Chapter 556



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Nora frowned, her displeasure peaking.

Ruth had disliked her very much from the first time they had met.

Not only was she using Black Cat to show off, but she’d also used Y to get others to like her…. She sure flattered herself a lot.

However, to think that she had stolen credit for the good deed Nora had done anonymously the night before….

Ha.

Nora looked down, feeling a little disgruntled. However, she had always been of a simple nature, so she said nothing. After all, she couldn’t suddenly become close to everyone and say that she was Q. She still had to keep her identity a secret.

But, despite not having caused any trouble, she never expected her conflict with Ruth to come so quickly!

At two or three o’clock in the afternoon, just as he was about to go home out of boredom, he ran into Ruth!

Ruth, who had her head down and was carrying some papers in her arms, rushed over and collided with Nora!

Nora immediately backed up and quickly avoided the impact of the collision. However, because Ruth was wearing heels, she fell to the ground.

Thump!

A loud collision sounded in the hallway. At the sound, everyone else ran out.

“Are you all right?”

“Ruth, are you okay?”

A pained expression appeared on Ruth’s face. As she massaged her lower back and stood up, she looked at Nora and sighed. “Miss Smith, why didn’t you catch me right now?”.

Nora: “?”

She frowned and stared at Ruth. Then she replied unhurriedly, “I didn’t react in time.”

Ruth’s sweet, pretty facial features contracted into a pained expression, making everyone feel bad for her.

She massaged her back and sighed again. “Never mind, I’m fine anyway, I won’t blame you for it.”

Nora’s mind was full of questions again.

What was he blaming her for?

Her eyebrows drew together. As she turned and prepared to leave, Ruth suddenly said, “Miss Smith, you seem pretty free to me, can you do me a favor? I need to photocopy these documents, but I think I’m going to have to sit down for a while, can you photocopy them for me?”. Nora’s gaze immediately turned cold. She turned to Ruth and immediately replied, “I’m not free.”

Was she forcing her to do chores?

Clearly Ruth was trying to demean her.

As she was about to walk away after her response, Damon suddenly lost his temper. He said, “That’s enough, Miss Smith! There should be a limit to everything you do. Just because we don’t hold it against you, doesn’t mean you can behave so brazenly.”

Nora: “????”

Damon shouted angrily, “What do you mean when you said he didn’t react in time? I saw with my own eyes that you took a step back. Clearly you could have caught Ruth and kept her from falling, yet you didn’t come close. I bet selfish people like you wouldn’t even think of helping others, would you?” Damon continued to shout out his thoughts. “Q obviously works at the Smith Corporation. Now that the team has been in trouble, all he has to do is say the word and he would help, but he’s not willing to help us! Instead, look at what Ruth did. Yesterday she waited until the middle of the night for Y to come online and fix the problem for us.”

Nora’s gaze suddenly turned icy. “Q doesn’t get a dime of remuneration from the special department.”

So why would she think that Q should provide his services to the special department?

Besides, it didn’t matter that she had done a good deed anonymously, and it didn’t matter that Ruth had stolen all the credit from her, but now they were using the credit for what she had done to put her in a bad light.

So, she couldn’t let this go so easily anymore!

The moment he said that, Damon choked on his breath.

Truth be told, Damon was aware that his resentment toward Nora was unwarranted. Q was a network consultant that the Smiths had outsourced, so why should he lend his services to the special department?

But the scariest thing among humans was the direct comparison! Before Ruth joined the department, Nora’s attitude would have only given people the impression that she was haughty and out of her depth. However, after Ruth joined the team, she had personally helped contact Y and had even directly solved the special department’s network problems.

Comparing one to the other would only serve to irritate them needlessly.

Now that they had someone to compare her to, it made Nora look too selfish and insensitive!

With that in mind, Damon was emboldened and said angrily, “Yes, the special department has certainly never paid Q a single cent, but the special department serves the people! If even Ruth can turn to Y and plead with him for so long to help us, why couldn’t you turn to Q?”

Now he was twisting reason and resorting to fallacious arguments.

Nora ignored him. Instead, she turned to Ruth, let out an icy grimace, and then said, “So, is it because of you that the IT Department’s network was fixed? Was it you who went to Y and asked him to fix it?”

Ruth sighed as she heard what he had said. To be honest, she hadn’t seen Y log on even after waiting all night the day before. She had originally planned to make up an excuse to go unnoticed, but unexpectedly, the moment she had arrived at the special apartment, Damon had approached her excitedly and thanked her for her efforts.

Someone had gone online and hacked into the system the night before, he had also helped them repair the system.

Ruth had been dumbfounded at the time, but as Damon kept thanking her, causing all the other colleagues around her to do so as well, she had tacitly admitted it.

After all, according to Damon, Y and Q were the only ones who could safely infiltrate the special department’s network and fix its bugs.

It was impossible for Q to be the one to do so. After all, the special department had already approached Q many times, but he had completely ignored them.

In that case, it could only be Y.

And he should have seen her request and gone over to help.

Seeing that Nora had adopted such an attitude, Ruth sighed and said, “Miss Smith, there’s no need to focus on whose merit it was. I’m just helping my colleagues. As Damon said, we all serve people here.”

His choice of words couldn’t have been nicer.

Nora narrowed her eyes and asked once again, “Did you or did you not ask Y to help the IT department with error correction?”

Ruth narrowed her eyes. Faced with such an aggressive question, she could only bite the bullet and reply, “Yes, I did!”.

Damon and his other colleagues spoke up immediately.

“Ruth, you are awesome! We thank you on behalf of the special department.”

“Yes. You just joined us and yet you are doing so much for the special department and care so much about us. You have done our department a great favor. You are setting a good example for all of us. We need more colleagues like you in the department.”

“Good employees like you are so rare these days~ There are people who can’t compare to you!”

Ruth, who was showered with compliments, adopted a very humble attitude in appearance. She flashed them an exceptionally sincere smile and said, “No, these are things I should do.”

Damon immediately said in a mocking tone, “For you, they are things you should be doing, but for some people, even if they obviously just need to lift a finger to help….. People shouldn’t be so selfish! Especially people in our work. If everyone chooses to be selfish, how are we going to protect society and keep the peace?”

Nora narrowed her eyes coolly as she listened to what they were saying.

This time she had really gotten angry.

She slowly shifted her gaze to Damon and asked coldly, “Who says Y was the one who fixed the problem?”

Damon was stunned to hear that. He replied, “What do you mean, who else could it be if not Y or Q?”.

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