Chapter 52
Huang Li had never really spoken to this deputy supervisor outside of work.
Even including work, they hadn’t spoken much, because she had always felt they were competitors, and she also believed that the deputy supervisor would not surpass her.
In short, before today, Huang Li had never taken this deputy supervisor seriously.
At this moment, the deputy supervisor’s appearance was undoubtedly a fatal blow to Huang Li.
“What does this mean?” she pressed.
Supervisor Cui was very composed. “It’s nothing. I just received a message and wanted to come and see my former colleague… or should I say, superior?”
She even deliberately emphasized the two words. This suggestive language undoubtedly reinforced Huang Li’s suspicion.
Huang Li’s blood rushed to her head. She couldn’t calm down. She walked up quickly and called Supervisor Cui’s name. “Make yourself clear. What do you mean by coming here? What do you mean by ‘former colleague, past superior’?”
Her position couldn’t really be gone just like that, could it? She absolutely could not accept it!
She hadn’t done anything!
Or rather, what she had done was just what everyone else did! Even if she admitted she had done something wrong, it wasn’t that bad, was it?
Who on earth wanted to harm her like this?
After a brainstorm, Huang Li didn’t have time to think too much. She directly identified Supervisor Cui as her enemy. “Make yourself clear. If you don’t make yourself clear today, I’m not done with you!”
A person with a job and a suspect are two different things.
Supervisor Cui lightly pushed away Huang Li’s hand, her gaze fixed on Huang Li. “I came to remind you that you are no longer the supervisor.”
The confirmation was confirmed. Huang Li’s face changed, and she still muttered to herself, “How is that possible? How can I not be the supervisor anymore?”
She had worked so hard to climb to this position. How could it be gone just because this petty person with the surname Cui said so?!
Huang Li firmly refused to believe it and said, trying to act calm, “Just because you say I’m gone, I’m gone? I know you’ve been coveting this position for a long time. If I’m not here, it’ll be easier for you to get promoted, right? Is that it? Let me tell you, don’t even think about defeating me!”
“The police have already questioned me. She said I’ll be fine! When I go back, I’ll still be the supervisor. And you’re just…”
Supervisor Cui had completely lost it. She directly interrupted Huang Li. “Whether you’re the supervisor or not can be verified in a moment. I came, as a former colleague, to inform you. Don’t be in a hurry now. Why don’t you think about what you did wrong, who you offended…”
Huang Li’s mouth opened and closed, and she muttered, “Who did I offend?”
Who could she have offended?
She had just offended that woman with the surname Su!
She admitted that she had been tricked by that guy Ji Ping. If it weren’t for Ji Ping, she wouldn’t have chosen Su Guan. And she had also done a background check on Su Guan. Su Guan’s family seemed to be just so-so!
And if Su Guan really had something, why would she be such an ordinary employee at the company?
Huang Li couldn’t figure it out. So, the one with the surname Cui must be lying to her!
“You have to make it clear to me today! What’s going on with my position!” Huang Li still didn’t believe it. This time, she even wanted to walk up and grab Supervisor Cui by the collar to ask her.
Supervisor Cui nimbly dodged, looking at her with disgust. “Don’t be in a hurry to get entangled with me. Deal with your own mess first!”
“The police station is not a place for us to play around!” Supervisor Cui said righteously, which made Huang Li so angry she didn’t know what to say.
Just as Huang Li was about to retort, a familiar voice sounded. “This visitor, Ms. Cui is right. This is not a place for you to fool around.”
It was familiar because this police officer was the one who had just interrogated Huang Li.
Huang Li’s nerves immediately tensed. She turned around and met the serious face.
She quickly lowered her head, walked over pitifully, and asked cautiously, “Officer, I’d like to ask, did I commit a crime? If I did, what crime did I commit?”
The police officer glanced at her. “Based on the situation that day and the testimony of others, yes.”
She had committed a crime, and she was going to lose her position because of it!
This news was like a bolt from the blue, exploding in Huang Li’s mind.
“Then will I be punished?” Huang Li didn’t give up and asked again.
She really didn’t want to lose this job, especially the job she had worked so hard for.
The police officer’s expression didn’t change. She just continued to flip through the folder in her hand and said lightly, “…According to the crime you committed, your result could be imprisonment.”
Imprisonment?! Huang Li had never thought of such a thing.
Losing her job was bad enough. How could she also go to prison?
“No way? I won’t go to prison, will I?” Huang Li was on the verge of tears and wanted to continue to pester the police officer.
But the police officer didn’t seem to be interested—after all, the instructions she had just received were not like this.
The instructions said that Huang Li could not be let off so easily.
So the police officer was silent for a moment and said, “I just said it’s possible. The conviction depends on the court. Before that, it also depends on what charges the prosecutor files against you.”
In other words, there was still room for maneuver, right?
Huang Li, who had just been dejected, suddenly felt better. She quickly pulled the police officer and tried to get close to her. “Then am I fine? Because the record has been recorded, and what needed to be said has been said… Before that, can I go back?”
At this point, she even glared at Supervisor Cui.
So what? You said I don’t have a position?
She was about to go back to the company and tell everyone who wanted to see her make a fool of herself that it was impossible! She, Huang Li, was coming back soon.
The police officer’s words had a motive to relent. “Well… you can. However, Ms. Huang, your current status is not suitable for you to go back to work.”
Huang Li was stunned, the smug expression on her face freezing for a moment. “What happened? Why, what do you mean? I can’t go back to my original position?”
If the police officer said so, then there might be a legal basis for it.
Supervisor Cui was still making sarcastic remarks from the side, saying leisurely, “Dear former Supervisor Huang, you don’t think I came here just to play, do you?”
The implication was that if she wasn’t sure, how could she have come here so eagerly?
Huang Li glared back at her but pleaded with the police officer, “Please, officer, tell me what’s going on…”
The police officer closed the folder in her hand, looked at Huang Li, and said seriously, “Your actions have violated the laws of our federation. Your employer has now suspended you. You can, of course, go back now, but you will not be in your original position…”
“Suspended?” Huang Li repeated stiffly. “In other words, I haven’t been fired, right?”
Suspension and being laid off were two completely different things.
As expected, the one with the surname Cui just couldn’t stand to see her doing well.
Huang Li smiled apologetically at the police officer again. “Then, officer, I’m actually fine, right? I’m about to leave?”
The police officer frowned, thinking, Is this person’s brain made of mush?
She had already said that she might be prosecuted, convicted, and imprisoned, and she still had the nerve to say she had done nothing wrong?
But this was also fine.
The police officer coughed twice and said in a matter-of-fact tone, “Theoretically, that’s right. You can contact your employer. I’ll return your communication device to you shortly.”
Huang Li let out a long sigh of relief. The moment the police officer left, she continued to look at Supervisor Cui angrily.
“Petty person gets their way!” she spat at Supervisor Cui. “You just wait. If I go back, you’ll be the first one I won’t let off!”
Supervisor Cui laughed out loud and at the same time took out her own phone to show her an internal company app. “Do you want to see what this is? This used to be your section, but now it’s all under my management!”
Huang Li gritted her teeth. “I’m suspended now, but the work I’m responsible for can’t be stopped!”
Her work ability was so strong. Without her, it would be a huge loss to the company!
She still held so many of the company’s secrets. The company would never abandon her!
Supervisor Cui was too lazy to argue with Huang Li, her tone still light. “Think whatever you want. Anyway, I can’t control you. Didn’t the police officer say she was going to get your phone? When you get your phone, you can call and ask clearly here.”
This was also good. There was another very important person who had come with her.
Later, Huang Li wouldn’t even be able to find a way to apologize to someone.
Huang Li just thought Supervisor Cui was talking nonsense.
“Thank you, officer,” Huang Li took her phone from the police officer, glanced at Supervisor Cui with contempt, and then dialed a number. In the gap, she didn’t forget to mouth to Supervisor Cui, “You just wait!”
Supervisor Cui shrugged and just sent a message to someone.
She sent a message to Su Guan.
Her tone towards Su Guan was extremely polite and respectful.
With such a grand air, Su Guan must not be someone with a small family background—this Huang Li had done many bad things before, and this time she had actually harmed Su Guan, which surprised Supervisor Cui.
But if you walk by the river often, how can you not get your shoes wet?
That was what she thought.
[Cui Cui: Miss Su, are you resting well over there?]
[Su Guan: I’m fine. Do you need me to come over now?]
Su Guan didn’t know what had happened.
She only knew that Gu Yixi had specifically called her and asked her to go to the police station.
She had never been to a police station in her life. After coming to the ABO world, the first time she went, she went to a big one.
Su Guan was also sighing.
She had had contact with this Supervisor Cui before, but the two of them had at most just greeted each other. There was nothing else. But this time, Supervisor Cui’s attitude was extremely good…
If compared to Huang Li, it was like heaven and earth.
Although she didn’t know the specifics, Su Guan had a rough idea.
Supervisor Cui, Supervisor Huang, the police station, and her. With these four things together, some things could be pieced together.
[Cui Cui: Almost. You can get ready now. But don’t come over right away. I’m afraid Huang Li will be too excited when she sees you.]
She even sent a haha emoji.
Su Guan replied and said to tell her when it was time.
Supervisor Cui replied with an OK.
Su Guan was not familiar with her and didn’t know what to do. But she was familiar with Gu Yixi, and after she went home, their relationship had inexplicably warmed up. Although it hadn’t reached the point of being intimate, it was more than enough to ask about something.
Without much thought, Su Guan sent a message to Gu Yixi, asking her what she wanted her to do at the police station.
The other side showed that she was typing, but Su Guan waited patiently for two minutes and actually only got two words.
[Surprise.]
Su Guan: …
Dear CEO, you really are as you appear. It seems you’re not very proficient with electronic products. You typed for two minutes and only came up with these two words?
Who gives someone a surprise at a police station?!
Su Guan was speechless for a moment but still obediently typed: [Okay, since that’s the case, then I’ll just wait.]
She would wait for Supervisor Cui to find her for something else.
Huang Li had finished her call. Her previously boiling heart had also cooled down.
After hanging up, she clutched the phone tightly, unable to say a word for a long time. She could only glare at Supervisor Cui and curse, “What did you do to frame me? You bitch?”
Just now, her boss had told her that she didn’t have to come in anymore.
Huang Li’s tears immediately welled up, and she started to cry, telling her how difficult it had been for her at the company all these years, how she and the company had a mutually beneficial relationship…
But her boss was unmoved. “I’ve already told you, you don’t have to come in anymore. The company will handle the resignation procedures for you.”
Huang Li begged for a long time, asking her boss if there was some hidden reason why she had to be fired. At this point, her boss finally showed signs of relenting, and Huang Li took the opportunity to press on.
Her boss finally spoke.
Huang Li was happy at first, but later she couldn’t accept the request at all.
Her boss said that her forcing Su Guan to drink with her at the social engagement that day was a big deal, and she had to be responsible for it.
“Of course, if you can get Miss Su’s forgiveness, the company will also consider it.”
Huang Li was stunned. “So, this is the only way for me now?”
“The company doesn’t need you.”
“Okay, I’ll go apologize to her!” Huang Li hung up the phone just like that.
Supervisor Cui looked at her with a smile and turned off her phone—a second ago, she had sent a message to Su Guan, telling her to get ready, and she would bring someone over, so Su Guan wouldn’t have to walk these few steps.
Supervisor Cui: “That’s right, you have to apologize. But, your current expression doesn’t look like you’re going to apologize, but like you’re going to seek revenge.”
Huang Li was still angry. “So what? Shouldn’t I seek revenge on you?”
Supervisor Cui shrugged. “Think whatever you want. Seek revenge if you want. If you go to Su Guan with that dead face later, and she doesn’t accept your apology, that’s your problem… oh, in that case, the work that ‘should’ have been yours will become completely mine! You don’t want to see that happen, do you?”
Huang Li gritted her teeth, but the bitch with the surname Cui had a point, so she could only try her best to make her expression peaceful.
She had already realized she had been tricked.
These people were so despicable! They had all come together to trick her!
But to get back to the job she had worked so hard for for so many years, Huang Li knew she couldn’t be willful.
Just this once. A gentleman’s revenge is not too late in ten years. It was just an apology to another little bitch!
That was what she thought.
…
Su Guan was boredly playing on her phone, while also sending messages to Gu Yixi, asking her what the surprise was.
Who would just say the word “surprise” so directly?
It had to be her new wife.
This little tyrant who couldn’t keep a secret.
But she said she couldn’t keep a secret, yet she still hadn’t let it slip, and she hadn’t told Su Guan what the surprise was.
Just then, the door to the reception room rang.
Su Guan called out “come in,” and the door hinge turned.
Huang Li, in a vest, her hair disheveled, and Supervisor Cui, in a neat uniform, walked in one after the other.
In the past, the two of them had worked in the same position, both wearing bright and beautiful professional suits. It was hard to tell who was better.
But now it was different.
The difference in their clothes and state immediately made them seem worlds apart.
At this moment, the phone Su Guan had placed on the table rang again.
[You’ll know what the surprise is in a bit.]
Gu Yixi had managed to restrain herself from telling her everything.
An apology was actually part of the surprise, and it also depended on the follow-up arrangements.
Of course, if Huang Li was really sincere, this matter…
She could also consider it. But in any case, the basis of whether she was willing to let it go was entirely based on whether Su Guan was willing.
She only cared about Su Guan’s feelings.
This was Gu Yixi’s current judging standard.
Huang Li forced a smile. When she saw Su Guan now, she had none of her usual imposing air of a superior, nor the fierce and brutal look of a ghost helping a tyrant that she had had that night.
She stood reservedly beside Supervisor Cui, and like the latter, she called out to Su Guan, “Miss Su.”
She might be imprisoned, and it was not unrelated to the person in front of her.
If it was just someone trying to frame her, they probably wouldn’t have used so much effort.
Huang Li hadn’t thought about the deeper things, but she knew she couldn’t offend Su Guan now.
Su Guan sat there, quietly sizing up Huang Li. “Oh, Supervisor Huang. Long time no see. It’s been a long time, hasn’t it?”
She didn’t smile, her tone serious as she greeted her.
Huang Li swallowed and nodded repeatedly. “Yes, it’s been a long time.”
Su Guan nodded lightly, then fiddled with her phone and said, “It hasn’t been that long. After all, I saw you very clearly in the two or three minutes before I closed my eyes last time.”
A chill ran down Huang Li’s spine.
If the tone of the conversation today was like this, she would never be able to get Su Guan’s forgiveness!
Huang Li gritted her teeth and immediately put on a shocked expression, wanting to walk over to Su Guan, but Su Guan frowned tightly. “Huang Li, don’t come over.”
“I find you dirty.”
Her heart, and her methods are even dirtier!
Huang Li’s foot, which was hovering in the air, was neither up nor down.
She was extremely embarrassed, her eyes with nowhere to go.
“What did you come to find me for?” Su Guan asked.
Huang Li knew the principle of being under someone else’s roof and said in a small voice, “Miss Su, I came to find you to apologize.”
“Apologize?”
There was obvious anger in her tone.
“No, no, no!” Huang Li heard Su Guan’s unhappiness and quickly continued, “I didn’t mean that. It’s not that light! It’s not that light!”
She thought of her boss’s tone on the phone and immediately made up her mind.
For the sake of her future.
Her future was the most important thing. This was just a temporary bow of her head. Su Guan was still young, after all, and she had tricked so many people at that time, and Su Guan had still agreed to her.
This proved that this girl was easy to trick. She just had to persist.
With that thought, Huang Li smiled fawningly, with a hint of sadness. “Miss Su, first of all, I have to admit that this was my fault. I’m fully responsible. I was really possessed at that time, which was why I took you to that kind of place…”
The thought of the disgusting people and things that night still made Su Guan feel nauseous.
“Possessed for a moment?” Su Guan sneered.
Suddenly, a series of “slaps” rang out. It turned out that Huang Li had directly slapped herself, her face turning red, as if it were on fire.
The sound of slapping echoed in the relatively large reception room.
Huang Li slapped her own face while constantly whimpering and apologizing, crying, “I’m sorry, I’m sorry! Miss Su, I admit it was my fault. It was all my fault. I was wrong… I shouldn’t have sent you there for my own selfish desires.”
“Although we have different genders, I’m also a woman. I was really blinded by greed. I shouldn’t have done this to you…” Huang Li was still whimpering and crying. “I know I was wrong now. Can you forgive me?”
Originally, when Huang Li had slapped herself, her face turning red, the usually soft-hearted Su Guan had actually felt a little moved, but when Huang Li had said “as a woman,” she had gotten angry.
At a time like this, did Huang Li still have the nerve to say such a thing?
Su Guan silently sentenced her to death in her heart.
Huang Li was here to apologize to her now, probably to get her forgiveness.
She had consulted, and if she were convicted, she would definitely be in prison.
But, in all these years, Huang Li must have harmed more than one person—to convict her for just one thing was probably too light.
The punishment this person received was completely disproportionate to the evil she had done!
Su Guan decided to listen patiently and, at the same time, ask about some things.
The sound of slapping still echoed. Huang Li’s hands and face were all red.
A police officer even knocked on the door from outside—the sound of slapping was really too loud. They all wanted to come in and see what was going on.
During a pause in Huang Li’s slapping, Su Guan had time to ask her, “By the way, who instructed you to do this? That Director Fang from that day, was it her?”
That Director Fang, Su Guan felt she was very mysterious.
…And she had disappeared before Gu Yixi arrived.
Huang Li’s slapping stopped, and she looked at Su Guan with a burning face.
