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.

from Lina’s secretary. “Ms. Thompson, look at the news! Something

there seems to be a problem with the Thompson Group’s

and opened their phones with numerous news headlines popping on the

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

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

“W-What’s going on?”

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

them looked at Lina with mixed feelings. The meeting room

“Ms. Thompson, we trusted you

how did our

Everyone agreed. “We put a lot of money and effort into this project. We wanted to win a big architecture award.

that money. Ms. Thompson,

stayed quiet, her calm face making it seem

just one person against many. Fighting would make things

wasn’t her fault, she was in charge.

was quiet. Everyone looked at

of

got up with

However, not a single one of them uttered another word. It was as if

but it will take time to find out who leaked the confidential information. At present, the most important thing for us is to

up with

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

not.” A deep and powerful voice suddenly sounded

opened, and Zuko walked

conference room, everyone gazed at him, cautious

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