AWB Chapter 434 Preparing for a Lawsuit
Chapter 434 Preparing for a Lawsuit
"Miss Lin, aren't you afraid I'll tell Deng Huairou?" Xu Yao asked tentatively.
“You can do that too, then I’ll deal with you too. I have plenty of ways to get back at people, and I don’t necessarily need you to gather evidence to send Deng Huairou to jail,” Yu Ru smiled.
Xu Yao choked, not daring to say anything more, and honestly said, "I understand. In any case, this matter is good for me. Thank you."
the next day,
Xu Yao went to work at the company.
Half an hour after work started, Deng Huairou finally arrived late. After putting her things away, she took a document and placed it on Xu Yao's desk.
Xu Yao glanced at her timidly and silently touched the brooch on her body. This brooch was actually a miniature camera that Yu Ru had given her. On the surface, it looked like an ordinary smiley face brooch, even a bit ugly, but in reality, it was small in size and recorded quite well in terms of both images and sound; it was a high-end product.
"Xu Yao, complete the tasks required in the document and submit them to me five days before the deadline."
"Okay." Xu Yao lowered her head and nodded.
Deng Huairou smiled, quite pleased with her timid demeanor. "Why are you keeping your head down like that? People will think I've done something to you. Look up."
Xu Yao slowly raised her head, her eyes filled with barely concealed anger and helplessness. Seeing her like this, Deng Huairou's smile deepened. "Xu Yao, don't look at me like that. If it weren't for me, would you have gotten so much business? Besides, I've shared the profits with you. You should be thanking me."
Xu Yao didn't say anything, she just looked at her.
After Deng Huairou left with a flourish, tears welled up in her eyes. The design company she worked for was a well-known, large company that usually handled advertising planning, packaging, logo design, and other product design. She had been there for three years, but her career hadn't progressed at all.
From the very beginning, Deng Huairou was her mentor. Deng Huairou was a high-ranking executive in the company, and she initially thought she was lucky to have such a high-ranking leader guiding her from the start. Little did she know it would be the beginning of a nightmare. She thought she could make a name for herself here, but Deng Huairou stole all the credit.
Whenever Deng Huairou landed an important project, she would delegate it to her, crediting the work to herself. The actual author, however, remained completely hidden. I remember one of her creations, a packaging product, sold for 500,000 yuan, but she only received 2,000 yuan in the end.
She had considered rebelling, but without connections or influence, she was no match for Deng Huairou. Whenever she disobeyed, Deng Huairou would threaten to fire her for allegedly leaking trade secrets or misconduct, ensuring she could never work in the industry again.
Go to court?
She has no money.
After learning about the legal process and the cost of hiring a lawyer, she was discouraged. It was too long, too troublesome, and even with so much money spent, there was no guarantee of success.
She had naively thought that by reporting Deng Huairou to the police that she was being threatened, she could escape Deng's control. But then she turned around and saw Deng Huairou chatting and laughing with the officer who had received her. Her desire to break free from Deng Huairou's control was utterly delusional.
However, she might still have some luck, as things have finally taken a turn for the better. As long as she cooperates with Yu Ru to get Deng Huairou in, she can finally work well in this big company.
After figuring things out, Xu Yao enthusiastically opened the document Deng Huairou had brought. After reading the requirements, her hands trembled with excitement.
This project is worth 120,000!
Adding to the previous projects, this amounts to a significant sum. The more profit Deng Huairou makes from her work, the greater the chance she'll go to jail. Moreover, she's been very careful when Deng Huairou asked her to do things before; she's kept all the chat logs, and she has all the dates, drafts, and manuscripts of her designs—everything that can prove the work is hers.
Xu Yao was given a month to complete the new project. She planned to finish it first and then give it to Yu Ru along with the evidence she had kept before. The larger the amount involved, the better, as this would increase her chances of winning.
……
Ming Shi tutored Cheng Youli for a while, and their relationship grew much closer. Cheng Youli also gradually became more talkative.
"Teacher Ming, actually I really want to go to kindergarten. There are no other children to play with when I'm homeschooled."
Ming Shi wanted to ask him why he didn't go to kindergarten, but considering that Deng Huairou would interrogate her son about what he had told her after class, and that there were surveillance cameras in the room, she decided it was better to ask fewer questions and answer more questions.
After thinking for a moment, she said, "Chengcheng, there are many children in the park in our neighborhood. You can play with them."
“They have very little time to play. They have to go to school every day, and after school they have to attend extracurricular classes. They can only play for a little while,” Cheng Youli said somewhat unhappily.
Ming Shi felt a little guilty thinking about how she had used her connections to prevent Cheng Youli from going to kindergarten. But she didn't regret it; she just wanted everyone Deng Huairou cared about to suffer. It was just that this student was too well-behaved, and she couldn't bring herself to hate him because of him.
"Chengcheng, you'll be able to go to school soon too. Once you start first grade, you'll have to go to school."
"Really?" Cheng Youli's eyes lit up. "Teacher Ming, actually I think my mom doesn't really want me to go to school because it's dangerous. I was bullied by other kids at school before, and my mom is afraid that I'll be bullied by other kids at school."
Ming Shi was slightly surprised, thinking to himself that someone actually dared to bully the she-devil's son. And this wicked woman clearly knew that bullying others was wrong, and that the bullied suffered greatly. She cared so much for her own child, yet she was so cruel to Yu Ru.
That's terrible!
By the way, the information Yu Ru showed her indicated that Cheng Youli already knew his mother had bullied classmates and was unhappy about it. She wondered if he had forgotten. She wanted an eye for an eye. Deng Huairou had previously instigated all the classmates to isolate Yu Ru; now she was instigating Deng Huairou's son to isolate her—it made perfect sense.
Thinking of this, she immediately started planning how to subtly sow discord between Cheng Youli and Cheng Youli.
"Yes, Chengcheng, it's really sad to be bullied by classmates at school. It will be a sad experience for a long, long time. It's right for Mom to worry about you so much. So we must learn to protect ourselves and not give bad people the opportunity to bully us, so that Mom won't have to worry."
"Teacher Ming..." Cheng Youli's little face showed a hint of expectation as she asked, "If I apologize to the classmate who was bullied, will that classmate be less upset?"
"Maybe yes, maybe no, but if you're bullied, then harm has already been done. Even if you apologize, the damage won't go away. So Chengcheng, we should treat others with sincerity and friendliness. We shouldn't hurt others, nor should we let others hurt us."
"Oh, I understand, Teacher Ming." Cheng Youli seemed to have thought of something, and her mood suddenly became a little down.