After Transmigrating, I Married the Male Lead’s Sister (GL) - Chapter 16
Li Suimei smiled, and many people were captivated by her smile. After one person after another was sent to the 4th floor room, Fu Yanxiao and the people around her stared at Li Suimei with their mouths slightly open.
“You…”
Someone handed Li Suimei a cigarette, and Li Suimei smiled and waved it away, “Good girls don’t smoke, thank you.”
The billiard room was quiet, and occasionally, they could hear moans coming from upstairs.
What a bullshit!.
Everyone rolled their eyes together.
“Let’s go.” Li Suimei threw away her cue, bent down to pat her skirt, and waved goodbye to Fu Yanxiao.
At the door, a waiter handed her an exquisite paper bag. Li Suimei opened it and saw her changed clothes and Qin Qing’s suit.
Li Suimei returned to Qin Bay that night. Although she had bought a house, she hadn’t cleaned the new house, and her clothes hadn’t been moved in yet. It would probably take two or three days to settle everything.
When she returned to Qin Bay, it was already late. Her hands were a little sore and weak from holding the cue stick for a long time. After drinking and confronting Gu Linxi today, she was not only physically tired but also mentally exhausted. But she still forced her eyelids open, washed and dried Qin Qing’s clothes, and asked the maid to get an iron to carefully iron the clothes.
Then she took a photo, posted it on her Moments, and set it to be visible only to Qin Qing.
After doing all this, Li Suimei hammered her shoulders, clicked on Qin Qing’s cat face avatar, and looked at it again and again.
Li Suimei: “Sister, don’t let me down.”
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“Off work?” Zhou Kai stuck his head in from the door and asked Qin Qing.
Qin Qing nodded, rubbing her wrist.
She had rushed back from the bar street after an urgent meeting in Australia and had been in a video conference for over two hours. It was now a quarter past twelve, and she had just finished.
The temperature was low at night, and the air conditioner was set low. Qin Qing covered her mouth and sneezed.
Zhou Kai walked in and turned off the air conditioner. “Where are your clothes?”
Qin Qing pressed her forehead and replied tiredly, “I gave them to Li Suimei.”
Zhou Kai dragged out a long “oh,” “That’s a coincidence, look at this.”
On the screen was a photo of the protagonist she had just seen that night. She was wearing a white dress with Chinese-style buttons, holding a cue stick, and looking at the opposite side with slightly raised eyebrows.
She looked very energetic.
Qin Qing frowned, “What is this?”
Zhou Kai, “Zhao Yi sent it. She said you didn’t reply to her message. Is it Li Suimei?”
Qin Qing nodded.
Zhou Kai, “Wow, she was gambling in the bar street, won seven or eight people, not only gave them the Blue Paris but also locked them in a room to fend for themselves…”
“Is she really the little white rabbit in your family?”
“She’s quite good at pretending.” Qin Qing sneered.
Zhou Kai, “Pretending?”
Qin Qing pulled open a drawer, took out a tissue and wiped her hands, “She’s pretending for me, for Zhao Yi, or maybe she wants to pretend for Qin Zhan through me.”
Zhou Kai had a feeling that he had missed a big drama, “Explain!”
Qin Qing, “Tonight I went to West Street and saw Li Suimei gambling with Zhao Yi, and she lost.”
Zhou Kai was very good at extracting the main points, “You go to West Street, and she loses. You leave, and Li Suimei starts winning big?”
Qin Qing leaned back in her chair helplessly and asked, “What do you want to say?”
Zhou Kai, “Li Suimei likes you!”
Qin Qing: “…….”
“Nonsense.”
Zhou Kai laughed, “Don’t think I’m making things up. Just wait, if Li Suimei finds you within three days, then what I said is right.”
Qin Qing didn’t want to argue with him. The last time she listened to Zhou Kai’s nonsense, she almost wavered. She coldly interrupted him, “You’re so talkative.”
“Damn… more talkative than you? Two or three words, and you’re trying to piss people off! Annoying!”
Zhou Kai left the office. Qin Qing took her car keys and went downstairs. While waiting for the elevator, Qin Qing took out her phone and opened her Moments. After a while, she swiped up and saw a familiar picture.
Her suit was neatly laid out on the table, with the iron placed beside it. Li Suimei didn’t add any captions, but there were two default smiley face emojis.
The elevator arrived, and Qin Qing put away her phone and walked in.
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The Next Day.
The sun was shining brightly. Li Suimei, who had transmigrated, hadn’t gone to work since she arrived. She left home a little earlier than usual, skipped breakfast, and clutched a paper bag as she got into the car, urging the driver to drive to the Qin Corporation.
Gu Linxi arrived at the company early as usual. She was accustomed to arriving at her office half an hour early, briefly organizing her work for the day, getting a strong cup of tea from the tea room, and then, as usual, running into Qin Zhan who had the same habit of arriving early.
The two of them didn’t speak, they just passed each other, but their expressions were not good.
“Linxi.”
Suddenly, Qin Zhan called out to Gu Linxi.
Gu Linxi turned around and looked at Qin Zhan with a hurt expression, “Mr. Qin, I think it’s better if we keep our distance from now on. Miss Li is your fiancee, and it’s not good to keep letting her misunderstand.”
Qin Zhan frowned, but before he could speak, Gu Linxi had returned to her seat with her cup.
He watched as Gu Linxi sat in a corner near the corridor. There were miscellaneous items piled up in the corner, and even her desk was messy, with two unknown cups placed haphazardly on it.
Gu Linxi calmly moved them away, and dust flew up. She suddenly leaned back and coughed violently.
Someone supported her shoulder.
Qin Zhan: “Be careful.”
Li Suimei felt a tinge of green on her head. When she read novels before, she was too focused on screaming, but now that she was in this situation, she realized that Gu Linxi was also quite a master at playing the victim.
Looking at it this way, Qin Zhan also had quite a bit of potential to be a scumbag.
Oh well, Li Suimei glanced at the bag she was carrying. She was also quite a green tea b*tch herself.
Li Suimei walked straight to her desk. The wind she created as she walked quickly disturbed the peaceful corner, and Gu Linxi’s face turned pale as she pushed Qin Zhan away.
Qin Zhan also frowned at Li Suimei. Li Suimei put down her bag, took the paper bag, and glanced at Qin Zhan as she left, “Sorry, I thought I would be late, but I mistakenly remembered the work start time and actually arrived a few minutes early.”
Qin Zhan felt a burning sensation on the palm of his hand that had touched Gu Linxi. The clarity in Li Suimei’s eyes made him feel inexplicably guilty.
Qin Zhan asked, “Where are you going?”
Li Suimei replied, “I’m going to return Sister Qin Qing’s clothes and thank her for helping me last night.”
Qin Zhan hadn’t answered Li Suimei’s call last night. He was simply furious with Li Suimei and the Li family’s bid.
When Li Suimei mentioned it, it was clear something had happened last night, but since she wasn’t volunteering information, Qin Zhan didn’t plan to ask further.
As Li Suimei carried the bag, her eyes met Gu Linxi’s. Gu Linxi looked at her with misty eyes, and Li Suimei suddenly realized something.
Qin Zhan hadn’t come to help her last night because Li Suimei had leaked the bidding budget to Ji Wenjing, and Li Enhua had taken the project with the budget, making Qin Zhan angry that Li Suimei had deceived him.
But she clearly hadn’t sent the budget to Ji Wenjing; she had only sent a normal greeting.
Moreover, Qin Zhan had watched the surveillance footage and still didn’t trust her, which meant there might be someone else who knew about the project’s budget and whom Qin Zhan hadn’t suspected of leaking it.
Could it be?
Li Suimei thought to herself that as a butterfly flapping its wings in the Pacific, even after spitting bl00d, she still couldn’t change the original storyline.
Arriving on the 18th floor, it was already past the office check-in time. The company was bustling with people. Li Suimei followed the ceiling signs and went straight to the president’s office.
She knocked on the office door hesitantly a few times, but no one answered.
“Knock knock.”
“Knock knock.”
No one was inside. The president’s office had been working overtime collectively last night, so according to the usual practice, they could be late in the morning as long as it didn’t affect their work.
“The door isn’t locked.”
“Gurgling…”
The gurgling sound of her stomach overlapped with the low murmur behind her. Li Suimei didn’t hear clearly. Her hand landed on the doorknob, and as she turned around, she accidentally opened the door.
Li Suimei: “Qin, Sister Qin Qing.”
Qin Qing sighed helplessly and reached out to push her away, “What is it?”
After entering, there was a large space, a corridor, and a separated office area. Next to it was the assistant’s office, and at the end was Qin Qing’s office.
The president’s office was ridiculously large.
Li Suimei rubbed the back of her hand, “…I’m here to return your clothes.”
Qin Qing nodded, “Why didn’t you leave them at Qin Bay?”
“……”
Qin Qing looked at her with a playful smile in her peach blossom eyes, as if saying, “I see through your lie.”
Li Suimei: “……”
Damn! She messed up! Qin Bay was Qin Qing’s home. She had taken the trouble to wash and iron the clothes and brought them from home. The meaning of her gesture was too obvious!
“That was unnecessary,” Qin Qing’s expression turned cold as she looked at Li Suimei, “What are you thinking?”
Li Suimei twisted the hem of her clothes, “Thinking…”
Unable to think of anything to say, she casually replied, “I can’t think straight.”
T/N: Hahahaha… Caught red-handed again? 😆