Chapter 13 — Fire the Wrong Person, the Whole Company Pays

I turned to the next page.

“Here are scans of the six original lab notebooks I kept.”

“Every page is signed with the date of my experiment.”

“Earliest book…”

“Fourteen months earlier than when the patent was filed.”

I continued to turn the pages.

“This is the entire email exchange between me and the ingredient supplier.”

“Every email is sent by me.”

“In all correspondence…”

“Director Tran's name did not appear even once.”

The meeting room was so quiet that you could even hear the sound of breathing. Tran Hao's face turned from red to white. Then from white to gray.

“You… you slander me!”

“These things can all be faked!”

“So this is also fake?”

I open the last file. It's a recording. In the recording, Tran Hao's voice rang out so clearly that it made the entire meeting room cold.

“She's gone, all the formula data is now in my hands.”

“The patent has my name on it.”

“From now on it will all be mine.”

“Who still remembers who Lam Thu is?”

The entire meeting room fell into absolute silence. That was the call he made while on sick leave to Nhuan Cam's side. Tieu Ton helped me record it. Tran Hao sat down directly on the chair. Co Hanh closed the file in front of him. Look at him for three seconds.

“There's one more thing.”

I sat down and at the same time pushed the business registration information file of Nhuan Cam company to the middle of the meeting table.

“Recently, director Tran, through a personal relationship, contacted a company named Nhuan Cam.”

“Intention to use double salary to train core personnel of Hoa Nhan research laboratory.”

“And Nhuan Cam's third largest shareholder…”

“It's the husband of marketing director To Dao.”

To Dao immediately stood up.

“Don't talk nonsense!”

“Talking nonsense?”

I calmly looked at her.

“Nhuan Cam's business registration information is public.”

“Anyone can look it up.”

“Your husband's name…”

“Clearly recorded on the list of shareholders.”

I opened another document.

"This is a photo of the call history between Tran Hao and the person in charge of Nhuan Cam's connection."

“Fifteen minutes after that call…”

“The other person called your husband.”

“After your husband answered the phone for less than two hours…”

“She started looking for three different department managers to ‘talk to’.”

“Probe to see who holds the core data of the formula.”

To Dao's face was sometimes blue, sometimes white.

“You made up all of this!”

“You deliberately set a trap to harm me!”

“Set a trap?”

I turned to look at Co Hanh.

“General Manager Co.”

“Tieu Ton and Tieu Wei can testify.”

“It was Director Tran who took the initiative to find them.”

“Promise to pay double.”

“Request to bring core data out.”

“The two of them didn't want to cooperate so they secretly reported it to me.”

“Every step is fully documented.”

Co Hanh's eyes slowly turned to To Dao.

“Is there anything else you want to say?”

To Dao stood dumbfounded on the spot. Lips trembled but could not utter a word. Ha Vy in the corner of the room bowed her head even lower. More than thirty eyes in the meeting room focused on To Dao and Tran Hao. No one feels sorry for them. Co Hanh stood up.

“From today…”

“Tran Hao was relieved of his position as research director.”

“At the same time, dismiss To Dao as marketing director.”

“The specific handling plan will be reported to the human resources department within three days directly to me.”

He stopped for a moment.

“Also…”

“About the ownership of six core product patents…”

“The company officially launches the revision process from today.”

“All inventors of patents…”

“Restore Lam Thu city.”

Applause rang out first from the investor representatives. Then gradually spread to other parts. Then there were the researchers who sat in the corner and never spoke from beginning to end. Phuong Dinh sat under the row of chairs, her eyes red. Just sit quietly on the chair. Don't move. Just an hour after the board meeting ended… The news had spread throughout the company. Tran Hao was dismissed. To Dao was dismissed. Patent ownership revised. In the pantry. Outside in the hallway. In the elevator. There was talk everywhere.

“Deserve it.”

“Even the patents dare to be faked, and they even collude with people from the company, that's really brave.”

“To Dao is the scary one.”

“Even my husband's company got involved.”

“This time the whole family was probably pulled into the water too.”

“What about Ha Vy?”

“In the past, she was the one who jumped out and pressed Lam the hardest.”

“Now she's just cannon fodder.”

“Sitting and waiting to be dealt with is enough.”

That afternoon, Tran Hao directly tidied up his desk. When I left... No one said goodbye. As he passed by my laboratory door, he stopped for two seconds. The door is still closed. Then he quietly left. But everything... It doesn't end that easily. That night, To Dao posted a post to her friends circle.

“Being a colleague for ten years.”

“After just one night, people threw dirty water all over me.”

“There are some tricks so scary that you can't even imagine.”

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