Throughout the journey, Xia Lu had already read every bit of nonsense news about herself on the internet, headlines like "Cinderella's Mansion Dream Shattered Back to Reality," even though she had hardly any connection with these people, yet each seemed more excited than the last.
"Please, the person who did something wrong clearly wasn't me..." she muttered quietly. If she had done something wrong, she would have endured the criticism, but now it was someone else's mistake, and she was still the one getting berated. The world was too unjust. She had never felt that humanity's filter for money could be so significant.
Upon arriving at Fengguang Group, she kept her face well covered the whole way, heading straight for the sixtieth floor, only to find no one there.
Zhou Mingchen had called her over but ended up going to a department heads' meeting.
As Xia Lu hesitated between waiting there and returning to her own office to work, Qiu Cheng pushed the door open and came in.
