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CHAPTER 168

While they were flexing and enjoying themselves, Li Jing worked hand in hand with Yi Wang Lei to go through the camera footage.

It was already past 5 pm in the evening and they were nearing the camera footage of today when the incident had been mainly known and still nothing.

It was almost looking frustrating as though the culprit wasn't in the company. Even though that seemed like a good thing, min actual fact it wasn't. They would prefer they found the culprit and then know how to act than go over to Mr Kang and ask him to do the same.

It was insulting on its own to Mr Kang but what more could they do? And if they could not prove theirs, how then could they prove that it was from someone else's?

Yi Wang Lei sighed as he relaxed his back against the chair. He was tired and so was Li Jing.

With nothing more to do, they decided to take a short break to bring back their brain to life.

"I am tired," Yi Wang Lei confessed, stretching himself on his seat.

"I know, but please can we continue? It's okay if you want to relax for a moment but I would continue."

"No, you should rest for some time as well. You have stressed out already," Yi Wang Lei offered. He knew she was equally as tired as he was but was putting up with it all.

"It is okay. I can manage."

"Why are you killing yourself?"

"To clear my name and when I find the person, I wouldn't be so nice to let him or her go scot-free."

"Fiesty, I like that. Okay then, let me assist you further, you just gave me the boost I needed."

Li Jing laughed off his words and turned her seat so she could face the TV and continue from where she left off. It wasn't even up to three minutes when they resumed that Li Jing saw from her own screen an unknown person sneak close to her office.

"Hey." She called out sharply, bringing Yi Wang Lei's attention to her screen as she pointed at the lady that was now walking well and went to meet her assistant.

She said some things to her assistant and the former nodded before getting up and walking away with her. Both of them continued till the sneaky lady stopped by the restroom and entered, leaving her assistant to continue alone.

As soon as her assistant took the bend and was out of sight, the lady came out, look from left to right before going back the way she came and heading to Li Jing's office.

"Looks to me like we have found our culprit." Li Jing stated as her gaze remained fixed on the screen before her.

They checked another screen, showing Li Jing's office and watched as the lady entered and went to her desk to check her office laptop.

It was the very same day she was almost vandalized by the rioting fans of Ye Cheng and the same day she was saved by Hong Haoran.

She was so tired that she had failed to keep the laptop in her drawer and lock it, so it was on her table for easy accessing.

They watched as the girl typed away, sometimes raising her head to be sure no one was coming and after some time, her face that was brimming with joy at accomplishing her task nice and easy was suddenly marred with a frown.

She leaned down to look at the laptop screen closely and after some second she banged her fist hard against the table.

Realizing she must have made some noise, she quickly turned the laptop off and left the way she came, not leaving a trace of anything except for the anger that now replaced her once smiling face.

Both Li Jing and Yi Wang Lei looked at each other and a peal of small laughter escaped their lips.

From the looks of things, it was obvious the lady got nothing out of her system. She had no doubt though that they would not find anything there as she kept all record pertaining to that slides in her system at home.

"Good, zoom in on her face let us get a closer look at her," Yi Wang Lei instructed and Li Jing did exactly that.

"They saw her face and Yi Wang Lei nodded at her. "Zoom in on her name tag." He once more instructed and as soon as Li Jing did so, his smile broadened. "I know her!" Yi Wang Lei exclaimed. His voice carrying on his excitement to her ears.

"You do?" Li Jing was least expecting for him to say that as she who was older in the company than himself, could not place the face of the girl.

"Yes. Let me check my own footage, I think it would show the lobby where you and Hong Haoran were talking."

He fast-forwarded his own footage till they got to the place where Li Jing and Hong Haoran were conversing, then he paused the footage.

"Bingo! You see," Yi Wang Lei said, pointing at a part on the screen for Li Jing to put her focus.

Following the direction he pointed at, Li Jing shifted closer to get a clear view of what he was showing her.

What she saw left her tongue-tied. Just by a corner in the lobby, Li Jing could see the head of someone pointed outward, watching them and on closer look, she recognized the person as the girl that broke into her office.

"There she is. That day I caught her eavesdropping on you two and judging from the time, this was obviously before she snuck into your office."

"Correct," Li Jing noted and nodded for him to carry on.

"Unknown to her, I went to drop a file at the security's head office and was on my way out from the hallway when I caught her eavesdropping. Back then I thought she was just a jealous lady who liked Hong Haoran and when I cleared my throat at her, she turned around, blushed and greeted me."

"Hmm, a shame you didn't get anything at that time but still."

"Well true. It was also when I saw her name tag and told her it wasn't nice to eavesdrop and if she liked him, she should be upfront and tell him. After that, I left and saw that you had already left and so had he. Who would have thought that it was not the case at all."

"This is all so…"

"Overwhelming?"

"I guess so. Anyways, it does not tie her to him though, but we can say that they were in this together. Let us check the next day's footage to see."

Yi Wang Lei agreed and together, they looked through the rest of the day till the next day. That was when they saw the footage, where both parties, were talking at a corner on the second floor.

"Jackpot! This proves everything and probably nothing." Even though it was a clear lead, it was still tricky as the lady may not have been conspiring but proclaiming her love to him.