After Transmigrating, I Married the Male Lead’s Sister (GL) - Chapter 7
Li Suimei refused without hesitation, “No.”
Fu Yanxiao’s mouth twitched. She wanted to simply let go of Li Suimei’s hand but held back, saying, “I’m not going to bother you when I work there. Aren’t you the future daughter-in-law of the Qin family? It’s just a small matter, and you can just say a word!”
Li Suimei pulled her hand away, “No means no.”
Fu Yanxiao: “…Fine, we’ll see about that!”
After she left, the girls who had been standing nearby gathered around Fu Yanxiao again.
“Xiaoxiao, why did you talk to her like that? Don’t you know what kind of person Li Suimei is?”
“Yeah, she’s not willing to help with such a small matter, no wonder she has no friends in City A.”
“It’s so annoying. Xiaoxiao shouldn’t have invited her, it was a waste of an invitation.”
Li Suimei: “……”
These young ladies had such low quality.
She was a bit angry and felt that the original character would have thrown a tantrum. She glanced at the few girls who were gloating a few steps away and felt it was meaningless.
These paper characters in the book would also slap her in the face when she was down.
“Is she Li Suimei from City A? Isn’t the Li family’s business here?”
“What does her family do?”
“Oh, they run a supermarket. No wonder she has such a nouveau riche vibe.”
“Pfft, don’t say that, I heard that her grandfather and Qin’s grandfather were comrades-in-arms. This arranged marriage didn’t work out for the younger generation, so she’s shamelessly trying to get engaged to the grandson’s generation, isn’t that quite embarrassing?”
“Hahaha.”
The girls giggled softly. Li Suimei clicked her tongue, gathered the white lace sunscreen on her sleeve, walked over, and slapped the face of one who was particularly smug.
“Ah!”
The art exhibition required a quiet atmosphere. Today, Fu Yanxiao, the wealthy young lady of Haishi, was holding an exhibition, and besides a few friends, there were also many industry insiders, journalists, and collectors who came to show their support.
This powerful slap made the girl who was hit burst into tears immediately.
Fu Yanxiao looked embarrassed and quickly had someone stop the reporters and guests from taking photos.
“Woo woo woo woo woo woo.”
“Ah!” Fu Yanxiao waved her hand, “Why are you crying? You were the one who started the insults!”
The girl looked up, her face filled with shock as she stared at Fu Yanxiao.
Li Suimei was also stunned by Fu Yanxiao’s brazen behavior as a fake sister.
Fu Yanxiao is now on Li Suimei’s side, and the chaos at the scene was quickly handled. Li Suimei has become one of Fu Yanxiao’s many superficial friends. Standing in the crowd, listening to a group of girls softly discussing Fu Yanxiao’s painting, she almost couldn’t react.
Someone casually mentioned, “That’s just an 18th-tier celebrity, always trying to suck up to Xiaoxiao, just to get a role.”
Fu Yanxiao waved her hand, glanced at Li Suimei, and said, “What are you looking at me for? Do I have more celebrities than you?”
Li Suimei: “……Don’t talk nonsense.”
Fu Yanxiao clicked her tongue, “I helped you, remember to repay my favor.”
Li Suimei: “What did you help me with?”
Fu Yanxiao: “……”
What she meant was, of course, helping Li Suimei deal with those reporters and that C-list influencer, “How can you be so thick-skinned?”
Li Suimei: “…Are you that thick-skinned? Why didn’t you stop them from cursing at me?”
Fu Yanxiao closed her mouth.
Continuing to look at the art exhibition was no longer interesting. As Li Suimei exited the Global Center, she saw the tall building standing next to it.
——Qin Corporation.
Li Suimei rubbed her arms. She had left the art exhibition early, and the driver hadn’t come to pick her up yet. She thought to herself, in such a tall building, it couldn’t be that she would run into Qin Qing, right?
Li Suimei grabbed a small bag and ran to a nearby coffee shop, ordered a cup of coffee, turned on the air conditioning, and played on her phone.
The phone isn’t much fun, and she doesn’t have any friends. The only thing she cares about is Qin Zhan, who is on a business trip in City W.
Qin Qing held the position of corporation president, and Qin Zhan’s health had improved a lot compared to before. He was no longer as weak as he used to be and wanted to help his sister share some of the workload.
Qin Qing then took the opportunity to arrange for him to go to City W, to avoid the endless entanglement with Li Suimei at home.
Qin Zhan listened. He was criticized by Li Suimei, which also became an opportunity for his self-growth. Li Suimei despised him for being weak, holding shares but not doing any real work, so he went to learn, always thinking about gaining Li Suimei’s approval.
Li Suimei rested her chin on her hand, a bit bored, as she scrolled through the chat messages sent by Qin Zhan.
According to this timeline, Qin Zhan, as the male lead, has already met the female lead, Gu Linxi, and due to a series of misunderstandings, they ended up living together. They have already developed a bit of mutual affection in their hearts.
For example, today, the news that Qin Zhan used to provide every day has already decreased significantly. Once he brings back Gu Linxi, who had a difficult birth, from City W, the story will kick off with the satisfying scenes of tormenting the vicious female supporting character and pampering the female lead.
Then, Qin Zhan would realize that he never truly loved Li Suimei; what he loved was merely the vitality and vigor in Li Suimei that he had lacked since childhood.
Li Suimei sighed, thinking to herself, “Summer has already come; how far can winter be?”
The coffee shop is elegantly decorated, and since it is located under the Qin Building, no matter how expensive a cup of coffee is, there are always people to buy it. Some white-collar workers come and go to consume.
There are even quite a few large companies that rent studios upstairs or in the surrounding area, including both male and female celebrities from the entertainment industry.
Li Suimei propped her chin waiting for the driver, feeling drowsy. Her forehead was slowly inching closer to the table, and just as it was about to hit the surface, a cool, smooth hand caught her forehead.
Li Suimei suddenly woke up, looked up, and saw Qin Qing frowning at her.
Li Suimei: “…”
What a small world.
Qin Qing was with another person, a handsome man with thick eyebrows and big eyes.
Li Suimei stirred her coffee cup and didn’t greet Qin Qing. She had been caught red-handed by Qin Qing too many times and was afraid that Qin Qing would find her stupid and dislike her more and more.
Originally, she thought that Qin Qing, with someone with her, would find a separate seat, but she reached out and moved away the coffee in front of Li Suimei, and sat down with the man.
Li Suimei retracted her finger and accidentally touched Qin Qing’s back of the hand. When Qin Qing glanced at her, Li Suimei hurriedly averted her gaze.
Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Qin Qing take out two documents, handing one to the man opposite, while signing another herself.
Li Suimei noticed that the man opposite had been looking at her, and she felt a bit baffled. Then she heard Qin Qing ask, “Do you two know each other?”
Rong Yi smiled, “Miss Li helped me before.”
Qin Qing raised an eyebrow, “Ex-boyfriend?”
“…”
She didn’t know who to ask, so Li Suimei just kept quiet and pretended not to understand.
Rong Yi shook his head and said, “I pursued her, but I didn’t succeed.”
Qin Qing nodded, signed the contract under her hand and pushed it to Rong Yi, “The movie contract, do you want to take another look?”
Rong Yi shook his head, “I trust you.”
Although he was talking to Qin Qing, his eyes were looking at Li Suimei.
Li Suimei: “…”
Qin Qing was displeased, “She’s a Qin family member.”
Rong Yi looked disappointed and soon signed the contract, pressed his handprint, picked up his things and left.
After the man left, Qin Qing glared at Li Suimei.
“…”
It was difficult to look at Qin Qing directly, so she managed to speak up and argued for herself, “Well, he’s just a pursuer. I can’t stop others from liking me, can I?”
That sounded so green tea-ish! And she deliberately pouted her lips, wondering if Qin Qing would…
Qin Qing seemed to accept her reason and looked away, “You better clean up all your previous boyfriends and girlfriends.”
“…”
Her phone beeped, and Li Suimei’s new phone was placed on the most obvious place on the table. Qin Qing lowered her head and saw Rong Yi’s message.
[Meimei, I miss you. Do you have time tonight?]
Li Suimei: “…”
Li Suimei’s head was as big as a bucket. If Qin Qing misunderstood that she was two-timing, wouldn’t that make her even angrier?
She read the book, and her mind was filled with memories of the relationship between men and women and some trivial details. In the book, the author had only briefly mentioned the original character’s past.
“Have you been supporting Rong Yi?”
Li Suimei coughed, it seemed that the book did mention that Li Suimei had supported a few celebrities, but the original character was very proud, and although she kept several handsome guys around, she never touched them. Li Suimei felt deeply sorry for the original character but didn’t want to show it, so she explained to Qin Qing sincerely, “I just like their movies.”
“It’s not easy for supporting actors to get ahead, I’m just a pure admirer!”
“Sister Qin Qing, why don’t I delete all these people?”
Qin Qing glanced at her, and Li Suimei received the message, then she opened her contacts and started deleting WeChat friends obediently.
She had too many messages, and there were many active people in various groups.
Afraid that Qin Qing would see something she shouldn’t, Li Suimei leaned to the side and tried to hide, but someone turned her back around.
Qin Qing watched her delete friends and suddenly asked, “You listen to me so well?”
Li Suimei was startled.
Qin Qing: “Do you like Zhan’er?”
Here it comes!
The alarm bells went off in Li Suimei’s heart! She quickly said, “I like him.”
Qin Qing frowned. She had easily found out about Li Suimei and Qin Zhan’s situation in City A. Everyone she asked said that Li Suimei didn’t like Qin Zhan, and she had even publicly rejected Qin Zhan at a banquet not long ago.
She knew, and was initially very angry. A project from the Li family was placed on her desk, along with the gossip about Li Suimei rejecting Qin Zhan. She overheard the girl outside telling the maid to be quieter, and after eating the pastries made by Li Suimei herself, she felt that the girl wasn’t as arrogant as the rumors suggested.
She had met Li Suimei when they were younger and only remembered her as being a bit spoiled. Plus, her mother had been getting along well with her recently, and Liu Ruoxi had told her that Li Suimei mentioned Qin Zhan frequently at home and seemed to really like Qin Zhan.
Qin Qing couldn’t figure out what the girl was thinking. She had considered the possibility that the Li family had asked her to pretend, but she did it too well. It was easy for a person to act for a while, but to act all the time seemed a bit unrealistic.
The Qin and Li families had already agreed to the marriage, and she couldn’t arbitrarily go against her grandmother and parents’ wishes and refuse this marriage for Qin Zhan.
Now that she knew Qin Zhan liked Li Suimei, it would be better if she could understand. In any case, there was still time, and she would give them time to develop their relationship.
Li Suimei blinked and placed her phone, which she had cleared completely, in front of Qin Qing.
Qin Qing looked at it and smiled with her peach blossom eyes.
Li Suimei also smiled faintly. Since Qin Qing seemed to be quite tolerant of her, she thought she would try to probe for the answer she wanted.
T/N: Li Suimei have a phobia called Qin Qing hahaha.