Wen Mingyue replied to Huang Xueying first.
With Huang Xueying's abilities, coupled with the rival company's intense desire to completely destroy the Gu Corporation, they would probably work through the night to carefully dig through Gu Yanxi's medical examination report tonight.
However, Zhou Jin's message made Wen Mingyue read it over and over again for quite a while. Then, she took a screenshot of the text message and sent it to the group chat to ask her knowledgeable friends.
[Crematorium] Wen Mingyue: Family, do you guys think Zhou Jin knows about all the wicked things Gu Xu has done?
Earth Girl Lin Xi: I think she must know at least a little bit about this kind of thing, right? No matter how effective the drug was, wouldn't she know her own body? Not to mention, you've talked about this 'mother-in-law' of yours before. I think with her intelligence, it's impossible for her not to guess what Gu Xu did.
Whole Family Transmigrated ABO Wen Wan: I think so too. She definitely knows. Perhaps she hasn't made a move for so many years because she's waiting for the right opportunity? I think Zhou Jin definitely has something on Gu Xu. The reason she hasn't acted for so many years is because she has too many concerns. One is her son, Gu Yanxi. Although this son completely failed to meet her expectations, she gave birth to him after all.
The second reason is, as Gu Xu said, he has a hold on her weakness. Her family relies on the Gu family to make a living. In other words, her inaction is also due to her concerns for her family.
But with this kind of thing, as long as someone wants to take down the Gu family, she will definitely lend a helping hand. Because deep down in her heart, she hates Gu Xu.
Wen Wan truly lived up to being a novelist; she analyzed Zhou Jin's psychology thoroughly.
The truth was exactly like that. Ever since Zhou Jin discovered that she had been given to others by Gu Xu, she had been intentionally or unintentionally collecting evidence of the Gu family's crimes.
Gu Xu arrogantly thought he had Zhou Jin in the palm of his hand and rarely took precautions against her. Sometimes when he went to spend the night with Zhou Jin, he would answer calls, send messages, and even sometimes reply to emails by logging into the computer in Zhou Jin's room.
Every time, Zhou Jin recorded his phone calls. Her computer kept records of the emails he replied to, and she took screenshots of them all. Those screenshots were enough to completely destroy the Gu Corporation.
After all, tax evasion and involvement in smuggling were simply too fatal for a company.
Perhaps because she hadn't received a reply from Wen Mingyue for a long time, Zhou Jin called her. She asked for Wen Mingyue's current location and prepared to come over in person. Some things were hard to explain in detail over the phone.
Because Zhou Jin was coming, Wen Mingyue and Lu Wei stayed behind when they arrived at their next tourist destination and did not continue their journey.
The current Wen Mingyue had long lost the depression from a few days ago. She now felt completely relaxed and comfortable, with a smile hanging on her face all the time.
Her current daily life with Lu Wei consisted of going out every morning carrying a drawing board, and in the evening, the two of them would stay in the homestay doing their own things. Wen Mingyue tried to start drawing a comic. Based on her own experience, she wanted to draw a girl who was in a desperate situation and then broke free from it little by little.
During this period, Xu Huanhuan, who had returned to the Earth plane to visit her relatives, had already gone back to ancient times. She had been away for so long, but when she returned to ancient times, not even a single night had passed.
Xu Huanhuan lay on her familiar bed, crying and laughing. During those three days on Earth, Xu Huanhuan didn't go anywhere; she just stayed in the hospital to accompany Xu Dafu, and Xu Taotao and Liu Jinxia did the same.
Liu Jinxia politely declined all visits from relatives, and the whole family cherished these three days very much.
Being able to see her parents again, at this moment, all of Xu Huanhuan's unwillingness, grief, and indignation disappeared. Early the next morning, she took out the various gifts she had collected from the group members from her space and headed to her maiden home in ancient times.
Her son was now studying in the clan school of her maiden family, raised daily by her brother in ancient times. At such a young age, he already had the demeanor of a little gentleman.
She specifically waited until the child finished school, took a video of him reading and writing, and asked Lin Xi to send it to Liu Jinxia.
With Xu Taotao's help, Liu Jinxia had already bought a new phone, the latest and fastest Huawei. The moment she saw the photos sent by Lin Xi, she forwarded them to the family group chat, and then went to Xu Dafu to look at their grandson across time and space together. The more they looked, the more they liked him.
After looking at them, the old couple carefully worded a message expressing their gratitude to Lin Xi, and at the end, they mentioned that they had mailed a gift to her. It had already been sent by Xu Taotao. They told Lin Xi not to decline.
Finally, she sent a paragraph of words meant for Xu Huanhuan, which Lin Xi forwarded to Xu Huanhuan after seeing it.
Xu Huanhuan smiled and sent over the things she had asked her subordinates to prepare this morning to Lin Xi.
She knew that Lin Xi was selling embroidery from Zhong Shuyan's world. She had seen those embroideries; the needlework was considered not bad, but compared to the specialized embroidery maidens of her era, it was still a bit lacking. During this time, she had also ordered goods from a familiar embroidery workshop. It was just the right time to send a batch out.
Sure enough, Lin Xi was pleasantly surprised when she received it.
It was currently the peak tourist season in Dian Province, and there was an endless stream of tourists. She had opened a display area on one side of the homestay, specifically managed by Lin Xi's grandmother, Chi Xiangping, for sales. The prices she set were all around a hundred yuan.
People traveling wouldn't be stingy with a hundred yuan, not to mention that these embroideries included many fragrant sachets and circular fans. These embroideries were exquisite and beautiful, and purely handmade; buying them was an absolute steal.
The batch sent by Xu Huanhuan could even target the mid-range market, and many people would buy them even if priced at two or three hundred yuan.
Wen Mingyue didn't wait long. Not long after Lin Xi displayed the embroideries sent by Xu Huanhuan, Zhou Jin arrived.
The two of them found a coffee shop with relatively good privacy in the tourist town and sat down.
The coffee Zhou Jin ordered arrived very quickly. She looked at Wen Mingyue, who could be considered completely reborn, with a somewhat complex expression.
"Mingyue, were you the one who leaked the news about Yanxi having AIDS?" The reason Zhou Jin arrived so many days late was that on the early morning of the second day when she was preparing to come over from abroad, she saw the overwhelming news on the internet.
It was all about the heir of the Gu Corporation, Gu Yanxi, suffering from AIDS. Those paparazzi were incredibly resourceful; not only did they get a video of Gu Yanxi going to the hospital for a medical checkup, but they also found his medical report.
When she saw this news, Zhou Jin's mind went blank. No matter how disappointed she was in Gu Yanxi, she never thought that he would contract such a fatal disease!
She returned to the Gu family, where Gu Xu was throwing a massive fit at home. His illegitimate children, like cats smelling fish, had spontaneously come to the Gu family residence the moment the incident occurred. The internet was in an even greater uproar.
Under the promotion of those with ulterior motives, the impact of this incident slowly developed in an uncontrollable direction and had already affected the Gu Corporation's stocks.
Meanwhile, the major client who deeply cherished his wife—the one Gu Xu had spent a massive amount of time and effort courting—refused to even see any employees from the Gu Corporation after seeing the news.
Even before Zhou Jin arrived here, the Gu Corporation's rival company, where Huang Xueying worked, had already secured the order from that major client.
Zhou Jin neither cared about nor paid any attention to the Gu Corporation's business affairs. Deep down, she actually wanted the Gu Corporation to collapse. Otherwise, she wouldn't have come to meet Wen Mingyue, knowing full well that it was highly likely Wen Mingyue who leaked the news of Gu Yanxi contracting AIDS.
"Yes." Wen Mingyue looked up at Zhou Jin, her expression open and unapologetic. "Auntie Zhou, I believe you can somewhat empathize with the kind of life I've had to endure since marrying Gu Yanxi. I'm sure you can understand my reasons for doing this."
Zhou Jin avoided Wen Mingyue's gaze. She picked up her coffee and took a sip. "True, your life hasn't been easy since marrying Yanxi. But you must remember that, no matter what, the Gu family did raise you. It is inappropriate for you to do this."
Zhou Jin's stance was highly ambiguous.
Wen Mingyue also took a sip of her coffee and let out a soft scoff. "Auntie Zhou, I remember that around the time I was taken in by the Gu family, they were facing a major hurdle with a funding gap of three hundred million. Is that right?"
Wen Mingyue had been only twelve years old when she was brought to the Gu family, so she couldn't remember many things clearly. The only reason she suddenly recalled this matter was because she had an incredibly vivid dream on the day Zhou Jin was scheduled to visit.
In her dream, when twelve-year-old her went to the Gu family, she brought along a rice vat belonging to the Wen family.
Once she moved into the Gu household, she never saw that vat again. Upon waking up, before the memory could completely fade, Wen Mingyue sketched out the shape of the rice vat.
Afterwards, she used Qiandu's image recognition technology to identify the true identity of the vat. It was a square bronze ding.
When she was twelve, this bronze ding was bought by an American at an auction in Hong Kong. The final bid converted to three hundred and fifty million Huaxia yuan.
Wen Mingyue hadn't told anyone about this, but the discovery had finally resolved a mystery that had baffled her for many years.
After all, the financial situations of the Gu family and her Wen family were worlds apart. Old Master Gu and her grandfather had indeed been comrades-in-arms, but they had only served in the military together for a mere three years.
There was certainly a bond of brotherhood between them, but it had mostly faded away after they were both discharged. According to her grandfather, by the time he and Old Master Gu crossed paths again, they were both over fifty-six years old.
At that time, Old Master Gu had come to their town for an inspection tour, while her grandfather was running a street stall, selling old antiques he had collected from various villages.
The two men ran into each other and recognized one another. Old Master Gu then accompanied her grandfather back to his house. From that day on, their exchange of letters suddenly became incredibly frequent.
Not long after that, her parents passed away in a car accident. Less than two years later, her grandfather also fell gravely ill. On his deathbed, he entrusted her to the care of Old Master Gu.
Zhou Jin was slightly taken aback and looked at Wen Mingyue.
Wen Mingyue smiled and slid a printed A4 piece of paper across the table. "Does this look familiar, Auntie Zhou?"
Staring at the photo on the paper, the color drained from Zhou Jin's face. As the matriarch of the Gu family, even if she wasn't valued by Gu Xu, even if she harbored no fondness for the Gu Corporation and stayed completely out of its business affairs, she still knew that the bronze ding in the picture was an item the Gu Corporation had shipped to Hong Kong for auction fourteen years ago.
Her father-in-law, Old Master Gu, had claimed it was a Gu family heirloom and that they would never have put it up for sale if the family hadn't been in such dire financial straits. Zhou Jin hadn't believed him at the time, but what did it matter? She had absolutely no right to interfere with whatever the Gu family chose to do.
She looked at Wen Mingyue. After a long silence, she let out a deep sigh. "I'm sorry. I had no idea this belonged to your family."
She made no further mention of the Gu family's grace of upbringing. Instead, she took out a stack of documents from her handbag and passed them over. "This is all the evidence I have."
Pausing for a moment, Zhou Jin added, "I hope you put it to good use. Nail them to the wall."
Zhou Jin strode away, quickly disappearing from Wen Mingyue's line of sight.
