It was a non-smoking hotel, but to accommodate smokers, there was a smoking area between the restaurant and escalators.
After dinner, the execs must've been craving for a cigarette as they didn't rush upstairs to rest but headed straight for the smoking area together.
They stood in front of the window with their backs to the hallway, so no one noticed Ji Yi passing by.
The door to the smoking area wasn't closed and several people inside were chatting rather loudly.
With their voices alone, Ji Yi could tell who they were.
Just as she was thinking about walking by, she heard the assistant director's voice: "Oh yeah, did you guys hear? Mr. He seems to have left Beijing."
"I vaguely heard about it earlier, but there are plenty of those kinds of rumors going around, so I figured it was fake. After all, YC has been doing well the past two years." The person who replied was a runner.