"…Lu Yao and Jing Yi are in our hands now. So what if we took that bitch Jing Meng's designs as our own? This robot belongs to us now! Brother Gong, let's launch this robot as our new product next season!"
"Mm. I'll hold a grand release conference then. I'll use the lives of the Jing family's mother and son to threaten Jing Meng into giving up her kidney. It'll be my engagement gift to you. My Xixi deserves only the best things…"
In the recording, the voices of Pei Gong and Bai Xi were crystal clear. Every word was like a knife stabbing into the two of them.
No! It can't play any longer!
Bai Xi, whose face was already sickly, turned deathly pale. She shielded her face with her hands and shrieked hysterically, "Turn it off! Someone turn that damn robot off! Brother Gong!"
"Hurry! Do it now!" Pei Gong was also losing his mind. He grabbed an engineer and shoved him toward the robot.
As the two of them tore off their masks of pretension, roaring like wild beasts, the recording—filled with a slight static hiss began to play the sounds of the two of them in a heated, intimate embrace.
The sounds of their ambiguous passion were like a slap across their faces, leaving them dazed and reeling.
The launch site instantly devolved into chaos. A massive swarm of reporters could no longer contain themselves, rushing the stage with cameras and microphones.
The research team, funded heavily by Lingyun Technology, scrambled around the uniquely shaped robot. They tried every trick in the book, yet they still couldn't shut it down.
"Useless! Get out of the way!" Bai Xi shoved the crowd aside, her hands trembling as she tapped frantically on the control panel. She tried every method she knew, but it remained on.
The noise from the crowd below grew louder. How could an engineer not even know how to turn off a robot they supposedly designed? It was the joke of the century!
The audience was abuzz with gossip, and the people on stage were frantic. Accompanied by the looped recording of their illicit affair, the spectacle was truly a sight to behold.
Bai Xi's hair was a mess and her expression was crazed. She pounded on the robot again and again, her sharp high heels viciously kicking the hard metal chassis. Her behavior left the onlookers startled and afraid.
"Heh—" A cold sneer drifted from the edge of the stage.
Everyone turned to look. A woman wearing a patient gown walked slowly onto the stage, barefoot. She pushed through the group surrounding the robot and reached out with a fair, slender hand. She tapped a specific spot on the robot's neck a few times, and the entire stage instantly fell silent.
The eerie quiet caused every person present to turn their complicated gazes toward Bai Xi.
"Jing… Jing… Why are you here? You should be—" Stunned, Pei Gong snapped his mouth shut.
Jing Meng took a few breaths. She habitually rested her hand in a decorative-looking groove on the robot's head and smiled nonchalantly. "Where else should I be? On the operating table in Room 1508?"
Among the crowd, several media reporters had already slipped out of the banquet hall, running toward the elevators.
In a corner, Pei Shiyi held the constantly vibrating Snowdrop Earring between his fingertips. He watched the pale woman on stage with an unreadable expression.
Jing Meng's sharp gaze swept toward the dazed Bai Xi. "You know how to build it but not how to shut it off? Did Miss Bai put her heart into the design and her foot into the switch?"
"You!" Bai Xi finally snapped out of it, her face flushing red. she glared at Jing Meng, a flicker of panic crossing her carefully made-up eyes. "This new robot is still in the R&D stage; occasional loss of control is expected. You suddenly rush up and touch Lingyun Technology's robot what are your intentions? Security! Drag her down!"
"Wait?"
Before the security guards in the corner could move, a confused voice rose from the crowd. "That lady looks so familiar… she looks like… the daughter of the Jing Family!"
The crowd erupted like a boiling pot, and the discussions grew loud.
"The Jing Family's daughter? Is it the same Jing Family I'm thinking of? The one involved in that scandal a few years ago?"
"You guys… didn't it occur to you that the Jing Meng in that recording is the Jing Family's daughter?"
"But wait! Isn't Miss Bai her cousin…?"
As the matters from the recording were brought up again, Bai Xi saw that the situation was spiraling out of control. She quickly changed her strategy, adjusting her expression to one of extreme surprise. She looked Jing Meng up and down before speaking with a sobbing tone. "Cousin! Is it really you?"
"Back then, you did such foolish things for a man… but everyone was willing to forgive you. Brother Gong even agreed to break the engagement quietly so you wouldn't be embarrassed. Now, your father is in prison because of you, and your mother and younger brother are missing. You've finally decided to show up!"
"Though the child died and you're grieving, Aunt was only trying to protect your reputation. After all, for a girl…"
As Bai Xi spoke, her eyes grew red. Two hot tears landed on the back of Jing Meng's hand, making her feel a wave of nausea. She violently threw her hand back, shoving Bai Xi aside.
These two people had caused her happy family to fall apart, ruined her reputation, killed her child, and destroyed her life. They even used her mother and brother to threaten her, and now they were turning the tables?
"Put away your little tricks, Bai Xi," Jing Meng's voice was bone-chilling. The cold light in her eyes looked as if it could pierce right through the woman opposite her. "What you do, I see. Those words in the recording were they spoken by a dog?"
Bai Xi froze. Her thin body swayed as if she were about to collapse at any moment. Large tears fell one after another, her eyes filled with the sorrow of someone being disbelieved. "That recording is fake! I don't know who is trying to frame me…"
"Exactly," Pei Gong stepped forward, supporting Bai Xi's arm. He looked at Jing Meng with a reproachful glare. "Miss Jing, your conduct was improper back then and caused a huge scandal. The Pei Family was generous enough not to pursue it, yet you still want to harm us? You are truly ungrateful!"
Bai Xi raised a hand to brush back a stray hair near her ear, looking at Pei Gong with affection. However, she intentionally revealed an exquisitely crafted silver bracelet on her wrist, holding it before Jing Meng's eyes with a veiled, threatening look.
Another low-level trick. Using her mother and brother to threaten her again did they really think she was a pushover?
Having lived this life once before, she would never be blinded again. Once she got her hands on the Narman Metal, she would let these two experience exactly what "high-end technology" meant!
Seeing Jing Meng remain silent, Bai Xi thought she had been intimidated. "Cousin, you must have suffered a lot after running away from home, which is why you're speaking nonsense. I'll arrange for you to get some rest. Once the launch is over, we'll go back together, okay?"
"There's no need," Jing Meng stepped back, avoiding her hand.
"I was rescued by my boyfriend. I won't trouble you."
"Boyfriend?"
A woman who had been defiled by a stranger and carried a bastard child who would want her?
Bai Xi fought back the urge to sneer, instead looking at her with faked heartache. "Cousin, there's no need to force yourself. Don't tell a lie that's so easily exposed."
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