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.

Thompson, look at the news! Something

there seems to be a problem with the Thompson Group’s project. You

phones with numerous

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

design of the building, both exterior and interior, and even the materials and publicity copies, were exactly the same as the project Lina

“W-What’s going on?”

the board members were already there.

them looked at Lina with mixed feelings. The meeting

someone spoke. “Ms. Thompson, we

how did our secrets get

effort into this project. We wanted to win

money. Ms.

arguing. She stayed quiet, her calm face making it seem

arguing wouldn’t help. She was just one person against many. Fighting would make things

she was in charge. She had to fix

was quiet. Everyone

of you done

got up with a

with seasoned veterans of the business world. However, not a single

face. “I won’t shirk my responsibility regarding this, but it will take time to find

trust me. I’ll come up with a solution in the

“If you can’t come up with a solution, does that mean we’ll all be left out in the

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