"Thank you, Director." Xia Chuyi said sincerely.

"But it’s really not necessary." Xia Chuyi smiled and shook her head. "If you’re innocent, you’ll be cleared. Once the police reach a conclusion, these things will naturally disappear."

Hearing what Xia Chuyi said, the director studied her for a moment. Seeing she was quite firm, he said, "All right then."

Very soon, Xia Chuyi took the movie tickets from the director’s hand.

"Thank you." Xia Chuyi said with a smile.

"What are you thanking me for?" the director said. "It’s just a few tickets. Can’t compare to the help you’ve given me."

Xia Chuyi smiled and said, "If you think this is a small matter, then... Director, how about I ask you for another favor?"

At that, the director immediately said, "What is it? As long as it’s something I can do, I’ll definitely help you!"

Xia Chuyi smiled again. "Then I’ll thank you in advance."

"Actually, it’s not anything major," Xia Chuyi went on. "I just want to ask you to help me look into who’s been fanning the flames behind these recent rumors, and what channels they’ve been using to do it..."

"Huh?" When he heard what she wanted help with, the director said, "For something like this, your family should... be able to find out better than I can, right?"

After all, whether it was the Ou Family or the Huo Family, they were both powerful clans!

The director couldn’t quite figure it out.

But Xia Chuyi spread her hands. "It’s true, my dad and my brother will definitely dig up some things, but... they won’t tell me."

"And..." Xia Chuyi paused slightly, her expression turning serious. "What I want to know isn’t just the simple origin of the rumors. I want to see the path and scope of their spread..."

If her father and older brother were investigating, they would most likely go after the main disseminators and try to cut things off at the source.

Xia Chuyi, however, wanted to use the spread paths and coverage to infer the ultimate intent of the mastermind behind it all.

"The path of their spread?" The director didn’t quite understand what she meant and asked, a bit puzzled.

"Mm." Xia Chuyi nodded. "The path of their spread... Because with this matter, I keep feeling like it’s rather complicated, so I want to get a clearer picture."

Xia Chuyi spoke somewhat ambiguously.

The reason she didn’t spell out the doubts and suspicions in her heart was that, for this whole affair, she was relying mostly on intuition.

Yet it was precisely this intuition that made Xia Chuyi very sure that this was aimed straight at her.

Although Xia Chuyi hadn’t explained clearly, and the director didn’t know the inside story either—

After thinking for a moment, the director said, "All right, I’ll look into it for you, and then I’ll get back to you with the results."

"Mm, thank you, Director." Xia Chuyi thanked him again.

After finishing her talk with the director, Chuyi was about to take her leave.

Because she needed to discuss something rather secret with the director, Xia Chuyi had asked her bodyguards to step away for a while.

So as soon as she walked out of the private room, she ran straight into someone.

Fortunately, Xia Chuyi’s reflexes were quick, and she dodged the other person.

"Hey, what kind of way is that to walk?"

Before Xia Chuyi, who had almost been hit, could say anything, the other person was already indignantly raising their voice.

Hearing this, Xia Chuyi’s brows immediately furrowed deeply.

Since Xia Chuyi wasn’t the one at fault, she naturally wasn’t going to apologize.

But just as Xia Chuyi was about to argue back, the other person turned slightly to the side, and Xia Chuyi finally saw their face clearly...