half thorns, half joy

"Hey, beauty!" the sultry man called out to Lin Qiaoer.

Lin Qiaoer looked up, only to find that the man was holding up the phone, looking at the photos on the phone while looking at her, apparently for comparison.

"My God, it can't be true."

"Come, come, show me."

Lin Qiaoer couldn't bear to be watched like a gorilla anymore, she bit her lip, grabbed her bag, and left the club quickly.

The men in the club were still shouting behind Lin Qiaoer: "Beauty, don't go, let's play together."

It wasn't until she sat in her car that no one was watching that Lin Qiaoer punched the steering wheel heavily.

The phone she was holding in her hand started ringing like a death-defying call.

Lin Qiaoer glanced at the unfamiliar number, and picked it up suspiciously. Before she could say hello, she was blocked by the curious and gossiping official words on the other side.

"Hello, is this Miss Lin Qiaoer? We have a few questions to interview you. Is your wedding with Xiao Zihan real or fake? Is it hype? Are you the person in those photos?"

"..." Lin Qiaoer hung up the phone without replying a word.

But as soon as she hung up, a call came in immediately.

Lin Qiaoer's ears hurt from the intermittent ringing, she turned off the phone angrily and threw it aside.

When the news about her and Xiao Zihan's marriage was sent out, the media still didn't know her number, but now that such a scandal happened, the media immediately came to her door, apparently someone had disclosed her phone number.

As for who...

When Lin Qiaoer thought about it, she thought of it.

The front foot clarifies that the marriage news is false, and the back foot releases this kind of video, which not only breaks the pressure of public opinion, but also severely tramples on her.

Really cruel.

Lin Qiaoer has never felt like this moment that love, Xiao Zihan, is the one who stabbed her in the heart.

"Xiao Zihan..." Lin Qiaoer lay on the steering wheel and was silent for a while, then slowly straightened up and drove away.

Lin Qiaoer did not go to other places, but returned to the company.

In order to avoid suspicion, she didn't come to the company for the past two days. Now when she entered, the colleagues in the company looked at her strangely, whispered, and when they came to her, they all quickened their pace.

"Hehe." The moment Lin Qiaoer stepped into the company, she had already thought of this scene, and because she was prepared in her heart, she didn't feel so uncomfortable.

Lin Qiaoer took the elevator and went directly to Xiao Zihan's floor.

"Miss Lin, what's the matter?" Xiao Zihan's assistant immediately stood in front of Lin Qiaoer when he saw Lin Qiaoer.

With a dark face, Lin Qiaoer pushed the assistant away, and said in a rough voice, "Go away!"

"...Miss Lin..." The assistant was taken aback by the completely different Lin Qiaoer in front of her. She didn't realize it for a while, but when she did, Lin Qiaoer had already entered Xiao Zihan's office.

"Xiao Zihan!" Lin Qiaoer called out to Xiao Zihan angrily, before venting her anger to Xiao Zihan, she was first taken away by the pile of documents on the coffee table on Xiao Zihan's desk.

Xiao Zihan was looking for books on the bookshelf, when he heard the shout behind him, he turned his head and saw Lin Qiaoer.

Xiao Zihan withdrew his hand looking for the book, walked over and sat in the chair, looked at Lin Qiaoer with interest, and said lightly, "Huh?"

"What are you doing?" Lin Qiaoer glanced around the documents, rushed forward to flip through a few at random, and faintly guessed the answer in her heart.

Xiao Zihan raised his eyebrows, "What do you think?"

Lin Qiaoer looked at Xiao Zihan with an unbelievable gaze, and her voice was full of disbelief, "At this juncture, you are actually checking the accounts?"

"There is a problem with the accounts, of course it should be checked."

"Aren't you afraid of dragging Mrs. Xiao into the water? You didn't do this alone. Let me tell you, you are playing with fire and setting yourself on fire!"

Xiao Zihan didn't have any emotional ups and downs on his face, and his tone was also light, "I don't care."

"Are you crazy!" This kind of auditing is usually done by covering up and hiding when you can. Lin Qiaoer didn't expect Xiao Zihan to send Xiao Shi up, spread it out in the sun, and let others investigate.

The corners of Xiao Zihan's mouth turned up slightly, revealing a sarcastic smile, "Oh, I'm not as crazy as you guys."

Lin Qiaoer thought that Xiao Zihan was talking about the corrupt photos of her in the report, and suddenly became angry from embarrassment, "Xiao Zihan, you are so despicable, you can actually slander me and ruin my reputation so much in order not to marry me."

"...That." Xiao Zihan was silent for a moment. In fact, he had just seen those photos just now, and he even wanted to remind Cai Jinyu that he was going too far, "Those photos were not intentional."

"Ah? You put it on the Internet, didn't you mean it?" Lin Qiaoer sneered, "Xiao Zihan, you ask your conscience, have I done anything to hurt you? I just like you, am I wrong? ?”

Xiao Zihan pursed his lips and did not answer.

If he had known that things would turn out like this early on, he would not have used Lin Qiaoer to make Tang Xuan jealous, and he would not have gotten so close to Lin Qiaoer to give Lin Qiaoer the illusion.

Not to mention what Lin Mingshen did, there was indeed something wrong with Lin Qiaoer.

"I apologize to you about the photo, and I will ask someone to take it down." After a long time, Xiao Zihan said slowly, "You said you liked me, I'm sorry, I can't accept your liking, I gave you the illusion before, I terribly sorry."

Compared with her own reputation being discredited, Xiao Zihan's direct refusal made Lin Qiaoer even more heartbroken.

For a moment, Lin Qiaoer felt that she was deprived of her breath, her whole body was spinning, and she almost fainted.

"Okay, you're ruthless." Lin Qiaoer nodded with a wry smile, "I didn't realize that your heart is so hard."

Xiao Zihan remained silent, and looked at Lin Qiaoer quietly.

"Since we've reached this point, this—" Lin Qiaoer patted the stacked documents, "it's unnecessary. Let's treat this matter as a farce and stop here."

"No."

Lin Qiaoer looked into Xiao Zihan's eyes in surprise, "Why? I even chose to take a step back, why do you continue?"

Xiao Zihan looked calm, without any anger or impatience, calm as if he was telling an established fact, "Thanks to this incident, it reminded me to eradicate Xiao's unstable factors."

"Eliminate... the factors of instability?" Lin Qiaoer heard the coldness and determination in Xiao Zihan's words, "Xiao Zihan... you are not afraid of hurting the enemy by a thousand and yourself? You are not afraid that your mother will really take the shares..."

Xiao Zihan smiled faintly, "She can't move the shares in my mother's hand now. Before she can move, it's enough for me to finish these things."

Lin Qiaoer was scared back half a step by the confident smile on Xiao Zihan's face, "You... aren't you a dutiful son? You...you can actually do something to your mother?"

Xiao Zihan didn't defend himself either, he just looked at Lin Qiaoer.

It wasn't until this moment that Lin Qiaoer deeply realized that she and her father underestimated Xiao Zihan too much.

Moreover, too much is underestimated.

Xiao Zihan didn't talk about the so-called "rules" they believed at all, and he didn't care how much he would lose. This person who was ruthless to himself was not at all the young man who they thought had no means or even was a bit conservative.

"You...do you have to do this?" Lin Qiaoer's words were pleading.

However, Xiao Zihan remained unmoved and still insisted on his decision.

"Is it because of Tang Xuan?" Lin Qiaoer thought of Xiao Zihan's clarification report about her sweetheart.

Apart from Tang Xuan, Xiao Zihan had no other women around him.

Before Xiao Zihan could answer, Lin Qiaoer said to herself: "Isn't it, I didn't realize at first that you have such deep affection for her."

Xiao Zihan: "..." He didn't feel that he needed to explain anything to Lin Qiaoer.

"That Tang Xuan, what's so good about it?" As a woman, Lin Qiaoer was really unwilling, "I really don't understand why I can't compare to her?"

Xiao Zihan was not used to such a humble attitude.

Lin Qiaoer was not reconciled, and continued to ask: "Xiao Zihan, I have liked you for so long, can you tell me a reason?"

Listening to Lin Qiaoer's words, Xiao Zihan thought of Tang Xuan, and realized that he didn't know how to answer this question.

Because there are too many things he wants to say.

In the end, Xiao Zihan said softly, "I can't lose Tang Xuan, I love her."

"Really?" Lin Qiaoer's voice suddenly choked up, "I didn't expect that a seemingly indifferent person like you would say "I love you" to someone who can't be lost."

Xiao Zihan avoided Lin Qiaoer's affectionate gaze. In fact, he almost never said "I love you" to Tang Xuan.

Neither he nor Tang Xuan liked to say such things.

But in front of other people, he said it without any burden. This feeling is quite amazing.

Lin Qiaoer took a breath, "Okay, I've finished what I have to say, and I can't help you if you don't stop. But Xiao Zihan, I suddenly want to see how you will react if you lose Tang Xuan."

"What do you mean by that?" Xiao Zihan's heart rang alarm bells.

"Literally, what else can I mean." Lin Qiaoer saw that Xiao Zihan was nervous and didn't want to reveal her next plan, so she joked half-truthfully, "I didn't expect that in the end, I would still lose to Tang Xuan."

Xiao Zihan frowned tightly, looking at Lin Qiaoer.

Lin Qiaoer walked around the desk in a few steps, walked up to Xiao Zihan, and bent over to hug Xiao Zihan.

Xiao Zihan stretched out his hand to block Lin Qiaoer.

"Give me a hug at the end, can't you?" Lin Qiaoer looked at Xiao Zihan's exquisite eyebrows and eyes that were comparable to popular male stars, and her heart ached.

"I'm sorry." Xiao Zihan didn't back down, but refused coldly, "We'd better not have any more contact."

"...Really." Lin Qiaoer laughed more and more miserably, "Are you defending yourself for Tang Xuan? You really are a good man."

Xiao Zihan listened to Lin Qiaoer's thoughts talking to himself, showing a confused and impatient expression.

Just at this time, the assistant knocked on the door and came in, telling Xiao Zihan that the procuratorate had sent someone over.

The assistant saw Lin Qiaoer who was standing very close to Xiao Zihan, and took a sneak peek.

"Please come in." Xiao Zihan stood up, stepped back calmly, and distanced himself from Lin Qiaoer.

Lin Qiaoer felt that her heart had been crushed to pieces, she couldn't stay any longer, almost lost her mind, and left Xiao Zihan's office.

She couldn't think of other words to describe herself other than humiliating herself.

Originally, when she approached Xiao Zihan, she wanted to question Xiao Zihan and intimidate Xiao Zihan, but unexpectedly, all of her thoughts were in vain.

Facing Xiao Zihan's strong measures, not only did she have no room to fight back, but her hopeless heart was still led away by Xiao Zihan.

Under the disdainful gazes of passing colleagues, Lin Qiaoer walked out of the Xiao Group step by step, and stumbled back to her car.

She is really uncomfortable, and the breath is stuck in her chest, and there is no way to relieve it.

It seemed that only by attacking Tang Xuan could he calm down her unwillingness and resentment.