Chapter 307: A Happy Occasion Draws Near
The first thing they saw after pushing the door open were fragments of a white dress scattered across the floor.
In the corner of the room, a bulky figure wrapped in a blanket sat with their back to them, body trembling as if from a terrible fright.
"Th-this has nothing to do with me!" Lin Xiao, terrified of being accused of stripping a female’s clothes, hastily distanced himself. "I just opened the door and saw this strange female here, with dress fragments all over the floor... I really don’t know what’s going on!"
Hearing the commotion, the bulky figure shuddered and spoke in a coarse, trembling voice, "Officers, I just woke up here. I don’t know where Bai Yiyi is. Please, just let me go..."
Chen Mi’s voice was hesitant. "Marshal..."
Xie Youchen said, "The rest of you, leave first."
The others left, and the sound of the door closing was followed by footsteps approaching.
’Is that Xie Youchen?’
Bai Yiyi was appearing before Xie Youchen in her original form. She had no other choice but to resort to her old tricks and pretend to be someone else.
She forced a pitiful expression onto her face, but when she turned around, she was met with a pair of indifferent eyes.
’When did Jiang Qingli get here?!’
Bai Yiyi was stunned, the words of grievance she had prepared catching in her throat.
She could still play the victim in front of Xie Youchen, but facing Jiang Qingli, she couldn’t utter a single word. Rage flooded her mind!
’This damn cannon fodder! What right does she have to be living so well? What right does she have to look so radiant? Why am I the one suffering all this misfortune?!’
Just as Jiang Qingli walked up to Bai Yiyi, she heard 030 shout in shock, ’Wait a minute?! Where did her system go?!’
’Her system is gone?’
Jiang Qingli sat down on the sofa across from Bai Yiyi and asked, "Where did your system go?"
Bai Yiyi’s mind went completely blank. "How did you know?!"
At that moment, 030 finished checking Bai Yiyi’s data and was even more astounded. ’How does Bai Yiyi have zero points and no fortune left?! And she’s saddled with a loan of several thousand points?!’
’I get it now! Her system tricked her into signing a point-loan document, then unbound itself and ran off with the money!’ 030 was stunned by the maneuver. ’Talk about every bird for itself when disaster strikes...’
Jiang Qingli: ’...’
Just as she was about to express her speechlessness, Bai Yiyi suddenly flew into a rage. With a scream, she lunged at Jiang Qingli with all her might, as if determined to take them both down.
But Jiang Qingli simply sidestepped, easily dodging the other woman’s bulky frame.
Bai Yiyi landed hard on the floor with a heavy, painful thud, cutting a pathetic figure.
Jiang Qingli looked down at her. "Now that you’re back to your original appearance, your combat skills have gotten worse."
She spoke without any expression.
But as Bai Yiyi looked up at the girl’s clean, beautiful face, she felt a sharp sting of pain.
’Why does Jiang Qingli get everything so effortlessly? Why is she still alive while I’ve been reduced to this!’
’I’m supposed to be the female lead!’
Unable to contact her system and trapped in this predicament, Bai Yiyi couldn’t help but say venomously, "Don’t act so high and mighty. You only got where you are because of your background, right?" She wallowed in self-pity, her voice filled with grievance. "If you were me, you would have made the same choices! I did nothing wrong!"
"I’m not you," Jiang Qingli said. "And I wouldn’t make the same choices."
"For example, during that attack just now, I would have chosen to use my Superpower."
Bai Yiyi froze.
Only after hearing Jiang Qingli’s words did she remember that she, too, possessed an offensive Superpower.
She had been using her so-called "female lead data" for so long that she had forgotten what she truly possessed.
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「In the study.」
Chen Mi sat on the sofa, replying to messages while secretly glancing at his big boss behind the desk.
Earlier, at the door of the room where Bai Yiyi was being held, Jiang Qingli had gestured that she wanted to be alone with Bai Yiyi for a while.
Xie Youchen had agreed at the time, his expression as calm and indifferent as usual.
But once inside the study, Xie Youchen sat in the main chair, pulled up the surveillance feed, and stared at it intently, his eyes dark and deep.
’Our Marshal’s personality is so stuffy... How is he ever going to win the girl like this...’
Chen Mi shook his head and sighed silently.
Xie Youchen looked up, raising an eyebrow slightly. "What are you sighing about?"
Chen Mi: "..."
Caught red-handed complaining about his superior, Chen Mi paused before answering honestly, "Marshal, if you were worried, why didn’t you go in with Miss Jiang just now?"
Xie Youchen’s gaze fell to the screen, watching the girl get up and walk toward the exit. His voice was low. "She’s grown up."
’So she doesn’t need my protection anymore.’
Chen Mi was a little surprised.
He had worked with Xie Youchen for several years, but this was the first time he had seen an emotion akin to "disappointment" on the man’s face.
The next second, Xie Youchen suddenly stood up, strode to the study door, and pushed it open.
The girl outside, who had just raised her hand, met Xie Youchen’s gaze.
"What a coincidence." Jiang Qingli waved at him. Seeing Chen Mi sitting inside, she lowered her voice. "Are you about to work overtime?"
"No." Xie Youchen smoothly took her hand, his voice countless times gentler than before. "No work."
"Then you can spend time with me today?" Jiang Qingli moved a little closer, a teasing smile on her face. "I want to go see a movie."
"Of course." A smile touched the corner of Xie Youchen’s lips. He mimicked her, lowering his voice. "Anywhere you want."
Before leaving, Jiang Qingli said goodbye to Chen Mi, her sharp eyes catching the surveillance feed on the screen by the desk, which hadn’t been closed yet.
Jiang Qingli turned her head to stare at Xie Youchen, her lips curving into a pout as she deliberately whispered her accusation, "Why were you spying on me?"
Xie Youchen let out a low cough, looking away with a rare hint of guilt. "...Which movie theater?"
"Changing the subject," Jiang Qingli saw right through him, but since Xie Youchen’s subordinate was still in the study, she didn’t press the issue, merely giving him an ’I’ll deal with you later’ look.
Not long after the two left hand-in-hand, Chen Mi received a message from Xie Youchen. It was concise and to the point: deal with Bai Yiyi.
Chen Mi looked at the cold, impersonal message, then recalled his boss’s slightly red ears and how he doted on Miss Jiang. He couldn’t help but smile.
Lin Xiao happened to be passing by and saw Chen Mi’s expression. "What’s with that sappy, knowing grin?" he asked curiously. "Did your female master send you another video of your two cats kissing?"
"Something like that," Chen Mi replied, even more amused. "In any case, good things are on the horizon."
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"Marshal, it’s been handled."
Chen Mi was fast. In just half an hour, Xie Youchen received the message.
He had just glanced at the message when the arm looped through his let go, and a terminal was thrust into his hand.
"Stop looking at work. Quick, help me take a picture with this poster." After giving Xie Youchen a few photography tips, Jiang Qingli walked over to a movie poster that took up an entire wall and struck a pose.
Xie Youchen looked up and saw the handsome, refined face of Baili Jing on the poster. His brow twitched violently.
Xie Youchen: "..."
’Why is it *his* movie?’
But not wanting to be a buzzkill boyfriend, Xie Youchen still raised the terminal, aiming it at the girl’s radiant smile.
CLICK.
The instant he pressed the shutter button, a surprised voice sounded from the side. "Sister-in-law?"
Yuan Shiyao glanced sideways at the young man standing next to him. "Bro, what a coincidence. Sister-in-law is here too."