Chapter 78 Chapter 78 It seems like everyone is acting out a play...
A landmark building in the center of East City CBD, the headquarters of Bai Group.
The VIP-only sightseeing elevator that goes directly to the president's office rises steadily at a speed of 0.73 seconds per floor.
Bai Lincheng's figure was reflected on the 360° ultra-white tempered glass in the elevator. As the elevator rose, light and shadow flowed across his broad back.
The gold-rimmed glasses on his nose shone with a cold light, his lips were slightly tightened, his face was stern, and with the ups and downs of the superior facial bone lines, he was as silent as an ancient Greek statue.
The male secretary's voice rang out in the space where the two were alone, reporting in a calm voice on the president's work today. He would occasionally look up to see the boss's face reflected on the glass door.
The face of the person reflected in the highly transparent glass was distorted. The male secretary paused slightly while speaking.
Although Mr. Bai usually doesn't talk, but as soon as he saw Mr. Bai today, he felt that Bai Lincheng today... seemed a little different.
Mr. Bai usually does not show his emotions on his face. The male secretary has been with him day and night for many years and can keenly sense that something is wrong.
Sure enough, during his pause, Mr. Bai seemed not to hear him and remained silent.
The male secretary closed the folder, held the documents with his hands hanging in front of him, and waited for his boss to turn on the computer.
One hour ago.
Bai family.
Bai Lincheng, wearing black trousers, bent his legs on the soft hand-woven carpet. He held Bai Qingqing's wrist tightly with one hand and gently rested his other hand on her leg.
The hand that touched her leg was very light, with the fingertips slightly raised, keeping a distance from her leg, and then it did not fall down with discretion.
Bai Qingqing was stunned for a few seconds and almost whistled.
He held back his emotions as Bai Lincheng's face was torn and full of different colors, a complex expression that was difficult to analyze even with a fan-shaped diagram.
He forced the whistle back.
Ao Teng, who was about to stand up to protect her, stood still, paused, scratched his brow after a few breaths, turned around and sat back smoothly, crossed his legs and took a sip of tea.
He did not leave his seat, but pretended not to see the actions of the brother and sister. He picked up the phone he had dropped half a minute ago and continued to look at the information of the actors that the company intended to sign.
Bai Qingqing: "It's this leg, then what?"
Bai Lingcheng's complex expression stabilized a lot. He clenched the hand hanging in front of her legs into a fist, retracted it to his side, and continued to kneel in front of her. He raised his head and asked, "Does it hurt? Do you want to call a doctor to check you out?"
Bai Qingqing felt that she was a person who couldn't hide her true feelings.
At that moment she felt that her face must have clearly expressed - Are you okay?
Her eyes opened wider than before, staring at Bai Lingcheng blankly, and she was complaining crazily in her heart:
[What's wrong with this brother? Didn't he just want to go see Bai Mu Ning? ]
[No matter who you look at, what's the point of kneeling down? 】
【Sprained ankle? 】
[Is he ashamed now? ]
Bai Qingqing shifted her gaze from Bai Lincheng's bent knees to his ankles, and heard a short laugh coming from behind her.
She felt that she could understand Ao Teng.
It wouldn't be strange if it was Bai Songxu kowtowing in the living room, but if she suddenly saw Bai Lincheng kneeling, she would also want to laugh.
But temporarily, Bai Qingqing couldn't laugh, only because Bai Lincheng was still looking at her intently.
She turned her brother's wrist and asked him carefully, "Can you let go?"
"We still have to go see Bai Mu Ning... Let's go, my legs are fine, I can walk."
Behind me, a voice came from the third floor.
The Bai family’s dining room and lounge area are connected, with a 28-meter-high open loft design above them, allowing light and a sense of space to flow throughout the entire floor.
Therefore, you can directly see what is happening on each floor from the restaurant.
The human voice is not clear because of the distance.
Bai Qingqing and Bai Lincheng looked over at the same time and saw Ao Xinyi and Bai Shuting talking in low voices in the corridor leading to the master bedroom on the third floor.
He walked hurriedly to the door of Bai Mu Ning's room and knocked.
Someone opened the door quickly. It was Bai Siqi.
Bai Qingqing knew what was going on upstairs, so she wasn't surprised and quickly looked away.
Bai Lincheng was still looking towards the third floor, and his brows, which had just relaxed a little, frowned again.
Bai Qingqing felt that today was quite strange.
For some reason, Tiandao did not force her to participate this time. Judging from the previous situation, she should have been forcibly dragged to the battlefield by Bai Lincheng.
But he was interrupted by his sudden kneeling.
Bai Mincheng...what exactly is going on...
On the third floor, Ao Xinyi stood in front of the door, facing the back of Bai Qingqing. Bai Siqi opened the door and made way. Before Ao Xinyi entered the room, a man ran out of the room, bumped into her arms, and hugged her tightly with his arms.
Bai Muning seemed to be crying in Ao Xinyi's arms.
Bai Shuting and Bai Siqi both looked at her.
Bai Lincheng frowned and turned his gaze back to Bai Qingqing's face in front of him, meeting her inquiring eyes as she looked at him.
She had no idea what was happening behind her.
At this moment, Bai Lincheng suddenly felt as if he was watching a play, and had a strong sense of detachment from the current scene.
There was a play on the third floor in the distance. They were acting out a scene on the stage with immersion, oblivious to the people around them. He and Bai Qingqing were also the actors who were about to enter the stage.
Not long ago, when Bai Qingqing got off the plane, her mother clearly said that she would come down to accompany her later, but now it seems like she has completely forgotten.
She and her father went back to their room to rest, and she also went to see Mu Ning for the second time, so she didn't remember to go downstairs.
Bai Lincheng slowly let go of Bai Qingqing's wrist.
Because she held it too tightly, several red marks were left on her thin arms.
Bai Lincheng exhaled a breath imperceptibly from his chest and met Bai Qingqing's still curious eyes:
"It's okay, we... won't go."
He stood up and said.
"bite--"
"We've arrived at the thirty-third floor."
The elevator door opened in front of Bai Lincheng, paused for ten seconds, and then closed. The secretary put his hand on the elevator door and turned around and shouted, "Boss Bai, the elevator is here."
Bai Lincheng pursed his lips tightly and looked forward, as if he saw nothing.
From the moment Gu Lan appeared, I fell in love with her.
He took the initiative to talk to Bai Qingqing, but spoke harshly to her, and today, he suddenly wanted to bring Bai Qingqing to Mu Ning to apologize...
He had never felt it so strongly.
I feel like a puppet. I have no intention in my heart, but I am still being pushed by a force to complete things for no reason.
What about his past life? Has he always been controlled like this, without knowing anything? Including the fact that he is standing here at this moment, is it fate or...
"Boss Bai, the elevator is here. Have you remembered anything?"
The secretary stood in front of him, blocking the elevator, holding a folder in her arms, and looked at his face with concern: "You look very bad today. If you are not feeling well, do you want to postpone the meeting later or... cancel it?"
Bai Mincheng came back to his senses, pushed his glasses down on his nose, took a deep breath and stepped out of the elevator: "No need to cancel, proceed as usual."
…
“Cancel all.”
"No one is going today." Bai Qingqing handed the tablet back to Ao Teng, raised her legs, and propped her hands on the leather seat, her ten fingertips tapping on the leather surface.
She smiled: "Thank you for troubling my uncle."
Ao Teng looked at the tablet in astonishment: "You looked at it for a long time, and the final conclusion is that no one is going? Isn't it... we are halfway through? Did something suddenly happen?"
The place we are about to go is Boss Zhang’s home.
Boss Zhang has nothing serious to worry about, except that he has more than a dozen sons and daughters. Today, he called all the children together and wanted to ask Master Qingqing to see which child is the best to inherit his family business and carry forward the Zhang family.
We had already set out for half an hour, and even though we still had half the distance left, it was so strange that my niece, who was always reliable, suddenly said she didn't want to go.
Bai Qingqing nodded without any psychological burden, stopped tapping her hands, and leaned against the car door: "Well, I suddenly remembered something, so I won't go."
Bai Qingqing patted the driver's seat and asked him to turn around and go back to the Bai family.
"The rest of the day is a private schedule. Dear Assistant Ao, I'll give you a day off today. Just find any excuse you want to tell the bosses."
Ao Teng accepted it quickly after being surprised, and took out his mobile phone on the spot to make a call.
Before making the call, he stopped and asked his niece, "Do you need help?"
Bai Qingqing smiled and said, "No need."
*
Bai family.
Bai Qingqing asked the driver to wait for her downstairs for a while. The car didn't need to go back to the garage. She went back to her room to change clothes and would be down in 20 minutes.
On the way, she visited the official websites of major luxury brands, ordered more than a dozen pieces of clothing, and sent them to Ms. Xu, asking her to help her prepare them.
Before getting off the bus, I received a message from Ms. Xu saying that the clothes had been put in her room.
Bai Qingqing quickly went upstairs and opened the door of her room.
There was a golden clothes hanger in the middle of the room, with more than a dozen dresses lined up in a row. Each dress had intricate decorations and patterns, which refracted brilliantly in the midday sun.
Bai Qingqing walked quickly past a row of clothes, flipping through the skirts of varying lengths with her fingers. She circled the hanger twice, quickly picked one out, compared the length on her body, and then nodded and threw it on the bed.
Elie Saab 2025 Spring/Summer Haute Couture Collection, the skirt is made of white multi-layered tulle and lace, hand-embroidered with fine sequins and crystals, with transparent lace puff sleeves on the shoulders.
The waist is tightened and the skirt flares out from the hips. Crystal tassels are sewn on the edge of the skirt, which makes a crisp sound when swaying.
Similar to Bai Mu Ning's style, but more refined and gorgeous than her preference.
After Li Qingqing returned to the Bai family, she clearly realized the gap between her previous life and this huge Bai family.
She grew up in the Li family, which favors boys over girls. Seventeen years of life have taught her what it means to be favored and not to be chosen, and she is keenly aware of all malice.
This seems to be her talent.
In the Bai family, her biological parents and brothers all disliked her. The servants in the family envied her good fortune and perfunctorily called her Miss Qingqing, but showed real respect and love when facing Bai Muning.
Li Qingqing knew where the problem was. She wanted to wash off the smell of dirt on herself. She wanted to be different from the past. She wanted to learn from Bai Mu Ning, but she definitely didn't want to be like her.
Bai Qingqing put on an exquisite and gorgeous half-knee-length skirt, sat in front of the mirror, put on some exquisite simple makeup, fixed her hair, and ran straight downstairs and sat back in the car:
"Let's go to the group."
The driver was stunned.
Staring at the rearview mirror, it was hard to imagine that this was Miss Qingqing who was wearing a short-sleeved shirt and jeans just now.
He slowly thought about which group it was, and only reacted when the car started moving forward subconsciously.
Which group can the young lady of the Bai family join?
Of course it’s the Bai Group.
*
After the morning meeting, Bai Lingcheng finally had time to calm down. He sat in the office, poured himself a cup of coffee, and thought carefully about what had happened during this period.
He lived for twenty-eight years, and everything was normal...
Even though it was abnormal, he never realized that everything started from being able to hear the voice of his sister who had been away from home for 18 years and had just returned home.
The mere fact that one can hear one's inner voice is already abnormal.
The coffee was emitting a bitter aroma and had cooled down.
Bai Lincheng didn't move a word, his eyes fixed on the screen in front of him, his fingertips tapping slowly on the tabletop.
On the green website, novels with the keywords "mind reading" and "true and false daughters" were lined up, occupying his entire sight.
The intercom phone suddenly rang.
Bai Lincheng picked up the phone and heard the secretary say, "Boss Bai, your sister is here and wants to see you. Is that convenient for you?"
Bai Mincheng: "Who?"
As he asked, the heavy door of the office was pushed open, and a slender girl in a gorgeous white skirt appeared in front of him, pushing the door with both hands raised high -
Soon, the hands landed on the girl's face, wagging her fingers beside her softly puffed sleeves, and smiled at him: "Brother, it's me, Bai Qingqing."
Li Qingqing always speaks loudly.
There was no one around her, and only by pretending to be calm and confident could she give herself courage and support.
Li Qingqing seems to have a weak character. As long as someone says something against her or gives her a look of contempt, her strong appearance will be shattered. But she is definitely not a soft-hearted person.
Otherwise, she would not have gotten the admission quota to Dongda University despite her family situation and risked her life to run to Dongshi alone.
Even if everyone dislikes her, she will take the initiative to find everyone.
To win their favor—
"Brother said last time that he welcomes me to the company. I hope you don't mind if I stop by for a visit today."
Bai Qingqing was carrying a delicate handbag, her five-inch high heels landing steadily on the soft carpet. She walked straight towards Bai Lincheng who was behind the desk and put her hand on the edge of his desk.
His eyes looked down at Bai Mincheng's face, watching his expression, and then fell on the tablet in front of him.
"Brother?"
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