My Online Lover Is the Rival I Fired novel · Chapter 23 of 24
Chapter 23: The Ninth Floor Desk
On Monday at six in the evening the dust sheets came off the ninth floor.
Forty desks stood under the strip lights, as they had stood three years before.
Forty people stood in the aisle between them with their arms at their sides.
Mo Chenyao walked in through the lift doors with Jiang Ke at his shoulder and stopped.
His desk was in its place by the east window, third from the end.
Someone had put a mug of black tea on it.
"Cen was arrested at Hongqiao on Saturday morning," said Yu, from the head of the room. "Hexin's board has asked the old founder to run it."
"That's all I'm going to say about him."
Nobody laughed.
"I've called this meeting for one thing."
He held out a single sheet.
"This is a deed of release," said Yu. "Greywater gives up every claim to the tide system in Saltmarsh, in perpetuity."
"It gives up every claim to the Undertow designs, to the person who made them." He turned.
"Mo Chenyao. They were always yours."
Jiang made a sound that was half a laugh and half a sob.
Mo took the paper without reading it.
"And the forty-one people on this floor who watched me carried out?" he said. His voice was rough. "Do they get a speech?"
"No," said Yu. "They get an offer."
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