So what if she's a fake heiress? She's being pampered by a powerful figure in Beijing'

With Holland's words, the Second Madam's curiosity about Xie Junfei intensified.

Most of the second branch of the family were abroad before the Lunar New Year. It was quite a long and tiring journey for them to fly to the old house. After strolling around the courtyard, they went back inside to rest.

Only Holland took the second wife to the old house's reception room, just to catch a glimpse of Xie Junfei's beautiful face.

Meanwhile, Xie Junfei temporarily requisitioned Huo Shen's large office, moving the man from the main house to a side room. He was now frowning as he looked at the awful result his subordinates presented to him.

Some time ago, all the businesses under my management lined up to report to me in detail, but only "Tia Gallery" under my management dragged its feet for a long time and didn't come until just before the end of the year.

Xie Junfei initially found it strange, but after looking at his reports, he finally discovered the problem.

Look at this bunch of good-for-nothings who only know how to eat and do nothing! What good things have they done with the exorbitant budget she gave them!

Despite being a long-established gallery, the management dared to use her money to do favors for a well-known academic scoundrel who held a nationwide art tour.

Traveling art exhibitions are expensive but yield little return, and for lesser-known artists, it's basically like giving away money for free.

If it were a well-known, highly respected artist, that would be one thing, but when did these academically dishonest old scoundrels become worthy of our investment?!

Xie Junfei vetoed the proposal at the time, but a male executive at the gallery insisted on his own way and even gave her a pledge, saying that if the touring exhibition had a bad influence on "Tia", he would resign.

As expected, problems arose.

The day before the first stop of the touring art exhibition was about to begin, the professor was reported by his own doctoral student for sexually harassing female students, who held up his ID card.

The audio recordings, video chat screenshots, and other evidence completely exposed this "highly respected" old artist.

Subsequently, this news quickly climbed to second place on the trending topics list.

Immediately afterwards, enthusiastic netizens dug up his reactionary remarks from his early lectures, which aroused public outrage, with everyone cursing the old man.

The upcoming touring art exhibition has also become a key target of attacks.

As for the organizer, "Tia," it was also completely implicated.

Things have progressed to this point, and the professor still contacted Xie Junfei, hoping she would hire an online troll army to help him clear his name, otherwise the art exhibition would not be able to continue. We are all in the same boat, and no one will be happy.

Who knew Xie Junfei was not someone to be trifled with? She sneered repeatedly on the phone, "You old bald man who sexually harasses your own students, and you dare to threaten me?"

Fuck you! I'd rather lose all 50 million in initial investment than let you, you damned bastard, get away with it.

Therefore, despite the risk of a major investment failure and losing all profits for the year, "Tia" directly announced that it would unilaterally terminate the cooperation agreement with the artist. From now on, all works of the artist stored in the gallery would be returned, and there would be no further cooperation.

Tia's actions also dispelled everyone's anger towards her.

As a long-established gallery in China, with "Tia" speaking out, other galleries will definitely not accept his works anymore.

Art is inherently commercial in nature.

By doing this, "Tia" is essentially blacklisting this unworthy artist within the industry.

And now, the high-ranking official who made a "military pledge" to her is shamelessly coming to the old house to argue and beg for mercy.

Xie Junfei let out a cold laugh.

When they took my money to do favors, they were so arrogant, but now that they've lost half a billion, they want to turn their backs on me?

What, have you lost all sense of shame?

The executive was still messaging her last night, pleading for leniency, and saying he would come to apologize in person today.

Xie Junfei then directly told Huo Shen to provide him with several burly bodyguards.

Huo Shen still didn't quite understand this.

He's just a gallery executive, yet he dares to threaten and seduce his woman. In his opinion, it would be merciful to just kill him in Shanghai.

What's the point of having bodyguards? Just dismiss them on the spot and get the hell out of here.

Xie Junfei was too lazy to argue with this man from a wealthy family who held a high position. She slapped the man's face with her hand, telling him to shut up and just make the arrangements.

Huo Shen couldn't refuse her, so he had no choice but to comply.

When Holland and his second wife went in to find Xie Junfei, they happened to witness Xie Junfei yelling at the male executive:

"Stop trying to argue with me! What did I say back then?"

“I said, that professor is a shameless bald geezer, and his paintings look like snot. You insist on calling it a ‘masterpiece’!”

“At the time, I said that the initial investment for this touring exhibition was very large. You said that I had just taken over the gallery and had no experience, while you were a famous teacher and bet your 30 years of experience in the industry, guaranteeing me that this touring exhibition would not lose money even if it did not make any money.”

After saying that, Xie Junfei laughed in anger:

"And what happened? The exhibition didn't even get done before that bald guy's business collapsed! Now you're here to offer hindsight advice!"

The executive with the protruding beer belly immediately smiled obsequiously:

Everyone makes mistakes sometimes.

"Moreover, when I asked, the professor said he was innocent and that the doctoral student's recordings and chat logs were all photoshopped."

"If you ask me, that PhD student is just being pretentious. Seeing that he wouldn't be able to graduate, he started having crooked thoughts, reporting his mentor for no reason, and forcing his mentor to let him graduate!"

Before he could finish speaking, Xie Junfei slammed his hand on the table and roared:

"Fuck you!"

"If you dare to utter another word of nonsense here, I'll tear your mouth apart!"

"The police report has already been issued, and you still dare to distort the truth here!"

The executive never expected that this young, barely-adult girl would dare to embarrass him in front of so many people.

Therefore, he was first stunned, and then became extremely angry and embarrassed.

He immediately slammed his hand on the table, pointed at Xie Junfei's nose, and cursed:

"You little brat, you dare to challenge me?!"

"Let me tell you, Xie Junfei, I was already working at 'Tia' when you were still being breastfed in your mother's arms. I may not have made any great contributions, but I certainly put in a lot of hard work!"

"It's just one failed investment, and you're already making a fuss about it?"

"If you ask me, a short-sighted woman like you doesn't understand the market at all and isn't qualified to be the boss of 'Tia'!"

"Stay in the Huo family and bear children for Huo Shen!"