Cheng Zhangwen stared at the file running backward on the computer, his face burning red with pain. He was stunned. The timestamps and synchronized data proved that Xu Chi had really typed the file out in twenty minutes, but…
How was that possible!
This was Xu Chi, useless Xu Chi!
He slapped the computer shut twice and pointed at Xu Chi’s nose. “Who knows if you forged it? We all know what level you’re at. You think just showing this can prove the file was made by you? Dream on!”
Being pointed at like that, Xu Chi’s face already turned cold. At the company before, no one had ever dared point a finger at his nose; even his superiors had to smile when speaking to him.
He stood up in one motion. His tall frame towered nearly a head over Cheng Zhangwen, and the pressure rolling off him came straight at him, making Cheng Zhangwen stumble back one step.
Then, feeling like he’d been too cowardly, Cheng Zhangwen forced himself to square up again.
Xu Chi coldly looked away, thinking this man really was kind of an idiot.
He rubbed his face with his long fingers and gave Cheng Zhangwen a smile that was perfunctory and even a little frightening:
“My level? You really don’t know it. But that’s fine. From now on, you will…”
After saying that, he fixed Cheng Zhangwen with a cold stare. His eyes were like an icy wolf’s and a sharp viper’s, flashing blades.
“And next time, if you point at me again, you’ll know what happens to people who point at me.”
The words fell like a blade. Cheng Zhangwen was badly frightened, sweat beading on his forehead. Angered by those words, he mustered his courage and tried to raise his hand to point at him, but his hand trembled for a long time and still wouldn’t lift.
His heart was pounding wildly. The last person who had scared him this badly was Yu Sui’an. Aside from Yu Sui’an, there was no way the company could have another person like this. So how had Xu Chi shown up?
The Xu Chi he had once looked down on.
Impossible, impossible… but why was his hand so weak that he couldn’t even lift it?
Damn it!
Xu Chi and Cheng Zhangwen were still locked in confrontation. There was fear and killing intent in Cheng Zhangwen’s eyes, but he couldn’t say a word and couldn’t move either. Xu Chi watched him expressionlessly. Just as he was about to leave it alone, he saw the employees who had just gone downstairs come back.
They happened to face Xu Chi’s direction.
They looked as if they had rushed back in a hurry. The moment they saw Xu Chi, they swarmed toward him.
Xu Chi instinctively stepped back, but the moment the group saw Cheng Zhangwen, they stopped and held back from speaking too loudly.
Xu Chi coldly glanced at Cheng Zhangwen, then smiled at the others. “What’s up?”
That smile startled everyone again. Their hearts jolted, and they became even more certain that this wasn’t Xu Chi.
When had the Xu Chi they knew ever smiled like that?
A bold girl stepped forward and asked tentatively, “You… you’re Xu Chi’s brother, right? Sorry about earlier. We mistook you for Xu Chi. You two really do look alike. Are you twins? But Xu Chi…”
Xu Chi was a little dumbfounded, but he quickly understood what they were imagining.
Did he and Xu Chi differ that much?
It seemed so. In the original novel, Xu Chi aside from murder seemed not to be very good at anything else… intelligence, emotional intelligence, everything was terrible. Completely the opposite of him.
He himself wasn’t Xu Chi, so it made sense that they’d recognize him as someone else.
He smiled at them and said in a very gentle tone, “I am Xu Chi. I was in a bad mood before and didn’t really want to talk. Now I’ve thought it through, that’s all.”
As soon as he said that, they froze, opening and closing their mouths, still unable to believe it. “You’re Xu Chi? The Xu Chi who used to work with us?”
Xu Chi nodded, not wanting to waste time here, and asked, “Did you look at the file I sent just now? Any problems?”
One girl immediately got excited. “No problems at all! The old Xu Chi could never have done that!”
Xu Chi was silent for a second, then curled the corners of his mouth into a meaningful smile.
“Before, it wasn’t right. Now it is.”
With that expression, that sentence, and Xu Chi’s well-known backing, they instantly thought of the possibility that Xu Chi had deliberately hidden his strength and his identity while staying on their floor.
Could the boss have specially planted him on their floor to observe them?
Thinking of that possibility, they completely lost any interest in scrutinizing Xu Chi. All they could think about was how they had acted in front of Xu Chi before, and how they had performed.
They were afraid that Xu Chi really had been sent from above to observe people, afraid of losing their jobs.
Xu Chi naturally knew what they were thinking and immediately smiled to reassure them.
“Don’t worry, there’s nothing wrong. Aren’t we all doing fine? If anything, I was the one who caused trouble for everyone before. I didn’t want to, but I had no choice…”
He put on a troubled expression, and the group became even more convinced of their guess. Xu Chi wasn’t some incapable nobody who had gotten in through the back door; he was highly capable and had been sent down from above.
“It’s fine, it’s fine. We’re all colleagues. Some friction is normal. How about we have dinner together tonight? We haven’t really talked much these past few days.”
It wasn’t just a few days; it had been almost two years of barely speaking.
Xu Chi didn’t expose them. He smiled and said, “All right. I’ll treat, as a return for the trouble I caused you before.”
As soon as he said that, they hurriedly replied, “No, no, we’ll treat you. We weren’t very polite before either. Please don’t take it to heart.”
Xu Chi smiled, completely unconcerned. He bent slightly, leaned closer to them, and lowered his voice as if sharing a secret.
“Who treats doesn’t matter. But there’s one thing I need to ask of you… I’m still Xu Chi, an employee on the forty-ninth floor, your colleague. Nothing special. Okay?”
They immediately understood what he meant and nodded at once. “Of course, of course. No problem. That’s how it was to begin with.”
They laughed a few times, but whether they truly felt at ease was something only they themselves knew.
After all, only they knew what expression they’d shown Xu Chi before, and how many bad things they’d said about him behind his back.
After Xu Chi finished speaking, he patted the back of the nearest male colleague. The man’s forehead was already sweating, and he looked visibly nervous, clearly with plenty of guilty conscience.
Xu Chi gave a relaxed smile. “Then if you run into any work problems later, feel free to tell me, and we’ll solve them together.”
“Okay, okay, no problem.” They all immediately answered with ingratiating smiles.
“Dinner tonight,” Xu Chi added.
“Okay, okay.”
The group dispersed.
All the while, Cheng Zhangwen was standing nearby, but no one paid him any attention.
How should one put it? Wherever Xu Chi was, Cheng Zhangwen was practically transparent.
Xu Chi glanced coldly at Cheng Zhangwen and sat back down in his seat.
He didn’t even bother to deal with him.
Cheng Zhangwen was furious beside him, but he couldn’t say anything. After clenching his fists for a long time, he went off to find trouble with someone else.
Mainly because Xu Chi’s words had scared him too.
But he wasn’t as afraid as the others. So what if Xu Chi had come from above? He had leverage over the higher-ups. Even the higher-ups didn’t dare say much in front of him; otherwise, how could he have gotten into this position? Xu Chi was just Xu Chi. He had plenty of ways to deal with him.