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

to be a problem with the Thompson Group’s project. You should check the

and opened their phones with numerous news headlines

appeared out of the blue and held a press conference, releasing the latest information

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

“W-What’s going on?”

to the company, the board members were already there.

mixed feelings. The meeting room

“Ms. Thompson, we

did our secrets get

lot of money and effort into this project. We wanted to win

all that money. Ms.

quiet, her calm face

one

she was in charge. She had to

room was quiet. Everyone looked at

all of you done

up

a single one

won’t shirk my responsibility regarding this, but it will take time to find out who leaked the confidential information. At present, the most important thing for us is to minimize our

up with a solution in

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

powerful voice suddenly

door opened, and

carried an air of nobility. In the conference

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