Chapter 6

translated by astrid83

After finishing her lunch, Wu Lin once again rushed into the General Manager’s office.

He was not sure what they talked about, but both of them went toe-to-toe and started arguing. She had listed all of the numerous contributions to the company, now that she was just about to retire, forcing her to resign now was unscrupulous 1 and he was fully deserving of a miserable death.

The General Manager got impatient and retorted: “Wu Lin, is all the money you embezzled not enough to exchange for all of the work you’ve done? I’m already considered very gracious for not suing you. Other than that, you are the clearest about what you usually say in the office; I don’t need a greedy busybody 2 who talks about her boss’s family matters for the entire day working under me.”

The two were arguing with the door wide open.

Once these words were said, not only did Wu Lin froze, but the rest of the employees in the company who were chatting also briefly went silent.

Wu Lin was used to deceiving the masses with her power and tricks 4 , so naturally, he would go all lengths to evade the idea of him having a “step-mother”.

It just had to be Wu Lin who knew about the mistress, of all people.

Regardless of how the General Manager came to know that the old Chairman Cai was keeping a mistress, it was self-evident who was the one who had leaked the news out.

Together with this embezzlement, she had even more so stepped on a landmine, causing old Chairman Cai to disregard their former friendship and to tell her to get lost that very night.

If this sort of corruption was analysed, one would see that it would not be as easy as simply returning the money.

Wu Lin knew that she was a spent force and could no longer redeem herself.

That afternoon, she tendered her resignation.

Before leaving, she walked up to Manager Li’s seat and sneered: “It was you, wasn’t it?”

Manager Lee was busy and left her hanging for a moment before raising his eyes: “What?”

“Stop playing dumb.” Wu Lin’s eyes sharpened and she said with hatred, “Wasn’t it you who snitched to the General Manager? Who knew that a man would also be able to do such underhanded and despicable tricks?”

“All I did was tell the boss that we did not receive the cards that the Sales Department routinely gives to customers every year. Maybe Manager Wu had bought them, but forgot to hand them over to us.” Manager Li’s hands had paused in the tapping of the keyboard. His tone was as calm and cool as ever, but his gaze held a careless mockery. This sort of mockery was so faint that others would feel that it was plausible, yet it was impossible to pinpoint. “By the way, I had also mentioned this to the boss: Since everyone is in the same office, there are some words that are not good to be widely spread, after all, not everyone loves to discuss their boss’s personal affairs. Do you think what I said was right, Manager Wu?”

Wu Lin’s face turned pale green.

To get rid of the previous Sales Manager, she had used a small tactic like this.

——Buying the cards to give the customers for the holidays and festivals but not handing them over to the Sales Department, and once the holiday has passed, she would take the advantage of striking first by reporting to old Chairman Cai that the Sales Department Manager had embezzled funds. Since old Chairman Cai trusted her, he naturally did not suspect anything, exploding in a fury once he heard of the matter. The Sales Department Manager had a short temper and thus started arguing with old Chairman Cai without explaining themselves, then left the next day after the quarrel.

This Mid-Autumn Festival, she had wanted to get rid of Manager Li in the same way.

Who would have thought that she would unexpectedly fail this miserably 5 and actually lose her rice bowl 6 .

“Don’t you get cocky.”

Wu Lin gritted her teeth and said, unsatisfied: “This company has long been in the state of having a gold and jade exterior appearance, but is shabby and ruined on the inside. Without me, do you think that you would be able to become the General Manager’s trusted aide? Heheh, I’m afraid it’ll not be that simple bah ? Can this kind of fool who knows nothing and only relies on his father really manage the company well? Just you watch, in less than a year, they’ll be out of business!”

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“Has she gone mad?”

The General Manager could hear this from his office and slapped his desk in anger.

Within a moment, there was the sound of a phone being picked up and two security guards rushed in and dragged Wu Lin out.

Cheng Yanqing suddenly remembered that Wu Lin had proudly mentioned before, that when the General Manager was a child and was schooling, she had even chauffeured him then. And when he got married, she was also the one busy organising the wedding; even when the General Manager and his in-laws had conflicts, she was the one who made plans to resolve them. It could be seen that her position was really extraordinary, moreso that it could not be shaken by ordinary employees.

Such a person who was so deeply rooted in their lives ended up in disgrace, just because she embezzled funds and humiliated the old Chairman Cai.

In truth, since the discovery of Wu Lin’s embezzlement, the general manager’s attitude took a sharp turn for the worse. He didn’t want to pretend either, rather than indifference, his attitude was more of complete disregard; he told the HR Supervisor to recruit a new person to replace Wu Lin as soon as possible.

——It turned out that the General Manager had already found Wu Lin unpleasant long ago.

Who would like an old employee who had such a high level of control and was always helping his father go out and fool around with his mistress?

She felt good about herself, but in reality, she had long been disliked and was used as a pawn.

Cheng Yanqing recalled the words Manager Li had said.

She will get a taste of the pain.

He just never thought that the pain would come this quickly.

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Footnotes

狼心狗肺 — lit. wolf’s heart and dog’s lungs. Used to refer to someone who is very cruel 长舌妇 — lit. long-tongued lady. Referring to a person (not limited to any gender) who likes to criticise behind others’ backs and likes to spread petty incidents 一手遮天 — covering the sky with one hand[/efn_note, and she was also the right-hand man of the old Chairman Cai. Thus, none of the low-level employees dared to mess with her, while the executives kept a respectful distance from her. More than ten years of this kind of smooth-sailing days passed, which led her to discuss all sorts of gossip about the old Chairman Cai without restraint——including all sorts of unsavoury track records of his, such as keeping a mistress.

The General Manager was a son from the old Chairman Cai’s “main house” 3 meaning he is the son of the primary wife 阴沟里翻船— lit. capsizing in a dark gutter aka lose her job