Chapter 55.2 Ji Lin, do you have a first love?

This material wasn’t really any evidence, it was just a randomly typed document, yet with Ji Lin’s words, it was quite intimidating.

Although Ji Lin’s acting skills were poor when he was sterilising Ji Mimi, she didn’t expect that when it came to his work, he would act in a serious manner. If Bai Duanduan hadn’t been with him, I’m afraid she would have been seething in the face of this.

The three people looked at Tian Mu with grim faces.

Unfortunately, Tian Mu did not panic as expected, and almost immediately he retorted in a fierce and decisive manner: “Impossible! Mr Xie! You can’t smear me with these falsehoods! I don’t even know anyone from Mercury Network, I’ve never had any contact with them, not even an email exchange, let alone a monetary exchange, they’re just doing a competitive project, but it really has nothing to do with me at all!”

Tian Mu’s appearance looked exactly like the normal reaction of a person who has been wronged, his face was red and his eyes were full of anger, “Didn’t you say that? Because I signed that non-compete contract with you, I can’t go to other competing companies in the same industry, and that’s why I’ve been quietly cultivating myself at home and occasionally going out to the gym to exercise. You can’t just spout off like that!”

At this point, he looked at Ji Lin’s pile of “evidence”: “I didn’t do anything like that! I’m not afraid of the shadow! So there can’t be any evidence at all! This must be a forgery! You lawyers, in order to make money, you’re deceiving your clients, trying to get Mr. Xie to sue me so that you can make a lot of money from your fees. I will go to the Law Association to complain against you!”

“Mr. Xie, when I was with YuWen Games, although it is true that I have made some mistakes, but I am only little greedy for small bargains, my family was too poor in the past, I was afraid of being poor, and I was crazy about being poor, so I always wanted to get a little bit of money when I saw it. You people who grew up in a good family might not know this feeling of mine, because I was poor, so I don’t feel safe without money around me, when I see any small money, I want to be greedy, I know it’s not right, but I can’t help it, maybe this is really the bad nature of being poor in the past ……”

“I know that people should not be afraid of money, but I used to be so poor that I could not get a decent meal for two or three days, and when I was at university I could only eat a bowl of white rice and then get a free soup from the canteen to eat. Usually, I just bring pickles from home and eat them with steamed buns. Once I found five yuan on the ground, I hid it secretly and was happy for two days. Five yuan was enough for me to eat steamed buns for a few days.” Tian Mu said upto here and his eyes also brought a bit of tears, “You see, I’m just such a worthless person who loves petty gain and is short-sighted, a poor person at heart…”

“But Mr. Xie, you believe me, I know what’s right and wrong, and I know that you didn’t renew my contract before, and I know it’s because I went a bit too far off course.”

Tian Mu was quite sincere and heartfelt in his words. He probably thought that Xie Miao would not understand him, however, he would not have thought that this was the kind of words that would have moved Xie Miao.

Xie Miao was poor too. He used to live in a dilapidated and poor neighbourhood and spent a very poor and pale childhood and adolescence. Even when he liked a girl, he became groundless because he was poor and could not give his partner a future and happiness and had no courage. That feeling of poverty, that inferiority complex and cowardice that comes from his bones, only started to improve after he went to university and slowly made money writing code for others and doing odd jobs in software. Being able to come this far, being called “Mr. Xie” by Tian Mu, being recognized by people around him as having come from a good family since childhood, Xie Miao knows how much he has given, and how much sweat and hardship is behind the glamour he has today.

At this point, he wonderfully resonated with Tian Mu, and almost at this instant, he had already chosen to believe Tian Mu in his heart.

And because of his outburst, Tian Mu wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, excused himself and left the table to go to the bathroom.

Xie Miao, Ji Lin and Bai Duanduan were the only three people left in the box.

Xie Miao sighed, “Ji Lin, I believe him, he shouldn’t have done this.”

Ji Lin frowned, his expression not quite agreeing, “Your judgment is made too subjective. I have seen many such workers. As long as they are not dead, as long as there is no ironclad evidence, they can still play the emotion card with the business owner in a sincere manner, coaxing the business owner to turn around …… “

Ji Lin was still trying to convince Xie Miao to be sensible, but Xie Miao obviously didn’t think so. He patted Ji Lin’s shoulder, “I quite empathize with what he said, and I think you do too, so I’m still inclined to believe him, just like I believed you at first.”

Xie Miao looked at Ji Lin with gentle eyes, “Ji Lin, I’ve always been very grateful that I trusted you so single-mindedly in the first place, I didn’t even really know you much in the first place, but the same experience made me choose to trust you in my heart. You see, if it weren’t for this, would I have had such a friend as you? If it wasn’t for you, I would have been tossed to death by all these labour disputes and personnel contract structures all the way through my entrepreneurial journey, and I wouldn’t have gotten to where I am today.”

“So sometimes, I think it’s a blessing to choose kindness and believe in the goodness of human nature.” Xie Miao smiled, “My intuition is quite accurate, I choose to believe in Tian Mu this time. Mercury Network probably just really coincidentally bumped ideas with our R&D to come up with such a competing product.”

Ji Lin pursed his lips and glanced at Xie Miao, “Don’t compare him to me.”

Xie Miao couldn’t help but laugh, “Okay, okay, I get it, you’re special, no one else can compare.” He patted Ji Lin’s shoulder again, “Forget it, Ji Lin, Tian Mu shouldn’t have done this, let’s stop here, I probably thought too badly of people before, I wasted too much time dwelling on this matter, instead of staring at this kind of thing, I should spend more time hurrying to research the next product, and try to get a game on the shelves earlier that is completely different from Mercury Network and can beat them.”

Xie Miao had said so, and Ji Lin didn’t say anything else, he was a little less happy, “I don’t think he and I are the same kind of person. But I respect your choice.”

The two of them were playing dumb riddles, causing Bai Duanduan’s curiosity to explode.

What had happened between Xie Miao and Ji Lin in the past? The same experience? What experience? Was Ji Lin very poor before?

Bai Duanduan thought about this while observing Ji Lin and Xie Miao, but before she could come up with a conclusion, her thoughts were interrupted by the sound of an argument from outside the box.

“What’s wrong with you?”

It was Tian Mu’s voice.

Xie Miao frowned, opened the door and walked out, followed by Bai Duanduan and Ji Lin.

Outside the box, Tian Mu was arguing with a man, while a drink was spilled everywhere on the floor, and Tian Mu’s shirt had been completely spilled, the stain was running down his shirt to his trousers. The scene was a complete mess.

Tian Mu was probably furious and his voice was loud, “Don’t you have eyes when you walk? ! You can run into me on such a wide road, what’s wrong with you?”

Many people in the restaurant lobby were attracted by the sound of the argument, and the waiter also ran out, with the intention of persuading the fight.

However, compared to Tian Mu’s aggressive attitude, the man who had hit Tian Mu admitted his mistake in a good manner and kept apologising.

“Sorry sorry sorry, I really didn’t mean to do it, I was just looking down at my phone, I really didn’t pay attention ah.”