Once the manager admitted whose name was on the contract, both Noah Steele and Xiao Mei immediately understood what had happened.
The situation was painfully obvious.
The villa carried an enormous commission, and the manager—blinded by greed—had decided to abuse his position. His plan was simple: pocket the commission himself, wait a few days, then fire the saleswoman under some fabricated excuse. After intimidating the rest of the staff into silence, the money would quietly become his.
A perfect plan on paper.
Unfortunately for him, reality was far less cooperative.
Xiao Mei had noticed.
As a corporate executive who managed dozens of employees, Xiao Mei despised this kind of corruption more than anything. In her own company, anyone caught abusing power for personal gain—no matter th
