Ling Qiuqiu took a step forward, about to say something, but was stopped by Shen Youjin.
"Xiaolin, Xiaosong, go and receive them."
After saying that, regardless of Ling Qiuqiu's scowl, she dragged Ling Qiuqiu back to the office without hesitation.
It wasn't until the door closed that Ling Qiuqiu finally shook off her hand and looked at her angrily. "Shen Youjin, are you crazy? Why did you stop me? They clearly have ill intentions!"
"It's precisely because I know they have ill intentions that we can't just drive them out like this." Shen Youjin looked at her with clear eyes, her tone calm and firm. "If you drive them away once, they'll come back a second time. It's better to take this opportunity to strike one blow and avoid a hundred more!"
Hearing Shen Youjin say this, Ling Qiuqiu finally regained some sense.
She wasn't usually this impulsive, but every time she saw Shen Qilin's face, she just wanted to punch him. Even after all these years, this impulse still lingered.
"So what are you going to do?"
Shen Youjin just smiled without answering. Seeing her mysterious expression, Ling Qiuqiu was worried but didn't ask further.
To be fair, she had been happy working at Zhuguang these past two days.
After all, it was something she loved, and she didn't want it to be destroyed in the cradle by Shen Qilin and his sister.
After a while, an employee came to knock on the door.
"Sister Xiaojin, those two people just now have picked out their dresses and the photographer. They've already left."
Ling Qiuqiu was surprised. Just like that?
Shen Youjin opened the door, her expression calm, as if she wasn't surprised at all.
"Did they pay the deposit? Are both of them taking pictures?"
"They paid in full. Only that gentleman is taking pictures." The employee paused and continued. "That gentleman said that it'll be his birthday in a while and hopes you can go home. He said you might get what you want."
Go home? Shen Youjin sneered. That wasn't her home. Her home was long gone.
As for the recording pen she wanted, it held the key to Shen Qilin's downfall. There was no way he'd give it to her.
"Got it." Ling Qiuqiu sized up Shen Youjin's expression and said, "You can go and get busy first!"
The employee responded and turned to go downstairs.
"Are you going back?" Ling Qiuqiu looked at her. "It might be a trap."
"I'll see how it goes." Shen Youjin came back to her senses, adjusted her emotions, and said, "I haven't decided yet."
Ling Qiuqiu nodded and didn't say anything else. She had already started planning to teach Shen Qilin a lesson some time soon, so that he'd stop having his eyes on her.
Being liked by someone like him was simply a stain. She didn't want to be associated with that.
When the sun was setting, she was about to drive home when Gu Zhiyuan called her.
"Did you spend the night with Fu Qingye yesterday?"
His voice lacked its usual calmness. Rarely, it sounded a bit impatient.
"Teacher Gu, you've crossed the line. This isn't a question you should be asking."
Her voice was cold, completely different from the way she was in his office that day.
Gu Zhiyuan frowned, unable to understand how the girl who had waited downstairs at his company just the day before could seem like a different person today.
"Xiaojin..." He took a deep breath. "Loyalty is just the most basic quality in a relationship. It's never an extra point. If you want to settle down, Fu Qingye isn't the right man for you."
His words sounded quite reasonable. Maybe someone else would be touched, since a businessman rarely shows emotions and even less often gives such earnest advice about someone else's life.
It was just a pity that Shen Youjin didn't really care.
When you're completely disappointed in someone, everything they do seems like meddling.
Just thinking that there was a one - fifth chance that Gu Zhiyuan was the biological father of the child in her belly, she softened her tone a bit and said, "You're overthinking. I haven't planned to get back together with Fu Qingye."
Hearing this, Gu Zhiyuan unconsciously tightened his grip on the phone. "That's good."
He wasn't the only one who would check the hot searches. He would too, especially those about Shen Youjin.
As the top figure in the jewelry circle, there were countless beautiful women trying to throw themselves at him when he was out, but he always refused.
It was only during the time when he broke up with Shen Youjin that he truly understood the meaning of a certain saying. From the day he fell in love with her, no one could ever compare to her.
The most regrettable thing he had ever done was having the thought of sending her to another man's bed.
If he were a woman, he wouldn't be able to forgive either.
"I'll hang up if there's nothing else." Hearing him say that, Shen Youjin said indifferently. "I'm driving."
"Be careful on the road." Gu Zhiyuan showed his concern. "Don't worry about Ji Yueliang. I'm not Jiang Zeshen. I'll handle it."
Shen Youjin didn't say anything. It was only after hanging up the phone that she twitched the corner of her mouth. Handling it was one thing, but stepping on one person to praise another was just childish!
More than ten minutes later, Shen Youjin arrived at her residence on Maple Leaf Street. She made herself dinner, changed into her pajamas, and then curled up on the sofa, waiting for news while scrolling through her phone.
After an unknown amount of time, when the night was starting to fall, an email finally came from that familiar number.
She casually exited Douyin and opened her email. As soon as her eyes landed on the information inside, her hand holding the phone suddenly froze.
It was as if the file carried a powerful electric current that spread through her whole body from her fingertips. She stood there like a statue, her mind completely blank.
"No wonder..." Her lips trembled, as if she had discovered a new continent. "Yin He is the mistress!"
Her good - for - nothing father had pretended to be a good man on the surface. After her mother Chi Yuli's identity was exposed, he said that Chi Yuli was his mistress before he got married and that it was her mother who refused to break up and kept pestering him.
But in reality? They were a normal boyfriend - girlfriend couple. Later, Shen Guoliang wanted to climb the social ladder and secretly dated Yin He behind her mother's back.
By the time her mother found out, she was already six months pregnant. No hospital was willing to perform an abortion for her. And because she had grown up in an orphanage and had a weak body, no one dared to take on the operation.
Shen Guoliang knew all of this. From the very beginning, he had deliberately dragged things out with the promise of "I'll give you a home." By the time he was about to get engaged to Yin He, it was too late.
Shen Guoliang used her to threaten her mother. At that time, her mother's company was on the right track and had great potential.
He not only wanted the golden girl from the Yin family but also wanted to swallow up everything her mother had worked so hard to build.
What a vicious man! How did he deserve all that he had now?
As for Yin He, she didn't believe that the other woman had been completely in the dark all these years.
As the eldest daughter of the Yin family, how could she know that her husband had a pregnant "mistress" and not investigate?
Shen Youjin clenched her fists and immediately dialed the private detective's number.
"I'll give you three days to find the evidence. I've already transferred the money to your card. I want solid evidence!"
The private detective readily agreed. "It's a piece of cake. Miss Shen, just wait for the good news!"
This time, even if Shen Qilin didn't cause her any trouble, she wouldn't let the Shen family off easily.