"I know, thank you." Zhan Jiayi was very touched and stopped talking about it.
However, she always felt that her repeated misfortunes were not something Feng Rou could orchestrate.
She had also confronted Feng Rou directly twice. Based on her feelings, Feng Rou liked to maintain a sense of superiority, using her status to suppress others, but she lacked cunning and was simple-minded.
Creating such a tidal wave of public opinion online and intricately designing schemes to harm others... these were not things that someone like Feng Rou could plan. There must be an expert behind Feng Rou, guiding her or manipulating her.
Who could this person be?
Xie Huibing, who had come to cause trouble with Feng Rou last time, also lacked such intelligence.
She couldn't figure out who was behind Feng Rou for a moment, but simply confining Feng Rou to a mental hospital was not enough. She had to find the person behind her.
Seeing her lost in thought again, Xie Zhendong stroked her hair, "Don't think too much. Rest and take care of your pregnancy. After you give birth, you will be the true mistress of the Xie family."
Zhan Jiayi turned and hugged his waist, murmuring, feeling a sense of belonging she had never had before.
...
Feng Rou was confined to the intensive care ward again. Here, she couldn't see magazines or newspapers, nor was she told any news from the outside.
She was injected with many doses and forced to take a lot of medicine every day, leaving her in a constant state of grogginess.
When a reporter was interviewing at the hospital, she found an opportunity and rushed directly to the reporter, revealing her identity.
The hospital's management was stunned and quickly ordered her to be taken away, but the reporter and their accompanying assistants and photographers blocked the hospital staff.
"Director Lu, this is a hospital, not a prison, right?" the reporter challenged.
The director quickly smiled and said, "Yes, but this patient suddenly had an episode and disturbed your normal interview."
"Is she sick? She sounds quite normal to me," the reporter said sharply. "I'm here to interview not only to praise the medical staff but also to understand the condition of the patients here."
Feng Rou tried her best to calm herself and said in a steady tone, "Reporter, I am not sick. But they are colluding with Xie Zhendong to falsely accuse me of being sick. You must help me."
"Who did you say you were just now?" the reporter asked, with a sense of justice, "Tell us what you just said again more clearly."
Director Lu and the other leaders were anxiously watching. Facing the media's photographers, they dared not treat Feng Rou too harshly.
"Reporter, most of our patients here do not believe they are sick. You cannot believe what she says," Director Lu stated.
The reporter looked at him and smiled faintly, "I want to hear her speak. Whether to believe it or not is for me to judge."
The hospital leaders had no choice but to pretend to be kind to the patients, leading the reporter and Feng Rou to the hospital's conference room.
The director did not stay with them and secretly called Xie Zhendong from his office. He felt he could no longer keep Feng Rou confined and didn't want the remaining money.
However, Xie Zhendong remained calm upon hearing this and told him, "Director Lu, don't panic. After the reporter leaves, your hospital must still keep my wife under supervision. I will handle the rest, and it will absolutely not implicate the hospital or you, so rest assured."
"It really won't implicate the hospital?" Director Lu still had some doubts.
"Don't you believe my words?" Xie Zhendong said with confidence. "Just make sure you don't give anyone a handle. If I say it's fine, it's fine."
"Okay." Director Lu hung up the phone.
Since Xie Zhendong said so, he was no longer worried.
He quickly notified Feng Rou's attending physician to prepare and, once the reporter left, to confine Feng Rou to the intensive care ward, preventing her from staying in the regular ward.
As soon as the reporter left the hospital, the next day, an interview report was published online.
Director Lu felt uneasy for a whole day, but to his surprise, on the third day, an exclusive interview specifically addressing whether Feng Rou was framed appeared online.
The person interviewed was Feng Rou's brother, Feng Yan, who personally admitted that Feng Rou had a mental disorder since childhood, and therefore Xie Zhendong sending her to a mental hospital for treatment had also been approved by the Feng family.
Seeing this exclusive interview, Director Lu's heart finally relaxed.
Shasha saw the online interview and couldn't believe it. She was furious with Feng Yan for betraying his own family like that!
Now the public opinion had shifted again. Her phone rang at this moment.
"Miss Yang?" it was the reporter who helped her. "You've really gotten me into trouble! You knew Feng Rou had a mental illness beforehand, yet you still asked me to interview her and publish that kind of report!"
"Don't believe the online interview. That's fabricated."
The reporter said with a laugh, "It was Feng Rou's own brother who said it, not Xie Zhendong. How is that fabricated? Whether what you say is true or false, everyone now only believes Feng Yan's interview. You've caused me to be suspended by my editor, and your money is not enough for my future livelihood!"
"What do you mean!" Shasha heard the hidden meaning in her words and said even more angrily, "I've given you more than enough. There are risks involved in earning this money. What does it have to do with me if you're suspended? I have no more!"
"Fine, then I'll directly tell everyone that you instructed me!"
"Go ahead and say it. Everyone will also know about you, and see if you can still find work in this industry," Shasha said fearlessly. "Anyway, I just need to explain to my family, and I'll still be the young mistress of the Xie family."
"You, consider yourself ruthless!" The reporter knew she couldn't extort any more money from her and hung up angrily, resigning herself to bad luck.
...
Zhan Jiayi also saw the online interview and knew that Xie Zhendong had arranged it. She felt that Xie Zhendong's move was indeed brilliant.
It not only cleared him of public criticism but also definitively labeled Feng Rou as a mental patient, and no one would doubt it or say anything further.
She was curious about the reporter who initially stirred up this matter. Although the reports about Feng Rou being framed had been removed online, she still remembered the name of the media outlet and the reporter's pseudonym.
After searching online for a long time, she finally found the media outlet's phone number. She called and said she wanted to sponsor the media outlet and advertise her company, and she hoped that reporter would write the company's profile.
However, the other party told her that the reporter had been suspended and could not help their company write a profile at the moment.
Zhan Jiayi then said she would consider it and asked the receptionist for the reporter's contact information.
She wanted to know why the reporter thought of going to a mental hospital for an interview and posting Feng Rou's story online.
She hesitated for a moment before calling the reporter's mobile phone.
"Reporter Wu, hello."
"Who is this? Who are you?" The other party sounded very unfamiliar.
Zhan Jiayi did not reveal her identity immediately and said, "I own several fast-food chain stores and would like to ask you to help me write some advertising copy..."
"I'm sorry, I'm on vacation and cannot do advertising copywriting at the moment," Reporter Wu refused.