After Transmigrating, I Married the Male Lead’s Sister (GL) - Chapter 35
Qin Zhan watched the video and his expression immediately darkened. In the video, Li Suimei was cornered by Hou Kai, and the person recording was quietly muffling their screams…
Qin Zhan couldn’t bear to watch anymore and asked Gu Linxi, “Did you film this?”
Gu Linxi turned pale, “Of course not!”
Qin Zhan took his phone and made a call. After only two minutes, he had arranged everything. When he returned, he handed Gu Linxi’s phone back, and all the related content of the video had been deleted.
“Is the impact serious?” Gu Linxi asked worriedly.
Qin Zhan shook his head, “Besides a small-scale spread, this won’t become a big deal. Zhou Kai should have handled it from the beginning.”
“That’s good.” Gu Linxi lowered her eyes, hiding the disappointment in her eyes.
The club, after being visited by the police, was almost empty. Qin Zhan’s gentle face was filled with confusion, “Linxi, I don’t think I can let go of her that quickly.”
Gu Linxi was stunned. She forced a smile, “You feel sorry for her, don’t you?”
“I only know that I regret…”
Qin Zhan muttered to himself. Gu Linxi looked at him. This frail boy in her impression was like a lost lamb at this moment.
Gu Linxi said softly, “It’s okay, Qin Zhan. I’ll wait for you, wait until you understand your true feelings.”
A drop of rain fell from the night sky and landed on Qin Zhan’s face.
“It’s late, I’ll drive you home first.”
Gu Linxi nodded, “Okay.”
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Li Suimei turned on her phone and was about to open Weibo, but then realized her phone was out of battery.
“…….”
Li Suimei couldn’t help but laugh bitterly. Even the heavens seemed to be against her. She lay back on the cushion, exhausted. Even if she couldn’t see the comments, would they disappear?
Qin Qing asked, “What’s wrong?”
Li Suimei shook her head, “I want to take a few days off.”
Qin Qing rubbed her head, “Okay, then let me trouble you with one more thing.”
Li Suimei was stunned. Qin Qing smiled and rubbed her head again, “Just think of it as a vacation. I’ll give you a week off.”
“We’re here,” Zhou Kai said, and then gestured for Li Suimei and Qin Qing to get out of the car.
Outside, Zhao Yi and Fu Yandu were waiting by the roadside. When they saw Li Suimei, they put away their phones and gave her reassuring smiles.
-They all knew.
Although she was prepared, Li Suimei’s nose turned sour.
Zhou Kai said, “After recording your statement, we can go back. Let’s hurry up!”
“Little White Rabbit, do you want to come home with me?” Zhao Yi put her arm around Li Suimei and rubbed her face, “Were you scared today?”
Fu Yandu lagged behind the others. Looking at Qin Qing who was fiddling with her phone, he coughed and said, “Zhao Yi said the news has been suppressed, but we probably can’t hide it from many people.”
Qin Qing nodded, “We can’t hide it, then just expose your sister too.”
Fu Yandu: “…Okay, I got it!”
“What about the Gu sisters?”
Qin Qing lowered her eyes, her long eyelashes hiding the coldness in her eyes, “Kick them out. Their family owes a lot of money, and I’ll cut off Qin Zhan’s card.”
In the starry night, Li Suimei walked out of the police station. Zhou Kai and the others surrounded her, discussing whether they should go for a late-night snack. Li Suimei, feeling both physically and mentally exhausted, just wanted to go home to sleep.
Fu Yandu was going to the hospital to see Fu Yanxiao, so he suggested dropping Li Suimei off at Jingyuan. After they left, the remaining three got into another car.
“Aren’t you going to send her off?” They had grown up together and had never seen Qin Qing care so much about someone other than family.
Zhou Kai smiled and asked again, “Do you feel sorry for her?”
Qin Qing rubbed her wrist and said, “She and Zhan’er are getting engaged.”
Zhao Yi exclaimed, “Wow! So sudden?”
Zhou Kai: “Sudden? An arranged marriage since childhood, if she were with Huaiyan, that would be sudden. That girl would probably be gossiped about until her spine breaks.”
Qin Qing rubbed her temples. “I’m going on a business trip for half a month. Help me deal with Gu Linxi and don’t let Zhan’er know.”
Zhou Kai started giving bad advice again. “Hey, why don’t you just push your brother and that Gu together? Then if you’re interested in that girl, wouldn’t it be natural?”
Qin Qing didn’t speak.
Zhou Kai opened his mouth in surprise, “Woah! You wouldn’t actually do that, would you?”
Zhao Yi was sitting on the side playing with her phone, constantly searching for tonight’s trending topics on Weibo, confirming that the video hadn’t been uploaded. She said, “No wonder! The news about that Gu person has been circulating in the circle but I haven’t seen you make a move. You’re really something. But it’s agreed, if your brother and Meimei don’t work out, we’ll compete fairly!”
Qin Qing was annoyed by the noise and said, “I don’t have any feelings for her, don’t say that anymore.”
“Ah? You’re kidding me! I think she’s not interested in you!”
“Really not interested? Then I’ll make a move!”
“Okay, okay, let’s not talk about it anymore.” Zhou Kai saw that Qin Qing looked unhappy and hurriedly told Zhao Yi to shut up.
Zhao Yi smiled, not afraid to offend Qin Qing. She didn’t know if Qin Qing liked Li Suimei, but Li Suimei was really good. Someone who hadn’t fought in years had dislocated their hand tonight just to beat up two bodyguards.
Not to mention anything else, she had to make her stance clear.
Qin Qing went straight back to Qin Bay. It was already the middle of the night when she arrived. Liu Ruoxi hadn’t slept yet and was sitting on the sofa in the living room watching TV. When she saw Qin Qing, she called out to her.
“Mom, why aren’t you asleep yet?” Qin Qing walked over and sat down next to Liu Ruoxi.
“I heard some news. The Hou family’s young master was put in jail by you?”
Qin Qing: “Yeah.”
Liu Ruoxi drowned, “His father called me and asked what our Qin family meant by this. He also said that the four big families were bullying their small family.”
“Did he trouble you?” Qin Qing asked.
Liu Ruoxi said, “He didn’t dare, but isn’t this related to Meimei?”
“Hou Kai tricked her to a club and almost…” Qin Qing didn’t finish her sentence, but her expression was very bad.
Liu Ruoxi was startled, “Where is she? Why didn’t you bring her back?”
Qin Qing patted her back, signaling Liu Ruoxi not to get angry. “She’s been sent back to Jingyuan.”
“Then what are we going to do? Will the Hou family let the Li family go?” Liu Ruoxi asked. It wasn’t that she was overly worried, but the Li family wasn’t as good as before, and it had been on the decline.
Qin Qing shook her head. Hou Kai was the only son of the Hou family, and he would definitely do everything he could to get his son out. And Hou Kai was so crazy, it seemed he didn’t want to let Li Suimei go either.
Qin Qing did have an idea, but this idea, before she knew for sure that Li Suimei wasn’t interested in her, she had been a million percent unwilling to use it, but now things were different.
“I think Zhan’er still likes Meimei. Let’s arrange their engagement earlier.”
Liu Ruoxi agreed with this solution. “Just right, yesterday Wenjing called me and said that after Meimei won that award, there were more people going to the Li family to propose marriage. When your father comes back, we’ll discuss this matter. It’s better to settle it earlier.”
Qin Qing: “Okay.”
Liu Ruoxi: “Since she’s going to be your sister-in-law, you should be nicer to Meimei. I see that you haven’t been very nice to her before, you can’t be like that anymore.”
Qin Qing sneered. Was she not good enough? She had almost thrown herself into this.
Qin Qing turned and went upstairs. “Mom, you should go to bed early.”
Liu Ruoxi hummed in response and turned on the TV with the remote.
Qin Qing returned to her study and pulled out an envelope from the drawer of her desk. Inside were two photos. One was of Li Suimei and Qin Zhan, looking very sweet together. The photo seemed to have been well-preserved.
The other was a photo of Qin Zhan and Gu Linxi sitting in a coffee shop, looking at each other. The photo was torn, with barely a bit of glue still holding the bottom together. Without needing to say anything, she could feel the jealousy Li Suimei must have felt when she saw this photo.
Qin Qing lit a cigarette and took a few puffs, her brow furrowed as she stared at the envelope.
The envelope had fallen out of the box that Li Suimei had sent her clothes in. She had given Li Suimei some time off, but she had still come to the company with some snacks. It turned out that she hadn’t come to see her, but to see Qin Zhan.
She had only met Gu Linxi halfway through and was so disappointed in Qin Zhan that she had given the snacks to her instead. And the envelope was just casually put in and forgotten.
Thinking about it this way, everything made sense.
She had been delusional, Qin Qing thought.