The fire grew larger in the breeze.
She couldn't see what was inside the boxes. Even if she could, the clearly visible Top Secret seals would have been enough to make Xia Xiaomin hesitate.
As an insider, Xia Xiaomin knew that when it came to documents marked Top Secret, the less she knew, the better.
The dozen or so bodyguards stood with their backs to the fire, watching from a distance. They could see someone burning something, but they couldn't make out exactly what it was.
Zero stood beside Candy, calmly holding a Fire Extinguisher. It wasn't necessary at all, but their boss had said they should be prepared for anything.
And so, one remark about being prepared had given her another task.
The fire burned for a long time. Even after all the paper documents had turned to ash, Mo Jingchun wasn't satisfied. He had Xia Xiaomin fetch a bucket of water and pour it over the ashes.
Watching the paper documents dissolve into black water, almost impossible to restore, Mo Jingchun nodded in satisfaction.
"All right, Zero. Take the Fire Extinguisher you're holding back to the First Floor Lobby of the First Laboratory."
Three days later, it was that time of year again: the day all Candy Technology employees looked forward to most—the Annual Meeting!
Not only did they get paid to watch the performances, they also got to enter the prize draw. If they were incredibly lucky, the prize they won might be worth more than their salary for the entire year.
Even the employees performing in the show were beaming, full of energy.
Every performance at the Annual Meeting would be ranked at the end, and the performers would receive different amounts of prize money according to their placements.
Most importantly, the scores were determined entirely