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"Shiyao, actually... I think you can go by yourself, there's really no need to drag me along..." They might even think I'm your companion and plot against you.
Zhang Li didn't finish her sentence, forcing a very strained smile.
She clutched the small, sturdy bag—which could be used as a brick if necessary—closely following Qu Shiyao, her eyes scanning warily every colleague passing by in the corridor.
God knows if any of those people were radicals from that group.
Ever since Qu Shiyao appeared in that outfit and canvas bag this morning, that private group chat exploded instantly, clearly indicating there was a mole inside.
Those people are very shrewd now; they no longer dare to openly discuss how to deal with Qu Shiyao in the group chat, and have all switched to offline actions.
"Sister Zhang Li, what are you afraid of them for?" Qu Shiyao leisurely chewed on her candy, and even had the leisure to greet her passing colleagues with a smile.
Since she became famous overnight during last week's team building event, there are very few people in the company who don't know her, especially on the 66th floor. This means that as soon as she finishes greeting someone, another enthusiastic colleague comes over.
"Sigh~ As expected, one shouldn't be too popular. Wherever you go, you have to respond to those enthusiastic colleagues. You can't not respond either~" Qu Shiyao shook her head and complained with slight annoyance.
Zhang Li: "..."
system:【? ? ? 】
"Alright then!" Qu Shiyao noticed Zhang Li was still nervously fidgeting, so she assigned her a task.
"You just need to hold the phone up, turn on the video recording function, and also turn on the audio recording. Point the camera forward. Leave the rest to me!"
"Shiyao..." Zhang Li did as she was told, raising her phone, but still couldn't help but lower her voice to confirm, "You'll protect me, right?" She didn't want to be caught in the crossfire.
"Absolutely! Don't worry!" Qu Shiyao patted her chest to assure them, and then pressed the down elevator button.
The elevator is coming up from downstairs.
"bite--!"
The stairwell door opened, and a woman stood inside.
Zhang Li subconsciously stepped aside, assuming it was a colleague from another floor coming out.
However, the woman inside remained motionless.
Zhang Li's heart skipped a beat. They had pressed the down button, and the elevator being stopped on this floor meant they were going down.
This person came up from below, and now he's not going out...
"Sister Zhang Li, what are you daydreaming about? Come in quickly!" Qu Shiyao had already walked into the elevator in a carefree manner. She turned around and saw Zhang Li still standing there in a daze, and urged her in a puzzled manner.
Zhang Li was torn between her inner thoughts and her own, but in the end, she gritted her teeth and followed them in, pretending to be scrolling through short videos while secretly pointing her camera ahead.
Since we're already here, if we turn around and leave now, Lin Weiwei will definitely make fun of us for a whole year when we get back!
Qu Shiyao pressed the button for the 1st floor, while the woman pressed the button for the 30th floor.
The elevator doors slowly closed, and a strange tension inexplicably filled the small space.
"Hey, sister, you look unfamiliar. Which department are you from? Let's get to know each other?" Qu Shiyao seemed to have a natural talent for socializing, and she immediately moved closer to the woman, almost putting her arm around her shoulder.
The woman, who had been looking down at her phone, was startled by Qu Shiyao's sudden approach. She took a step back, her face full of wariness, and remained silent, as if Qu Shiyao were some kind of monster.
Qu Shiyao seemed hurt by this reaction, clutching her chest and taking a step back, looking at Zhang Li with a wronged expression: "Sister Zhang Li, do I look scary?"
"Huh?" Zhang Li was taken aback by the sudden question and instinctively shook her head. "How could that be! You're very beautiful!"
"Really?" Qu Shiyao asked with a hint of doubt.
She took out her phone, opened the front camera and looked at herself, then nodded in satisfaction, "Yes, I also think I'm incredibly beautiful."
Zhang Li's hand trembled, and her phone almost flew out of her hand.
The stranger: "..." Help! This is completely different from the cunning and scheming woman I've heard about! She seems more like someone who escaped from a mental hospital!
The elevator stopped on the 38th floor, the doors opened, and two more women walked in.
Zhang Li immediately shrank to the far corner of the elevator like a startled rabbit, holding her phone, her eyes even more wary.
Now, besides her and Qu Shiyao, the other three women in the elevator are all suspicious!
The elevator doors closed again, making the already cramped space feel even more crowded and the atmosphere even more eerie.
"Huh? Do you smell something strange?" One of the women who had just entered suddenly frowned and waved her hand in front of her nose.
"Hmm, it seems so..." Her companion immediately understood and nodded in agreement, her gaze sweeping meaningfully across the elevator, finally lingering a little longer on Qu Shiyao.
Most people would feel uncomfortable or even doubt themselves when they hear such veiled criticism.
Unfortunately, Qu Shiyao is no ordinary person.
She immediately turned her head, very naturally casting her gaze upon the woman who had been silent from the beginning, her tone full of concern:
"Sister! They say you smell! Did you accidentally rub something on yourself?"
"Heh...hehe," the woman who had been temporarily dragged along as a passerby almost choked on her words, letting out two dry laughs, "I...you weren't talking about me, were you..."
She felt that their carefully crafted script, designed by the moderate faction, was completely wasted on Qu Shiyao!
The opponent seemed to possess a strange force field, and all attacks were inexplicably reflected back!
"But there was no smell when the three of us were here just now..."
Qu Shiyao then had a look of sudden realization on her face, and looked at the two women who had just entered with shock, her eyes seeming to say: No way, no way? Could it be that someone is crying wolf?
Zhang Li wished she could bury her head in her chest, partly out of shame for Qu Shiyao, and partly out of fear of being hit by the indiscriminate barrage of firepower.
The woman who started the fight was so angry that her face turned red. Seeing that Qu Shiyao was not playing by the rules at all, she could only bite the bullet and continue singing: "This smell... I think I've only smelled it in that place before."
"You mean...that place?" Her co-star immediately chimed in, a look of disgust on his face.
Before the first woman could reply, Qu Shiyao's voice broke in, full of surprise and a hint of barely perceptible teasing: "Wow~ you guys have been there before?"
As she spoke, she unconsciously took a half-step back.
Zhang Li: "?" (Black guy with a question mark face.jpg) Where? Where exactly is it? What kind of riddle are you guys playing?!
The system was equally confused: [Host, do you know what place they're talking about?]
"I don't know!" Qu Shiyao answered confidently in her mind, "but that doesn't stop me from having friendly exchanges with them!"
System: [...] Is this a one-sided, forceful communication?
The two women in front of them were so enigmatic that their faces turned as black as the bottom of a pot after their spells were interrupted twice.
Unable to continue their lines, they could only glare fiercely at Qu Shiyao.
Just then, the elevator reached the 30th floor. The woman pretending to be a passerby felt like she had been granted a pardon. She immediately lowered her head and practically fled from the suffocating elevator.
Now there are only four people left in the elevator.
According to the original plan, the passersby should have surrounded Qu Shiyao together by now, but so far, the show is only halfway done! This Qu Shiyao is simply impervious to reason!
"Oh my! Aren't you the new assistant next to President Si?" One of the women exclaimed dramatically, as if she had just recognized Qu Shiyao, trying to force a new topic.
System, Zhang Li: [...] Could you guys be any more fake?
Are you talking about me?
Qu Shiyao pointed to herself, feigning surprise, and then enthusiastically pointed to Zhang Li in the corner: "She's also President Si's assistant!"
Another woman quickly chimed in, "I know you! I heard... I heard you and President Si..."
She spoke halfway through, masterfully employing the art of leaving blank spaces, and glanced at Qu Shiyao's T-shirt, thinking that she should understand.
Instead, Qu Shiyao leaned closer, cupped her hand to her ear, and whispered, "What did you hear? Tell me in detail?"
"You mean...you mean true love?" The woman's face stiffened. Was this person genuinely clueless or just pretending? Did she really have to be so blunt?
"Huh?" Qu Shiyao's expression instantly turned extremely strange, her voice involuntarily rising in disbelief.
"What kind of theory is this? You actually believe that? Then I could say I'm President Si's long-lost ancestor! Why doesn't President Si believe that? Come and kowtow to me?"
The three women remaining in the elevator were terrified. They looked around frantically, then looked up in horror at the security camera in the corner of the elevator.
Zhang Li lowered her voice and asked incredulously, "You really said that to President Si?"
"How could that be? Do you think I'm that kind of brainless person?" Qu Shiyao put her hands on her hips and rolled her eyes in annoyance. "I'm just a lowly working person, and I don't want to be forced to become a couch potato and stay at home!"
"So...you really aren't President Si's true love? Then do you know who his true love is?" Another woman looked at Qu Shiyao with suspicion, trying to discern the truth in her words.
"President Si's true love?" Qu Shiyao stroked her chin, feigning deep thought. "How could I control what President Si thinks? But if we're talking about who his true love is..."
She suddenly patted the huge QR code on her bag shyly, the meaning couldn't be clearer:
"Specifically, it depends on how much you value this information. Of course, I will decide how much inside information to reveal based on your sincerity. Cash on delivery! No deception!"
The two women exchanged a glance, then immediately huddled together, whispering and discussing something, while also taking out their phones, clearly in urgent consultation with others.
Qu Shiyao waited patiently, a harmless smile on her face.
Less than a minute later, they turned around, as if they had made up their minds.
"Heh! We'll offer 100,000! But you have to guarantee your source is absolutely reliable! Otherwise, we have plenty of ways to make you cough up the money you've swallowed!"
One of the women took out her phone and pointed it at the QR code on Qu Shiyao's bag.
"100,000 yuan has been received in your Alipay account!" A crisp notification sound rang out.
"Absolutely genuine! Absolutely reliable! We even offer after-sales service!" Qu Shiyao's attitude changed completely, her smile almost reaching her ears, and she enthusiastically pulled out her phone.
"Come on, add me on WeChat! I'll send you all that information! I can even introduce you to Mr. Si's true love's classmate from back then! If you want to know anything else, just ask!"
The system exclaimed: "Is this what they mean by 'easy money, fools, come quick'?"
"Wrong!" Qu Shiyao solemnly corrected in her mind, "They are our providers! They are our good sisters!"
She was secretly delighted and had already started calculating how much the money she had earned recently would be in the real world.
Zhang Li, who was standing next to her, was completely dumbfounded.
She now seriously doubts whether what Qu Shiyao just said was a lie.
With this business acumen of getting something for nothing... no, I mean, this ability to accurately capture demand and provide paid intelligence, even if Qu Shiyao gets fired, she definitely won't starve!
This isn't a salted fish, it's clearly a golden carp!
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