Chapter 156 Eat the Eggs First
Yu Ling grabbed the beer bottle next to her, tilted her head back and gulped down most of it. The cold liquid slid down her throat, but it was like pouring oil, and the fire in her heart burned even more fiercely.
Seeing her friend like this, Su Xiao knew the time had come. She suddenly pulled a thick brown paper document bag from her huge, bulging tote bag and slammed it down on the greasy folding table in front of Yu Ling with a loud bang!
"Lingzi! Look at this!" Su Xiao's voice trembled slightly because of excitement and excitement.
"I'm going all out! I asked my cousin's classmate, who's not even remotely related to me, for help online—he's a seriously good hacker! He spent three days and three nights tracking down that vicious woman, Gu Qianqian, online!"
She ripped the file bag's cords open with a rude yet satisfying twitch of satisfaction. She pulled out a thick stack of printed paper and several enlarged screenshots, shoving them all under Yu Ling's nose.
"Open your eyes wide and look carefully!" Su Xiao poked his fingers hard on a bank statement, and his fingertips almost pierced the paper.
"Look carefully at this receiving account! And look at the payee—'Miss G Charity Foundation'! Damn that charity! This is the account Gu Qianqian's money laundering spree! The time! Look carefully at the time! It was the day before you were falsely accused of instructing the theft of Xinghui Technology's trade secrets! A full two million! Who did you transfer it to?!"
Su Xiao suddenly pulled out another enlarged photo, which showed the profile of a timid man wearing a baseball cap, sneaking out of the back door of a hidden coffee shop.
"Zhang Wei! That wretched technician from your company! The one who got fired! It's him! Gu Qianqian bribed him!" Su Xiao pulled out another printed screenshot of the encrypted chat log, which showed a technically reconstructed fragment of the conversation:
[G: Put something into the USB drive, make sure it points to her. The final payment will be paid after the deal is done.]
[Zhang: ...The risk is too great...]
[G: Add another fifty. Do it cleanly.]
[Zhang: ...Deal. I guarantee she won't be able to argue.]
"Did you see it?! It's this mad dog! While you were drunk at the department dinner and lying unconscious in the conference room to rest, he secretly stuffed the core code he stole into your private USB drive in the drawer of your workstation!" Su Xiao's voice became louder and louder, with a sense of excitement about uncovering the truth and a sense of satisfaction in clearing his friend's name.
"And then she turned around and reported you 'anonymously'! She framed you! She nearly landed you in jail! She made you lose your job! Her idiot dad nearly trampled you into the mud at the board meeting! It was all Gu Qianqian's doing! Bank statements! Chat logs! Witness photos! Technical tracking trails! It's all here! Ironclad evidence! She'll never be able to recover!"
Su Xiao finished speaking in one breath, his chest heaving violently. He grabbed the beer on the table and took a big gulp. Then he let out a heavy breath with a "ha" sound, staring at Yu Ling, waiting for her reaction.
Yu Ling didn't say anything.
She just lowered her head and looked carefully at the cold evidence one by one.
The clear numbers on the bank statement and the eye-catching payment time.
The chat records are a blatant frame-up.
Zhang Wei's sneaky and greedy profile...
anger!
It was no longer a suppressed flame, but a completely ignited, raging flame capable of burning everything! It instantly broke through all of Yu Ling's rationality!
"Gu! Qian! Qian!" Yu Ling suddenly raised her head, her eyes red, her teeth chattering, and every word she uttered seemed to be forged from hell. "You! Deserve! Death!"
She suddenly grabbed the half bottle of beer on the table, and instead of drinking it, she threw it hard to the ground!
"Bang—crash!"
The glass bottle shattered on the greasy cement floor! Golden liquor and foam splashed everywhere! The huge sound instantly drowned out the surrounding clamor! The whole barbecue stall was attracted by the attention!
The boss, Lao Wang, poked his head out with a barbecue spatula and was about to curse, but when he saw Yu Ling's murderous face and the thick stack of papers in Su Xiao's hand, he retracted his head and muttered, "Tsk... this girl... is really angry..."
At the peak of this explosive anger, next to a mess of broken wine bottles, a tall and straight figure squeezed into the gap between the small plastic stools very naturally and sat down next to Yu Ling.
Zhao Chen.
He was wearing simple dark casual pants and a soft off-white cashmere sweater, which seemed out of place in the smoke-filled, greasy barbecue stall, yet he somehow blended in. He was holding the cooler bag with the adorable Shiba Inu printed on it.
"Boss, please clean this up." Zhao Chen's voice was low, but it carried a strange penetrating power that made the curious glances around him subconsciously shrink back. Old Wang immediately trotted over with a broom and dustpan, and swiftly swept away the debris.
Zhao Chen seemed not to notice the shocking evidence on the table and Yu Ling's murderous expression.
He placed the heavy Shiba Inu thermal bag on the greasy folding table, unzipped it, and carefully took out the thermal food box inside which also had a Shiba Inu printed on it.
The lid is open.
A scent mixed with the caramelized aroma of high-quality olive oil, the slightly sour taste of mellow black vinegar, and the sweet aroma of top-grade Manuka honey instantly and domineeringly dissipated the taste of cumin and chili, and gently enveloped Yu Ling.
A perfect soft-boiled fried egg lay quietly in the food box, its edge a beautiful caramel lace, its center a semi-solidified, tempting orange-yellow soft egg, topped with thick honey that hadn't yet completely solidified.
Zhao Chen gently pushed the food box in front of Yu Ling, and then very naturally took out a pair of chopsticks from the disposable chopstick holder next to him, carefully opened them, ground off the burrs, and handed them to Yu Ling.
His movements were unhurried and his eyes were calm and gentle, as if he was just delivering an ordinary midnight snack to his wife who was working overtime.
"Wife," he said in a low voice, with a hint of subtle comfort, "Eat the eggs first. They won't taste good if they get cold."
This extremely contrasting scene almost made Su Xiao's eyes pop out of his head, as he was just immersed in the excitement of the "nuclear bomb revelation"!
She looked at the honey-fried egg that exuded the aroma of premium ingredients, then at Zhao Chen's face, which had been infuriatingly handsome even under the shoddy light bulbs of the barbecue stall, but now read "I'm just an ordinary delivery husband," and then at the pile of greasy skewers and the mountain of documents in front of her...
A strong sense of absurdity rushed straight to the top of my head!
"Damn it!" Su Xiao held it in for a long time, only able to utter these two words. She felt like an artilleryman who had just launched a nuclear bomb only to find that the target was accurately intercepted by a sugar-coated bullet. She felt frustrated and confused.
Yu Ling's anger and murderous intent were suffocated by the sudden warm breath with the sweet scent of honey.
She stared at the fried egg with her red eyes, then suddenly looked up at Zhao Chen. Her eyes were extremely complicated - there was lingering anger, aggrievedness interrupted by such tenderness, and a hint of... aggrievedness that she herself didn't even notice and was comforted.
"You..." Yu Ling's throat tightened and she wanted to say something, but was blocked by the sweet smell of honey.
Su Xiao didn't have such scruples. Her gaze swept over Zhao Chen like a searchlight, trying to find any clues about the "rich pancake man." Suddenly, her eyes froze on the moment Zhao Chen tilted his head slightly and reached for a napkin on the table.
Behind his left earlobe, at the edge of his hairline, there was an extremely tiny mark that almost blended into his skin color. It was faintly visible under the dim light of the barbecue stall!
That's a... silly-looking Shiba Inu avatar?!
Lidya Su's eyes instantly widened like bells! She suddenly extended her finger, almost poking Zhao Chen in the face, and her voice rose an octave in shock:
"Zhao Chen! Behind your ear! What's that?! You...you have a tattoo?! That Shiba Inu head?!" Her voice was filled with the excitement and disbelief of discovering a new world.
"Holy shit! Don't tell me this is also a membership badge for the 'Bankrupt Pancake Man Foundation'?! Your organization even allows people to check in with tattoos?!"
The entire barbecue stall fell silent for a fraction of a second. The guys at the nearby tables all craned their necks to look over curiously.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
