But good fiction doesn't require too much suspension of disbelief, it should be something you can accept as plausible within the universe depicted, so something set in a fictional version of "the real world", should reflect what actually goes on in the real world.
In the game, it gives you the option to not use the information and report it to the partners, which in the real world, would give you a significant defense against claims that you hacked a competing law firm (especially if you have no background as a hacker, and the mere fact that in this day and age, security breaches are extremely common place).
But instead, even if you did all that, if you refuse the blackmail, which most people with any self respect would, you're still fired. That just strikes me as a badly written story when the only option to move forward is to accept the blackmail.
Lord of the Rings is not feasible in the real world, what a shame! +If you are deeply in love with femdom why would you put something so vain as "self respect" above serving a female?

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Any author can craft a world in which there are no law firms, craft personas with compromised levels of self-respect, craft entire societies with completely different norms and standards. It would be ridiculous to say that an author is not allowed to put a narrative into a world conceived differently than how ours works. All a story requires is coherence with its own premises.
Seriously I think your appeal to "reality" is mainly just an excercise in personal incredulity and based on what you deem to be a possible reaction, and you project that outside, without recognizing other possibilities are just as "realistic" given the kinds of variations between people. Some people don't cave in to a mediocre blackmail attempt, some do [especially if they have conflicting motivations, for example a "blackmail" can be just the cover they were waiting for as a permission to do what is asked - and this may not be explicit, but one can always assume, that if a blackmail material is not too damning or strong, sudden compliance may also reveal a willingness beyond the power of the blackmail itself].
Not all good fiction has to work for the backdrop of a baseline understanding of reality. In fact challenging that reality is what makes a good fiction better. For me anyways.
Btw, I saw this appeal to "realism" coming from maledom people in femdom game threads, in that case as a thinly veiled attempt to push the authority of what they perceive as realistic to basically say: reality agrees with my fetishes more, so you must set up your game in such a way as to match with "reality" better, hence by proxy making a game for me rather than the femdom "betas". Ignoring the fact that making an adult game is done not to fit any conception of reality [which I would also contest as being accurate], but to fit the aimed at fetishes. No adult game will abandon the desired erotic content in favor of someone else's notion of realism. Especially if that concept of realism is basically as such as to make the desired content impossible or very hard to implement.
Its really interesting tho, that this lamenting of realism is not as frequent an issue plaguing maledom games with orcs and goblins, with willing bimbo females at their beck and call, yet when its a femdom fantasy setting with a male submitting to a female for whatever inner or outer reason, suddenly it must make sense not only in the framework of the fantasy world created with the specific purpose to allow for this to occur, but also in the world of your average redneck brute somewhere in a Texas pub. I would beg to differ, that a redneck's concept of how people should act is an accurate description of reality, let alone a metric which should be the gold standard of judging narrative coherence.
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Most often than not it is not actual "self respect", but the fear of social ostracization and social shaming for its perceived lack which would stop some of us instantly submitting to a beautiful female if asked, especially in public. Its the fear of losing your public image [and the negative consequences of prejudice], even if you disagree with the norms which govern the formation of public judgments, most of us realizes that said judgments as arbitrary as they are, they are reified enough to act as "real" forces in society. Fiction has the freedom to ignore the common prudishness and ego issues plaguing social reality. That's not bad, its liberating. Why should a work of fiction be so repressed as to limit even imagination to the boundaries of a fake society's standards of action and reaction?