Chapter 18 — Before Retirement, I Was Demoted to Work as a Laborer

Tham Trieu An's face... Completely gloomy. At that moment... An auditor from the General Director's office rushed in.

"Team leader Luong!"

"In the safe in the General Manager's office on the twenty-eighth floor..."

"We just discovered a voluntary resignation letter from Ms. Tan Ngoc Tran."

"Date on application..."

"It's today."

"Up there..."

"There are all her signatures and fingerprints."

The entire meeting room... simultaneously turned to look at me. Laughed softly. They really refused to stop. When the voluntary resignation letter was placed on the table... The corner of the paper was still cold from the safe. The content of the application is very complete. It clearly states that, for personal reasons, I voluntarily give up all pre-retirement benefits, resign, and commit to not continuing to ask the company to pay any benefits. In the signature line... The three words Tan Ngoc Tran are written neatly and clearly. Next to... There was also a red fingerprint. Ms. Vuong stood at the door. As soon as she saw the application, her whole body trembled with anger.

"Ngoc Tran..."

"This isn't your signature, right?"

I just glanced at the paper.

"Writing..."

"Fingerprints..."

"Same."

Hearing that, Dieu Chan seemed to have seized the opportunity and immediately spoke up.

"If there are both signatures and fingerprints..."

"At least it proves that this is not as simple as everyone thinks."

I raised my head to look at him.

"Director Dieu."

"What are you in a hurry?"

Dieu Chan immediately became speechless. Luong Chinh Nghi pushed the application towards me.

"You confirm..."

"Isn't this signed by you?"

I replied decisively.

"Not."

She continued asking:

"What grounds do you have?"

I turned the paper half a turn.

"The first."

"When signing Qin, the last horizontal stroke on the right side is always shorter than the two strokes above."

"But on this form..."

"The last stroke is too long."

"Twenty years ago, while chopping vegetables, I cut my right index finger."

"There's always a cut in the upper right corner of my fingerprints."

"And this fingerprint..."

"Not at all."

"I will never use this blue-black ink."

Luong Chinh Nghi looked at me. I calmly replied:

"In the past, the storage room had regulations."

"All records stored permanently..."

"Only carbon black ink is allowed."

"I'm the one who made that rule."

Ms. Vuong could not bear it and spoke up:

"Don't talk about records."

"Even the leave application..."

"She's never used a blue-black ink pen either."

The auditors immediately took photos and saved all evidence. Co Nam quickly extracted the document printing history. Resignation application... Printed at 1:03 am. Location... Is the printer in the General Director's office on the inner floor. Around that time... I was still in the storage room in basement B1. Co Nam continued to check the card swipe data. At 0:57 a.m.... There was a card swipe into the General Manager's office on the twenty-eighth floor. It's Ma Thanh. Until now, Ma Thanh was still sitting huddled in a corner. Pretending to be as dumb as a clam. As soon as he heard his name... He jumped up.

"I never printed that form!"

Luong Chinh Nghi looked straight at him.

"So why did you go into the General Director's office at dawn?"

Ma Thanh's face was sometimes white, sometimes blue.

"I came in to get cigarettes."

In the meeting room... No one believed it. I looked at him.

"During the day he smoked in his office General Director's office."

"At one o'clock in the morning..."

"Do you still remember that packet of medicine that much?"

Ma Thanh immediately choked up. Can't answer. Co Nam showed the surveillance camera footage on the screen. In the video... Ma Thanh swiped his card to go in. Four minutes later... He walked out holding a file. His expression was extremely panicked. Before leaving... I even looked back once. Luong Chinh Nghi asked:

"Where is that file?"

Ma Thanh's face turned white.

"I gave it to Deputy General Trinh."

As soon as he finished speaking... He himself was dumbfounded. Trinh Hoai Nhan was previously controlled by the police. But just this one sentence... Made the atmosphere in the meeting room tense like a string. Tham Trieu An spoke very softly.

"Each of you..."

"Everyone thought they were only doing a very small thing."

"When all those little things add up..."

"It's enough to corner a human being."

Ma Thanh bowed his head. Don't dare say another word. At that moment... The receptionist brought in another courier bag. Recipient... As for the sender... Co Nam immediately stopped the receptionist. Ask the police to check first. After confirming there are no dangerous objects... The file bag is opened. Inside... is a stack of photos. In the photo... I'm wearing a cleaning uniform, pushing the cart onto the twenty-ninth floor. The shooting angle is very dangerous. Just take pictures of my back. No photos of accompanying people were taken. Below the stack of photos... There is a piece of paper clipped.

"Tan Ngoc Tran arbitrarily entered the restricted area of the Board of Directors Office, stole company secrets and extorted retirement compensation."

Ms. Vuong was so angry that she cursed:

"Do they still have shame?"

I picked up the photos and looked at them. Angle of view... Coming from the turn of the twenty-ninth floor emergency staircase. There are no fixed cameras. That means... There was someone hiding there, just waiting for me to appear. Luong Chinh Nghi gave a stack of photos to the auditor.

"Check print source."

Dieu Chan's face suddenly changed. I see it very clearly.

"Director Dieu..."

"What do you know this time?"

He frantically shook his head.

"I don't know."

Very quickly after that... Co Nam got the results. These photos... Printed using the Trademark Department's color printer. Printing time... 5:44 am. Dieu Chan's legs suddenly became weak. He staggered and almost fell.

"I was forced."

Luong Chinh Nghi immediately asked:

"Who forced you?"