The company just hired a clueless new intern.

For a contract worth millions, she misplaced a decimal point and practically handed it over for one dollar.

I chased after the high-speed train and drank until my stomach bled before I managed to recover the company's losses.

While I was still in the hospital, she ran to my fiance, Edward Cooper, to complain.

"I've always been bad at math. How was I supposed to know something like that!"

Edward smiled at her dotingly, replying, "You just lack experience. Go ahead and do whatever you want. If anything goes wrong, Zoe will take the blame."

I was so furious I nearly quit on the spot.

To so-call "make it up to me," Jenny insisted on cleaning my office as an apology. She ended up throwing newly approved bidding proposals straight into the shredder.

The company lost hundreds of millions. I was fired and sued.

I ended up in prison, where I was tortured to death by inmates.

As I lay there on my last breath, I heard Jenny crying once more.

"If only I were smarter… maybe Zoe would still be alive?"

Edward stroked her head gently, soothing her, "She was incompetent. She couldn't even keep track of her documents. You're still young. You don't need to blame yourself."

I died of anger.

When I opened my eyes again, I had returned to the day Jenny first joined the company.

"Zoe, I've finished the contract for the project we secured yesterday on your behalf. Shall I send it to the client now?"

The familiar voice jolted me awake.

"Don't touch the computer! I'll deal with the contract on my own. Leave my office at once!"

The same day in my previous life, Jenny had tried to show off. While I was in a meeting, she snuck into my office and made the contract on her own.

In the end, she misplaced a decimal point, turning a multi-million-dollar deal into a one-dollar giveaway.

I had rushed all the way to the high-speed rail station, begging and negotiating, even drinking with the client the entire night.

Only then did I manage to recover the company's losses.

Jenny pouted aggrievedly, saying, "Zoe, do you think I'm stupid? You wouldn't even let me do a thing. I don't know much, sure, but I've been working hard for the company. It's like you're biased against me."

Since the day she joined, it was either she 'accidentally' destroying important documents or her trying to deliver water to coworkers, only to accidentally' splash it onto the power switch and black out the entire building.

Contributing? The fact that she did not cause any more trouble would be much more appreciated.

I grabbed her arm and pulled her up, saying icily, "You are not allowed in my office without my permission. Also, at work, you address me as Ms. Strallen."

Jenny sniffled.

The next moment, someone opened my office door.

Edward Cooper entered, holding Jenny's hand as he did.

"I asked you to mentor her, and this is how you go about it? Zoe, you really let power get over your head!"

I moved the computer screen and pointed to the wrong number on the screen.

"She snuck into my office without my permission and drafted a contract. Look at this contract that she almost sent out. If I hadn't stopped her, the company would have lost millions!"

The moment Edward noticed the mistake, his face instantly turned pale. He had not a single word of retort.

Jenny sniffled and feigned guilt.

"Ms. Strallen, it's all my fault! I've always been slow and not very good with numbers. But when we were alone, why didn't you point out my mistake? Why did you have to wait until Mr. Cooper is here to complain about me?"

Edward sided with her. He looked at me condescendingly and questioned, "Jenny is just an intern. What does it matter if she made a mistake on a contract? Don't forget. You were once an intern, too–and you've made mistakes as well. You were yelled at badly back then. What? You think you get to lord over her and criticize her just because you're higher in rank?"

The office door was wide open. The staff outside were all of my subordinates. If they heard this, how was I supposed to lead them in the future? He was clearly trying to humiliate me in front of them.

In the previous life, I could tell myself that he was just protective of a weak intern. This life, I finally saw through him.

His heart had long been on Jenny.

I snickered. "Fine. If you don't like the way I mentor her, you can do it yourself."

Edward pulled Jenny along and stormed off.

"Fine! You'll see! In less than a year, Jenny will pull you down and take your position!"

The next morning, Jenny entered my office with a wipe in her hand. Her eyes were on the documents on my table.

I secretly snickered.

Jenny remained unchanged from her previous life; she still eyed that bidding proposal.

"Didn't we agree that Edward would mentor you from now on? Why are you still in my office?"

Jenny jumped and stiffened at my voice. With trembling hands, she dropped the bidding proposal straight into the shredder.

"M-Ms. Strallen, I'm here to make it up to you by cleaning."

I looked around.

A painting by my grandfather hung on the wall. She had wiped it with alcohol. The entire painting was smudged. It was completely ruined.

The plant on my desk, worth thousands, had withered. The soil was still steaming. Inside the watering can was freshly boiled water.

Not to mention the neatly organized documents, now reduced to complete chaos.

Cleaning?

She was not there to clean. She was there to cause trouble.

I looked at the shredded documents, my voice turning icy, "Is destroying documents also your way of making up?"

Jenny flusteredly tried to avoid my gaze. "I saw that you have too many useless documents, so I tried to get rid of them for you."

I pointed to the tiny surveillance camera in the top right corner of my office.

"This is an important official document which you've just destroyed. Do you think you can afford the consequences? I installed the surveillance camera yesterday, just to prevent important documents from getting lost."

Jenny visibly broke out in cold sweat, but her eyes flashed a little maliciously. Then, she stormed off crying.

"Ms. Strallen, you can hit me and yell at me, but you can't insult me like this! No one else in the entire company except me had entered your office. You clearly installed the surveillance camera just to keep an eye on me!"

I ignored her.

Luckily, I remembered that she would do such a thing, so I had locked the real bidding proposal in the safe.

If she had destroyed them, the consequences would be unimaginable.

This incident also indirectly proved that Jenny was not an idiot. She was just finding an opportunity to cause trouble.

When Edward heard her complaints, he came looking for me a few times. He demanded that I take down the surveillance camera and apologize to Jenny.

I told him right to his face that as long as she stayed out of my office, there would be no suspicion at all.

After that incident, I focused entirely on the bidding project and ignored those two. Since Jenny could not cause me any trouble, she started targeting other colleagues.

Every time I returned to the office, the entire workspace was filled with resentment.

She played games on someone's computer and accidentally deleted half a month’s worth of overnight design work.

She tagged along on a business trip and gifted a client a cheap two-dollar hair clip.

She offended a client we had spent six months cultivating, ruining the deal entirely.

She burned documents in the restroom for fun, triggering the fire alarm system and drenching everyone in the building like a sudden downpour. Everyone fell ill with high fevers and had to be hospitalized.

Time and time again, Edward protected her, brushing everything off with, "She's still young."

The company was thrown into chaos because of her, yet no one dared to speak up.

I could not stand staying in that environment for even a second longer, so I applied to the board for an overseas assignment.

The approval came through quickly. I was already preparing to leave the country when I suddenly received a call from the police.

They said that my identity had been deregistered, and they wanted to confirm if I was actually dead.

My identity deregistered? That was equivalent to me being dead!

I immediately asked HR what was going on. They told me that Edward was the one dealing with my overseas trip.

Taking the information of my identity being deregistered, I entered Edward's office, huffing, "Care to explain to me what the hell is going on?"

Jenny was sitting on his lap, learning how to tie his tie. They were so close together; all that was missing was just a kiss.

Jenny pretended to be flustered. She explained, "Ms. Strallen, don't be mistaken. Mr. Cooper was just teaching me how to be a good assistant!"

When she saw the documents in my hand, she covered her mouth and screamed.

"Ah! I did this! I think I accidentally called the cancellation office instead of the visa office."

Deregistering a person required filling out forms in person. Not one, but five in total.

I did not believe for a second that she filled out five forms without noticing anything strange.

I slammed the documents onto the desk, my voice hoarse with rage.

"Do you have any idea what it means for me to be deregistered? Every project and document signed under my name in the past six months will be rendered invalid! That's a loss of at least hundreds of millions. Will you take responsibility for that?!

"It's not just money! It's also the company's reputation and mine! Come with me right now and prove this cancellation was a procedural error!"

Jenny's face scrunched up as she slumped into Edward's arms, asking slowly, "Mr. Cooper, did I do something wrong? I'm afraid of going with Ms. Strallen. She might get too agitated and hurt me…"

Edward hugged her tightly as he eyed me impatiently.

"Why are you yelling at Jenny? You scared her! Look, it's just a small procedural mistake!

"Jenny has a stronger sense of responsibility than most people. Do you really want her to feel guilty over such a small thing for the rest of her life?"

My phone buzzed at that moment. All of them were from business partners, demanding answers.

[Ms. Strallen, the project is about to start. What do you mean, your identity information is invalid?]

[You didn't run off with the money, did you? Get over here and explain yourself, or I'm calling the police!]

…

Message after message, filled with suspicion and accusations.

I held the phone up in front of Edward, yelling hysterically, "If they call the police, I will end up in prison! You call this 'a small matter'? Edward, you're the highest authority in the company right now. Take Jenny and apologize to the clients at once!"

Edward frowned. He was just about to get up when Jenny refused. She said with a tone of faux innocence, "You signed the contracts with them. Even if they want to sue, they'll sue you. What does this have anything to do with Mr. Cooper?"

Then, she said to Edward, "Mr. Cooper, you don't know how these contracts came by. What if you had used your body to… Well, even Mr. Cooper can't help you then!"

Her eyes gleamed innocently, but they were filled with malice.

Edward sized me up and said, "Jenny is right. You should take the documents and apologize to them. I promised Jenny that you'd be responsible for any problems. I can't go back on my promise, can I?"

I was so furious at their shamelessness that I almost laughed.

They truly believed that no outcome would affect them.

Unfortunately for them, I was not going to let them have their way this time.

"You won't go? Fine. I quit. I won't go either. Whether the client calls the police or the project gets stalled–I don't care! If I'm going down, none of you are going to get away with it either!"

I called the chairman, Richard Walters, and told him about my deregistered identity and intention of resigning.

Richard came to the office in rage, forcing Edward and Jenny to apologize to the clients and explain everything.

Richard did not want me to quit in such a rash manner, though. He gave me a month to think about it.

In that month, Edward brought Jenny along to visit every client.

Unsurprisingly, every client would text me about her.

[What kind of unprofessional intern does your company hire? She came to my house asking if I'm the legal wife or the mistress!]

[That intern of yours is outrageous! Because of her, our entire building lost power for a whole day!]

[Has Edward lost his mind? Why is he protecting her? If it weren't for your sake, I wouldn't be working with your company!]

It seemed like Jenny had caused quite a lot of trouble herself. I consoled every single client, telling them about me resigning.

I told them that it did not matter if they did not sign the project. I was going to make Edward pay for his foolish decision to protect Jenny!

A month later, I still had not changed my mind about working with them. I still insisted on resigning.

The moment I entered the office, Jenny shrilled, "Mr. Cooper, we're doomed! That client from yesterday said I falsified the price! They're going to sue me!"

She added, "For the last project, I wanted to earn more money for the company. Zoe had written five million on the contract, but I changed it to twenty million…"

Downstairs, the officers from the Securities and Exchange Commission had arrived.

Edward looked overwhelmed, yet he still gently consoled Jenny.

Market prices were transparent.

Jenny had dared to quote four times the price, so of course, the client called the police.

She deserved it.

The officers arrived, planning to take Jenny back to be questioned.

Suddenly, she pointed at me, who had just entered the office, and yelled, "Zoe Strallen is the person you want! She drafted the contract! She also forced me to get the client's signature! It's all her fault!"