Married by Accident: The Rich CEO's Deeply Rooted Pampering Tactics

Chapter 197 I have evidence

Upon hearing her criticism, Qiao Luo immediately understood that Lin Mei was deliberately labeling her as unprofessional.

She first nodded to the three senior executives to greet them, and then retorted to Lin Mei, "Editor Lin, there's no reasoning with you like that. I called you before to ask for leave because I wasn't feeling well and wanted to come to work an hour later, and you agreed. How did that become me not following the company's rules and regulations?"

Qiao Luo's question made all three executives look at Lin Mei.

Lin Mei had already prepared her explanation and said calmly, "I did receive your call this morning, but I didn't agree to it. I only asked you to try your best to come to work. Did you misunderstand?"

Qiao Luo: "..."

This Lin Mei is quite good at turning the tables.

"Besides, even if you're sick, shouldn't you have a doctor's certificate? Otherwise, how can we determine whether you're really sick or not?"

Lin Mei's words brought up the issue of integrity again.

Every sentence was a trap, waiting for her to fall into it.

"Really? So it's all my fault?"

Qiao Luo countered with a question.

Lin Mei: "That's natural."

Qiao Luo scoffed, "But I have evidence."

As she spoke, she turned on her phone and played the recording inside.

Fortunately, she has a habit of recording phone calls.

"Editor Lin, I'm not feeling well today and would like to ask you for an hour off. Don't worry, I won't miss any work."

Lin Mei's voice came quickly from the other end: "Understood."

The recording was then interrupted.

Qiao Luo immediately showed the recording time to the three executives.

The call time shown above was 8:30, which means that only 40 minutes had passed since she asked Lin Mei for leave. After deducting the time she needed to get to the magazine office, there was simply no time to go to the hospital for treatment.

This directly explains why she didn't have a certificate from the hospital.

This further confirms that Lin Mei was lying.

After reading it, the three senior executives all turned pale.

"Lin Mei, how do you explain this?" a senior executive suddenly asked.

Lin Mei hadn't expected Qiao Luo to have recorded the conversation. She thought that as long as Qiao Luo denied it, she wouldn't be able to deny it, but she hadn't expected to be so careless.

The evidence was very unfavorable to her at this point, but even so, she had to defend herself.

Just as Lin Mei was about to explain, another executive beat her to it.

"Lin Mei, you should admit your mistakes. Never be the kind of boss who can't distinguish right from wrong."

The implication was clear: she should stop making excuses for herself and quickly admit her mistake.

Lin Mei could understand, after all, this was President Hu, who had always supported her and could be considered her backer at the magazine.

Since her backer had spoken, Lin Mei dared not disobey.

She quickly said, "I'm sorry, it was indeed my oversight, I may have remembered it wrong."

"You misremembered? Only forty minutes have passed, and you've already misremembered? Lin Mei, your memory is really terrible!"

Before Mr. Hu could answer, another senior executive scoffed.

Lin Mei looked at the CEO who had spoken up. He was the first one to question her. If she remembered correctly, this was the same CEO Zhang who had expressed his admiration for Qiao Luo at the meeting earlier.

For a time, she even suspected that this Mr. Zhang was Qiao Luo's backer.

Although she herself later dispelled this suspicion.

"Mr. Zhang is right to reprimand me; I really shouldn't have remembered it wrong."

"You wronged your subordinate, and you just let it go with a casual remark that you shouldn't have misremembered?"

Mr. Zhang then took the opportunity to ask another question.

Lin Mei: "..."

"Alright, people aren't machines, they're bound to forget things sometimes. Just work hard in the future and don't make the same mistakes again. If all else fails, go back and write a serious self-criticism to make sure you won't do it again."

Another person who had been silent, General Manager Yang, suddenly spoke up.

Mr. Yang was known as a peacemaker. As soon as he finished speaking, Mr. Hu chimed in, "That's right, what Mr. Yang said makes a lot of sense. Everyone makes mistakes. As long as he writes a self-criticism and promises to work hard in the future, it'll be fine. How about... we just let this matter go? What do you say, Mr. Zhang?"

How could President Zhang not understand President Hu's ulterior motives? He was simply trying to protect his own people.

However, for him, the goal has already been achieved, so there is no need to dwell on it.

"Then we'll do as the two bosses say."

"Okay, in that case, let's talk about the interview now."

Mr. Hu then looked at Qiao Luo and said, "Qiao Luo, tell me, what's the deal with that virus-infected USB drive you handed over?"

President Hu's attitude was clearly not good.