Cheng Juan felt weak all of a sudden. Her head spun for a moment as she looked at Li Teng and stuttered out, "P-President Li, Liu Si Si has made up stories. I-I don't know what she is talking about."
At this moment, Liu Si Si couldn't help but contemptuously chuckle, "Sister Cheng, if you are saying that I am good at making stories, don't you feel I should have tried my luck in the scriptwriting stream instead. I mean honing the skill that I am so great at; don't you think it would have been better?"
Her words were dipped with sarcasm that could be easily read. And on top of those sarcastic words, the stony expression on her face complimented her perfectly. When she said that, Cheng Juan gritted her teeth.
If the time would have been in her favor, she would have rebuked the woman for using such a tone with her. But for some reason, seeing Yun Meiyi sitting beside her, at the moment, she couldn't find the courage to do so.
"Si Si, don't be ungrateful. Feathering Heights has always treated you so well. How can you now blame it?" Feeling the threatening gaze of Li Teng her way, the manager tried her best to not show any hint of wavers in her tone.
But her words came out in a way that couldn't help but make Liu Si Si only sneer in response. Maybe she has suffered a lot in recent times that all her frustration has pent up and was eager to bubble out now.
"Ungrateful? Did you just call me an ungrateful one? Heh! Sister Cheng, shouldn't you be referring to yourself with that term, especially after making me do Wang Ping Ruo's works all these years? Yet you are here calling me ungrateful. See properly, that term should belong to your personality better."
"Si Si, that's enough. You …" Before Cheng Juan could say anything, the corner of her eyes caught Yun Meiyi shifting in her place and her words paused instinctively. She turned to look at her and in a grudgeful voice, she asked "What?"
Yun Meiyi stared at her and couldn't help her lips from curving on a corner in a smirk. "Nothing special, Manager Cheng. I am just waiting for you to complete it. Once you are done, I have something that I want to present to prove my side."
"What side do you want to prove?" Cheng Juan was immediately flustered. Her complexion turned whiter as her hands clenched down the table holding all the nervousness she was feeling inside. "Don't simply talk absurdly and support her. There is nothing which needs to be proved."
Yun Meiyi didn't speak to her anymore. Instead, deepening her smirk, she turned to look at Li Teng to say, "Since Manager Cheng is so desperate to know what I want to prove, I won't drag the matter for long. President Li, I simply want my artist to be treated as an individual, not as some substitute who is used to make another actress's life better here."
She said before presenting a small pen drive on her palm and then keeping it on the table to push to the man sitting across her. Li Teng's brows quirked up as looking at the pen drive, he asked, "What is this?"
Yun Meiyi's gaze coldly darted to look at Cheng Juan before she said, "The small evidence which would be enough to prove everything that Manager Cheng has been denying all this while."
"You …"
"Enough, Manager Cheng!" The moment Cheng Juan raised her voice, Li Teng snapped her shut. "You better pray nothing too punishable comes from this pen drive, or your career in this industry would be finished. Now, leave. You are dismissed from this room."
"But President Li, I …"
"I said go out now. Don't forget your position and make me repeat." Growling in a low voice, his voice was enough to make Cheng Juan flinch. Not getting to speak more, she had no other option but to obey what he said.
Pushing the chair back, she stood up to leave. After her, Li Teng turned to look at Wen Jiang who had been silent all this while. "I will see you later. Remember, in my absence, you were the one responsible for the things. If something unconventional has happened, you would have to pay for it."
He said, and Wen Jiang had nothing else to say. Pushing the chair back, he was next to standing up to leave. But just when he was about to set his foot out of the room, from behind, Li Teng halted him, "Vice President Wen, wait." He said before turning to look at Liu Si Si to add, "Take Ms. Liu along, and ask someone to help her with the procedure of changing the manager."
His eyes slowly darted to look at Yun Meiyi as he continued, "Since the orders have come from the CEO itself, there is no way we can retort it. So, just follow the course."
Liu Si Si stared doubtfully between Yun Meiyi and Li Teng, but since it was not a situation where she should talk, she could only nod and stand up to follow Wen Jiang out first.
After they left, the meeting room fell silent. None of the two spoke for a good time. While Li Teng stared at Yun Meiyi, the woman kept her eyes anywhere but on the man.
"Are you that disappointed in me, Meiyi? Won't you even look at me?" Not able to avoid her for long, in the end, Li Teng spoke with some frustration.
And at his words like that, Yun Meiyi chuckled, "Do you think I have any other option than getting disappointed at you, Li Teng? Didn't I say I would never want my company to go berserk in my absence? Then how come now that I return, I feel a sense of loss everywhere? How did you allow everything to end up this way here?"