Just then, Li Muchuan’s assistant came down to meet Ji Silin.
“President Ji, you’re finally here! Our President Li has been waiting for you. This way, please, this way. Today’s incident in the tech department really does need you to help resolve it personally.”
If his friend Li Muchuan hadn’t called him, and the situation weren’t truly an emergency, he wouldn’t have come.
Ji Silin didn’t spare the girl who’d bumped into him another glance. He walked straight into the elevator.
Meng Mian’s eyes had gone red from the pain, but she hadn’t cried.
There were no tears in her eyes either.
It was just that she was born with a pair of watery, clear, bright eyes. Combined with the red rims, she looked as though her eyes were full of tears.
And the original owner used to love wearing colored contacts, which had hidden those eyes entirely.
Watching the group stride past, Meng Mian blinked.
Has Ji Silin not recognized me, or is he pretending not to know me?
Meng Mian figured it was more likely he simply hadn’t recognized her.
After all, her colleagues hadn’t recognized her either when they saw her today.
Xiao Su didn’t dare breathe properly until the group had passed.
She asked, “Sister Mianmian, wasn’t that the Ji family powerholder, your boyfriend? Why didn’t he even say a word to you? He just walked right by.”
Meng Mian didn’t mind at all. She kept carrying the display board. “He probably didn’t recognize me.”
Xiao Su’s mouth fell open. “Huh?”
Meng Mian’s eyes curved into a smile. “I used to wear heavy makeup in front of him too.”
Xiao Su couldn’t hold back a laugh.
So that was why he hadn’t recognized her.
Xiao Su found today’s Sister Mianmian much easier to get along with.
Not like before, when every sentence was showing off and comparing, and so exaggerated and affected that no one could even respond.
Li Group, tech department.
Ji Silin brought his people in, helped Li Muchuan deal with the hacker attack, and was about to leave.
Li Muchuan hurried to stop him, teasing, “You’re leaving just like that? You’re not going to see your girlfriend? She works at my company, and you’re already here.”
Ji Silin glanced at his watch. “If it weren’t for you, I’d already be in a meeting.”
Knowing that Ji Group’s senior management was waiting for Ji Silin to start the meeting, and that today’s meeting was important, Li Muchuan didn’t stop him again.
But he still chased after him.
“Do you even know? The moment you two started dating, she was terrified no one would find out. She’s been going around telling everyone you’re her boyfriend.”
“My sister is naive. She got fooled by her and still defends her, fine. But are you naive too?”
“She just wants to latch onto a rich man. If you hadn’t been there that day, she would have confessed to someone else. She doesn’t like you at all. She only likes money!”
“Even if you need a girlfriend so your family will get off your back, what kind of woman can’t you find?”
“How did you end up dating someone like this!”
Finally, Ji Silin stopped walking and fixed him with a cool look. “I’ll pretend I didn’t hear any of that today.”
“Other times, I don’t care. But while she’s my girlfriend, I don’t want to hear a single word against her from your mouth.”
Li Muchuan was speechless.
But he also knew his friend had always been protective of his own. Even the family dog had been shielded so thoroughly it had never suffered the slightest bullying.
Much less now, when Meng Mian was his girlfriend.
Stamped with Ji Silin’s label.
“My mistake. I overstepped.” Li Muchuan apologized sincerely. “So when are you two breaking up?”
Ji Silin said, “Three months.”
Li Muchuan said, “Fine.”
Then I’ll deal with that lying gold digger in three months.
Right after work, Meng Mian went to an electric scooter shop.
She spent a little over three thousand yuan and bought a pink electric scooter.
The helmet was pink too, printed with lots of little cats. Absolutely adorable.
It was practically Meng Mian’s dream helmet.
Meng Mian put on her helmet right away, rode her scooter to a nearby night market, and went around eating all kinds of snacks.
She didn’t get home until after eight in the evening.
Only after her shower did she remember she hadn’t sent Ji Silin a single message all day.
The original owner used to send them every day.
But thinking about it, Ji Silin was only dating her to get his family off his back, so they wouldn’t bother him.
Whether I send messages or not, he won’t care at all. He might even find me annoying.
So Meng Mian didn’t send any.
She went straight to sleep.
And she fell asleep quickly, sleeping extremely soundly.
On the other side.
Ji Silin had just gotten off work and come out of the company.
Only after he got in the car did he realize his phone had been unusually quiet today. Not a single chime.
Only then did he notice that Meng Mian hadn’t sent him a single message today.
Ji Silin didn’t mind.
Their relationship was never about actually dating to begin with.
He even thought this was good.
The Meng Mian who used to send him so many messages every day really had been a bit annoying.
The next day, Meng Mian ate breakfast at the breakfast shop at the entrance of her neighborhood first.
Only then did she ride her scooter to work.
Watching the cars all jammed up while her scooter moved along unblocked, she felt incredibly comfortable.
She couldn’t help humming under her breath. “Riding my beloved little scooter, she’ll never get stuck in traffic…”
When Meng Mian parked her scooter, some people at the company saw her.
Some even pointed in her direction and whispered among themselves.
She didn’t mind.
Meng Mian had just clocked in and was about to head to the HR department.
When she saw Du Xu, Li Muchuan’s assistant, hurrying toward her.
Du Xu was all smiles. “Meng Mian, President Li told me to have someone deliver this document to President Ji at Ji Group. Aren’t you President Ji’s girlfriend? You should be the one to take it.”
Before Meng Mian could say anything, Du Xu continued, “I already told your supervisor, and she agreed. Hurry up, it’s pretty urgent.”
What could Meng Mian say?
Meng Mian took the document and headed to Ji Group.
She took a taxi. There was no traffic jam now.
The moment she stepped through Ji Group’s front doors, Meng Mian walked to the front desk and politely said she was there to deliver a document to Ji Silin.
The front desk staff said they needed to make a phone call to confirm before letting her go up.
But just as the front desk staff was about to call, someone spotted Meng Mian.
“Miss Meng?!”
Meng Mian turned around and saw it was the person who had delivered the guarantee to her yesterday morning.
According to his self-introduction at the time, his name was Lu Hui.
He was the younger brother of Ji Silin’s special assistant, Lu Chen.
“Miss Meng, what are you doing here?” Lu Hui was clearly someone with not a scheming bone in his body. He asked cheerfully.
Meng Mian explained she was there to deliver a document and was waiting for the front desk to confirm.
The moment Lu Hui heard that, he laughed. “No need to confirm. You’re the President’s girlfriend. What’s there to confirm?”
The front desk staff’s eyes went wide.
They hadn’t expected the rumor that their President had a girlfriend to actually be true.
Lu Hui didn’t think he’d let anything slip at all.
He only knew that yesterday his brother had told him to deliver their President’s guarantee to Miss Meng.
Their President must love her so much to draw up something like that for her.
But Miss Meng really was beautiful. When he’d seen her yesterday, he’d been stunned. No wonder their President loved her so much.
Lu Hui was still chattering cheerfully.
“Besides, I just came down from upstairs. I heard my brother say President Li’s side was sending a document over to the President today. You can just go straight up.”
“Here, here, I’ll open the elevator for you. But I can’t take you up myself. My brother told me to go out and run an errand.”
Meng Mian looked up and realized Lu Hui had actually led her straight to the President’s private elevator.
Meng Mian was about to ask if they could use a different elevator, but Lu Hui had already swiped his card and opened the doors to the President’s private elevator.
Meng Mian had no choice but to step inside.
“Miss Meng, the President’s office is on the top floor. It’s the only office up there, so you’ll know it when you get there. Very easy to find.”
After saying that, Lu Hui even helpfully pressed the door-close button.
The elevator doors slid shut.
Meng Mian thought this guy was a bit simple-minded.
The moment Meng Mian reached the top floor, she knew where Ji Silin’s office was.
She didn’t need to look for it at all.
Because there were voices coming from inside.
Lu Chen, the President’s special assistant, was reporting today’s schedule to Ji Silin.