The email contained chat logs from a long time ago.

Shang Wu was all too familiar with that striking, abstract portrait; it belonged to Yan Yue, a lawyer from Dingfeng.

I was closest to Lu Rang in the law firm; we often worked together on cases and chatted.

In the chat log, Yan Yue asked: "Why did you insist on taking on such a difficult case? Getting involved in the merchants' affairs isn't your style."

Lu Rang replied: [Use Shang Wu to bring down Jin Shui.]

Yan Yue: [Yes, I'd forgotten. Jinshui, relying on the background and backing of Chengzhou Group, snatched so many cases from Dingfeng Law Firm, causing a significant drop in the performance of our team's lawyers!]

Yan Yue: [Sigh, I knew you wouldn't do a losing business. You hate trouble and don't like meddling in other people's business. I knew it! How could you possibly take on a case like that and contact people from Chengzhou Group?]

Lu Rang did not reply to this matter again, and instead discussed the case with him.

Shang Wu remained expressionless and continued scrolling down.

The email contained several photos in which Lu Rang was sitting opposite a beautiful woman.

In restaurants, in teahouses, in all sorts of places.

The two people were eating and chatting face to face, and they seemed to have a very close relationship.

Lu Rang greeted the woman opposite him with a gentle smile that Shang Wu had rarely seen before.

"This is his fiancée, Shang Wu. You've always been seen with him as a couple, haven't you thought about what would happen if his fiancée found out? Your interactions are inappropriate," Zhou Yanci sent a message.

Shang Wu gritted her teeth.

Lu Rang stepped forward to look, but Shang Wu immediately put her phone away.

Seeing that she wouldn't let him see it, Lu Rang frowned slightly: "What's wrong?"

"fine."

Shang Wu distanced herself from him and left with a calm expression, not even glancing at Lu Rang.

"I'm going to work now."

Before Lu Rang could react, she had already left.

Lu Rang's gaze remained fixed on her, lost in thought as he watched her departing figure.

Shang Wu felt extremely depressed as she went downstairs.

Snow began to fall from the sky sometime earlier.

Shang Wu stood in the falling snow, and after a while she sighed, her mind filled with all the things Lu Rang had done.

He sucked candy from her fingertip, shielded her from stones on the ground, and rushed to rescue her from Zhou Yanci's scheme.

And... that ridiculous kiss.

Shang Wu wished she could travel back in time and give her past self a good scolding.

Shang Wu's expression was somewhat numb as she opened the car door and got in.

She took a phone call in her car before leaving.

Zhou Yanci called and her first question was, "So, did you see everything?"

Shang Wu stared straight ahead, her fingertips cold, and said calmly, "My contact with him is merely between colleagues, you don't need to send me so much stuff."

"You...you're not planning to transfer him away yet? It's not appropriate for someone from Dingfeng Law Firm to stay in the company. You take him everywhere you go. His fiancée will make a scene sooner or later if she finds out."

Zhou Yanci was clearly very surprised that she still did not want to fire Lu Rang.

Shang Wu reiterated: "I said, we only have a working relationship, and we will not cross any boundaries in the future."

Lu Rang was using her without caring, but he realized that their recent interactions had crossed the line and they needed to get back on track.

She also told Lu Rang in person that she would be very happy to help Dingfeng Law Firm get back on its feet and kick out the Jinshui team.

Jinshui Law Firm has been under Zhou Yanci's command for so many years, always helping her brother with his lawsuits, pretending to be dedicated, but it's all just a facade.

If it weren't for this, they probably would have found evidence to reduce his sentence long ago.

These lawyers were just along with Zhou Yanci in fooling him. She was just hoping that the people from Dingfeng Law Firm would take their place and that Jinshui Law Firm would lose Chengzhou as its backer.

Lu Rang was using her, and she was also using Lu Rang to deal with Jin Shui and to overturn the verdict on her family's case.

She felt at ease knowing that Lu Rang had ulterior motives towards her.

With such a helpful assistant, reviewing a business case is very easy.

Besides, this is a critical period for gathering evidence, and she cannot lose Lu Rang as an assistant.

Lu Rang knows too many clues; he cannot afford to break ties at this time.

Shang Wu rubbed her temples, determined that she and Lu Rang would never again cross the line in the slightest.

After hanging up the phone, Shang Wu went straight to work at headquarters.

With her in charge, the company has been calm and peaceful.

Taking advantage of her control, Shang Wu dismissed all of Zhou's incompetent relatives, lazy employees, and several of Zhou Yanci's confidants from their positions on the grounds of poor performance and lax work habits.

She annotated each person's file with details of their behavior of taking money without doing any work, and then packaged them up and sent them to the shareholders.

The board of directors had just received these people's complaints when they saw the reasons for their dismissal in their files.

The shareholders were furious and declared, "President Shang's orders are law. She can resign starting today, and no one can object!"

Shang Wu was organizing the Jinshui Law Firm's files in her office, planning to find a suitable reason to dismantle the entire team.

Ah Ying knocked on the door and came in.

“Attorney Lu’s office is ready. I’ve already called him and he said he’ll come over to take a look later.”

Shang Wu paused after listening, without raising her head.

"Okay, I understand. Go and collect all the lawyer information for the Jinshui Law Firm for me, and bring it to me before you leave work."

"Okay, I'll take care of it right away." Aying paused, then looked at her with a puzzled expression.

"President Shang, why don't you seem to care much about Attorney Lu's matter anymore? Didn't you specifically instruct us to get him the biggest and brightest office?"

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