The speed was astonishing.
Qing Muye, in the Songyu Group, was naturally informed of the matter.
Song Jun stood before him and reported, "Miss Meng was framed. She fell into a trap."
Qing Muye leaned back in his executive chair, holding a cup of tea. He took a sip and asked, "Have you found out who's behind this?"
"The Wang family did it."
"Wang Kun's family? He has no grudge against her. There's no reason for him to do this."
"My subordinate investigated and found out the reason. It's because the wedding explosion injured Wang Kun and his new wife, Li Lili. Although my subordinate released the news that Li Dezhi was responsible, Wang Kun believed you deliberately protected Miss Meng and provided false evidence. So..."
Song Jun didn't finish her sentence, but Qing Muye already understood her meaning.
Then, Song Jun added, "Miss Meng has just left the police station. President Qing, what do you think..."
He was waiting for Qing Muye's decision.
The man's complex gaze flickered towards the phone on his desk.
It seemed that since the incident yesterday, she had been waiting for a call—Meng Jingwei's call for help.
However, that damned woman hadn't contacted him at all!
If that was the case...
"You may go," he waved his hand.
Song Jun paused, nodded, and turned to leave.
When Meng Jingwei left the police station, Shu Yao picked her up, managed to avoid the tracking reporters, and took her directly to Shu Yao's home.
It wasn't a villa in the suburbs, but an apartment in the city.
Qing Sihai was also there when Meng Jingwei walked in.
She scanned the surroundings and keenly noticed that Qing Sihai had been here many times, even showing signs of him staying overnight.
"Oh dear, how did things get this way?"
Shu Yao pulled Meng Jingwei to sit on the sofa, poured her a glass of water, and comforted her, "Weiwei, don't worry. With Qing Sihai here, he'll definitely help you find a solution."
Qing Sihai paced back and forth in the living room, his hands in the pockets of his trousers, his expression grave.
After a while, he turned to Meng Jingwei and said, "Little girl, what exactly happened between you and Muye? With such a major incident, he hasn't made any move?"
Meng Jingwei picked up the cup of tea Shu Yao handed her, warming her slightly cold hands, and shook her head with a bitter smile, "I don't know."
As she spoke, Qing Sihai's eyes narrowed for a moment, staring intently at her face, as if trying to penetrate her thoughts through her eyes.
However, Meng Jingwei's reaction was too calm, so calm that even he couldn't discern anything.
"Seventh Uncle, I've caused you trouble."
Meng Jingwei pursed her lips, sighed with a melancholic air, and slowly lowered her head, "I don't know why things have come to this point, and I still don't understand who I've offended."
She said this with feigned grievance.
"Weiwei, don't be sad. What's meant to pass will always pass," Shu Yao patted Meng Jingwei's back, feeling sympathetic to her plight.
Knock, knock, knock—
At this moment, someone knocked on the apartment door.
Shu Yao got up and said, "It should be Xiao Cheng. He asked me where you were earlier, so I told him."
She went to open the door, and indeed, Xiao Cheng was standing at the entrance.
Although Xiao Cheng was wearing a dark blue trench coat and sunglasses, there was a clear bruise on his lips.
He walked in, his gaze falling on Meng Jingwei sitting on the sofa. His face, filled with worry, showed a trace of heartache. He walked up to her and asked, "Are you alright?"
Meng Jingwei hadn't expected Xiao Cheng to come.
She nodded, "I'm alright. But you were so badly injured, why are you here now?"
At this critical juncture, Xiao Cheng coming to visit her despite his injuries truly touched Meng Jingwei.
"If I didn't come, I wouldn't be at ease about you."
Xiao Cheng sat beside Meng Jingwei and asked, "What exactly happened? Why is the news all reporting that you assaulted someone?"
Meng Jingwei shook her head, "They want to report it this way. I can't stop them."
Afterward, the group sat together, analyzing the current situation and discussing how to resolve it.
From beginning to end, Meng Jingwei maintained a 'dejected' demeanor, like an eggplant wilted by frost, lacking spirit.
Finally, Shu Yao, seeing her in poor condition, said, "You must not have slept in the detention room yesterday. Go to my bedroom and rest for a while. We'll talk after you've slept."
Meng Jingwei nodded, got up, and went into the bedroom.
Closing the door, she lay on the bed to rest, her mind replaying the events of the past two days. She felt something was subtly wrong.
She took out her phone from her pocket and opened the voice recorder. It contained a recording of over five hours.
She had turned it on from the moment she left her apartment, just in case.
She hadn't expected it to be useful in the end.
She lay on the bed, scrolling through Weibo.
The top trending search was "The Husband of Meng Jingwei Who Assaulted the Injured Employee." The second trending search, coincidentally, was about Li Yun'er's birthday banquet held at a welfare institute, where she brought cotton-padded clothes, books, stationery, and donated three million yuan to the institute.
And at fifth place on the trending list was a topic titled "Reasons Why Meng Jingwei Was Abandoned."
Upon clicking it, it was nothing but people comparing pictures: one of Li Yun'er doing charity work, and another, a stark contrast of her assaulting a patient in the hospital ward.
Below were unbearable insults directed at Meng Jingwei.
"So vicious, no wonder she was abandoned as a child. She should have died."
"No wonder Young Master Qing said he wouldn't intervene. She's so cruel."
"The most venomous is a woman's heart."
"A world of difference compared to her sister."
"She deserved to be abandoned by her mother, that bitch should die!"
...
Meng Jingwei put her phone aside, resting her head on her hands, and stared at the ceiling, lost in thought.
Although she had the ability to turn things around, she still wanted to let the situation continue to brew. This way, she could thoroughly investigate the mastermind.
The incident at the wedding, which seemed to be orchestrated by Li Dezhi, who was infatuated with Li Lili, made Meng Jingwei feel that the matter was not that simple.
The people behind the scenes were clearly targeting her, wanting to shut down her wedding company and make her a target of public outrage.
To put it bluntly, they wanted to destroy her indirectly.
Who was the mastermind?
Meng Jingwei could have told Shu Yao the evidence she had, but she didn't because Qing Sihai was present.
As for Xiao Cheng, Meng Jingwei couldn't help but recall the incident at Qing Muye and Li Yun'er's wedding, where he covered up for Xiao Meiyan and framed her. Even though Xiao Cheng continued to interact with her afterward, Meng Jingwei remained wary.
At the same time, the matter had also reached Madam Qing.
Madam Qing didn't call Meng Jingwei; instead, she called Qing Muye.
Qing Muye, who was busy working in his office, answered the phone, "Grandma?"
He naturally knew why his grandmother was calling.
"What are you busy with? Jingwei is in such big trouble, and you're just standing by?" As soon as the call was connected, Madam Qing began a stern reprimand, "You are her brother, are you just going to watch her be bullied?"