Man, what's wrong with you?

"No matter what happened, you must tell me the truth about who hurt you. You can trust me," said Linda. She placed a hand on Sherry's shoulder, meeting her eyes with a look of sincerity.

Sherry felt a warmth enveloping her heart. It was pleasant to realize that no matter what troubles she went through, there was always someone on her side ready to support her no matter what.

Linda couldn't help her solve her problems, but it was enough for her to be there as her best friend while she was sad.

"Thank you, Linda," Sherry said in a low voice.

Linda leaned forward and put an arm around Sherry's neck. "Don't thank me, Sherry. You're my best friend. I'll stand by your side no matter what."

Sherry nodded and gave her a slight grin. "By the way, since you've been assigned to work with me, you have to take your work very seriously. I'm a really strict manager, you know."

Linda rolled her eyes. "You don't have to remind me what a workaholic you are. Hey, I just read the contracts, and I saw that you have two cases at the same time—one is the Ou Group, and the other is the Song Group. Did Jeremy arrange that on purpose?"

Sherry's smile turned brittle. "You already know the answer. Jeremy always has an ulterior motive for doing things."

Linda was outraged on her best friend's behalf. "Jeremy is way out of line! If he sabotages you at work, you must expose him. Don't sacrifice your career to protect him!" she exclaimed, giving Sherry a ferocious look.

"It's all right," Sherry said with a sigh. "I know how to deal with him."

She now had a very heavy workload.

Sherry had already asked for a few days off. With the deadline approaching, she had barely made any headway with her work. Fortunately, Steve had said she could postpone her deadlines for the Song Group for a few days.

been determined to devote herself to

downtrodden, mousy wife of Jeremy Ou had finally broken free of her small world, and was returning to her roots. Sherry was back, as strong-minded

transition wasn't easy. Sherry was a little clumsy at first, fumbling to figure out the correct way to do things. But with effort and intelligence, she had developed her skills. With each passing

so painful," said an employee in the tea

to enter the tea room, carrying a cup in her hand. She opened her mouth to greet them when she heard the woman complain, "The new manager

soon as

are getting strained! If the new manager doesn't relax, she'll work us

to be the manager by Mr. Gu

as hard as she wants, but does she have to make us suffer with her? Honestly, this load is killing me! I've been working overtime for several nights in a row.

there was a lull in the conversation, she took a deep breath

announce herself. But finally someone saw that the new manager herself had walked in, and nudged

filled her cup with water. Then she left

each other, not knowing what to say. Eventually, the sound of her heels faded away, and they

she hear the things we were saying?"

I mean, she didn't look angry, did she? No one could be so calm if they heard

woman, sounding relieved. "Maybe she didn't hear anything. Anyway, we

hear us, we shouldn't be lazing around in here, or

to their seats. From time to time, they stole covert glances at Sherry's

busy. She scowled and asked her friend, "Why didn't you confront them? How could you let them say those things

expression, and she soon found