After Transmigrating, I Married the Male Lead’s Sister (GL) - Chapter 41
The next morning, Qin Qing arrived at the company and saw something placed on her desk.
“Who sent this?” Qin Qing narrowed her eyes, glancing casually at the delicately wrapped little box.
Fang, her assistant, pointed to someone slightly behind her. “Miss Li had someone send it over. If President Qin doesn’t want it, I’ll just have it disposed of?”
Qin Qing sneered. “Dispose of yourself first.” (T/N: Hahahaha… My tummy hurts from laughing)
Assistant Fang: “…….”
If she didn’t want it, she didn’t want it. Why throw a knife at her heart so early in the morning.
Assistant Fang: “Cough, then I’ll go busy myself.”
Qin Qing nodded, pulled out her chair and sat down, flipping open a document from the side, then suddenly said, “Take it away.”
Assistant Fang stumbled at the door, leaned back, and both legs were already out the door when Qin Qing called out, “Huh?”
“Dispose of it.” Qin Qing didn’t even look at the box of pastries on the table, and signed her name at the bottom with a pen.
Assistant Fang left and came back. She carefully took the box of pastries from the table and said cautiously, “Then I’ll dispose of it?”
Qin Qing’s pen tip scratched the white paper, and she said indifferently, “Mm.”
“…….”
Assistant Fang held the pastries and left the office, finally sharing the pastries with her colleagues in the assistant’s office with a frightened heart.
The assistants in the assistant’s office would gather together to discuss their boss daily.
“I don’t know why, but her face has been changing from sunny to stormy all morning.”
“Hiss, is she under too much pressure?”
“Workaholics will also complain about work pressure?”
Someone said casually, “I’ve eaten this pastry at Keke before. Who bought it?”
Assistant Fang’s eyes were like torches, scanning the crowd. “What?”
The person said, “Keke, a box of seven small pastries costs four figures. I’ve eaten it twice…”
“This is handmade by President Qin’s fiancee.” Assistant Fang interrupted.
“…Ah, I remembered wrong?”
A bunch of people looked at each other, then dispersed one after another.
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The sun was scorching hot. Li Suimei held a small white umbrella and stood on one side of the muddy road. The sprinkler truck circled from her left to her right, then from the front to the back. The two water pipes under the car flexibly avoided her feet, and the surroundings were wet, only Li Suimei, as the center, was dry within a few meters.
Li Suimei: “……”
The driver greeted her, “Little sister! Where are you from, and what are you doing here?”
Li Suimei smiled and waved, “I’m here to find someone!”
The green light was on, and she pinched the handle of the umbrella and left from under the overpass. The sunlight poured down from above, and the people around turned to look at Li Suimei.
Ignoring these subtle glances, Li Suimei felt a sense of familiarity in this place. Before she crossed over, she was also born here.
“Hey! Make way!”
Li Suimei reflexively covered herself with an umbrella, and after a splash, she carefully moved the top of the umbrella.
An old lady upstairs held a showerhead and asked her, “Yo, girl, did you get wet?”
Li Suimei’s skirt was wet, and the water blurred the dark gray of the skirt, “Grandma, I’m fine.”
She looked up and asked, “I’m looking for someone surnamed Gu, do they live here?”
Li Suimei stood under the sun, her umbrella held up. Her forehead was full, her nose was straight, and her chin had a perfect curve. The draft lifted her long hair, making Li Suimei stand out starkly against the alleyway plastered with advertisements and filled with miscellaneous items.
“The Gu family? It’s right over there!” the old lady pointed to one side.
Gu Linxi, dressed in a suit and holding a bicycle, her nails almost digging into her palm, locked eyes with Li Suimei. She asked, “What are you doing here?”
Li Suimei replied, “Have you paid me back for my skirt?”
Gu Linxi gritted her teeth, “I will! Just get out of the way!”
The alley was narrow and both sides were piled with clutter, so Gu Linxi couldn’t push her bike past. She said again, “Move.”
Li Suimei stepped aside, “Going back to the Qin family?”
Gu Linxi paused, “No.”
Li Suimei smiled, “I’m here to tell you, the date for my engagement to Qin Zhan has been set.”
Gu Linxi turned around abruptly, her eyes red as she questioned Li Suimei, “Why are you telling me this? To show off? To threaten me?”
Li Suimei replied, “Is that not allowed?”
Gu Linxi’s face turned ashen, “……”
“But you got it wrong,” Li Suimei turned her head, “I’m not competing with you. The one who lost in this one-sided love is you.”
Gu Linxi pushed the bike away and rushed to Li Suimei, raising her hand high. Before it could land, a crisp sound rang out in the alley!
Li Suimei pressed down on the sweetness in her mouth and looked at Gu Linxi who was standing still with her hand still raised in mid-air, “What’s wrong, want to hit me?”
“I’ve seen plenty of women like you who want to climb the social ladder,” Li Suimei sneered, passing Gu Linxi with her umbrella, “It’s really ugly.”
Li Suimei left, leaving Gu Linxi alone standing there. She looked up at the sky above, a few meters high wall enclosing her hometown where she had lived for more than 20 years.
A place she had struggled to escape from. The high wall seemed to extend infinitely, as if it would lock her in this narrow alley for the rest of her life.
“Hello?”
Gu Linxi answered a call.
“Linxi, your friend helped Dad pay back the money. Why don’t you treat someone to dinner to thank him?”
Gu Linxi replied, “Dad, you should gather the money from your savings account and give it back to him.”
“Gu Linxi! That’s my retirement money!” A scolding voice came from the other end of the phone. Gu Linxi frowned and hung up the phone. She stood there and sent a text message.
[Thank you.]
She waited for a while, but Qin Zhan didn’t reply.
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In the afternoon, Li Suimei met her cousin, Li Minglang, at a hotel. The real person seemed a bit different from her memory. Maybe it was because it had been too long since their last meeting, but Li Minglang looked very different from the image she had in her mind.
“Minglang!” Li Suimei waved. She was sitting on a sofa in the hotel’s lobby. Li Minglang walked over, his long legs striding. The young man had an indescribable elegance about him.
“Meimei”
“Call me brother!”
Li Suimei: “… Brother Minglang.”
“Stinky girl, how long has it been since you’ve contacted your brother?” A weight fell on her head as Li Minglang wrapped his arm around Li Suimei’s neck, ruffling her hair with his big hand. “I miss you so much, how long has it been since we last met?”
Li Suimei tugged at the corner of her mouth. In her memory, her cousin didn’t seem to like her much.
“Have you become even more beautiful?” Li Minglang asked.
Li Suimei cupped her face, “Really?”
“Silly girl.”
Li Suimei could only smile twice and then asked, “What are you doing in Haishi?”
“Making games!” Li Minglang patted his chest. “Come work for me later, draw pictures for me, and I’ll give you a high salary!”
No wonder Li Minglang had quarreled with his family. Li Suimei smiled wryly. Li Minglang’s parents were from an old-fashioned family business and didn’t like to get involved in new things. When Li Minglang was obsessed with games, he had been scolded a lot by them.
Li Suimei said, “I’ll just design the office decoration for you.”
Li Minglang laughed and ruffled Li Suimei’s hair again, “Girl, my game is already taking shape, and it’s about to go online. I’m here in Haishi to rely on you!”
Li Suimei: “…I’ve only been here for a short time too.”
“Don’t you have the Qin family?” Li Minglang nudged her shoulder.
Li Suimei: “……”
With no other choice, Li Suimei reluctantly took him to see Qin Qing. According to Li Minglang, he was still short of startup funds. What was he short of? He was short of the money to rent a floor of office space in this expensive city.
Li Suimei was surprised, “Do you have that many employees?”
“Yes,” Li Minglang straightened his suit at the door of Qin Qing’s office. “For the sake of starting a business, I’ve lost all my belongings. This is my last high-end suit, and I’ve worn it many times. Do I look okay?”
Li Suimei: “…Fine.”
Li Minglang: “Do I look handsome?”
Li Suimei: “You’re handsome to death!”
“Good girl, I’m going in.” Li Minglang pushed the door open and walked in with his head held high.
“…….”
Li Suimei returned to the 15th floor and went to her office desk, which she hadn’t sat at in a long time. She sat down and noticed that Gu Linxi’s seat was empty. Her own workstation was also empty, and David hadn’t assigned her any work.
The people around her didn’t dare to talk to her much for the time being, so Li Suimei leaned back and daydreamed for a while.
Where had the plot developed to? She and Qin Zhan were confirmed to be engaged, with the time tentatively set for mid-next year. The parents of both sides had officially met, and Gu Linxi had been expelled from the group by Qin Qing. Qin Zhan was now arguing with Qin Qing over this matter, and the Qin family was still pressuring Qin Zhan. After a while, the budding love between the male and female leads would die in its cradle.
Until one accidental encounter, the unspoken love between the two would completely ignite.
Before that, as the female supporting character, the original character had often flaunted her success in front of Gu Linxi.
Well, the vicious female supporting character incident is complete.
It’s just that in the book, the original character was the one who got slapped. Today, I slapped Gu Linxi back, and I was punished. My chest still hurts a little.
I wonder what happened to the original character? Is she dead or did she travel to her world? Li Suimei thought casually, and then received a message from Ji Wenjing.
[Meimei, Mom and Aunt Liu bought you some clothes. Should I send them to Qin Bay or Jingyuan?]
Li Suimei replied, typing, [Send them to Qin Bay.]
Through the screen, Li Suimei could imagine Ji Wenjing and Liu Ruoxi’s smiling faces.
Li Suimei thought for a moment and sent another message to Ji Wenjing, [Mom, I still want to get engaged early, can you talk to Aunt Liu for me?]
Ji Wenjing: [Stinky girl, you never seemed so eager before, why are you so eager to get married now?]
Li Suimei: […Pick some more gifts for me, and give them to Aunt Liu and Uncle Qin, as well as Grandma and Sister Qin Qing.]
Preparing gifts was a required course for women in a prominent family, and Ji Wenjing was much more experienced in this than Li Suimei.
After sitting for a while, Li Suimei prepared to return to the 18th floor. At the elevator entrance, she met David, who stopped her. “Hi! Li!”
“David.” Li Suimei smiled.
“You and Zhan are getting engaged, right?”
Li Suimei: “It’s already in the plan.”
David stroked his chin, “Then do you know why Qin has been in a bad mood lately?”
“Bad mood?” Li Suimei’s voice rose. It shouldn’t be related to me!
“I don’t know why, but Qin has been daydreaming a lot during meetings recently!” David spread his hands, as if daydreaming during meetings was a very absurd thing. “And she even approved two wrong documents the other day!”
Li Suimei hummed, “That’s a bit too much.”
David shrugged and pressed the elevator button for Li Suimei, “Li, I hope your smile can heal Qin. Bye!”
Li Suimei: “…Bye.”
Her smile heals Qin Qing? It’s more like depressing her.
On the 18th floor, the assistant’s office was noisy, with a group of assistants guarding the door, peeking in curiously.
“What’s going on?” Li Suimei walked over.
Assistant Fang laughed, “A stranger came and talked about his ideals with the president. He went in with a whiteboard just now and is still drawing a pie in the sky!”
Li Suimei: “……”
Assistant Fang: “Sorry, Miss Li, I shouldn’t have said that in front of you.”
Li Suimei rubbed her forehead, “It’s okay, let me hear what he said.”
The assistants made way for her, and a gap was left at the door of Qin Qing’s office. Li Minglang’s voice leaked out, “…My game definitely has a market. You see, in addition to the basic settings of online games on the market, we have added entertainment-oriented PK.”
Qin Qing nodded slightly, “Gambling is no longer allowed.”
Li Minglang choked, “Why! It’s just a simple pet racing and betting! It’s the same as horse racing!”
Qin Qing was expressionless, “The game market is too young for this kind of plan to pass the review.”
“Then I’ll add a paid feature! Screen users!” Li Minglang said, “This casino will definitely be very popular! Domestic testing will start soon…”
“The project is already operating overseas, and it’s very playable! Take this wealth ranking as an example, there was a poor guy who cried poor in the game, and as a result, players spontaneously donated to send him to the top of the wealth ranking!”
“And there’s a level system…”
“It’s very interesting! President Qin, you can join and play…”
After discussing the game’s market, Li Minglang started to pitch his business plan to Qin Qing. He took out a business plan from his briefcase and handed it to Qin Qing, who casually put it aside.
Li Suimei: “…….”
Li Suimei knocked on the door, and Qin Qing’s calm voice came from inside the office.
“Come in.”
Li Suimei: “Sister Qin Qing.”
Qin Qing glanced at her and said, “No need to use my full name. What is it?”
Li Suimei coughed lightly, but before she could speak, Li Minglang pulled her in front of Qin Qing, “President Qin, for the sake of being family in the future! Please help me!”
Li Suimei chuckled dryly, “Qin, Sister Qin, did you eat the pastries I sent you?”
Qin Qing: “I disposed of them.”
“…….”
Li Suimei felt that there was no point in continuing this conversation. She wanted to pull Li Minglang away. An office was just an office. They didn’t have to rent it from the Qin Corporation. Couldn’t they rent a cheaper one in a more remote apartment building?
“Brother, let’s go.”
Qin Qing quickly took a document from the drawer, put down her pen, signed the contract, and pushed it to Li Minglang, “I’ll give you a floor to use.”
Li Suimei: “…….”
Li Minglang: “……”
“Damn!” Li Minglang was overjoyed, “I’ve talked myself dry, and it turns out it’s not as effective as your little act of pouting!”
Having obtained the use of a floor, Li Minglang left the building with Li Suimei, feeling refreshed.
Li Suimei: “I wasn’t pouting.”
“If you weren’t pouting, why did you make her pastries?” Li Minglang asked. “And you called her ‘sister’ so sweetly?”
Li Suimei: “……”
Li Minglang waved his hand, “Okay, I’m leaving. Let’s talk about this later. Thanks! I’ll treat you to a meal another day!”
Li Suimei shook her head, “No need.”
It seemed that Li Minglang was really broke. He didn’t even drive, and he hailed a taxi on the roadside. He opened the door and said, “If you don’t want a meal, how about I give you some shares in the company?”
Li Suimei nodded immediately.
“Little money-grubber.” Li Minglang laughed and got into the car and left the building.
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Over the next few days, Li Suimei was busy with the zoo. She reduced the number of social gatherings and parties she attended, and suddenly had a lot of free time. After working hard for several days, the zoo’s design was basically finalized. She planned to take some time to go there and conduct a field inspection.
It’s just that the past two days haven’t been good. The wedding dress designer arranged by Liu Ruoxi finally had a slot, and she’s going back to Qin Bay today to get her measurements and try on a couple of little dresses.
In the afternoon, Li Suimei left Jingyuan and drove to Qin Bay, only to find Qin Qing’s car parked at the door.
Li Suimei rubbed her nose. Li Minglang’s company was already preparing to move in, and after he told Li Suimei the sky-high rent for the 1st floor of the Qin Corporation building based on market prices, Li Suimei nearly dropped her jaw.
The Qin family must be really rich, and Qin Qing might be even richer, Li Suimei thought. She carried her skirt and went inside.
Liu Ruoxi and Ji Wenjing were downstairs. Qin Qing was not there, and Li Suimei breathed a sigh of relief. A few people surrounded her and stuffed some clothes into Li Suimei’s hands.
“Do you need to get your measurements taken? Actually, I already know them, I can just report them.”
Ji Wenjing patted Li Suimei, “Silly girl! Such an important occasion as an engagement, there can’t be any mistakes!”
Li Suimei rubbed the back of her hand, and Liu Ruoxi smiled and urged her to go upstairs to try on the dresses.
Li Suimei took the clothes upstairs to change. The door to the adjacent study was ajar, and Qin Qing should be busy inside. She carefully returned to her room, locked the door, and began to undress.
The dress she was wearing was a sleeveless A-line design, knee-length, and her chest was very prominent. Li Suimei raised her hand to cover her chest and looked in the mirror, wanting to change her clothes.
There was a knock at the door. Li Suimei grabbed a piece of clothing to cover her chest and opened the door.
“Sister Qin?”
Li Suimei was stunned. Qin Qing had also changed into a white long dress. The bodycon design of the long dress perfectly showed off Qin Qing’s perfect figure. The delicate embroidery on her chest couldn’t steal the spotlight. Her hair was permed into large curls and draped behind her, making Qin Qing look intellectual and mature.
Her brows were furrowed, making her eyes look sharp. She looked down at Li Suimei with an expression of impatience.
“Change and come downstairs.”
Li Suimei: “…I’ll take it off first.”
Qin Qing: “Doesn’t it fit?”
Li Suimei answered awkwardly, “It’s a bit tight.”
Qin Qing understood and subconsciously looked at her chest, then quickly looked away, “Go change, I’ll wait for you here.”
Li Suimei nodded and closed the door to change clothes.
Qin Qing waited at the door. Three minutes passed, five minutes passed, and ten minutes passed, but there was no movement from inside.
Qin Qing knocked on the door, “What’s wrong?”
Soon, Li Suimei’s voice came from inside, sounding like she was about to cry, “The zipper is stuck, I can’t zip it up.”
Author’s note: To meet the deadline of midnight, this chapter is a bit short. I’ll try to double update tomorrow…
T/N: Oh~ opportunity came knocking… Sister Qin, do your best!