Chapter 3 — After Rebirth, the First Thing I Did Was to Cancel All QR Codes to Receive Personal Money

She reacted too quickly. So fast that I forgot to continue pretending to choke. I nodded.

"Then just check."

Only then did Tuong Hanh open his mouth.

"Tri Ha, don't use that attitude. Today the office is giving you the opportunity to verify the matter, not for you to interrogate others."

I looked straight at him.

"Lawyer Tuong, this photo is aimed directly at me. I request to verify that the subject actually received the money..."

"Is it too much?"

His expression darkened. In the meeting room, someone coughed softly. Tham Nghien continued to type on the keyboard.

"This transaction code has an incorrect personal account prefix."

Tan Man's face immediately turned a little pale.

"What...what do you mean?"

"The codes of personal transactions and business transactions use two different coding systems."

Tham Nghien stared at the screen.

"This code string is more like an order created from a business's QR code to collect money."

Director Ha immediately sat up straight.

"Business QR code?"

"It seems that way now."

Tham Nghien paused for a moment.

"But if you want to accurately confirm the recipient of the money, you still need access to the payment platform's data."

I looked towards Tan Man. The eyes that were just now red from crying... At this moment, it was as if someone pressed the freeze button. I asked slowly.

"Just now you said the customer transferred money to me."

"It's... it's the customer who said that!"

She suddenly raised her voice.

"The customer sent me this exact photo!"

"Which customer?"

"It's... someone in the project team of Khai Hanh Company."

She choked. Unable to answer. Tuong Hanh put the fountain pen on the table. His voice is not loud. But enough to force the whole room into silence.

"Currently, everything is still unclear. First, let Tri Ha temporarily suspend work to coordinate the investigation. All project documents will be temporarily received by Tan Man to avoid affecting the customer's progress."

Really familiar. Past life... This is also the same sentence. Temporarily suspended in advance. Hand over work later. In the end, all the documents were taken from me. Any explanation no longer has a chance to be said. I smiled softly.

"Lawyer Chiang, the suspension can be discussed according to the correct procedure."

I switch to another email on the screen.

"But before that, I suggest connecting with Mr. Luc Van Xuyen, Head of the legal department of Khai Hanh Company."

"Last night, at 10:14 p.m., he received a confirmation email about the payment link sent by me."

The entire meeting room fell silent again. The way Tuong Hanh looked at me finally changed. When the video call is connected, behind Luc Van Xuyen is a glass meeting room. He wore a dark gray shirt. In front of him are several folders of documents. There was no sign of surprise on his face.

"Assistant Tong."

He nodded slightly to greet me first. Chairman Ha went straight to the point.

"Director Luc, sorry for the inconvenience. We are internally verifying a payment. According to the screenshot, your company transferred 80,000 yuan in emergency consulting fees to Ms. Tong Tri Ha's personal account. Is this correct?"

Luc Van Xuyen glanced at the photo on the screen.

"Our company has never approved any payments transferred directly to an individual's personal account member of the law office."

Tan Man immediately interjected.

"But it was someone from your company's project team who sent this photo!"

Luc Van Xuyen raised his head. Tan Man's lips moved slightly. Can't answer. Because it took me a lot of time in my previous life to investigate the true origin of this photo. It was absolutely not sent to her by the customer. She herself sent a payment link to the new administrative employee of the client's project team. After opening the link, the other person saw the words "Consultation fee", immediately took a screenshot and asked her:

"Do I have to pay with this?"

Tan Man cut out all the conversations before and after. Keep only three pieces of information. Tong Tri Ha. Emergency consultation fee. Just one photo... It's enough to kill a person. Luc Van Xuyen pulled an email into screen sharing mode.

"Last night, after receiving the confirmation letter from Assistant Tong, I checked the internal approval system."

"Our company indeed received a temporary payment link."

"But that link was not sent from the law office's public accounts system."

Director Ha immediately asked:

"So who is the relay?"

Luc Van Xuyen was silent for half a second. The atmosphere in the meeting room felt like someone had pressed the pause button. Tan Man jumped up from the chair.

"I... I just moved it for you!"

"The customer asked how to pay the emergency consultation fee so I conveniently sent it to you!"

I looked straight at her.

"But just now you said..."

"The photo was sent to you by a customer."

Her eye sockets immediately turned red.

"Are you not allowed to misremember?"

"There are so many people here. I'm nervous so I can't remember wrongly?"

"That's a very good reason."

When words contradict each other, people always like to use the word "tension" as cannon fodder. It's as if just by making an excuse that you're too stressed, all the lies will automatically be washed away. Luc Van Xuyen continued:

"Our company has never completed that payment. The administrative department saw that the payment link had an unclear origin so it forwarded it to me."