Chapter 182: Chapter 182

Li Yaoyao gritted her teeth, a flicker of guilt flashed in her eyes, and she retorted weakly, "What nonsense are you spouting! Chen Chang’s report has nothing to do with me, he’s just greedy for fame and fortune, so..."

Before Li Yaoyao could finish, the voices of colleagues calling someone rang out beside her.

Her expression stiffened slightly. Rong Zhi had arrived?

No problem, no problem, let her come; after all, Bai Tingxun is just throwing a tantrum at her without any evidence or reason. She’s the innocent victim here, the truth is on her side, no need to worry.

Rong Zhi nodded slightly, a black shoulder bag loosely hanging from her shoulder. She glanced at the crowd watching the spectacle, her gaze met Bai Tingxun’s aggrieved and angry eyes, her brows lifted slightly, "Come over."

Bai Tingxun immediately walked over to her, standing beside her with her head lowered, her tone somewhat indignant, "Vice Manager Rong, I’m not making trouble, I really saw her speak in the group last night, slandering your reputation..."

Last night, feeling bored, she switched accounts to enter the company’s internal gossip group. There she saw someone repeatedly speaking ill of Rong Zhi. She angrily retorted a few words, and immediately someone else joined her in the rebuttal.

Then the pair started arguing with someone called ’Tianshan Yuan Shu’.

Bai Tingxun immediately put her skill at digging up gossip in the entertainment circle to work, teaming up with a comrade to expose ’Tianshan Yuan Shu’. In the end, they discovered ’Tianshan Yuan Shu’ was actually one of Li Yaoyao’s alternate accounts!

Bai Tingxun was nearly exploding with anger!

"Without evidence, Bai Tingxun, you’d better not speak carelessly." Li Yaoyao crossed her arms, lifted her brows, and looked down at Bai Tingxun condescendingly.

Bai Tingxun opened her phone screen and showed it to everyone, angrily declaring, "Fine, I’ll show you the evidence you want right now!"

On the phone screen were overlapping activities of ’Tianshan Yuan Shu’ and Li Yaoyao’s accounts. However, since both accounts had set their friends circle visibility to only the past three days, Bai Tingxun couldn’t uncover much.

Li Yaoyao immediately sneered, "Is this all? Such inconsequential stuff, and you dare to present it—who would believe it?"

After that, she paused for a moment, turned her head, and took a deep breath as she looked at Rong Zhi, "Vice Manager Rong, I know you favor your subordinates, but this is a matter concerning my personal reputation, and I hope you handle it impartially."

"Mm," Rong Zhi glanced at her briefly, a slight curve at her lips, "You’re right, it does need to be handled impartially."

Li Yaoyao smiled smugly, her tone revealing her pride, "Thank you, Vice Manager Rong. Earlier, I thought Vice Manager Rong might cover for her subordinates, but I didn’t expect you to be so just and fair."

Before the outcome was determined, Li Yaoyao already capped Rong Zhi with the hat of high standards, forcing her to give justice, otherwise, if things weren’t handled properly, Rong Zhi would become a blind manager who shields her subordinates and ignores other colleagues’ reputations.

By then, employees might avoid her in fear of incurring trouble.

At some point, Rong Zhi had gotten a phone, her cold white fingers swiping continuously on the screen, even using one hand, she seemed to be typing at lightning speed.

In under two minutes, she turned aside and instructed Bai Tingxun calmly, "Bring your laptop over."

Bai Tingxun hurried to her workstation to grab her laptop. When she returned, everyone looked at her with a face full of confusion, quickly asking, "What’s going on?"

"The laptop’s on," she explained, even though it had been off before coming to the company, Bai Tingxun swiped the screen down, "There’s also images...uh?"

Colleague: "It’s normal for a laptop to be on..."

"No," Bai Tingxun opened her eyes wider, feeling baffled at what the screen was showing, still a bit angry, she placed the laptop on the central table of the planning department, pointing at the screen, "Li Yaoyao, do you still dare to say ’Tianshan Yuan Shu’ isn’t you?!"

On the screen, two friend circle activities were clearly displayed.

One was under the username ’Tianshan Yuan Shu’, the other ’Yaoyao’, with Li Yaoyao’s profile picture, clearly her main account.

As they scrolled through the two long images, the more they scrolled, the more shocked everyone became.

This... this content overlap is quite high?!

Amid the settings for unseen activity, almost three out of five posts were insults towards Rong Zhi. ’Tianshan Yuan Shu’ was even worse, entirely filled with curses and insults, as if Rong Zhi had wronged her whole family.

Employees in the planning department were collectively dumbfounded.

"Wait, there are also pictures here... Oh, are these the images of Secretary Bai wearing Vice Manager Rong’s jacket?"

The workers’ stunned faces instantly changed to expressions eager for gossip.

Bai Tingxun’s wide-eyed gaze fell on Li Yaoyao, "You..."

She didn’t know how to start.

At this point, she found arguing with Li Yaoyao exhausting.

Li Yaoyao was perplexed; she didn’t expect Bai Tingxun’s computer to actually have evidence.