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All the lights in the company went out.

A vast expanse of darkness so thick it could not be melted away crept and burst in behind Li Domain.

"Duk~duk~duk," the echo of leather shoes on the matte, cloud-patterned floor, drifted around like a lost vessel.

In the surveillance room, security chief Sun Dafang held a teacup and blew away a few pieces of tea leaves across the wall of the cup, and with his nose "humming", he pointed at the surveillance and asked his team member Zhang Huai: "See, the last one every day, guess what he is doing?"

Zhang Huai forcefully opened his small eyes not too spotlight, staring at the screen for a long time, before hesitantly turning around and saying, "It's a boss, right?"

Sun DaFat spat out a piece of tea leaf and said with a bit of ridicule, "Fart boss, a pantry."

Zhang Huai's mouth opened into an "O" shape, incredibly well-dressed people in the camera is such a bad identity.

1

It's cooling down.

A gust of cold wind hit him, and Levi couldn't help but gather the collar of his jacket and tuck his hands into his pockets as he walked a few steps tighter.

It was past twelve. He didn't want to go home.

The only things open in the neighborhood were bars and fast food restaurants. He glanced to his left at the lights, the release of those soaked in debauchery tasteless to him now, so he withdrew his eyes and struck out for the fast food place not far to his right.

The fast food place was just enough light and warm enough to be comfortable. He ordered a juice and a couple snacks and sat in the far corner.

"Beep~beep~" his cell phone vibrated with a message from his wife, Du Yue, "Are you still coming back today?"

His finger stumbled on the screen for a few seconds, returned two words: "No."

The question and answer, as if giving each other an excuse for peace of mind.

In fact, he knew that at the moment she was cooking a TV series, and in her hands on the table are piled up like a mountain of snacks. She must have a mask on her face, and her face must be expressionless underneath it.

He put his hand into his coat pocket, felt out a box of cigarettes, took one out and put it on the table, but he saw the "No Smoking" sign on the wall, and silently put it away.

He is after all a good man who respects the rules.

However, it's not necessarily a good thing to be disciplined.

If he hadn't been so argumentative a month ago, and had been able to look the other way and let the company's insider trading go undisclosed, he would still be sitting in a decent position as finance director, respected and envied.

But how come he didn't hold back?

Taking a sip of the juice in his glass, he felt that someone was staring at him, and looking up, he found a woman with a few good looks sitting not far away, drunkenly, throwing a wink at him from a distance.

He indifferently averted his eyes, swiped the video on his cell phone, and secretly laughed at the woman's stupidity: thinking that all men are philanderers?

The fast-food pleasure of a short video was soon consumed.

The juice was finished and there were few snacks left on the plate.

The clerk yawns with exhaustion.

The day always had to end somehow.

Levi pursed his lips and, as if determined, headed for a bath center.

There was a bath available there, and they also offered free overnight stays in the lobby.

2

"Well~ if it isn't Mr. Li."

The elevator in the morning rush at Company H was always packed about as tight as a can of meat.

Just as he entered the elevator, Li Wei was called out by the leathery Zeng Luan.

"Mr. Zeng, long time no see." Li Domain exchanged pleasantries and reached out to shake Zeng Luan's hand.

Zeng Tsuen's eyes were so cold that he couldn't see the temperature, he looked down at Li Huo's outstretched hand, slowly raised his arm, and at the moment when his fingers were almost touching each other, he put his hand into his pocket.

There were a few company employees in the elevator who witnessed the scene and quietly took note of it, and some good people even secretly sent messages to the company's group.

Liwei heart is not on Zeng Luan, now by Zeng Luan so teasing but have no way to attack, had to draw back the hand, pressed the elevator floor number.

Everyone in the office area was immersed in their own little world. Some people quietly watered the greenery, some framed inspirational words in small frames for admiration, and some placed perfume packages, seemingly unintentionally, in a location where they would be most likely to be found.

The innermost part of the mesh latticework was the general manager's room. Levi's office, which had been next to the general manager's room, now sat someone else. His current office area was the tea counter in the pantry.

The worst thing you can do to humiliate someone is to make them the most disreputable of their kind in a familiar environment.

Levi received such preferential treatment after he revealed evidence of insider trading at the company at a shareholders' meeting.

Company H is a startup with a unique approach to chip development and artificial intelligence applications, and is known in the industry as a "rising star". Tan Fei and Li Wei are the founders of the company, and the general manager Tan Fei used to be his best friend, but now he is doing everything to suppress him. Insider trading is still only the tip of the iceberg of the company's operations, Tan Fei in the layout of a big game - borrowing the shell of a technology company to go public to raise funds.

Levi tries to stop Tan Fei's greedy move with a praying mantis.

The pantry is relatively quiet in the morning.

Levi took off his jacket, loosened the buttons on the collar of his white shirt, and stood in front of the pantry counter, familiarly neatly yarding disposable paper cups in a tray, and taking out a few packets of black tea with hanging ears and instant coffee from the cupboard and placing them in a crystal glass dish.

Organizing the tea table, he slowly sat down on a chair behind it and took a novel to read.

"Cough, cough." Xiao Zhang from the finance department deliberately created a commotion to get Li Wei's attention.

Li Domain held the book back on the countertop and looked at Xiao Zhang with a questioning gaze.

Concerned about the past relationship between subordinate and superior, Xiao Zhang said somewhat unnaturally, "Li, Li Wei, the general manager asked you to bring a cup of coffee to his office."

Li Wei responded in a calm tone, "Send it right away."

Small Zhang twisted the doorknob to go out as if he was relieved, and suddenly turned around and bowed to him again before leaving.

Levi's hand that was brewing coffee gave a start, shook his head and smiled, continued to refill his coffee cup, and when he was ready, he carried the coffee towards the general manager's room.

The small staff in the cubicle, who had thought he would be salty, had grown tired of the repetitive scene after watching it for more than a month, and turned a blind eye to his actions.

3

In the general manager's room, Tan Fei was looking at the latest issue of the financial report.

Levi put his coffee on his desk and stepped back to stand three paces away. Tan Fei owed his body to take the coffee, and as he sipped it, he said with a superior tone, "Li Wei, the approval for the listing will come down in three more days."

Tan Fei and Li domain the same, are thirty-five-six years old, the wheel of the years in their forehead carved some marks, just the vicissitudes of the two people are polished like a bare diamond rich luster. Tan Fei wanted to find a crack in Li Wei's expression, but he was disappointed.

Levi straightened his back, stepped forward without a word, gathered up the empty coffee cups, and retreated respectfully.

In the pantry, Anne from Administration was sitting worriedly in her chair waiting for Levi.

Levi's brow was furrowed the moment he opened the door, he didn't know what this woman had in mind.

"Mr. Li, is it convenient to have dinner together tonight?" Half of Annie's body was crouched on the tea table, and the gentleness in her words could pinch out water.

"No time." Li Wei refused dryly. This Annie he is aware of, is the C company boss's lover, come to H company is Tan Fei in order to do business as a favor, in the company to give an administrative assistant of the idle position, people are not bad, is the hormone breath is too thick.

"And the fate of the future of the H company related to the matter, Mr. Li also do not appreciate the face?" Annie asked again, her eyes kept roaming over him.

Lee Domain's mind moved to judge the truth of this matter, but his mind couldn't help but remember what happened the last time Annie got him drunk.

"You should talk to Mr. Tan about the fate of Company H." He shot back.

Anne's face stiffened, obviously having already hit a wall with Tan Fei. Without another word, she slammed the door as if greatly aggrieved.

During the lunch break, the company fell into a brief calm. Li Wei sat alone in the pantry and lit a cigarette. The smoke surrounded him as Tan Fei's words lingered repeatedly. He wasn't sure if it was too late for him to take remedial action.

"Beep~beep~" his cell phone vibrated, it was his wife Du Yue's call. Li Wei slid his finger to the answer button, Du Yue's voice drifted over, "Li Wei, I'm going to the United States with my little sister, make your own arrangements for the next few days."

Li Wei answered sullenly, "Okay, got it."

Putting down his cell phone, he looked out the window wearily, wondering when the straw that had crushed his nerves had come across.

He still had his shares, just not the share to have control of the situation, and this relegation of his position was more like a warning.

There was no point in relying on sermons if you wanted to turn things around. Tan Fei didn't believe he would do nothing before he chained him to the company.

But Li Wei is also an experienced businessman, so how could he be willing to let Tan Fei restrict his freedom and tie him to a speeding chariot? In fact, he as early as before the disclosure of the company's insider trading, made a thorough arrangement, formed a technical attack group, grasping the research and development of smart city rainwater collection and intelligent drip irrigation system, with a view to the company listed on the obstruction, come up with alternatives that can really stabilize the overall situation through the difficult times.

"Duh~duh~duh." Annie ghosted in again.

Levi's nerves tightened.

Anne smiled a far-fetched smile, "Mr. Lee. Oops, let me open the window of heaven and tell the truth. Old Wang has taken a liking to what you're holding, and asked me to bring a message that he's willing to buy it out at a high price, and also wants you to join Company C."

Liwei pretended not to understand politely, "What Ms. Anne said, Liwei does not understand."

Anne did not get angry this time, instead, she suddenly locked the door and stepped closer to Liwick.

Levi stood up from his chair with a "huff", alarms going off in his mind. Last time, Annie had secretly taken pictures of him when he was drunk, leaving him speechless.

"What do you want?" He asked coldly.

Her eyes were ruthless, "Mr. Li, no no, I should call you Li Domain, you're nothing now. I'm going to get a temp kicked out of the company that's still a no-brainer, don't you think?"

Saying that, she had deliberately made a coerced gesture and started to scream shrilly. Levi tried to get rid of her, but couldn't break free.

The staff returning from dinner outside had gathered when they heard the cries for help from the pantry, and in their desperation, someone kicked the door open.

I don't know who called security, but someone also reported it to Tan Fei.

So things were moving in a direction completely unfavorable to Liwei. Tan Fei looked at the two men who were pulled apart without saying a word, only arranging for the secretarial department to call the police. When the police arrived, they retrieved the surveillance data and took Annie and Li Domain back to cooperate with the investigation.

Liwei, with fire in his eyes, was taken away from the company he had created with his own hands, amidst the curses of the crowd, one person at a time, with a mouthful of spittle.

4

The lights in the detention center were dim, and Li Domain would have to spend 15 days here.

By then, the die will have been cast, and the fate of Company H will have long been sealed.

Anne's behavior served its stated purpose, and for this one act alone, she got a diamond necklace from Lao Wang.

"Hey, Liwei, someone's here to see you." The guards at the detention center called Li Domain to the visiting room.

Through the glass of the visiting room, Li Domain met Qin Bei, the leader of his assigned technical attack team.

"Chief, what do we do next?" Qin Bei held up the thick lenses of his eyeglasses with a six-fold look.

"Don't be in a hurry, hide the stuff and don't reveal it to anyone. Understand?" Levi ordered.

"But, chief, when can you get out? If, if ......," Qin Bei wanted to say.

"If what?" Li Wei asked.

"If Mr. Tan finds out, we won't be able to hang around in this business ah, you have to think ahead." Qin Bei's hands were sweaty, so nervous that he couldn't sit on the chair.

"Don't worry, I have my own arrangements. You few just need to last through these three days." Li Di comforted.

"Then we can all count on you." Qin Bei clenched his fists and seemed to have taken a tranquilizing pill.

Waiting for Qin Bei to leave, Li Di once again thought about how to get out. The only plan today was perhaps to take a risky move.

He applied to see Zeng Tsuen on the grounds of submitting evidence.

Zeng Tsuen is in the investment business. Business is big on vision, markets and contacts.

Zeng Tsuen has long wanted to enter the Science and Innovation Board, in the big data industry to get a piece of the pie, suffering has not been able to find the right opportunity.

The signals released by Li Wei made him feel that the time had come.

In the detention center, he saw a little tired, but calmly Li Wei, secretly and secretly calculated the bargaining chips.

"Mr. Li, hello again." Zeng Luan still had a leathery smile on his face.

"Mr. Zeng, excuse me." Li Domain observed Zeng Luan's expression, calculating how to increase the weight of victory.

"Mr. Li found me here, not just to catch up, right?" Zeng Luan directly threw out the intention.

"Of course, I'm sure Mr. Zeng knows that I'm no longer a vice president, and why I'm in this place now, Mr. Zeng should have understood long ago. I'm not hiding anything anymore, you find a way to get me out tomorrow, what you want we can discuss." Li Wei also gave his conditions.

"Oh?" Zeng Luan tried further, "Then what are you going to trade with me?"

"An entrance ticket to the big data industry!" Li Wei made a gesture to Zeng Tsuen that the door was wide open.

The two smiled at each other.

The next day, Anne went to the detention center to disprove her previous words, and cried some more, describing herself as a love-struck Angel, while Li Wei transformed from a morally corrupt scum of a boss to an asshole of a man who excels at warming up but doesn't respond.

Meanwhile, some security footage favorable to corroborate the facts was also presented to the police, and Annie's conversation with Li Wei in the pantry and deliberate gestures were all fully and objectively explained from different angles.

Levi was released from the detention center, and then went into hiding at the technical base where he had been working on research and development beforehand.

Zeng Tsuen gave Annie a large sum of money and found her a more long-term meal ticket, Annie decisively dumped Lao Wang and went abroad for her honeymoon. As a deposit, Li Wei and Zeng Tsuen signed an agreement to transfer 5% of the shares, promising that the new technology application Zeng Tsuen's company has the right of first refusal to operate.

5

The day of the listing approval finally arrived.

Tan Fei sent people to secretly monitor Li Wei, but also accelerated the process of transportation.

For so many years, he and Li Wei have been working hard in the industry, but the growth is like a snail's pace. He does not believe in evil, must fight, try to bend the road to overtake the thrill.

He knows that this is a great risk, but now his capillaries are spraying, he wants to bet on the luck of the times. Didn't insider trading work out all right?

A paper approval will not be difficult, as long as he can go public to raise funds, he is confident to take more than 40% of the market share of the big data platform business in the three provinces, this piece of cake is too tempting.

The whole morning, he did not go out, he sent people told him, Li domain out of the detention center. He wasn't worried, he knew Li Wei was innocent, and calling the police over that day was just to dissuade Company C from cooperating while trapping Li Wei, a pawn that could spoil the whole picture.

Today, the person walking around from it told him the approval was out and he would be notified soon.

He waited, waiting to be greeted with a victory that was his.

"Mr. Tan, Mr. Wang from Company C is here." Someone from the secretary department informed.

"Let him in." Tan Fei ordered.

"Tan Fei, did you know that Li Wei ran away." Mr. Wang entered and cursed under his breath. Annie's proclivities had made him feel that he had lost face, and he had run straight to Tan Fei to seek revenge.

"Mr. Wang, calm down." Tan Fei asked the outside to make a cup of tea. He himself let Mr. Wang onto the sofa, looking for something to say to smooth things over.

"You should have pulled out this nail last time." Mr. Wang was furious.

Tan Fei laughed dryly to appease, "Don't worry, he can't make waves, I've already sent someone to monitor him, he won't have the chance to say or do anything nonsense again."

"Then you can talk and count, this listing if yellow, I injected that 80 million Tuo market funds can not be so talk and forget." Mr. Wang fished out a cigar from his pocket, and Tan Fei rushed forward to light it.

"And, Annie, you find someone to get it back for me, I want to know who moved behind the scenes to let this woman spoil my business." Mr. Wang took a deep breath of his cigar and exhaled a big smoke ring.

Tan Fei was full of promises.

On the other hand, Li Wei was not idle.

He secretly contacted a number of independent directors and signed an agreement to acquire the shares of the sole director, ready to save the day when H Company's stock oscillated. Of course, the most important thing now is the money. He raised capital support from five large brokerage firms on the condition of partial technology transfer.

At 4 p.m., Li Wei once again stood on the big floor of Company H, ready to fight Tan Fei head-on.

Entering the company, a group of staff members stood frozen at their workstations, unable to believe that Li Wei, who had been rumored to be a bad influence in the past few days, had come to the door alone.

"Li, Liwick, the general manager is not here." The secretarial department attempted to stop him.

Lee Domain gave the man a hard stare and barged right in.

Tan Fei had long since received word of Li Domain's arrival toward H Corporation and was not surprised by his intrusion at this moment.

This was the most frank meeting the two had had in nearly two months.

6

"Sit." Tan Fei beckoned his secretary, who had chased him in, out.

Levi nonchalantly sat down on the parlor sofa.

Tan Fei sat down as well.

"Let's just wait and see who the final winner is." Tan Fei calmly sipped his tea.

"You bet the future of the entire company, Tan Fei how did you become so utilitarian." Li Domain forced his eyes on him.

"Utilitarian? When will you be able to get ahead based on a single board of R&D alone, don't you know clearly how many companies die in the cradle every day in the Science and Technology Innovation Board? This year, you, I, are going to run four people, do not try, waiting to be annihilated by the big wave?" Tan Fei stood up excitedly.

"Then you're sure you can digest the consequences of breaking the rules? That's not discipline to face, it's breaking the law, do you understand?" Liwei was also agitated.

"Don't worry, I'm sure of it, and the approval is down and on its way." Tan Fei paced to the window overlooking the skyscrapers that filled the city and took a long, deep breath.

At that moment, the phone on the desk rang.

Tan Fei picked up the phone, his face became more and more ugly, and finally collapsed on his butt in his chair.

The SEC changed its head, and the original head was transferred to the judiciary for violating the law. A batch of listing approvals approved by its hand were all remanded for review.

Tan Fei's mood has not calmed down, Mr. Wang's phone call came: "Tan Fei, what's going on? You said the approval how no further, I want to withdraw, you according to the original promised me ten percent interest to me settlement."

"Mr. Wang, you wait." Before Tan Fei could explain more, Mr. Wang had already hung up the phone.

Then came the crowd of shareholders asking about the company's plummeting share price. Tan Fei was anxious to explain.

Waiting until the middle of the moon, the only two people left in the silent office were Tan Fei and Li Wei, Tan Fei ripped off the tie that he had tied circumspectly in the morning, and skewed on the sofa without any regard for his image. Today's blow had exceeded his expectations, and the shareholders had demanded an extraordinary shareholders' meeting to account for today's events.

"Are you satisfied, Li Wei?" Tan Fei looked at Li Wei woodenly.

Lee Domain let out a long sigh and also paced to the window to look at a piece of skyscraper at night for a long time before he said, "Tan Fei, remember the first time we overlooked a skyscraper? At that time we had nothing, yet we felt that this outside world growing on clouds was all ours."

Tan Fei's brow stretched a little, caught up in some sort of memory.

"Actually, you weren't the only one who became greedy, I was too. I privately formed a technology research team, brought in other capital to develop a smart drip irrigation system for smart cities, and was greedy for the same thing as you, I also wanted that 40% of the market." Li Domain stared back at Tan Fei.

"However, something has changed me a bit recently. Du Yue called me yesterday and said that when she comes back, we'll get divorced. You know, our union was just a door-to-door marriage, I for her dowry, so that I could have the capital to go into a big industry, she for my skin, a handsome empty shell used to bring her a great sense of vanity. After all these years, we both lost to our own greed." Li Wei turned back and sat back down on the sofa.

Tan Fei stared at him dead in the face, like he wanted an answer.

"So, I've been thinking about remedies ever since you sent me to the pantry, and it's time for us to get back to doing things the way they were meant to be done in the first place." Liwei held out an arm to Tan Fei.

Tan Fei hesitated for a moment before finally reaching out and shaking it as well.

7

Company H's extraordinary shareholders' meeting was held according to the required procedures.

Tan Fei gave a comprehensive explanation of the company's business situation and recent problems.

Levi proposed a specific program on remedial work to be submitted to the board of directors for consideration.

After three consecutive days of meetings, Company H finally adopted a detailed program.

The company used three new R&D technologies as the underlying to attract capital injection and alleviate the impact of Company C's withdrawal on the company's share price. Meanwhile, the favorable news of the pilot application of smart city rainwater collection and smart drip irrigation system in Province A has given a positive pull to the company's share price.

Company H decided to delay the listing.

Tsuen Tsang Tsuen holds shares of Company H as a new shareholder and prioritizes the company's newly developed artificial intelligence project to land and operate.

Levi resumed his position as the company's vice president.

Tan Fei and Li Wei changed their offices next to the lab and resumed leading the team into the life of a coder. The day-to-day operations of the company were taken care of by senior managers.

Liwei and Du Yue are officially divorced.

The two hugged each other very sincerely, not programmatically but with warmth and care.

Sun Dafu, the security chief of Company H's building, has been assigned to be a doorman for a negligence of duty. The current head of security is Zhang Huai, whose eyes don't quite focus on the light.

On this day, Zhang Huai was watching the surveillance room with his shift, and he happened to see Li Wei and Tan Fei coming out of the building after all the lights were out. He pointed to the small security guard who was staring at the surveillance and asked, "Do you know what those two do?"

The small security guard looked at their attire of plaid shirts and computer bags and immediately answered, "Two programmers."

Zhang Huai slapped the back of the head of the small security guard fiercely and said, "Fart programmer, those are two serious bosses." (Title: Floating World: Taotie, Author: White Night Xuanling.