Emergency withdrawal
On the other side, Jin Yuxi was nestled on a bench downstairs in her apartment complex.
He watched with great interest the melodramatic four-way love triangle unfolding in front of him, too lazy to even glance at his phone vibrating in his pocket.
Zhang Li was still shopping with her best friend on the commercial street, her phone stuffed in her bag, so no one could hear her.
Wang Qian rode her electric scooter at breakneck speed through the streets and alleys delivering food, so busy that she didn't even have time to glance at her phone screen.
The only person who saw the group message was Lin Weiwei.
The moment she opened the group chat, everything went black before her eyes, and she almost thought that Qu Shiyao's brain had been sealed with plaster.
She actually pulled this young lady with unclear motives into their group chat!
The next second, Lin Weiwei began bombarding Qu Shiyao's phone with private messages.
Qu Shiyao's phone was vibrating so loudly that it was buzzing, and Su Wanwan was sitting right next to her, making the atmosphere quite strange.
Qu Shiyao looked at the lifeless group chat and the frantically popping private message notifications, feeling both annoyed and amused.
What could she do?
He had no choice but to open the private chat window with Lin Weiwei in front of Su Wanwan.
[The Rich Woman Arrives: Qu Shiyao, Are You Crazy?!]
[Rich woman arrives: Did your hand injury also damage your brain? (Do you need me to get you an appointment with a neurologist?.jpg)]
[The rich woman arrives: Speak! Why did you bring her in?! (Knife to her throat.jpg)]
[Rich Woman Arrives: You're adding just anyone to the group? You're being way too casual as the group admin!]
One message after another popped up, and Su Wanwan, who was next to her, curiously leaned closer.
Qu Shiyao felt that as a responsible colleague, it was necessary to remind this colleague to prevent her from going astray later.
[Sister Qu: Miss Su is sitting next to me right now... (A cat wearing sunglasses and holding a wine glass.jpg)]
Almost at the same time she sent her message, a long, clearly passionate message popped up on Lin Weiwei's end!
Qu Shiyao only had time to catch a glimpse of the first few words, "Su Wanwan..." before the freshly posted message was urgently retracted!
Just as Lin Weiwei sent that greeting message that was several hundred words long, she saw Qu Shiyao's reminder.
At that moment, her heart stopped and everything went black.
With the unparalleled hand speed honed from being single for 28 years, he completed the entire sequence of actions in a second: reading comprehension, brain freeze, extreme panic, and lightning-fast retraction!
Qu Shiyao silently stared at the message "The other party has retracted a message" in the chat box, counting down the time in her mind.
Thirty-eight seconds later, a completely different message cautiously appeared.
[Rich Woman Arrives: Oh dear! How could we just casually invite Miss Su into our messy and chaotic group? Not even giving everyone a heads-up beforehand seems so disrespectful to Miss Su! (smiling.jpg)]
Qu Shiyao couldn't help but burst out laughing when she saw the message.
Su Wanwan, who was next to her, also lowered her head, her shoulders trembling slightly, clearly trying to suppress her laughter.
"Does she talk to you like this all the time?" Su Wanwan tried to keep a straight face and asked seriously, but she couldn't suppress the smile on her lips.
Qu Shiyao smiled and shook her head: "She usually criticizes me much harsher than this. Right now... well, she's probably a little afraid of you."
Immediately afterwards, the first message besides Qu Shiyao appeared in the group chat.
[Rich Woman Arrives (Commoner): A warm welcome to Miss Su to our big family! From now on, we're all family. Feel free to ask in the group if you need anything! (Applause.jpg)]
"He has good adaptability, can quickly adjust his communication strategies, and is passable in improvisation. He is good at consuming others rather than consuming himself, so he can be considered a talent."
Su Wanwan gave a fairly objective evaluation of Lin Weiwei's actions.
"Hmm, good at identifying talent, relatively stable emotionally, and able to summarize the usefulness of others. Miss is quite talented." The system also objectively evaluated Su Wanwan, mimicking her style.
Qu Shiyao glanced at the system speechlessly: It's one thing for her to comment on others, but you're commenting on them too?
"Is the maximum amount that can be sent in this group red envelopes 200 yuan?"
Su Wanwan picked up her phone, tapped it a few times, and frowned slightly as she looked at the maximum amount. She felt that the two hundred yuan was an insult to her financial resources.
She casually set up a lucky draw red envelope for 5 people and sent it out.
Qu Shiyao was quick-witted and clicked on it first.
Then a striking number popped up on the screen: 0.38 yuan.
"...?" Qu Shiyao stared at the number, remained silent for two seconds, then pointed at the phone screen in disbelief, looking at Su Wanwan with a wronged expression:
"I feel like this red envelope is not only insulting my luck, but also mocking me with numbers!"
Su Wanwan was stunned when she saw the striking 0.38.
"Is your luck always this exceptional?" 200 yuan for 5 bags, and you managed to snag 38 cents? What level of luck is that?
"No! This is absolutely not normal!" Qu Shiyao's expression turned serious, and she quickly found a scapegoat for herself.
"Someone must have passed on their bad luck to me! It's President Si! It must be him who was spouting nonsense and bothering me just now, which is why my luck has turned bad!"
[Host, admit it, you're just unlucky.] The system mercilessly exposed him.
Su Wanwan also cast a suspicious glance at her, but Qu Shiyao raised her chin, looking self-righteous and not at all thinking it was her fault.
On the other side, Lin Weiwei also saw the red envelope and felt a strong urge to do the same.
But recalling the terrifying scene just now, she endured it for a full three minutes, estimating that it should have been almost completely snatched up by now, before cautiously clicking on it.
A message popped up on the screen: 166.88 yuan!
Lin Weiwei: "!!!"
She was stunned and quickly scrolled down to check the receipt records.
She was the second to grab it, while Qu Shiyao, who was first, was prominently displayed with a glaring 0.38 yuan.
Now it's impossible to keep a low profile...
Qu Shiyao and Su Wanwan also witnessed Lin Weiwei's amazing luck.
Su Wanwan glanced at Qu Shiyao again, her expression complex.
Qu Shiyao then picked up the purple charm hanging on her phone, her expression turning unusually serious, and muttered to herself:
"Looks like my lucky color energy isn't fully stacked... Hmm! I'll have to add a few more purple accessories tomorrow!"
【That's right! It's all the fault of external factors!】The system stood aside with its hands on its hips and nodded, doing its best to protect the host's dignity. Taking advantage of the fact that others couldn't see it, it acted even more self-righteously than Qu Shiyao.
"Alright, it's getting late, I should go back and rest." Su Wanwan smiled as she stood up and gracefully straightened her skirt.
She reached the door, paused as she grasped the doorknob, turned back to look at Qu Shiyao, and her tone became formal and clear:
"Let's get to know each other formally. My name is Su Wanwan, and I'll be your colleague from today onwards. You can call me Wanwan from now on."
After saying that, without waiting for Qu Shiyao's response, she opened the door, walked briskly to the opposite side, opened the door, entered the room, and closed the door in one smooth motion.
[With this personality, if there hadn't been all those conspiracies, schemes, and targeting in the original story, perhaps she could have become friends with the female lead?] The system pondered, looking at the closed door across the room.
"No." Qu Shiyao bit the lollipop in her mouth and accurately tossed the stick into the trash can.
“They are not the same kind of people at all. Su Wanwan is showing her relatively kind side now, but deep down she is suspicious, easily provoked, and has the temper and arrogance of a young lady.”
"The reason she was willing to be frank with me today is because I got to know her before Sun Mei's provocations and unintentionally left her with a pretty good impression."
She paused, then added, "More importantly, do you think that, given her personality, she wouldn't verify the authenticity of that kind of information?"
"And what about the female lead in the original novel? Su Wanwan doesn't know her at all, plus there were indeed those entanglements between the female lead and Si Cheng."
"Given Su Wanwan's way of thinking, she would most likely think that since the female lead was being forced, why didn't she resist fiercely? Instead of trying to understand that some people just can't resist."
"Perhaps the female lead in the original work did something that she found extremely disgusting, thus concluding that she herself had a problem? As for me, I probably did something that she found special and persistent."
The system nodded knowingly.
Meanwhile, back in her apartment, Su Wanwan sat on the sofa and opened the anonymous text message again, her eyes calm.
"Ah Dong!" she called to her bodyguard and gave him the order.
"Find out who the assistant who was dismissed before I arrived was, what her background was, and what exactly happened between her, Si Cheng, and Qu Shiyao."
Just after Tan Zhendong left, Su Wanwan's phone rang.
She glanced at the caller ID; it was a number she knew by heart, though she hadn't saved its name.
I picked up my phone, pressed answer, but didn't rush to speak.
"Wanwan..." A gentle yet undeniably authoritative mature male voice came from the other end of the phone.
"How are things going with that kid from the Si family? I heard their company is bidding for that piece of land in the east of the city. Since you're at his company, do you have any inside information?"
"It's fine, I don't know, I can't hear it."
Su Wanwan went to the kitchen, poured herself a glass of water, took a sip, and spoke in a tone that couldn't be more perfunctory. She then put her phone on speakerphone and tossed it on the table.
"How dare you talk to your father like that? You're already gaining experience at the company, why are you still so stubborn..."
The man on the other end of the phone started rambling on, his tone unconsciously becoming didactic and comparative.
Su Wanwan seemed not to hear, and picked up her tablet to look at the preliminary report Tan Zhendong had sent a few minutes earlier regarding the source and true nature of the slanderous photos.
"Su Wanwan! Are you even listening to me?!" The man spoke for a long time, but when he found no response, his tone became angry.
"Listen, please continue." Su Wanwan didn't look up, her fingers swiping across the screen.
"Look at yourself now! In what way are you as sensible as your sister Gu Tang? You've wasted all the care and attention your mother put into raising you—"
Before she could finish speaking, Su Wanwan's face suddenly darkened, she grabbed her phone, and decisively ended the call.
Then he casually added the number to his blacklist and tossed his phone back onto the sofa.
"Ha!" she sneered, a hint of mockery flashing in her eyes. "You think you're worthy to mention my mother?"
She went to the balcony and pushed open the glass door.
Thick clouds covered the night sky, completely obscuring the starlight, creating a sense of oppression reminiscent of that night many years ago when no one offered her a helping hand.
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