His wife's pregnancy bump disappeared, and Mr. Huo was going crazy missing her.

"Xiao Qiao, you're not kidding me, are you?"

Han Dongping asked.

Qiao Mian reiterated her stance: "Director Han, I'm not joking with you. I really want to resign and will pay the penalty for breach of contract as stipulated in the agreement."

Han Dongping's expression gradually stiffened. "With your meager monthly salary, even if you saved for several years without eating or drinking, you still couldn't come up with 600,000 yuan. Where are you going to get 600,000 yuan to pay the breach of contract penalty?"

Qiao Mian frowned. "The origin of the money is my private matter, and there's no need to explain it to you."

She tried to talk to him in a calm manner.

After all, the resignation procedures required Han Dongping's approval.

However, Han Dongping, determined to get to the bottom of things, asked, "Xiao Qiao, you haven't hooked up with a rich guy, have you?"

It wasn't that he doubted it; in his view, there was only one possibility.

Qiao Mian must be a wealthy person on the list, otherwise, she wouldn't be able to come up with 600,000.

"Could it be President Huo?"

He recalled that President Huo had specifically requested him to work at the Huo Corporation, and guessed that President Huo might have taken a liking to Qiao Mian.

Han Dongping's wild speculations wore down Qiao Mian's patience. "Director Han, please sign my resignation letter as soon as possible so I can go to the personnel department to complete the resignation procedures."

"What? Did I guess right?"

Seeing her cold face, Han Dongping became even more convinced that she had become a kept woman.

Qiao Mian was too lazy to explain to him, and simply picked up the resignation letter on the table. "If Director Han doesn't approve it, then I can only ask Chairman Wen to approve it personally."

Han Dongping's face instantly turned ugly. "Going to see Chairman Wen above your station? Don't you know your own capabilities? You've finally hooked up with a rich guy; your tone has completely changed."

Qiao Mian gritted her teeth, clenched her fists, and endured his sarcastic remarks and malicious slander.

"Director Han, please sign here."

She didn't want to waste any more time talking to him.

"Xiao Qiao, Ronghua has been nurturing you for almost three years, and when you left, you didn't even have a little bit of regret. What an ungrateful wretch."

After Han Dongping finished speaking with a cold laugh, he picked up his pen and was about to sign his resignation letter when he suddenly stopped.

He walked up to Qiao Mian, deliberately leaning closer to her, and teased, "Little Qiao, back then, if I hadn't been lenient with your interview, how could you have gotten into Ronghua with your self-taught degree? After that, I helped you get your lawyer's license from an intern lawyer in just one year. I took you with me on every case I had. Ask yourself honestly, wasn't I good enough to you?"

Qiao Mian took two steps back, looking at him coldly, "What exactly do you want to say? If you want me to say thank you..."

That's not what I want.

Han Dongping interrupted her, reaching out to put his arm around her slender waist. "If you give in to me just once, I'll sign the papers and let you go right away."

Qiao Mian pushed Han Dongping away with disgust. "Director Han, please have some self-respect."

She guessed that Han Dongping might use the resignation approval process to obstruct her, but she never expected him to be this shameless.

That's absolutely disgusting.

"Xiao Qiao, you can't complete the resignation procedures without my signature."

Han Dongping returned to his desk and sat down, lazily glancing at her with half-closed eyes. "We still have six months. Let's see who can outlast whom?"

Qiao Mian frowned angrily: "Fine, you don't have to sign, then we'll go through labor arbitration."

"sure."

Han Dongping grinned lewdly, "This arbitration process could take anywhere from six months to a year or two. Xiao Qiao, I think you must have some important reason for your hasty resignation. Can you afford to wait that long?"

"you……"

Qiao Mian was so angry she wanted to hit someone.

However, she could only suppress her emotions and continue to confront him. "Since that's the case, then I'll have no choice but to go back to the Shanghai headquarters in person to meet with Chairman Wen and have him personally approve my resignation. I'll also report to him how you've been harassing your female subordinates all these years."

Upon hearing this, Han Dongping slammed his fist on the table in anger, "You dare to go and try going to see Chairman Wen?"

Qiao Mian retorted, "Do you think I can't do it?"

After saying that, he took out his phone from his pocket and played a recording in front of him.

Upon hearing this, Han Dongping's face instantly turned extremely ugly. "You actually dared to record this?"

As he reached out to grab it, Qiao Mian tossed the phone to him. "It contains more than just the recording from earlier, Director Han. To tell you the truth, I've recorded every time you call me to your office. Over the past two years, I've accumulated over ten gigabytes of recordings."

"you……"

Han Dongping's hand, gripping the phone, trembled slightly. "Xiao Qiao, I never expected you to be so calculating inside, despite your seemingly gentle and obedient appearance."

"I was just protecting myself."

Qiao Mian snatched her phone back from him. Seeing that the recording had been deleted, she smiled and said, "I've kept all those audio files safe, Director Han. The reason I didn't take them out is because I didn't want things to fall apart and make everyone uncomfortable. We've been teacher and student for a while, wouldn't it be better to end things gracefully?"

Han Dongping was so angry that his face turned blue, but he really couldn't do anything about it.

He took the resignation letter from her hand. "I'll sign the resignation letter now. You have to promise to delete all those recordings."

Qiao Mian tilted her head. "Of course, keeping those audio files would only make me feel nauseous."

Han Dongping showed his anger, but he could only suppress it. He picked up his pen, signed the resignation letter, and threw it at her forcefully.

Qiao Mian bent down to pick up the resignation letter that had fallen to the ground. Just as she was about to leave, Han Dongping's voice came from behind her, "It will take a week to complete the resignation procedures. You'd better be able to come up with 600,000."

Qiao Mian ignored him and coldly replied, "Director Han doesn't need to worry about the breach of contract penalty. What you need to do now is to quickly select a colleague from the institute to replace me at Huo's."

After saying that, she left the office and went straight to the human resources department.

Han Dongping flew into a rage in his office.

He was so angry he almost flipped his desk over.

He really underestimated Qiao Mian.

I wonder if she will actually delete those audio files?

What if she says she deleted it but keeps a copy in private and then threatens him later?

Han Dongping was extremely annoyed.

He was completely at the mercy of this woman.

However, with Qiao Mian's departure, he would have to find a replacement lawyer for the Huo family.

After thinking about it, he decided to call Chairman Wen.

……

Qiao Mian felt more relaxed than ever before after leaving Ronghua Law Firm.

She immediately called Yue Chen from Tongchen Law Firm via WeChat.

Tell him that you are in the process of resigning.

Yue Chen quickly replied, "Okay, Attorney Qiao, the money will be in your account within a week."

After reading the WeChat message, Qiao Mian put away her phone. She was about to return to the Huo family business, but then she remembered that she hadn't returned the bracelet Gu Huainian had given her, so she took a taxi to Zhongcheng Law Firm instead.

However, to my surprise, I saw Huo Yanbei as soon as I entered the law firm.