The Apple of My Eye
Chapter 1081 Shame On You

"Well, I will send you his phone number. But Sher, are you sure that you're going to find him alone? Do you need me to go with you?" Isla felt a little worried about the situation. "Don't worry, I can handle that," Sheryl responded confidently. After Isla hesitantly handed over the number, Sheryl left Cloud Advertising Company as quickly as she could.

As she drove, Sheryl called Duncan Qiu, the head of Tarsan Corporation. "Is that Mr. Qiu?" she asked. "I'm Sheryl Xia from Cloud Advertising Company. I want to have a face-to-face conversation with you." Duncan Qiu said something over the phone.

"It doesn't matter, I can wait until you finish the meeting," Sheryl replied.

Again, Duncan Qiu said something.

"That's fne. I can wait three hours," Sheryl said.

Duncan finally gave in.

"Alright, see you in Tarsan Corporation," she said.

After hanging up the phone, Sheryl drove directly to Tarsan Corporation. This corporation had been low-key before, but had recently become very high-profile. Before becoming in charge of the Tarsan Corporation case, Sheryl had specifically investigated it.

The corporation and its operations had always puzzled her. Tarsan Corporation was originally a well-known foreign company. Its founder had died recently, and his shares had all been transferred to his young wife. This woman's hometown was Y City. She had no relatives abroad, so when her husband died, she returned to Y City along with the major businessnes of Tarsan Corporation.

Sheryl was not interested in the corporation's high profile; she chose to cooperate with Tarsan because she felt it was sincere and promised a valuable reward.

But now, the result of her hard work was being rejected by the person in charge-Duncan Qiu.

"Hello, who are you looking for?" Entering the lobby doors of Tarsan Corporation, Sheryl was stopped by the receptionist.

"I have an appointment with Mr. Qiu," she responded with conviction.

"But miss, Mr. Qiu didn't say he had an appointment with you," the receptionist said awkwardly. "Would you mind sitting down and waiting for a while? I'll call Mr. Qiu to confirm." This made Sheryl feel uneasy. Was this a good idea?

Maybe Isla was right.

But after thinking it over, Sheryl determined that she hadn't previously offended Duncan Qiu. And before this cooperation, Cloud Advertising Company and Tarsan Corporation had also never connected. Sheryl watched as the receptionist spoke quietly on the phone with Duncan Qiu. When the phone was hung up, the receptionist looked over at Sheryl apologetically. "Sorry miss, Mr. Qiu says he has no appointment with you."

Taken aback by her words, Sheryl groaned, "Duncan Qiu!" She suddenly became very angry as she thought over her prior conversation with Duncan Qiu. 'He clearly agreed to meeting with me. Why is he refusing to see me now?' Sheryl fumed.

Shaking her head in frustration, Sheryl stood up abruptly and walked right into Tarsan Corporation.

"Miss, you can't go in there. Miss..." The receptionist rushed forward, but was unable to slow the angry woman down.

"Duncan Qiu, come out!" Sheryl shouted.

"What's going on?" An irritated voice came from within one of the offices. In the chair sat a man, maybe forty and fifty years old, with a young sexy woman sitting on his lap.

"Mr. Qiu, she insisted on coming in. I couldn't stop her," the receptionist explained in a rush, clearly a little scared of the man.

"Okay, you can leave," Duncan Qiu responded, shooing her out of the office, seemingly in a bad mood.

"Yes, Mr. Qiu," the receptionist escaped quickly as if Duncan Qiu would eat her alive if she stayed any longer.

"Mr. Qiu, did you say you were having a meeting? Maybe all your meetings are held in this way?" Sheryl gestured at the young woman in his lap. She looked like she was in her early 20s and she had a slim figure and a beautiful face.

The young woman rolled her eyes at Sheryl and asked, "Duncan, who is she? Why is she being so rude to you?" "This is Sheryl Xia, the head of Cloud Advertising Company," Duncan Qiu said tiredly. "Baby, go to the meeting room for a little while, I'll find you later." Patting the young woman's back, Duncan Qiu turned to look at Sheryl. "Ms. Xia, please."

"Mr. Qiu, I think I need a explanation," Sheryl said with crossed arms.

"Ms. Xia, you have just embarrassed me in my office over such a small thing. I think I'm the one who deserves an explanation." Sheryl felt anger bubbling up inside her. Duncan Qiu seemed to care about absolutely nothing.

"My draft hasn't been completed yet. Why can you suddenly not use my planning? Can you give me an explanation?"

"Ms. Xia, the truth is that I don't like your planning. You needn't know your weakness. I just don't think it's good enough. I don't like it. So what can you offer me instead?" Duncan Qiu asked arrogantly. Shaking her head in astonishment, Sheryl replied, "I see, Mr. Qiu. You don't think that I'd do you any favours, right?" "What did you say? Ms. Xia, I'm not the kind of person you think I am.

But if you can do me a favor, I might be able to forget what happened before." Sheryl's eyes narrowed in confusion.

"Oh yeah? What?" she asked. Smiling, Duncan Qiu responded, "I believe you saw the person in my office just now. Her name is Vivi.

She has been looking for a job and I want to let her work here, but there's a rule in Tarsan Corporation that disallows office romances. So I would like you to arrange Vivi with a simple job in your company. If you agree, I'll forget what happened today. So, what do you think?"

Sheryl thought to herself before answering skeptically, "If she works at Cloud Advertising Company, won't you worry that she'd be wronged?" If Vivi worked at Cloud Advertising Company, it would cause a mess in the company. But if Sheryl refused to comply with Duncan Qiu, she'd lose her large transaction with Tarsan Corporation.

"Will you let her be wronged?" Duncan Qiu asked her as a sly smile flashed across his face.

Sheryl watched him silently as she thought over the offer.

"Ms. Xia," Duncan Qiu prompted, "do you agree?"

Sighing in resignation, Sheryl replied, "Okay, you have yourself a deal. Vivi can come to work at Cloud Advertising Company whenever she wishes. But whether she's competent in the role I assign is dependent on her. And, as you said, you'll forget what happened today." Duncan Qiu frowned as he said, "Ms. Xia, I think you misunderstood what I meant.

After Vivi goes to your company, she will be fully in charge of the Tarsan Corporation case."

"What? Vivi will be fully in charge of the case?" Sheryl couldn't believe her ears. "Has she done this kind of work before? If she's fully responsible for the case, that'll mean all my hard work will have been for nothing," Sheryl said in exacerbation.

"Ms. Xia, what would you prefer, your own hard work seen by the public, or the profits behind this large transaction? Make your decision!" Duncan Qiu exclaimed impatiently.

"Mr. Qiu, are you threatening me?" What she hated the most was when someone threatened her. Sheryl laughed, shaking her head in disbelief, and said, "Well, if you're going to talk to me this way, I'll tell you my choice. Your Vivi, I won't let her near my company! As for the Tarsan Corporation case, I don't care!"

Surprised by her sudden change of heart, Duncan Qiu paused and then said, "Sheryl, you should really reconsider. The profit you'll make from the Tarsan Corporation case is equal to your company's current yearly profit. Are you sure you don't care?" Duncan Qiu had never expected Sheryl would make such a bold move. She would rather lose money than accept Vivi at her corporation.

"Yes, I'm sure," Sheryl countered. She really didn't care about or need the money, she was not in short supply. The reason why she continued to work at Cloud Advertising Company was not for profit, but to fulfill her dream.

Sheryl was willing to work hard and sacrifice everything in order to make her dream come true, and she would not let anyone get in her way.

All of a sudden, Sheryl felt a sharp slap across her face. "Shame on you!"