My Online Girlfriend Has a Twin Sister

"Then there’s only one option left. I’ll head back the day after tomorrow. You’ll have to be on your own for two days. I heard from Inoue that the Spring Festival is in a couple of days, right? If I can make it back in the evening, I’ll go with you," Chen Yuan said, laying out the plan.

"What if you can’t make it back?" A hint of worry showed in Yaoyao’s eyes as she pouted.

"If I can’t, I can’t. I can’t just stick by your side every second. I have other important things to do."

"But..."

"No buts."

As Chen Yuan spoke, his gaze drifted to Jiangg Ning on the video call. She was running herself ragged between Lanjing and Linzhou, incredibly busy, yet she never complained.

It wouldn’t hurt for Yaoyao to feel a little put out.

’You can’t be *too* nice to a girlfriend. If you have to coax her through every little thing, you’ll gradually lose all your boundaries. You have to prioritize.’

Chen Yuan was clear on which was more important: the incident in Linzhou or having fun with Yaoyao.

"Alright, that’s the plan for now. Remember what I told you, Yaoyao," Jiangg Ning added from the screen. "I’ll call you again tomorrow around noon."

"Bye, Sis," Yaoyao replied, her voice lacking energy.

Immediately after, the call ended.

Chen Yuan, sitting on the sofa, suddenly tensed his shoulders. It felt like there was still something he wanted to say to Ningning that he hadn’t gotten out. He stared reluctantly at the blank screen, his mood sinking.

"You look like you want to crawl right into that phone!"

Just then, Yaoyao puffed up her cheeks and complained angrily, then grabbed her phone and stormed off to the bedroom.

"What did I do? Hey!"

No matter how he called out, Yaoyao ignored him. Chen Yuan flopped back onto the sofa. Annoyed and frustrated, he didn’t feel like going to coax her.

...

「The next day.」

It was a sunny afternoon in Mingzhu City.

At Meiruxue Company, preparations for the sales report following the May 18th Grand Promotion were in full swing. Plans were being made to release special offers on the official flagship store and the brand’s public account, and collaborations with other brands were also under discussion.

Jiangg Ruxue had come to the company first thing in the morning. She spent the morning in meetings and the afternoon personally supervising at the factory, urging their partners to load and ship the third and fourth batches of goods.

With the company’s chairwoman working so hard, the people under her couldn’t slack off either. The entire company entered an unprecedented state of high alert. Even the after-sales department, which had never been particularly busy, could no longer enjoy its usual leisurely pace.

Within the office’s cubicles.

A woman in a white shirt, wearing a work badge, was bent over, studying something on an employee’s computer, her brow tightly furrowed.

"How can this be... If it were an isolated case of an allergic reaction, it wouldn’t be a big deal. Have you compiled the stats? Exactly how many reports have we received?"

The short-haired young woman sitting at the workstation thought for a moment.

"At least a dozen cases. All of them are after-sales reports concerning our newly released product. The latest data from the outsourced company hasn’t come in yet."

"When did it start?"

"After midnight last night."

"Something’s not right."

The woman in the white shirt had a keen sense that something was definitely wrong. She stood there, thinking for a moment.

"Organize all this data and send it to me. Tell the outsourced customer service that we will handle this proactively. Any further reports of the same situation should be sent directly to our after-sales department. They don’t need to handle them anymore."

"Okay, I’ll get in touch with them right away."

The short-haired young woman immediately lowered her head and started organizing the data. The manager in the white shirt beside her promptly left the workstation and walked quickly toward her own office.

But before she even reached her office door, the young woman at the workstation suddenly stood up and called out to her.

"Minister! The company we outsourced to says there are another seventy or eighty customer complaints! They’re saying there’s a problem with our product!"

"What? How many?"

The face of the head of the after-sales department turned pale almost instantly. She realized something was terribly wrong.

Skincare products, things people apply to their faces, are subject to extremely strict inspection standards. A woman’s face is what she treasures most. If a product causes allergic reactions or ruins their skin, the consequences are severe.

With the advancement of medical technology today, research into skincare products is also extremely sophisticated. Allergic reactions can be almost entirely prevented—it’s just a matter of slightly increased costs. But for so many incidents to occur just a few days after the product went on sale...

This was absolutely terrifying.

Especially with the May 18th Grand Promotion, sales of the new product had exploded. There was no telling how many packages were currently en route to every corner of the country.

’We’re doomed!’ The female department head in the white shirt felt her vision go dark.

She spun around and broke into a run, rushing to her office. She quickly saved the file that had been sent to her computer into a work document.

Then, she ran out the door of the after-sales department, dialing her phone as she went.

But what made her most anxious was that at such a critical moment, Assistant Qin’s line was completely unreachable. No matter how many times she dialed, all she got was a busy signal.

"President Jiangg? Has anyone seen President Jiangg!"

"What’s going on? You’re in such a rush."

"Something’s happened, something huge! I have to find President Jiangg immediately, or we’re all done for."

"I haven’t seen her since the meeting this morning. Try calling Assistant Qin."

"I’ve called a hundred times, and no one is picking up."

"Then go ask in the other departments. President Jiangg is definitely busy at this time of day, but who knows where she went..."

Conversations like this took place in various departments of Meiruxue Company. Everyone was completely baffled, with no idea what had happened, let alone why Minister Dong from the after-sales department was desperately searching for someone as if her life depended on it.