No longer a pushover

Chapter 604

Laura finally spoke up, her voice soft but pointed. "Ced, you're being reckless. I

know you care about Ms. Liddell, but there should be limits.

"With so much competition in the industry, what if she accidentally leaks

confidential info? That could be a disaster."

Tommy quickly chimed in, backing her up. "Exactly. You shouldn't let a woman get

in the way of work. That's not like you, Mr. Greene."

Cedric gave everyone in the room a glance. "Didn't you all want to meet the lead

engineer on the Al project? Well, I brought her with me tonight."

The room fell into complete silence. Laura gripped her glass so tightly that her

knuckles turned white. She looked at Noelle, unable to believe what she had just

heard.

Tommy stared in disbelief and mumbled, "Mr. Greene... you're saying the lead

engineer is SweetNelly, the gaming streamer?"

Cedric nodded once. "That's right. It's her."

"You've gotta be kidding. Are you seriously telling us a live-streamer is heading

your entire engineering division? She might be good at video games, but that's a

whole different world from engineering."

Cedric tapped his long fingers on the table, his sharp gaze sweeping across the

shifted immediately, and no

spoke. "Do you really think

Cedric was not the

the legendary engineer everyone

so young but

could not hold it in. "Mr. Greene, I'm sorry, but none of this

the person

could wrap their head around it. The only explanation that

just to impress her,

"You judge too much by

of your money

around them burst

to back

Greene, I gotta say, this looks kind

this project. What if you got

investments would be toast."

all of it. She turned slightly and glanced at

he was

She completely understood where

crowd was coming from.

she was young,

who had

at Maple Enterprise, no

she

title.

his dark eyes unreadable. His fingers tapped

time louder,

flatly, "In that

in quickly. "Ced,

mad. What you said was

to believe. We've all