Chapter 6: Late Return 6

Fu Yin's venomous tongue had become even more pronounced since Lin Xu left. Jiang Qian gasped helplessly, "I'm talking to you. Why are you dragging me into this?"

"Did you sleep well at your brother's house?" Jiang Qian's mean voice came from the other end of the phone. Fu Yin could imagine her expression even through the screen.

After packing up his things, Fu Yin put on his bag and was about to leave. He lowered his head to glance at the clothes he was wearing, grabbed the collar with his fingers and smelled it, and his eyes darkened.

Was she so close to Lin Xu just now?

She couldn't help but feel ashamed, but when she thought about it carefully, she realized that he was a mysophobe and it would be best to suffocate him to death.

Jiang Qian's chattering hadn't stopped yet. After a while she realized she hadn't received any response, so she screamed in surprise.

"Your silence doesn't mean you agree, does it?"

"Really asleep?"

"How does it feel? Is it the right size?"

Fu Yin frowned in disgust as he smelled the scent on his body, thinking of buying a new set when he went out later. As a result, he saw a bag on the table. Under the bag was a note with Lin Xu's handwriting on it.

She lowered her eyes and opened the bag. It contained a set of clothes, a simple chiffon dress with a hip skirt and a piece of underwear.

Her face suddenly felt warm.

She didn't hear anything Jiang Qian said, and the man's face appeared in her mind.

She clenched her fingers, picked up the phone and responded blankly: "I won't talk to you yet, I have to go to work."

After changing clothes and coming out of the apartment, Fu Yin hailed a taxi on the side of the road.

After getting in the car, she opened WeChat, looked up the WeChat blacklist, and stared at his profile picture for a long time, lost in thought.

When she arrived at the TV station, she was almost late. She ran all the way to the time clock machine with her work badge in hand and successfully punched in.

She entered the office on time and started yawning as soon as she sat down at her workstation. A colleague came over and put his hand on her shoulder.

"I heard that Mr. Luo withdrew the lawsuit and is no longer planning to sue the TV station."

Fu Yin nodded and raised his eyebrows slightly: "Good news, why are you all so sad?"

"The higher-ups are evaluating your promotion opportunities. Besides this, the loss of traffic to our channel has caused irreparable damage."

The colleague sighed deeply, then immediately pulled up a chair and sat next to her, asking, "But didn't you go inside to collect evidence that day? Did someone save you?"

Fu Yin: "What?"

Lin Xu's face flashed through her mind. He did block the wine for her that day, otherwise the glass of wine would have really been splashed on her face.

But at that time, her attention was all on Lin Xu, and all she could think about was why he suddenly came back. She was already prepared to give up on him completely, but she didn't expect him to come back.

She is like a string, and Lin Xu is the one who pulls it.

"Do you know who that person is? He's Lin Xu, a leader in venture capital. He just returned to China a while ago. I just heard that if we can interview him, your chance will come."

The colleague took her hand and gestured with a vague look, wanting Fu Yin to try it.

There are serious conflicts among several channels in the TV station, especially the central channels. They have never released any major financial news, and even the sports channels are more interesting than them.

If Fu Yin hadn't been in charge in the past two years and solved several financial cases, they wouldn't have had the news to publish in the newspapers.

Moreover, Fu Yin has good writing skills and can always capture the hot spots when writing news, which is something others cannot do.

"It's just a coincidence." Fu Yin turned his eyes away and returned his gaze to the computer to revise the manuscript, his hands typing on the keyboard.

Her colleagues held their foreheads and were worried for her. She had been working at the TV station for almost three years, and the newcomers at the sports station next door had all become editors-in-chief. Fu Yin must have been promoted to chief reporter at the very least.

"You just said he was a rising star in investment banking?" Fu Yin stopped mid-revision, glanced at his colleague and asked curiously.

The colleague laughed bitterly and looked at Fu Yin with a gossipy look on his face: "Interested?"

"But I heard he's from the Lin family and is getting engaged to the daughter of the Wen Group next month."

"The two powerful companies have joined forces, and many people are paying attention to it. I think you can..."

The colleague clapped his hands, suddenly coming up with a good idea. Fu Yin averted his gaze and interrupted, "No."

They must have asked her to be a paparazzi to take pictures of the two of them together, turning the financial channel into an entertainment channel. Isn't that putting the cart before the horse?

"What a great opportunity! Lin Xu is a hot topic himself. If he were to do an interview on our channel, the ratings would skyrocket."

The colleague sighed and didn't force her seeing that she didn't want to. In the end, it would definitely be snatched away by the entertainment channel anyway.

Fu Yin responded perfunctorily and planned to think of other ways to save the channel traffic.

The punishment from above had not come down yet, so she didn't have the energy to think too much about it.

In the afternoon, Lan Tian called her to his office and threw a document in front of her with a stern face.

"You're going to this interview. The TV station has penalized you by deducting your attendance bonus and commission for three months. If Luo's company hadn't withdrawn the lawsuit, you'd be fired anyway."

"Director Lan, weren't you the one who asked me to go to Mr. Luo's corruption case?"

Fu Yin couldn't help but frown, realizing that she had been set up and Lan Tian deliberately made her jump into it.

When she first came to the TV station, she was full of enthusiasm and was the fastest growing intern there. Later, she was promoted by Lan Tian. She originally thought that she was noticed for her abilities, but many rumors said that she was noticed for her face.

Rather than being a reporter, Lan Tian wanted her to be a channel host to make money, and he could also take the opportunity to get close to her and control her secretly.

Because there were people from the TV station putting pressure on her, Lan Tian was a director after all and didn't dare to go too far. A sensible person would naturally obey, but she refused to be that sensible person.

As a journalist, she needs to be down-to-earth and seek truth from facts. If she relies on such relationships to climb to a high position, she would rather be given a hard time.

After all, Lan Tian will get old one day, and he will eventually pass away.

"Xiao Fu, if you don't want to do this external procurement, I can give you another option."

Lan Tian stared at her for a long time and laughed.

Fu Yin scoffed, picked up the documents on the table, and glanced at Lan Tian: "It seems that you were deliberately setting a trap for me in that previous interview with Mr. Luo."

"Actually, if you have anything to say, just tell me directly, but I may not agree to it."

She looked contemptuous and turned away after saying this.

Lan Tian's face turned pale, and he stared at her back in frustration, clenching his fists.

He didn't believe that Fu Yin would still be able to smile after coming back from this field trip. Then she would know who her backer was.

Back at his workstation, Fu Yin looked through the documents carefully.

This project is about exposing financial scams targeting the elderly. In recent years, financial advertisements have been increasing, and most scammers target the pensions of the elderly, who are easier to deceive and easier to cash out.

In the past, health supplements were the most common products, but with the development of the Internet, there are many short videos about fighting against counterfeit health supplements. The elderly have generally caught up with this and started to think about saving money.

Scammers take advantage of the fact that the elderly don’t know how to save money and cash it out, and their professional terms are very precise.

Fu Yin had interviewed a similar news story before. At that time, all the belongings of an elderly man were swept away, and in the end he could not even get back the money for his life-saving. The old man could not bear it and jumped off the building. The ending was sad, but some people still did not learn their lesson.

Fu Yin was so engrossed in watching that the phone on the table vibrated several times.

She came to her senses and picked up her phone. The caller ID showed it was Lin's mother. Her eyes suddenly darkened.

The phone rang for a long time, and Fu Yin didn't know whether he should answer it.

Seeing that she hadn't answered the phone for a long time, the colleague next to her waved his hand in front of her eyes and said, "What's wrong with you? You look absent-minded."

"The phone has been ringing for a long time, why don't you answer it?"

Fu Yin's lips were tight, and after thinking for a while, he picked up his phone and quickly walked to the floor-to-ceiling window.

She pressed the answer button and remained silent.

"Yin Yin, you haven't been back for a while. How have you been recently?" Lin's mother's gentle voice came from the other end of the phone.

But only she knew that although Lin's mother appeared kind and gentle, she was actually a very extreme person.

"The TV station has been a bit busy lately."

"I've already told you that working at the TV station is very tiring. What's wrong with you just listening to me and becoming an accountant at Lin's?"

Lin's mother spoke in a sharp tone, and became sharp and confrontational whenever her work was mentioned.

In order to escape from that home, she tried every possible means to get admitted to the TV station, just because she didn't want to work as an accountant in Lin's company.

People who eat food and take things from others will be grateful for what they have received. Even after work, you can't avoid the gossip of people around you.

While she is the adopted daughter of the Lin family, she is also Fu Yin, herself, not a parasite that depends on others.

"I don't care what your reasons are, you have to come back tonight. Your eldest brother is back, so it's just right for the whole family to have a meal."

Lin's mother had a tough attitude and made the announcement in a very forceful manner, and was not discussing it with her at all.

Fu Yin felt uncomfortable. Thinking of the Lin family's attitude towards her in recent years, she couldn't help but clench her fingers.

She paused for a few seconds, then said, "Sorry, I really have work to do. Please say hello to my brother for me."

"Lin Yin, have you been away for so long that you've forgotten your last name? If I bring you back to the Lin family, you're a member of our Lin family. Now, you can't even come back to have dinner with Mom and Dad?"

Lin family?

Fu Yin's nose felt sore and his body trembled slightly: "Really? I thought I was just an outsider."

This is what she said to herself. Is saying this now a slap in her face?

Fu Yin didn't understand why Lin's mother changed her expression faster than anyone else.

"I was rude before, but it was all for you. I'll ask your brother to pick you up tonight. Your father Lin is sick. Don't tell me you've forgotten how good he was to you before." Mother Lin's tone was cold, and she hung up the phone in a hurry.

Fu Yin's heart tightened, and his eyes became moist after hearing this.

Father Lin was indeed good to her, but that kind of kindness also came with a burden.

But he was sick and she had to go see him, that would be unfilial.

Lin's mother sent a few more WeChat messages, all of which were voice messages. I knew what she said in the voice messages without even listening.

Fu Yin took a deep breath and simply crossed out the message without clicking on it.

In the evening, the afterglow of the setting sun shines into the entire office through the floor-to-ceiling windows, creating a dazzling golden scene.

Fu Yin was still reading documents at her workstation. Most of her colleagues had left, but she was still thinking about finishing reading the last bit of material when she received a strange phone call.

"Yin Yin, I'll wait for you downstairs."

"Wait until you come down."

The author has something to say:

I'm late, babies. I have a little tenosynovitis and write really slowly. Thank you for your support. I'm slowly improving. I hope you can be more tolerant. Don't force me if I don't like it. Please collect it!

Mini-theater: (Today is Jiang Qian vs. Xu Nianbai)

Jiang Qian: Who likes you? Who said it? Who said it?

Xu Nianbai: Report! Everything I said was a rumor.