After Transmigrating, I Married the Male Lead’s Sister (GL) - Chapter 9.2

The driver took them to a popular restaurant in Haishi. Li Suimei took Qin Zhan to a private room for dinner, and Fu Yanxiao shamelessly followed behind, trying to persuade Qin Zhan to give her a position all the way.

Qin Zhan said, “If my sister agrees, I have no objections.”

Fu Yanxiao pouted, “I’m not trying to die. How could I dare to ask her?”

Li Suimei thought to herself: Yeah, right, as if you’re not trying to die.

During the meal, Li Suimei changed her previous arrogant and domineering personality, serving Qin Zhan food and asking him if he was used to his business trip in City W.

Qin Zhan smiled and looked at Li Suimei tenderly, “Yeah, I’m used to it. In City W…”

He paused, remembering that more than half of his memories of City W involved Gu Linxi. But he adjusted quickly and said normally, “The food there… is delicious.”

Li Suimei said in a clear voice, “You’ve tanned a lot.”

The two of them chatted casually, and Fu Yanxiao poked at her rice bowl boredly, not noticing anything wrong with the atmosphere. Li Suimei even seemed to be chatting happily with Qin Zhan.

Hearing that Li Suimei had publicly rejected Qin Zhan in City A and that the incident had even made the newspapers, how could the two of them be so at ease?

Did Qin Zhan really like Li Suimei so much?

Looking at it this way, it seemed like Li Suimei, who was being attentive and considerate, was more proactive.

Almost finished eating, Li Suimei said, “Qin Zhan, there’s something I want to ask you for help.”

“There’s a project between Qin Corporation and the Li family that’s in conflict. I want to see the contract. Is that possible?”

Fu Yanxiao opened her mouth wide. No wonder Li Suimei was so attentive, tsk tsk, it was really something!

Qin Zhan’s eyes dimmed. Looking at Li Suimei’s expectant gaze, the warmth that had just risen in his heart turned cold again in an instant.

“Meimei, that’s not according to the rules.”

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Qin Zhan returned to the company, and when Fu Yanxiao saw him leave, she found it uninteresting and went to meet her plastic sisters. Li Suimei told the driver to leave and walked alone on the sunny street.

“Mom?” Li Suimei answered the phone, “What’s wrong?”

“Did you see the contract for that project? The bidding budget for Qin Corporation…”

Li Suimei interrupted Ji Wenjing, “Mom, Qin Zhan won’t show it to me.”

There was a moment of silence on the other end, and then Ji Wenjing’s gentle voice came through, “Meimei, you can take a look at it secretly.”

When Ji Wenjing’s voice reached her ears, Li Suimei’s expression showed a moment of confusion. In the book, the original character had been caught red-handed by the female lead, Gu Linxi, when she secretly entered Qin Zhan’s office to steal the contract.

Gu Linxi had been like a righteous woman who had descended from the heavens, nailing the vulnerable and proud original character to the pillar of shame.

And the readers had no idea about the reasons and consequences of the original character’s actions.

Li Suimei was silent for a long time.

Li Suimei said, “Mom, is this project very important?”

Ji Wenjing was silent for a moment, “It’s not very important, Meimei, it’s just that Mom wants to help your father… Mom only has you.”

The last sentence was said with a sob in Ji Wenjing’s voice.

Li Suimei hung up the phone and sighed. In the book, the original character’s parents would divorce after she lost Qin Zhan’s love and the support of the Qin family.

The unequal relationship between the two families, due to their different social statuses, had led to accumulated conflicts.

The Li family could have taken a step further, but without that extra boost, they had been stagnant. Qin Qing could go abroad to develop, but the Li family was always confined to City A, trapped domestically.

The business world was like a battlefield, and times were changing rapidly. The Li family was almost at the end of their rope.

She knew the hardships that Ji Wenjing didn’t say.

Li Suimei walked aimlessly along the road. She was wearing a white dress, and her fair skin glowed from head to toe. Even though it was so sunny, she was sweating so much that her cheeks were flushed and her skin was burning from the sun.

With such a clear and real feeling, how could she doubt the authenticity of the book?

The act of stealing the contract was successful. According to the plot of the book, Gu Linxi would become disgusted with Qin Zhan because of his partiality towards Li Suimei. This would be their first open confrontation, and the original character would merely be a trigger to induce the conflict and clash of values between the male and female leads.

Qin Zhan was helping her now, but in the future, because of his pursuit of his wife, he would deprive the Li family of an even bigger project, causing the Li family to decline.

Li Suimei was lost in thought when a bicycle suddenly rushed out and knocked her down.

A young boy fell to the ground and scrambled to his feet, hurriedly helping Li Suimei up.

Li Suimei was helped to her feet, but her movements were restricted by the pain. She soon discovered that her elbow and one knee were both scraped.

“I’m so sorry! I’m so sorry!” the boy apologized repeatedly. “Let me take you to the hospital!”

Li Suimei shook her head and raised her pale, weak face. She pursed her lips, and her dimples sank slightly, “No need, thank you.”

The boy paused, and soon his face and neck turned red. “I’ll take you to the hospital! I, I, you…”

Li Suimei looked down at her wound and took out a tissue from her bag to wipe away the bl00d that was gushing out.

“No need, I have an urgent matter.” She pushed the boy away and hailed a taxi, “Go to Wetland Park.”

The taxi tail kicked up a cloud of smoke and quickly disappeared from the boy’s sight.

He was stunned. The girl he had knocked down was so badly injured, yet she didn’t even frown.

When she arrived at Qin Bay, Li Suimei got out of the car and walked step by step along the landscaped road lined with trees. After walking a few hundred meters and turning a corner, her slender figure appeared on the road outside the villa.

The security guard in the guardhouse saw Li Suimei limping and quickly ran out, “Miss Li!”

Li Suimei adjusted the gemstone necklace around her earlobe and looked at the tall gate of Qin Bay. She couldn’t be magnanimous, nor could she remain indifferent to the development of events.

She wanted to change the original character’s fate within the limitations she could utilize.

The owner of Qin Bay was not at home, only Qin Qing was resting at home. She had only taken a nap, and Li Suimei had gone out for less than a day. In less than a day, the little girl had covered herself in bl00d.

With tears in her eyes, Li Suimei bit her lip to hold back her tears. Looking at Qin Qing walking downstairs towards her, and then, amidst her unreasonable fussing about how the nanny had been too rough, Qin Qing reluctantly took the tweezers with cotton and cleaned Li Suimei’s wound.

Li Suimei’s eyelashes fluttered, and her voice trembled as she called out to Qin Qing, “…I don’t have any brothers or sisters. Can I call you sister?”

In the book, Qin Qing was the most protective. The love line between the male and female leads was irreversible, but it didn’t say that she couldn’t try to win over the ultimate culprit who had killed the original character—Qin Qing.

As long as she gained Qin Qing’s protection before Qin Zhan and Gu Linxi had completely opened their hearts to each other.

Even if she was robbed of her marriage by Gu Linxi and abandoned by Qin Zhan in the future, and her parents divorced, she would still have Qin Qing.

Qin Qing stared at her red nose for a while, then her soft voice fell, “You can call me that if you want.”

T/N: Oh~