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    William leaned back in his chair, his tone breezy. “Oh, right—I used to live abroad. Ordinary chili really doesn’t faze me. If you want to impress me next time, try the hottest peppers you can find. Also, the meat was a bit salty. Keep that in mind.”


    With a nonchnt air, he stood up and headed upstairs, leaving Ste utterly dumbfounded at the dining table.


    All this time, he actually liked spicy food?


    Ste stiffened.


    For the first time, she truly understood what it meant when a npletely backfired.


    The following morning, just as Ste arrived at Neb, her assistant, Annie, rushed in, visibly anxious. “Ms. Russell, we’ve got trouble! Something’s wrong with the engineering department. I think you’ll need to step in yourself.”


    Ste furrowed her brows. “What happened?”


    “The workers can’t make sense of the engineer’s blueprints. And when the engineers tried to exin, it was like they were speaking two differentnguages. Now everything’s stuck—no one can move forward,” Annie exined.


    Ste let out a frustrated sigh. She hadn’t expected such a small issue to cause such a big disruption.


    Without wasting time, she grabbed her things and headed straight to the construction site with Annie in tow.


    The deadline for the project was tight. If they didn’t wrap things up on time, they’d face a breach of contract penalty, something they could not afford.


    When they reached the site, the reason for all the confusion became crystal clear.


    The engineer turned out to be from Skeynia and barely spoke anynguage other than Skeynian. Unfortunately, none of the local workers understood a word of it, resulting in total mimunication. Luckily, Ste had picked up some Skeynian on her own. It wasn’t fluent, but it was good enough. She spent the next thirty minutes going over the blueprints with the engineer, ironing out every detail. Once she had everything rified, she turned to face the construction team and began rying the instructions.


    The workers weren’t highly educated, and it showedmunication was rough. Ste stood on the ground, trying to yell directions to those working higher up, but it wasn’t working well.


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    Determined to get it done properly, she shrugged off her jacket and prepared to climb up so she could speak to them directly.


    Annie panicked when she saw what Ste was about to do and quickly grabbed her arm. “Ms. Russell, it’s not safe up there. Please just stay down and talk from here.”


    Ste waved her off and reached for a helmet on the table. “I’ll climb up—it’ll be faster this way.”


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