Chapter 0136


    Chapter 0136


    Shi Hua’s eyes shed with anger.


    Madison’s gaze was icy, “If you don’t want to fly, you can leave. I can fly. Mukino International won’t


    copse without you. Do you think. you’re above everyone else just because you came back from


    abroad?


    She stood up, snatched the work deployment file from Shi Hua’s grasp, and tossed it back to Frank,


    “Manager Xiao, take this, please. Assign me to her flights. Charlie can take over my current routes


    she’s very capable.”


    Shi Hua shot up, crying out, “No! Who said I’m not flying?”


    Madison cast anguid nce at her, her tone nonchnt, “Oh, so now you’ve changed your mind


    about flying? Captain Shi’s ability to self-regte is indeed impressive. I have much to learn from


    my junior.”


    Junior…


    Shi Hua’s mouth twitched in fury.


    They were barely a year apart in age, and here Madison was, calling herself the junior? Was this


    not a tant dig at Shi Hua looking older?


    Out of the corner of his eye, Frank nearly apuded Madison,


    President Grant’s girlfriend.


    “Cough…” Frank struggled to contain hisughter.


    Shi Hua took a few deep breaths and scoffed, “Ethan must be quite busy if this is the quality of staff


    he has in hispany.”


    That was a deration of war.


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    Frank had little experience with the overt and covert battles between women. After all, female pilots


    were a rarity at Mukino Airlines. Now, all he could do was watch from the sidelines.


    He silently slid his chair backward, distancing himself from the battlefield.


    Madison shed her usual gentleness, her voice growing colder, “You lived abroad for so many years,


    didn’t you learn to speak directly like the foreigners do?”


    Shi Hua looked puzzled, “What do you mean?”


    “I mean you’re beating around the bush.” Madison’s gaze didn’t falter, Just speak your mind. Why


    bring Ethan into this? Are you trying to highlight your close rtionship with him?”


    Frank was on the verge of cheering!


    Madison, once unleashed, was quite the verbal warrior, leaving Shi Hua, who typically looked so


    composed, flushed with embarrassment.


    Before Shi Hua could retort, Madison leaned casually against the chair, speaking first, “Just a


    heads-up, Captain Shi. Both sentimentally and logically, it’s inappropriate for you to call him Ethan.


    Sentimentally, because you’re not that close, and logically…”


    Madison walked past her, ncing sideways, “because I don’t want to


    hear it.”


    She reached the office door and without looking back said, “Manager Xiao, if you could adjust my


    routes for tomorrow, I’m ready to fly.”


    “Of course, no problem!” Frank quickly agreed.


    After Madison left, only Frank and Shi Hua remained. Shí Hua stood, her face an indescribable


    shade of displeasure.


    Frank dared not speak out of turn, merely asking, “Captain Shi,


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    regarding your routes…”


    “Follow thepany’s arrangement,” Shi Hua said tersely, storming


    out.


    Frank exhaled a sigh of relief.


    The tension was palpable.


    Who could have guessed that these two glorious women would sh on their very first day as


    colleagues?


    Deciding the room needed airing out, Frank opened a window.


    “Manager Xiao, what’s wrong?” A young assistant entered, finding Frank at the window, sighing


    between puffs of his cigarette.


    Frank, seizing the chance to vent, beckoned the assistant over.


    “You don’t understand. I thought handling Charlie was tough, but I was naive. Now with two more


    ancestors added to the mix, my days


    ahead…”


    Frank wiped away an imaginary tear, thinking if not for the excessivepensation from President


    Grant he would have fled by now!


    Returning to her new office, Madison surveyed her surroundings. Good or bad, she didn’t mind


    much. She was here to fly nes, not to cozy up in an office.


    She had to wait for Frank to arrange her flight crew and for the civil aviation authority to sign off on


    the paperwork.


    Standing by the window, Madison gazed at the towering building not far away.


    Its top bore bold letters:


    Mukino International Headquarters.


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    Every ne taking off andnding here could see it.


    Her eyes curved in a smile as she was about to take a closer look at the building, her phone rang. It


    was Ethan.


    “Hello?”


    “Girlfriend, what are you up to?”


    The man on the other end must have a cigarette between his lips, his voice tinged with the warmth


    of infatuation.


    A soft blush crept onto Madison’s face, “I’ve just sparred a round with. a certain admirer of President


    Grant. Now I’m in the office.”


    “In the office?” Ethan asked. “Which one?”


    Madison recalled the que she saw on her way in, “Number eight.


    There was a brief pause on the other end before Ethan changed the, subject, “You mentioned an


    admirer?”


    “Captain Shi,” Madison replied calmly.


    Ethan’s tone shifted slightly, “Did she quarrel with you?”


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    “No quarrel to speak of.”


    “Why don’t you bring Amelia along? She’s quite the fighter. It’d save you from losing a war of words


    due to your slow speech,” Ethan suggested.


    It was protective Grant, online and worried his girlfriend might lose in


    a verbal altercation.


    Madisonughed, “Where’s my speech slow?”


    “Soft-spoken as you are, who could you out-argue?”


    “I just won, didn’t I?”.


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    “Really?” Ethan sounded incredulous.


    “Ask Manager Xiao,” Madison said, pointing her chin in the direction


    of the office.


    “Fine, I’ll go ask him now.”


    Ethan hung up promptly.


    Madison stared at the ended call, bemused.


    He wouldn’t actually go ask, would he?


    Of course, the childlike President Grant did inquire, and Frank provided a detailed ount, nearly


    imitating Madison’s tone from the


    confrontation.


    When Ethan in his office heard how Madison didn’t want Shi Hual


    calling him Ethan, a charming smile graced his face.


    “Understood.”


    Buzz.


    Five minutester, Madison received a W******p message from Ethan.


    Ethan: Look towards the second window from the top of Mukino


    International.


    She approached the window, spotting the second window from the top instantly.


    A white patch appeared on the ss.


    Madison frowned.


    Even with her sharp vision, she couldn’t make out what was on the ss from this distance.


    She fetched the binocrs from the office cab, used for viewing.


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    Adjusting the lens, she aimed at the top floor of the high-rise.


    Secondster.


    Madison’s smile was almost too wide to contain:


    From the second window on the top floor to several windows behind, each had an A4 sheet of


    paper attached with ck marker writing.


    Only.


    You.


    Can.


    Call.


    Me.


    Ethan.


    Thank goodness for the many windows in the chairman’s office; otherwise, they wouldn’t all fit.


    Her cheeks flushed, Madison dialed Ethan.


    As soon as he answered, she couldn’t help butugh, “Ethan, do your have to be so childish?”


    Hisughter came through the phone, light and teasing, “There’s more


    childishness toe.”


    “Hmm?”


    “I posted on F******K.”


    Madison’s voice was a mix of exasperation and affection, “What did you do now?”


    His tone was pleasant, “Dear, President Grant is on your side. I won’t let her call me Ethan, only you


    can. Is that okay?”


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