12. The one who brought her bad reputation was actually her boss!
"That was a photo of me and Gu He when we were together before. Someone used it maliciously."
Chu Yanhui lowered his eyes.
"I told Mom and you the whole story of Gu He falling in love with Huo Sisi three months ago. He thinks I harmed Huo Sisi and wishes I'd die, so he won't come forward to clarify."
"It's actually like this! Gu He is really no good... Yan Hui, Dad misunderstood you..."
Chu Pingyou regretted it deeply.
He leaned on the pillow of the hospital bed, clutching his chest due to the pain, feeling extremely weak.
Seeing the cold sweat on his forehead, the girl quickly shut up and nervously wiped him with a disinfectant towel. She helped him lie down and said, "Dad, don't think about it... Don't be angry! What will happen to Mom and me if you get angry and make yourself sick? I haven't dared to tell Mom about your heart disease yet."
After hearing the last sentence, he lay down and took a long time to calm down, then said hesitantly:
"Who did you offend? Why would someone use these photos to fabricate obscene rumors about you and frame you? Do you suspect anyone who took these photos?"
From the series of questions he asked, I could tell he had thought carefully before asking them.
"The people I've offended..." The girl pondered and said two names, "Gu He and Huo Sisi."
"Dad, did you see the public opinion a while ago? The incident where Gu He changed his mind at the engagement party."
"I know. You called home and said you were avoiding him. I thought if he got engaged, he might let you go and get revenge. I didn't expect him to regret it," he replied.
Chu Yan looked back at his father and said frankly, "I was the one who ruined the engagement party."
"A while ago, the two of them were caught up in a public opinion storm. Gu He cheated on Huo Sisi and was a mistress, and the whole internet knew about it. Huo Sisi couldn't resist and came out to clarify yesterday, but then the scandal about me broke out online, and the whole situation took a sharp turn."
"Dad, this is their revenge against me."
She couldn't help trembling as she said this, but she forced herself to calm down, speaking fluently and logically.
"What! Why did you do that..."
The man's heart began to ache again, and he covered his chest and gasped in pain.
"I can't accept it," she said, her red and swollen eyes showing pain and sorrow, "Dad, I don't want them to be with He Meimei!"
Her voice cracked with tears as she spoke: "I was almost badly hurt by him. I had to hide from him everywhere, and now I have to watch them have a happy ending. Why?"
The man felt heartbroken as he watched her crying.
It took a long time before he proposed:
"That kid Gu He is too ruthless. You can't beat him...Staying here will only lead to bad consequences. Listen to Dad and let's go abroad, right?"
The look in the girl's eyes was stubborn and resolute. "Dad, unless it's absolutely necessary, I will never flee abroad like a drowned dog. Hong Kong is our former hometown. Why should we be exiled to a foreign land?"
"After all these years, I'm not willing to give up."
Chu Pingyou sighed three times, feeling distressed and angry: "You will suffer a great loss with such a personality!"
"My daughter has suffered a lot," she sniffed, a forced smile appearing on her delicate, pale face. "Her tolerance is improving, and she won't be defeated."
She was terrified and panicked. As soon as she closed her eyes, she would see countless insults and disgusted faces, and she could hardly breathe. But she knew that she could not be overwhelmed by her emotions. She had to take good care of her sick father and deal with all the bad things that happened suddenly.
Chu Yanhui still held on under extreme pressure, and took out most of the money he had saved for buying a house in the past two years to hire internet trolls, delete posts, guide public opinion, and hire specialized hackers to trace the source of the photos.
Hold on a little longer.
Once we find the culprit behind all this, we will be able to understand their purpose and look for weaknesses to attack.
The worst case scenario is that it was Gu He who arranged for people to take the photos and he was also the one who sent the photos.
A day later, the hacker gave a string of data he had found and extracted the main content.
"The person who posted the picture was using a shill account bought in bulk. It wasn't linked to any personal information, and even the registered phone number was a pre-ordered number. I hacked into the backend of the account seller and discovered fifteen people were selling accounts that day. By filtering, I found the buyer's account and traced the target's information."
"This person's personal information is protected. We can see his IP address is in Building B of Gangcheng Fulian Real Estate, and the exact floor is the 16th. He purchased family planning products online under the name 'C' in the early morning of the day the photo was posted. He also booked a hotel online yesterday but did not arrive."
Chu Yanhui took the information to the detective for investigation, and the result was a person she had never expected - Wang Cheng.
Her editor-in-chief!
She thought it would be Gu He or Huo Sisi who brought her into disrepute, but she didn't expect it to be her boss!
She clutched the phone in her hand, her whole body trembling.
Anger consumed her.
That greasy and obscene face flashed through my mind, and I hated him so much that I almost wanted to tear him apart.
In order to keep her job, she didn't pursue the matter of being drugged by her ex a year ago and kept a calm appearance. She didn't expect that he would frame her again and again!
Chu Yanhui couldn't help but dial the phone.
Suppressing his hatred, he gritted his teeth and said, "Editor-in-Chief Wang, I want to see you. I wonder if you are free?"
A lazy and contemptuous voice came from the other end of the phone, with a disgusted tone:
"You haven't been to work for three months and have been fired. I don't have time to see an outsider! And what's more, flirting with a woman like you is such a waste of time!"
After a pause, he seemed to have thought of something, and then said meaningfully: "However, if you are sincere, I can still give you a chance."
"I'll wait for you in the office at 1:30 this afternoon."
The ambiguous tone made her nauseous.
After hanging up the phone, her stomach churned. She couldn't help but run to the bathroom and retched over the sink.
She then told her lawyer about the incident, and the lawyer said that as long as she could collect evidence in person, she could file a lawsuit.
So she put on a mask and went to the company at the appointed time.
1:30 is the time for editorial staff to clock in. The editorial staff arrives half an hour earlier than other departments.
Wang Cheng clearly wanted to humiliate her.
As the automatic door opened, she could feel the strange, disgusted and incredible gaze of the female employee standing beside her. Those gazes pierced her like sharp swords.
They whispered:
"Oh my god, isn't this the one who resigned from the editorial department... How dare she still come to the company?"
"She's been really popular these past few days, hooking up with rich men and hooking up with several older men. Those photos... Oh my, they're so disgusting, I don't even want to talk about it..."
Chu Yanhui's body stiffened, but he still pretended not to hear it and walked towards the elevator as familiarly as before.
But he was stopped by a short and thin former colleague who suddenly appeared.
"Hey! Who is this?"
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