The steam and aroma of Malatang were still lingering at the tip of her nose as Lin Wanwan and Liu Xiaoli chatted and laughed their way back to the company.
Just as they stepped into the office area, the clock hands on the wall pointed to 1:00 PM.
“I’ll head back to my desk to send out the document first, so I don’t forget when things get busy later.”
Lin Wanwan greeted Liu Xiaoli, then walked briskly to her seat.
Pulling open the drawer, the silver USB flash drive lay quietly in the corner, exactly the same as when she had left.
She plugged the USB flash drive into the computer.
Just as she was about to drag the document to the mailbox to send it out, her peripheral vision caught sight of an email in her inbox.
[Time Mailbox: You have a letter from September 20, 2025]
Lin Wanwan: ???
Lin Wanwan: !!!
Something was wrong!
Something was terribly, completely wrong!!!!
How could the email still be there?!
According to the experience Lin Wanwan had gathered over these past few days, logically, as long as she altered the original trajectory of history, the email from the future would disappear.
However, right now, she had clearly changed history.
This time, she had been extraordinarily careful during the calculation and had even double-checked it thoroughly twice.
There was definitely no problem with the data inside the document, so the event of data errors on the normal timeline should not happen again.
Following this logic, the email should have vanished directly.
The next moment, a terrifying thought crossed Lin Wanwan’s mind.
Since the email didn’t disappear, did it mean that future history had not been changed?
Lin Wanwan took a deep breath, pressing down the shock in her heart.
She immediately opened the document and began inspecting it carefully.
10 minutes later, her expression turned extremely dark.
The data was indeed wrong—and both the employee and client data contained errors.
If it were just a single mistake, that might still be…
No!!!
Even a single mistake was impossible!
Before leaving for lunch, she had clearly checked it twice.
At that time, the entire document was completely problem-free, and all the numbers matched up.
In an instant, a possibility occurred to Lin Wanwan.
During the time she was out for lunch, someone had tampered with her document.
A spine-chilling sensation surged in Lin Wanwan’s heart.
To confirm her suspicion, she opened the detailed file properties of the document.
An unfamiliar modification time jumped vividly into view: 12:14.
Seeing this modification time, Lin Wanwan’s pupils shrank abruptly.
Their company broke for lunch at 12:00 PM; at 12:14 PM, she and Liu Xiaoli had already arrived at the Malatang restaurant downstairs long ago.
A wave of chill crept up her spine, and she subconsciously glanced around her surroundings.
The office area was gradually filling up with people. Colleagues gathered in groups of two or three chatting, some were brewing coffee, others were organizing morning files—everything looked as peaceful as usual.
Yet it was precisely this peace that made Lin Wanwan’s skin crawl.
In the brief hour she was away, someone took advantage of the empty office to tamper with her USB flash drive and modify the data in the document.
Who was it? Why do this?
Faces flashed rapidly through Lin Wanwan’s mind.
Sister Zhang definitely wouldn’t; she was the one who personally handed this task to her. If an error occurred, as her direct supervisor, she would also be implicated.
Liu Xiaoli was even more impossible; she had just eaten lunch with her, never leaving her sight the entire time.
Could it be another colleague???
However, as faces flashed through her mind one by one, they were quickly dismissed by Lin Wanwan.
She had only been at the company for a little over a month. She considered that although she hadn’t become close with every single colleague during this time, by the same token, Lin Wanwan didn’t think she had offended anyone either.
Before yesterday, she was merely an unpaid intern without even an official job rank, greeting everyone with a smile. It was virtually impossible for her to have offended anyone.
Suddenly, a face appeared in her mind!
Could it be her???
If there was anyone in the company who had friction with her, it might only be Song Jiaman!
The day before yesterday, when purchasing cosmetics, a small conflict had broken out between the two of them.
Immediately following that, the other party had started making sarcastic remarks yesterday.
Truth be told, if the other party hadn’t popped up with sarcastic comments yesterday, Lin Wanwan might not have even remembered having had a minor spat with her anytime soon.
She hurriedly looked up and scanned the ceiling, then let out a helpless sigh.
The company cared deeply about personal privacy, so cameras were only installed at a few entrances and exits, while there were no cameras in the workspace area.
This meant that even if she had a suspect, she had no way to obtain evidence.
The anger in Lin Wanwan’s chest nearly smashed through her rationality.
She took three deep breaths, forcing herself to calm down.
Now was not the time to investigate who was playing tricks. The deadline for submitting the file before getting off work was drawing closer and closer.
The Procurement Department was still waiting for this list to stock inventory. If it was delayed, the distribution of National Day welfare benefits would fall into chaos, and she would still be the one taking the blame.
She quickly pulled up the original spreadsheets submitted by each department, correcting the tampered data line by line against them.
Content that had already been checked twice before now required every single number to be repeatedly verified three times; she didn’t even dare miss the welfare specifications behind the employee names.
Song Jiaman’s sarcastic face flashed through her mind. Lin Wanwan bit her lower lip, her fingertips tapping faster on the keyboard.
Even if it really was her playing tricks, without evidence she could only swallow her grievance. The top priority was to get the job done first.
At 2:10 PM, Lin Wanwan finally sent the revised document to the designated email address of the Procurement Department.
The moment she clicked send, the back of her shirt was already drenched in cold sweat.
Leaning against the back of her chair to compose herself for a moment, she immediately pulled out her phone and searched for “micro camera hidden charger type” on a shopping app.
Lin Wanwan picked one with the best reviews and placed an order.
It was just a tiny friction between her and Song Jiaman, yet the other party would use such a vicious scheme.
Since the other party failed this time, there was no guarantee there wouldn’t be a next time.
Having suffered a loss once, Lin Wanwan would never suffer a second time.
Without evidence this time, she would take this setback lying down, but next time, if that bitch dared to make a move, she would absolutely make sure she met a sticky end!
Just as she put down her phone, a clamor suddenly came from the office entrance.
A colleague poked their head in and called out:
“Is Lin Wanwan here? Leaders from the Food and Drug Administration are here, and someone is even delivering a silk banner to you!”
Lin Wanwan froze for a moment, then walked quickly out of her workstation.
She saw quite a few people gathered at the entrance of the office area. Three staff members wearing navy blue uniforms stood in the center, accompanied by a couple. The wife was precisely the pregnant woman she had stopped yesterday.
At this moment, she held a red silk banner in her hands, upon which eight golden characters were exceptionally eye-catching: “Eradicating Harm for the People, Enthusiastic and Responsible.”
“Miss Lin, we finally meet you!”
The pregnant woman’s husband stepped forward quickly the moment he saw her, holding her hand tightly with reddened eyes:
“Yesterday, the comrades from the Food and Drug Administration told us that the raw marinated seafood in that shop not only had pathogenic bacteria, but also added medicine forbidden for pregnant women. If my wife had really eaten it, the consequences would have been unimaginable!”
The pregnant woman also nodded along, her hand gently protecting her abdomen, her voice filled with gratitude:
“Thanks to you stopping us and insisting on reporting it, otherwise my baby… I really wouldn’t dare think about it.”