My Multiple Identities Revealed After Marrying the Bigshot
Chapter 422: Clarification

Chapter 422: Chapter 422: Clarification

It was with great difficulty that a few photos finally loaded.

Lu Youxi saw the earlier photos and let out a cold laugh.

The photos were screenshots from the video of last night’s drinking session with Hu Xingwei at the hotel.

"I thought I’d have to wait a bit," Lu Youxi sneered, "but the other party was eager and posted them first thing this morning." He even made a point of checking when the post was made.

The post was made at 8:10 in the morning.

Exactly when students go to the cafeteria for breakfast, when they have nothing to do and could casually browse the school forum while eating.

The one who made the post really knew when the most Jing University students were browsing the forum.

"You knew?" Mai Ziqin said in surprise, "Then I was worrying for nothing."

"What are you talking about." Lu Youxi said with a smile, "If you hadn’t told me, I wouldn’t have found out this soon."

"Last night I did indeed set up a business meeting and knew someone had taken photos," Lu Youxi continued, "but these materials, they’ve been edited."

"Intentionally slandering you?" Mai Ziqin purposely raised his voice, wanting to help Lu Youxi debunk the rumors.

Lu Youxi remembered his kindness and nodded, "The video was edited just as I had people do it, to see what the other party really intended. I didn’t expect to get the answer today."

"Thanks," Lu Youxi stood up, packed up the books he had just taken out, and put them back in his bag.

"Where are you going?" Mai Ziqin hurriedly asked.

"To find the advisor, then the school leaders," Lu Youxi answered, "Not only do I need to clear things up, but I also need to find the person who’s maliciously slandering and wronging me."

After saying this, Lu Youxi slung his bag over his shoulder and left.

Lu Youxi arrived at Teacher Song’s office, knocked, and entered.

"Lu Youxi?" Upon seeing Lu Youxi, Teacher Song said, surprised, "Why have you come at this time? Don’t you have class?"

"Teacher Song, haven’t you seen the post on the school forum?" Lu Youxi asked.

"I saw it, and was planning to contact you after class," Teacher Song said, "You came because of this, huh?"

"Yeah, I think it’s better to clear things up as soon as possible, so I came right over," Lu Youxi said. "Missing one or two classes shouldn’t be a problem."

"Okay, then just go directly to the department head," Teacher Song stood up, gathered her things, and started walking out.

"Do you believe me?" Lu Youxi followed Teacher Song and asked as they walked.

"I don’t know why, but I believe you," Teacher Song said with a smile.

"Thank you."

They reached the department head’s office.

The department head also had a lot of trust in Lu Youxi, "I believe you wouldn’t do such a thing, but we need evidence to convince everyone."

"The principal has already been alerted," the department head told Lu Youxi, "the impact is too significant, it’s not just an issue for our college, but all the students across the school are paying attention to this."

"Let’s all go to the principal’s office together," said the department head, who then placed a phone call to the principal.

After confirming the principal was available, they took Lu Youxi and Teacher Song to see the principal.

"We’ll meet in the conference room," the department head said. "Other school leaders are there; let’s all hear it together."

"Don’t be nervous," the department head said to Lu Youxi as they approached the conference room. "The school leaders have come not to assign blame but to listen to your explanation, which can save a lot of unnecessary processes and prevent you from explaining over and over to different leaders."

"I have a clear conscience, I’m not nervous, and I will clarify everything to the leaders in a moment," Lu Youxi said with a smile.

Upon entering the conference room, they saw the principal and the school leaders all seated around the conference table.

Even Teacher Song felt nervous looking at the setup and glanced at the department head in silent query—was this setup really okay?

The principal spoke kindly, "Don’t be nervous; we chose the conference room because it’s spacious, and we have many people. My office would be too crowded, with no place to even stand."

"Make yourselves comfortable, don’t sit too stiffly, it’s too tense for everyone," the principal then said to the other leaders.

"Ahem." The leaders relaxed somewhat but still sat very upright.

Lu Youxi stepped forward and directly took out a USB drive from her bag.

The USB drive was a new product from Chengzhou that had not yet hit the market.

If it were to be launched, it would be the smallest and most convenient USB available.

She also took out the laptop she carried with her.

As she inserted the USB, Lu Youxi began to explain, "I come from the countryside, our village is named Hexing Village."

"Our village’s rice is actually very delicious, but before I came to Imperial Capital, like everyone else in the village, we ate our village’s rice every day and assumed that the quality was the norm, unaware that our rice was much better than what was being sold on the market."

"Our village’s rice was always directly sold to a factory. That factory took advantage of the fact that the villagers never had the chance to go out and didn’t know how good the quality of our rice was, hence they always bought it from us at a low price."

"After coming to the Imperial Capital, I realized that none of the rice I’ve tasted so far was as good as ours. Our village’s rice shouldn’t be sold at such a low price. Later, I opened a restaurant, where I bought our village’s rice at a high price to sell. Customers enjoyed it and even started to buy bags of rice from our restaurant."

"That gave me the idea, not just to sell the rice to our restaurant’s customers, but to sell our village’s rice in supermarkets," said Lu Youxi.

"The two men in the photo are the general manager and the purchasing manager of Yuehaolai Supermarket. I contacted them, and last night I really did go to negotiate business," explained Lu Youxi.

"I booked a room at the Dongshenglai Hotel. Then something surprising happened; a stranger contacted the hotel’s waiter, asking him to install the cameras they provided into the private room I had reserved, to capture my business negotiations."

"They even gave the waiter two thousand yuan. But the waiter turned around and handed the camera and money over and reported the incident to the owner of Dongshenglai. The owner contacted me immediately and told me about it."

"But I really couldn’t think of anyone I had offended, nor could I comprehend the significance of their secretly installing cameras to film me," Lu Youxi continued her explanation. "I’ve always been open and honest in my business dealings, clean-handed and unafraid of being filmed."

"Because I didn’t know the purpose and identity of the other party, even if I avoided it this time, there would be a next time. So, I decided to turn their scheme against them and had the hotel go ahead and install the camera," said Lu Youxi.

"And to protect me, the owner of the hotel installed another camera to record the entire process."