I Became Super Rich After Resigning-Chapter 32 - : A Rift Cannot Be Dissolved in a Day

Chapter 32: Chapter 32: A Rift Cannot Be Dissolved in a Day

Suisui glanced at Bo Fan, “I will give you the card number, and you can just transfer the money for that dress to my bank account, there’s no need to meet Fu Qin!”

Bo Fan said, “Miss Liang… I truly am very sorry.”

Gu Hanchen said, “Being sorry is enough with compensation, the rest of visiting and such is unnecessary.”

Suisui nodded in appreciation. “Yes, just transfer the money, nothing else is necessary.”

Bo Fan felt a little defeated but didn’t continue to ask Suisui about Fu Qin’s whereabouts.

…

Around nine o’clock, Yuan Xi felt drowsy, as her pregnancy made her very sleepy.

Huo Shiyuan, seeing Yuan Xi yawn, asked, “Heading back?”

Yuan Xi nodded, “Yes.”

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Yuan Xi went to inform Chu Qingyang Ying, who was hosting the guests, that she was going back.

Yang Ying said repeatedly, “It’s late today, just stay at our place.”

Yuan Xi shook her head, “No need, I’m particular about where I sleep.”

Yang Ying whispered to Yuan Xi, “Are you not staying because of what happened with Yanyan earlier? Xinxin, Yanyan indeed has been spoiled by us. Since she was young, she’s hated plagiarism intensely; she dislikes copycat designs. Her nature is to be straightforward and spontaneous, to do whatever she wants…

I know she was in the wrong just now, but her wedding with Bo Family is already set. Xinxin, Yanyan is still the would-be young lady of Bo Family. The incident just now shouldn’t have escalated too far; it would make Bo Family lose face. She’s already apologized…”

Hearing Yang Ying’s explanation, Yuan Xi still distanced herself with a light smile, “Mom, we’ll be going now.”

Watching Yuan Xi leave, Yang Ying sighed deeply.

Just as Chu Qing finished seeing off a leader from Jiang City, he asked, “Why did Xinxin leave?”

Yang Ying choked up, “After all, it’s been twenty-five years… Such estrangement can’t be resolved in a day.”

Chu Qing embraced Yang Ying, “Don’t feel bad, Xinxin will understand one day; let’s make it up to her from now on.”

…

Ruohu Mansion.

In the car, Yuan Xi fell asleep for a while, and after reaching home and taking a shower, her drowsiness had significantly diminished.

While Huo Shiyuan was still in the bathroom, Yuan Xi glanced at the photo of a little girl on his bedside table. She knew she shouldn’t care, but seemed unable to ignore it.

Yuan Xi, hearing a noise, quickly returned to bed and picked up her cell phone.

Huo Shiyuan came over to Yuan Xi and said, “You seemed upset after the fuss Chu Yan made, do you think your parents handled things unfairly?”

The conflict with Chu Yan earlier wasn’t something Yuan Xi held on to.

The arrogance of Chu Yan, the tycoon’s daughter, was something Yuan Xi experienced in college.

Although many classmates considered Chu Yan’s behavior as vivacious and unrestrained.

Parents siding with Chu Yan didn’t truly upset Yuan Xi; she thought if her foster parents were still alive.

Even if Chu Qingyang Ying reached out, Yuan Xi might still be more biased towards her foster parents.

Yuan Xi said, “I’m not unhappy.”

Huo Shiyuan softly said, “Every time you are unhappy, you tend to bite your lip.”

Yuan Xi looked at Huo Shiyuan in surprise; she didn’t even know this habit herself, but now that she thought about it, it was indeed true.

Huo Shiyuan, hearing the phone’s notification sound, picked it up and smiled knowingly.

Yuan Xi rarely saw Huo Shiyuan with such a smile, “Are you chatting with Fu Qin?”

As soon as she asked, Yuan Xi regretted it. They were married because of an accidental pregnancy, and whatever Huo Shiyuan and Fu Qin did, she shouldn’t interfere.

Huo Shiyuan said, “It’s Shi Lei who sent a photo of you from your childhood.”

Yuan Xi leaned forward to see; her childhood face nearly identical to the little girl’s photo on the bedside table, but she remembered she couldn’t have worn luxury princess dresses as a child.

Huo Shiyuan scrutinized one photo with some confusion, “This one…”

Yuan Xi stepped forward to look; it was her and Brother Zhuangzhuang in the village church pretending to get married, probably around five or six years old.

Yuan Xi said, “It was just playing house when we were kids.”

Shi Lei really, what photos he wouldn’t send.

Huo Shiyuan, “You have many photos with this chubby little boy, what’s his name.”

Yuan Xi: “I don’t know his real name, because he was very chubby, and in Jiang City dialect, chubby translates to ‘strong,’ so we all called him Brother Zhuangzhuang.

He later went abroad to study, and I’ve never been in contact with him since. As children, we indeed played best with each other, but by sixth grade, we hardly interacted, and playing house and getting married were just childish mischief…”

Huo Shiyuan’s Adam’s apple moved slightly, “You didn’t like Brother Zhuangzhuang?”

“I did enjoy playing with him when I was a kid.”

Huo Shiyuan: “I mean the kind of liking between a man and a woman…”

Yuan Xi chuckled lightly, “President Huo, not everyone falls in love with a childhood playmate like you do. Brother Zhuangzhuang always had two streams of snot under his nose when he was small. I vividly remember how he got stuck in the mud while catching crayfish at the lake and couldn’t pull himself out, and how loudly he cried and threw tantrums not to leave the village; how could I possibly like him?”

Huo Shiyuan frowned; he couldn’t always have had two streams of snot or thrown tantrums. Yuan Xi was simply slandering him.

But getting stuck in the mud was true.

Huo Shiyuan turned off his phone, but his notion of telling Yuan Xi that he was Brother Zhuangzhuang vanished.

Yuan Xi felt somewhat happy recalling her childhood fun and set aside her phone to sleep with closed eyes.

Leaving Huo Shiyuan pondering if he had any other dark past from his childhood.

Huo Shiyuan looking at his childhood photos, was relieved to see that he bore no resemblance to his younger self.

…

When Yuan Xi woke up the next morning, she saw her phone bombarded with messages.

The group chat of the public relations department was full of them.

Yuan Xi knew there must be trouble again. She logged into her Weibo, and the comments section was filled with insults, something Yuan Xi was already accustomed to.

Mi Chen Game had been criticized by players not just for a day or two.

Yuan Xi glanced at the Weibo trending topics, just as Gu Hanchen wished, the good deed of him taking the culpable female driver to the hospital yesterday had trended.

Four of the top ten trending topics were related to Gu Hanchen.

#GuHanchenInsultsFemaleDriver#

#BoycottMiChenGame#

#MiChenGameDegradesWomen#

#GuHanchenGoodDeeds#

Clearly, the “Gu Hanchen Good Deeds” topic must have been paid for by Gu Hanchen himself.

Yuan Xi opened Gu Hanchen’s Weibo.

Last night at ten o’clock, he posted a Weibo:

Mi Chen’s Most Handsome: “Took the female driver tailgating me to the hospital Female drivers, be careful while driving!”

Yuan Xi knew something was off about Gu Hanchen’s words yesterday.

The term ‘female driver’ she had heard countless times while learning to drive, and she found it distasteful.

Male learners made the same mistakes, but the instructor and other learners wouldn’t tease them as ‘male drivers.’

But any slight error she made, she would be teased by the instructor and male learners as a ‘female driver.’

Later, Yuan Xi switched to a female instructor and passed the second and third tests with full scores.

When Yuan Xi bought her first car, male salespeople would tease her as a ‘female driver’ during test drives, even though male drivers who were also newbies did no better, yet no one teased them, only the ‘female drivers.’

The term ‘female driver’ and the discrimination that came with it was pervasive and grating.

Did Gu Hanchen think the IPO process was too smooth and needed to stir up some controversy?

If Yuan Xi weren’t relying on the salary from Gu Hanchen, she would have liked to scold him for causing such a public relations issue before the IPO.

Yuan Xi glanced at Huo Shiyuan sleeping soundly, then went to the balcony and called the PR department manager, Fang Qin.

Fang Qin answered Yuan Xi’s call, “Thank goodness you finally picked up. We still can’t reach Mr. Gu, the official account of Mi Chen has already issued an apology and clarified that there was no intention to insult female drivers, but since we can’t reach Mr. Gu, his personal account can’t issue an apology, and now the female gamers are boycotting…”

Fang Qin continued, “Moreover, this time we discovered that someone seems to be fueling the fire behind the scenes, specifically highlighting Mr. Gu’s insult to women, and the public opinion fermented very quickly, with work starting soon in the morning. We need Mr. Gu to post an apology early to resolve this issue.”

Yuan Xi said, “I’ll go find Gu Hanchen right away. Have you found out who is fueling the public opinion from behind the scenes?”

Fang Qin replied, “It’s some marketing accounts that usually post entertainment gossip; I am still investigating. With the public opinion so inflamed before the IPO, many gamers are asking for refunds and boycotting, which could significantly impact the roadshow.”

“Entertainment circles…”

After hanging up, Yuan Xi opened Qin Yue’s WeChat and sent a message.