Commercial Espionage, a traitor who steal company’s secret doc.u.ments or information to the rivals in exchange for other benefits and causing the company a tremendous damage.
Based on my meager little knowledge on law, what I’m currently doing under Ren Han’s threat is not much different from a Commercial Espionage. Although it won’t cause a tremendous damage to the company, but it will dashed out the hope of the Editorial Department for year end bonus which amounted to an impressive amount.
I thought of Sis Xiao Fu’s monthly mortgage loan, Can Can’s relief fund to pay off her credit card debt, Xiao Wei’s painstakingly earned betrothal gift money, as well as Leader’s fund raising savings to buy a new car. All of this will be completely destroyed because of my betrayal, causing them not going to have a good New Year, for this I’m feeling physically and mentally exhausted.
For few days in a row, I couldn’t sleep well.
If I don’t agree with Ren Han, GV exposed, I don’t have the face to stay in the company, by then my livelihood will have problem, after all to suddenly want to find a job with monthly salary of ¥2,000, still have a certain degree of difficulty for it.
Moreover, right now at Magazine Group is my crucial moment to get promotion. Asking me to give up, I’m honestly unwilling to accept it.
But then, to promise Ren Han this treacherous villain …..my conscience will suffer greatly, I really can’t bear such a heavy name of ‘Traitor’ on me.
The moment I imagined about next topic meeting, when the Editorial Department find out that Journalist Department has the same topic as us, and everyone will have the ‘surprised and suspicious at each other’ expression, I feel like going mad.
Moreover based on Leader’s shrewdness, by that time to catch a traitor like me, I believe it’s not a difficult things to do, that’s why either agree or disagree I’m doomed. I’m completely desperate.
In my desperation, I thought of Uncle Baidu — if you’re having difficulty, look for Baidu.
So after Monday regular meeting ended, I sneakily opened the webpage.
Baidu Knows
Question: My Leader hold an evidence of my wrongdoing, he’s now threatening me, want me to do something that I don’t want to do. What should I do? - asked by Xiao Ningzi
1st post : Want you to do something that you don’t want to do? What is it? LZ please tell more, just nice I’m currently writing a fiction about unwritten rules, can collect some materials.
2nd post : Wow! How come I never encounter such a good thing? LZ, if I were you, I’ll just promise him, and then when he took off his pants, expose him ruthlessly! Such a disgusting man!
3rd post : To the above post, nowadays this kind of things happen a lot, LZ, I’ll suggest you to resign.
4th post : Take points and run away.
5th post : I don’t agree with what you said. There’s a saying , there no marriage that can’t be break, only the Mistress is not working hard enough. If really can resign, LZ still need to go to Baidu, risking herself to other’s curiosity just to ask for advice? I can see that LZ probably is making a living as small white-collar worker. Since that job is very important to you, Superior look up on you, you accompany him a few nights, earn yourself an apartment and then break up, what’s wrong with that?
6th post : Come what may. LZ are you a third party?
7th post : Why do I think that the 5th post is quite reasonable? Haha… LZ, what’s evidence that your boss managed to grab? Your own p.o.r.nography was discovered by him?
……….
I silently shed tears while rummaging through the webpage, thinking of two days ago when I was complaining about unspoken rules with friends in Chrysanthemum Group, everyone was also having those crooked mind, totally madness.
It was just a simple commercial espionage matter, why everyone’s mind will have to think of the other direction? Totally madness. So as to say, either Baidu or Chrysanthemum Group, they are all a bunch of ruthless perverts.
Right when I was at a loss with my thoughts, suddenly I discovered from my back as if there’s a person’s shadow moving, therefore without delay I hurriedly close down the webpage, turned around and see, it was actually Sis Xiao Fu.
My heart once again going through the roller coaster process. If Sis Xiao Fu found out about this matter, probably I’m near to my doomsday.
I swallowed my saliva, pretending to giggle and smile: “Sis Xiao Fu, currently I have nothing much to do, so….. I casually surfing the web. Don’t go to Leader and report me ah—”
Hear me said that, Xiao Fu never said anything, with her clear eyes just staring at me, keep staring until my whole body feel weak and coolly said: “Afternoon I’ll wait for you at the opposite restaurant.”
“Ha? Got problem?”
Sis Xiao Fu nodded and lightly said, “The questions you just asked on the Internet, I can help you solve it.”
In a split second, I felt like crying. I knew it, paper can’t wrap fire, at the end still will have someone who’ll find out my GV secret.
At 12.30pm, I arrived at the restaurant. Surprisingly except for the Leader, every staff in Editorial Department were here: Can Can, Xiao Wei and Sis Xiao Fu.
Nervously I ordered my favourite Chrysanthemum tea, silently receiving Xiao Wei and Can Can sympathetic stare directed at me.
Can Can: “Bai Ning, you really don’t treat us as sisters ah, got problem why never say?”
Xiao Wei: “That’s …… that’s….. that’s right, if Sis… Sis Xiao Fu didn’t say anything, I …. I wouldn’t know anything. Only…. only know that you have worries, keep… keep frowning and sighing.”
I was stunned, “All of you know already?”
Sis Xiao Fu was blowing out smoke from her cigarette and nodded her head.
I was shocked when I saw this. For a moment I’m not sure how to react. It was alright if it’s Can Can and Sis Xiao Fu, after all we are all woman, I have a little expectation that maybe they can understand, but Xiao Wei he —
Me and Xiao Wei were looking at each other, I was feeling dejected.
Xiao Wei probably can guess how I felt, patted me on the shoulder and said: “It’s ….it’s ok, I… I and Leader also older than you, no need to be embarra.s.sed by this kind of thing.”
As soon as I heard this, I want to hide my head, “Even Leader also know?”
Can Can using eyes to interact with the rest and nodded her head.
“It was Leader who asked us to bring you out this afternoon for a talk, to find out about the situation. For now it’s not the right time for him to step in, if Ren Han keep pressuring you…. then he will come out and stand up for you.”
In this situation, towards my amiable colleagues, I can’t do anything other than crying. What a good friend, in spite of everything they actually didn’t discriminate me this Rotten Girl. Mummy, finally I found people who can tolerate me.
I hold on Can Can’s thigh, finally vent out all of my frustration these few days, “Ren Han is not a human, he’s a beast, worse than a beast. I’m not willing, he still want to force me, threaten me, i felt depress and sad. I’m afraid of him, and also hate him, hu..hu..hu…..”
Can Can patted my shoulder lightly to console me, Sis Xiao Fu stopped smoking her cigarette, and press the cigarette b.u.t.t ferociously on the ashtray, said: “Bai Ning, don’t be afraid. Tell us, that day in the hotel did he bully you?”
I’m at a loss, hastily wipe off my tears.
Can Can also nodded her head and say, “That’s right, if he really bullied you that day, we have the right to report him!”
It’s just forcing me to steal internal data, do it have to be so serious until report police?
Looking at Can Can and everyone else expressing their anger against a common enemy, I have a bad feeling, can it be that…. I get the wrong meaning? After some hesitation, I decided to take an indirect approach.
“Er….. Sis Xiao Fu, I want to ask, how do you guys know about me and Ren Han matter?”
Xiao Fu raised her eyebrows, “Actually, it’s not just us who knows, it has spread widely in the whole company.”
“What?” I slapped the table and stand up, couldn’t wait to bang my head to the wall. If, if everyone knew that I’m watching GV, do I still have a face to live on?
LZ = the person who made the first / original post or a person who started the topic