CH 20.1

Gu Youchen ignored Shen Zhiqian’s words.

He just gave the other party a meaningful look.

From this look, Shen Zhiqian unexpectedly detected something similar to pity.

Deception! With a cold snort in his heart, he walked away.

At this time, the phone in the palm of his hand kept ringing, and Shen Zhiqian saw an unfamiliar number and thus refused to answer.

However, a text message popped up, “Qian, this is Luoqing , do you have time? Let’s talk.”

Shen Zhiqian looked at it for two seconds, then blacklisted the call.

In the following two days, more and more about the Si family was exposed on the Internet, and large amounts of hidden information were uncovered.

They say, ‘your life may be taken away while you’re sick’, hence how could those hungry wolves in finance not take this opportunity to share their flesh and blood?

Si Luoqing was desperate. She changed her number to call Shen Zhiqian but was rejected every time. Even Shen Yeyuan, who usually cared about her, was only polite after receiving her call.

With no way out, she could only find Xue Wenlan.

Although the woman Xue Wenlan didn’t have much say in the Shen family, she was Shen Zhiqian’s biological mother after all, so she might be useful.

“Auntie, I’m very sad about the things that happened to the Si family recently. It turns out that the family situation was so bad. I was abroad before, and my parents didn’t tell me. I only found out after reading the reports …” Si Luoqing explained as she omitted her motives completely, with an innocent face.

Xue Wenlan went out to play cards these two days and was often laughed at.

In the past, those who used to praise her future daughter-in-law for her beautiful singing now mocked her openly and secretly, saying that she should visit the optometrist, and guard the little bit of her coffin money well, so as not to be taken advantage of by others.

Thinking of this, Xue Wenlan became livid.

The reason why she agreed to have coffee with Si Luoqing today was to let out this anger.

“Luoqing, you are a filial child. The money you saved up over the past few years should have all gone to subsidize your family, right? If I had a daughter like you, I would be very grateful!” Xue Wenlan smirked.

When Si Luoqing heard this, she thought she had a chance, and smiled as she said, “I’ve always wanted to be your daughter too …”

Xue Wenlan cursed her for being shameless in her heart, but took out a box from her bag, opened it, and saw the white bracelet inside.

She put the bracelet on Si Luoqing’s wrist and said with a smile, “Then from now on, be my goddaughter. Luoqing, you will take my surname Xue from now on, right?”

Si Luoqing’s expression froze.

Goddaughter? Surname Xue?

What did Xue Wenlan mean?!

Didn’t she want her to marry Shen Zhiqian and become Xue Wenlan’s daughter that way?

Being Xue Wenlan’s goddaughter, wouldn’t that completely cut off her chances of marrying Shen Zhiqian?

Moreover, the surname was Xue and not Shen, which means that it was Xue Wenlan’s own idea to accept her as a daughter, and it had nothing to do with the Shen family!

Who didn’t know that Xue Wenlan relied on her son to return to the Shen family, and Shen Yeyuan didn’t accept her at all, so was there any point in following Xue Wenlan?!

Xue Wenlan watched Si Luoqing’s expression in delight.

Si Luoqing was already trying her best to restrain herself, but when she saw the fineness of the white jade bracelet on her wrist, she still trembled with anger.

This color of white couldn’t be more fake; even a layman could see the traces. It was clearly from a street stall and only worth ten yuan! Even the box containing the jade bracelet was worth more than this bracelet!

“Auntie, I can’t accept such a valuable thing.” Si Luoqing tried her best to restrain herself, and even tried her best to smile softly, “After all, considering my relationship with Zhiqian it isn’t suitable for me to be your goddaughter.”

After that, she took off the bracelet in disgust, put it in the box, and pushed it back to Xue Wenlan.

Xue Wenlan achieved her goal of venting her anger, so she didn’t force it anymore. She took it back with a smile, and replied immediately, “En, you and Zhiqian have known each other since you two were young, so you know that this kid has a lot of his own ideas, and I, as a mother, can’t interfere! Sigh, I don’t know what’s so good about that Ning Qingqing, but my son’s heart only has her. He’s so considerate towards that girl that it even makes me, his mother, jealous!”

Si Luoqing maintained a smile on the surface, but when she heard that Xue Wenlan used Ning Qingqing to guard against her, she felt that she had been greatly humiliated!

She never thought that the woman she flattered and stood in a united front against Ning Qingqing betrayed her as soon as she could. Even her tone seemed to say that Ning Qingqing was her real favorite daughter-in-law!

Si Luoqing knew that she wouldn’t be able to get through on Xue Wenlan’s end, so she prepared to say goodbye and leave.

However, Xue Wenlan got up earlier, “Ah, Qingqing invited me for a beauty treatment today. How could I forget? I’m sorry Luoqing, I must leave now!”

Afterward, she picked up the ten-yuan street stall bracelet and left.

Si Luoqing wanted to follow her out, but the waiter stopped her, “Miss, I’m sorry, could you please settle the bill for this table? “

Si Luoqing, “…” Behind her sunglasses, her eyes were about to spit fire.

After listening to Wang Qian’s voice message, Ning Qingqing couldn’t help but laugh.

The coffee shop where Si Luoqing and Xue Wenlan met was originally very remote, and usually, there were not many people. It just happened that today Wang Qian was delivering materials to some customers, and the taxi she took on her way back got into an accident, so she got off first.

Seeing that it was already noon, she found a coffee shop nearby, and sat in a corner by herself, preparing to eat something before going back.

Maybe it was because the two of them didn’t pay attention to the people around them, so they also sat close to where she was near the green plants.

Therefore, Wang Qian could clearly hear the conversation between the two of them and told Ning Qingqing verbatim.

Ning Qingqing felt that life was interesting. She didn’t expect that Xue Wenlan, who always looked down on her, would use her to oppress Si Luoqing!

Ning Qingqing chatted with Wang Qian for a while, and then Wang Qian mentioned the project in Beishi, “Oh, Qingqing, you probably don’t know, it seems that we didn’t get the project in Beishi, because I heard that CEO Shen was coming back today.”

Ning Qingqing was a little surprised. She didn’t expect Gu Youchen to be so efficient and was able to turn a disadvantage into an advantage within just two days.

The case she gave him only served as inspiration. In fact, there were many underlying processes and theories involved in how to do it. She had been thinking about it for the past two days, and she only got some clues today.

Suddenly, she really wanted to wait for Gu Youchen to come back and ask him how he did it.

Just as she was thinking about it, she got a message on her phone. It was a text from Gu Youchen, “Qingqing, Gu Group has successfully signed the contract. You were the biggest contributor. Let’s celebrate when I come back.”

Ning Qingqing was a little embarrassed but was inexplicably happy.

During her two years of work, she excelled the most in finding loopholes in contract terms.

And because she was Shen Zhiqian’s girlfriend, no matter how good she was, when she was praised, others probably thought that she received such an honor because she was the lady boss.

Breaking out of those shackles now, she proved her ability for the first time.

She replied, “Congratulations on winning the project, it was thanks to all your team’s hard work.”

Her response seemed to be a bit official, Ning Qingqing sighed, she really didn’t know how to interact with Gu Youchen.

In the next second, the man replied, “There will be a formal signing ceremony tonight, and I will be back tomorrow morning.”

Ning Qingqing was inexplicably nervous.

She typed, “OK.”