BXBX NOVEL Chapter 61: 61 – Doubt_1
Chapter 61: 61 – Doubt_1
With a smug look on her face, she approached Gu Yuanzhou flatteringly.
“President Gu, I’ve accomplished all the tasks you assigned to me!”
Gu Yuanzhou slightly nodded.
Then he asked Annie, “About the spreading of rumors, do you have anything to say?”
Annie turned her head to glance at me,
“Well, although Song Xiaoyun is my colleague, and personally, I do sympathize with her. But this should be business as usual at work. I believe it’s very egregious of her to do this. She should be fired.”
Annie’s words betrayed her smugness.
I chuckled softly,
“You want to get rid of me so Luo Zizhou can return, right? You’re all about ‘business as usual’, but you’re clearly just satisfying your personal desires.”
“Song Xiaoyun, you are talking nonsense!!”
Caught red-handed, Annie was a guilty party trying to clear her name. She was hopping mad.
“I’m talking nonsense? You’re plotting and scheming this whole thing, while I have no motive at all. President Gu really appreciates me and he wants to promote me, why would I do such a foolish thing?”
I answered back, smiling.
Caught off guard by my question, Annie was momentarily speechless. After regaining her composure, she angrily pointed a finger at me.
“I know, you want to avenge Mrs. Gu because you were close to her. Now that Mrs. Gu is unjustly dead, you seek retribution. You believe Mr. Gu caused her death, so, to get back at him for Mrs. Gu, you deliberately spread rumors in the company!!!”
Watching Annie make such accusations made me smile.
This fool, she really rubbed Gu Yuanzhou up the wrong way.
Sure enough, before her words had even left her mouth, Gu Yuanzhou slammed a hand on the table and stood up, “Shut up!”
Annie didn’t dare to utter a word…
I asked her with a smile,
“Annie, I had no idea that Mrs. Gu’s death was in any way related to Mr. Gu. How did you find out?”
Annie was so intent on defending herself, she blurted out,
“Nonsense, President Gu was taken away by the police because he was a suspect. I personally bailed him out!”
“Oh, so only you knew about this then? After all, you were the only one who went to do this. I don’t recall you ever telling me!”
Annie’s words were riddled with inconsistencies. Seeing her get caught off-guard, she quickly changed tactics,
“Stop pretending, the reporters announced it online a few days ago. Calling out President Gu for murdering his wife for the insurance money. Unless you’re blind and didn’t see.”
“So you did see it!!! Sorry, but I didn’t see it!”
Annie became frantic, she pulled Xu Yun over,
“Go tell President Gu that Song Xiaoyun instructed you to do it.”
Xu Yun angrily pushed her away, ignoring her words. Instead, she went to Gu Yuanzhou,
“President Gu, this whole plotting was intended by Annie. She couldn’t stand Song Xiaoyun from the start. She printed those pages herself and told us to distribute them around the company, spreading rumors about Song Xiaoyun.”
Annie never expected her own henchmen to turn against her.
Obviously furious, she pointed at Xu Yun’s nose,
“You ungrateful wretch, I’ve been so good to you, yet you dare to betray me!”
Xu Yun took a step back,
“You used us, do you think I’m a fool? All these years, you’ve taken advantage of your position to bleed the company dry. Under the guise of promotions, you forced colleagues to treat you to meals. You took advantage of your birthday, forcing everyone to buy you expensive gifts. We were willing to let all these slide because we are colleagues, but now you even tried to scheme against the president. Do you think the president’s an idiot who can’t see through your pathetic little scheme?”
At Xu Yun’s words, Annie was even angrier, stretching her hand out to cover Xu Yun’s mouth.
“Shut up, don’t you dare spew nonsense, you wretched woman…”
“That’s enough!”
With a furious roar, Gu Yuanzhou cut off Annie’s words.
“President Gu, hear me out, they must have listened to Song Xiaoyun’s instigation and plotted against me. President Gu, you have to believe me, in this company, only I truly care for you. Everyone else is here with ulterior motives, especially this Song Xiaoyun, she certainly doesn’t mean well to you.”
I folded my arms, smiling and watching Annie.
Indeed, I do have designs on Gu Yuanzhou. Unfortunately, she’s just too naive. She’s no match for me in the workplace.
Soon, Gu Yuanzhou called security, “Take out Annie.”
“President Gu, are you suspending me? Mr. Gu, listen to my explanation.”
“This is not a suspension, it’s termination… From now on, don’t show up in front of me.”
Annie was forcibly escorted out by security.
Even though her intentions were to stand up for Luo Zizhou, her mistake was that she should’ve never provoked me.
Gradually, the office returned to its former calmness.
However, Gu Yuanzhou’s face didn’t look good. Knowing that he did not drive me away, he must have started to trust me.
“President Gu, what about Xu Yun?”
“Handle it yourself!”
He gave me this opportunity to establish rapport with everyone.
As long as I secure Xu Yun’s job, from now on, she would definitely defer to me.
I understood Gu Yuanzhou’s intentions.
I brewed him a cup of coffee and handed it over,
“From now on, does President Gu still trust me?”
Gu Yuanzhou did not answer my question.
Instead, he sat back in his swivel chair, loosening his suit tie slightly, and slowly picked up the coffee to savor it carefully.
After a while, he picked up the bottle of eye drops on the desk…
“Did you buy this?”
I glanced at it. It was the Hainuo brand eye drops I had bought him. It had been almost half a month.
“Yes!”
“Why did you choose this one?”
“This kind does not contain preservatives and does not irritate the vitreous humor.”
He nodded, rose from his chair, and walked towards me,
“Why does this cup of coffee taste exactly the same as the one I used to drink?”
Gu Yuanzhou was tall and imposing, his pitch-black suit, coupled with his stern black eyes, faded him to an imposing aura.
When he walked towards me, I felt as if a wall was pressing on me. I couldn’t help but step back, alertly watching him.
“President Gu, what do you mean by this?”
“Who are you really?”
He reached out with both hands and cornered me against the wall. A pair of chilling dark eyes scrutinized me.
My heart raced, has Gu Yuanzhou started to suspect my identity?
Upon careful consideration, the situation seemed a bit subtle.
Gu Yuanzhou knows his way around the workplace.
Being as astute as he is, he must have known from the start that I didn’t do it, right? Otherwise, why didn’t he fire me outright?
So, he was actually using this incident to observe me covertly, right?
Thinking about this, I couldn’t help but break out in a cold sweat.