Chapter 22 - Privately, the two didn't even have each other's contact information...

Su Yi'an didn't pay attention and instinctively thought that Lin Xi had jumped out in public to embarrass her.

She turned around angrily: "Shut up, Lin..."

She suddenly fell silent halfway through her sentence.

Because she saw Zhou Qi walking aggressively towards her, while Lin Xi remained where she was, bending down to try to pull Gun Gun off her legs.

It turned out that the woman with long, flowing hair was Zhou Qi; no wonder she looked somewhat familiar.

Zhou Qi rushed up to her in a few strides, crossed her arms, and looked her up and down disdainfully. Her tone was mocking, "Su Yi'an, you seem perfectly normal on the surface, not like you're sick at all. How could you be so shameless! Has Brother Fu ever paid any attention to you since you were little? I remember you don't even have his personal contact information now, right? He has never acknowledged your ill-fated marriage! Why are you so persistent, spending money every day to find out about him and create chance encounters, but he has never even given you a second glance! You should use that money to cure your delusions; maybe you'll recover sooner!"

Su Yi'an turned pale from her retort and couldn't utter a single word in rebuttal.

However, Yu was unaware of the situation. Seeing Su Yi'an being bullied, he quickly stepped forward to block her and spoke up in her defense: "Who are you? Do you know how good other people's relationship is? Who are you to gossip here!"

Zhou Qi wasn't angry. She glanced at Su Yi'an behind him, whose face was turning pale and then red, and said with amusement, "Ask her who I am and see if I'm qualified."

"Oh, right," Zhou Qi suddenly remembered something, her tone quite kind, "Su Yi'an, I'm a kind-hearted person, let me give you a heads-up without charging you! The flower basket you sent anonymously, Brother Fu returned it, he had it sent directly back to Zhixing headquarters, shouldn't you go back and check it out?"

Zhixing is the company where the Su family started their business and is the foundation of the Su family.

Fu Qingli's return of the flower basket to Zhixing signifies his desire for the entire Beicheng to know that he has rejected the marriage proposal from the Su family.

Su Yi'an never expected that Fu Qingli could be so ruthless.

Just now, Fu Wenxun comforted her, saying that Fu Qingli's small-scale threats were ineffective. Everyone present was smart and wouldn't gossip. Even if someone did spread rumors, a simple "rebellious phase, doesn't want to be restrained" would cover it up and wouldn't cause any major trouble.

But now, with such ostentatious behavior, everyone will soon hear the news, and the Su family and she will become a laughing stock in the eyes of others.

Su Yi'an's mind went blank. Ignoring He Kuangyu who was still protecting her, she walked away.

The direction she randomly chose led her to the rest area.

At this moment, Lin Xi had already straightened up, frowning as she looked at her, her eyes filled with an indescribable emotion.

Seeing this look in Su Yi'an's eyes, she always felt that Lin Xi was mocking her failure and embarrassment.

Su Yi'an glared fiercely at Lin Xi, her eyes bloodshot, wishing she could rush up and tear her apart.

As they brushed past each other, she gritted her teeth and forced out a sentence from her throat: "Lin Xi, you just wait!"

Zhou Qi had won a battle and, in high spirits, clapped himself twice before returning to the rest area feeling refreshed.

Lin Xi sat silently, head bowed, looking tense and withdrawn.

Even when she walked up to me and sat down, he didn't look up, lost in his own thoughts.

She reflected on her earlier attitude and cautiously asked in a low voice, "Xiaoxi, what's wrong? Was I too harsh and scared you?"

Lin Xi snapped out of her reverie, shook her head, and gave a slight smile: "No, I was just thinking about some things concerning myself."

In that instant, she suddenly realized that she didn't trust Fu Qingli as much as she had imagined.

Rationally, after so many years together, she would never stoop to lying, and she could believe what he said.

But deep down he was afraid; it was just a lie he used to comfort himself, a way to avoid making himself sad.

Hearing Zhou Qi and Su Yi'an's confrontation, she finally realized that "Su Yi'an really was lying to me," and began to believe Fu Qingli from the bottom of her heart, feeling inexplicably happy that he had never loved anyone else.

Seeing that she had recovered somewhat, Zhou Qi breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good."

She gathered her thoughts and decided to take this opportunity to explain a few things to Fu Qingli.

However, she couldn't say it outright. Before they parted last night, Ji Jiali reminded her that Lin Xi and Fu Qingli had just reconnected, and that she shouldn't put pressure on her. She should pretend not to know about their relationship when they were together.

She pointed in the direction Su Yi'an had left: "You should have seen that Su Yi'an yesterday, right?"

What happened at the discussion meeting has already spread throughout the company yesterday.

Although details involving trade secrets were not disclosed, everyone knows that Yao Shifang made an unreasonable request, which was rejected on the spot by Lin Xi and Kong Weijun.

Everyone was very curious: what kind of bizarre request could make the company so adamant?

After gossiping for a while, no gossip came out of them. However, someone recognized that among the visitors to Yaoshi was Su Yi'an, the little princess of the Su family who is active in fashion shows and magazines.

The fact that a heiress of this caliber would come to the company so discreetly only aroused everyone's curiosity, prompting them to inquire about Lin Xi, the person involved, and try to find out more about the inside story.

In the morning, Zhou Qi pretended not to know anything and joined her group members in gossiping about yesterday's events.

Mentioning Su Yi'an at this moment doesn't seem out of place.

Lin Xi's heart skipped a beat, and she nodded cautiously: "I remember."

She didn't dare say too much, afraid that Zhou Qi would notice something amiss.

Although Zhou Qi only complained, "Brother Fu is really generous this time. He wouldn't let me touch Gun Gun more before," when she saw Gun Gun today, she squatted down and, ignoring Gun Gun's protests, vigorously rubbed Gun Gun's head, saying, "I don't care, I want to touch it today!"

They didn't say much else, and it seems they don't know about her relationship with Fu Qingli.

Lin Xi felt guilty and was afraid that her unintentional words and actions would alert Zhou Qi to something amiss.

Last night we had dinner together. Fu Qingli acted as if Zhou Qi knew her through work, probably like before, not wanting his friends in Beicheng to know about her.

Zhou Qi, unaware of her thoughts, earnestly explained, "Actually, my brother, Zou Song, and Brother Fu's families all have business dealings with the Su family, so we've known Su Yi'an since childhood, but it's only out of politeness; we don't have any personal relationship. Especially Brother Fu, who is naturally aloof and distant, and left the circle of aristocratic scions early on. Apart from my brother and Zou Song, he can't talk to anyone else. Moreover, after he turned seven, whenever he had free time, he would fly to Nanqing to be with his childhood sweetheart; he had no time to pay attention to Su Yi'an! But Su Yi'an, starting in middle school, used Brother Fu to reject others, making everyone in the circle know that she likes Brother Fu, but in reality, the two of them don't even have each other's contact information!"

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