Who was this woman?!
She had only left for a short while, yet this woman had already gotten close to Xu Le. Was she being treated like she did not exist?
And Xu Le too. He told her he had a girlfriend, yet he was still acting intimately with another woman.
Maybe that excuse was fake from the start!
In an instant, countless thoughts flashed through Su Qingcheng’s mind, though her expression remained cold and composed.
“Xu Le, what happened here?”
The moment she walked over, she questioned him calmly, deliberately asserting her position in front of Lin Xixi.
“Oh, she fell into the water, so I pulled her out,” Xu Le explained.
After all, she was still his boss. He had to give her some respect.
Lin Xixi’s eyes shifted slightly. Her instincts told her Su Qingcheng’s attitude toward her was strange.
Could this cold and elegant woman actually have some kind of relationship with Xu Le?
She quietly stepped back from Xu Le and spoke weakly, “Big Brother, she’s not your girlfriend, right? I should stay farther away from you, otherwise your girlfriend might get angry.”
Seeing her look soft and fragile like a little white rabbit, Su Qingcheng, as another woman, instantly sensed the aura of a green tea manipulator.
“I’m not his girlfriend. I’m his boss. Xu Le, if there’s nothing else, we’re leaving,” Su Qingcheng said lightly while looking at Xu Le.
Lin Xixi’s bright eyes flickered. She had only just become interested in Xu Le, and this woman was already impatient to take him away.
She was not even his girlfriend, so why was she acting so controlling?
There was definitely something suspicious going on.
Tilting her head slightly, Lin Xixi smiled sweetly and said, “So Big Brother’s name is Xu Le. I just learned your name.”
The way she kept calling him “Big Brother” gave Xu Le the strange illusion of having a younger sister.
Impossible. A real younger sister would never be this cute!
“Let’s add each other on WeChat. I’ll find a chance to thank you properly later.”
“Sure.”
Xu Le agreed readily. Soon after, he heard the familiar system notification.
[Mission completed. Reward: 1,000 yuan. Favorability +3.]
After adding him, Lin Xixi deliberately smiled at Xu Le in front of Su Qingcheng.
It was not a bright and cheerful smile. Instead, the corners of her lips slowly curved upward first, followed by the soft hook at the ends of her eyes. Her eyelashes trembled lightly, as though tiny hooks were teasing at someone’s heart.
Cute and seductive at the same time.
Combined with her pure and beautiful appearance, it was enough to make almost any man start imagining things. Did she like him?
“Let’s go.”
What a scheming woman.
If Xu Le had not been here, she would have already walked away long ago.
What else could Xu Le say? His boss was just a little overbearing.
Still, there would be more opportunities to farm rewards from Lin Xixi in the future. This trip had not been a loss.
Watching them leave, Lin Xixi blinked her bright eyes.
“She got angry. Hehe.”
Truthfully, her interest in Xu Le was not that strong, nor did she particularly like men like him.
In her eyes, he was simply a good person.
But seeing that beautiful, aloof rich girl looking at her with a trace of hostility had made her a little excited.
Who told her to glare at her so coldly? Of course she had to give her a tiny lesson.
The breeze brushed past Lin Xixi, making her suddenly feel cold. She immediately left the area while complaining to her best friend along the way.
…
Inside the company.
Zhou Mo nervously knocked on Li Hao’s office door.
“Didn’t I tell you to follow them? Any progress?” Li Hao asked happily when he saw Zhou Mo enter.
“No, Manager Li. I lost them,” Zhou Mo said with an awkward smile.
He was not a professional investigator, and he was also afraid of being discovered by Su Qingcheng.
Seeing Li Hao’s face darken, Zhou Mo hurriedly added, “But I discovered one of Xu Le’s secrets. He’s very close to a female influencer. Someone saw that influencer picking him up downstairs at the company, and they even took pictures.”
Li Hao immediately told him to continue.
After hearing everything, he shook his head. “That’s useless. Su Qingcheng doesn’t care whether Xu Le has women around him or not.”
“That makes sense,” Zhou Mo suddenly realized, slapping his thigh.
How could Su Qingcheng possibly care about a man?
…
Inside the car.
Xu Le watched the traffic light ahead, but he could clearly feel something off about the atmosphere inside the vehicle.
The reason was Su Qingcheng in the passenger seat.
At that moment, she sat there with her arms crossed, radiating murderous intent.
Was she jealous?
Xu Le casually asked, “CEO Su, you don’t look too well.”
“I’m perfectly fine. You’re the one with the problem,” Su Qingcheng replied, glancing at him sideways. New chapters come out on g.com first.
“Why?” Xu Le asked.
“That girl earlier was very good at pretending. Don’t be fooled by her smile or how enthusiastic she seemed toward you. In reality, she doesn’t care about you at all,” Su Qingcheng said calmly after taking a breath.
“She seemed alright to me. At least she smiled at me and gave me some emotional value,” Xu Le replied indifferently.
He knew his own limits. A green tea campus belle like that would not casually fall for him.
Back in high school, there had once been a girl who sat beside him. She often brought him snacks, and they chatted well together, but he could tell she never actually liked him.
One of life’s greatest illusions was: she likes me.
Still, it was better than certain women who were arrogant to the heavens and only cared about themselves.
“You’re wrong. She was hinting at you. And besides, you’re a man with a girlfriend. You shouldn’t have anything to do with other women,” Su Qingcheng said righteously.
“Then let me thank you on behalf of my girlfriend. Don’t worry, CEO Su. I know my limits,” Xu Le replied.
The temperature inside the car seemed to drop even further.
Xu Le found it strange. The air conditioner was not even set that low.
“Go back to the company.”
After saying that coldly, Su Qingcheng closed her eyes, clearly unwilling to continue talking.
…
[Completed Su Qingcheng’s mission. Reward: 6,000 yuan. Favorability +3.]
After driving Su Qingcheng back to the company, Xu Le heard the system notification again.
These rewards really were not that hard to farm.
After happily enjoying the rest of the day, he returned home and discovered his younger sister had not come back to cook.
Checking WeChat, he saw that she had indeed sent him a message.
“Xu Le, I’m not coming home tonight. My best friend fell into the water today, so I need to stay with her!”
“Didn’t you lose the bet? Weren’t you supposed to cook for me?”
“Ah, we’ll talk about that later. Just order takeout. My best friend is more important.”
Xu Yi even sent a smug emoji afterward.
Seriously? Now that she had a best friend, she forgot all about her older brother?
Xu Le remembered that this best friend was someone his sister met in university. It had only been half a semester, yet they were already this close?
“Really? You could cook at my place and then bring the food to your best friend.”
Xu Le was still too lazy to cook for himself.
There was no helping it. Sometimes office workers were just exhausted like this.
“No, that’s too troublesome. Why don’t you just invite my best friend over to eat together instead?” Xu Yi replied with a disdainful emoji.
“Sure, that works too. The dining table at home is big enough anyway,” Xu Le replied happily. He only needed to tidy up a little.
“In your dreams. My best friend is super pretty. What if you fall for her? What if you ask me to help you pursue her? I don’t want to be caught in the middle!”