"Thank you for today."
To be precise, she should thank him twice. She was already very grateful when he saved her from danger at a critical moment last time.
He stepped forward again at this critical moment; if it weren't for him, she really would have been taken away by Liu Weiqiang.
The man didn't seem to care: "It's alright. At least for the next year, I'll still be your husband in name only. It's my duty to protect my wife."
Song Mai thought for a moment and then said with great concern, "By the way, you must be careful in the future. That Liu Weiqiang is no good. If he targets you, you'll probably have a lot of trouble in the future."
This time, the man didn't turn his head.
"Don't worry, I'll be careful."
After another night's rest, Song Mai finally felt much better.
Apart from feeling a bit weak and fatigued, I felt fine otherwise.
Chu Xing left very early, as usual.
When Song Mai woke up, he was already gone.
After taking her medicine, she prepared a simple breakfast for herself before going to the company.
She had just sat down at her workstation when Lin Ran came over with a sour face.
"I've noticed you've become distant from me since you got married. You hardly ever reply to my messages anymore. Tell me, what's going on?"
Lin Ran finally breathed a sigh of relief after Song Mai truthfully recounted how she had gotten sick from being caught in the rain.
"You scared me to death! I thought something bad had happened again. After all, the last time you took leave was because of that incident. You, this little money-grubber, never take leave. It's really rare for you to take leave this time because you're sick."
Song Mai gave a wry smile. Who would want to take leave if they could avoid it?
After all, she had worked hard for a whole month, and taking a day off would mean losing her full attendance bonus. She had initially felt it was a real shame, but after what happened in the afternoon, the loss of the full attendance bonus wasn't so bad after all.
Seeing that she hadn't spoken for a while, Lin Ran touched her forehead with her hand.
"How is it? Is it done now?"
Song Mai patted his chest proudly:
"Don't worry, everything is fine now. I was really upset about losing the perfect attendance bonus this month, but it was definitely worth it."
While it was still early, she recounted the events of the previous day from beginning to end.
Lin Ran was furious upon hearing this.
She slammed her hand on the table, as if she wanted to tear Sister-in-law Song Mai and the others apart.
“This is outrageous! They are your family! Especially your mother, how can she sell her daughter like this! It’s only 500,000 yuan, yet they went to such lengths to sell you to Liu Weiqiang. You’re already married, and they still won’t let you go.”
Lin Ran had met Liu Weiqiang before, and to be honest, she admired Song Mai's mother and sister-in-law quite a bit.
To be able to lie so blatantly to that face and that person—isn't that a skill in itself?
Seeing that many of her colleagues were drawn to Lin Ran, she quickly lowered her voice and said:
"Keep your voice down. Anyway, thankfully everything is resolved now, and it was a close call. I originally just wanted to stay home and recover, but God probably thought I was wasting my money, so He arranged this incredibly worthwhile thing for me."
Lin Ran checked her over and over many times, making sure she was not injured before she felt relieved.
"But I didn't expect your husband to be so capable. I take back what I said before. I used to think he was just a gigolo who lived off women, but now I think about him differently. It doesn't seem so unacceptable for you to support him. After all, you can treat him like a bodyguard."
Song Mai nodded; she thought so too.
The two chatted about Song Mai's family for a while longer, when Lin Ran suddenly seemed to remember something.
He immediately bent down and moved a little closer to Song Mai.
"By the way, let me tell you some gossip."
"What?"
"Fang Yu's wife came to the company yesterday. Guess what she came for?"
Song Mai thought for a moment: "Deliver food?"
Lin Ran suddenly felt like she was hopelessly hopeless, so she flicked her finger and tapped Song Mai's forehead hard.
"Can't you be a little more gossipy? Do I really need to tell you about something as trivial as delivering food?"
"What is that?"
Song Mai was still puzzled. She had always been oblivious to what was going on outside the company and focused solely on doing her job well. She didn't care about anything else, so as Lin Ran said, she didn't have any gossip spirit.
Lin Ran glanced around furtively, and only after making sure no one noticed them did she utter two words:
"Catching them in the act!"
Now it was Song Mai's turn to be confused.
"Are you sure you haven't gotten the wrong gossip? Coming to the company to catch someone cheating? Who is it?"
In her memory, Fang Yu was quite honest and had decent business skills, so Song Mai always respected him.
Lin Ran glanced in the direction of the reception desk:
"We didn't catch him. I heard that he didn't come home all night, and when he got home, his wife found a lipstick stain on his shirt collar, so she came looking for him. Fang Yu said that he was out socializing and had no choice but to get the lipstick on, but his wife obviously didn't believe him, otherwise she wouldn't have made a scene at the company."
Song Mai thought carefully about the company's recent projects.
“I don’t think the company has taken on any new projects recently, right? What kind of social engagements are we involved in? We’re the Spanish department, not the marketing department, why should we be out socializing all the time?”
"Bingo!"
Lin Ran immediately cast an admiring glance at Song Mai, as if she had finally figured it out.
"It's precisely because we're in the Spanish department, and everyone knows we haven't been working on any new projects lately, that Fang Yu's wife hardly had to lift a finger. She could easily find out that what Fang Yu was saying was a lie by asking around the company. It's just a pity that she made a scene at the company but didn't achieve anything."
"Fang Yu kept stopping her, and she even went so far as to say in the department that anyone who was having an affair with her husband should step forward. Do you think anyone in our department would stand up for her under these circumstances, even if it were true?"
Song Mai glanced around at the people in the department. Most of the Spanish department members were young girls, and quite a few of them were pretty, so it was understandable that Fang Yu's wife had such suspicions.
But she really couldn't tell who it looked like.
Lin Ran smiled and said, "Actually, I guessed it."
"who?"
Lin Ran mysteriously kept it a secret:
"Just imagine, who has suddenly become very close to the manager recently? And Fang Yu is even helping her with everything, and she's enjoying a lot of benefits?"
With Lin Ran's prompting, Song Mai didn't need to think much before a name automatically popped into her mind.
"Zheng Yao!"
Lin Ran nodded repeatedly.
“I just felt it was her. The day before yesterday, I saw a hickey on her neck that even foundation couldn’t cover. I’ve never heard that Zheng Yao has a boyfriend. If she wasn’t Fang Yu’s mistress, how do you explain the hickey on her neck?”
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