Qiu Chengye made a huge scene in the director's monitoring room, but still failed to get his missing money back.
Director Niu and the entire staff fled through the back door of the monitoring room, leaving Qiu Chengye alone, his face and neck flushed with rage.
Xie Mi appeared behind him with all the stealth of a burglar and slowly crept closer, asking in a low voice.
"Need legal aid?"
"Holy shit!!"
Qiu Chengye nearly jumped out of his skin and immediately roared, "Why do you walk-"
His voice gradually faded. "...without making any noise?"
[Bro Mimi's daily moment of cowardice completed (1/1)]
"Alas."
Xie Mi heaved a long sigh, pulled up a chair, and sat down despondently, looking like someone who had been through it all. "All your money's gone, right? I know how you feel."
Qiu Chengye's expression abruptly changed, as though something had occurred to him. His lips began twitching furiously.
"Don't tell me it was you..."
Rather than rushing to deny it, Xie Mi asked with great patience, "How much money did you have to begin with?"
"Two thousand eight hundred."
"Oh, I had 60,928.25. Do you think I had nothing better to do than steal your measly twenty-eight hundred?!"
Qiu Chengye was momentarily speechless.
That made so much sense that he couldn't even argue.
"My son."
Xie Mi's rage lasted only a second before she regained her composure. She stood up, patted Qiu Chengye on the shoulder, and spoke earnestly.
"Twenty-eight hundred might not be much to me, but it was everything you had. Losing your money hurts, doesn't it? To tell you the truth, my money was transferred away too. We're in the same boat now."
The corners of Qiu Chengye's mouth twitched, but he didn't dare voice his anger.
*Who the hell is