Chapter 11: Which Sentence Did The Lies Start From? (2/2)

… it was an order that was sent to SI, but the final product ended up in Yan Jin’s hands.

Why?

Xiao Yu caught onto this keyword amidst the confusion. He immediately typed in the title of that work and found an answer.

Xiao Yu clicked to open that conversation and saw a name that he had never expected.

Lin Zhou.

Xiao Yu’s university senior. His senior in SI. The benefactor that had helped him in every way.

Senior? Why would Senior have any contact with Yan Jin?

The order for this carpet was indeed given to him by his senior, but that was because Senior was just a small-scale designer in SI, how could he directly get in touch with the client? Plus, Senior seemed to say back then that this was an order that SI didn’t really want; hence it was thrown out.

Did that mean… that Senior knew that it was Yan Jin’s order, and that was why he purposely threw out that order?

Linking all the clues from the start till now, everything led to a shocking answer.

Lin Zhou was the spy? He was the spy that he had been guarding against for half a year?

But, but…

That couldn’t be.

Lin Zhou had been with SI for a much longer time than him, plus he was a director of the design department – it wasn’t like his position was lower than Xiao Yu. As for the issue about every order during that half a year that was literally stolen by YL, the responsibility that Lin Zhou covered was even greater than his. Even if he was working against himself, there was no reason for him do such a thing that wouldn’t benefit himself either, right?

Puzzled in every possible way, Xiao Yu began to look through the conversation. That carpet order was indeed an event that had happened a very long time ago; it was long gone from Yan Jin’s conversation history. Le Temps Des Cathedrales was something they happened to mention while they were talking about something else.

As for the other orders – one included a pair of order-to-made earrings. The request was the same theme as that carpet. It was till this point that Yan Jin once again mentioned Le Temps Des Cathedrales.

Xiao Yu had a hunch about that pair of earrings. If he went by the current timeline, that was about a year ago, when Xiao Yu had just become a Chief Designer. Lin Zhou made Xiao Yu help him to design a pair of earrings for his grandparents which he happily agreed to.

However, the truth was, that pair of earrings was Yan Jin’s request for Lin Zhou.

Or more accurately, it was a request that Yan Jin asked SI to do.

Xiao Yu realized in the next moment that the reason why Yan Jin opened this side account was just to make his orders with SI. Regardless of why, there were suspicious motives behind it.

Putting all this aside, what was up with Lin Zhou?!

His senior, his most respected senior that he thought of as a benefactor; why was he contacting Yan Jin in secret?

Xiao Yu hoped that these were all misunderstandings. Yet the conversation record was right in front of his eyes. The more he read, the colder his heart became.

Right until the last conversation, Xiao Yu felt like he had sunk into an icehouse.

The chill went straight into his bones, it was colder than that icy lake that killed him — the chill went straight into his heart.

Five orders – Xiao Yu did not know if Lin Zhou knew that the person behind this account was, in fact, Yan Jin himself, SI’s archenemy. But within those six months, Lin Zhou accepted five orders from Yan Jin and every single one of them was of considerable value.

Putting it this way, those five orders would be about Xiao Yu’s two year’s worth of salary and year-end bonus.

What was laughable was, for those five orders, Lin Zhou took all the credit and claimed that the designer was himself.

Aside from the earrings, there was a ring, a watch, and a necklace.

All of those were designed using the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris as a model, and together it formed a set of work. That carpet was a work from five years ago, but it was under Yan Jin’s unexpected request that this set of work was eventually designed by a talented designer.

It was designed by him, Xiao Yu.

Every time Lin Zhou would use the excuse that his grandparents really liked his previous work and thus requested for an item from the same series. In fact, he had never doubted his senior and even got his credit stolen.

Xiao Yu absolutely did not expect that he would find out such a shocking secret. His main intention was to find out SI’s spy, but at this moment, he wasn’t sure if Lin Zhou was that spy. Instead, he discovered something that made him even more depressed.

Right until the day he was in that accident, he had no knowledge of such things. If he hadn’t been reborn into a hamster, or reborn to one year before the accident, perhaps he would have never known about this.

This was the first time Xiao Yu ever felt so angry ever since the day he was reborn. No, it should be ever since he had lived. This was the first time he had ever gotten this angry.

How long did Lin Zhou hide this from him? A year? Two years?

This carpet’s designer was also probably changed to Lin Zhou, even though Xiao Yu himself had designed that carpet piece five years ago.

They had known each other for seven years, seven whole years.

He wasn’t sure now about the conversations he had with Lin Zhou. Which sentence did the lies start from?

From what year did that person that had always been helping and promoting him, stop telling the truth…