That very afternoon, the old man's son was released.
After being released, he returned to the company. The seals on the company had not been fully lifted, so he could only begin a difficult internal cleanup under supervision—yes, merely sorting out some internal resources and investigating certain matters.
As for the livestreaming platform? Of course, it was still shut down. The official word was that it would be closed for rectification for a month.
The actual person in control had gone all out and uncovered a huge pile of problems—some involving content, some financial, and most frightening of all... some involving ideology.
He was actually quite aggrieved. While he had tacitly allowed the exploitation of small streamers, he had always been sensitive about ideological content. But he could not stop people from finding every possible way to court disaster, risking their lives to push the line.
And because of conflicting interests, some employees had turned a blind eye to this content as well, so... it became a tragedy.
The entire company mobilized and spent twelve days and nights carrying out the cleanup before they finally made some headway.
Meanwhile, the boss had already spent more than twenty million. Aside from paying people to go easy on them, Lin Beauty and Lin Heihu were also major targets for his spending.
He was utterly speechless about some of his father's actions. They said they didn't want money, so you just didn't give them any?
Saving money was certainly a good thing, but no matter how much you saved, you had to be alive to spend it.
Given the nature of Lin Beauty's work, she could not accept gifts or money. However, she had once sold high-priced information to the former boss, which meant she did not mind making some extra money—as long