Chapter 58: Zeng Xu Disappears

Exiting He Wei’s office, the secretary hurriedly ran to the stairwell on their floor. She leaned against the iron door of the stairwell and breathed a long sigh of relief. She was scared to death. So there was more to Zhou Xue’s affair than met the eye. Even if she only heard a bit, would the company still "snap" her away! No, she had to leave herself some means to save her life. She then looked at the broken phone in her hand, one corner of a SIM card was exposed... By the time He Wei remembered the SIM card and called the secretary back in to buy a new phone, an hour had already passed. "Go get me another phone, the same model as before. Just put the old card in it directly." He Wei commanded from behind his desk. The secretary immediately bent down and apologized upon hearing this, "Vice President He, I didn’t notice your card at the time, and it got thrown out with the broken pieces of the coffee cup." "Useless! What’s the point of having you all around? Can’t you think or see? Get out!" The secretary quietly retreated from the office. Sure enough, not long after, she received another internal phone call from He Wei, "Go buy me a phone, the same model as before, and get a new card. If I don’t see a new phone in the office within half an hour, you won’t need to work here anymore!" The phone was slammed down with a "bang," and the secretary indifferently pouted. He Wei could only act tough verbally, but he wouldn’t dare fire her. Because He Wei knew that this secretary was a "surveillance camera" placed beside him by He Mingsheng. However, the secretary resignedly gathered her things and went to get the new phone as instructed by He Wei. She also took this opportunity to quietly "dispose" of He Wei’s original phone card. The secretary clearly understood that with her spy-like job nature, a little negligence could make her a pawn sacrificed by both He Wei and He Mingsheng. After all, those two were cousins who could rip each other apart for profit. She was just a small secretary, completely insignificant. Indeed, He Wei didn’t expect that the phone card "accidentally" lost by the secretary became crucial evidence of his crime half a year later. ======================== Even though Mingsheng issued that inhuman press release, the majority still understood. Zhou Xue’s previous achievements were entirely denied on the day she committed suicide. Within less than a year, the most mentioned evaluation people brought up about her was, "Zhou Xue, that actress involved in the drug-related suicide incident." With the exposure on the hot search at the time, all of Zhou Xue’s works were banned. Endorsement partners also proposed to terminate their contracts with Mingsheng Entertainment, leading Mingsheng to pay a huge amount of penalty. A young life ended just like that, and the news about Zhou Xue gradually faded from people’s memory with time. A year later, the scandal that shook the entertainment industry at that time was brought up again. Things didn’t seem simple. This was the first thought that crossed the minds of those who saw the exposé. The exposé was high on top of the hot search list "The Truth of Ming Sheng Actor Zhou Xue’s Suicide" President Zhang just discussed with Wang Yuan that the drink at that time was handed to Zhou Xue by Zeng Xu. They planned to shift all the blame onto Zeng Xu; as for Zhou Xue, she was already dead, so how to throw this dirty water was up to them. "Ring-ring~ Ring-ring~" President Zhang’s phone rang again, he glanced at it, and it was He Wei’s call once more. Interrupted, President Zhang answered the phone, responding with a "Hello!" when He Wei’s voice came through. "Did you handle the video or not?" He Wei’s voice sounded very calm. President Zhang was about to report the just-planned matter to He Wei, but unexpectedly He Wei asked him a question he had clearly answered before. He had no choice but to explain again, "I really handled it, I had someone destroy all the videos from the villa at that time, and besides, let me tell you, I just discussed with Zeng Xu..." "I’m asking about the surveillance video of the small Western-style building." President Zhang’s words of boasting were interrupted again by He Wei’s question, which made him pause before responding, "The small Western-style building? You mean... the day before Zhou Xue’s jump?" He Wei’s voice was without the slightest wave, "Yes." "I asked Zeng Xu to handle the video at that time... Did Zeng Xu not handle it?!" "You’re really an idiot! Such important video, I entrusted it to you to handle, and you let your lover take care of it?! Are you sure he handled it?" He Wei finally exploded. "Zeng Xu said he had destroyed it..." "You believe him just because he said so? If he destroyed it, what’s going on with the new hot search on Weibo?" President Zhang hurriedly asked Wang Yuan beside him to open Weibo, and the two saw under the new hot search, exactly the video President Zhang had instructed Zeng Xu to handle. The previous one was a video of Zhou Xue’s last birthday party. These two hot searches left them speechless. If it were only the exposé without the video, He Wei and the others could claim they were framed, and they could use a lawyer’s letter of little utility to enhance their credibility. But these two videos made them speechless. "This is impossible, I had already instructed Zeng Xu to handle the video, how could it be exposed?!" President Zhang found this unbelievable. He Wei was also frantic now, this matter would not only affect his authority in Mingsheng, but they might even get arrested. "Is there any use in saying these things? Those two videos now are only in Zeng Xu’s hands. Despite the blurring in the videos, anyone who knows us can tell it’s us." "What should we do, Mr. He! I can’t let my family know, or I’ll be done for! Mr. He, you have to save me!" President Zhang was on the verge of tears. A man in his fifties, crying with a bloated face, gave Wang Yuan beside him goosebumps. He Wei mentioned something unrelated, "Is Zeng Xu awake now?" President Zhang quickly looked at Wang Yuan. However, since Wang Yuan left the hospital in a hurry, he hadn’t paid attention to Zeng Xu. All he could think of was pouring the blame on Zeng Xu. So Wang Yuan didn’t know Zeng Xu’s current situation. He quickly contacted a trainee under him to rush to the hospital and check on Zeng Xu’s status. The trainee happened to be near the hospital, and it wasn’t long before the trainee sent the news that Zeng Xu wasn’t in the hospital. This surprised Wang Yuan. When he went to the company, Zeng Xu hadn’t awakened yet. How could he disappear in such a short time? Someone must have taken him away! And it must have been those who exposed their dirt! He Wei and President Zhang respectively issued orders to their people to secretly search for Zeng Xu. The reason they didn’t dare to do it openly was because of the online exposé. Only by finding Zeng Xu could they resolve the online issue. Currently, they could only publicly claim that the video was fabricated, with someone intentionally trying to bring down Mingsheng. But after some time, when relevant departments inspect the video, they would discover it’s real. By then, they’d all be finished! But would Zeng Xu let them find him so easily? =========================== Happy Mid-Autumn Festival, dears! Remember to eat mooncakes~~~ What filling of mooncake do you all like to eat? Sen loves to eat the Five-kernel one~~~