Explosive gossip: Bai Corporation's twisted harem scheme!

Once Zheng Ye had calmed down, Ning Shile pulled out of his embrace.

Zheng Ye stood where he was, looking reluctant to let him go.

Zheng Mother glanced at her son, her expression growing even more disdainful. Then she beckoned to Ning Shile. "Come here, Lele. Look what I found on my feed!"

"What is it?" Ning Shile leaned closer.

Zheng Mother handed him her phone. On the screen was an anonymous post accusing a boss of appalling behavior—selecting women for his own harem.

[Topic: A corporation's boss pits women against each other to build his harem—a recruitment scam targeting female college students!]

[That headline practically screams criminal charges!]

Zheng Mother nodded to herself.

Right? Right? Hurry up and read it!

See if you know anything about this gossip. I'm dying to know.

Ning Shile opened the post and found it filled with accusations about the boss's harem selection and psychological manipulation in the workplace.

What it described was horrifying. This so-called company was practically a private harem built for an emperor to select his consorts.

Most of the company's recruits were young women, while the team leaders and managers were seasoned manipulators. They wore the women down psychologically, then offered emotional validation, repeating that push and pull until the women became hooked.

From the moment the women joined the company, those people had only one goal: to manipulate them into willingly sleeping with the chairman.

Apparently, their chairman was an old man in his sixties or seventies.

[Huh? Does everything still work at sixty or seventy?]

Ning Shile paused and quickly gave himself a smack. [No, what am I even thinking!]

"This gossip is a little too explosive..." Ning Shile scrolled down. As soon as he refreshed the page, he saw a flood of replies below.

[This is seriously vile. Is it even true?]

[It probably is. I've heard about it too.]

[Even if this is true, people will think it's fake. It's just too... you know...]

[Seriously brave of you to post this.]

[We'll know whether it's true by seeing if the post gets deleted in a bit... If it does, there's a ninety percent chance it's real.]

"Explosive, right?" Zheng Mother felt that, compared with these people, the Zheng Family was so uncomplicated they hardly seemed like a wealthy dynasty at all.

"We just don't know whether it's true," Zheng Mother said with a sigh.

"Something like this probably..." Wait! Ning Shile broke off, his brows furrowing.

[Why do I feel like I read about this in the novel?]

Zheng Mother's eyes lit up when she heard that.

Lele, you never let us down!

You're the god of gossip! Hurry, hurry, tell me all about it!

But by now, Ning Shile could barely remember anything from the novel.

He certainly couldn't pull out his phone and search through it in front of Zheng Mother, so he excused himself to the bathroom and secretly took out his phone there.

[Let me see which part it was...]

Ning Shile quickly flipped through the text. A few seconds later, his hand stopped. [Oh!! Found it!!!]

He skimmed a few lines, and his expression instantly froze.

[No way. This corporation is actually...?]

[It's actually...!?]

Zheng Mother was practically dying of impatience outside the door.

Who is it? Hurry up and say it!

[It's Bai Corporation!!?]

Zheng Mother's eyes widened in shock.

What!?

Bai Corporation? Bai Hai!?

The mention of Bai Corporation caught Zheng Ye's attention, and he listened closely.

Bai Corporation had been laying traps for the Zheng Family for years. Their enemies stayed hidden while they were out in the open, and Zheng Father had suffered plenty of setbacks because of it.

Zheng Ye had long since run out of patience with them.

If the Bai Family really was behind this, bringing Bai Hai down would be child's play.

[Bai Hai really is a piece of shit!]

Reading his notes, Ning Shile gritted his teeth in the bathroom.

[I wondered why he still hadn't retired at his age. Turns out the old bastard is impotent! His equipment doesn't even work!]

[So Bai Father isn't his biological child at all. He adopted him! And he only raised Bai Father so he could get a replacement kidney!!]

[I wondered why I saw him at the hospital. Turns out the old bastard has diabetes!]

Hearing that, Zheng Ye raised his brows.

No wonder Bai's Parents had been so desperate to invite Zheng Ye into their car to discuss a partnership on the day of Bai Qiongyu's wedding. They had been trying to save themselves.

[People really do crave whatever they lack!]

[Since he can't perform, he likes watching other people. He likes watching them do it in front of him, and he likes looking at women.]

[So this branch he opened is just a company in name. The jobs are incredibly easy—all they have to do is pick out a few products and go through the motions. He claims it's to provide jobs for graduates, but it's really just a way to pick women for his harem!]

[Because he's sexually impotent, all his methods revolve around abuse.]

[First, he hires "experts" skilled at breaking people down psychologically as managers. Then he carefully picks a few unremarkable girls to "serve" him and immediately promotes them afterward.]

[All he has to do is present himself as a revered, all-powerful emperor.]

[That way, he lures the women in the company into competing for his favor and getting jealous, until they willingly become his playthings. It's one massive arena where he pits them against each other!!]

[That shameless old bastard!!]

Ning Shile gritted his teeth in anger and flipped through a few more pages. [Looks like the next round of recruitment is tomorrow?]

This had already become an extremely serious matter.

Ning Shile didn't understand how Bai Hai had deceived so many female college graduates at his company, much less why they hadn't gone to the police to save themselves.

As though something had occurred to him, he closed his notes and went back to the post Zheng Mother had shown him.

Sure enough, the post had already been deleted. Even the poster's account had been deactivated.

It seemed Bai Hai's influence was not to be underestimated.

That meant Ning Shile was the only person who knew the truth about this. Could he just sit back and do nothing?

Could he let Bai Hai deceive those young women searching everywhere for work after graduation? Let him torment them until they wished they were dead, until they were psychologically broken?

In the original novel, people at Bai Corporation often took their own lives, but every incident was eventually hushed up.

Bai Hai, that old fox, targeted girls who were kind, innocent, selfless, considerate of others—and poor.

That way, even if something happened, he could settle it with money.

[Ugh, why does society always demand that girls put others first? Protecting themselves should be what matters most.]

Ning Shile sighed.

[After all, sometimes vulnerable people need sharper edges to protect themselves.]

With that thought, Ning Shile put his phone away.

He had to find a way to help them.

Ning Shile's résumé was exceptionally strong. While still at university, he had independently completed a provincial-level project, and after graduation, he had successfully carried out numerous plans at Ning Corporation that others couldn't manage.

He put his résumé together and sent it to the HR department at Bai Corporation's branch office. Before long, he received a reply.

[Hello. Please come to the Bai Corporation branch office in Bincheng District, Haicheng, at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow for an interview. Thank you.]

Although the branch's male-to-female ratio was only one to nine, Ning Shile still had a chance of getting hired.

He immediately bought a ticket to Haicheng for the next morning, ready to infiltrate the company and gather evidence.