She had to deal with the immediate crisis before pursuing the nurse's culpability.
At that moment, there was a knock on the study door. She heard the old lady's voice, "Jiayi, are you in there?"
"Yes." She got up to open the door.
The old lady walked straight in, sat down at the study desk, and asked with an angry expression, "What exactly is going on? Why do the shareholders all know that Zhendong has become a vegetative state!"
Zhan Jiayi was speechless for a moment.
The old lady slammed the table forcefully and said, "Several old shareholders of Xie Corporation have called me to verify this matter. How am I supposed to explain it to them!"
"I'm sorry, it was my oversight. A nurse taking care of Zhendong must have been bribed by someone and leaked this information," Zhan Jiayi said helplessly.
"It's over, it's over, we're going to collapse... The Xie family is finished!" the old lady wailed, beating her chest.
Zhan Jiayi quickly stepped forward to comfort her, "Old Madam, please calm down. Let me think of another way. It's not yet at a point where it cannot be salvaged."
The old lady clutched her chest and said, "What other way is there? Don't think I don't know what's happening outside just because I haven't left the house. Xie Corporation's stock price is now worth less than cabbage!"
"It will get better," Zhan Jiayi could only comfort the old lady feebly.
"I... how will I face the old man underground, how will I explain to the ancestors of the Xie family..." The old lady, overcome with anger, gasped for breath.
Zhan Jiayi cried out in a panic, "Lian Ma, Lian Ma! Come quickly and check on the old lady, bring her usual medicine!"
Lian Ma, hearing her shouts from downstairs, immediately ran to the study and gave the old lady a blood pressure-lowering pill, but she still showed no signs of improvement.
They then called an ambulance and sent the old lady to the hospital.
After the old lady was revived, with Lian Ma taking care of her, Zhan Jiayi left the hospital alone.
She saw many missed calls on her phone from Old Zhou, her secretary, and some shareholders... she hadn't answered or replied to any of them.
Sitting in the car, she pondered. The only way forward was to record a video of Xie Zhendong, making him appear energetic while sitting in his hospital bed.
However, Zhendong couldn't speak and couldn't move his hands freely, making it easy for people to find flaws.
She contacted Zhendong's attending physician and asked, "Is there any way to make my husband look like a normal person? Just for a few minutes?"
The doctor replied with difficulty, "There is an injection that can temporarily make Mr. Xie appear very energetic, but there is no special medicine to make him speak or move freely immediately."
"Does that kind of stimulant injection have side effects?" Zhan Jiayi could only think of this method, having no other options.
"Of course, there will be some side effects. It will make Mr. Xie look radiant for one to two hours, but after the effect wears off, he will be listless for a week. This injection stimulates the nervous system, and afterward, the nervous system will degenerate, requiring some time to recover."
"Alright, thank you." Zhan Jiayi asked, "If this injection is needed, can it be administered at any time?"
"Yes, you can inform me half a day in advance."
"Then please prepare this injection, and I will notify you. Perhaps I will need to administer medication to my husband at any time."
"Mrs. Xie, I understand."
Zhan Jiayi was still hesitant to make a decision. She then saw a text message from her secretary.
"General Manager Zhan, please check online quickly! Someone has posted photos of President Xie as a vegetative state online."
She hurriedly went online with her phone and saw photos without mosaics appearing online, showing Zhendong lying in bed covered in tubes.
She didn't need to be told that the nurse must have secretly taken them. She could no longer tolerate it and called her lawyer, asking the lawyer to report it to the police immediately and pursue the nurse's criminal responsibility.
After finishing the call with her lawyer, she suddenly realized that Zhendong couldn't speak, but the video could be dubbed later.
If he sat motionless in the video, it would better show his imposing presence, and the effect should be even better.
With Zhendong's video, those rumors would be self-defeating.
Once she had made up her mind, she immediately drove back to the Xie family mansion. She still needed to discuss this matter with Zhendong. If he agreed, then she could proceed.
...
Early in the morning, Xi Xianya's mother, while Xianya was out selling vegetables, took a report she saw online and showed it to Ai Yifeng.
Ai Yifeng was writing program code on his computer at his desk. When he saw the report on the mobile phone handed to him by Xi Xianya's mother, he was stunned for a moment.
He wanted to brush it off, saying, "Aunt, why do you also like to read these messy news?"
Xi's mother said seriously, "The girl mentioned in the report is Xiaoya, and the chairman of that group is Zhao Jianhua, right?"
"How could that be? It's not. Aunt, you're thinking too much..."
"Don't lie to me. The faces of the people in these photos are mosaicked, but the clothes this girl is wearing are exactly the same as Xiaoya's clothes, and so is her hairstyle," Xi's mother said. "Even if you can't see her face, as her mother, I can recognize her!"
Ai Yifeng did not expect Xi's mother to discover these details and could not find any other excuses.
Xi's mother, angry and distressed, continued, "Ever since she started singing in bars, I felt something was wrong with her. But she never told me the truth, always reporting good news and hiding bad. I thought she had just entered society after graduating and might be experiencing difficulties. But I didn't expect her, she actually became involved with Zhao Jianhua so carelessly!"
"Aunt, it's not what you think. She was forced..."
"You know all this, and you're still willing to be with her?" Xi's mother suddenly remembered something and said, "The child she's carrying is Zhao Jianhua's?"
Ai Yifeng shook his head and said, "She was threatened by Zhao Jianhua, not voluntarily. I've had a similar experience, so I can understand her and don't mind her past."
Xi's mother didn't quite believe Ai Yifeng could be so generous and smiled, saying, "That's because you are still young and attracted to each other. Will you still not mind it after a long time?"
"Aunt..." Before Ai Yifeng could say anything more, Xi Xianya had returned.
Xi's mother quickly put away her phone and turned back to her room.
Ai Yifeng looked at Xi Xianya, unsure of what to say to her.
As soon as Xi Xianya entered, she felt the atmosphere was strange and asked, "What were you and my mother talking about just now? Why did my mother leave when she saw me?"
Ai Yifeng said helplessly, "Aunt is not as easily fooled as you think. She knows everything in her heart. I think you should tell her everything. That way, she won't guess wildly, which would affect her health."
Xi Xianya glared at him, thinking he had said something to her mother, and said coldly, "Ai Yifeng, who do you think you are? A savior! I don't need your sympathy or pity. My affairs with my mother do not require your interference!"
Ai Yifeng was bewildered by her words, looking embarrassed, and said with a hint of anger, "I didn't say anything to your mother. Auntie noticed it herself!"