Fallen Chronicles

Chapter 397 397: Scandal (Part 2)

-Alliance.

In the office, the pink-haired woman tapped the desk with a ballpoint pen, feeling a bit frustrated. On the computer beside her were seven or eight discarded design drafts.

Usually, Lena would definitely have discarded drafts during the design process, but it wouldn't be like today, where she spent the entire morning and ended up with not a single design draft that she was satisfied with.

What is wrong with me?

Lena could probably vaguely guess the reason for this poor state and lack of inspiration.

The pink-haired woman took out a carefully preserved photo from her wallet.

It was very normal for fans to always treat a photo with a celebrity as a treasure, wishing they could carry it with them every day.

But for a celebrity to always keep a photo with a fan in their wallet...

That was quite rare.

Lena looked at the young man in the photo.

That feeling of restlessness and confusion only slightly eased.

But when she thought about how she was in a hurry to go visit Miyuki's place at the time, so she didn't even ask for the other party's contact information, work, home address, or anything, resulting in her having no way to find the young man again even if she wanted to, with no clues at all.

Damn it!

Thinking of this, Lena's feeling of frustration rose exponentially again.

At this moment, there was a knock on the door of Lena's office. It was the little assistant who came to deliver materials to Lena. Unlike usual, today's assistant also seemed very angry, with a very indignant look on her face.

"What's wrong?" Lena couldn't help but ask with concern.

The little assistant hesitated for a moment, but finally said, "Director Lena, you've been in the office all morning, so you don't know. It seems that since last night, there's been a rumor circulating within the company, saying that you have a scandalous relationship with a convenience store employee!"

"Convenience store employee, scandal?" Lena frowned.

She was already in a bad mood, and now hearing this made her even more irritated. Everyone in the company knew that she was most cautious in this regard. Even many of the assistants under her were all females, never hiring men.

"If you ask me, it must be Hina spreading the rumors. Only Hina was present at yesterday's incident. She must be holding a grudge after suffering a setback at your hands and is retaliating like this! What kind of person is she, really disgusting!"

Lena was originally full of anger. Usually, she would ignore Hina's many provocations, mainly because she disdained them. But now Hina was even creating scandals about her. This had already touched Lena's bottom line. She couldn't tolerate it anymore.

But with the latter half of her assistant's words, Lena was stunned at first, then quickly followed up, "Wait a minute, the scandal you mentioned, who is it with? It couldn't be that fan from yesterday, right?"

"Yes, it's the one who took a photo with you. Obviously, you were just being approachable and doting on a fan, but in the mouths of certain people, it turned into you having feelings for someone else. It's too despicable!"

The assistant gestured with her fists in the air, full of righteous indignation, as if she was standing up for Lena. But in fact, Lena's focus was all on...

"So, the person who took a photo with me is in the convenience store at the bottom of our building?"

"Yes, yes, it's said to be a newly hired employee. Our team is too busy and basically never goes to that convenience store. Only those who often slack off and don't do their proper work could discover it so quickly."

"Sigh, it's really unfortunate. Who knew that those two people from yesterday were so close to us? This is a bit tricky now. Director, what do you say we should do? Should we... tell President Miyuki?"

"No need."

Lena was concise, then directly stood up from her workstation and was about to walk out.

But after walking just a few steps, she returned to the office cubicle. When she came out again, she had taken off the gray-black work uniform from earlier and changed into a set of more youthful casual clothes.

"Director, where... where are you going?"

"The convenience store downstairs."

After saying that, Lena walked out of the office like the wind, leaving the dumbfounded assistant inside.

At the same time, on the other side.

"Sister Hina, I didn't expect our scandal to spread so smoothly. In just one night, many colleagues in the company already know about it and it's starting to spread more and more widely!"

"And your trick of deliberately asking people to act as onlookers and go to the convenience store is really brilliant. Many people have also curiously followed the trend and gone to that convenience store, making our scandal even more real!"

"As expected of you. Ginger gets spicier with age. If Director Lena wants to fight with you, hmph, she's still too young!"

Hina was quite enjoying the flattery from the assistant at first, but the latter sentence "ginger gets spicier with age" made Hina uncomfortable and she glared at the assistant.

The assistant only then realized her mistake and quickly corrected herself, "No, no, no, you're younger. You look much younger than Director Lena!"

"Alright, psychological warfare can at most just disgust Lena a bit. If we really want to make her step down, we still have to rely on what we said before. How's the contact with that video owner going?"

"It's like they say, when luck comes, you can't stop it. Even the heavens are helping us! This morning, I saw that video owner reply to us. They happen to be in our city too, and from what they said, they're even very close to the Alliance building. It seems they can come over at any time!"

"Really? That's great. Send them a message. Don't make it another day. Let's do it today. Have them come over after we get off work today. I'll go meet them in person."

"Okay, I'll arrange it right away."

The assistant had just left for a while when she hurried back to Hina's office a few minutes later.

"Ms. Hina, an employee just told me they saw Director Lena go out!"

"Did she go complain to the President? Hehe, that's all she's capable of." Hina looked unconcerned.

But then...

"No, Director Lena, she... she went to that convenience store!"

"What?" Hina frowned. Logically speaking, Lena should be trying her best to clarify at this time and definitely shouldn't go to a place like the convenience store. Wouldn't that be equivalent to further confirming the scandal?

But with the assistant's next sentence, Hina was completely stunned on the spot.

"Yes, and it's said that..."

"Director Lena even changed her clothes to go and put on high heels..."

"..."

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-Convenience store.

"Bro! If you don't explain this matter clearly to me, don't even think about leaving half a step out of this store today!"

The angry chubby guy was interrogating the young man across from him.

"Didn't you say before that women are like clothes and men should focus on their careers? Why do you care? Besides, I already told you, I don't know anything. It's probably just a rumor spread by idle employees of the Alliance who saw us taking photos together yesterday."

"First of all, women are like clothes, but can people not wear clothes!? Secondly, that's our goddess! How can it be the same! Lastly... it was you who took the photo together yesterday, not us! Damn it! Damn it AHHHHH!"

Shota gritted his teeth, wishing he could become Renji.

"Really no big deal? You're not secretly contacting Director Lena behind my back, are you?"

"Really not." Renji said innocently.

"You promise?"

"Promise."

"Phew! Then bro, you and I are still good brothers." The chubby guy let out a long sigh of relief.

If there's anything most unbearable between men, it's probably having the goddess in your heart quietly taken by your brother.

Fortunately, such a life tragedy didn't happen.

But at this moment, the automatic welcome sound for customers entering the convenience store rang again. The chubby guy turned his head to look towards the door, ready to greet the customer, when...

He suddenly froze on the spot.

Without needing many features to reveal, that pink hair was the most eye-catching sign.