Chapter 8: Taking the Subway During Rush Hour



Si Jin finished his breakfast quickly and left.

The large apartment was very close to NNT, and Li Han had plenty of time after breakfast, so she opened her tablet and began to study management knowledge.

The comments section started saying she was faking her efforts, but Li Han hadn't even watched the "City of Light" live stream, so what netizens said didn't affect her.

“I have already notified He Qinqin to come and move the things away as soon as possible.”

Si Jiuyin glanced around the large apartment: "But this floor is almost entirely occupied by He Qinqin's things, so it probably won't be cleared out anytime soon."

"I'm sorry to trouble you to stay in a guest room on the second floor for now."

Li Han quickly shook her head: "I'm not wronged."

The bathroom in the guest room was larger than the single room she had lived in before she moved in.

Then, Si Jiuyin handed a set of car keys to Li Han: "Go to the underground parking lot and pick one that looks good to you."

The car keys clinked together.

At this moment, viewers in the live chat simultaneously paused their battle and slowly typed a "?".

Question marks flooded the screen like snowflakes.

Holy crap... I saw so many Porsche, BMW, and Mercedes logos...

This bunch of car keys is even more extravagant than the one my landlord wears when he's collecting rent.

[It's outrageous that someone so rich would make their adopted daughter live in a basement.]

[Si Jiuyin just said this whole floor belongs to He Qinqin. The house looks quite old, so it doesn't seem fake.]

[This large apartment was bought specifically for He Qinqin. It's very close to NNT. I wonder what He Qinqin finds oppressive about it?]

[You people are all so greedy, already speaking up for Si Jiuyin? Our Qinqin is still suffering on the subway during rush hour.]

After Li Han left, Si Jiuyin turned on the TV and tuned to the "City of Light" live broadcast.

The scene shows He Qinqin frantically entering the subway turnstile.

Si Jiuyin picked up the Italian coffee brought by the housekeeper. She was quite looking forward to seeing what it would be like for He Qinqin to squeeze onto the subway during rush hour for the first time in his life.

He Qinqin took the subway from Line 2 to Line 1 to get to her company, a journey that required 28 stops.

In the live broadcast, He Qinqin went through the turnstile to the basement level and was stunned to see the crowd of people on the platform.

She could only follow the crowd and wait in line. She waited for three subway trains before it was her turn on the fourth one.

As soon as the subway doors opened, the crowd behind He Qinqin surged wildly into the carriage.

The carriage was crowded, with few people getting off, only getting on.

He Qinqin thought these people were really too rude: "Hey, how can they be so impolite!"

"I'm in a hurry, please move aside, you're crowding me!"

The cameramen and directors had already been pushed aside; they gave up struggling and didn't want to compete with the busy workers for subway seats.

Only the miniature camera worn by He Qinqin still had a video feed, which showed crowds of people everywhere.

As everyone jostled around, someone's breakfast was accidentally pushed onto He Qinqin's face, and the lid of the cup of soy milk broke.

Soy milk was poured directly onto He Qinqin's face.

They even watered He Qinqin's fake no-makeup makeup.

Seeing this, Si Jiuyin couldn't help but burst out laughing.

In the eighteen years that He Qinqin lived in the Si family, she was always either picked up by a private car or drove herself. She had never experienced such a terrifying 8 a.m. rush hour.

Si Jiuyin knew that Si Jin had given He Qinqin a car key when he delivered the gifts a few days ago, and she advised He Qinqin to go home.

However, He Qinqin didn't take the car keys; instead, she got angry because Si Jin had said something bad about Shi Yao.

In the scene, He Qinqin was transferring from Line 2 to Line 1. When she arrived at the transfer station, passengers who were transferring rushed out in a swarm, and He Qinqin felt like her internal organs were about to be squeezed out.

As she exited the carriage, she was caught in the closing subway doors.

The heel of her YSL high heel broke while she was squeezing onto the subway.

He Qinqin was extremely disheveled at this moment, her eyes were red, and she glanced at the time and it was already 8:40.

The TV station's official start time is 9 a.m., but she is often late or leaves early and no one says anything.

But today at 9:05, the mentor will be issuing tasks.

I feel so sorry for Qinqin, all these bad things just happened at once.

[The more rushed you are, the more likely something bad will happen. Ugh, Li Han is leisurely jogging to the company right now... It makes me so angry.]

[Speaking of this matter alone, it's He Qinqin's time management that's the problem, right? She and her boyfriend were so lovey-dovey during breakfast...]

[What's it to you what we CP fans like to watch!]

Can't we show some more sympathy for working people instead of criticizing her here?

He Qinqin lives at the Si family's house, which is close to the company and everything is taken care of, so there's not much for her to worry about.

She sniffed, took out her phone, and dialed Si Jin's number.

She had just had a fight with Si Jin the day before yesterday, and her tone was still a bit stiff: "Brother, I'm at the Yanjiang East Road subway station. Can you take me to the station?"

Si Jin across from him said in a low voice, "I have a morning meeting. I'll have Assistant Jiang pick you up."

The assistant arrived quickly and brought He Qinqin a pair of white flat shoes.

He Qinqin, sitting in the back seat of the car, changed her clothes with a look of disdain: "Assistant Jiang, your taste is so outdated."

"This style of shoe is so common."

Assistant Jiang's smile was forced.

[Holy crap, CEO Si is so nice! I wish I had a brother like him.]

I think He Qinqin's tone was a bit impolite.

But wasn't taking the subway faster? Now that we're in the city, traffic jams are even more likely.

Sure enough, the car encountered a massive traffic jam during the morning rush hour less than three kilometers away.

Assistant Jiang cautiously said to He Qinqin, "Miss, we're less than two kilometers from New Star TV Station. It'll be faster to walk there than to be stuck in traffic like this."

He Qinqin rolled her eyes angrily, and was about to speak when she suddenly remembered that she was still live streaming. The words "What use are you, a piece of trash, here?" stuck in her throat.

She got out of the car, slammed the door shut, and then started running.

*

8:50 a.m.

Li Han arrived at the location designated by the program team: the morning coffee shop downstairs from her company.

Lin Ce, the third guest to be recorded for NNT, was already waiting there.

He lived in a shared apartment, which made filming inconvenient, so the production team only filmed his travel process.

To avoid rush hour, he took the early morning subway when it was less crowded, arriving at the company before eight o'clock.

Good morning, Senior Brother Lin.

Li Han greeted Lin Ce, who was one of the interns who had joined earlier than her. He was gentle, quiet, and very caring towards his juniors.

Like Li Han, he came from a small town.

Two reporters from Rongguang TV also arrived at the conference room.

Rongguang TV and Xinxing TV are located very close to each other, right next door.

The production team rented this coffee shop as the location for issuing tasks.

The mentor at Rongguang TV Station is named Xu Sen, who is in his thirties and always dressed in a suit and tie.

"Hello, Teacher Xu." Li Han and Lin Ce greeted him in unison.

Xu Sen nodded, his voice clear and authoritative: "Just call me Brother Sen."

The two reporters he brought along, a man and a woman, were also dressed very elegantly.

Seeing that there were only two NNT reporters, Xu Sen asked, "Where's the other NNT reporter?"

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