Chapter 250: You Dare Provoke Her? She Is the Role Model Valued by the Deputy General Manager
"This... How is this possible?"
"We both just started at the factory. It’s only been one day."
Maya was at a loss. Her usually sharp mind had grown muddled.
"Are you sure you haven’t made a mistake?"
"You must have gotten her identity wrong."
The moment she said this,
The mockery in the eyes of the two Ghost Security Guards vanished.
In its place was pity, as if they were looking at a lunatic.
They had seen many people like this.
They’d seen it many times before: two friends who were close, then one would suddenly get promoted and soar up the ranks. Faced with the abruptly widened gap in their status, the other would grow jealous, even begin to doubt themself, and have a complete mental breakdown.
In their eyes, Maya was exactly that kind of person.
Someone who couldn’t stand seeing a friend do well.
Like a clown.
To be fair, that five-star deputy manager had a pretty good temper.
She didn’t even get angry after being on the receiving end of such passive-aggressive remarks.
If it were any other leader, they would have slapped her long ago!
In the factory, star-rating is power, and power is everything!
Even if Yun Zhenyue slapped Maya to death in an instant!
She would only have herself to blame.
"..."
It was true.
Maya was having a complete mental breakdown.
The sense of superiority she’d just felt, that surge of elation, was utterly destroyed the moment she learned the truth!
She had never dared to provoke Yun Zhenyue before.
’Hadn’t she only dared to vent her pent-up frustrations because she thought she’d latched onto a powerful backer?’
She never expected to walk right into the line of fire.
Maya did a quick, subconscious calculation.
That brief moment of smugness had earned her a powerful enemy.
She didn’t know exactly what Yun Zhenyue had done, but with her absurdly fast promotion, it was hard not to suspect she would soar even higher before long!
POP!!
The bubble of arrogance in Maya’s heart burst!
What’s more, she turned to look at the Ghost Section Chief.
She saw a look of struggle in his eyes.
He had certainly been tempted by Maya, but he hadn’t lost his senses.
Maya had made him cross a five-star deputy manager!
Deliberately assigning a newcomer to a terrible workshop or making them serve food was a trivial matter.
But provoking a mid-to-high-level factory executive!
—You could actually die!
After sensing the potential danger, the Ghost Section Chief’s back was soaked with cold sweat.
He panicked.
He began to subconsciously resist Maya’s charm.
Even though Maya looked just like his dead wife...
’Even a wife can’t just screw you over like this!’
Just then, a six-star manager walked past the two of them.
He was on his way to the second-floor cafeteria for a meal.
He wore a crisp suit, a pair of black-rimmed glasses on his nose, and his demeanor was extremely serious.
This manager was the Ghost Section Chief’s superior.
And he usually considered the Chief his own successor.
"Hm?"
"What are you doing standing here?"
"This isn’t a place you should be."
The black-rimmed manager asked, frowning.
The Ghost Section Chief’s scalp prickled.
He didn’t dare admit that he had just provoked a deputy manager.
The factory was a cruel society.
No one liked to make enemies for no reason.
Even the mid-level leadership lived by the principle that it was better to make a friend than an enemy.
"Tell me, what just happened?"
Seeing he couldn’t get an answer out of him, the black-rimmed manager turned to the two Ghost Security Guards.
"Sir..."
The Ghost Security Guard who’d called Maya a seductive vixen earlier lowered his head and respectfully recounted the incident.
They had no obligation to explain.
But their superiors could impose that obligation on them at any moment.
The black-rimmed manager was silent for a moment after hearing this.
He looked at the Ghost Section Chief, and behind his glasses, his eyes glinted with cold confusion.
"...You’ve disappointed me."
"I’m sorry," the Ghost Section Chief said, his head bowed, his face ashen as paper.
"You didn’t know her identity?" the black-rimmed manager continued coldly. "She’s a paragon personally placed by the Deputy General Manager himself, who has high hopes for her."
"Even I have to treat her with caution."
"Instead of recruiting her to our side, you pushed her into the arms of the opposition."
Maya bit her lip hearing this.
This humiliating scene filled her heart with endless, suffocating frustration.
At this moment, the black-rimmed manager looked at her.
His eyes were filled with displeasure, and deep within them lurked a barely perceptible killing intent.
"Enough said."
"I’ve lost my appetite."
"Keep your wife in line. Make sure nothing like this ever happens again."
With that casual remark, the black-rimmed manager turned and left.
He left behind a frigid atmosphere, as if they had all been plunged into an ice cellar.
Maya tried to grab the Ghost Section Chief’s arm, but he suddenly shook her off.
Her enchantment hadn’t ended.
The Abyssal Organ of a Great Evil was not something a mere Crimson-robed Ghost could completely resist.
The Ghost Section Chief still saw Maya as his wife.
But his attitude towards his wife had changed.
Before, it had been adoration and protectiveness.
Now it had become the complete opposite.
’This kind of "vile" wife!’
’...needed to be properly disciplined by him!’
The Ghost Section Chief took a deep breath.
He then took the initiative and grabbed Maya’s right hand.
Under her bewildered gaze, the Ghost Section Chief tightened his grip, his fingers like steel rods, imprisoning her hand so firmly that Maya felt a sharp pain.
"You’re hurting me," Maya said plaintively. It was true; he was about to fracture the bones in her hand.
"Shut up!"
The Ghost Section Chief said expressionlessly.
He forced Maya to bow with him in apology to the Ghost Security Guards.
Then they waited quietly by the stairs.
"What are you doing?" Maya began to extend her tail, intending to continue charming the Ghost Section Chief, but the coldness in his eyes was like a bottomless abyss. She instinctively softened her tone. "Why don’t we eat first?"
"We’re not eating. We’re waiting for them to come down so we can apologize."
"..."
Maya bit her lower lip hard.
’Is he insane?’
’He actually expects me to apologize!’
She wanted to ditch this possessed Ghost Section Chief.
’He’s only a pathetic four-star!’
’I’d be better off finding a chance to jump ship into the arms of someone from upper management.’
But no matter how Maya struggled, the grip on her hand only tightened, until there was a faint CRUNCH.
’It’s really going to fracture!’
’It hurts!’
Maya’s eyes grew red as tears streamed down her face.
She had never been so humiliated in her entire life!
Even so, the Ghost Section Chief remained ruthless, not even glancing at her.
Like a mature adult disciplining his rebellious child.
...
Han Sumei happened to pass by and witness this scene.
She had just fainted from extreme hunger.
That inhuman line leader had reluctantly agreed to let her eat first.
He had only given her ten minutes!
Once she was done, she had to go right back to work.
When she saw Maya and her "husband" standing at the bottom of the stairs, bowing and scraping with their heads lowered,
a gloating expression subconsciously appeared on Han Sumei’s face.
Especially seeing Maya being disciplined by the Ghost Section Chief.
"She brought it on herself," Han Sumei sneered.
She must have provoked some big shot.
That must be why she was being punished by having to stand here.
Just then,
Han Sumei witnessed something incredible.
’The big shot she’d offended... was Yun Zhenyue?’
She saw Yun Zhenyue and another employee walking down the stairs.
Seeing this, the Ghost Section Chief dragged Maya over, wanting to apologize.
But Yun Zhenyue and her companion paid them no mind at all.
Treating them like dust, not even sparing them a single glance, they just walked away?
what???
Han Sumei’s eyes widened in disbelief.
’What in the world did Yun Zhenyue do now?’