The Rise of the Abject Man (Al Detective)
Chapter 40

Joana tries to hide her nervousness, perhaps for the first time she enters work, let alone her father has introduced himself to everyone in the meeting room, coincidentally there attended by the board of directors and also the highest-ranking staff in the company Alpha Group.

"Include her is my daughter, Joana Alpharez." Mr. Riki pointed at his biological daughter who was sitting next to him.

Everyone applauded when Mr. Riki introduced his daughter. Joana smiled kindly to all of them, then she immediately stood up, making the woman the center of attention of everyone in the meeting room.

Joana took a deep breath, staring at everyone there, including Bianca, Dimas, and Madam Nadia. The three of them looked at Joana with a cynical look.

Perhaps Joana felt that there was no one on her side, Madam Nadia and Bianca clearly wanted Dimas to be the successor to the company. While Mr. Riki was so neutral, perhaps because he had considered Dimas like his own gynecologist son. Especially after his marriage with Madam Nadia has been long enough.

Alvaro? Don't ask any more, Joana doesn't understand the guy at all, she doesn't know what Alvaro wants from him. A very mysterious man to her. Alvaro wasn't there anyway.

Alvaro is not there, but Alvaro is watching him from a distance, through CCTV footage that has been intercepted by Danu. In fact, the man was so attached to pay attention to Joana earlier.

Joana started to introduce herself, "My name is Joana Alpharez, thank you for entrusting me to be the site manager here. I will do my best for this company so that the company can be more advanced and get higher profits."

Joana continued her words. "I remember when I was a kid, Alpha wasn't as big as it is now, nobody even knew what Alpha was. But because of the hard work of a great leader and also the cooperation of all the staff employees who are very compact and persistent in working, eventually Alpha can be this big. I hope I can get into that section, where I can work with you all to make Alpha even more advanced."

As Joana spoke in front of the meeting room, she had absolutely no idea that there was a pair of eyes staring in amazement at her, because the company is completely unaware that the company's CCTV footage has been hacked by Danu, on Alvaro's orders.

In addition to Alvaro, there was also a smiling man staring in amazement at Joana, the man named Aditya Nugraha, the son of one of the shareholders in Alpha. He sent his father to attend a meeting at the company.

Dimas, Bianca, and Bu Nadia were very upset because Joana's performance was quite stunning, even many praised Joana, so when the meeting ended, they were the first to leave the meeting.

Meanwhile, everyone seems to greet Joana, congratulating her father's company. Joana though has to look elegant, but she tries to stay friendly to them.

"Welcome to join Alpha, Miss Joana" one of the shareholders told Joana. His name was Mr. Louis.

"Yes, thank you very much, Mr. Louis." Joana thanked whoever congratulated her.

"Joanna."

Joana immediately turned her head towards the source of the voice, she saw a man smiling at her.

"How are you? Me do you remember me? We used to go to the same High School, we even had one class." the man introduced himself.

Joana frowned, probably because she could not remember the man's face.

The man chuckled, as he expected, Joana could not recognize him nor remember him. Naturally, because he used to be so geeky, while Joana was very popular in school. The man extended his hand to Joana. "My name is Aditya Nugraha, I'm the son of one of the shareholders in this company."

Joana tried to remember the name. "Emmm... Aditya?" Then he started to remember the man. "Oh yeah, I remember, Aditya always wears those glasses right?" joana exclaimed, the woman shook Aditya's hand, of course Joana must be friendly to the man, because Aditya is the son of one of the shareholders in Alpha, and of course Joana must be friendly to the man, Joana should be friendly to everyone in that part of the company.

Aditya smiles, of course he is very happy because Joana can remember him, he used to like Joana, he said, she first falls in love with Joana when Joana helps her while Aditya is bullied by her royal friends at school. No one dared to fight Joana, because Joana was the son of the school owner. Behind her unruly nature, in fact Joana is always good to everyone, just maybe the men will misinterpret her kindness. Take Dion and Aditya for example. But Dion was more willing to express his feelings.

But still the bolder Alvaro, proposes to Joana impromptuly. Perhaps arguably the fastest applying event in the world, there is no approach or introduce, let alone dating. But the man immediately proposes to Joana in front of everyone, and rests before her in-laws.

"Surely you remember?" Aditya is so happy that Joana remembers him. It feels so dreamy that Joana Alpharez still remembers a geeky man like her.

"Of course, I must always remember all my schoolmates." replied Joana. He is not a person who easily forgets someone who has been present in his life, even if only just a schoolmate.

Joana did not know that there was someone who was staring furiously at her familiarity with her schoolmate behind the CCTV camera.

"It was also the first time to enter work, but instead spread the charm." Alvaro grumbled while looking at the familiarity of Joana and Aditya behind the CCTV footage. He looked annoyed watching them from a distance.

Somehow Alvaro does not like to see the familiarity of Joana and Aditya. Because between men and women there will be no such thing as friends. Especially if noticed from the way Aditya looks at Joana, Alvaro believes the man has feelings for Joana.

That woman, why do so many men like her? Makes Alvaro not understand. To be sure he was very upset, what he wanted Joana to focus on with her work, not even spread such charm.