Eevonne laughed at herself. "Kingston, if your…friend, the friend who had also faked her academic qualifications, had encountered such a matter and was accused by everybody that she had stolen something, how would she deal with it?""Her?" Kingston chuckled. "If it's that friend of mine, this would be a small matter to her. She may not even look at those people who have accused her. She would just do her job seriously as usual. While doing that, she might raise her head and look at the people in her surroundings who were questioning her and ask, 'Do you have any evidence? If you do, call the police to arrest me. If you don't have any evidence, don't be here blocking my way. You're blocking my light. If I made a mistake while drawing the draft, I would come and settle scores with you.' That friend of mine would certainly handle it like that."Kingston was incredibly proud when he said that.He knew Sabrina very well. If she had met such a thing, she certainly would handle it like tha
She was alone and helpless, and she shouted angrily as if she had gone mad. The people next to her certainly thought that she was extremely ferocious. However, only she knew how lonely and helpless she felt at that time.At that moment, when Kingston heard the girl telling him about it, he also understood it. He could very much relate to the feeling of being marginalized and not being trusted."In the future, this…won't happen anymore. It won't happen anymore," Kingston said firmly.The girl sobbed in his arms. "Kingston, do you know that at my age, there has been nobody, there has never been a person like you who is willing to listen to me, let me explain, and have no prejudice against me. You've no idea how it evolved to the point that all of the people in the company collectively suspected that I am a thief. I had become an animal that was despised by everyone in the company. Everyone in the company looked down on me. At that time, my life was simply a living hell. However, it so
Kingston looked at Eevonne with a confused expression. "This matter has been clarified, but could it be that they still blamed you?"Eevonne nodded. "Not only did they blame me, but none of the people present apologized to me. On the contrary, they kept accusing me.""Assholes!" Kingston shouted.After crying for a while, Eevonne had already calmed down. She then recounted softly and calmly, "The thing that was missing from the company was a small art piece of a famous tower. It had been gifted to the company by a client from abroad. Originally, the art piece had always been placed on my boss' wife's desk. However, that morning, the tower was suddenly missing. The following day after I went against the entire company because of this matter, it so happened that another client wanted to take a look at our new products. My boss and the lady who was in charge of the company logistics then took the key and went to open the door of the showroom. In that instant when the door opened, bot
Eevonne shrugged. "Kingston, have you heard of the boiling frog?"Kingston immediately understood what she was implying. His expression was sorrowful as he nodded. "Of course, I know about that."Eevonne continued softly. "Frogs are very sensitive in terms of jumping. If the water in the pot has been boiling since the beginning when the frog is thrown in, it may jump out immediately to escape, and it won't be scalded. However, if the frog was put in the pot when the water was cold, and the temperature of the water was raised little by little, the frog would get used to the surrounding temperature over time. Finally, when the water is truly boiling, it won't feel like it is a kind of torture anymore. It would boil to death in the end. I am that frog. I was just slightly humble and slightly tolerant in the beginning, but in the end, everything was already normal to me. I had already gotten used to it. Other than being vain, having a fake diploma, and often getting in conflict with the
Eevonne smiled. "That's right. I finally resigned. However, my resignation was not decent at all. I was thrown out of the company.""What?" Kingston asked."Because I often had arguments with my colleagues, everybody in the company looked down on me. Whenever I argued with someone, it would always be my fault. However, Kingston, when I argued with the other person on the following day, I had actually already endured it for a very long time. Do you believe me?"Before Kingston answered, Eevonne smiled. "You certainly won't believe me. Nobody would.""I believe you!" Kingston answered firmly."As the saying goes, once a man is down, people will take advantage of the situation to attack him. That is an old saying. You wanted to work in that company to earn your salary. Even if it was just because of your vanity, you did not want to leave that place at all. Since you wanted to keep that job so much, of course, you would want to suffer in silence to let the matter pass. If it wasn't be
"However, there are no ifs in this world. That's the harshness of reality. I was in that kind of situation back then where I basically had a small argument every three days and a huge argument every five days. Sometimes, I may even argue with a few people in just one day.""Actually, they were the ones who picked a fight with you, right?" Kingston asked.Eevonne shook her head. "To be honest, even until today, I can't distinguish if I was the one picking fights with them or they were the ones picking fights with me. I can't tell them apart clearly anymore. Perhaps this is a kind of, what is it? Butterfly effect? Domino effect? For example, I am in the office and I just had an argument with the colleague sitting next to me because of a work-related matter. In less than an hour, the factory manager reprimanded me. I did not dare to argue with him. I raised my head and looked at him very weakly and cowardly, and said, 'Did you already sign the papers yesterday agreeing to let your worke
Kingston gasped. "There's another matter that made you feel even more wronged?"Eevonne smiled miserably. "Mm-hmm. Actually, I can't even distinguish if it's my fault and if I was the one who just loves to pick fights with others, but on the matter of me arguing with others, I've categorized all of them as my fault. I've always ended up admitting defeat. Matters like being in conflict with a few people in a day was something that happened very often to me. In the end, it was also after I apologized that the matter ended. I first apologized to the factory manager. I felt relieved. I turned around and apologized to that female colleague of mine too. I didn't go for lunch that day. Also, I was supposed to be helping the workers in the factory, but in actuality, the majority of the work was completed by myself. Finally, I got the samples done before one in the afternoon. When I carried them back, I saw that the factory manager and colleague were chatting, joking, and having tea. In fact,
"I would then argue with them like I've gone crazy."Kingston wrapped an arm around Eevonne and asked while feeling incredibly sorry, "Things have already developed to such a state, but your boss still did not fire you?"Eevonne smiled miserably again. "I also find it strange for a very long time. Why is it that I was already in such a state, but my boss still did not fire me? I often heard my boss say that he is giving me a chance, he is giving a chance, and if I was in another company, I would have lost my chance a long time ago. Every time I heard him saying that, I truly felt so grateful that I almost wanted to kneel before him. I was also afraid that no other companies would hire me if I go somewhere else. Therefore, even though my interpersonal relationships in the company were a hot mess to the point of being beyond salvageable, it is also because I don't have anybody on my side in the company that I had to be extremely careful in my work. I worked at the company for three yea