The Substitute Bride

When Leila had taken out the false account book, she knew she had carried out many underhanded transactions that went against usual practice. As a result, she didn't want to make a scene and attract attention towards herself.

"Goodbye," Leila said. She didn't even look at the head of the finance department. Instead, she immediately drove her out the door.

The head of the finance department knew that no matter what she would say to Leila, it would all fall on deaf ears. The more she tried to defend herself, the more humiliation she would suffer. Without a second thought, she turned around and walked out of Leila's office.

After the head of the finance department left, Leila fired a few more employees.

"Why am I getting fired?" the head of the architecture department asked the same question as the head of the finance department.

In fact, this was the third person to ask Leila that question. She sat there, without a care in the world as she spread her hands and said, "Why? Because I am the president of the company. If you have any complaints or grievances, please, feel free to report them to Charles!"

Leila's complacency irritated the head of the architecture department. He would have strangled her with his own hands, if she weren't a woman.

"Leila, we will tell President Lu what you've done when he comes back," he said. Then, instead of waiting for a response from Leila he turned around and walked away just like Miss Zhang did.

For a moment, those people who were faithful to Charles in the company were shocked because they knew that the ones who were being fired were the experienced employees, who had been working in the company for decades. No one had any idea what Leila's intentions were.

"I don't understand! What is Leila trying to accomplish? Some of them had been working in the company since the very beginning. How could she just fire them like that? It's such a disgrace!" Some of senior employees got together and started blaming Leila.

"Who knows? She used to be a secretary. What does she know! Why isn't Mrs. Lu stopping her? Is she seriously going to let Leila take over the company?"

They talked for a while, but they didn't know what to do. At last, they decided to bring the matter to David's attention.

"What's the matter?" David didn't

at home ever since she got out of prison. Not only was it impractical for her to work, she had no idea about running a company. Which led to Melissa delegating her powers to Leila, so that she could manage the company in her stead.

"David? Do you have any problem with what I just said?" Leila knew that David believed what she told him because he spent the whole time looking at his feet without even uttering a word.

"No. Not at all!" David immediately walked out of Leila's office after his reply.

When David finally left her alone, Leila thought about it for a long time before she finally came up with an excuse to fire David.

However, Leila realized that she couldn't fire David just yet. Not unless she wanted all hell to break loose. Firing David would only be putting herself in a difficult position. With that thought in mind, she crossed her hands over her chest and called David back to her office.

Knock! Knock!

"Come in!"

"What can I do for you?" David didn't know why Leila asked him to come again because he had left just a few minutes ago. He was obviously displeased, but he didn't show it.

"Well, David, I figured you must also be worried about Charles, since nobody knows whether he is alive or not." Leila looked at David with a sad expression on her face.

David didn't understand why Leila had brought Charles up in conversation. But one thing was sure that she didn't do it out of concern.

"Leila, just get to the point."

Needless to say, David had no patience to play games with Leila.