

"Mom, look, more and more people are watching!"

Before Ji Yan could lift the corner of her mouth, a huge sigh was heard.

"Alas!"

Su Yu and Ji Yan looked over and saw Su Yi.

"Dad, what's wrong?"

Su Yi instantly straightened his face and his back, "Why are you here?"

Su Yi wanted to play the pity card with his wife, but didn't want his daughter to look down on him.

"I was watching the concert with Mom!"

【You clearly made Mom happy, but as soon as you walked in she became upset; you're really a little atmosphere‑breaker!】

Su Yi: …

"You still haven't said what's wrong with you?"

【You aren't trying to shift the blame onto me again, are you?】

"Nothing much, just a disagreement with your uncle."

"Oh!"

【You just didn't mention uncle, huh? It's not the first time. From that look just now, I thought uncle finally couldn't resist beating you!】

Su Yi: … Su Yu must be jealous! She was hit by big brother, I wasn't! "Oh whatever, go back to your own room and sleep; you have work tomorrow!"

Su Yu glanced at Ji Yan, who didn't object, and Su Yu left carrying her computer.

"Mom, good night!"

【Hmph! If I didn't have work tomorrow, I'd let Mom sleep with me!】

Su Yu left, and Ji Yan asked calmly, "What's up?"

"Big brother looked at my proposal, scolded me, saying I only get older but don't get smarter."

Ji Yan took Su Yi's proposal, read it, and agreed with big brother's assessment.

"You could switch to a different track."

Ji Yan phrased it gently; Su Yi understood and became even more upset!

…

Liang Yan and Tang Can placed the peeled crayfish into Su Yu's bowl, "Xiao Yu sister, aren't you a bit too busy? It's a rare gathering and you're still working; aren't you already on holiday?"

The annual meeting is over and the year‑end summary is done, so why is there still work? "Regarding Yan Le Yuan, my mom and the others went to the hot springs, probably haven't seen the message. Reply to the question and also check the surveillance there, then send it over."

During the year‑end holiday, everyone in the Su Family except Su Yu wanted to go to the hot springs. Luyingying and Zhaoshizhe also wanted to go. Su Yu sent them out and held a small gathering with Liang Yan and Tang Can at the Su family manor.

Su Yu had the chef prepare a huge assortment of snacks—spicy crayfish, garlic oysters, hot‑sour beef tripe, fried chicken legs, beef skewers, and so on. The three of them ate together and cast a movie onto the screen at home.

Su Yu just put on gloves and grabbed the shrimp when her phone rang; she saw it was the Yan Le Yuan manager's call, and even though she didn't want to work, she had to answer.

Su Yu clattered away at the phone, clipped the surveillance footage into segments and sent them to the manager. Tang Can and Liang Yan leaned over to look, "Why are the police here too?"

In the live feed, a woman was talking to three police officers outside the door.

"Hmm, a woman disappeared; the last rental listing for her was here."

The woman's relatives noticed she hadn't contacted them for a while, so they reported it. After the report, the police traced that the identity information the woman used was here.

Finally, Su Yu made a call to the person in charge.

"Who from the woman's side is looking for her? Look at the photo and then reply to me!"

Su Yu found the picture of the woman's first appearance in the community. The Yan Le Yuan system was replaced at Su Yu's own expense, updates extremely fast, and the surveillance is very clear.

Liang Yan and Tang Can stared at the split screen, at the woman with a pale purplish face, almost losing their grip on the crayfish in their hands.

The person in charge looked bewildered, opened the phone message with doubt, saw the picture Su Yu sent, and then her complexion turned very unpleasant.

The police sisters tasked with finding the person gathered to take a look, and fell silent at once.

Anyone with eyes could see what was happening. All present were women, and from this picture one could imagine the woman's plight.

"General Manager Su, how should we handle this?"

The person in charge did not want to disclose the person's information, but also dared not take the charge of obstructing official duties. She was relieved she lacked the authority and found Su Yu; otherwise, if she had found the person and sent them back, she would have lived with a guilty conscience.

"Ask the police next to you whether she is an adult; a fully civil‑capable person can decide where to stay herself." "Okay!"

The person in charge did not ask, but silently took a drink from the refrigerator, "Sorry, please wait a moment, still searching. This is the community's complimentary beverage; if you don't like it, there's still mineral water!"

Su Yu searched quickly, soon pinpointed the woman's location, and dialed the public phone.

"Hello?"

The community property management is very considerate; whenever there is an event or cleaning and disinfection incident in the community that requires residents to avoid it, they not only send messages but also call the public phone in the building to inform residents, ensuring everyone knows the situation and stays away from that area.

"Madam, may I ask if you are an adult or a minor? Your family reported to the police, and now the police are waiting for your news in the person‑in‑charge's office. If you are an adult, please call the person in charge and explain your situation."

"Hello, madam, are you listening?"

"I—I'm listening!"

The woman's panic seemed to come through the microphone.

"Madam, may I ask if you are an adult or a minor?"

"Adult!"

"Alright, if you cannot go out right now, you can call the person‑in‑charge's office and explain clearly to them and the police. How does that sound?"

"Okay, okay, I'm on it!"

All residents know the Yan Le Yuan person‑in‑charge's office phone number. Under normal circumstances, no one would call to disturb the person in charge.

"Alright, thank you for answering, wish you a pleasant life, goodbye!"

The woman's voice steadied a bit, "Goodbye!"

Seeing Su Yu hang up, Liang Yan tilted his head, "Sister Xiao Yu, why didn't you tell her how to speak to the police?"

Su Yu stared intently at the surveillance, amplifying the audio from the person‑in‑charge's office.

Tang Can took off his gloves, continued watching the surveillance while replying to Liang Yan, "You fool, do you want to roll the softie in? If that person says the softie incited her to leave home, the softie will be in trouble."

"No way?"

Liang Yan thought of that photo, all smashed like that? "How could it not be!"

Tang Can had previously been morally and publicly pressured by her family to return home and marry. She had been posting safety updates on major social media, and also began to delve into the stories of women forced into helpless situations.

Some women, seeing her withstand family pressure and pursue her own career, would private message her to share their own experiences or those of friends.

Some of them have vented to Tang Can, saying they helped their friends get rid of scumbags, but the scumbags just coaxed them, knelt, wept, wrote guarantee letters, and after a few moves the friends bounced back, then turned around, cut ties with them, and even exposed their 'dirty secrets' in social circles—how disgusting.

Tang Can showed Liang Yan his backend, "Take a look at the private messages in that love‑brain girl group; they'll definitely reset your worldview!"

Liang Yan was scrolling through Tang Can's private messages, while Su Yu and Tang Can stared intently at the surveillance.

Ring—

"Hello!"

The person in charge answered, and a steady female voice came from the other side, "Hello, I heard a police officer is looking for me? I am already twenty years old, ID number is **, I left home voluntarily because of family discord, please police comrades take note!"

The police sisters lifted the recorder, "Please say it again, we will archive the recording."

An excited reiteration came from the phone line. The police sisters completed their task and left cheerfully.

The person in charge also told the residents this good news!

Su Yu thought the matter was over, happily snacking and watching a movie with Liang Yan and Tang Can.

Ring—

"Hello, Meng Xianle?"

"General Manager Su, look at the Hot Search! This Hot Search related to Yan Le Yuan was bought by a rival company; should we suppress it?"

Relying solely on financial power, the Su Family would never let anyone down! Yet the current CEO Su Xi and the future CEO Su Yu both have a frugal, family‑oriented streak, and are not keen to spend time and energy on such not‑particularly negative news.

Meng Xianle originally didn't want to get involved, but it involved Yan Le Yuan.

【Damn it, I finally got a vacation, and it's nonstop every day!】

Wulongcha searched briefly, left bored, then turned to eye the snacks on Su Yu's desk. It also wanted a taste, wondering what these things tasted like! Su Yu glanced at the Hot Search, which showed a man holding two children, crying on camera.

According to the man's own account, the two children need a mother; his elderly mother is paralyzed in bed, the family truly cannot manage, so he took the children out to find the children's mother to bring her home.

He also knelt sincerely in the video to apologize, saying he shouldn't have lost his temper at his wife, that he was truly wrong, and asked the Yan Le Yuan property staff to be lenient and let him in to find his wife.

Su Yu, after reading the Hot Search: …

Tang Can and Liang Yan were also speechless.

Su Yu, seeing the phone still off the hook, said, "Pay attention to steering public opinion, for example, what to do about a paralyzed elderly mother with no caretaker? And also protect Yan Le Yuan's reputation."

After all, the Hot Search already has people with unclear minds cursing the woman, blaming her for lacking responsibility, being too impulsive, abandoning two children and running away. Even if she doesn't want a man, the two children still need someone, right? They're literally flesh that fell from her!

"Alright!"

Meng Xianle suggested, "Is the woman willing to come forward and clarify?"

Su Yu pulled out another phone, "Hold on a moment."

Su Yu called, "Hello, our company has found that online public opinion is unfavorable to you and may also adversely affect Yan Le Yuan. The PR department hopes to use the photo taken when you first entered the community; may we have your authorization? We will pay you a certain fee based on the revenue."

"Sure, video works too!"

The woman always knew there was surveillance here, the security measures were extremely strict; this was the reason she initially, ruthlessly spent all her savings, leaving only a hundred yuan, to move in here.

"Okay, I've sent you an authorization letter; please open the link and sign the electronic signature."

"Alright!"

The woman finished signing quickly, and Su Yu, while making a phone call, didn't stop moving her hands, continuously working on the computer, editing the surveillance image into a phone photo.

After receiving the authorization letter, Su Yu sent both the letter and the photo to Meng Xianle.

Meng Xianle put it to use.

That photo was posted by Meng Xianle as a resident of Yan Le Yuan, claiming it was taken by accident; at the time, he thought the woman was pitiful and even sent her an endless amount of food.

Online public opinion quickly swung to the woman's side! A small minority still thought the woman abandoning the child was wrong, but the majority of women supported her actions.

Seeing the public opinion turn favorable, Su Yu calmly watched the movie.

At the end of the day, the trio of Su Yu watched the movie, played a VR game, and as they were about to return to their rooms, Su Yu glanced again at Hot Search and discovered her private messages had exploded!

"So laggy, this is a modified phone of mine, and it still lags!"

Seeing private messages with 999+ entries, Su Yu felt an urge to throw away the phone!

Liang Yan and Tang Can came over, and Su Yu simply logged into the account on the computer so everyone could watch together!

"Why does it always require you to create another Yan Le Yuan private message?"

Everyone knows real estate isn't making much money these days. In Su Yu's Yan Le Yuan, the main revenue comes from advertising; whether it's shop rent or housing rent, Su Yu keeps the person in charge at a relatively low market level, so more girls can afford to rent houses there.

Thanks to the darlings for the votes~ Good night, darlings~