Chapter 698: Chapter 697: 697, when will Lawyer Lu fire this vase?

She had been printing, binding, and stapling files for a full two weeks!

Was her liberation finally here?

Because of her elation, Mo Weiyi as soon as she arrived in the meeting room, took her seat, and immediately picked up her phone to snap a selfie with her pretty face…

Selfie!

Change the angle, and take another one.

Change the angle again, and take another one.

Change again…

“If you take another selfie, get out!”

With Lu Chenyu’s single sentence, Mo Weiyi immediately put down her phone.

The others kept coughing.

Then, Lu Chenyu began to speak, “Let’s start the meeting.”

Everyone fell quiet.

Those present at today’s meeting were senior lawyers from various departments, responsible for reporting the progress of their current assignments.

Who knew that just after lawyer Wu, who was the first to report, started speaking, he was abruptly interrupted by a crisp female voice.

“Hold on a moment!”

Everyone was taken aback.

Lawyer Wu was also frightened, trembling in his seat.

Lu Chenyu squinted at her.

There in the corner, Mo Weiyi held a pen in one hand and raised the other high. Her beautiful face was full of questions, “Lawyer Wu, could you please clarify what you just said about… burden of proof…what? Sorry, I didn’t hear clearly.”

Lawyer Wu immediately answered respectfully, “Miss Mo, I was talking about the reversal of the burden of proof.”

“Okay, thank you.” Mo Weiyi flashed a sweet smile and jotted down the note.

Lu Chenyu, pinching his forehead, held back and said, “The meeting continues.”

Lawyer Wu continued, “The client believes that he was not aware of this matter beforehand, so he has the right to be uninformed. I have communicated with him that if this matter is true, then according to Article 123, clause 18 of our country’s Constitution, if the client…”

“Hold on.” Mo Weiyi interrupted again.

Lu Chenyu: “…”

The entire meeting room once again fell into deathly silence.

Some held back their laughs, some were enjoying the spectacle, and others looked completely bewildered.

Lawyer Wu was particularly panicked, “Miss Mo, is there any other question?”

“Sorry, Lawyer Wu, could you speak a little slower? I can barely catch up with my notes.”

“Alright, Miss Mo, I understand.” Lawyer Wu, trembling with fear, was just about to slow down and continue his report…

“Also,” Mo Weiyi asked, “what was that Article you just mentioned in the Constitution?”

Lawyer Wu grasping his chest said, “It’s Article 123, clause 18 of the Constitution.”

“Okay, thank you.” Mo Weiyi immediately took note of it.

Then she looked up, “Lawyer Wu, you may continue.”

Lawyer Wu quickly looked at Lu Chenyu for direction.

So did Mo Weiyi.

As a result, she saw Lu Chenyu glaring at her with a stoic face.

He was really glaring at her.

He was naturally thin, dressed in a black suit, and wore black-rimmed glasses.

As the light swept across, it reflected off the lens.

A sudden gleam.

Mo Weiyi blinked and asked cautiously, “Master, what’s wrong?”

Lu Chenyu kept glaring at her.

He didn’t say a word.

Mo Weiyi: “…”

The others too: “…”

Finally, Lu Chenyu mocked, “How long have you been interning at this law firm?”

Mo Weiyi obediently replied, “Almost a month, but I was recovering from an injury at home for about the first ten days.”

The next second.

With a hearty “Bang”, Lu Chenyu slapped the conference table with his hand, “So even now you can’t handle something as simple as taking meeting minutes?”

Everyone was startled by the sound of the table being hit.

Lu Chenyu rarely lost his temper.

Or rather, even if he did lose his temper, he would always speak succinctly and lightly, exerting invisible pressure.

But not like this…banging the table and stomping his foot. It was obvious he was outraged.

In response, Mo Weiyi replied innocently, “Master, you never taught me.”

Lu Chenyu: “…”

Everyone else: “…”

Then, Lu Chenyu lifted his fingers to pinch his forehead, and exhaled a long sigh, “You go out first.”

Mo Weiyi was stunned, “Huh?”

“Get out! Immediately! Right now!”

Everyone else: “…”

In the end, with a pout of grievance, Mo Weiyi stood up and left the meeting room.

Old Wang dared not say a word from beginning to end, but the corners of his mouth had secretly lifted into a smirk.

He thought, “She’s so dumb! She can’t even handle something minor like recording meeting notes and kept interrupting the formal proceedings of the meeting.”

Then the question arose, when will Lawyer Lu finally fire this decorative piece?

**

Once back in her office, Mo Weiyi was seething with anger.

She couldn’t help but vent her frustration over the phone to her best friend again, finally angrily asking, “Tell me! What’s the deal with this Lu Chenyu? I have my dignity, okay? How could he just make me leave like that? Immediately, at that?”

Unable to hold back her laughter, Su Wanwan exclaimed, “Oh my God, Lu Chenyu asked if you knew how to record meeting minutes and you said you didn’t because he didn’t teach you? Do you need someone to teach you such a simple thing?”

“He’s my mentor, it’s his job to teach me!”

“Pff…” An uproar of laughter erupted from Su Wanwan.

“What are you laughing at?”

“Oh, princess!” Holding back her laughter, Su Wanwan advised, “Why didn’t you use a computer to take notes? Don’t you have one?”

“The firm provided me with a desktop computer.”

“Alright, don’t you have a voice recorder? Or a mobile phone?”

“…I do.”

“If you don’t understand something, you should record it on your phone and ask others later. You should never interrupt your superiors or disrupt the formal proceedings of the meeting. Besides, meeting minutes are primarily for recording the key points of discussion, not every word said by everyone. Some things, even if recorded, are meaningless.”

“Oh.”

“And,” Su Wanwan added, “when Lu Chenyu asks you to take meeting minutes, you should first ask him what the key points he wants you to record are, and prepare accordingly. In fact, before you do anything, you should always ask a few humble questions, it never hurts.”

“Okay.” Mo Weiyi obediently nodded.

“Don’t be upset, internships are tough, take it slow.”

“Okay.” Mo Weiyi generously conceded, “I won’t blame Lu Chenyu anymore.”

Su Wanwan: “…”

**

After the meeting, Lu Chenyu and a group of senior lawyers left the meeting room one by one and returned to their offices.

Old Wang returned soon after and sat there, his ears perked up, waiting for the phone to ring.

Who would have thought…

He waited till lunchtime, but the phone never rang.

What’s going on with Lawyer Lu?

Is he not firing this decorative vase yet?

As for Mo Weiyi, checking the time, she immediately put down the punch and headed downstairs for lunch!

….

Once she was downstairs…

“Princess.” Rong An immediately got up to follow her.

The two went straight to a fast food restaurant next door.

Mo Weiyi had gotten used to eating fast food now, and confidently waited on the side, ready to claim a table as soon as someone was finished eating.

She had the server clean up the table and ordered two combo meals. However, just as she started eating, she heard a familiar voice in front of her.

“I apologize, sir, but photography is not allowed in the restaurant.”

Looking up, Mo Weiyi saw Ling Zhizhou standing there.

He was wearing the restaurant’s uniform, standing by a table, speaking to a young man in a suit, who held a black iPhone in his hand.

“Does your restaurant have some secrets that cannot be disclosed? I can’t even take a few photos?”

“No.” Ling Zhizhou smiled and responded firmly.

The man looked at him mockingly, “What if I take it anyway?”

Ling Zhizhou abruptly turned to look at Mo Weiyi, “Miss, this gentleman has been pointing his phone at you all this time, I suspect that he’s been secretly photographing you.”

The man’s smirk deepened when he heard this.

Rong An immediately stood up and walked over.

He didn’t wait for the man to talk, but grabbed his phone and swiped, “Password.”

The man leaned back into his chair without a word.

“Password.” Rong An asked again.

The man lifted his head, a wicked smile playing at the corner of his lips, “What if I don’t tell you? Are you going to smash my phone?”

The next second…

“Thump!”

No one could see what Rong An did, but the phone had been slammed to the ground.

The sound was loud, startling the nearby diners, and some women even screamed.

As for the phone…

It was definitely beyond repair.

Mo Weiyi watched the man, expecting him to cause a scene since his phone was smashed. But to her surprise…

The man got up and left immediately.

Ling Zhizhou let out a sigh of relief.

Once the man was out of sight, he explained, “senior sister, he constantly took photos of you. Be careful in the future.”

“Really?” Mo Weiyi knitted her eyebrows in concern.

The man seemed somewhat familiar, but she couldn’t remember where she had seen him…