Everything happens suddenly, and everything calms down just as suddenly.

Three days later, the Chaoyang Public Security Blog published a notice stating that certain media remarks about Mr. Xu Rong’s obtaining illegitimate benefits by obtaining false certificates were slanderous and were caused by unfair business competition and improper internal management of the company.

The overwhelming curses from various media outlets suddenly stopped, as if they were being strangled by the throat.

Silence, then death.

No one expected that the incident would subside in such a way. Usually, most of these incidents last for a long time, with everyone spitting and spitting. The final direction of public opinion depends entirely on their own methods.

But behind closed doors, no one’s butt is clean if their own family knows their own affairs. In this case, no one will report the matter to the law enforcement agencies.

After the criticism and reputation of Xu Rong's artistic ethics and even morality from the outside world suddenly subsided, his past "relatives and friends" stood up one after another, saying that they did not believe it from the beginning to the end. Although Xu Rong was young, he had no moral integrity or artistic ethics.

, all can stand the test.

Everyone's mouth speaks louder than gold.

Public opinion turned again, especially after Xu Rong accepted a phone interview and apologized to the people across the country.

"I'm sorry for taking up so many public resources for my personal reasons. I really feel guilty. I'm an actor, that is, an acting person. If those rumors can make us young and old have fun after dinner, it's no big deal.

Thank you for your concern and attention, and I apologize to everyone again."

People often say that bitches are ruthless and actors are meaningless. In contemporary times, there is an industry that is more ruthless than bitches and more meaningless than actors: the media.

Before the first batch of newspapers covering Xu Rong's body was distributed to various places, all kinds of accolades and praises came one after another. He seemed to be regarded as a model of artistic ethics and a moral benchmark for the younger generation of contemporary artists.

No matter how controversial the outside world is, Xu Rong still lives his own life.

Early in the morning, he still insisted on the habit he had just formed, wearing shorts and shorts, and running hard on the playground.

Spring has just begun, and the weather is still slightly chilly.

Xu Rong panted slightly, his face was calm, and he looked ahead firmly, reviewing the whole thing in his mind. This test was really thrilling. He never expected that it was just a trivial thing, and he almost denied it completely.

his efforts over the past few years.

Guo Si stood by the playground wearing a brown windbreaker, covering his chubby figure, with his hands in his pockets, waiting quietly.

They have to attend a meeting later, a personnel appointment and dismissal meeting within the brokerage company.

The exposure of poor management within the company led the group to finally make up its mind to rectify the brokerage company.

This place was usually Chang Jihong's small independent kingdom.

But starting from today, no more.

Due to physical discomfort, Chang Jihong temporarily stepped down from his position as general manager to recuperate. As Xu Rong's agent, she was successfully promoted to vice president, and as the temporary person in charge, she temporarily presided over the work of the brokerage company.

When Xu Rong finished running five laps and arrived, Guo Sicai smiled and said, "Let's go and see off the leader."

Seeing her complacent look, Xu Rong smiled and said, "Looking at what you said, it sounds like someone is about to resign. As long as your subtitle is still there for a day, he might come back."

"Haha." Guo Si smiled and shrugged, and said, "We'll talk about it when the time comes. The worst thing is to raise your hands to welcome him."

In the large conference room on the sixth floor, Chang Jihong sat on the right, Guo Si sat on the left, and in the middle was Group Vice President Zhao Junkai, who was responsible for announcing the personnel appointments and dismissals.

"Thank you for your support over the years, thank you."

After listening to Chang Jihong's speech, many of the executives and top artists in the conference room had red eyes, especially Xu Rong, who looked the saddest, with tears rolling in his eyes and about to fall down.

After Zhao Junkai finished his announcement, Chang Jihong made a touching summary, and Guo Si looked forward to a bright future, the meeting officially ended.

But when everyone was leaving, Chang Jihong suddenly said: "Xiao Guo, no, Mr. Guo, and Teacher Xu Rong, please stay here for a moment. I have something to explain."

Zhao Junkai paused as he was about to stand up. He looked at Xu Rong who was also about to stand up and leave. Seeing that he did not refuse, he nodded slightly.

"The time has come. If you win, open the skylight and speak frankly." Chang Jihong glanced at the two of them, sighed and said, "It's better for me to understand."

When the door of the conference room was closed, Xu Rong sat down again, tears streaming down her face, and said: "Sister Hong, what's going on? Why are you about to take a break all of a sudden?"

Guo Si hurriedly took out two pieces of paper, handed them to Xu Rong, and said comfortingly: "Teacher Xu, don't be sad. Sister Hong is just taking a break. She will come back when she recovers one day."

Xu Rong wiped the tears on her face and said with choked sobs: "As you know, I have no parents. In the past few years, although I have called Sister Hong, Sister Hong, I have always regarded Sister Hong as my mother."

Chang Jihong looked at the tears rolling down Xu Rong's face and the two of them singing together, and sneered: "It's only now that I understand how wrong I was. I thought that although you have a good image, you are not a good person."

Damn, you can’t be a good actor, but until today I realized that you are not only a good actor, but also the best actor I have ever seen.”

Xu Rong was shocked when he heard this, raised his head and asked: "Sister Hong, what do you mean?"

Chang Jihong stared at him coldly and said in a cold voice: "You designed all of this, right?"

"Sister Hong, I don't understand..."

Chang Jihong raised her hand to interrupt him and said: "No matter how harshly I treated you before, you never expressed dissatisfaction. Every time you saw me, you would still smile. Just like now, you would call me Sister Hong enthusiastically.

Until half a month ago."

"You rejected the announcement I arranged. I thought you were red and swollen at that time, but now that I think about it, it's not the case."

She tightened her coat tightly and seemed to be a little cold: "You had already planned it. You had expected that "Yangcheng Secret Whistle" would become popular, so you rejected me directly and asked Mr. Zhao before I made a decision.

, instructing the chairman’s secretary, Xiao Zhang, to ask for your phone number from me, so that I can avoid you, and at the same time, it will intensify my dissatisfaction with you."

Xu Rong's face was full of confusion: "Sister Hong, I really don't understand what you are talking about."

"It doesn't matter if you don't admit it. Let me tell you another thing. You gave that material to Xiao Guo a long time ago, probably for the purpose of sending it to me, because no matter what, as long as this incident breaks out,

, this material will eventually be in my hands."

"If I choose to operate on the good side, you will have smooth sailing from now on, and you will have no worries. If I choose to operate on the bad side, this will be the situation today. Am I guessing right? Teacher Xu?" Chang Jihong leaned forward a little,

It seems that he wants to see Xu Rong more clearly.

"At the beginning, I doubted the authenticity of this matter, so I asked someone to investigate. You did work as a tutor in that training institution, and you were a high school dropout at the time. I don't think that medium-sized

A large-scale training institution will hire you as a high school dropout. You must be able to get in because you made a false certificate. There is absolutely no way this matter is false."

Chang Jihong's face showed a hint of interest and confusion: "But what I can't quite understand is why the people from that training institution lied when the police were investigating and collecting evidence. What's even more ridiculous is that a few ordinary people would lie.

Despite being hidden from the police, there is another question. After the police confirmed that the false evidence was a rumor, why did they spend so much effort to find the source of the rumor and finally found me?"

"Is all this a coincidence? Teacher Xu?"

Faced with Chang Jihong's slander, a trace of anger flashed across Xu Rong's face: "Sister Hong, the pure will become pure, and the turbid will become turbid. I believe you understand this truth."

Chang Jihong seemed extremely angry, and his face suddenly flushed: "Are you teaching me the principles of life? At this time, don't you want to laugh out loud?"

Xu Rong's expression gradually became serious and said: "Sister Hong, I respect you, but if you continue to slander me like this, then I will have no choice but to file a lawsuit tomorrow and ask you to apologize to me in front of the media and bribe the media.

Spreading rumors about our artists, trampling on their reputation, and hindering their career development."

Chang Jihong listened to the tone of Xu Rongyi's words and was stunned. He pinched the corners of the conference table with both hands, his fat body trembling slightly.

She has never seen such a shameless person.

Xu Rong wanted to "kill" her and completely quit this industry.

Xu Rong's face suddenly turned soft again and said: "Sister Hong, it's still the same sentence. I respect you. I can forget about what I just said, but I need an apology."

Guo Si had been stunned for a long time. She didn't know if everything Chang Jihong said was true. When she heard Xu Rong's request, she opened her eyes wide and looked at him in disbelief.

Even though Chang Jihong is no longer the general manager, he has been her leader for several years and still has the threat of death. Even she will still call her "Sister Hong".

But now, Xu Rong actually asked her to apologize?

Chang Jihong's face turned from red to white, then from white to red, and finally turned livid. She looked at Xu Rong for nearly ten seconds. After seeing that he didn't give in at all, she slowly stood up with a trembling body and held on to the conference table.

, bent down and whispered: "Yes... no... get up."

Xu Rong waited until she finished apologizing, then hurriedly reached out to help her up. He smiled bitterly and sighed: "Hey, Sister Hong, what are you doing? I was just joking. In fact, I really don't know why you did this to me.

Such a big opinion, but you will still be my biological sister from now on."

After finishing speaking, Xu Rong stood up and was about to leave the conference room. When he reached the door, he turned his head again and smiled at Chang Jihong, who had already slumped in the chair: "By the way, Sister Hong, let's sit down and have a meal together when you have time."

, after all, we are all a family."

After working all afternoon and having a celebration dinner with the two of them in the evening, Guo Si drove Xu Rong to the school gate.

After getting off the car, he did not go back to school immediately. He looked at the star-studded night sky for a long time, slowly took out a Peking University student ID card from his pocket, opened it and looked at it for a while, then took out a lighter from his pocket.

"Crack."

The flames lit the corners.

The firelight reflected on his face, flickering on and off.

The reason why he was cautious about the conversation with Chang Jihong during the day was because he could think of it as Chang Jihong's last chance to make a comeback, such as audio or video recording, especially when Chang Jihong later did not mention the bad things she had done.

, he further confirmed this guess.

Since you become a villain, you have to have the consciousness of being a villain, and just keep some things in mind.

As for the reason why the police "could not find out" the truth from Jin Fangfang's mouth, and why they continued to search for the source of the rumors like a mad dog after confirming his "innocence", these are all due to Aunt Xu.

Auntie's energy is beyond imagination.

As the student ID card burned away and turned into a pile of black ashes, he lifted up his leather shoes and stepped on it with a bang.

Three years ago, in order to obtain the authentic version of this certificate, he carried a nylon bag with bedding on his back and set out from the small county town where he had lived for seventeen years.

Later, because of this false certificate, he met classmate Xiao Zhang, one of the two most important people in his life at this time, and was admitted to Nortel, where he had various encounters later on.

Now that he has a real student ID card and has academic ability and experience beyond what the student ID card can prove, there is no need for it to exist.

After twisting the soles of Ning's shoes and mixing the paper dust with the soil, he put his hands into the pockets of his windbreaker. Under the illumination of the street lamp, his long figure turned around and walked towards the school gate.
Chapter completed!