Xiao Anjing stepped forward directly, wanting to drive him out of the office: "Did you hear me? Are you still waiting for a lawyer's letter? Even if our design is a failure, we won't let your company benefit..."
"No, no! Alright, I agree. All profits for half a year after this series of new products are launched belong to Mishang." President Zhang knew he was in the wrong. Qin Tianyi's suffocating pressure made him tremble, and he had to agree.
Qin Tianyi merely glanced at him and said to Xiao Anjing, "Take him to sign the agreement."
Xiao Anjing didn't want to let the cunning President Zhang off easily and wanted to stop Qin Tianyi, "Give them an exclusive agreement..."
"Hurry up, I don't want to repeat myself," Qin Tianyi said, already impatient.
Xiao Anjing reluctantly obeyed, "President Zhang, let's go to my office."
"Okay, okay." President Zhang wiped the sweat from his forehead and was about to leave with Xiao Anjing.
Qin Tianyi called out to Xiao Anjing again, "I have something to do this afternoon and won't be here. You handle everything, don't disturb me."
Xiao Anjing turned to look at him, thinking that there was no one else who could make him abandon company matters. It must be related to Gu Susu.
"Alright, Young Master."
Saying that, she waved her fingers at her forehead and left his office with President Zhang.
Qin Tianyi closed the folder on the desk, picked it up, and slammed it back down. "Old fox!"
He also knew that he hadn't punished Yimei this time and had let their company gain an advantage, but this was the only way to minimize Mishang's losses.
The designs announced at the press conference would soon be copied by some small, unknown fashion companies if they weren't pushed to the market quickly.
President Zhang was right about one thing: even if they won the lawsuit, they would lose the first-mover advantage.
Losing a quarter's worth of women's wear market profits was nothing to him.
However, when he thought of Gu Susu's sleepless nights and hard work in designing the fashion, he temporarily suppressed his anger.
Getting back all the profits for half a year meant that Yimei still had a lot of profit potential later, otherwise President Zhang wouldn't have agreed.
But he, who had never compromised in business negotiations, took a step back for the first time.
He checked the time with a bad mood. He had told Gu Susu yesterday that they would meet at two in the afternoon, and it was time to leave.
...
Gu Susu and Zhuang Ying were in the monitoring room. After checking the surveillance for the entire morning, they finally found footage of Tang Na opening her computer and stealing her designs.
There were no surveillance cameras around her desk, but fortunately, there was a camera behind their office area that could see her desk.
They found the surveillance footage from later that evening and saw Tang Na spending a full half hour at her desk while she went to clean.
Tang Na had tampered with her computer and even taken photos of her design drafts with her phone.
Gu Susu also remembered that day, after she finished cleaning, she found a piece of paper on the floor when she returned to her desk.
At the time, she thought she hadn't placed it properly, but it turned out Tang Na had done it.
"Oh my god, Sister Susu, Tang Na did something like this out of jealousy for you. It's too terrifying!"
Gu Susu clenched her fists tightly, asking the security guard to intercept the surveillance video as evidence.
She pulled Zhuang Ying and said, "Let's go find Chief Chang now, and have the security guards detain Tang Na."
Zhuang Ying nodded through gritted teeth.
They immediately went to Chang Qingchuan's office. As they were reporting the matter to Chang Qingchuan, a security guard came to say that Tang Na could not be found in the company.
"I saw her this morning when she came to work!" Zhuang Ying said quickly.
The security guard said, "Yes, according to the clock-in records, she did come to the company this morning. But now all the important items on her desk have been cleared out. A cleaner saw her leaving the company sneakily."
"She ran away?" Chang Qingchuan said, "I'll report this situation to the group headquarters immediately."
"We can't let her get away. We should call the police right away," Gu Susu said hatefully.
Chang Qingchuan said, "Susu, calm down. Since we've found out she's the mole, she definitely won't escape. It's not too late to call the police after I talk to President Qin."
"President Qin?" Gu Susu just remembered that they had agreed to sign the divorce agreement at two in the afternoon. She looked at the time on her phone, and it was already past one o'clock.
"Yes, let's see what headquarters says first, and then we'll call the police."
Gu Susu looked at the location Qin Tianyi had sent her again. Even taking a taxi might not get her there before two o'clock. "Okay, you communicate with headquarters about this. I... I have something to do this afternoon and want to take half a day off."
Thinking that Qin Tianyi would make things difficult for her if she was late, she decided to put aside Tang Na's matter for now.
"Okay, you go quickly. Leave this to me, don't worry." Chang Qingchuan agreed immediately.
Gu Susu wanted to get her bag immediately, but Chang Qingchuan asked with concern, "What is it? Is it about the child?"
"No, it's nothing major." Gu Susu said, running to the office area, grabbing her bag, and rushing to the law firm.
Zhuang Ying was still in Chang Qingchuan's office, stunned, and couldn't help but ask, "Chief Chang, I never realized Sister Susu had a child. I thought she just got married."
"Go back to work. Thank you for accompanying Susu to check the surveillance this morning." Chang Qingchuan returned to his desk.
Zhuang Ying smiled and said, "It's nothing. Who told me to be friends with Sister Susu."
However, when Zhuang Ying returned to her desk, she felt something was wrong. Why did Chief Chang thank her?
What was Chief Chang's relationship with Sister Susu? Were the rumors in the company true?
...
Gu Susu was anxious in the taxi. She hadn't expected there to be traffic at this hour and wished she had wings.
Seeing that it was already past two o'clock, she hesitated whether to call Qin Tianyi to explain, but Qin Tianyi's call had already come through.
"Where are you? Why haven't you arrived yet?"
Gu Susu quickly said, "I'm on my way, I was delayed by something. I know who stole my design..."
"I know. Don't worry about this," Qin Tianyi's voice was cold on the other end of the phone.
"You already know. Chang Qingchuan told you."
"He hasn't told me yet, but I've already had someone investigate and find out."
"Oh." Gu Susu felt like her excitement had been in vain.
A voice like a hellish messenger sounded from the phone again, "You're late. You don't want to get a divorce at all?"
"No, I want to divorce. Of course, I want to divorce. I was really delayed a bit while investigating the mole who stole the design." Gu Susu was afraid he would go back on his word and not let her divorce. "I'm almost there, please, wait for me a little longer..."
Before she could finish speaking, the phone went dead.
Qin Tianyi hung up. Gu Susu's strong desire to divorce made him furious. She wanted to leave him so much!
The more she was like this, the more he wouldn't let her go.
After the divorce, he would only make her more pathetic!
Gu Susu could only urge the taxi driver to drive faster and faster. When she arrived at the law firm Qin Tianyi had mentioned, she was half an hour late.