Chapter 14 How can I help you?

On the third day of her stay at the hotel, Lin Beibei had finished most of her things when the front desk called her room, saying that a Ms. Qin wanted to see her.

Lin Beibei thought for a long time but couldn't figure out who she knew, a woman surnamed Qin. However, she still decided to meet her, since the woman had directly mentioned her name, so she might really know her.

In the hotel lobby, a very stylish woman sat there reading a magazine.

Lin Beibei was certain she didn't know this woman, yet the woman specifically asked to see her by name, which puzzled her greatly.

"Hello, Ms. Qin, I'm Lin Beibei. Do we know each other?"

Qin Xuewei looked up at Lin Beibei.

The girl in front of him was very pure and lovely. Not to mention men, even she felt a sense of pity when she saw her.

She put down the magazine, stood up, and extended her hand to Lin Beibei. "Hello, Ms. Lin, I am Qin Xuewei."

Lin Beibei stared blankly at Qin Xuewei.

I remember when I was tutoring Ning Yuxuan, I said they looked alike and I even showed her photos.

In the photo, Qin Xuewei is wearing a white dress, with a matching chiffon bow hair clip in her hair. She is sitting on a swing, smiling at the camera.

Looking at that photo, they look about 70-80% alike.

But the Qin Xuewei in front of her was wearing a red dress, had big wavy hair, and wore makeup. She looked like a very bright and beautiful person, and didn't look like her at all.

Qin Xuewei's hand was still outstretched, so Lin Beibei quickly reached out and grabbed it.

"Hello."

Lin Beibei didn't know why Qin Xuewei wanted to see her.

Xiang Bei was also unaware that Qin Xuewei in the book was the quintessential villainous second female lead, who did all sorts of bad things and was eventually driven insane by the male lead.

"Tongzi, do you know?"

The system's avatar, a large orange cat, jumped onto the sofa and honestly shook its head, "I don't know."

The plot is so badly messed up that even the original mother wouldn't know how to proceed, so it can't predict what the second female lead is going to do when she approaches the female lead.

"Ms. Lin, is it convenient for us to talk? It's about my fiancé, Gu Tingyun."

“Miss Qin, I have no relationship with him. However, I did not mean to slander him, but he seems to be mentally unstable. Miss Qin, if you are not determined to get married, you should be more careful.”

"I know," Qin Xuewei said with a smile. "Don't misunderstand, I'm not here to settle scores with you. I really have something to tell you."

Go take a look.

Lin Beibei looked at the comments on the screen, then found a coffee shop and sat down opposite Qin Xuewei.

Qin Xuewei stirred her coffee and looked up at Lin Beibei. "Actually, I think we do look somewhat alike."

But with makeup, it's a completely different feeling.

Now, no one would think the two of them look alike.

"Miss Qin, what did you want to talk to me about?"

Qin Xuewei glanced around; there weren't many people in the coffee shop at the moment.

His gaze finally fell on Lin Beibei. "You might not believe it if I told you, but if I don't, I feel really bad."

Qin Xuewei looked at Lin Beibei and said seriously, "I had a dream."

Xiang Bei's ears perked up. "System, has the second female lead been reborn?"

"No, absolutely not," the system denied.

When it came to the dream, Qin Xuewei seemed a little embarrassed to talk about it, but she still said, "In the dream, you seemed to have become Gu Tingyun's substitute lover for some reason. He loved you without realizing it, and I was driven crazy by him because I framed you."

Qin Xuewei really didn't want to go into the details of the process.

She left Lin Beibei covered in bruises, and Gu Tingyun tormented her like a ghost.

As it turned out, he simply went abroad to beg for forgiveness, and in the end, they made up.

Qin Xuewei found this ridiculous.

Many things weren't done by Gu Tingyun himself, but in the end, it was all her fault.

She didn't believe it at first, even though her fiancé Gu Tingyun seemed cold, he treated her very well.

After all, they were childhood sweethearts, and their relationship of so many years couldn't possibly change so easily.

Most importantly, she's going to study abroad, not dying. Does the Gu family really not even have enough money for a plane ticket?

In her dream, Gu Tingyun found a substitute lover who looked like her and shamelessly claimed that it was because he loved her, but he couldn't bear to buy a plane ticket to go abroad to see her.

Surely he wouldn't die as soon as he goes abroad, so why does the Gu family want to expand their business overseas? And why does he keep going abroad in his dreams to propose to Lin Beibei?

She kept a close eye on the situation in China. Gu Tingyun's niece, Ning Yuxuan, liked her very much and called her more often than Gu Tingyun did.

She learned some things from the little girl.

When Qin Xuewei heard the name Lin Beibei, she thought of what happened in her dream.

The little girl's description alone was definitely not enough, so she hired a private investigator. The results of the investigation were somewhat unbelievable to her.

All the characters matched up, but things took a completely different turn from what she had dreamed about.

It's as if someone deliberately disrupted everything.

"I'm sorry, Ms. Lin, but before I came here, I investigated you. I know you recently won a big prize, and I also know you sold your house. Are you planning to leave here?"

Lin Beibei responded.

She was also shocked by Qin Xuewei's dream.

Before Xiang Bei came back, she almost agreed to be Gu Tingyun's mistress.

Fortunately, Sister Xiang Bei returned in time; otherwise, she might have really suffered the same misfortune as Qin Xuewei had in her dream.

Lin Beibei believed Qin Xuewei's words, though not entirely, but at least seven-tenths of them.

"So, Miss Qin, you came to see me just to talk about these things?"

"Of course not, I just think that Miss Lin, you should be the turning point that changes my destiny."

"I?"

"Yes, I don't want to marry Gu Tingyun, but I still need to use his identity to help my family's business gain a foothold. Miss Lin, I hope you can lend me a hand."

Since it was time to negotiate, Qin Xuewei became more frank.

She also has a younger brother, and the Qin Group will belong to him in the future. Her marriage is just a stepping stone for her brother to take power in the future.

But on what grounds?

Her grades have been excellent since she was a child.

She simply wanted to study abroad to demonstrate her abilities to her father and secure a place in the family business. Fearing her father's repercussions, she pretended to be involved with several men while abroad to lower his guard.

Before having that dream, she felt that she still had Gu Tingyun, at least she still had a lover, and she felt that Gu Tingyun would definitely understand her.

But now, when Qin Xuewei has that dream, all she wants to say is, to hell with his bullshit love! He can't even afford a plane ticket; he's just a worthless man who only talks the talk.

In her dream, everyone ignored her excellence and treated her as an arrogant and promiscuous rich girl.

Even if we noticed her excellence, so what? She was still a girl who was blinded by foreign things and allowed herself to degenerate without self-respect.

Because she misjudged people, she had no choice but to sheepishly return to her fiancé's side, only to find that he had a substitute for her by his side.

She went to great lengths to win back her fiancé's love, but in the end, she destroyed everything in her family.

Those precognitive dreams fueled Qin Xuewei's ambition.

Gu Tingyun is very powerful; he has almost complete control over everything.

But what if he owned it himself?

While he still has feelings for her, why not seize the opportunity to take him away?

She was unwilling to hand everything over to her younger brother. What did that good-for-nothing know? Did he even know how to manage a company?

She can't do it alone, and even if she could, it would take a lot of time.

So she chose a business partner.

Lin Beibei is one of them, and a very important one at that.

"Miss Lin, are you willing?"

"Aren't you afraid I'll tell Gu Tingyun about your plan? He's still very powerful; he won't be so easily brought down by you."

Otherwise, Lin Beibei wouldn't have chosen to run away with her mother.

This place holds not only their unpleasant memories, but also that devilish man, Gu Tingyun.

Qin Xuewei laughed, "You won't."

She leaned back in the booth, looking at Lin Beibei, "Moreover, Gu Tingyun is an extremely arrogant person. He always felt that everything was under his control. Miss Lin, you are a variable in his life, which is why he treats you so specially."

What she wanted to take advantage of was Gu Tingyun's special feelings for Lin Beibei.

“Ms. Lin, I won’t be helping you for nothing. After it’s done, I will give you two percent of the company’s shares.”

Worried that Lin Beibei wouldn't understand, Qin Xuewei explained further, "Based on the current situation of our Qin family, this two percent can generate several million in dividends every year. However, if we successfully acquire what Gu Tingyun has, your dividends will be even greater."

If you can't get it, it's useless.

However, no one said this out loud.

Lin Beibei hoped that Qin Xuewei would succeed, and prayed that she would succeed.

"How can I help you?"

Lin Beibei definitely doesn't understand things like managing a company.

Qin Xuewei explained her plan.

Thinking of her mother, Lin Beibei said, "I need to settle my mother in first."

She couldn't let her mother live in fear.

Lin Beibei chose a place and sent her mother there.

Xiang Bei couldn't tell Lin Beibei that the world she lived in was a novel, nor could she tell Lin Beibei that she was the female protagonist of the story.

The system only says that this is an inherent limitation, and that it might be explained in a future upgrade.

However, other things can still be done.

For example, helping to erase Zhang Wenfang's information so that Gu Tingyun could not find her location, let alone capture Zhang Wenfang to threaten Lin Beibei.

"Thank you, Sister Xiang Bei."

You should also be careful.

"I will."

While Xiang Bei was groping around haphazardly, she discovered that the system also had a shop with ten initial points.

Because the system made a big mistake and brought her in, the main system compensated her by giving her a lot of points.

She has so many points that she can buy many things in the system's shop.

The main system did not take offense at Xiang Bei's previous violation of regulations by reading lottery numbers.

However, system 9639 has already been warned that it will be punished if it does so again.

System 9639 immediately trembled, becoming even more affectionate towards Xiang Bei. We'll deal with it next time we punish it; at least it escaped this time.

Xiang Bei immediately exchanged a strength pill for Lin Beibei.

Lin Beibei ate it without hesitation.

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Airport.

Zhang Wenfang was still worried about her daughter.

"Are you really not going with Mom?"

"Mom, you go first. I'll come find you after I've taken care of things here." Lin Beibei transferred some money to her mother's account.

Watching her mother enter the boarding gate, Lin Beibei was still a little worried. "Mom, don't worry, I'll come find you."

Qin Xuewei said she would send someone to protect her mother, and Sister Xiang Bei also helped erase the traces. Naturally, she hoped that her mother could be safe.

After leaving the airport, Lin Beibei signed up for a Sanda (Chinese kickboxing) class.

She also bought a lot of study materials; she was determined to take the postgraduate entrance exam and couldn't let other things delay her.

Staying in a hotel, if you book a monthly pass, is actually not too bad.

However, she didn't dare to contact Qin Xuewei frequently, since she hadn't told anyone about Qin Xuewei's return to China.

Gu Tingyun found her again.

When she opened the door, Gu Tingyun was already standing in the doorway.

What are you doing here?

Lin Beibei looked somewhat panicked.

Since she had already promised Qin Xuewei, Lin Beibei was still very dedicated.

Sister Xiangbei said that with her face, she looks good no matter what she does.

She tucked the hair that was hanging down beside her cheek behind her ear, and seemed a little embarrassed when Gu Tingyun saw her, so she turned her face away.

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