From Pokfulam to Central

After that incident happened, Qu Zhi handed over the first independently represented arbitration case to someone else, and he took two weeks off.On the Monday of the third week, Qu Zhi returned to the institute with his drafted resignation letter.

When walking to his work station, Qu Zhi felt that something was wrong. The few lawyers from his team nearby were not at their work stations, and the lights in Li Yan's office were also turned off. Only Li Yan's secretary was left in the whole area. Ada is here.

"Qu Zhi," Ada was a little surprised when he saw Qu Zhi, "You're back? How's your body?"

Qu Zhi's leave was requested on the pretext of illness, so the colleagues were kept in the dark, "It's okay, Sister Ada, where are they?"

"Oh, they're in a meeting." Ada pointed her chin in the direction of the conference room, "You don't know, Li Lu took a big case and went to the court to file the case in person this morning. Didn't he just go back to the office?" , have you called a meeting again?"

Although Qu Zhi intends to resign, he still cares about the business itself, not to mention that it requires all members of the team to fight, "What kind of important case is this, and Li Lu went to the court to go through the formalities in person?"

Lawyers who are not handling the case are generally not suitable to inquire about the case. Although Li Yan arranged for all staff to participate in this case, after all, Qu Zhi was not there at the time, and Ada's sense of confidentiality was still very good. Have you ever been involved in a case of this level, what happened at the time, anyway, public opinion is quite concerned."

Qu Zhi guessed that she couldn't get anything out of her mouth, so he returned to his seat, and after making sure that Ada wasn't paying attention to him, he turned on the computer and prepared to print out the resignation document in the USB flash drive.

When the printer creaked, Qu Zhi received a call from Chen Shuo.

"Hey, Qu Zhi, where are you?" Chen Shuo's voice was unusually anxious.

"Ah?" Qu Zhi hadn't had time to tell Chen Shuo that he had decided to resign, so he probably thought he was on vacation at home, and if he suddenly told him that he was in the institute, he might have to explain for a long time.

Fortunately, Chen Shuo didn't seem to be in the mood to dwell on these things, so he hurriedly said, "Look at the news!"

Before Chen Shuo could explain in detail, a message popped up on Qu Zhi's computer, which was usually very annoying, in an automatic pop-up window: "Suddenly! The high-end residential smart property system leaked the owner's privacy, and a class action lawsuit has been filed."

Qu Zhi had a very bad premonition in his heart, and the hand that operated the mouse began to lose control.

"October 10 news, recently, the property system of the high-end project 'Beijing Global International Apartment' under the well-known real estate developer Wanjia Real Estate failed, and the highly private information of dozens of owners was seriously leaked. It is reported that the all-round smart The property management system is independently developed by Wanjia Real Estate. It has face and fingerprint recognition systems in the apartment access control, elevators, entrance doors and inside the house. Wanjia Real Estate once claimed that the security level of the system is comparable to that of the military. And with its highly intelligent interaction and remote precise control, it has attracted a large number of high-consumption groups to pay for it."

"Preliminary investigation results show that the reason for the data leakage is that after the system failure occurred, the face recognition camera inside the house was turned on around the clock, and the video was sent back in real time, resulting in a large number of extremely private pictures of home life being stolen. Today In the morning, a total of 87 owners have jointly filed a lawsuit and applied to the Chaoyang District Court. According to the attorney for the plaintiff in this case, Li Yan, a senior partner of Beijing Xinjie Law Firm, the defendant Wanjia Real Estate, as a service provider, failed to submit Users who provide safe and effective data protection, resulting in serious violations of users' privacy rights, must bear corresponding responsibilities, and as litigation agents, they will assist owners to effectively protect their own rights."

"What's going on with Zhou Mi?" Chen Shuo guessed that Qu Zhi had finished watching the news, "Do you know?"

Slide the mouse wheel to bring the page back to the top. After Qu Zhi reread the text, he confirmed that he read it correctly. The situation is indeed serious. "I don't know, I can't contact him at all now."

Chen Shuo heard the heaviness in Qu Zhi's tone, "Don't worry too much, since the case has been filed, we have to trust the judicial process. Besides, a company as big as Zhou Mi's family will definitely hire the best lawyers to defend of."

"En." Qu Zhi replied softly, and he inadvertently caught a glimpse of the resignation letter just typed out from the corner of his eye, and he had a general plan in mind.

"By the way," Chen Shuo seemed to have thought of something else, "Have you finally decided how to deal with that matter?"

"I..." Qu Zhi paused for a while, looked at Ada's seat, and saw that there was no one in Ada's place. She just entered the meeting room to pour water for everyone, so she lowered her voice, "I planned to hand in my resignation today. of."

Chen Shuo seemed to be relieved, and said repeatedly: "That's good, that's good."

I don't know if Chen Shuo was too impatient and didn't realize that what Qu Zhi said was actually only half a sentence.Just when Qu Zhi was hesitating whether to continue with the "but" at the end, he heard a sudden voice behind him: "Qu Zhi?"

After Qu Zhi turned his head and found that it was Wen Zhong, he subconsciously stood up, covered the piece of paper on the table with his body, and then said into the phone microphone: "Then what, I'm here, so I won't tell you, hang up gone."

"Are you back to work?" Wen Zhong happened to come to this floor to discuss some matters, and came over when he saw Qu Zhi at his work station from a distance, "I've been too busy recently, I only heard about you being sick and asking for leave two days ago, why? So, is it any better?"

"It's much better." Qu Zhi didn't tell Wen Zhong about his and Li Yan's affairs, "I just came back today, so I worried the senior."

"It's fine," Wen Zhong hesitated, looking around to make sure the surrounding area was clean before he said in a low voice, "You just came back to work today for the case that Li Yan was representing against Wanjia Real Estate. Didn't participate?"

Qu Zhi was stunned for a moment, before realizing, "Senior, do you think I should avoid it..."

"Aren't you planning to avoid it?" Wen Zhong couldn't help being a little anxious when he heard Qu Zhi's tone.

"I..." Qu Zhi felt a little guilty for some reason, he lowered his eyes and didn't dare to look at Wen Zhong, he just said: "Actually, with my identity, I can avoid it or not, and my relationship with Zhou Mi is not easy to get along with. The leader said..."

Wen Zhong sighed lightly, knowing that Qu Zhi's reasoning made sense, and since he had made such a decision, he couldn't say anything else, so he said helplessly: "Well, although I don't agree with your approach, I'm not qualified to replace you. You make the decision. Be careful yourself, sometimes the boundary between right and wrong is very blurred, you must distinguish carefully, and don’t go the wrong way.”

Li Yan's meeting ended, and when his colleagues came out, they saw Qu Zhi was back, and they all came over to chit chat, Wen Zhong saw this and left first.While responding, Qu Zhi quietly put the resignation letter into a letter and locked it in a drawer. Seeing that Li Yan had called several key staff members as if he wanted to go back to the office to continue discussing things, he silently followed.

Seeing that Qu Zhi had followed in without authorization, those few backbones were a little puzzled, and silently waited for Li Yan to speak.

Li Yan'an sat in the chair, looked at Qu Zhi from head to toe in a calm and unhurried manner, and then slowly said to the others in the room: "You guys go out first, the meeting will be held later."

When the last person left, he closed the door very sensiblely, and now there were only the two of them left in the room, Li Yan was very calm, just staring at Qu Zhi quietly, waiting for him to speak first.

Qu Zhi had already thought up a set of speeches before he came to the office, but it was used when he was preparing to hand in his resignation letter. Now that the situation has changed, it is really hard to organize the words on the spot, and he held back for a long time before saying: "Li Lu, I'm back to work... "

Li Yan squinted his eyes, and slowly uttered three words: "I'm not blind."

Qu Zhi frowned subconsciously, lowered his head again in embarrassment, and after a long time of self-improvement, he finally calmed down and said, "Li Lu, that, what happened that day, I was too impulsive, so don't take it to heart."

Li Yan raised the corners of his mouth triumphantly where Qu Zhi couldn't see, but his attitude was still indifferent: "Got it."

Qu Zhi stood there in a daze like a student who was punished by the teacher, wanting to say something but feeling dry.

"Is there anything else?" Li Yan typed a few characters on the keyboard and turned on the computer, "If you don't have anything, go out."

"Li Lu." Hearing Li Yan's order to evict the guest, Qu Zhi raised his head to meet his gaze again, with a trace of impatience in his tone, "I, that, can you let me participate in this case?"

Qu Zhi's request is actually not strange, but Li Yan, who is as seasoned as he is, still keenly sensed something was wrong, and couldn't help saying seriously: "You just resumed work, why are you in such a hurry to handle the case?"

"I," Qu Zhi got stuck again, and finally made up an excuse that even he didn't believe, "I don't want to be treated differently, and I seem to be incompatible with everyone. Didn't you arrange for everyone to participate in this case..."

Hearing this clumsy lie, Li Yan stood up from behind the desk, walked to the front of the desk and only one step away from Qu Zhi, half sat on the edge of the desk, crossed his arms and asked, "Is it because of this?"

Qu Zhi knew that the old fox was not so easy to fool, and he had to make up another trick if one plan failed, so he pretended to be embarrassed and said: "Actually, it's not all, the main reason is that the arbitration case failed last time, and I feel a little awkward..."

"You like handling cases so much?" Li Yan's eyes became more scrutinizing.

Qu Zhi put on an extremely sincere look, stared straight at the leader and nodded.

"Heh, you're really a masochist," Li Yan seemed to be convinced, with a playful smile on his face that had been stern all the time. The man dragged him in front of him, then leaned closer to his ear and said, "But having said that, how did you think about what I told you earlier?"

Qu Zhi was so shocked by this series of verbal actions, he even took a few steps back to open the distance again, his chest heaved violently, and at the same time, he glanced in the direction of the office door reflexively.

Li Yan chuckled lightly, "Look, you're scared. You're so afraid of being seen. Could it be that you've already planned to agree?"

In fact, as early as the moment he locked the resignation letter in the drawer, Qu Zhi knew that he could not escape this test. His only solution was to buy time by delaying the attack.

"Li Lu," Qu Zhi silently clenched his fists behind him, forcing himself to put on a very confusing and sincere look, "I'm afraid I still can't accept this matter at the moment, can you give me more advice?" What time do I have?"

"No problem." Li Yan should be surprisingly happy, "Then wait until you figure it out before handling the case."

Qu Zhi didn't expect Li Yan to be waiting for him here, so he was at a loss for words.

"Okay," Li Yan walked to the door and opened it for Qu Zhi himself, "It happens that Ada is going to be on her annual leave recently, so you can take over her work first. Go and call those people in, we have a meeting .”