Chapter 3 — 35 Currency Salary, Exchanged For An Entire Empire Collapse

Payment successful. My mother's surgery was scheduled first. I leaned my back against the wall in the hallway and breathed a long sigh. Tight nerves finally relax. My legs felt weak, I almost collapsed to the ground. The phone in my pocket vibrated again. I thought it was an announcement from the hospital. But when I took it out, it was a text message from a strange phone number. There was only one sentence on the screen.

"Good job."

"But he won't let it go that easily."

"Be careful of his retaliation, especially against your mother."

My heart immediately sank. Who is this person? How did that person know what just happened? I immediately called back. But what rang out in the receiver was just the system's cold notification voice.

"The phone number you have dialed does not exist."

I was confused when a colleague passed by. Seeing me, she hesitated for a moment then whispered:

"To Tinh, hurry up and see."

"On the company's internal forum... someone posted something."

My heart sank. I immediately opened the internal forum. An article highlighted in red and bold is sitting in the first position. The title is: 《Concussion! An employee wanted to force confessions to gain power and forged confidential documents to slander the General Director!》 The content of the article tells in great detail the entire incident that took place this morning. But the perspective was completely distorted. The article said that because of personal hatred, I intentionally edited the image and slandered Vuong Khon for selling company secrets. Attached are a few blurry photos of me "threatening" Vuong Khon in the office. In the photo, I'm holding a file with an "extravagant" look on my face. Meanwhile, Vuong Khon looked "surprised" and "heartbroken". Posted by: Anonymous. But underneath, many of Vuong Khon's confidants have come to lead public opinion. They asked the company to strictly handle me. Vuong Khon's counterattack has arrived. Faster than I thought. More cruel than I thought. He wanted to nail me to the company's pole of shame. Makes me unable to raise my head forever. The post on the internal forum spread with viral speed. As I walked through the office area, I could feel countless eyes looking towards me. Pity. Contempt. A colleague who used to have a good relationship with me, when he saw me going to get water, pretended not to see. The world suddenly became very quiet. But also extremely noisy. My phone rings. It's Tieu Truong, the nurse in charge of my mother's hospital room. Her voice was very urgent.

"Sister To, come here quickly! There was someone just now..."

"I said it was my colleague from the company who came to visit my aunt, but..."

My heart missed a beat.

"But what?"

"He held his phone and continuously took pictures of her face."

"And said some very unpleasant words, like 'if a son is unfilial, the mother must bear the consequences'."

"Makes my blood pressure skyrocket!"

"We've chased him out, come and see!"

I don't have any brothers. That person intentionally said something wrong. He did not visit the sick. He came to provoke a patient who had just finished surgery. A stream of cold air ran straight from the soles of my feet to the top of my head. Wang Kun. That mysterious message is real. He really hit my mother. I grabbed my bag and rushed out of the company. On the way, I sent the number That strange phone has a text message.

"Who are you?"

No response. When I got to the hospital, mom was already asleep. But his eyebrows were still furrowed. The nurse said the doctor injected her with a sedative. I sat by the hospital bed, looking at my mother's pale face. My hands kept shaking. This is no longer an office fight. This is an attack without any limitations. Wang Kun wants me to collapse. Wanting me to be exhausted between taking care of my mother and dealing with the company. Then in the end, both sides pulled him down. I took out my phone. Look at the post on the internal forum. Below appeared one layer of comments after another.

"Support the company's investigation to the end! Such pests must be fired!"

"Too cruel, wanting to climb high despite all tricks."

"I heard her father was the same way back then... Tsk tsk, it's true like father, like son."

My eyes stopped at the last comment. They mentioned my father again. The man lost his life due to a "brake failure". The anger and pain in my heart were gradually replaced by a cold determination. Wang Kun. Do you think you can win like that? You are wrong. You have reached my final limit. There are two limits. I returned home. Search for an old box that has been covered in dust for many years. At the bottom of the box are my father's relics. Some notebooks. An old USB. I plugged the USB into the computer. Inside there is only one encrypted file. I tried several passwords. License plate number. I forced myself to calm down. Stare at the password hint line. I suddenly remembered the last place my father took me before he passed away. A deserted mountainside. Then he told me that this place had very beautiful scenery. Later, a bridge will be built here. So that children in the mountains don't have to walk dozens of kilometers to school anymore. The name of that project is...

"Dawn."

I entered password: ChenXi. The file is unlocked. Inside there are two documents. Part of it is the original geological survey data of the Truong Phong project. Completely similar to the version I've seen. The rest is a video. The video's thumbnail is a blurred face. A face that I would still recognize even if it turned to ash. Wang Kun's father. Vuong Zhenhua.