A wave of oppression welled up in Li Xiao's chest. She threw herself onto the bed, burying her head in the soft quilt and wailing loudly.
If she had known such a thing would happen, she should have left the company earlier. If she had left earlier, this wouldn't have happened!
She regretted it deeply.
On one hand was Meng Nianchu, who highly appreciated her. On the other hand were the photos related to her innocence. These two were like the palm and the back of her hand. How could she make a decision!
Her small hands tightly grasped the quilt, distorting the patterns on the edge.
After a while.
Li Xiao's restless emotions gradually calmed down. She raised her head, took a deep breath, and looked out at the boundless night. She let out a bitter laugh.
A decision had to be made.
At this moment, Meng Nianchu, who was happily coaxing the child with Mu Junze in the room, had no idea that in just a few hours, some things had quietly changed.
And a few days later, it almost destroyed all her hard - won efforts.
Most of the company's cooperation projects had been specifically assigned to each designer. Meng Nianchu had also gone through all the recent data reports of the company. All the work was getting on the right track.
Meng Nianchu felt much more relaxed and no longer had to deal with as many trivial matters as when she first took over the company.
Li Xiao had also submitted the design drawings for the important project assigned to her ahead of schedule.
After Meng Nianchu looked at the drawings, she clearly noticed that this time the design was more detailed than the ones Li Xiao had submitted before.
"The design drawings this time are much better than the previous ones."
Li Xiao forced a dry laugh. "I wanted to do a better job."
Meng Nianchu put down the drawings and asked, "How's your design for the company's new products?"
"I..."
The hand behind her back that was holding the design drawings tightened. As if going through a great mental struggle, she placed the design drawings on Meng Nianchu's desk. "It's already designed."
Noticing that Li Xiao looked different, Meng Nianchu looked at the design drawings suspiciously. "This..."
Li Xiao's heart was pounding nervously.
"This is good." Meng Nianchu's eyes showed admiration as she carefully examined the design drawing. "It's really different from your previous design style and also meets my previous requirements for you. It's just that this design drawing feels a bit more hasty overall, but it's okay."
Li Xiao forced a smile.
Meng Nianchu put away the drawing and planned to start a new chapter for the company according to this design. She put it in the cabinet in her office and then looked up at Li Xiao. "You can go out if you have nothing else to do."
Li Xiao walked stiffly towards the door. After taking a few steps, she stopped, turned back to look at Meng Nianchu, opened her mouth and then closed it again, hesitating as if she had something to say.
Meng Nianchu smiled. "You've taken on these two big orders for the company. I won't treat you badly with this month's bonus. Don't worry."
The words that Li Xiao had finally mustered the courage to say got stuck in her throat.
At this time, someone else pushed the door open and came in to report the recent expenses to Meng Nianchu. Meng Nianchu said, "Go out. We'll talk about it later if there's something."
"But... okay." Li Xiao replied, suppressing the words in her heart and left Meng Nianchu's office.
After closing the office door, Li Xiao seemed to lose all her strength and leaned against the white wall. The phone in her pocket suddenly rang. Li Xiao rushed to the bathroom as if she had heard a bomb explode.
Taking out her phone and seeing the caller ID, she tightly pursed her red lips, and hatred welled up in her eyes.
"How's the job going? Have you given the stuff to Meng Nianchu?"
Linda's voice came from the phone receiver. Li Xiao's face was full of coldness.
"I gave it."
Linda snorted. "You're still sensible. If I find out that you didn't obey me obediently, I'll let everyone in the world see those photos right away."
After saying that, Linda hung up the phone.
Li Xiao tightened her grip on the phone, wishing she could just smash it on the ground!
Damn woman!
Thinking of the design drawing she had just given to Meng Nianchu, Li Xiao felt a surge of guilt in her heart. Squatting on the ground, she grabbed her hair with both hands, feeling extremely oppressed.
Last night, she had deliberately searched the Internet for the source of this design drawing, but she hadn't found any information about it at all.
Since Linda had gone to so much trouble to make her give it to Meng Nianchu, there must be a reason. If the design drawing was okay, did Linda want to help Meng Nianchu out of the goodness of her heart?
But looking at how she had behaved towards Meng Nianchu at the party that day, it didn't seem like it at all.
Li Xiao couldn't sort out her thoughts and only felt a strong sense of foreboding.
As the company's affairs were gradually resolved, Meng Nianchu had the time to handle the new clothing products herself. She was very satisfied with the design drawing Li Xiao had given her.
With the boss watching the employees work in person, the employees naturally worked much faster.
In less than a week, the first batch of clothes was made and sent to a popular offline clothing store.
In just one morning, thousands of pieces of clothes were sold out.
When Meng Nianchu heard the report from the offline store owner, she was overjoyed. After hanging up the phone with the owner, she was just about to discuss the next batch of clothes with the factory boss.
Suddenly, angry roars came from outside the office. The next second, her office door was kicked open violently from the outside.
The receptionist girl escorted an agitated man in. "Boss, this gentleman has been saying that our company copied his design. I asked him to wait downstairs for a while, but he rushed up on his own."
"You're such a big company, but you still copy the work of a small - time designer like me. Aren't you ashamed! Using my work and making so much money from it. Are you really enjoying it that much!"
The man shouted, attracting the attention of many employees in the company.
Meng Nianchu glanced at the receptionist girl and motioned for her to go out first.
When the receptionist girl went out, she closed the door behind her.
"You say we copied your work?" Meng Nianchu stood up and picked up the design drawing of the new product from the cabinet. "This one?"
The man immediately nodded. "This is my work!"
Then he looked at Meng Nianchu's face with disdain. "I heard before that the Meng family had a new heir and that she had managed the Meng family company in good order. I thought she was such an outstanding person. I didn't expect your company to copy! You personally supervised the design of these clothes. Aren't you ashamed!"
Seeing the man gnashing his teeth and gasping for breath, Meng Nianchu thought that if she weren't a woman, this man might have already lost his temper and rushed at her.
"What evidence do you have to prove that this design drawing is yours?"
"Evidence? I'll show you the evidence!" The man took out his phone from the cross - body bag on his back, flipped through it, and showed a photo in front of Meng Nianchu. "This is the evidence. This design drawing is mine!"