Mr. Su's Love Investigation Report
Chapter 123 Disgrace

Chapter 123: Chapter 123 Disgrace

So what? Then you’re going to do a follow-up report and positive interview on Mei, right? Can you still live a normal life?

She browsed through the news on the mobile app. It had just been posted this morning, and it had already blown up!

This report was even more popular than the one on Dust Lung Disease!

Looking further down at the comments, they were already divided into two factions arguing, but most of them were viciously insulting the two women with the worst kind of filthy language. Tu Hengsha simply couldn’t bear to read on.

Yet the byline of the report still bore three names: Su Ronggui, Tu Hengsha, Su Rongxing!

The office phone rang at that moment.

Hao Ren picked it up, and after answering, turned back, "Little Sha, it’s for you."

Tu Hengsha put down her phone to take the call, and a somewhat familiar female voice came through, "Are you that reporter?"

Mei...

"Yes, I am." She wanted to say sorry, but then she was afraid her odd behavior might attract others’ attention.

"I want... I want to ask you to take down that report..." Mei started crying on the other end, "I shouldn’t have told you so much that day... I was just too upset... too upset to hold it in... I regret it now..."

"Are you... okay?" Tu Hengsha felt a pang of dull pain at her heart with Mei’s sobs.

"Not okay... I don’t want my story to be known by the entire nation... I don’t want to be scolded by so many people... I called not to seek help. I don’t need it. I can survive on my own... This time... I... I can survive without selling my body... But... I don’t want to see myself in the news... I don’t want to be recognized by people in this place... they’re all talking... saying such horrid things... too horrid... I know it’s my fault... can’t blame others for saying... but... I... I want to start over... Please... can you take down the news?"

"I understand, I’m sorry." Tu Hengsha felt miserable, just like the time in her childhood when she finally made a friend, who exchanged their deepest secrets. She told the friend her sorrow, that her father was a murderer, only for everyone to know the next day. A new wave of ridicule and contempt and even bullying stormed toward her. This feeling was called betrayal, and from then on, she never easily made friends again.

In the end, she did say the words, "I’m sorry." She meant to explain that she wasn’t the one who wrote the report, but then what difference would it have made? The report was already out there, and the secondary damage to Mei had been done. Would explaining make Mei feel any less hurt? Moreover, Mei’s story, from beginning to end, was only told to her. In essence, the primary responsibility lay with her!

Her unusual behavior caught Su Rongxing’s attention, and he raised his voice, "Tu Hengsha, whose call was it?"

Tu Hengsha hung up the phone without answering.

"Was it that woman called Mei?" Su Rongxing quickly walked over.

Tu Hengsha turned around, picked up a newspaper, held it in her hand, and loudly questioned, "The report on the women of Dust Lung Village, who wrote it?"

No one answered directly.

Su Rongxing had a haughty smile on his face, "What’s wrong?"

Tu Hengsha’s gaze swept back and forth between Su Ronggui and Su Rongxing, "I just want to know! Who, without permission, randomly used the stuff on my computer! Mr. Su, did you authorize it?"

She thought the article wasn’t written by Su Ronggui; he still had a lame hand! But Su Rongxing’s drafts always passed through his eyes and were polished by him before going out! So, this matter might not have nothing to do with him! Moreover, during her days in the intensive care unit, her computer was in his custody!

Su Ronggui didn’t answer her question.

Hao Ren stepped forward, "Little Sha, calm down!"

"Calm down? I can’t calm down about this! My name appeared in the byline, and I feel ashamed!" She forcefully threw the newspaper to the ground.

Su Rongxing was infuriated by her words, "Ashamed? Tu Hengsha! Don’t make yourself sound so noble! Don’t forget what you used to do! In nicer terms, an entertainment reporter; to put it bluntly, a paparazzi prying into people’s privacy! What? Just changed places, and you forgot your roots? Thought you’re suddenly all grand and noble? Besides, what’s wrong with this report? Today’s top trending! Even more attention than the previous Dust Lung Disease report! The related people had aliases and mosaics used. What’s the issue?"

"Yes! The related people had aliases! Mosaics were used! But did you report it with their consent? Were they willing for you to report it? You’re still letting people contact you willingly? After contacting you, you can continue interviewing face-to-face and tracking their stories, then again, a high-traffic article, right?" Tu Hengsha was so furious her voice cracked.

"Yes! That’s exactly what I intended!" Su Rongxing never lost in a quarrel, "So what? If those in the media don’t write high-traffic articles, then why are they in the media? If you didn’t write high-traffic articles, how did you explode the entertainment circle when you were a paparazzi? And if you didn’t want to report, then just don’t report it, right? But that Sun Yulin and his cohort didn’t want you reporting them, either! You even risked your life to get evidence? Resulting in Su Ronggui losing a hand? We’re all journalists; we’re in the same boat, what right do you have to judge me?"

"Sun Yulin and the others, are they the same? Their actions were already illegal! But these women! They’re truly pitiable! They were ready to start anew and live their lives properly! Yet you stirred up such a storm! How are they supposed to live? If life gave them the first layer of harm, then you, you’ve given them the second!" Tu Hengsha was tormented by Mei’s cries ringing in her ears, feeling all the more miserable. She had unwittingly become the person she despised the most!

"Harm? Pitiable? Illegal?" Su Rongxing sneered, "Don’t forget, prostitution is also illegal! Adultery deserves moral condemnation! Such people are pitiable? Worthy of the term ’harm’? Then again, you guys living at the bottom can probably understand each other better, but I still have to advise you, at least now you’re a journalist for Chenjiang, though the salary isn’t high, at least the job is noble, and someday, if you lack money and can’t bear life’s harm, you won’t resort to selling yourself! No one would pity you then!"

Tu Hengsha felt she had never met a more infuriating person than Su Rongxing in her life, not even the "friend" who betrayed her as a child could compare!

She was shaking all over with anger, and finally, she didn’t want to say anything more to this person. Swinging her palm, she just wanted to slap that annoying mouth hard.

However, the slap did not hit the target she intended, nor did it produce the crisp sound she expected. All that was heard was a muffled "thud," as her slap landed on Su Ronggui’s shoulder.

Indeed, the esteemed Mr. Su had inserted himself between the two, taking the slap for Su Rongxing.

"Heh..." She laughed in rage, a cold laugh; indeed, Su Rongxing was truly his treasure!

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