As soon as these words were spoken, the scene instantly fell silent, everyone stunned by such a statement.
Everyone present recognised Hua Ling’s celebrity face, a star who had been immensely popular in recent years.
To say that she was in the prime of her career yet suddenly bankrupt, no one could possibly believe it.
So even Hao Ge couldn’t help but laugh.
“Stop spouting nonsense here. I’m her boss, how could I not know whether she’s bankrupt? She clearly still has ten million!”
After Hao Ge roared this, Xu Fei’s actions didn’t pause for a moment.
He then took Hua Ling’s phone and showed it to everyone present.
On the two phone screens, one displayed Hua Ling’s bank account balance, indeed showing only one yuan left.
The other screen showed an electronic version of a newspaper, with the front-page headline announcing Hua Ling’s bankruptcy.
According to the newspaper, Hua Ling had donated her entire ten million yuan fortune to a charitable organisation earlier that day, leaving only one yuan in her account!
“This… when did this happen? How could I, as her management company, not know? It must be some random tabloid reporter you found, those papers have no credibility whatsoever!”
“And I don’t believe for a second that you’d donate ten million! This is absolutely a publicity stunt!”
Seeing this, Hao Ge was momentarily stunned, but he quickly reacted, thinking this was likely Xu Fei’s cunning ploy.
But then Xu Fei let out a cold laugh.
“You can check for yourself. This Morning News is a decades-old newspaper. Sure, it’s been struggling lately, but you can’t say it lacks credibility!”
After Xu Fei’s words, some in the crowd indeed verified the source and distribution of these newspapers, holding up their phones.
“We did check, and these newspapers, while not distributed in the capital, were all circulated in the capital region.”
This plain and simple truth instantly broke Hao Ge’s composure, and he burst out cursing.
“Who the hell hired you? Whose side are you on?”
After his outburst, he turned to find Xu Fei had just put down his phone.
“What did you just do?”
Hao Ge asked warily, and Xu Fei gave a mysterious smile.
“Of course, I recorded your little tantrum just now, ready to buy the front-page headline of other media outlets.”
“By tonight, the headline will probably read: ‘Zhenghao Group boss spends big to smear his own employee with shady media!'”
After Xu Fei said this, Hao Ge felt choked, unable to respond.
“What are you staring at? There’s only one solution now. Either we go down together, and you keep feeding lines to these reporters, while I buy tonight’s news headline!”
“Or I delete this video in front of you, and you tear up all the contracts in front of me, and we call it even. What do you say?”
With that, Xu Fei had backed Hao Ge, who held all the advantages, into a corner, leaving him so furious he kept scratching his hair, his hairstyle now a complete mess.
But after冷静ly thinking it over, Hao Ge realised that agreeing to Xu Fei’s settlement might be his only option.
After all, as the boss of a listed company, he couldn’t afford any scandals or negative press.
