Hello, Heir

Si Zhengting frowned at the caller’s furious tone.

His gaze landed on the bathroom door. Was Zhuang Nainai in trouble?

He pressed his lips tightly together and kept quiet. The man on the line snorted, “Nothing to say now? Do you think you can get away with it by keeping quiet? Let me tell you, if you want to quit, fine! Then pay the company compensation for the breach of work contract! You get close to ten thousand dollars a month for salary and commission. The compensation is three times your monthly salary, that’s thirty thousand dollars! If you don’t bring the sum to me tomorrow, I’ll see you in court!”

Compensation?

In court?

Si Zhengting caught these sensitive words. Manager Wang laughed coldly into the phone. “Zhuang Nainai, it doesn’t matter what the court ruling will be, the company will make sure you go down with all the legal expenses! You’ve brought this on yourself. Did you think you can live in peace after offending the daughter of the CEO of the Imperial Group’s Jiahua company? No way!”

Jiahua company CEO?

Some man named Xue Chenggong?

The Imperial Group held many corporations, with each holding many companies. Jiahua company was just a small company in the Imperial Group, so insignificant that the CEO’s name was only vaguely familiar to Si Zhengting.

But what did this Manager Wang just say?

Si Zhengting’s eyes grew cold. He still did not speak.

Manager Wang continued, “Zhuang Nainai, it was just a simple apology and bowing to Ms. Xue, but you had to go blow the matter up. Ms. Xue has said it, she will never let you see the end of it unless you kneel down in front of her now.”

Kneel down in front of her?

Si Zhengting’s fingers tightened around the phone. His eyes narrowed, and a deathly glint flashed in them. He replied in a low voice, “Impossible!”

Manager Wang did not expect that the person on the other end was a man. He could feel the chill and menace even from across the phone. Stunned, he asked tentatively, “I-is this Zhuang Nainai’s number?”

“Yes.”

Manager Wang cleared his throat and asked, “Then, you are?”

Si Zhengting paused for a second and replied, “Her husband.”

Manager Wang was startled. “When did Zhuang Nainai get married?”

Si Zhengting’s icy cold voice shut him up. “None of your business.”

Manager Wang did not dare to speak another word, but he suddenly remembered that Zhuang Nainai was just a poor girl. What kind of big shot could her husband be? Why fear him?

Manager Wang cleared his throat and continued, “Since you are her husband, I might as well let you know. Tell her to come to the office with the thirty thousand dollars tomorrow! And I suggest that she go apologize to Ms. Xue! Ms. Xue has said that she will not let her off easily! Oh, you don’t know who she is, do you? Let me tell you, her father is the CEO of the Imperial Group’s Jiahua company! Scared now? You convince her too, it’s just a simple apology, these days…”

Si Zhengting ended the call and looked towards the bathroom.

So she resigned today not because she wanted to escape him, but because… she was bullied at work?

Her strong unconcerned look did not show it, though.

Right then, the water in the bathroom stopped running. Zhuang Nainai’s head popped out from a crack in the door.

It had been quiet outside for too long, she wanted to check if Si Zhengting had left the room.

She was not expecting to meet Si Zhengting’s eyes. Zhuang Nainai jumped at the eye contact.

It appeared that he was still in a bad mood.

She swallowed hard and her gaze fell on the phone in his hands. Her eyes widened and she questioned, “Wh-why are you holding my phone?”

Si Zhengting looked into her huge eyes and replied, “Let me use it.”

Use it?

To call his executive assistant Ji Chen?

Zhuang Nainai remembered his smashed phone and nodded knowingly. She did not dare to exit the bathroom, so she stuck her head back in and closed the door quietly.

Si Zhengting explored her phone and was about to make a call when the bathroom door suddenly opened again. In an anxious voice, she began, “Er…”

Si Zhengting’s pitch-black eyes looked in her direction.

Zhuang Nainai gave a little cough and looked at her phone tenderly. “Well, even if you are upset, please don’t smash the phone, I-I know you are rich, but if you were to smash mine, I wouldn’t have another to use. It would be so inconvenient… hahaha…”

Si Zhengting gaze instantly grew cold.

Zhuang Nainai immediately corrected herself and said, “I mean, you go ahead…”

She then quickly shrank back into the bathroom and closed the door before Si Zhengting could say anything.

Everything was quiet.

Si Zhengting was amused by her antics. She was still as miserly as she was five years ago.

Isn’t it just a lousy old phone?

He walked to the balcony. There was no way he could make his call in peace in the room.

The night had set in, lights glistened brightly in the distant metropolis.

Si Zhengting dialed a number, and the receiver answered quickly with a hint of a smile in his voice. “Hello, Ms. Zhuang. What is the matter, calling me so late at night?”

His voice could not get any more tender.

Si Zhengting gave a low grunt. “It’s me.”

Ji Chen instantly turned serious. “Sir.”

Now he became all serious?

Si Zhengting scowled upon recalling Zhuang Nainai’s compliment on Ji Chen’s smile and ordered. “Go find out what happened to Madam in her office today.”

“Yes, Sir.”

Ji Chen was quick. Only ten minutes elapsed before he called back and reported what happened in the office in detail to Si Zhengting.

Si Zhengting’s face darkened and promised an impending storm when he was done listening to him.

So that was what happened!

She was slapped by someone? And all the people in her office just watched her getting slapped?

Not only did they not protect the welfare of their employees, but they also goaded the aggressor on and made it worse?

Si Zhengting clenched his fists.

He thought back on the carefree Zhuang Nainai in school five years ago. She always gave an eye for an eye.

Even Su Yanbing and Zuo Yiyi could not get their way with her.

But she had put up with a manager like this up until now. Had she been having a hard time these past years?

Si Zhengting felt his heart aching for her. His balled-up fists tightened again when he thought of why she was slapped.

Ji Chen had not said it. He had deliberately diminished the existence of Shi Haoyu, but…