The other brothers and sisters behind their screens: Yu Xiaxing, there you go again, fighting and grabbing for everything! You’re seriously so competitive!
The key was that Yu Xiaxing had made her argument sound so noble and righteous.
This was indeed what every elder hoped for.
Actually, every child of this generation had serious shortcomings. The elders hoped that everyone could overcome themselves through this competition.
The child who won would inherit the family business.
As for the children who lost, if they could grow and improve through the competition, they could take the ten million yuan their families gave them and make a comeback!
After discussing it among themselves, the elders immediately contacted the Assessment Committee and held an emergency meeting to discuss Yu Xiaxing’s proposal.
…
Not long after Yu Xiaxing sent out the message, Yu Zheng was the first to jump in.
Yu Zheng: “I agree!”
Yu Lingyi: “I agree as well. Let everyone see exactly where they fall short of the outstanding contestants.”
Yu Yuanchen: “I don’t agree. Publishing the records in detail means accepting everyone’s judgment. Why didn’t you publish them the first two times my sister came in first? Now that I’ve come in first, you want to publish them? What do you mean by that? Are you targeting me?”
Yu Xiaxing: “Then you can include my case too. Everyone can judge me as well! If anyone finds anything unfair about what I did, I’ll give up my second-place reward! You can even give me a yellow card instead!”
Yu Zheng: “Our little sister is certainly passionate!”
Yu Suisui: “Then let’s settle it by vote. The three of you on your side agree, while the other four of us haven’t said anything, which means we don’t agree! We win, so we’re not publishing them!”
Just then, Yu Zhining, who had remained silent all this time, suddenly appeared.
Yu Zhining: “I agree too. I don’t mind any details of my tasks being made public. Why don’t we all publish everything?”
Yu Suisui: “…”
Yu Xiaxing: “It’s four to three now.”
Yu Zheng: “Sixth, respect the result of the vote.”
Yu Suisui: “Get lost! Who are you calling Sixth?”
A little while later, the Assessment Committee sent an official notice into the group chat.
“The original purpose of establishing the Inheritance Competition was not only to select a successor, but also to encourage the Yu family’s descendants to supervise and improve one another through competition.
“After an emergency discussion and consultation with Chairman Yu, the general manager, and the others, the Assessment Committee has decided to adopt this proposal.
“Starting this round, after each task is concluded, the Assessment Committee will organize and publish the complete task records of all contestants, including the target situation, communication process, key decisions, final results, scoring criteria, and risk assessment.
“Everyone may learn from outstanding examples, as well as draw lessons from cases that were incomplete or poorly executed.
“The materials for this round are currently being compiled overnight and are expected to be officially released at nine o’clock tomorrow morning.”
…
Yu Xiaxing was extremely pleased after reading it.
Wonderful! Everything was going to be made public. No one would have any secrets anymore.
Not only would she be able to find out why Yu Yuanchen had won and satisfy her curiosity,
she could also learn from other people’s experience of earning yellow cards, allowing her to achieve new breakthroughs every time she ran the school and make Shengde smaller and weaker!
That said, second place also came with four million yuan in operating funds.
She had spent quite a bit of money setting up the arts-exam prep classes before.
But afterward, because the applications had been so intense, a great deal of that money had come back in.
On top of that, after Shengde had promoted the slogan “Shengde students get half-price admission to arts examinations,” people had constantly offered to donate equipment to Shengde so that their own children could transfer in.
You want me to accept your donations?! I can’t even spend my own money!
And this time, she had failed to terminate the contract with Qizhi, yet had actually made a profit from it.
Honestly! Why did the money in her accounts keep increasing?
Yu Xiaxing lay on her bed and let out a heavy sigh.
What a headache.
Just as Yu Xiaxing was seriously considering her next scheme, her phone suddenly vibrated.
She picked it up and saw that the message was from Ruan Tian.
Ruan Tian: “Boss Yu, I’ve finished investigating the two reporters you asked me about.”
Yu Xiaxing: “Who paid them off?”
Ruan Tian: “I couldn’t find that out. I overheard them talking, though, and they said the person who bribed them had simply handed over an envelope containing one thousand yuan each.”
Ruan Tian: “I’ve dealt with a lot of media outlets. Usually, when people bribe the media, they do it this way. They don’t transfer the money online, since that would leave evidence. They usually put cash in an envelope.”
Ruan Tian: “I’ll wait until they throw out their trash tomorrow and search through the garbage bin to see if I can find the envelopes. Maybe there’ll be some clues on them.”
Yu Xiaxing read the messages several times.
Yu Xiaxing: “How much? One thousand yuan each? The media can be bought that cheaply?”
Ruan Tian: “Yes… Board Director Yu, don’t view every industry through rose-colored glasses. I’ve looked into this before. Some media outlets are willing to publish smear pieces for just five hundred yuan.”
Yu Xiaxing felt a little melancholy.
The economy really was in decline. No industry was doing well.
In the past, bribing a respectable media outlet to smear a rival would have cost at least five hundred thousand yuan.
If the outlet had a big appetite, asking for over a million would have been perfectly normal.
Sigh. Society as a whole really was getting poorer.
Still, given how low the price was, this eliminated several of her brothers and sisters as suspects.
Apart from herself, who was saving money so she could run away, the others were all incredibly extravagant spenders.
Yu Suisui had been willing to pay several million yuan just to have a friend take the blame for her.
If she had really wanted to hire reporters to smear a competitor, she would never have given them just one thousand yuan each.
Therefore, the mastermind behind this was most likely not one of the contestants in the Inheritance Competition.
After thinking for a moment, Yu Xiaxing transferred another sum of money to Ruan Tian.
She felt a little embarrassed constantly making Ruan Tian work without paying her.
Although the money came from her personal stash, which made her wince a little,
Ruan Tian still returned it to her.
Ruan Tian: “Boss Yu, why do you always do this? I already told you that you’re the benefactor of my daughter and me. If I said I won’t take your money, then I won’t take it.”
Yu Xiaxing stared at the screen and didn’t reply for a long time.
In her previous life, she had always thought Ruan Tian was materialistic and greedy, that she would betray her benefactor and cause trouble. That was why she had taken the initiative to contact her.
She hadn’t expected that after getting to know her, Ruan Tian would turn out to be completely different from her judgment.
But Ruan Tian really was capable, and extremely useful.
Yu Xiaxing very much wanted to establish a long-term working relationship with her.
At the moment, Ruan Tian kept saying that she was helping because Yu Xiaxing had helped her and her daughter, and that she would do the work for free.
But how could Yu Xiaxing bring herself to keep taking advantage of her?
That’s it!
She could pay Ruan Tian through the school’s public accounts!
She could hire Ruan Tian to work for her.
That way, she wouldn’t have to spend her own money, while she could steadily waste some of the school’s funds every month!
Yu Xiaxing immediately asked, “What’s your educational background?”
Ruan Tian: “Middle school.”
A little while later, perhaps feeling guilty, she added:
“I finished middle school, but I didn’t take the high school entrance examination, so I never received a middle school diploma. I don’t even know whether that counts as having a middle school education…”
Yu Xiaxing didn’t reply right away. Instead, she opened Shengde’s internal recruitment regulations and read through them carefully.
She wanted to see whether the school had any positions suitable for someone with a middle school education—or less.
