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.

“Ms. Thompson, look at the news!

other was from Zuko’s assistant. “Mr. Hamerton, um… Uh, there seems to be a problem with

opened their phones with

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

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

“W-What’s going on?”

board members were already there. Some were on Nicholas’

looked at Lina with mixed feelings.

spoke. “Ms. Thompson, we trusted you for

how did our secrets get

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

all that money. Ms. Thompson,

stayed quiet, her calm face making it

was just one

it wasn’t her fault, she was in charge. She

quiet. Everyone looked

all of

got up with

a single one of them

won’t shirk my responsibility regarding this, but it will take time to find out

I’ll come up with a solution

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

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