Chapter 498 Not Considered
"Just consider it a favor to me. You're a woman too. If you were in this situation, wouldn't you be angry? Wouldn't you want to get revenge?"
Qiao Xing sighed, "Didn't I say you don't have any evidence? Why don't you calm down first? Maybe you're both at fault in this matter."
Lin Shuang suddenly shook off her hand and said irritably, "Do I need evidence? He just lied to me about going to the bathroom, and then he was chatting with a female colleague here. Did he even consider my feelings?"
"He said it was just a contract to sign."
"You believe him just because he says so? They don't have any male colleagues in their department? They have to bring in a new employee. Only someone as naive as you could be fooled by that kind of talk. Besides, I saw them having dinner together last time. I don't believe there's really nothing going on between them."
"And I've also done the math. His attitude towards me changed after that female employee came. He started to get impatient with me and was always finding excuses to argue with me. Wasn't he just waiting to break up with me?"
"This..." Qiao Xing was also starting to feel confused, unsure of whose words to believe.
"Qiao Xing, please help me! We absolutely can't let this scum get away with this! We've been friends for so long, aren't you going to help me with this little thing?"
Lin Shuang's thinking was simple: once Zhang Zhe was fired by S&C, his resume would look bad, and when he went out to find a job, big companies would definitely think twice if they knew he had been fired from his previous company.
He'll have a hard time finding a job in the future, and he won't be able to find one with such good benefits as S&C. Let's see how he and that woman can continue their relationship.
Qiao Xing was having trouble continuing the conversation. She scratched her head and made an excuse, "Then I'll go back and ask."
"Thank you, Qiao Xing. I'm counting on you." Lin Shuang said excitedly, tacitly acknowledging that Qiao Xing had agreed.
Qiao Xing forced a smile. "Then I'll be going now. Don't be too sad."
After saying that, Qiao Xing quickly left the place of trouble, regretting that he hadn't watched the commotion.
She gave Xing Jiu a wink and left the furniture store as quickly as possible, leaving Xing Jiu struggling to keep up.
Once in the car, Qiao Xing finally let out a long sigh of relief.
"Miss Qiao, where are we going?"
"Let's go back." Qiao Xing patted his forehead; his head felt big.
She couldn't possibly ask Qin Ce to fire Zhang Zhe, otherwise what would she become?
Qiao Xing wasn't in the mood to browse furniture anymore; she just wanted to go back and take a nap. Suddenly, she felt incredibly sleepy.
Perhaps because of her pregnancy, she was exhausted after only shopping for a short while, and could barely keep her eyes open. She even fell asleep in the car on the way back.
When they got home, Xing Jiu was still debating whether to wake her up, but Qiao Xing woke up on her own.
She went upstairs, collapsed onto the bed, and slept soundly for days.
When she woke up, it was already dark.
Qiao Xing rubbed her eyes and got out of bed. She looked around and found that the living room was dark, and Qin Ce didn't seem to have returned yet.
She turned on the living room light and saw the bag of fruit on the coffee table, so he came back and went out again?
Qiao Xing took out her phone and looked at it; sure enough, Qin Ce had left her a WeChat contact.
He woke her up and told her to go downstairs for dinner, while he cooked for the old man.
Qiao Xing then remembered that he had said he was going to cook on the first floor yesterday, so he quickly tidied up and went downstairs.
The door wasn't closed, so I pushed it open, went in, changed my shoes, and walked into the living room. Before I even left the entryway, I heard the old man talking to Qin Ce.
"I think we should hire a nanny. You're working all day and then coming home to cook. It's too much trouble for you to go back and forth like this."
Qin Ce said, "It's no trouble. I don't trust others to cook. Anyway, cooking doesn't require much brainpower, so I'll just treat it as relaxation."
Qiao Xing twitched the corner of his mouth. This was the first time he had ever heard of cooking being a way to relax. How much pressure must he be under at his job?
"Oh, Xingxing is here." The old man waved to Qiao Xing as soon as he saw her. "You should tell him to find a nanny. Otherwise, seeing him make such a fuss, it will look like we're ganging up on him."
"He even said he didn't trust other people to cook, and kept thinking he was a spy."
Qiao Xing couldn't help but chuckle upon hearing this. She walked over to the old man and said with a smile, "I'll discuss it with him again when we get back."
"Let's talk it over properly. It's not like we can't afford a nanny."
"Okay, Grandpa."
Qin Ce called out from the other end of the line, "Come and eat."
Qiao Xing pushed the old man to the dining room. Today was their first meal in this new home, and Qin Ce had prepared quite a lot, with a table full of dishes.
The dishes he made didn't seem to have any effect on Qiao Xing's stomach, which showed that he had put in a lot of effort.
Qiao Xing couldn't help but feel a little touched.
After the meal, the two left, since the rooms and beds weren't set up yet, and there was nowhere to sleep if they stayed.
Since it was still early, Qin Ce led her for a walk in the neighborhood.
There are many children in the neighborhood at this time, as well as quite a few middle-aged women dancing in the square, making it very lively.
As Qiao Xing watched the children playing, her fingers inadvertently fell on her lower abdomen. It seemed that after becoming pregnant, she was more attentive to the children around her.
She took Qin Ce's arm, looked up at him, and said, "Qin Ce, Grandpa mentioned hiring a nanny. Have you considered it?"
Qin Ce wouldn't let her into the kitchen, so Qiao Xing was more willing to accept the suggestion of hiring a nanny than to see him suffer.
"I don't need to think about it. It's not like I can't take care of you."
He refused decisively, and Qiao Xing didn't know whether to be touched or to call him stubborn.
"I just don't want you to be so tired."
"I'm not tired."
"..." Qiao Xing suddenly fell silent. She opened her mouth, but felt unable to communicate.
"You're not tired now, but you definitely will be tired after a while."
Qin Ce paused, turned to meet her gaze, and said, "We'll talk about it later."
"…All right."
Qiao Xing told him about what happened at the furniture store that day, but didn't mention Zhang Zhe's dismissal.
She asked Qin Ce, "Does Zhang Zhe really have an ambiguous relationship with that female colleague?"
"I don't know, I don't care about their private affairs."
As expected, Qiao Xing scratched his head again and asked, "So how is Zhang Zhe usually at the company?"
"I don't know, I haven't had much contact with them."
"Really? He earns such a high salary, don't you guys communicate about work regularly?"
"No, I usually talk to his manager."
Qiao Xing was embarrassed. "Are all the salaries in your company this high?"
"Of course not. He's from the overseas department, and he was poached from another company, so his salary will naturally be higher."
"He's only a little taller, yet he earns a million a year."
"Even with an annual salary of one million plus performance-based pay and commissions, that's less than 100,000 a month. Do you think that's high?"
Qiao Xing was taken aback. If you calculate it that way, it doesn't seem like a particularly high income.
But an annual income of one million still sounds very high.
"Then go back and find out if he has a relationship with that female colleague."
Qin Ce frowned slightly, somewhat unwillingly, "Why are you meddling in other people's business? As long as he doesn't mess up his work, I won't interfere in their private lives."
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