5. Delivered to the Door

The Gu Group began as a real estate company. Ten years ago, when technology surged ahead at breakneck speed, the company decisively expanded into high-tech fields, hitting the trend with precision and growing by leaps and bounds.

Because Gu had poured major support into information technology projects, even GSC could not break through the company’s security defenses.

Gu Group’s headquarters consisted of three large office towers: a fifty-story main building for administrative offices and core technology research and development, and two thirty-story auxiliary towers for its subsidiaries.

This time, GSC’s target file was in the archive room of the main building.

Qiao Youran entered the main tower and headed for the elevator lobby in the corner of the first-floor hall.

The first-floor atrium of the main tower was highly futuristic, decorated in black, white, and gray. The turnstiles at the elevator entrance were fitted with Gu Group’s newest intelligent recognition system, which required scans of the iris, face, and skin texture; even the slightest discrepancy would cause identification to fail.

But that was nothing to GSC.

Qiao Youran stood calmly before the turnstile, waiting to be scanned.

"Beep. Verification successful."

The gate opened, and Qiao Youran passed through.

"Please wait!" Just as the elevator was about to close, Qiao Youran dashed over at a run, and an employee inside pressed the door-open button for her.

She hurriedly thanked them, her voice filtered through the thin mechanical plate inside her teeth, emerging as Jiang Feifei’s voice: "Fifth floor, thank you."

When she reached the fifth floor and stepped out of the elevator, Qiao Youran wore black-framed glasses with a camera mounted on the bridge, transmitting the visual feed to Lin Shiyue.

Lin Shiyue guided her in real time: "Head straight from the two o’clock direction for three hundred meters."

Gu Group’s building had two archive rooms, one on the third floor of the main tower, clearly marked on the directory sign.

But the documents needed for this mission were hidden in another secret archive room, whose exact location was unknown to anyone.

After review and elimination by GSC’s information department, they locked onto six suspicious floors: the 5th, 11th, 17th, 28th, and 37th floors, as well as the 50th floor at the very top, where Gu Group’s CEO was located.

The surveillance on the top floor was independent and the defenses were the tightest of all; even GSC’s information team could not break through.

Headquarters speculated that the target archive room was most likely on the 50th floor.

Still, to be safe, Qiao Youran intended to search floor by floor.

However, the turnstiles in Gu’s main tower had entry-and-exit restrictions: once someone entered without an outgoing record, no one else could re-enter under the same identity.

She had to leave before Jiang Feifei returned.

It was now 12:34 p.m., and she had only fifty minutes.

Gu Group was enormous, with tens of thousands of employees. Jiang Feifei was merely a newcomer who had joined a month earlier, and Qiao Youran blended into the crowd without attracting the slightest attention.

She searched the first four floors quickly; they were all ordinary storage rooms.

1:57 p.m.

Qiao Youran reached the thirty-seventh floor, and still there was no archive room.

Only the most difficult floor remained: the fiftieth.

Lin Shiyue reminded her through the earpiece, "An Chen’s side is already done. Jiang Feifei will be back in seventeen minutes."

Qiao Youran calculated the remaining time, took a folder from an empty office, and held it in her hand, pretending to be in a hurry as she strode toward the elevators.

At that moment, the office door at her right front opened, and a short, stout man with a balding crown stepped out.

Seeing Qiao Youran, his eyes lit up, and a greasy smile spread across his face. He raised a hand and called out, "Feifei, come here. I was just looking for you."

"This man is the deputy general manager of Gu Group’s customer service department, and Jiang Feifei reports to him," Lin Shiyue quickly pulled up the files and introduced him at a rapid pace. Her voice paused briefly before she went on. "He often uses his position to harass female employees. Many people have reported him, but he always suppressed the complaints. The girls were forced to resign. Now his target is Jiang Feifei."

At that, Qiao Youran frowned, disgust flashing in her eyes. She did not want to bother with him, but then an idea suddenly occurred to her, so she followed Liang Feng into the office without a word.

She adjusted her glasses and tapped the temple twice.

Just a few seconds after sitting down in Liang Feng’s office, Lin Shiyue sent a reply: "The harassment video has already been sent to the marketing accounts. The recipient has marked it as read. We’re just waiting for the heat to explode."

The instant Qiao Youran’s lips curved, Liang Feng, who had just locked the door and turned around, happened to catch it.

"Feifei, have you come around?" He narrowed his eyes and leaned closer. "Don’t worry. If you stay with me, I’ll never let you suffer."

Qiao Youran deliberately lowered her head, pressed her lips tightly together, and said nothing, shifting slightly to the side to put some distance between herself and Liang Feng.

How could Liang Feng be willing to let that go? He sat down heavily beside her and reached his greasy hand toward hers.

Qiao Youran abruptly stood up and took several steps back, saying with feigned composure, "President Liang, if you have nothing important to discuss, I’ll be leaving. I still have a pile of work waiting for me."

"Jiang Feifei! Don’t be so ungrateful!" Seeing that she refused to give him any face, Liang Feng decided to use force. He shouted and lunged at her.

Qiao Youran slipped aside with agile ease.

Liang Feng was already clumsy, and with too much force behind him, his body lurched and he stumbled, falling heavily. His round body struggled on the floor, but for a long while he could not get up.

The fall stripped him of all dignity at once. His face flushed red, and panting hard, he braced himself with both hands and feet before throwing himself at Qiao Youran again.

"It’s blown up."

Hearing Lin Shiyue’s reminder, Qiao Youran smiled faintly and stopped dodging. She kicked hard, sending Liang Feng crashing to the floor before he could reach her.

"Jiang Feifei!" Liang Feng was shocked and enraged. "You’ve got guts. I’m firing you!"

Qiao Youran walked over to Liang Feng, crouched in front of him, and took out his phone. She had intended to unlock it with facial recognition, but Liang Feng closed his eyes and refused to cooperate.

So she seized his wrist instead.

The slender fingers Liang Feng had long coveted were now like iron tongs; no matter how hard he struggled, he could not break free.

"Jiang Feifei! What are you doing!" Liang Feng fought desperately, only able to watch helplessly as "Jiang Feifei" pressed his finger to the phone.

The phone unlocked. Qiao Youran lightly tapped the screen, then held it up to his face, smiling sweetly. "President Liang, I don’t think you’re in the mood to play with me right now."

Jiang Feifei’s usual timid voice made Liang Feng’s scalp prickle.

Then a video began playing on the screen. Less than twenty seconds long, it showed Liang Feng using his position to harass female employees.

The editing was exquisite. Not a single part of any victim’s body was shown, and the sounds of their resistance had all been processed away. Only Liang Feng’s face was clearly visible in the video, hideous and vile.

Qiao Youran accompanied Liang Feng through the entire video, watching it from start to finish.

"Where did you get this stuff?" Liang Feng asked viciously, lifting his head. He had clearly long since had someone destroy the surveillance footage.

He quickly reacted. "You used AI synthesis to frame me?"

"President Liang, you really are good at slandering people. I’m just a lowly office clerk; I don’t have that kind of ability." Qiao Youran widened her eyes, looking utterly innocent. "It’s the trending topic that exploded, President Liang. Now the whole company—oh, no, the whole country has seen it!"

Liang Feng’s pupils constricted. He snatched back the phone, frantically exiting the finished video and opening the social platform.

The topic "Gu Group executive sexually harasses female employee" had already surged to the top of the trending list, followed by a blazing red "exploded" tag.

The heat was still climbing, and comments were pouring in like a tide.

Looking at Liang Feng’s ashen face, Qiao Youran waved goodbye with a bright smile. "President Liang, I’m heading back to work now."

With that, she left lightly, and before she went, she thoughtfully pulled the office door shut.

Just as she reached the corner, several stern-faced men hurried over and knocked on Liang Feng’s office door.

Soon after, they helped the powerless, slumped Liang Feng up and took him away.

"Those people are from the president’s office," Lin Shiyue explained as she witnessed the scene with Qiao Youran. "There’s an emergency executive meeting on the forty-ninth floor, and most of the offices are empty now."

Qiao Youran curved her lips and said meaningfully, "As expected, one good deed a day brings blessings. Look, good people do get rewarded."