Lack of manners
The transaction concluded smoothly, and the elevator arrived at the first floor at that very moment.
Qu Shiyao waved goodbye to her two sugar daddies warmly, a genuine smile on her face:
"If you have any more questions about Mr. Si next time, feel free to contact me! I'll answer everything I know! Just..."
She patted the prominent QR code on the canvas bag, winked at them, and said, "Same as always~"
The two women nodded and hurriedly turned to go back into the elevator.
Just as their fingers touched the button, one of them seemed to suddenly remember something, turned around sharply, and shouted at Qu Shiyao and Zhang Li's backs, "Hey! Qu Shiyao! Wait a minute!"
Qu Shiyao and Zhang Li turned around upon hearing the sound.
The woman beckoned them over, her gaze lingering on Zhang Li for a moment.
"It's alright, she's one of my people, I trust her." Qu Shiyao waved her hand and pulled Zhang Li over.
Four women huddled together.
The two women lowered their voices and spoke rapidly: "Just a heads-up, there are some people in the group who are quite aggressive and might not listen to your explanations. If you run into them and things don't look good, run!"
After saying that, as if afraid of being tainted by something dirty, they quickly slipped back into the elevator, and the elevator doors closed rapidly, as if the alliance they had just shared had never happened.
Zhang Li looked at the closed elevator doors, glancing left and right, her voice tinged with barely perceptible tension: "Shiyao, they're right, you really have to be careful!"
She was extremely conflicted at the moment. She wanted to stick close to Qu Shiyao for protection, but she was also afraid that if they got too close, they would be targeted together.
"Relax, relax~" Qu Shiyao said casually, completely ignoring her ally's reminder. "Let's go, let's get down to business and get the documents."
The two went to the front desk.
A receptionist was looking down, completely absorbed in what she was watching, unaware that someone was approaching.
"Hello, Miss? Mr. Si asked me to come and pick up some documents!" Qu Shiyao said with a smile, her hands resting on the front desk.
The receptionist didn't react at all; she was wearing wireless earphones.
Qu Shiyao simply stretched her neck and curiously glanced at her phone screen.
Upon seeing this, an expression of disbelief immediately appeared on her face.
"The female lead was imprisoned by the male lead??" Qu Shiyao turned her head and looked at Zhang Li with a puzzled expression. "Sister Zhang Li, isn't imprisonment illegal?"
"Of course!" Although Zhang Li didn't understand, she still smiled and cooperated with Qu Shiyao in giving a legal education, explaining clearly and logically:
"The core crime is illegal detention. If it is accompanied by extortion, then it is kidnapping. If the place of confinement is the woman's own home, then the man is guilty of illegal intrusion, and can also be charged with illegal intrusion into a residence."
"Oh~~" Qu Shiyao drawled out her words, letting out a meaningful exclamation.
The receptionist remained engrossed in her novel, seemingly oblivious to what she was hearing.
Qu Shiyao didn't urge her and continued reading the novel with her head tilted to the side.
A few seconds later, she exclaimed in surprise, "Huh? Is the male lead forcing himself on the female lead against her will?"
Zhang Li immediately chimed in, her expression extremely serious: "Then that constitutes rape, which carries a sentence of three to ten years imprisonment! In serious cases, it can result in more than ten years imprisonment, life imprisonment, or even the death penalty!"
The person at the front desk swiped their finger across the screen to turn to the next chapter.
"Huh? The female lead got slapped?"
"It depends on the severity of the injury. If it is determined to be minor injury or above, it constitutes the crime of intentional injury. If it happens in a public place, it may also constitute the crime of provoking trouble. Slapping itself is also insulting, and there is also the crime of insult."
Turn the page again in the front end.
"Wow! This male lead is outrageous! He actually wants to swap the heart of the female lead and her white moonlight without her consent?!"
"This is extremely heinous! It could very well involve intentional homicide and the crime of organizing the sale of human organs! The entire medical team involved in the surgery cannot escape responsibility and must bear legal liability!"
"Are you ever going to stop?!" The receptionist finally lost her temper, slamming her phone down on the table with a "bang" and looking up angrily.
My gaze met Zhang Li's hand, which was clearly recording a video on her phone.
She froze instantly, all the curses she wanted to say stuck in her throat.
"Huh? Miss receptionist, aren't you wearing headphones? How could you hear our discussion?" Qu Shiyao tilted her head, asking the probing question with an innocent look.
The receptionist's face flushed red and then paled in turns; she suppressed her anger and tried to regain control.
"It's my freedom to choose what novels I read! It's so rude of you to peek at them and then comment on them!"
"oops!"
Qu Shiyao seemed to have discovered a new continent, clapping her hands, "We have no manners, you have no professional ethics, aren't we just the same kind of people by nature!"
She smiled and pointed to herself and Zhang Li, then to the front desk.
Zhang Li, holding her phone: "..." Please don't add me, thank you!
"Who are you calling unprofessional?!" The receptionist's voice turned sharp and shrill, like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, and she slammed her hands heavily on the table again.
At this time, there was almost no one in the lobby on the first floor, and her voice sounded particularly loud in the empty space.
"Calm down, calm down," Qu Shiyao began to reassure her.
"It's no big deal to admit that I lack professional ethics. Look at me, I've even admitted that I'm not polite." She even had a little pride on her face when she said this.
"You read novels during work hours, that's one thing." Qu Shiyao began counting on her fingers.
"Secondly, pretend you're wearing headphones and didn't hear the customer's request. Don't argue—" She pointed a finger to stop the receptionist from speaking.
“You can take off your headphones and let me hear if there’s any sound. Besides, you clearly heard us talking just now, you can’t deny that.”
"Thirdly, as the face of the company, it is extremely unprofessional and lacks professional ethics for the receptionist to wear headphones to listen to music and read novels at work."
The receptionist was rendered speechless by this series of well-reasoned accusations.
She discovered that her attacks were completely ineffective against the person in front of her, who could even wear these flaws as badges of honor.
"Alright, let's not waste each other's precious time."
Qu Shiyao instantly dropped her nonchalant expression and got straight to the point, "Could you please give me the documents that President Si asked me to pick up?"
A subtle glint flashed in the receptionist's eyes, which she quickly replaced with a professional, fake smile.
"I'm so sorry, Assistant Qu, Mr. Si's document has already been picked up by someone."
"Took it?" Qu Shiyao raised an eyebrow, looking at her with suspicion. "Who took it? When? And to whom?"
"About ten minutes ago, I'm not sure exactly who it was or who it was given to," the receptionist said, maintaining her smile, but her eyes flickered slightly.
"Ten minutes ago?" Zhang Li frowned and looked at Qu Shiyao. "Wasn't that right when we got on the elevator?"
Qu Shiyao smiled too, a particularly kind smile. She looked at the reception desk and said slowly and deliberately:
"Miss, do you know? This document was personally requested by President Si to be picked up by me. Now that it has been taken by some unknown person, regardless of whether it was eventually delivered to President Si, you can't get rid of the blame for this work error."
She leaned forward slightly, her voice lower, yet carrying an invisible pressure:
"What's more, you handed over the president's documents without even verifying the other party's identity. Do you think... if President Si finds out, won't he think you not only lack professional ethics but also seriously neglect your duties?"
As Qu Shiyao finished speaking, the receptionist's face turned pale, and fine beads of sweat appeared on her forehead.
“Perfect timing!” Qu Shiyao pretended to take out her phone. “I’ll call President Si and ask if he’s received the document. If he hasn’t, this could be a big problem…”
Just as Qu Shiyao was about to press the dial button, the receptionist finally panicked and hurriedly reached out to stop her phone.
"Wait, wait! It was Yu Zhe from the PR department who took it up! She said... she said that President Si also asked her to pick it up, so I gave it to her!"
She was rambling incoherently, only wanting to extricate herself from the situation as quickly as possible.
"Oh? Yu Zhe? Is it really her?" Qu Shiyao stared into her eyes, the half-smile on her lips making the receptionist feel uneasy.
"Yes, yes! Absolutely! If you don't believe me, you can call and ask President Si if she delivered it!" The receptionist didn't care about anything else at this moment and nodded hurriedly.
"Of course I believe you, sister."
Qu Shiyao suddenly smiled, and the imposing aura from before vanished instantly, as if she were just a simple and easy-going girl.
However, to the receptionist, this smile was even more terrifying than before.
Because she saw Qu Shiyao say she believed him, but her fingers dialed Si Cheng's number without hesitation.
The call was answered almost instantly.
Before Si Cheng could speak, Qu Shiyao interrupted in a tone clearly filled with displeasure:
"Mr. Si? That's a bit unfair of you! You made me come all this way for nothing? When I came down, the receptionist said the documents had already been taken by someone named Yu Zhe! If you called someone else, why did you make me come down?"
Zhang Li secretly admired her again. As expected of Qu Shiyao, she dared to speak to President Si in such a tone.
That makes sense; capable people can still live well even if they are laid off.
Si Cheng, on the other end of the phone, looked at the documents on his desk, then glanced at the sexy woman in front of him who was looking at him with affectionate eyes, and frowned.
Although he was somewhat displeased with Qu Shiyao's accusatory tone, it was indeed his fault that she had made a wasted trip.
“I only called you.” Si Cheng’s voice turned somber.
"Really?" Qu Shiyao's tone instantly shifted from complaining to serious.
"Mr. Si, this is a serious matter. Your documents were easily accessed and taken by an unrelated person without explicit authorization."
This time it was Yu Zhe, but what if next time it's someone from a rival company doing the same thing? This company's document management and security procedures seem to have major flaws!
She didn't mention her grievances about running errands for nothing, because she knew it was useless to talk about it, so she simply raised the issue to the level of company safety and systems.
Si Cheng's face instantly turned extremely gloomy.
He coldly said "I understand" into the phone and hung up immediately.
Then, he raised his eyes, his icy gaze falling on Yu Zhe, whose face was already turning pale, his voice devoid of any warmth:
"Yu Zhe? Who told you there were documents here that needed to be retrieved? And who gave you permission to bring them up without authorization?"
"President Si, I...I..." Yu Zhe's carefully made-up face was now completely drained of color. She stammered, her body trembling slightly.
His earlier little scheme to curry favor and seek reward had been completely terrified, leaving his mind blank and unable to utter a single complete sentence.
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