Song Xi only felt a severe headache, her face pale beyond measure. After a long moment, she wearily told her assistant, "You go and rest first. Please book the earliest flight back to An City for tomorrow morning for me. I’ll explain things clearly to Director Wang."

With such a major event happening, she couldn’t possibly stay here peacefully to shoot the film, especially since her mother had become involved.

"But Song Xi, you look..." The assistant didn’t leave right away, instead looking at her pale face with some concern.

Song Xi raised her hand to pinch the bridge of her nose, and spoke at a steady pace, "I’m fine. We might have even more issues to resolve tomorrow, how could anything happen to me?"

The assistant looked at Song Xi, couldn’t say much, nodded and said, "I’ll head back to book the flight now. You should rest well tonight and not think too much."

Once the assistant left, Song Xi then went to the sofa, bent down to retrieve her cell phone from her bag, and directly searched for a number she already knew by heart in her contacts.

The call was connected quickly, and a man’s voice came from the other end, "Hello..."

Finally unable to control her emotions, Song Xi spoke directly to the person on the phone, "You had said before that you would take good care of my mother. What exactly do you mean by this now?"

The man on the other side of the call was silent for over ten seconds, then let out a cold laugh, saying, "I had asked you for 50 million, and since you didn’t give it to me, I had to figure out my own way. Song Xi... you must have seen the news about your sister on Weibo, right? I can tell you, your mother also got involved. Someone gave your mother 50 million to expose those things, and that 50 million is now in my hands. Since you weren’t willing to give me 50 million, naturally, someone else is willing..."

"You..." Hearing this, Song Xi was shaking with anger, and started to speak without filtering her words, "Your actions are pure fraud! If it weren’t for my mother being easy to deceive, do you think you’d be living like this now? You stayed with my mother purely for money, right? I should never have let my mother leave with you in the first place."

The man simply laughed audibly and then mocked, "But your mother has already left with me, hasn’t she? I’ve already gotten the 50 million, Song Xi... As for your mother, honestly, the reason I stayed with her was only because she was easy to con. Do you really think I like your mother, that old woman?"

Hearing this, Song Xi’s grip on her phone tightened so much it almost distorted the device. After a long while, she forced out two words, "Scumbag!!"

After saying this, she hung up the phone directly, her face already twisted with fury.

In her heart, she quietly made a vow.

She must personally kill this man!!!!

In the president’s office of RQ Group in Paris, Gu Qing stood before her most trusted assistant, who handed over a tablet and said, "President, the situation in An City has already spiraled out of control. We haven’t found the traitor in the atmosphere yet. How should we handle this?"

She had seen the news about Song Qiao on Weibo and hadn’t expected that those people would come up with such wild ideas. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

It’s blatant slander.

Several years ago, she had already cleaned up internally at RQ Group. Those shareholders were all longtime friends of her father, and they maintained a good relationship. With Gu Qing managing RQ Group so well, they were happy to receive annual dividends, which not only didn’t decrease but grew each year.

The current stature of RQ Group, they knew, was partly due to Song Qiao’s contributions, making Song Qiao the second-largest shareholder, and they naturally had no objections.

Thus, the leak couldn’t have come from the shareholders. It was likely some high-level executive within RQ Group.

Gu Qing glanced at the news on the tablet, frowned slightly, and asked her assistant directly, "Have we contacted CK Group yet? What do they plan to do?"

"We just reached out to President Lu’s assistant from CK Group. They said CK Group will hold a press conference tomorrow, but their president isn’t aware of what’s happening on Weibo currently, so they’re unsure how to handle it yet."

Hearing this, Gu Qing frowned immediately, then let out a cold laugh, "It seems the person behind this is well-prepared. It must be around eleven at night in An City now, people are likely asleep."

The "people" Gu Qing mentioned naturally referred to Lu Jingchen and Song Qiao.

She hadn’t met Lu Jingchen, but she had heard about him from Ji Sifan. Furthermore, due to his extraordinary actions, she had seen the Paris Times report about him during her stay in Paris.

Young, capable, and extremely famous in Z Country.

As the president of Paris’s largest entertainment company—RQ Group, Gu Qing naturally had some knowledge of such people. However... they still hadn’t had a proper introduction.

She was quite curious about what kind of man her little Qiao was involved with.

Looking down at the news page on the tablet, Gu Qing showed no emotion on her face and calmly instructed, "Book me a ticket to An City now. If there isn’t a flight to An City within an hour, arrange a private jet..."

"What about the work here..."

"Leave it to the vice-president for a few days, it will test his ability."

The assistant understood; the vice president had been restless lately, and the president could use this opportunity to test him.

He nodded immediately, "Understood, I’ll arrange it now."

"Mm, you can go now."

After the assistant left, Gu Qing picked up her phone and dialed a number, but when she called, the phone indicated that the recipient’s phone was off.

Gu Qing sighed helplessly, thought for a moment, and decided to send a concerned message instead.

"Little Qiao got into some trouble in An City, I’ll be heading there today, Ji Sifan, if you still don’t reply to my messages, I might just go meet your parents directly."

After sending it successfully, Gu Qing thought for a moment and added a threatening note, "You should know by now that I do what I say."