Hearing Evelyn's question, people who didn't believe Gillian began to curse her. "Gillian is so audacious. She tried to split up Mr. Tang and Miss Huo!"
"I'm pretty sure they're in love. Did you see his declaration of love to Miss Huo? He put it up on Theo Group's LED screen so everyone could see it. Why didn't he do it for Gillian? Probably because she's a liar!"
"Mr. Tang is so romantic. He even custom made a phone number that combined his and Miss Huo's birthdays. He is really my ideal type!"
The employees kept whispering to one another as they kept waiting for Sheffield to pick up the phone.
But he didn't answer.
At Carlos' prompting, Nadia called again. Still, no one picked up.
Everyone breathed a collective sigh of relief as the call was answered at the third time.
Sheffield's attractive voice echoed throughout the finance department. "Gillian Chi, I warned you not to mess with me anymore. Remember? This had better be important. I don't like to have my time wasted." His voice was full of obvious impatience.
Gillian's face was as red as a tomato. She was so embarrassed she wished she could vanish into thin air.
After a moment's silence, the voice on the other end became colder. "Don't call me again." "Beep, beep, beep—"
He hung up the phone.
Evelyn grinned. Sheffield had played his part well, though he had no idea what was going on here.
The voices whispering to each other became angrier. They didn't imagine Gillian could be such a bitch.
Without giving Gillian a chance to do anything, Evelyn pulled out her phone and made a call to Sheffield herself.
The phone rang again. It was the same ringtone. But the difference was that Sheffield picked up almost as it rang.
The gentle and surprised voice on the other end was totally different from the previous impatient one. "Eve, my sweetheart, miss me already?"
"Ahem!" Evelyn choked on her saliva and coughed.
Gillian was soon abandoned as a topic of discussion. Now all they wanted to talk about was how sweet Sheffield was to Evelyn.
Her cough was not loud, but Sheffield noticed it anyway. Immediately, he became nervous. "Are you sick? You should take better care of yourself. Eve..." The staff didn't hear what he said next because Evelyn turned off the speaker.
Evelyn put her phone near her ear and lowered her head to look at her shoes. "I'm not sick. Talk to you later," she said softly. "Well, okay. Take care. I'll be back when I can."
"Okay."
After Evelyn hung up, Carlos told Dixon, "Dixon, fire that woman now! ZL Group will never hire her again! Oh, don't forget to deduct the compensation fee for Evelyn's suit from her salary!"
"Yes, Mr. Huo."
After that, ignoring Gillian's reaction, he turned to Evelyn and asked, "Are you also here for Miss Wang?"
"Yeah, I can't get ahold of her." There was an emergency, so Evelyn went to the finance department.
Carlos asked another employee, "Did Miss Wang come to work today?"
"No, she didn't come to the office today."
Carlos nodded and said to Evelyn, "Go home. I'll take care of it."
"Thanks, Dad."
Father and daughter left the finance department with their assistants. Gillian held her cell phone and leaned against the wall weakly. She got strange looks from her co-workers.
"Gillian Chi." The new supervisor of the finance department came over and looked at Gillian with derision. "What did you think you were doing, messing with Miss Huo? Do you want to die?"
Gillian was silent.
"She nearly killed three male employees by making them run until they fell over. No one told you?"
Gillian had never heard this story before.
"Those three were real pieces of work. They were always rude and offensive to the women that work here. Miss Huo decided to teach them a lesson. And she watched them the whole time. Their hearts could have burst!" If the three male employees disobeyed the order or chose to resign, they would have to pay a contract termination fee. So, they had no choice but to accept the punishment.
"And, one of the managers in our company had a huge crush on her and tried to pursue her. She fired that guy. You should have been thankful she only demoted you. But you still went and ticked her off again. You deserve it!" the supervisor taunted.
One of the women whispered to her coworker, "Miss Huo is the picture of confidence. She only blushed a couple times when she talked to Mr. Tang. She's the real princess, and Mr. Tang's real girlfriend. Miss Chi just acted like a scared little kid. So she tried dirty tricks to try and get Mr. Tang and Miss Huo to break up. What a whore!"
Everyone kicks someone while they're down. That was exactly the situation Gillian was in now. Since she was fired by the company, everyone wanted to dump on her. Gillian obviously wasn't popular among her colleagues. That was because she was arrogant and domineering no matter what position she was in.
The employee who called her a whore was none other than Lily Xu, who had been scolded by Gillian. Lily finally had an opportunity to get back at her.
Gillian clenched her teeth. The more she thought about it, the angrier she became. She took out her phone and sent a message to Evelyn, saying, "You think you won, huh? Well, do you know Sheffield slept with his sister-in-law? He flirted with a married woman. It's absolutely true. And now that he's back in the Tang family, he'll hook up with her again. You think you're so hot. But Kaylee Lou is way hotter than you. Every guy drools over her."
After changing her clothes, Evelyn was about to make a phone call when she saw Gillian's message.
Sterling had already told her. So, Sheffield's sister-in-law was Kaylee Lou.
Ignoring Gillian's message, Evelyn made a phone call to someone else first.
Gillian was sure that Evelyn was devastated. That was why she texted her again. "You don't have to pretend to love Sheffield very much. He can't live without women around him. Two days ago, I saw him flirt with Kaylee again. I bet he never told you. Because I'm sure Sheffield has never thought about introducing you to the family."
Gillian wasn't done yet. She continued to text, "When I was with him, he said that he liked women that are cute and sweet, like a little princess. But you behave more like a bossy queen. You're terrible for each other. Even if you are together now, your relationship won't last long!"
After she hung up, Evelyn glanced at the constant stream of invective Gillian was sending to her inbox. She really wanted to block Gillian. Finally, she calmly texted back. "Thanks for the compliment. I'm no queen, just Evelyn Huo. But since you went there, think of it like this: I'll be a little princess when I'm with Sheffield, and without him, I'm the queen. Besides, if he really loves me, he will love me no matter what. He won't care if I'm a cute princess or a bossy queen! So what if he has a past? Everyone does. Want some advice? Do better. Don't bother replying to me. Goodbye!"
Staring at the message, Gillian clenched her teeth and angrily smashed her phone on the floor.
The loud noise startled everyone in that department.