E-Ladies: Navigating the Wired World
Chapter 110: Episode 110: Seizing the Advantage and Counterattacking 2

Chapter 110: Episode 110: Seizing the Advantage and Counterattacking 2

"Aren’t you Mi Lu’s best friend? Then, do you know what her relationship with Cheng Weilu is?" Zhou Xueyin asked knowingly.

However, the investigation report only mentioned their apparent relationship. Perhaps Zhao Caiyun could provide more detailed, specific intelligence about the two of them.

"Isn’t Cheng Weilu the technical director of Soul of Blade Affinity? It seems that Mi Lu is now living with him. But..." Zhao Caiyun hesitated for a moment, "Lately, they seem to always argue about this Xiaolu Technology..."

"Oh? What do they argue about? Do you know?" Zhou Xueyin looked at Zhao Caiyun with interest.

"I’m not really sure... After all, they’ve never fought in front of me," Zhao Caiyun said quietly.

"Alright, I understand..." Zhou Xueyin stroked her chin, "Zhao Caiyun, if you want to continue working here, you’ll have to make three agreements with me!"

"Really? Would you actually take me in without holding a grudge?" Zhao Caiyun looked at her with gleaming eyes.

"First, work hard and absolutely do not sell our company’s top-secret documents!"

"Okay! I promise not to engage in such illegal acts!"

"Second, leave work on time! You must not work overtime for any reason!"

"Understood!"

"Third...well, this third one..." Zhou Xueyin hesitated.

She wanted Zhao Caiyun to sever her relationship with Mi Lu, but after all, friendship is a personal freedom, and she had no right to interfere. Even as a leader, she couldn’t just rashly meddle in someone else’s life.

"Third! I will break off my friendship with Mi Lu right now! Absolutely no further contact!" Zhao Caiyun decisively made the decision for herself.

"But aren’t you two best friends?" Zhou Xueyin probed indirectly.

"True best friends should support and help each other like the four of you, not control and exploit one-sidedly like Mi Lu and I do..." Zhao Caiyun said shamefully, realizing only now that what she had with Mi Lu wasn’t true friendship.

"If you can see it that way, we’re relieved." Li Jinian said soothingly, "By the way, Xiaoyun, after work, is it usually Mi Lu who goes to find Cheng Weilu, or...?"

"Sometimes Director Lu comes to pick up Mi Lu, and sometimes it’s the other way around..." Zhao Caiyun said ambiguously.

"Alright, go back and continue working... Starting tomorrow, continue organizing important documents." Zhou Xueyin thought for a moment and still decided to mention it, "Actually, I’m also puzzled. The office is equipped with surveillance cameras, how could you still..."

"I knew there were cameras, but Mi Lu insisted I steal. That day, she just wouldn’t come over from the elevator area, saying if caught on camera, it’d become a ’black history’... I had no choice but to be sacrificed," Zhao Caiyun said helplessly.

Zhao Caiyun is a typical example of poor choice in friends, luckily for her, she met someone who could save her. Otherwise, her entire life could have been ruined.

It also happens that Soul of Blade Affinity is getting ready to update its whole new set of materials soon, and has invited major media to a press conference, sending out press releases. Although 51buy is a fashion forum, because the forum has a cosplay section, it also received an invitation.

Zhou Xueyin was still thinking about what reason to visit their company when she got the opportunity.

The press conference was to be held at the development company of Soul of Blade Affinity, and after the meeting, Zhou Xueyin went out of her way to find Cheng Weilu.

"I won’t beat around the bush with you. You know Mi Lu, right?" Zhou Xueyin got straight to the point when she met Cheng Weilu.

"Come in and let’s talk..." Cheng Weilu pulled Zhou Xueyin directly into his office, "Don’t ask anything now, there are too many ears around here. Let’s go somewhere else..."

"Okay..." Zhou Xueyin nodded.

Cheng Weilu tidied up the office quickly, then took Zhou Xueyin to a café on the next block.

"First, I need to apologize on behalf of Mi Lu..." As soon as they arrived in the private booth, Cheng Weilu seriously apologized to Zhou Xueyin.

"Oh? So it seems you know everything?" Zhou Xueyin fiddled with her coffee cup, "Since you know everything, that makes things easier."

"No, no, no, please, consider my position, and don’t expose our relationship! Otherwise, I’m finished!" Zhou Xueyin hadn’t even said anything, and Cheng Weilu was already pleading with her.

"Expose? Why would I want to expose your relationship? Although we run a forum, we’re not interested in other people’s private lives, are we?" Zhou Xueyin scoffed.

The way of thinking of the person in front of her was quite strange: "If you were so afraid of your relationship with Mi Lu being exposed, why did you get involved with her in the first place?"

"It’s not that I wanted to get involved, I was forced..." Cheng Weilu said reluctantly.

However, Zhou Xueyin couldn’t see any real distress in his expression; it always seemed feigned.

"You’re joking, right?" Zhou Xueyin sipped her coffee, "A big man like you, threatened by a young woman? Do you believe that yourself?"

"Sigh..." The other party sighed, "She had me in her grip, if I didn’t obey her, not only was my job at risk, but I wouldn’t be able to survive in the industry..."

"Oh?" Zhou Xueyin looked up at Cheng Weilu, listening to how he was being controlled by Mi Lu.

It turned out that Mi Lu was also a devoted player of Soul of Blade Affinity, but she accidentally discovered a significant, unknown bug for farming game coins.

One day, she was idly taking screenshots in an unpopular, low-yield dungeon, and due to a mistake, she got disconnected from the game.

However, when she logged on again, she discovered not only was her previous character still there, but this newly logged-in character could continuously send game coins and gear to that character.

She recorded this coin farming process and confronted Cheng Weilu with the video, threatening to obey her or else she would make the bug public.

Cheng Weilu tried to fix the bug, but no matter what he did, he could not replicate Mi Lu’s situation, nor did he know if it was a server cache bug or something else.

In any case, only Mi Lu could exploit this miraculous bug, and everyone else who tried couldn’t trigger the bug, let alone fix it.

To not disrupt the game’s balance, Cheng Weilu had Mi Lu’s account privately banned.

This action incited Mi Lu’s discontent. She approached him, continuing to blackmail him with the video, saying if he didn’t properly compensate her, she would publicly release the bug video and even file a complaint to Cheng Weilu’s superiors...

Fearful of losing his job, Cheng Weilu thus submitted to Mi Lu’s demands...

At first, it was just helping her register a company and build a forum, but later she complained about the high rent in Beijing and wanted to move into his place.

Although Cheng Weilu was already married back home, he yielded to the doorstep-delivered Mi Lu, leading them to start living together.

Only after they started cohabiting did Cheng Weilu realize that Mi Lu had moved in to further control him...

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