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

energy shifted immediately, and no one

you really think I'd joke about

knew Cedric was not the type to

the legendary engineer everyone had heard

so young but also a

"Mr. Greene, I'm sorry,

anything like the

wrap their head around it. The only explanation that

that Cedric had elevated Noelle just to impress her,

turned his eyes on Tommy. "You judge too much by appearances.

out of your money by a

around them burst

face turned red, but he refused to back down. "That's a low

a classic honey trap. And Mr. Greene, I gotta say,

project. What if

investments would be toast."

of it. She turned slightly and glanced at Cedric,

he

She completely understood where

crowd was

she was young,

colleagues who

Maple Enterprise,

she

title.

face was blank, his dark eyes unreadable. His fingers tapped the

time louder,

"In that case, we'll terminate

jumped in quickly. "Ced,

you said was

to believe. We've