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Chapter 190
[This is an adaptation, this story is not mine. The credits goes to the original writer. Please do not vote!]
After failing to retort several times, Yu-min's face had turned red in rage. She raised her hand and tried to slap her.
But Jennie seemed to have expected she would do this. Her face grew stern. She locked Yu-min's wrist, dragged her forward and pinned her down on the desk.
With a thud, Yu-min collapsed directly on the table when she was dragged forward by Yu-min. Her stomach that hit the desk directly hurt so much that she let out a muffled grunt.
Grimacing, she raised her head and was about to curse, only to find that Jennie's face was just a few centimeters away from her own. Her hands were being locked. She was unable to move.
"What? You're trying to slap me because you're mad and desperate? Yu- min, I've never seen anyone who likes to make a fool of herself more than you and Su Gyeom. Haven't you learned your lesson yet? This face of yours, looks like you don't really want it anymore, is that right?" Jennie said while gently tracing the outline of Yu-min's face with her fingertips, successfully causing Yu-min to break out in a cold sweat and even her body unconsciously cowered backward a little.
"What...What are you trying to do? I'm telling you, if you dare to hurt me, my dad and my mom won't let you off!"
Jennie chuckled as if she was laughing at Yu-min's untimely naivety. "Someone who only cowers behind her parents' back when things go wrong is just an immature kid. With my current status, even if I really did something to you, what do you think your dad and your mom could do to me?"

Yu-min's face was slightly pale. She bit her lips tightly, wanting to refute, but she realized that what Jennie said was true. For a second there, she could not find any word to refute her assertion.
Jennie could see the trepidation in Yu-min's eyes. The corners of her lips curled. She lowered her body a little to admire Yu-min's fear at a closer distance. With an undisguised mockery, she said, "There are just some people in the world who feel too good about themselves. She doesn't even have a clue about a lot of things, yet she still tried to force those around her to accommodate and give in to her. When things don't go the way she wants, she would do something crazy, like killing someone. Am I right?"
Upon hearing that, Yu-min was shaking internally and her face paled. A trace of guilt emerged under her eyes, which were glaring at Yu-min. Her gaze subconsciously shifted away to avert Jennie's eyes.
"What...What are you talking about? I don't understand anything of what you're saying."
"You don't?" Jennie's smile grew brighter. She may still have had some doubts at first, but right then, Yu-min's instinctive reaction had let her confirm the truth of this matter.
"It's only been a few days, and you've forgotten everything. Should I say you are forgetful? Or should I say you simply have no regard to human life?"
Seeing that Yu-min's expression was getting more ghastly, the coldness beneath Jennie's eyes also became more obvious. "Since you're so forgetful, Vice Manager, I shall kindly remind you of the incident a few days ago when the general manager's exclusive elevator suddenly malfunctioned and fell down from the fortieth floor. Do you still remember that, Vice Manager?"
Yu-min's body shivered uncontrollably, but she forced herself to stay calm on the outside. "Of course I remember, but what does that have to do with me?"

"It's been two weeks only since I took over the position as general manager. I only used that elevator a few times. Besides, elevators in our company are maintained and inspected every week, especially those exclusive elevators, which are basically inspected every two or three days. If there are no accidents, they will never fatally malfunction like this."
"You said it yourself, if there are no accidents. Who knows if that elevator is in disrepair, the machine inside has long been broken. It just happened to malfunction when you took it, it's just a matter of luck. Don't try to make an issue of something like this."
"You know very well whether I'm making an issue out of this or not! An elevator is usually supported by four to five cables. Take my elevator, for example, there are a total of five cables, any one of them can support the elevator for going up and down. Even if four cables have issues and snap, the remaining one is able to get me to the top safely, while those cables that go wrong would surely be found within the next two or three days by the inspection department and be repaired. But on that day, all five cables snapped at the same time. Don't you think it's too much of a coincidence?"
"What's so coincidental about it? There are so many accidents happening in the world every day. Yours was just one of them. You're just being paranoid."
"Then what about the smooth and neat incision that we found on the cable?" Jennie narrowed her eyes and looked coldly at Yu-min, who was struggling in desperation. "If it really was an accident, the cables of the elevator snapped by accident, there should be strands of filament on the snapped cables. But...there wasn't any. There wasn't any sign of filaments on the five cables, instead, the cables were bizarrely neat, like it was...corroded by something."
Yu-min's expression changed slightly and her eyes flickered for a moment, but she quickly recovered herself. She put on a calm face and said, "Even if... Even if it's true that someone was messing with you on purpose and wanted to kill you, what makes you think that I did it? I'm not the only one you've offended. Maybe it's some guy who doesn't like you and wants to teach you a lesson. Why would you blame it on me?"