SPOILED GIRL, VOLUME 2 - Season 11 Episode 58

“No… Director He, were you too busy? The plans that I gave you this morning needed your design drawings so that we could go to the next step…”

Joyce was hysterical, because she did not know what the matter was with Michelle. The only thing Joyce could do was to calm herself and continue to explain, “It’s the one for the RY Studio.”

“Oh, over there. Take them yourself!”

Michelle rolled her eyes and thought for a moment. She pointed to the table beside her and said in an uncaring tone, “I don’t remember where my drawings are.”

“It’s okay, as long as you have drawn them.”

Joyce realized that it was futile to talk to Michelle. In trying to explain, it was as if she was beating cotton with her fist but could get no response. She was too frustrated to continue talking to Michelle and rushed ahead to get the designs. Still holding her mobile phone cradled on her lap, Michelle gently touched Jacob’s picture on the phone screen with her finger. She spoke to herself in a low voice, “Don’t they say that SL Jewelry and Jacob are cooperating closely with each other? Why don’t you show up, Jacob?”

When Michelle had initially come to SL, she had wanted to use every chance to follow Jacob. Unexpectedly, she hadn’t seen him at all for several days in a row now.

She had lost her chain of thoughts when suddenly, a voice erupted, speaking loudly in her ear.

“Director He, is this what you designed?”

Joyce and a group of employees had appeared in Michelle’s office. They couldn’t believe what they were looking at. Holding the design drawing tightly, they said, “These colors and typesetting sizes are all wrong, and they are totally inconsistent with the requirements of our customers. Director He, if we send these design drawings to them, they will be returned!”

After that, for fear that Michelle would not believe them, the concerned workers excitedly handed over a design by Emily. Taking out several sheets of her drawings and handing them to her also, they continued, “Director He, this is the design work previously accepted by the client from the former Director Bai. You can make a comparison with your own design drawings. Anyone can see an immeasurably vast difference!”

Michelle was not a professional designer, and her drawing was too abstract. Many of her other designs had been copied from pictures downloaded from the Internet. Michelle had no sense of design and her work might even involve infringement.

Although Joyce and the rest of the employees did not like Michelle, SL Jewelry had been founded by them together with Emily. They were more or less affectionate to each other and had created a sense of family, but they were always responsible with their work and how it reflected on the company.

But now, Michelle was likely to destroy SL Jewelry!

“Oh, do we need so many employees in the Design Department? I’m the boss. I don’t need to do this by myself at all. Are the rest of the employees all rubbish?”

Hearing what she had just said, many employees suddenly became angry.

“Director He, what do you mean? You are the incompetent one. But now you are blaming us?!”

“Yes, Director! A director should be in charge of all the designs and schemes. But what is happening here? She is not nearly as capable as Director Bai. How could President Gu even think about giving the company to this woman?”

“Exactly… Yes, I really miss Director Bai!” Everyone was publicly complaining about her design drawings, but Michelle did not care at all what they thought about her. However, it drove her crazy to hear Emily’s name being praised from their mouths non-stop.

Michelle stared at her design drawings on the table, knowing that the papers were really messy. She didn’t take her eyes off them for a long time and finally she sneered. “Do you have any disagreement with these? If you disagree with my design, you can quit. If you don’t want to lose your job, just get back to your workstations and start working!”

She did not come here to work, and she did not even want to set her hands to these things at all.

“How dare you!”

Staring at her angrily, Joyce and everyone else thought that Michelle was being unreasonable. They noticed the phone she had placed on the table. When they saw the photo on her phone screen, they became so enraged that they had no choice but to ridicule her, saying, “Do you really think that Jacob will take a fancy to you? You’ve been waiting here for so long. Has he ever come for you? Why don’t you see the reality?”

“What did you say?”

As soon as she had finished lambasting Michelle, Joyce instantly regretted speaking her mind. However, in order to save some face, she still pretended to be calm and looked up at Michelle while trying to hold her head bravely. “I said you are nothing but an arrogant gold-digger!”

“Ah…” Michelle sneered derisively and the corners of her lips twisted into a sardonic smile, while her eyes sparkled coldly. Looking at Joyce with the smile still in place, she narrowed her eyes and threatened, “Do as you are told to! I’m the boss here now. Emily is nobody! And she’s gone…just like you can be.”

“You…”

Joyce and the others had never seen Michelle behaving like this, but they followed the insinuations that her words contained. She had always been lazy and spent hours dreaming in her seat. She seldom got angry. When she abruptly felt that everyone was looking at her, she only felt coldness spread all over her body. Even her back was cold and her whole body shivered for no reason.

In any case, Michelle had used to be an international agent, so her momentum could not be changed. Therefore, when she was really angry, she could become extremely oppressing.

“Get out!”

Narrowing her eyes, Michelle suddenly looked upset, and scolded everyone present in a cold voice.

“Whatever! Let’s go!”

Raising their eyebrows to hide their terror, Joyce and the others completed their bluff, turned around and left.

It was only the slight trembling in her posture that exposed her anger and unwillingness at heart.

“Rubbish!”

Glancing at the employees escaping the office, Michelle snorted coldly. What had happened just now had ruined her mood, so she rubbed her hair impatiently, feeling that everything in front of her was so uncertain and rough going.

Throwing a pen to the table, Michelle grabbed her purse and turned around to leave the room.

Anyway, the running of this company had nothing to do with her. It was better for her to leave immediately than to suffer here.

Besides, Michelle had placed her confidential informant in a strategic position. As long as Jacob appeared at SL Jewelry, she would get the message. Then, it wouldn’t take long for her to get here.

Tightly gripping the steering wheel in her hands, Michelle felt that she was becoming more and more dissatisfied as night fell, and her heart was like fire drained of all warmth.

All kinds of complicated and contradictory emotions were interwoven into a big net that caged her inside it.

“Forget it. I’m going to the Starlight Club!”

Shaking her head forcibly, Michelle tried to lighten up her emotions and intended to go home and sleep. After struggling with herself for a while, her efforts were just in vain. Instead, she became even more upset, so she drove straight to the bar hoping for distraction and release. ‘Since I can’t sleep like this, maybe I can fall asleep after I get drunk?’

“Bartender, serve me a drink,” she ordered and indicated that he should bring the bottle.

Lazily leaning on the sofa and playing with the goblet between her fingers while studying the swirling liquid in it, Michelle raised the corner of her lips.

“Okay.”

The bartender served her several bottles of wine according to her orders. After a glance at her face, he could tell that she seemed to be depressed, so he did not make fun of her for drinking alone and wisely left to go about his business.

Most of the people who worked here had met a lot of rich or high-ranking people. The staff had developed the ability to observe their moods from their body language or facial expressions.

“Jacob! Jacob, what do you mean to me?”

Michelle raised her head and drained the glass in one swallow. The red liquid spilled down over the corner of her mouth, running down along her beautiful neck. She looked particularly charming and tempting under the colorful lights.

Together with her inborn aloofness and alienation from others, she was a fatal temptation to the men in the club.

At present, many of the men were looking hungrily in her direction.

“What’s good about Emily? You have already swept her out of her own house. Why can you not let her go?”

Whispering to herself, Michelle kept pouring one glass of wine after another, and her eyes soon started becoming blurry.