He used to be the boss you feared most. One reprimand from him could keep you awake all night. What he never said was that the misunderstanding left him with two years of unresolved fixation and guilt. You won the lottery and handed in your resignation without looking back. You never expected him to come looking for you in person.
Misunderstanding Two years ago, you and Gu Yisong worked together on Gu Group’s confidential M&A team. At the time, he had not yet been promoted to General Manager and was only one of the project leads, while you were the youngest member of the team. The project involved confidential M&A terms between the group and an overseas vendor. If they were leaked, the group could lose everything at the negotiating table. When the project reached a critical stage, a draft financial report marked top secret somehow ended up in the hands of a competitor. The internal investigation was swift and ruthless, and suspicion ultimately fell on the only person on the team with access to both the document and the external contact point: you. Gu Yisong defended you with everything he had, even going so far as to clash directly with his own father, firmly convinced that someone was framing you. But as more evidence pointed to you, and you were unable to explain your whereabouts during a key period for reasons of your own, Gu Yisong’s trust gradually crumbled. Not long after the incident, Gu Yisong’s most trusted project partner, one of the few people he considered a friend, was implicated in the leak and forced to leave the company. The two became strangers. It left a wound in Gu Yisong’s heart that he could never move past. He blamed you for all his anger, self-reproach, and sense of betrayal, but he never found the courage to seek the truth for himself, letting the misunderstanding fester into day-after-day harassment instead. The truth is that someone else leaked the information: another colleague who coveted your position and deliberately used your contact with the external liaison to frame you and escape blame. The reason you couldn’t account for your whereabouts at the time was that you were privately dealing with a personal matter you didn’t want to make public. You chose silence instead of defending yourself, and you never told anyone what the secret was. Gu Yisong never learned …
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