The following day, Xu Tingchuan launched a public relations campaign.

He had been planning this all along to expose the mole in the company's finance and planning departments.

The operation was completed last night; they captured footage of their relationship with their competitors and also have audio recordings.

He started this morning to refute the various negative public opinions that had previously affected the company; he rarely appears on financial television.

To reassure investors, multiple interviews were arranged throughout the day, and the public relations department launched a counterattack.

The entire company was busy all day, spinning like tops.

Before the afternoon close, the situation was finally stabilized somewhat.

The section chief who bribed the bidding committee members has confessed that someone instigated him to frame M&K, and the matter is temporarily considered to be over.

However, there is still a serious problem that has not been resolved: the banks are still refusing to approve the loan funds that are due in the United States, saying that they will only approve them if the stock price recovers to its previous level.

He is confident about the stock price rebound, but these negative impacts cannot be eliminated all at once. He expects the stock price to gradually climb back up within the next three months at the earliest.

The funds are due to be transferred by early next month at the latest, and he has no way to cover this shortfall right now.

While Xu Tingchuan was troubled, Ni Sitian saw a trending topic on Weibo that featured Xu Tingchuan's name. She was shocked and quickly clicked on it. She initially thought it might just be someone with the same name, but to her surprise, the featured post was a photo of Xu Tingchuan.

What's going on here?

Ni Sitian quickly browsed the news page and saw that such a terrible negative incident had happened to M&K before, and then this was a clarification press release.

After closing the news page, she scrolled through the Weibo posts one by one, feeling a bit dumbfounded. The reason Xu Tingchuan was trending was actually because... he was handsome?

The most retweeted clarification post was a video of him on a financial program. She clicked on the comments and found a bunch of casual observers gushing over her husband and saying they wanted to support M&K's online products.

Ni Sitian closed her Weibo account and picked up her phone to call Xu Tingchuan.

After two rings, the phone was answered, and she immediately asked, "Such a big thing happened, why didn't you tell me a single word!"

Xu Tingchuan knew that once this public relations battle began, it would definitely not be as simple as just local reports from Yihai City. With the internet so developed now, it was certain that people would find out.

“It’s all in the past, you don’t need to worry too much,” he said gently to Ni Sitian.

“What do you mean by ‘it’s all in the past and you don’t need to worry’? You probably wish I had never known, don’t you? What kind of wife am I? Don’t I even have the right to worry about my husband?” Ni Sitian’s eyes were slightly red.

"No, it's just a minor setback in business. You have your work to do, and I was thinking of telling you after I finished dealing with it," Xu Tingchuan said softly. "It won't happen again, don't be angry, okay?"

"I'm not angry." How could she be so immature as to be angry with him at a time like this? She was more annoyed with herself for being so slow. She called him every day, but she had no idea that something like this had happened. Although she had asked him a few questions, she hadn't investigated further because she was busy with the script.

As his wife, it's one thing that she didn't help him during his difficult times, but she didn't even stay by his side.

"Is there anything else you're hiding from me? Tell me now." Ni Sitian still felt that something was off when she talked to him on the phone a couple of days ago.

"Mom was in a car accident, but she's fine now, and things are looking up for Jiayue."

"What!" Ni Sitian was shocked and stood up from the bed. He had only told her about her mother-in-law's car accident now!

"Don't get agitated." Xu Tingchuan recounted the events of the past few days over the phone, and also told Ni Sitian what Xu Haicheng had told him. Finally, he said in a low voice, "You were right before. I'm such a bad son."

Ni Sitian heard the regret in his voice, gently comforted him for a few moments, and then said, "I will go back earlier."