The next day.
Mu Jinyu got up to the gentle knocking sound.
After breakfast, he followed Gu Xiyan with another woman, heading to his own company.
But...
Mu Jinyu and Gu Xiyan sat in the backseat, frequently feeling her somewhat complex glances directed at him.
After several instances, Mu Jinyu grew impatient and asked, "Why are you always looking at me? Is there something on my face?"
"No..." Gu Xiyan, her pretty face blushing upon being caught, quickly shook her head in denial, "I wasn't looking at you, don't flatter yourself."
"Nonsensical." Mu Jinyu turned his head to the side, looking out the car window at the scenery, too lazy to bother with this inexplicable woman anymore.
Upon arriving at the company.
Mu Jinyu let the two women go in first.
He then waited for a few minutes before slowly making his way inside.
He planned to continue lying low at the company for a few days, to weed out more troublemakers before making a grand appearance.
Once he entered the public relations department, it was still early, and just a few people had arrived.
However, Lin Qiaoxia was there early, idly cleaning her desk with nothing else to do.
"Good morning, Sister Qiaoxia."
Mu Jinyu, seeing that Lin Qiaoxia was the only person in the public relations office, greeted her with a smile.
"Hmm, Little Mu, you're up early too."
Lin Qiaoxia put down what she was doing and greeted him with a smile when she saw that Mu Jinyu had also arrived.
"Let me help you."
Mu Jinyu, having nothing else to do and seeing Lin Qiaoxia busy alone, felt somewhat embarrassed to just sit by and do nothing, so he offered to help wipe the desks with her.
"No need, I can handle it," Lin Qiaoxia quickly refused.
But Mu Jinyu, without any discussion, took a cloth, dampened it with water, and joined Lin Qiaoxia in wiping the desks.
In reality, there were cleaning ladies in the company, but Lin Qiaoxia, having nothing better to do, wanted to alleviate their workload, which was why she had taken it upon herself to clean the desks.
Seeing Mu Jinyu not minding the dirt and persisting in cleaning with her despite her advice, Lin Qiaoxia's eyes filled with complexity, and a warm current flowed in her heart, fostering a growing sentiment...
Time slowly passed.
As it neared the start of the workday.
The many employees of the public relations department finally strolled in leisurely, clocking in for work and entering their offices.
When they saw Mu Jinyu helping Lin Qiaoxia clean, they were stunned, then swallowed back the words they were about to ask Lin Qiaoxia—to pour them some water—as their expressions quickly grew complicated.
They too remembered the events of the previous day.
Towards Mu Jinyu, the man whom Jiang Changge had targeted but who managed to escape unscathed, they harbored a constant sense of wariness in their hearts.
Although he had caused trouble for Wen Yan later and it was uncertain if he could continue to stay in the company.
But that kind of fight among deities was something they couldn't point fingers at or meddle with.
For now, it was wiser not to provoke him.
Mu Jinyu was wiping tables with Lin Qiaoxia, with only a few left to clean, when her phone suddenly rang.
She put down the cloth and took out her phone to check; it was a call from Xu Qingya.
Xu Qingya usually wouldn't call her directly without a serious matter.
Thinking of this, Mu Jinyu hurriedly swiped the screen to answer the call.
"Hello, Little Mu, disaster has struck, the beauty formula our company has spent a fortune to research has been leaked. Are you at the company now? If you are, hurry up to my office so we can discuss what to do…"
The moment she answered, Xu Qingya's voice, filled with extreme urgency, came through.
"What? The formula leaked? Alright, I'll be right there."
Upon hearing this, Mu Jinyu's eyes sharpened, and she tossed the cloth to the owner of the desk she was about to wipe, saying, "Wipe it yourself!"
After speaking, she hurried to the executive offices upstairs without even saying goodbye to Lin Qiaoxia.
Manager Chen, who had just entered the office, watched Mu Jinyu hurry away with a somewhat complex expression.
She had taken Wen Yan to the hospital last night, and after a medical examination, it was found that although Wen Yan had been hit by several bottles by Mu Jinyu, he hadn't suffered a concussion, just a scalp laceration, not a serious injury at all.
So, Wen Yan, who had intended to stay in the hospital for a while, started clamoring to go to the company the next day, demanding his cousin fire that lawless Mu Jinyu.
In Wen Yan's words, Manager Chen also heard that Mu Jinyu was basically Wen Rou's kept man, which shocked her and made her understand why Mu Jinyu, although he had hit Wen Yan with a wine bottle, hadn't dared to seriously injure him, still taking into account his identity as Wen Rou's cousin.
Thus, her interpretation of Mu Jinyu using his hold over Jiang Changge to intimidate him seemed a bit more credible.
She believed that Mu Jinyu was definitely going to be fired by the company today.
And because Jiang Changge had mentioned when he went to cause trouble for Mu Jinyu yesterday, that Mu Jinyu had snatched the woman he fancied in the bar the day before, this seemed to be the cause of their conflict.
A kept man daring to fight and be jealous in the bar over a woman, tsk tsk, if this solid evidence were to be exposed by Wen Yan to Wen Rou, Mu Jinyu would probably have his skin peeled off layer by layer.
…
Unaware of Wen Yan and Manager Chen's ludicrous thoughts, Mu Jinyu rushed to the top floor and found Xu Qingya's CEO office. He didn't bother to knock, just pushed the door open and entered.
In the office, Xu Qingya, Gu Xiyan, and Wen Rou sat with worried looks.
Hearing the commotion, they looked up and saw Mu Jinyu. Xu Qingya's brows tightened as she stood up and said, "Director Mu, I am sorry, this trouble is due to my negligence, causing you loss. The Xu family will take full responsibility."
When the Xu family had given the company to Mu Jinyu to manage, it was to bind him with them. They had said, even if Mu Jinyu drove the company to bankruptcy, they would spend a billion to buy it back.
The trouble now was caused by the Xu family; naturally, they would take full responsibility and compensate Mu Jinyu for the significant loss.
Mu Jinyu, with a stern face, waved his hand and said, "Don't rush to talk about compensation. What exactly happened? How did the company's beauty formula get leaked? Do we have a mole?"
"Yes." Xu Qingya nodded and then asked, "Do you still remember Xu Xiaojiao?!"
"Don't remember her, seems like she's one of your Xu family members, right? Was it she who leaked the formula?" Mu Jinyu, not bothering to waste brain cells remembering such insignificant people, said carelessly.
Xu Qingya explained, "Xiaojiao was originally the CEO of this company. When Grandpa sold the company to you, I refused to be the CEO and suggested Xiaojiao to assist you, but you rejected her. You should have some impression, right?"
"Oh, it's her." Mu Jinyu suddenly had some recollection.
Xu Qingya continued, "Perhaps for that reason, she couldn't bear her essence blood to fall into my hands, so… after handing over her duties and leaving the company, she sold the freshly developed beauty formula of the company to many cosmetic companies..."