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,

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

their phones with numerous news headlines

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

and interior, and even the materials and publicity copies, were exactly the same as the project

“W-What’s going on?”

were already there.

with mixed feelings. The meeting

we trusted

our

money and effort into this project. We wanted

all that money. Ms.

arguing. She stayed quiet, her calm face making it

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

it wasn’t her fault, she was in

room was quiet. Everyone looked at

of you done

up with

world. However, not a single one of them uttered another word. It

calm but determined gaze swept over each person’s face. “I won’t shirk my responsibility regarding this, but it will take time to find out who leaked the confidential information. At present, the

I’ll come up with a solution in

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

outside the meeting room.Books

opened, and

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