Chapter 51: What a Splendid Thief Playing Cop

To reward them, Wen Jianan took charge of their dinner and even ordered coffee and fruit for them.

Chen Ling and Li Ruoruo worked overtime until five in the morning. Apart from dozing off in the conference room for an hour in the middle of the night, they never left the office.

Wen Jianan did the same. Believing she needed to lead by example, she stayed with Chen Ling and Li Ruoruo through the brainstorming session.

Working all the way until dawn at eight o'clock, they finalized the preliminary drafts of versions A and B. After consolidating them, Wen Jianan submitted the proposal to Quantum.

This time, they had set up a small working group consisting only of the main leads, and Liang Yuxiu was among them.

Liang Yuxiu was somewhat surprised when he saw the document submitted by Wen Jianan.

By this time, Wen Jianan was utterly exhausted, but her fatigue was purely physical while her mind remained sharp. Knowing that Chen Ling had to go to the Civil Affairs Bureau with her ex-husband today, she urged Chen Ling to go ahead first.

Li Ruoruo stayed behind to wait with her for feedback from Quantum.

Li Ruoruo was inwardly cursing Wen Jianan while fighting off yawns and complaining bitterly to herself.

When Zhang Yufei arrived at work and learned that Wen Jianan had stayed up all night working overtime alongside the others, she was quite surprised, especially since Wen Jianan had never accompanied them during past all-nighters.

She wondered whether Wen Jianan was just putting on an act or if she had genuinely sensed a crisis.

With only one day left of the three-day deadline agreed upon with Wei Ming, Zhang Yufei felt she could no longer afford to stall. She had to devise an effective countermeasure.

However, before she could even come up with a plan, she accidentally stumbled upon a secret.

At ten o'clock, feedback from Quantum had still not arrived, so Wen Jianan ordered breakfast and coffee.

When the delivery rider arrived, he called her to say that something unexpected had happened and asked if she could be so kind as to come down to the underground parking garage to pick it up.

Judging by his voice, he was a middle-aged man who seemed extremely flustered.

Wen Jianan felt a tinge of caution, but the man explained that his previous delivery happened to be at the parking garage, and his vehicle broke down just as he was about to leave.

Wen Jianan was half-skeptical.

She originally wanted to ask Li Ruoruo to go down with her, but fifteen minutes ago Li Ruoruo had excused herself to the restroom and was nowhere to be found.

Wen Jianan had no choice but to go down by herself.

Downstairs, she quickly located the rider.

After handing the food to Wen Jianan, the man apologized profusely.

Seeing that his delivery vehicle was indeed broken down, Wen Jianan dispelled her suspicions and expressed her understanding.

Watching the rider push his vehicle away, Wen Jianan prepared to head back.

As she passed a concrete pillar, someone suddenly reached out and blocked her path.

By this hour, the morning peak commuting time had largely passed, and the parking garage was dead silent. Such an abrupt interruption nearly scared Wen Jianan's heart right out of her throat.

Just as a gasp was about to escape her lips, someone reached out and clamped a hand over her mouth.

The person lowered their voice and said coldly, "Don't make a sound. It's me."

Wen Jianan looked closely and blinked in recognition: "Zhang Yufei?!"

She had almost thrown her coffee directly at the person, but upon seeing who it was, she couldn't help frowning.

Instead, Zhang Yufei made a shushing gesture, then pulled her down into a semi-crouched position beside the pillar.

"What are you doing?" Wen Jianan asked with a puzzled expression, finding Zhang Yufei's bizarre behavior utterly inexplicable.

Zhang Yufei remained silent, merely nodding her chin to signal Wen Jianan to look at a black Mercedes-Benz parked not far behind the pillar.

Frowning, Wen Jianan looked over and instantly recognized it as Wei Ming's car.

The rear passenger door of the car was left slightly ajar, and two pairs of legs from the calves down were exposed, locked together in an upward and downward tangled posture of a bizarre nature.

Li Ruoruo's alluring, panting gasps drifted over—neither too loud nor too soft, just loud enough for Wen Jianan and Zhang Yufei to hear clearly.

Wen Jianan froze for a couple of seconds before her eyes widened in shock!

Li Ruoruo and Wei Ming were actually... !

This was a development she had never even imagined.

The same went for Zhang Yufei.

She had come downstairs to retrieve something she had dropped in the car when she happened to run into Li Ruoruo heading toward the parking garage.

Zhang Yufei had originally intended to say hello, never expecting to witness Li Ruoruo and Wei Ming in such a liaison.

She had been left standing there in shock all by herself for quite a while before Wen Jianan suddenly appeared.

Over on that side, the battle intensified, accompanied by various suppressed, obnoxious sounds of heavy breathing, mingled with Li Ruoruo's disgruntled grumbles.

"Why are you still keeping Wen Jianan around? Why don't you just fire her straight out? You know she's like a witch—it's bad enough that she makes herself work overtime, but she treats us like slaves to overtime every single day. If it weren't for you, I would have quit long ago... Ah~"

That final sound caused both Wen Jianan and Zhang Yufei to shiver in unison, breaking out in goosebumps all over.

Before they could even process the disgust, they heard Wei Ming panting as he replied, "It's not time yet."

"Are you the one who can't bear to let her go? I... I took the risk of breaking the law to help you frame her. If you still have lingering feelings for her, aren't you treating me a bit too unfairly?"

"If she ever finds out how you've been plotting against her behind her back, how do you think she'd react?"

Wei Ming's movements paused for a fraction of a second.

Then, without saying a word, he launched into an even more furious assault.

These commotions could no longer evoke any ordinary reactions from Wen Jianan and Zhang Yufei; they were utterly stunned by Li Ruoruo's words.

In the dim corner of the parking garage, Wen Jianan's face turned a shifting shade of pale and livid.

She was boiling with rage. Li Ruoruo was one thing, but she never expected that Wei Ming was also the mastermind behind the scenes.

What a classic farce of a thief crying "stop thief"!

Wen Jianan clenched her fists tightly and bit down hard on her back molars to keep herself from rushing out to shatter the scene.

Beside her, Zhang Yufei stared intently at her. Just as she was about to speak, she saw Wen Jianan suddenly set down the things in her hands, pull out her phone, and begin recording the passionate scene that had yet to end.

Thanks to Li Ruoruo's jealous nature, which drove her to utter intermittent remarks to provoke Wei Ming, Wen Jianan managed to capture several key pieces of dialogue on video.

Zhang Yufei watched in silence.

Just as the affair was drawing to a close, Wen Jianan put away her phone. Zhang Yufei helped her pick up the items on the ground, and the two of them lightened their footsteps and left the scene.

Inside the elevator heading back up, the silence was heavy.

Wen Jianan pressed her lips into a thin line, her expression sullen as half her face was cast in shadow.

Zhang Yufei had no idea what was going through her mind, but viewed from this angle, the rise and fall of her chest was distinctly visible.

Naturally, who wouldn't be furious and disgusted if such a thing happened to them?

Had they not stumbled upon this scene today and shattered this low-level conspiracy, Wen Jianan probably would have been successfully pinned with the blame for the data leak.

Whether she resigned voluntarily or was fired, she would likely find it difficult to ever establish a foothold in the industry again.

After all, Quantum was a major brand, and any scandal involving such a company would become common knowledge throughout the industry.

They would surely pursue the matter to the bitter end, and branded with the crime of leaking secrets, Wen Jianan might even face prison time.

Moreover, how many major corporations had been eyeing this project beforehand, only for Fidu to snatch it in the end? Countless people were waiting to see what kind of results Fidu could actually deliver.

If this leaked out now, not only Wen Jianan, but the entire Fidu company would become a laughingstock.

Zhang Yufei found the whole situation absurd. She couldn't understand what Wei Ming was thinking; how could a boss willingly sacrifice his own company's future and development just to carry out such a despicable plot?

The elevator doors opened, and Wen Jianan stepped out first.

Zhang Yufei followed behind and called out to her.

Wen Jianan turned her head back, took the items from Zhang Yufei's hands, twitched the corner of her lips, and said with a double meaning, "I'll carry them myself."