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,

other was from Zuko’s assistant. “Mr. Hamerton, um… Uh, there seems to be a problem with

and opened their phones with numerous news headlines popping

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

and even the materials and publicity copies,

“W-What’s going on?”

the company, the board members were already there. Some

with mixed feelings.

we trusted you

did our secrets get

money and effort into this project. We wanted to win

all that money. Ms. Thompson, can you

She stayed quiet, her calm face making it

knew arguing wouldn’t help. She was just one person

her fault, she was in charge. She had to

quiet.

of

got up

business world. However, not a single one of them uttered another word. It was

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

come up with a solution in

with a solution, does that mean we’ll all be left out

and powerful voice suddenly sounded from outside

opened, and

an air of nobility. In the conference room, everyone gazed at him, cautious not to

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