The arrangement for Li Suimo to work at the Qin family went smoothly.

On the next Monday, she left Qin Bay with Qin Zhan in a car headed towards the Qin family's Company.

Li Suimo absentmindedly recalled the plot in the book.

Gu Linxi went to Qin Zhan's office to deliver a document and found the door was closed.

Gu Linxi placed the document on the assistant's desk and asked, "Is President Qin resting?"

The assistant pushed her glasses up and looked at the office, lowering her voice, "Mr. Qin is not here, his fiancée is inside!"

Qin Zhan wasn't here?

Gu Linxi frowned, "Then how can someone be allowed in without permission? There are documents inside..."

"Oh!" The assistant waved her hand, "It's Mr. Qin's fiancée, who would dare to stop her?"

Gu Linxi remembered the provocative face at the airport and nodded with a smile, "Right, she's not easy to deal with."

She put down the document and prepared to leave, when suddenly a loud noise came from the office.

Gu Linxi quickly walked over, pushed open the door, and saw Li Suimo sitting amidst a pile of documents.

Li Suimo was sitting facing her, holding a piece of paper with a clearly noticeable logo of a certain company.

Gu Linxi furrowed her brows, then pushed the door wide open.

The assistant came over and together with Gu Linxi, caught Li Suimo red-handed for sneaking a peek at the documents.

.....

"We're here." Qin Zhan suddenly spoke and got out of the car, opening the door for Li Suimo.

Li Suimo got out of the car and walked with Qin Zhan towards the company, hearing the murmurs of conversation around her.

"... from the Li family, rejected Mr. Qin."

"They haven't broken up and she's still living in the Qin family now."

"Tsk..."

She only caught a few muddled sentences and pressed her forehead.

She hadn't expected to be so well-known in the company.

Taking the elevator with Qin Zhan, Li Suimo typed a message on her phone.

["Come pick me up at the Qin's company."]

Fu Yanxiao: ["... You're commanding me?"]

Li Suimo: ["Please."]

["... Okay."]

Li Suimo smiled, put away her phone, and followed Qin Zhan out of the elevator.

As soon as Qin Zhan arrived at the company, a group of people surged up in front of him, all waiting for him to attend the meeting and sign the contract.

Qin Zhan told Li Suimo to find a place to rest.

"I'll go to the personnel department and register. You can go ahead and be busy," said Li Suimo.

Qin Zhan nodded and said, "There's a resting room in my office."

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Suimo felt many inquisitive gazes.

"Okay."

The personnel manager at the personnel department received her and specifically mentioned that Li Suimo's position was arranged by Qin Qing herself, and that she would receive a first-class salary as an intern designer.

"The director hasn't come back yet, but you can see her this afternoon."

Li Suimo smiled innocently, and the personnel manager, who was a girl, unconsciously focused on the dimples on either side of her lips.

She was moved, and didn't expect this sweet girl to publicly reject Mr. Qin?

"Where do I sit?"

Li Suimo asked, and the personnel manager quickly pointed to a window seat for her. It had a good view and was just vacated by someone who had just been arranged to sit elsewhere.

Li Suimo walked over and her fingertips slid across the tabletop. It was very clean.

She smiled sweetly and asked, "Who sat here before?"

"It was me," said Gu Linxi, walking over with a cardboard box in her arms. She came to clean up the remaining things and move to the position closest to the aisle.

Li Suimo stepped aside and exclaimed, "You're Assistant of Qin Zhan?"

Gu Linxi glanced at her, her eyebrows as sparse as mountains, and quickly looked away. "Sort of."

The female lead in the book really did have eyes like distant mountains.

Li Suimo used to wonder what that meant when reading novels before.

Now, it seemed that they weren't clear and transparent enough, but rather covered by gray-black smoke.

The book never described the dark thoughts the female lead had, but Li Suimo smiled, knowing that Gu Linxi was looking at her and feeling insecure and timid.

Gu Linxi didn't like her.

It was also difficult to get past the fact that she was Qin Zhan's fiancée.

Li Suimo flicked the succulent on the table with her finger, causing it to shake and lose a petal in her hand.

Gu Linxi saw it and grabbed the succulent.

"This was sent by Mr. Qin," she said.

Li Suimo suppressed her excitement that was about to burst out.

Kind-hearted like Cinderella, after meeting the prince, she also wanted a pumpkin carriage and glass slippers.

The book rarely mentioned the dark inner world of the female lead, but in fact, Gu Linxi and she were of the same kind.

Otherwise, knowing that the male lead Qin Zhan has a fiancée, the female lead should keep her distance from Qin Zhan, why would she be so nervous about a succulent?

"What are you looking at me for?" Gu Linxi asked.

A dimple appeared at the corner of Li Suimo's mouth, leaving a sentence in Gu Linxi's ear: "Brother Qin is really nice, isn't he?"

Gu Linxi looked at her back.

The girl in front of her seemed to always wear white.

She was dressed in white both times they met.

The snow-white fabric blended in with her so well that it was hard to tell the difference.

Li Suimo was a truly noble lady.

Why?

Gu Linxi lowered her eyes, then saw Wen Qing passing by from the side.

She stopped him and asked, "Are you delivering files to Mr. Qin?"

Wen Qing said, "Yes, why?"

"I'm going over there too. Let me help you deliver them. Are they important documents?"

Wen Qing looked at his watch.

He had a meeting to attend in a few minutes, and these files had already been processed and only needed Qin Zhan's signature.

They weren't important, so he thought for a moment and gave the files to Gu Linxi.

"Thank you."

"No problem."

Li Suimo sat in Qin Zhan's office chair and asked her assistant for a cup of coffee. The assistant brought it in, and Li Suimo wrinkled her nose in disgust and asked, "Mocha?"

"I don't drink mocha," Li Suimo said.

"Then let me change it for you..."

"Forget it," Li Suimo frowned and pointed to the corner of the table, "Just leave it there."

The assistant left, and Li Suimo stretched out her legs, her calves hanging over the edge of the desk.

She called Ji Wenjing, who answered quickly.

"Mom."

Ji Wenjing lowered her voice, "Momo, are you in Qin Zhan's office now?"

"Yeah..." Li Suimo listened to the phone and said with a smile, "Mom, if Qin Zhan finds out..."

"Momo, he won't find out. This project is not important to the Qin family. They have been involved in so many industries in the past two years, and they won't care about a small bidding case."

Li Suimo nodded, "Okay, I'll look for it."

"Good, mom is waiting for good news from you," said Ji Wenjing on the phone before hanging up.

Li Suimo checked the time and played with her phone for a while.

Her gaze fell on Qin Qing's profile picture, and the message record was still stuck on her messy message.

She had thought that Qin Qing had deleted her.

Was she too busy to see it?

Li Suimo thought, and outside the office came a low conversation.

Gu Linxi came in.

Li Suimo sent a message to Ji Wenjing and put down her phone.

She stepped on the table leg with one foot and stood up, reaching for the coffee she had placed next to a pile of files on the table.

The table was too long, and she couldn't reach it.

She leaned too hard and ended up tilting her upper body, causing her to fall along with the files to the ground.

Coffee was spilled all over the floor, and the files were scattered.

Li Suimo groaned in pain as she picked up a file from under her buttocks.

It was the one Ji Wenjing had asked her to find.

"It's really..."

A hard-to-comment-on plot twist.

The door opened, and Gu Linxi and Qin Zhan's assistant stood at the door, their four eyes on the files spread out in Li Suimo's hand.

Li Suimo twitched the corner of her mouth and stood up, supporting herself with her hand on the ground.

"What are you doing?"

Gu Linxi walked over and reached out to take the file from Li Suimo's hand.

"You--" Li Suimo twisted away, causing pain in her bruised thigh and her face to stiffen.

"Linxi?" Qin Zhan stood at the door and saw the messy office.

Gu Linxi grabbed Li Suimo's hand and took the wet file from her. "Qin Zhan, she stole the file."

Li Suimo turned pale and looked at Qin Zhan. "I didn't!"

"You didn't? Out of all these files, how come you just happen to have this one?" Gu Linxi pressed on, causing Li Suimo to panic.

She glanced at Qin Zhan, but Gu Linxi stopped in her tracks and smirked.

Just like in the book, she caught the person who had been stealing the files and slapped them in the face hard!

"Momo," Qin Zhan walked over, bending down to help Li Suimo up. "This file is related to the Li family, right?"

"Yes!" Li Suimo opened her mouth, but suddenly felt a surge of nausea rising from her throat.

"Did you read it?" Qin Zhan asked as he took the folder and gently flicked it open, but unfortunately several pages had been stained with coffee and the writing was no longer legible.

"Mr. Qin, the surveillance video."

An assistant came over.

Qin Zhan's office was equipped with a pinhole camera for surveillance.

As someone like him, he couldn't afford any mistakes in his work.

Gu Linxi looked at the wet file and relaxed a bit when she heard the recording on the video.

Li Suimo glanced at her and quickly looked away.

Soon, a cry of surprise came from the video, and Li Suimo fell down.

She grabbed a file at random, and it turned out to be the one Qin Zhan was holding now.

It was a coincidence.

Gu Linxi's expression changed.

"Linxi," Qin Zhan sighed, his tone carrying a hint of reproach.

Li Suimo's face turned pale, and the cunning glint in her eyes flashed as she raised her hand to touch her lips.

Qin Zhan saw a hint of bloody red in that gesture.

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Translator's note: Sigh... Qin Zhan doesn't deserve Momo. Qin Qing must conquer Momo! ~~
      

TO BE CONTINUE...