8
In the car, when I turned on my phone, a flood of messages and calls poured in all at once.
The vibration of the phone lasted for over a minute without stopping.
My brother, driving, glanced over and immediately frowned: “That little bastard still hasn’t given up?”
I took a deep breath and reassured my brother: “It’s okay, I can handle it.”
I didn’t answer the calls immediately, but instead muted my phone, continued catching up with my brother, and later, when I was tired, I just leaned my head to the side and fell asleep.
It wasn’t until we got back to my brother’s house and I entered the room my sister–in–law had prepared for me that I finally answered the incessant calls from the unknown number.
Abuse and accusations came pouring down.
“Rachel, you think you can just run away after messing things up like this?”
“You’ve gotten quite bold, daring to block me and not answer calls or reply to messages, huh?”
“You’ve ruined Olivia like this, and you just walk away, leaving the mess for others to clean up?”
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“I’m telling you, within an hour, you get your ass back here, apologize to Olivia in person, and explain your dirty tricks in front of the whole company!”
On the phone, I could clearly hear Olivia crying breathlessly:
“Mark, don’t scold Rachel. She’s just unable to accept it for now, it’s not her fault. It’s all my fault, I’m just not capable enough. I’m not even
one–tenth as good as Rachel, I’ve let you down…”
Olivia’s self–criticism didn’t make Mark feel she had done anything wrong. Instead, he became more pitying, shouting at me:
“Rachel, I’m warning you, you’d better come back and apologize right now. Maybe I can still forgive you. Otherwise, don’t blame me for issuing an industry blacklist!”
I was amused by the performance of these two.
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“Mr. Mark, we’re already divorced, and I’ve also resigned. Before I left, I had already handed over all my work to Olivia. In what capacity are you ordering me around now?”
“Also, an industry blacklist? Do you think you’re some all–powerful CEO who can just issue one at will?”
My words completely blocked whatever Mark was about to say. He was stunned for a moment on the other end of the phone, then continued to argue nonsensically:
“Even if you’ve resigned, you deliberately used underhanded methods when handing over the work. I still have the right to hold you accountable!”
“You did such a thing and think you can just walk away? Who gave you the guts?”
I was getting impatient.
“Mark, there are so many surveillance cameras in the company. Use that useless brain of yours and go check the footage. Whether I did it or not, one look will tell!”
“Oh, and please tell Olivia, instead of wasting time on these messy, underhanded things, she should focus on improving her professional skills. If she really can’t improve, she should go to the garbage dump. There’s a place for her there!”
I hung up the phone and blocked this number.
While I was at it, I also deleted all the chat records and photos related to him from my phone.
I hadn’t expected that I had stored over 30,000 photos in my phone, all about Mark’s bits and pieces of life, and there were even hundreds of videos.
My phone, which had been a bit laggy, gradually became smoother as I cleared out these memories that had carried my emotions for many
years.
When the words “Cleanup Complete” popped up, my heart suddenly felt empty.