This time, the “overtime” lasted until late into the night.

Lina struggled to get up from the couch, picked up her scattered clothes from the floor, and felt sore all over her body.

“Let me help you.”

Zuko wrapped his arms around her from behind with a satisfied smile. Lina felt his warm chest and his heart beating right along hers against her bare back.

She did not dare to let him help her. She quickly broke free and put on her clothes.

Zuko smiled and got dressed as well. His hand instinctively reached into his pocket, but… there were no more cigarettes.

He finally understood now what his father meant by the “cigarette money” he used to earn.

Lina forced herself to finish reviewing the last bit of information, and then Zuko took her home.

The next day.

They slept until almost 8:00 a.m., only to be awakened by their phones.

“Is it your phone?”

“It’s yours…”

“Hmm?”

They woke up, realizing that their phones were vibrating simultaneously.

Lina’s secretary. “Ms. Thompson, look at the

seems to be a problem with the Thompson Group’s project.

with numerous news

company had suddenly appeared out of the blue and held a press conference, releasing the latest

interior, and even the materials and publicity copies, were exactly the same as the project

“W-What’s going on?”

the company, the board members were already there. Some were on Nicholas’

with mixed feelings.

someone spoke. “Ms. Thompson, we trusted you for this

did our secrets

into

losing all that money. Ms. Thompson,

not arguing. She stayed quiet, her calm face making it seem like

arguing wouldn’t help. She was just one person against many.

it wasn’t her fault, she was in charge. She

was quiet.

all of you done

up with

veterans of the business world. However, not a single one of them uttered another word. It was as if Lina had incredible

determined gaze swept over each person’s face. “I won’t shirk my responsibility regarding this, but it will take time to find out who leaked the

trust me. I’ll come up with a solution

can’t come up with a solution, does that mean we’ll all

not.” A deep and powerful voice suddenly sounded

opened, and

In the conference room, everyone gazed at him, cautious

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