Where can Secretary Han understand what his boss had sent him?
As the call disconnected, he quickly opened his mail and seriously read the important message sent by Qing Shan.
Even before he finished reading the complete mail, Secretary Han jumped from his chair and rushed towards Qing Shan's office.
"Are you out of your mind?" This was the first sentence Secretary Han spoke after the door opened and he rushed in. Standing in front of Qing Shan's office table he was looking at Qing Shan with wide eyes.
Qing Shan noticed Secretary Han rushing up and standing in front of him, waiting for his answer. Without uttering a single word, he shook his head while he picked up some files and passed it to Secretary Han.
Secretary Han stretched his hand and picked up the file, "What is this?" He asked Qing Shan who had a small smirk on his face and a bright light glimmering under his eyes.
"Qing Shan!" Going through the files, Secretary Han's face turned red with anger. He slapped the files on the desk and banged the table with both palms shouting Qing Shan's name. Which barely affected Qing Shan.
"Women and business are two different things. You should always separate them!" Secretary Han stared into Qing Shan's eyes, "I hope you remember what you once said."
Unexpectedly Qing Shan stood up from the chair, picked up the file from the table, and kept it on Secretary Han's hand, "I know what I am doing."
His words were few, but the authority between them was incomparable. No matter if Secretary Han wanted to refute or argue with Qing Shan, he understood that it will not work. He can only try to minimize the impact of such a huge decision.
Unwillingly Secretary Han glanced at the file handed to him and then towards Qing Shan who was looking at him and threatening him with his eyes as if asking him to try and refute.
With no option left Secretary Han turned around and started to leave, "Okay! This time also, I will trust you and jump in the pit, for our old friendship."
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Zhi Ruo ran inside the bathroom and closed the door and made sure to lock it.
Standing in front of the mirror she looked at herself. Her face was crimson red and her anger-filled eyes were nowhere to be seen. She was like a teenager in love.
Opening the tap, Zhi Ruo splashed cold water on her face and patted her cheeks, "How can you be so easy Zhi Ruo? Be tough!"
She must say she was impressed!
Zhi Ruo shook her head and stopped the thoughts in her head making him praise Qing Shan again and again. Over time she had started feeling inferior to him due to all his sweet talks.
Splashing another wave of cold water on her face, "Zhi Ruo, how can you allow your anger to dissipate so quickly?"
"Get angry Zhi Ruo, get angry!" She tried to make herself look angry and also tried to reduce the red color of her face back to normal.
After some more cold splashes, Zhi Ruo's red face turned back to normal and her emotions eased out and were not shown on her face.
She started looking at her dress trying to notice for the juice stains. Though the way the juice spilled it was tough for it to be splashed on her dress Zhi Ruo still gave a look at it.
Noticing nothing on her dress, she felt relieved. After all, she did not have any extra dress with her to change into. Washing her hands and wiping them down Zhi Ruo was just about to go out when her fingers felt sticky.
"Where is it sticky?" She murmured while trying to find out space where the juice was left out.
Touching the area around her wrist, she noticed the juice stuck at her bracelet. Removing it Zhi Ruo washed her hands again to remove any residual stickiness.
*Ring *
Zhi Ruo was just wiping her hands when she heard her cell phone ringing. She quickened her pace and left the bathroom rushing to pick up the cell phone.
Qing Shan noticed her cell phone ringing, he slightly glanced at it before burying his eyes back to his pile of documents.
"I will grab a cup of coffee!" Zhi Ruo informed before rushing out of the office in a rush.
Qing Shan did not stop her and simply nodded with h a helpless sigh, "Busy wife!"
Zhi Ruo left the office and dialed the number which was calling her just a few seconds ago. Walking towards the end of the corridor she first made sure if being alone before speaking anything.
"Did you find anything?" Zhi Ruo questioned while her eyes kept roaming around herself trying to make sure no one hears her.
"The video you sent has indeed been tampered with. The technology is new but has some loopholes." Fire informed his new findings regarding the evidence video and also shared his further plans, "For now, I have only been able to mark the places that have been cut and there seemed a few of it."
Zhi Ruo instantly questioned, "A few of them?" She remembered the whole video was checked by her and Qing Shan, both, even their team and not to mention the criminal evidence team. Except for Qing Shan, no one was able to find out the place of tampering. With Fire's new discovery regarding tampering at many places, Zhi Ruo was indeed shocked.
"Yes! The technique is really amazing. I will send you the code for the technique. I can retrieve the deleted video and figure out the whole situation, but..." Fire stopped midway making Zhi Ruo raise her eyebrows.
"But!" Zhi Ruo repeated.
In her eyes, Fire was not only a great fighter, but he was also a meticulous person. The only reason Zhi Ruo passed the evidence clip to him was that he was not only her team member he was also a professional hacker and had his own website to take up jobs that entice him.
With Fire analyzing and assessing the video it would be really easy for her to present it as evidence if the case goes in the court and might come up as the biggest evidence to prove the criminal guilty.
"But... I need your help!" Fire hesitated while speaking.
"What help?" Zhi Ruo almost figured out what type of help he was about to ask. She still asked him, wanting to hear it from his mouth.
"mmm... I need... I need your..." Fire was stammering continuously making Zhi Ruo smirk in confidence.
"Mhm?" She uttered a noise trying to make him speak quickly.
Understanding what she was trying to do, Fire did not allow her to make fun of him, "I need your code no 52!" He blurted out quickly without stammering.
Even though Fire was a hacker and had a good hand at technology like Zhi Ruo, he was a human as well and had his limitations. Zhi Ruo could have accessed the video with her personal tools and found out everything but that would make it tough to provide it in terms of evidence and might also require a lot of time.
There were some things that only Zhi Ruo could do and not even Fire or anyone else. One such code that Zhi Ruo mastered was Code No 52, which was personally written and made by her. That code prevented the automated destruction of files that have been tampered with. Many times it will also help to add and fine-tune the footage making it much similar to the original video.
"Oh! You need my Code!" Zhi Ruo asked in a mischievous voice, "You know then, what to do."
Fire gritted his teeth and uttered, "Can I please get your immortal Code!"
Zhi Ruo was unable to control her laugh, "Okay! Ha Ha" As soon as she uttered okay, the call was immediately disconnected making her laugh out even louder.
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*Knock* Knock*
"Come in!" Qing Shan was signing some urgent papers.
Hearing the knock on the door he knew it was some staff and did not bother much simply asked them to come in. Without even raising his head he kept on looking at the papers while turning them and signing them with the speed of lightning.
From the door, Secretary Han entered along with Grandma Qing. Secretary Han noticed Qing Shan not paying attention to the one who came in. He was about to speak up something to hint Qing Shan but was instantly stopped by Grandma Qing.
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Why was Grandma Qing here?
I am excited.
Any clue to who the criminal might be for the murder case?
What will Qing Shan do to the Ru family?
Too many questions. Let us see who can guess them.