Shi Song confirmed it repeatedly with a sense of uncertainty. His slender fingers trembled slightly on the mouse, his voice laced with despair.
“There seems to be something really wrong with my computer. Everything inside is gone…”
Seeing his pale expression, Mu Chen’s heart clenched.
Having fought his way through the art circle for so many years, there was nothing he hadn’t seen. With just a moment’s thought, he understood that Shi Song had definitely been targeted by someone.
It was fortunate that Shi Song had come to look over the process with him. Otherwise, this matter would definitely be impossible to clear up. Without evidence, he would have had no choice but to suffer this loss in silence.
The person behind this was so calculating.
“I’ll find a professional to help you check it.”
Mu Chen stood up, preparing to leave.
His sleeve tightened; he was actually held back by Shi Song. “It’s fine, no need to trouble you…”
“Don’t tell me you intend to let that person off?”
Mu Chen furrowed his brows on the spot. He had a bad temper and could not bear to watch Shi Song suffer this kind of grievance right under his nose, feeling it was a blatant slap in his own face.
But right after, Mu Chen saw Shi Song shake his head at him almost imperceptibly.
Gu Yuan had been paying close attention to the movements over here the entire time.
Hearing that Shi Song didn’t seem to intend to investigate, he sneered in his heart.
As expected of someone who hadn’t entered the company through legitimate means; when encountering trouble, he didn’t even dare to make a sound and could only live with his tail between his legs.
After thinking about it, he still sent a message to that number from yesterday.
“You’re sure it won’t be traced back, right?”
Yesterday, that number asked him to provide some information about Shi Song, and then gave him a lot of money a full two years’ worth of salary.
It just so happened that Gu Yuan loathed Shi Song. With such a good opportunity, how could he not do it?
Anyway, the fact that he spoke ill of people behind their backs had already been exposed. Now, in this company, only one of him and Shi Song could stay.
The person on the other side replied very quickly: “No, don’t worry.”
Gu Yuan completely breathed a sigh of relief.
Shi Song asked Mu Chen to go back first while he sat at his workstation.
After a while, Jiang Feng sent a message: “Already found it.”
“It’s related to this IP, and the person behind it is named Zhou Jing.”
“Xiao Song, do you have a grievance with this person?”
Shi Song thought for a moment: “I understand, thank you.”
“What is there to thank for?”
Jiang Feng sent an emoji of furiously rubbing a dog’s head.
“Daring to bully our Songsong, I’ll help you teach him a lesson.”
Meanwhile, on the other side.
Zhou Jing put away his phone and changed his posture, dangling his legs carelessly as he sat in his seat.
“Xiao Liu, bring me a cup of coffee.”
A few days ago, Su Tang came to find him secretly, saying with great surprise that Shi Song had actually rejected the invitation to work at Lin Yiming’s company, to the point that Lin Yiming had been very despondent these past two days.
The fact that Su Tang liked Lin Yiming was something everyone in their circle could see.
He seemed to think he hid it very well, but between his words, this kind of emotion had already secretly leaked out long ago.
Zhou Jing originally had no intention of minding that kind of idle business.
But rubbing his chin, he recalled the kitten-like proud look of Lin Yiming’s boyfriend at the gathering that day, who wouldn’t even give him a single contact detail, and a thought suddenly crossed his mind.
“So, you actually want Shi Song to go to Lin Yiming’s company?”
The other side was silent for a moment before speaking.
“Even though Shi Song falsely accused me of pushing him last time… I still hope he and Brother Lin are well.”
“Brother Lin likes Shi Song so much, if the two of them really have some conflict, Brother Lin will definitely be worried to death.”
Tsk, what a pitiful little thing.
Zhou Jing and Su Tang were, after all, brothers of many years. Hearing how aggrieved Su Tang was now, the thought in his mind became even firmer.
It was just a small favor, consider it a tiny bit of revenge on Su Tang’s behalf.
Anyway, no one could find out who he was.
Zhou Jing narrowed his eyes like an old fox.
“How could I bear to see my brother sad? I’ll help with this favor.”
“Ah? What are you going to do?”
Su Tang was a bit dazed.
“You don’t need to worry about it.”
A smile curled at the corner of Zhou Jing’s mouth.
If he wanted Shi Song to voluntarily go to the Lin Corporation, then making it impossible for him to stay in the Wei Corporation would do the trick.
In private, Shi Song forwarded all the evidence Jiang Feng had sent him to Mu Chen.
“Brother Mu, I seem to have found that person, and it has to do with Gu Yuan.”
“I had an argument with Gu Yuan before because he was discussing me behind my back. I really couldn’t swallow my anger, but I didn’t expect to cause such a big mess… I’m sorry, Brother Mu.”
Mu Chen already had suspicions in his heart beforehand. After getting the definitive result, he stood up with a whoosh and walked over to Gu Yuan’s workstation in a few strides.
“Explain.”
“Brother Mu, what’s wrong?”
Gu Yuan was startled and instantly looked up.
“Playing dumb?”
Mu Chen was almost laughed to anger: “I brought you in. On your first day here, I told you to establish your character before producing work.”
“Over these years, you violated company regulations to secretly take private commissions, and I was too lazy to care, but you actually went so far as to lay a hand on a colleague? Deleting Shi Song’s drawing, how rare of you to think of that! Does deleting his drawing make you more excellent than him?!”
“I am too disappointed in you!”
A colleague next to them also understood what was going on and couldn’t help but interject: “Yeah, you’ve gone too far.”
Gu Yuan’s eyes widened slightly.
The person he admired most was Brother Mu, but Brother Mu actually expressed disappointment today.
He had been conscientious and meticulous over these years, and even if there was no glory, there was hard work. Why should he be abandoned by Brother Mu just because of this one matter regarding Shi Song!
Realizing there was no room to salvage the situation, Gu Yuan’s head heated up as the words slipped out: “So what if I did it?”
“He’s nothing more than the son of a mistress, just possessing a tiny bit of background, and you all protect him like this?”
The colleagues nearby superficially remained seated at their own positions, but in reality, they had already started eating gossip behind the scenes long ago.
Hearing about having a background and being the son of a mistress, some of them instantly exchanged glances.
“You!”
For a moment, Mu Chen didn’t even know what to say.
If this matter wasn’t handled well, Shi Song’s reputation would suffer.
Shi Song raised his eyes slightly.
He was not surprised that Gu Yuan would bring this up; after all, the exact same situation had already appeared once in his dream.
However, Shi Song was also very curious about how a matter that was completely unrelated had managed to be pinned on him.
“Tell me, who is the son of a mistress?”
Just at this moment, an extremely cold and faint voice suddenly came from the side.
Gu Yuan turned his head around, and immediately after, he collided with a pair of dove-gray eyes.
The newcomer was extremely good-looking, but from the very bone, he exuded a completely frozen aura. His shattered hair was pitch-black, the line of his lips was pressed downward, and his entire figure was submerged in shadow. There was not a single trace of emotion in his eyes, revealing an ultimate sense of detachment.
As if being stared down by a cold and sinister venomous snake, Gu Yuan shuddered instantly, and the blood all over his body ran completely cold.
Fear.
This was the only emotion he could perceive at this moment.