I Became Super Rich After Resigning

Chapter 159: Chapter 159: Absolutely Unexpected Who the Mistress Is

The other end of the line fell into a long silence, before a bout of crying came through.

Yuan Xi’s mood was not very good either, and she spoke, “I’m sorry to tell you this bad news, but now I also have some things I want to ask you about her.”

The voice on the other line said, “She was so foolish, why did she choose to leave this world?”

Yuan Xi asked, “You knew she committed suicide?”

“Mu Zi had depression. She even took a year off from school due to depression in the fifth grade. It wasn’t easy for her to come out of it, and she was always obedient in taking her medication.

This account was originally played by my sister; after my sister added this child and heard about her depression, I felt something was off and comforted Mu Zi in the tone of my sister.”

“Before Mu Zi’s younger brother was born, she was the beloved little princess of the family, but after her brother was born in the third grade, everything changed, she became withdrawn and sensitive due to parental neglect and suffered from depression, which had started as early as the fifth grade.

After entering junior high, because of her sensitive nature, she never got along well with her classmates. She started playing Interstellar Voyage. They had a Dream Team; she was the vice captain of the Dream Team. After playing together for a while, she opened up and told them that she had depression and was taking medication.

Everyone in the team always encouraged her. She had just said in the group chat that this year she could only spend New Year’s alone – her parents were taking her younger brother to the A city aquarium and left her alone in the unfamiliar school to board.

She didn’t want to board at the school during New Year’s and begged her parents to let her go to her grandmother’s, but her parents condemned her for spending 78 yuan on a game top-up, said it was unforgivable, and confiscated all her pocket money. They absolutely refused to take her to the aquarium.

The day before New Year’s, I even thought about coming to Jiang City to surprise her and take her out but was afraid she would find it awkward because I am an adult. However, I couldn’t contact her the night before New Year’s; her account seemed to have been banned…”

“How nice it would have been if you hadn’t banned her account… If she still had the Dream Team with her, she wouldn’t have done something stupid.”

Yuan Xi sighed, “Sorry, we didn’t know so much, but when her parents asked for a refund, we informed them about the account being banned. I’m truly sorry…”

A middle-aged woman’s voice came from the other end of the line, “Da Bao, from now on, don’t interfere with Xiao Bao playing games, another child has jumped from a mountain today because of a game, just in the first year of middle school too, playing that Interstellar Voyage… the one your sister plays, right? And to think that those parents have the nerve to block Mi Chen demanding compensation, when they didn’t care enough for their own child.”

Yuan Xi heard more crying from the other end and quietly hung up the phone.

Fang Qin, who was flipping through chat records on the side, said, “I found proof that Li was suffering from depression and that her parents didn’t take her with them to the aquarium.”

Yuan Xi nodded, “Publish her chat records.”

President Zhang also said, “We found a video of Li Mengnan’s parents going to the aquarium during the New Year, and even after learning of their daughter’s death, they watched the dolphin show with their son before returning.”

Yuan Xi stood by the conference room window, looking down, and saw Li Mengnan’s hysterically crying mother, feeling nothing but ridicule.

Yuan Xi said, “Get in touch with the A city aquarium and ask for the surveillance footage.”

Yuan Xi opened her Weibo to write, “Li Xiaotong, I’m sorry that by the time I got to know you, you had already passed away, and I’m sorry we had to ban the only game account you found comfort in.”

Yuan Xi posted screenshots of Mu Zi’s game chat records, quickly turning the tide of public opinion.

And the official Weibo account of Mi Chen Game published even more evidence of the real reasons behind Li Mengnan’s suicide.

The top comments on the official account of Mi Chen Game were mostly from Mu Zi’s online friends.

Love Eating Mi Fan (@AlreadyHasAGirl): The money Mu Zi spent on the game was all from her wrestling prize money. She was very filial and didn’t spend much. She gave a lot to her grandmother for groceries, the only charge was 78 yuan. I’ve already spent 2000 on Bao Li pony cards. She said her depression medication was expensive, so she had to be frugal. How dare her parents ask Mi Chen for five million in compensation?”

Dream Team Captain: Crying, crying, crying, crying, crying. We never met in person, Suisui, I never even took you to the aquarium!

Yuan Xi thought it wouldn’t be easy to get the surveillance footage from the A city aquarium, but A city aquarium quickly released surveillance footage of Li Mengnan’s parents continuing to watch a dolphin show with their son after receiving the call about their daughter’s accident.

After Jiang City Oceanarium posted the surveillance video on their Weibo account, the comments section was filled with criticisms of Li Mengnan’s parents.

“Blaming video games, when in reality, so many parents don’t understand why their kids are addicted in the first place. During the summer vacation, I took my baby to the grasslands to ride horses, to the beach to play in the sand, and to the creek to play in the water. She never even thought about playing Interstellar Voyage again.”

“Exactly, some parents really only know how to give birth, not how to raise their children. For little sister Mu Zi, gaming was her last salvation!”

“The game is not the original sin, it’s the parents who are to blame.”

Yuan Xi watched as the crowd below dissipated, still feeling quite heavy-hearted.

Huo Shiyuan wrapped his arms around Yuan Xi’s shoulders and patted her, saying, “Stop feeling bad, perhaps it’s better for that child to be free from it all sooner.”

Yuan Xi sighed deeply in Huo Shiyuan’s arms, “Yeah, let’s wait until after the annual meeting before we return to Jiang City.”

“Okay,” Huo Shiyuan agreed.

Jiangyan Villa hadn’t been inhabited for quite a while, so Yuan Xi and Huo Shiyuan decided to stay at the sub-penthouse of Shiyi Hotel.

Before bed, Yuan Xi scrolled through Weibo and came across a post by Mengyou announcing the preview for Destroying Stars. The visuals were so stunning that even Yuan Xi was impressed, a testament to the massive investment of over two billion in the production’s early stages.

Mengyou added the caption, “With the purest of hearts, we create the purest of games @Mi Yi.”

Yuan Xi turned off her phone, knowing that Mi Chen’s success was inseparable from the Mi Yi team’s dedication to game development. However, their first success was Fall in Love with the Stars, which wasn’t even developed by the Mi Yi team.

This included the subsequent hits Forest Pursuit and Interstellar Voyage; none of which were solely overseen by Mi Yi but were released by Gu Hanchen following profitable gaming models.

The one game that Mi Yi had complete control over, Martial Arts Dream, constantly had the lowest revenue for Mi Chen.

Mi Yi always demanded sentiment and sincerity, but playing games, like watching movies, followed the same principle: arthouse films had high accolade rates but were niche and not commercially successful while family comedies were not as critically acknowledged but had high box office results.

With such a large-scale production, Destroying Stars was bound to receive rave reviews, but as a work of sentiment and sincerity, it was unlikely to make much money. It seemed Mengyou might suffer significant losses.

Yuan Xi was woken up in the morning by a call from Liang Suisui.

“Xiao Xi, I’ve got some earth-shattering gossip for you. Do you know about President Xu from Hengjie Paper Industry?”

“I do.”

Liang Suisui continued, “Isn’t President Xu from Hengjie Paper Industry also living next door to me in Jiangyan Villa? I just heard he got a mistress pregnant, and she made a scene this morning. Do you want to come over and see?”

“There’s nothing worth watching. President Xu has had plenty of illegitimate children.”

Yuan Xi knew President Xu had a bad reputation, and Mrs. Xu turned a blind eye to his affairs. If a mistress got pregnant, she’d be paid off, and whether she chose to keep the baby was up to the mistress.

Yuan Xi knew of at least five or six illegitimate children of President Xu.

“You’ll never guess who the mistress is!” Liang Suisui was incredibly excited.

Yuan Xi rubbed her eyes, “Who?”

“Chu Yan!”

Yuan Xi was momentarily stunned, then fully awake, “What?”