In fact, Cheng Liu’s deduction was not wrong.

Earlier in the afternoon, the Mingtai’s Executive Chairman asked the technical department to send a push notification to all car users and blame the system’s problem on Shenyin Technology. In less than half an hour, he received a message from the publicity department saying that there was negative news about Mingtai because of the accident.

The Mingtai’s Executive Chairman took a closer look at these negative news. However, he soon found that more and more marketing accounts were discussing Shenyin Technology’s culpability and only mentioned Mingtai Automobile Company in passing.

“Add fuel to their fire,” the Executive Chairman of Mingtai suddenly smiled, “Let everyone focus their attention to Shenyin Technology.”

… …

By the time Cheng Liu arrived at the company, more than an hour had passed. There were already more than one hot search about Shenyin Technology on Weibo. There was even a topic discussing whether Shenyin was capable of researching and developing self-driving cars, arguing that there was currently no sound domestic regulations in place.

The two headed to Shenyin Technology’s conference room for an emergency meeting.

“President Cheng, we have announced the end of our cooperation with Mingtai on our official blog and website. We also stated that our technology was not handed over to Mingtai for use at the end of the cooperation,” the head of Shenyin’s publicity department reported with a serious expression.

There were too many interested parties pushing the discussion time, and they had no way to deal with it in such a short period of time. They could spend all their efforts refuting these rumours until their legs fall off.

This alone was not enough to calm down the incident.

“The official website and official blog of Shenyin Technology will be like this for the time being. The recording can be released in advance.” Cheng Liu pointed to a person on the left side of the conference room. “You go to City H in person tonight to ensure that there will be no mistakes in the accident appraisal report and get a copy of the results as soon as possible.”

The man was stunned. He Bai had already sent people to City H more than an hour ago, but he quickly understood, “I’m going right away, and I won’t let anyone interfere.”

After the meeting, He Bai did not leave. He walked to Cheng Liu and said, “Is there really no need to hold a press conference in advance?”

“No need.” Cheng Liu stood up, “I still have something to prepare.”

“I’ll accompany you,” He Bo blurted out.

“No, you go prepare for the press conference tomorrow night. Coordinate with the media for questions and ensure that there would be no problems in the process.” Cheng Liu thought for a while and said, “Leave the last ten minutes for me to speak.”

“Okay,” He Bai left the conference room.

Cheng Liu sat on the chair at the head of the conference table, holding her phone and clicking on WeChat. She stared at Ji Chaozhou’s message for a moment, wondering if he had heard the news.

Probably not, he didn’t use media social software very much.

In the end, Cheng Liu didn’t send a message to Ji Chaozhou to save him from worrying.

… … translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

Cheng Liu logged out of WeChat and began to contact several officials from relevant departments.

Since those people behind the scenes wanted to force Shenyin Technology to give up the cake, she might as well overturn the entire cake and let everyone stand on the same starting line.

… …

“The fire is getting bigger and bigger.” Ji Mushan was sitting at the dining table, watching the news that was constantly being pushed. He smiled bitterly at his son, “Cheng Liu has made too many people jealous, and now everyone wants a piece of her hide. I can see that they are trying to force her to give up this tasty piece of cake—autonomous driving.”

All major car companies and technology companies wanted to get involved in this field, but most of them were not capable of independent research and development. Even if they were capable, they simply could not keep up with Shenyin, which was developing in leaps and bounds. 

Who could be willing to just stand by and watch Cheng Liu develop?

Admittedly, even Tianqi Automobile sometimes envied Shenyin Technology and their progress, and their in-house R&D technology department could not catch up at all.

“What will happen to her?” Ji Chaozhou suddenly asked.

Ji Mushan was silent for a while and said, “Right now, everyone wants to force Cheng Liu into quitting the field. If the higher-ups have to intervene, there would be too many at the table all trying to eat this slice of cake and she wouldn’t be able to eat any of it. The future development of Shenyin will come to a halt.”

Ji Chaozhou’s eyes fell on the mobile phone. As time went by, some mainstream media began to criticize Shenyin Technology for disregarding reality, its reckless development, and being too ambitious.

Cheng Liu just appeared on a livestream a few days ago, and her popularity was at its peak. Shenyin Technology was directly related to her. Now many people no longer limited their criticism with Shenyin, but also said that there was something wrong with her.

Ji Mushan watched his son’s silence and said proactively, “How about I call and ask about her situation. Let’s see if there’s anything we can do to help.”

Ji Chaozhou raised his eyes and stared at Ji Mushan for a moment before saying, “Thank you.”

Ji Mushan: “…”

A thank you?

Those who didn’t know would think that these two already had some kind of close relationship.

Ji Mushan coughed awkwardly, but he was happy to hear his son say this to him, even though it was for other people.

“I’ll call and ask.” Ji Mushan found Cheng Liu’s number and dialed it, and took the initiative to put it on speakerphone on the table so that Ji Chaozhou could listen in.

The first call didn’t go through, and there was the recorded message that the line was busy.

Ji Mushan called again after a minute, and Cheng Liu answered.

“Mr. Ji?” Cheng Liu asked on the other end of the phone, “Is there anything wrong?”

Ji Chaozhou felt slightly relieved when he heard Cheng Liu’s tone and voice. She was not nervous at all and was even a little too calm.

“Young President Cheng, is there anything I can do to help?” Ji Mushan didn’t hear the same thing Ji Chaozhou did and only wanted to please his son.

Cheng Liu listened to Ji Mushan’s words on the other end of the phone. She took the phone from her ear and looked at it to confirm that it was indeed Ji Mushan. Then she put it to her ear again and asked in surprise, “Mr. Ji, are you serious?”

When did Ji Mushan become so kind?

Could this be that kind of strange, mystical pull from a future family member?

If It’s Wrong, Then It’s Wrong translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

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Chapter 52.1 — Day 19: Guiding Public Opinion
Chapter 52.2 — Day 19: Guiding Public Opinion
Chapter 53.1 — Day 19: Wristwatch
Chapter 53.2 — Day 19: Wristwatch