Night Fire Lingering

Sun Xingbo gave Wen Yan an enormous workload, far exceeding what an intern should be doing, clearly showing that he disliked Wen Yan and wanted to settle a personal score.

The Mingke acquisition involved two large groups, with the acquired party having multiple subsidiaries. The tasks Sun Xingbo assigned to Wen Yan weren't particularly difficult for her, but since she wasn't initially part of the project team, she needed to spend considerable time familiarizing herself with the materials.

Everything is difficult at the beginning, but Wen Yan is optimistic.

noon.

Gu Yanci usually eats private meals delivered from his office on the top floor. Today, he suddenly appeared in the cafeteria with several senior executives, causing quite a stir.

Sun Xingbai and the other law firm staff were sitting at the entrance of the cafeteria when they looked up and came face to face with Gu Yanci.

"President Gu, President Chen, President Zhang..." Sun Xingbai immediately stood up and greeted the client.

Gu Yanci didn't speak, but his gaze swept over the lawyers and he frowned slightly.

Zhou Qi followed behind Gu Yanci and asked, "Attorney Sun, it seems your team has more than just these few people?"

"Oh? Our whole team is here! Your cafeteria food is so good, we have to eat more!"

Zhou Qi reminded her, "There's a girl in your team surnamed Wen who handed the documents to President Gu during the meeting this morning."

Sun Xingbai was surprised that the other party would bother with such a trivial matter. While cursing Wen Yan as a troublemaker in his heart, he smiled apologetically and said, "You mean Wen Yan? She has some urgent work on her hands and plans to finish what she has on hand first. As you know, the pace of work in our law firm is quite fast."

Zhou Qi's brow twitched. He thought to himself that his wife had never gone hungry in the food desert of England, yet she couldn't get a meal at his own company. It was simply outrageous!

“Attorney Sun, work is important, but your health is more important. You still need to eat. We've given the project team quite a bit of time, haven't we?”

The senior executives of Gu's Group looked at each other with puzzled expressions.

Wait, why is Assistant Zhou concerned about whether the contractor's junior staff are eating?

Could it be... that this was at President Gu's behest?

Sun Xingbo was covered in sweat: "Yes, yes, yes! Your company certainly didn't put any pressure on us, but we law firm people have always been like this, with high self-expectations."

Zhou Qi glanced at Gu Yanci's expression. The boss's expression was indifferent, revealing no emotion, but the slight pursing of his lips betrayed his inner thoughts:

Not very happy.

Sun Xingbo keenly sensed the subtle attitude of the client's management towards Wen Yan.

The next day, Sun Xingbo deliberately sent Wen Yan to deliver documents to the legal director to make his presence felt.

The legal director was also a shrewd person. Recalling the unusual behavior of President Gu and Assistant Zhou, he signed Wen Yan's document and said, "Attorney Wen, I have reviewed this document and there are no problems, but it still needs to be reviewed by our President Gu. Please send it to the president's office."

Wen Yan wanted to refuse, opened her mouth, but after a few seconds she agreed to the client's request.

She was afraid of being complained about by the client!

Several minutes after Wen Yan left the general counsel's office, the general counsel suddenly remembered that he hadn't told the pretty young woman how to get to the president's office.

The general counsel had no choice but to call Zhou Qi and explain the situation.

"Oh, it's nothing, I saw her." Zhou Qi happened to see the elevator in the president's office open, and Wen Yan came out with some documents.

"That's fine, that's fine!"

The general counsel hung up the phone, then belatedly realized:

its not right!

He didn't even say where the president's office was, so how did that girl find it?

……

How did you find it?

The only place Wen Yan was somewhat familiar with in the Gu Group building was the president's office.

"Madam!" Zhou Qi hurriedly came to greet her.

Wen Yan quickly glanced around, thankfully no one else was there: "Assistant Zhou, please use my job title in the workplace. You can call me Wen Yan or Xiao Wen."

As long as you don't call me "wife," you can call me anything else.

Zhou Qi dared not call out to him, and said, "Lawyer Wen, didn't you go to lunch? Is the food in the cafeteria bad, or do you not want to...see President Gu?"

"There's a lot of simple work to do, and I want to finish it as soon as possible—this is a document that Gu Yanci needs to review, please have Assistant Zhou forward it."

Zhou Qicai did not answer.

Assistant Zhou said in a serious tone, "Madam, no, Attorney Wen, these kinds of external documents need to be handed over by you, the third party, in case Mr. Gu has any questions, so that we can communicate directly with you."

Wen Yan looked at him suspiciously for a few seconds, thinking that Zhou Qi probably wouldn't talk nonsense about work, so she had no choice but to walk to the president's office and give it to him in person.

Zhou Qi knocked on the door and led Wen Yan inside.

"Mr. Gu, your wife has come to deliver some documents."

Wen Yan: "?"

Didn't you just call her Wen Lu?

Gu Yanci paused briefly when he saw Wen Yan glaring at Zhou Qi with displeasure.

Gu Yanci couldn't think of any other documents that Wen Yan needed to deliver, so he asked, "Divorce papers?"

“…No.” Wen Yan felt this was a huge mistake. “I forgot the divorce papers. I’ll try to remember them next time.”

Zhou Qi: "..."

Zhou Qi silently left and closed the door to the president's office.

"I've come to deliver the documents for our legal team." Wen Yan handed them to Gu Yanci with both hands respectfully. "Mr. Gu, please review them."

Gu Yanci crossed his legs and leaned back in the leather chair with a very relaxed posture, looking at Wen Yan.

This man has always been deep and unfathomable; his demeanor and expression always reflect the air of someone in a superior position.

Wen Yan thought for a moment, then summarized the contents of the document, emphasizing her obligations as the second party.

When she reported on her work, she had a strong student-like quality, like a model student giving a PowerPoint presentation on a classroom platform. She was very innocent, but her presentation was fluent and concise, showing that she was very familiar with the contents of the documents.

Gu Yanci stared intently at the woman across the desk for a long while before beckoning.

"come over."

Wen Yan looked at him warily, standing at the other end of the desk without moving.

"Mr. Gu, if you have any questions, I will try my best to answer them. If it's something I can't solve, I will go back and communicate with my superiors. If there are no other questions, I will leave the documents here and head back now."

She didn't want to stay here for another second!

Gu Yanci smiled enigmatically: "Are you afraid of me?"