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.

secretary. “Ms. Thompson, look at

um… Uh, there seems to be a problem with the Thompson Group’s project. You should

awake and opened their phones with numerous news headlines

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

of the building, both exterior and interior, and even the materials and publicity copies, were exactly

“W-What’s going on?”

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

at Lina with mixed

someone spoke. “Ms. Thompson, we trusted you

how did our secrets get

“We put a lot of money and effort into this project. We

losing all that money.

listened calmly, not arguing. She stayed quiet, her calm face making it seem like nothing

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

was in charge.

was quiet. Everyone looked at

all of

got up with

was filled with seasoned veterans of the business world. However, not a single one of them uttered another word.

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

me. I’ll come up with a solution

come up with a solution, does that mean we’ll

deep and powerful voice suddenly sounded from outside the meeting

door opened, and

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

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