Chapter 12 How shameless can a person be?
Qiao Xing jumped up, ran into the house, and found a new shirt to change into.
Remembering the look in Qin Ce's eyes just now, she covered her face with her hands, wishing she could disappear into a hole.
He must think I'm seducing him. Last time he suspected I had ulterior motives towards him, and now it's happening again...
I'm so ashamed to face anyone.
Qiao Xing took a deep breath. Seeing that she was going to be late for work, she shook her head and decided to forget about this embarrassing incident.
She quietly opened the door, and Qin Ce was leisurely eating his breakfast, unaware of her presence.
Qiao Xing gritted her teeth, pretended not to see him, and walked past him.
Change your shoes and head out!
As Qiao Xing walked out of the residential area, he finally let out a long sigh of relief.
Upon arriving at the company, Qiao Xing clearly sensed that something was off; her colleagues were giving her strange looks.
Because she lived quite far away, she arrived almost every day right on time, and she had no idea what was going on.
Qiao Xing approached Zhang Xue's desk and asked her softly, "Xiao Xue, what happened?"
Zhang Xue smiled at her, her expression more distant than usual, which made Qiao Xing feel vaguely uneasy.
"Qiao Xing, your future mother-in-law just came by."
"What?" Qiao Xing's eyes widened. Lin Yu's mother had come? "What did she say?"
“He didn’t say anything… Qiao Xing, I think Lin Yu is a good person. Why did you break up with him? As long as the two of you have a good relationship, why care about material things?”
Upon hearing Zhang Xue's words, Qiao Xing had already guessed most of it. Lin Yu's mother must have said bad things about her, otherwise these people wouldn't be looking at her like that.
"Qiao Xing, come here for a moment." The supervisor suddenly appeared and knocked on Qiao Xing's desk.
Qiao Xing bit her lip and followed Manager He to the office.
Manager He was a forty-year-old woman with a bad temper. Everyone said in private that she was going through menopause. Qiao Xing noticed that she looked unwell. Before entering the office, Qiao Xing carefully reviewed all the work for the week and figured there shouldn't be any oversights.
She then spoke up: "Manager He, is there anything I can help you with?"
Manager He tossed her a tablet with a video on it. Qiao Xing's heart sank. She picked up the tablet from the table and started playing the video.
Lin Yu's mother's voice came through.
"It's terrible that my Xiaoyu is stuck with such a woman. We can't afford the dowry, so she wants to break up with us."
“My wife and I have farmed all our lives. She said she wanted to buy a house in the city, so we sold our house in the countryside without saying a word and bought a house in the city. She thought we were dirty and didn’t want to live with us, which was fine, but she also demanded a dowry of 200,000 yuan, which we had to come up with within a month. Tell me, isn’t this going to kill us?”
Hearing these distorted and untrue words, Qiao Xing was so angry that she trembled all over.
The woman had dark skin and her face was covered with wrinkles from the sun and wind. Combined with her simple clothes and her tear-streaked face, she perfectly portrayed the image of a hardworking farmer.
Anyone who sees this will feel sorry for her and think she is a victim.
“My Xiaoyu likes her so much that he humbled himself and begged her to let him get married. He hasn’t eaten or drunk anything for the past few days and has even been hospitalized. I’m also putting my pride aside to beg her. If she’s at the company, please call her out. I just want to tell her that we’re not unwilling to give her the 200,000 yuan, we just ask for a little more time.”
Others advised her, "Grandma, she's not at the company yet. When she comes, we'll tell her to go back home. We need to go to work, and your presence here is not a good influence."
Qiao Xing never knew that a person could be so shameless.
They've abandoned all shame just to avoid paying back that 200,000 yuan.
Lin Yu had been humiliated, and now his mother was trying to use public opinion to force her to compromise and marry Lin Yu so that she wouldn't have to pay back the 200,000 yuan.
If she doesn't marry Lin Yu, she will be seen as a gold digger who abandoned her boyfriend, ruining her reputation in the entire company.
That's truly vicious.
Qiao Xing tried hard to suppress her emotions, put down the tablet, and said to Director He, "She's slandering me! That's not how it is at all."
"I don't care how things go, Qiao Xing. I'm reminding you, private matters should be resolved privately. Don't bring them to the company. What would it look like if a client came and saw this?"
Supervisor He looked at her coldly, "I don't want this to happen again. Go back and handle it yourself. If you can't handle it well, then come back to work!"
The subtext of the last sentence was that if things couldn't be handled well, there was no need to come back; it was just that Manager He put it very tactfully.
Qiao Xing clenched her fists tightly. "Yes, I understand."
"Go down."
Just as Qiao Xing was about to leave, Manager He called her back, "Wait."
"What's wrong, Manager He?"
Manager He pinched his brow. "You've really made me forget about important matters. Here's the thing, President Liao just emailed me saying there's a business dinner tonight, and he's asking you and Xiaoxue to meet the client. He'll send the address to your email later, so please go there as soon as possible to make the arrangements."
Qiao Xing nodded. "Okay."
After returning to her workstation, Qiao Xing discussed the matter with Zhang Xue. Zhang Xue went to confirm with the client, while Qiao Xing was responsible for booking the hotel.
She went to the hotel that afternoon and, based on the number of people and information provided by Zhang Xue, booked a private room and the menu.
According to Zhang Xue, the client who came yesterday was the one she was entertaining that evening. It was probably not an ordinary social gathering, but rather a meeting to discuss some kind of contract, so Qiao Xing dared not be negligent.
She checked all the dishes again, and only after confirming that everything was correct did she send the specific address to Zhang Xue.
Zhang Xue arrived around 6 PM.
Zhang Xue seemed a little excited. She held Qiao Xing's arm and waited at the hotel entrance.
"Qiao Xing, Mr. Liao arranged for us to receive such an important client. Does this mean that Mr. Liao thinks we are the most beautiful women in the company?"
"...Why can't it be the one with the strongest work ability?"
“Then you should talk to Supervisor He,” Zhang Xue retorted, unconvinced. For some reason, Zhang Xue preferred being praised for her beauty rather than for her work.
Qiao Xing couldn't refute her, so he simply let her immerse herself in her own beauty.
Actually, the reason why President Liao specially arranged for these two people to meet was simply because Qin Ce glanced at Qiao Xing a few more times that day. When discussing business, it's natural to cater to one's preferences.
As for Zhang Xue, she was just a bonus; President Liao was afraid that calling only Qiao Xing would make others think too much.
Qiao Xing's legs were about to give way from standing at the door. Finally, at 7:30, President Liao's car arrived.
Zhang Xue immediately went up to open the door for President Liao, "President Liao, you've finally arrived."
After General Manager Liao got out of the car, several other company executives arrived in their cars. Zhang Xue looked around but couldn't see the client she was so looking forward to.
"Mr. Liao, has the client arrived yet?"
Mr. Liao buttoned up his suit jacket, glanced back, and said, "It should be soon."
No sooner had he finished speaking than a Bentley slowly drove up and came to a steady stop in front of the hotel.
Zhang Xue came to Qiao Xing's side and whispered, "Here he comes. This client is really handsome. I'm not kidding you."
Qiao Xing became curious after hearing what she said. Just how handsome must this client be to excite Zhang Xue, such a beautiful woman with extremely high standards?
Soon, the car door opened, and two people got out.
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