Endless Fall

Chapter 66: Stealing Her Proposal

“Don’t move.”

She pressed him up against the wall happily.

Just as her hand was about to touch the edge of his pants, he trembled and accidentally knocked over the vase beside him.

A crisp sound of an object smashing into pieces rang in Lin Jiao’s ears, waking her up instantly.

As she held her chest and thought of Pei Zhi in her dream, redness spread out across her face at a speed visible to the naked eye.

It was too embarrassing…

If she had known, she would not have watched that costume drama with Pei Zhi.

“Lin Jiao?” Pei Zhi, who was about to wake her up, heard a knocking sound outside the door and quickly called out to her.

“I’m fine.”

Lin Jiao stopped hammering the bed in embarrassment.

She facepalmed in frustration and sat by the bed, taking deep breaths. When the redness on her cheeks disappeared, she started to put on her clothes.

“Come and have breakfast.” Pei Zhi waited for her to wash up before bringing the sandwiches to the dining table.

Lin Jiao walked over slowly.

She unintentionally glanced at his abs, and the tips of her ears turned red again.

“Is it not delicious?”

“No, it’s good.”

“Then why do you look like you can’t even swallow it?” The more Pei Zhi looked at her, the more he felt that something was wrong.

“You know, brain fog after waking up.”

Lin Jiao could only use this lame excuse.

She ate faster. After filling her stomach, she went downstairs with him. “Uncle, are we running late?”

“No, still plenty of time.”

Pei Zhi put on the seatbelt for her.

He stepped on the accelerator and drove into Sheng Heng Corp’s parking lot in only fifteen minutes.

Before stepping into the elevator, he said, “Rest well at noon. Don’t eat outside.”

Lin Jiao nodded. “Yes.”

She thought of the proposal she had to submit later. As soon as she arrived at the planning department, she got busy.

At noon, Wu Xiuwen came over.

He walked up to Lin Jiao and Feng Yunjie with two printed documents.

“Why is the proposal you made this time 80% similar?”

Lin Jiao was dumbstruck.

The surrounding fell deadly silent.

The colleagues who had not gone to the cafeteria turned around and looked in their direction.

Lin Jiao was stunned.

She took the two documents and stared at the place he had highlighted. She frowned and asked, “Feng Yunjie, what do you mean?”

Feng Yunjie’s heart skipped a beat.

She looked at Wang Rui, who was sitting beside her, and saw that the latter had turned her head away. She could only bite the bullet and said, “You stole my proposal and you still have the cheek to ask me this?”

Lin Jiao was so angry that she laughed. “You know better than anyone who stole whose proposal.”

“Don’t you try to accuse me. Do you know how long I have been working at Sheng Heng Corp? Why should I steal your proposal?”

“So what if you’ve been working here longer than me? It doesn’t change the fact you are a thief.”

“Watch your mouth.!” Feng Yunjie slapped the table and glared at her with red eyes, as if she was about to cry.

Seeing how aggrieved she was, some of her colleagues chimed in, “Don’t throw accusations without evidence. It’s not fair.”

“That’s right. What if she’s innocent?”

“You two are making a proposal on the same product. It’s not unlikely that you came up with an identical idea.”

Zheng Yi couldn’t stand it anymore. “No matter how similar the idea is, it’s impossible for them to be 80% alike.”

“Brother Zheng, are you suspecting me too?” Feng Yunjie looked at him with tears in her eyes.

Zheng Yi did not answer.

He said calmly, “Lin Jiao won’t use someone else’s proposal.”

“Are you showing bias towards her?”

“I…”

“There’s no need to explain,” Lin Jiao interrupted.

She looked at Wu Xiuwen, who was still angry. “Manager Wu, where can I check the surveillance camera footage on this floor?”

“You have to get permission from the higher-ups to check the surveillance cameras.”

“Which higher-up are you talking about?”

“Assistant Qu.” He raised his wrist to look at the watch. “It’s lunch break now. I’m afraid he’s not around.”

“I’ll go up and take a look first.” Lin Jiao picked up her phone and quickly left under everyone’s gaze.

She walked into the assistant’s room and saw Qu Shao lying on the sofa playing a game. She asked, “Brother Qu, what are you playing?”

“Oh my god!” Qu Shao was so frightened that his heart skipped a beat. He even tightened his grip on his phone.

He sat up. “Why did you manage to talk without making a sound?”

“You turned the volume too high.”

“Did I?”

“Yes.” Lin Jiao suspected that he might be hard of hearing.

She sat down beside him and chatted for a while before bringing up what had happened. “Can you help me inform the surveillance room?”

“No problem.” Qu Shao opened his contact list. After thinking about it, he decided to go there in person for her.

He turned off the screen. “They should be in the cafeteria now. I’ll go there later.”

“Then let’s wait until office hours.”

“That works.”

Lin Jiao stood up. “Brother Qu, sorry to trouble you.”

“Not at all.” Qu Shao waved his hand and suggested in all seriousness, “Why don’t you go to the boss’s place to rest?”

“Okay.” She did not want to waste her breath arguing with Feng Yunjie. It was not a bad idea to rest for a while in Pei Zhi’s office.

Lin Jiao knocked twice on the door of the CEO’s office.

After getting permission, she entered and walked towards the long table. “President Pei, have you eaten?”

“Not yet.”

“Let’s eat together?”

“Alright.” Pei Zhi chuckled.

He gestured for her to sit on the sofa and opened the takeout app on his phone. “Order what you like.”

Lin Jiao did not stand on ceremony with him.

She first found out the nearest restaurants before looking at the dishes. “How about a Thai hotpot?”

“I’m ok with it.”

Pei Zhi picked up his teacup and took a sip.

He stared at her side profile as if he could not get tired of looking at her. “Are you here to send documents to Qu Shao?”

“No, I asked him to help me check the surveillance cameras.”

“Did you lose something?”

“Kind of.” Lin Jiao handed him the phone and asked him to pay first. “The proposal I made was stolen.”

Pei Zhi narrowed his eyes. “Who did it?”