E-Ladies: Navigating the Wired World
Chapter 107: Episode 107: Could Li Ji’s Mother Be Framed? Part 2

Chapter 107: Episode 107: Could Li Ji’s Mother Be Framed? Part 2

Li Jin’niang carefully examined the photo, "Isn’t this someone’s earring? Ha! I knew this mole looked familiar! Just wait..."

After putting down the photo, Li Jin’niang quickly left the conference room, leaving Yang Rui baffled and Zhou Xueyin waiting to see what would happen next.

Soon, Li Jin’niang returned to the conference room, dragging Zhang Jingwan, who was busy eating an apple.

"Do you recognize her?" Li Jin’niang asked Zhang Jingwan to look carefully at Yang Rui.

The two stared at each other for a moment, both shaking their heads in confusion.

"Then do you recognize the person in this photo?" Zhou Xueyin pulled out a photo and flung it in front of Zhang Jingwan.

"No... I don’t recognize..." Zhang Jingwan claimed not to recognize her, but her facial expression was not one of confusion at seeing a stranger; instead, a look of panic flashed across her face, "Jixiang, why are you...?"

"Stop pretending, do I have a mole on my neck?" Li Jin’niang pulled open her neckline, revealing her neck.

Zhang Jingwan instinctively covered her own neck with her hand, and the apple she was holding fell to the ground.

"It’s not like that, please don’t misunderstand! I haven’t slept with this person!" Zhang Jingwan frantically defended herself.

"You haven’t slept with my husband? Then what about this photo? The evidence is right before us, are you trying to fool us?" If Zhou Xueyin hadn’t stopped her, Yang Rui would have rushed forward and slapped Zhang Jingwan hard across the face.

"Sister Yang, please calm down and listen to me... I’m just Wanwan in the game!" Unexpectedly, Zhang Jingwan turned out to be Yang Rui’s gaming teammate? This was certainly beyond everyone’s expectation.

"You’re that Hualuo Wanwan?" Upon hearing Zhang Jingwan’s words, Yang Rui’s attitude did a 180-degree turn, "It’s a misunderstanding, indeed a misunderstanding."

"This is because Brother Pei was afraid you’d be angry, so he didn’t tell you... But believe me, Brother Pei and I are just buddies, nothing has ever happened between us!" Zhang Jingwan swore, holding up three fingers.

Zhou Xueyin and Li Jin’niang tilted their heads, confused. What is this all about? How did it end up involving the game again?

"Ah... alright, I’ll just come clean!" Zhang Jingwan sighed in resignation, "Actually, it’s like this..."

Mi Lu, Pei Yonghua, Yang Rui, and she were all players in a large martial arts online game. They had been playing together since the server started, always as a fixed team.

Later, one day, Mi Lu said she had started a company and wanted their help.

Pei Yonghua, as the chief sales representative, simply set up a simple advertising partnership.

Zhang Jingwan, who was also looking for a job at the time, went to work for Mi Lu. But within a month, Mi Lu placed her as a spy in Zhou Xueyin’s company to steal their clients.

Just the other day, Mi Lu said she wanted to embarrass Li Jin’niang in the industry. After all, so many clients said that their continued advertising with 51buy was out of respect for Li Jin’niang.

Thus, she dragged Pei Yonghua along and caused such a farce behind Yang Rui’s back...

"Originally, I planned to take photos of Sister Yang Rui causing a scene in the office today, then compile them into an expose and post it online..." Zhang Jingwan bit the skin on her lower lip, discontentedly saying, "Unfortunately, Sister Yang Rui maintained her composure and didn’t make a scene... It was our miscalculation."

"Hey, it’s not like that! How did we get in your way? Why would you do something so despicable to us?" This time, Zhou Xueyin felt like slapping Zhang Jingwan.

"Mi Lu said, looking at you four, lacking in looks, bodies, and abilities, how could you create a forum that everyone praises? She couldn’t accept it, so... she made one too..." Zhang Jingwan stopped mid-sentence, feeling she shouldn’t say more, and then she shut her mouth.

"Why? She only saw us eating meat, she didn’t see us fighting over the stove!" Zhou Xueyin glared at Zhang Jingwan, not wanting to waste her breath on her, "Look at yourself, a capable young woman, but why are you always up to these unnecessary things? If you’d focused this brain of yours on your work, Mi Lu’s website wouldn’t be in such a dire state now!"

"All right, all right, the misunderstanding has been cleared, and I really did you wrong, especially you, Miss Jixiang. I’m sorry for letting you be scolded for no reason..." Yang Rui apologized as she looked at Jixiang.

"No worries, no worries, but let me give you a piece of advice, don’t take it the wrong way." Jixiang earnestly looked at Yang Rui, "If in the future it really happens that your husband sleeps with another woman, first find out what happened with your husband before you confront the woman!"

"My Old Pei wouldn’t dare to be unfaithful to me!" At this point, Yang Rui was full of confidence, not knowing who, just an hour before, had frantically wanted to settle accounts with Jixiang.

"It’s best he doesn’t dare to be unfaithful, but in any case, you should be careful about such matters which can’t be caused by just one party!" Jixiang smiled meaningfully at Yang Rui, "I’ll walk you downstairs..."

The two left the office, and then Zhang Jingwan let out a long sigh of relief: "Sister Yinyin, Boss Zhou! I was wrong. I accept the punishment! I absolutely won’t dare to prank my colleagues like this again!"

"You dare think there’ll be a next time?" Zhou Xueyin glared at her and said, "Tell me, Wanwan, Zhang Jingwan! Has Jixiang not treated you well? When you had your period and had to meet clients, she went out of her way to cover for you with alcohol. When she saw a client making advances on you, she tried her best to separate you from them, even if it meant she got bullied? And how do you repay her? With betrayal?"

"Moreover, every time Jixiang comes back, she praises how you handled those LM clients perfectly, with great authority! She even proposed to me that we promote you ahead of time! Oh right, didn’t she give you 1000 yuan from her own pocket for the New Year’s bonus? Right? And what do you do? You treat her like this? Even wanting to ruin her reputation online? What were you thinking?"

Hearing Zhou Xueyin say all this, Zhang Jingwan began to reflect on her own that what she had done was really too much.

Back then, when helping Mi Lu with clients, because the company’s data looked bad and Mi Lu was eager to see money coming in, she had no choice but to go down the path of sleeping with them.

However, when Mi Lu learned that Zhang Jingwan was signing contracts this way, she even encouraged her to use this method more often to sign contracts. She didn’t care at all about what Zhang Jingwan thought or felt... It was like being in some old-time profession.

So somehow, she found herself extremely jealous of Jixiang, who could just chat with clients over a few drinks and sign contracts effortlessly.

So much so that she took Jixiang’s kindness for granted.

She was like someone possessed, spurred on by Mi Lu’s instigation, willing to hurt others just to tarnish Jixiang’s reputation.

"Sister Yinyin, ah no, Boss Zhou... You won’t fire me, will you?" Zhang Jingwan looked pitifully at Zhou Xueyin, tears of regret uncontrollably flowing down.

"I might not fire you, but there’s a condition!" Zhou Xueyin could not tell if her tears were genuine or crocodile tears, so she decided to test her.

"What’s the condition? No matter what it is, as long as I can do it, I will fulfill it! Just give me another chance." Zhang Jingwan, while wiping her tears, pleaded with Zhou Xueyin.