After Transmigrating, I Married the Male Lead’s Sister (GL) - Chapter 17

Li Suimei quietly walked out of Qin Qing’s office, closed the door, leaned against Qin Qing’s office door, and covered her numb chest as she shook her head.

What was Qin Qing doing?

Why did she suddenly smile at her? Did she find what she said funny?

It was really…

Several heads poked out of the assistant’s office window, and when they saw Li Suimei, they quickly retracted their heads.

Li Suimei’s ears turned red, and she pulled at the corner of her mouth, hurriedly leaving the president’s office.

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The design department was in a meeting. It took Li Suimei a while to find the conference room. She had come in such a hurry yesterday that she hadn’t had time to look around the company.

“Come in,” David said.

David, the design director, was a 33-year-old mixed-race man with a rough appearance and mediocre Chinese. He was Qin Qing’s right-hand man in Australia and had been transferred from the 18th floor to the 15th floor to support the newly hired Qin Zhan.

Li Suimei nodded and pulled up a chair. As soon as she sat down, there were two soft coughs from the conference room.

“Ahem! Cough!”

“……”

She glanced over and realized she had sat next to Gu Linxi.

Li Suimei lazily propped up her chin. In the original book, although the original character had moved into the Qin Corporation under the pretext of work and study, she had come very few times. But now that Li Suimei was here, encounters with Gu Linxi were inevitable.

Rubbing her brow, a notebook with a pen was pushed in front of her.

Gu Linxi said, “Use this.”

Li Suimei was a little puzzled, “Don’t you need it?”

“I can remember,” Gu Linxi replied.

Okay, the protagonist had a golden finger, and she couldn’t compare. Li Suimei pressed the notebook under her hand and flipped it open. The notebook was new and had only a few notes. She didn’t look at them and flipped directly to a clean page.

She was just here to make an appearance, so Li Suimei began to listen idly. However, after listening for a while, she couldn’t help but sit up straight, occasionally glancing at Zhang Qiao and occasionally writing and drawing.

She was completely possessed by the spirit of a previous office worker, until David’s speech speed, which switched between English and Chinese, slowed down, and his gaze fell on Li Suimei more and more frequently. The dozen or so employees stopped listening to the meeting and kept turning to look at Li Suimei at the end of the long table, following Zhang’s gaze.

She came back to her senses and looked at Zhang Qiao, who had stopped talking, and asked, “What’s wrong?”

David softened his tone, “Miss Li, is there something wrong with the meeting?”

“No, nothing’s wrong.”

“Then why are you frowning…”

Li Suimei hummed and smoothed her brow, thinking that as an office worker, she would habitually frown or lower her head during meetings to create the appearance of being very serious.

However, Li Suimei rubbed her chin. Having been an employee for a lifetime, she was also a small-time leader. She could easily make small talk.

“There is a bit of a problem, you heard me say…”

“Women’s products don’t necessarily have to follow the traditional theme of shyness…”

Li Suimei: “Do you understand?”

Everyone looked at her with a Spartan expression.

Li Suimei explained patiently, closing her notebook and repeating herself over and over.

By the end, her face was flushed, and she was so passionate and excited that if she hadn’t been mindful of her image, she would have wanted to dance with joy.

David smiled.

Gu Linxi: “……”

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After the morning meeting, Li Suimei’s image in the department had suddenly risen. Originally, people thought she was just a pretty face, but now they realized she had some substance.

However, after leaving the conference room, Li Suimei felt like doing some work. She wandered around for a bit, but found that there was nothing for her to do.

Moreover, there was always a pair of eyes following her.

“Is there something you need?” Li Suimei looked up.

Gu Linxi didn’t speak. She gathered all the meeting notes and turned to go to David’s office.

Li Suimei clicked her tongue and went to the stairwell to make a phone call.

“Mom.”

Ji Wenjing was very excited, “Honey, why didn’t you reply to my WeChat?”

Li Suimei frowned and asked, “Mom, how did Dad know about Qin Zhan’s bidding plan?”

There was a moment of silence on the other end of the phone, and Ji Wenjing said awkwardly, “Honey, your dad might have his own channels…”

“Mom, I asked Dad last night, and he said it was you who told him.” Li Suimei said.

Ji Wenjing was speechless for a moment.

Li Suimei sighed and asked, “Who told you?”

After a lot of questioning, Ji Wenjing reluctantly said that she had received a strange text message. The sender had sent the message using Li Suimei’s name, saying that it was inconvenient to use her own phone and had changed to a new number.

Ji Wenjing was in a hurry at the time. Li Enhua’s bidding budget had been uncertain, and when she received the news, she didn’t even have time to verify its authenticity. She immediately called Li Enhua.

After winning the bid, Li Enhua returned home that night and asked Ji Wenjing about it. After learning the whole story, he scolded Ji Wenjing.

Then he had someone investigate the source of the text message.

“Did you find out?”

Ji Wenjing replied, “Your dad investigated, but he didn’t tell me the result. However, the phone seemed to be a disposable one, and they probably cut it off after using it.”

“Mom, don’t mention this incident.”

Li Suimei hung up the phone and turned around to meet Gu Linxi’s eyes, who had quietly stood behind her.

Those misty eyes, she couldn’t see through them.

“Is there something you want?”

“So, it was really you.” Gu Linxi raised her phone.

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That afternoon, during a leadership meeting, when it was time to report on the department’s work to David, the man in his thirties rolled up his sleeves, revealing his strong biceps, and stood up with a cheerful smile.

After giving the usual report on the 15th floor’s work, David couldn’t resist glancing at Qin Zhan on the other side and casually praised Li Suimei.

“The new employee who recently joined is much better than we expected. She doesn’t seem to be completely inexperienced… her words are very pertinent… and the suggestions she made are also very valuable.”

The design department on the 15th floor had just been established. David had excellent taste but lacked management experience, and because of the hasty transfer, his management methods were still very primitive.

So when he lifted a stack of notebooks onto the table, the expressions of all the high-level executives in the room were momentarily dazed.

David began to add his own personal opinions, “Hey, Zhan’er, your fiancee is very cute!”

Qin Qing was present to guide the meeting. Most of these people had been brought back from Australia by Qin Qing, and they had interacted with her a lot. Qin Qing was not arrogant, and Qin Zhan also had a gentle expression.

Therefore, everyone was quite relaxed, and they often teased David, who had just been transferred from chief designer to management.

The atmosphere was relaxed, and there were two minutes left before the end of work. Qin Qing was sitting in the second seat of the conference table, and Zhou Kai passed her a notebook.

Qin Qing chuckled, “Grading a student’s homework?”

Zhou Kai clicked his tongue, “What’s there to look at in meeting notes? Just give David some face.”

Qin Qing hummed, “If I find the right person, I’ll still transfer him back to be the chief…”

Her voice stopped abruptly.

Zhou Kai turned his head.

On the notebook spread across Qin Qing’s legs, on the page marked with a bookmark, there were a few lines of writing.

In the bottom right corner, a Q-version of Qin Qing with long black hair, big eyes, and a short stature was rolling her eyes and glaring at another Qin Qing with the same long black hair and thick, peach blossom eyes.

The caption read, “What are you looking at?”

Zhou Kai said, “Hey, it’s drawn very vividly!”