Princess Syndrome - Chapter 90
Chapter 90: Preferences
The two of them really did stay in bed for a long time. It was eleven o'clock when Ji Zhiyi finally got out of bed to wash up. They had lunch at the hotel, and then while Su Lingyue packed her luggage, Ji Zhiyi sat in front of her computer. When they had finished packing and were about to go to the airport, they ran into someone downstairs at the hotel.
It was Shen Yuan.
Shen Yuan was also a little surprised to see them: "President Ji isn’t heading back yet?"
Ji Zhiyi said: "There were some things that held me up last night. President Shen isn't going back either?"
Shen Yuan looked a little pale and unwell. She said: "I had to work overtime for a meeting."
She looked as if she could fall asleep at any moment.
Ji Zhiyi nodded.
Shen Yuan asked: "What time is your flight?"
Ji Zhiyi glanced at her watch: "One o'clock."
"That's the same as mine." After Shen Yuan finished speaking, she looked at Su Lingyue. Su Lingyue smiled, and immediately walked to her side, saying, "Let me help President Shen with your luggage."
Seeing that she was so sensible, Shen Yuan was stunned for a moment.
She was so adaptable.
The once willful and arrogant young miss was now doing an assistant's work, and she seemed to be handling it quite well. She reevaluated Su Lingyue. Su Lingyue's face was calm as she put the luggage in the trunk. Seeing that Shen Yuan had already gotten into the car, Ji Zhiyi also got in. Su Lingyue sat in the passenger seat.
She glanced at Shen Yuan in the rearview mirror.
How unfortunate.
Otherwise, she could have sat in the back with Ji Zhiyi for a while.
Shen Yuan sensed the gaze in the mirror, looked up, her gaze sharp. Su Lingyue expressionlessly turned her head away, inwardly grumbling that Shen Yuan was really clueless.
Wait, no, she used to be just as cold.
Did you have to bring your own heater to talk to her?
How was she so easygoing now?
And she was even getting into other people's cars?
The former Shen Yuan would never have done such a thing.
Or maybe after so many years, she had changed?
That's true, in the past when Shen Yuan went out, not to mention assistants and secretaries, she had two rows of bodyguards. This time it seemed as if she didn’t have a single person with her. She was different from before. Su Lingyue glanced at her a few times before turning to look ahead.
Ji Zhiyi sat up straight. She was wearing a high-collared silk shirt. Although it wasn't the hottest time of the year, the weather in September was still quite hot, especially at midday. So she was fully covered, which was actually quite eye-catching.
Shen Yuan couldn't help but ask: "President Ji, are you afraid of the cold?"
Ji Zhiyi coughed lightly, and said blandly: "I caught a cold yesterday."
Shen Yuan understood, nodded with a smile, and at the same time, moved a little further away from her.
Ji Zhiyi didn't mind.
There was no sound throughout the entire ride. Su Lingyue couldn't help but look in the rearview mirror. Shen Yuan was leaning against the back of her seat, asleep.
She twitched her lips.
She turned her head to look at Ji Zhiyi, who had her head lowered, looking at her tablet. Su Lingyue softly reminded her: "President Ji."
Ji Zhiyi looked up, and the moment she saw Su Lingyue, her gaze turned gentle, filled with a smile. Su Lingyue said: "It’s bad for your eyes."
Ji Zhiyi nodded, and closed her tablet. Shen Yuan, who had been asleep, changed her position. Su Lingyue rolled her eyes at her, and Ji Zhiyi chuckled lightly.
Shen Yuan also woke up by the time they got to the airport. She apologized to Ji Zhiyi for falling asleep. Ji Zhiyi said: "President Shen is working hard, it's only right that you should get more rest."
Shen Yuan smiled. After getting out of the car, she actually carried her luggage herself. This trip to the fall exhibition was just for publicity and to communicate with others in the industry. She was only staying for one night. She didn’t have much luggage. When Su Lingyue had carried her luggage, it had felt light, probably not even half the weight of her own.
Maybe it was just company documents, and no clothes.
While she was lost in thought, the three of them entered the lounge. Su Lingyue, after seeing that they had sat down, went to buy coffee. Ji Zhiyi sat on her chair, and took out her tablet. Shen Yuan said: "I heard that Su Qi and Baoshun signed a contract today. Does President Ji know about this?"
Ji Zhiyi’s expression was as usual, she didn’t even move an eyebrow: "Is that so? Then congratulations to President Shen."
Shen Yuan laughed: "It's not like I was the one who signed the contract with Baoshun, why are you congratulating me?"
Ji Zhiyi said, "Didn't Dingsheng collaborate with Su Qi?"
Shen Yuan was silent for a few seconds, and then said: "Actually, Dingsheng can also collaborate with Yilin."
So she had gone through all that just to get to this point.
Hitching a ride was fake, negotiating a collaboration was the real deal.
But Shen Yuan had miscalculated.
Yilin could work with any other company in the industry, but it absolutely could not work with Dingsheng.
Ji Zhiyi said: "Maybe there will be a chance in the future."
Hearing this, Shen Yuan looked at Ji Zhiyi, and nodded.
It wasn't an official collaboration invitation. This time was just to test the waters, but she hadn't expected Ji Zhiyi to reject her so thoroughly. She lowered her head, and took out her phone. Just as she was about to make a call, Su Lingyue walked in carrying the coffee, and gave a cup to her and Ji Zhiyi.
She accepted it: "Thank you."
Su Lingyue's face was calm: "You're welcome."
That distant tone was quite similar to Ji Zhiyi's. Shen Yuan glanced at her again, and took a sip of her coffee.
Before getting on the plane, Ji Zhiyi received a call from Qi An, who told her that she had already arrived in Qingquan City, and inquired about Ji Zhiyi's schedule. Ji Zhiyi glanced at her watch: "I still need two or three hours."
Qi An said: "No rush, I'll wait for you at the company."
Ji Zhiyi's expression was a little displeased. Before getting on the plane, Su Lingyue asked her: "What’s wrong?"
She shook her head: "It's nothing, let's go."
Shen Yuan's seat was not with them, but in the same cabin. If they looked up, they could see her. Su Lingyue sat next to Ji Zhiyi, and asked her: "Was Shen Yuan looking for you for something?"
Ji Zhiyi glanced at Shen Yuan, and said: "She wants to collaborate with us."
Su Lingyue said: "Collaborate?"
Ji Zhiyi nodded.
Su Lingyue said: "Isn't she working with Su Qi?"
Ji Zhiyi said: "That wouldn't stop her from working with us."
Hah!
What a great plan.
She really didn't want to lose anything.
Su Lingyue asked: "Then what did you say?"
Ji Zhiyi replied: "I rejected her."
Su Lingyue turned her head, and praised her: "Good job with rejecting her!"
Ji Zhiyi paused for a moment: "Do you know why?"
"I don't." Su Lingyue said: "But whatever you do is right."
Ji Zhiyi wanted to laugh.
She forced herself to hold it back.
She turned her head to look out the window, and felt her shoulder bump. Ji Zhiyi turned her head, and Su Lingyue was using the excuse of reaching for something to touch her. Ji Zhiyi lowered her eyes, and rubbed her fingers.
Su Lingyue, who had been saying that she was energetic, still fell asleep on the plane. When she woke up, her bones ached, probably because she hadn't been sleeping in a comfortable position. She twisted her arms, and asked Ji Zhiyi: "Are we going back to the apartment first?"
Ji Zhiyi said: "Let's go directly to the company."
Su Lingyue made an "oh" sound. When they got out of the airport, she saw that the driver was already waiting. She turned her head. Shen Yuan was also walking over, pushing her luggage. She exchanged a greeting with them, and got into another black car. Su Lingyue turned away, and got into the car with Ji Zhiyi.
The two sat in the back row.
Ji Zhiyi asked Xiao Li: "Has President Qi arrived?"
Xiao Li said: "She has already arrived."
Qi An had arrived at one o'clock in the afternoon. After getting to the company, she started to make inspections and conduct surprise checks. None of the departments were prepared. However, Qi An didn't reprimand them. Instead, her attitude was very gentle. Then her assistant sent out a stack of notifications. There were improvements and punishments, and all the departments wailed.
Knowing that she was here to temporarily take over Ji Zhiyi's work, all the departments were even more ashen-faced.
They definitely knew about Qi An. They had all heard the news from Yilin. She seemed gentle and kind, but her methods were the complete opposite of her personality. She was ruthless.
If Ji Zhiyi’s methods were obvious, then she was more skilled at doing things behind the scenes.
She was able to slit someone’s throat without making a sound. They didn't know when they had offended her, and they could be out of a job. So her taking over here made everyone very afraid.
Su Lingyue was probably the outlier, or rather, she still hadn’t fully understood the news that Ji Zhiyi was leaving. So when the colleagues in the secretarial office were sharing Qi An's past deeds in their small chat group, she was completely unfazed.
Ji Zhiyi asked her: "What are you looking at?"
Su Lingyue said: "What kind of person is President Qi?"
Ji Zhiyi thought for a moment: "Stubborn."
Su Lingyue repeated: "Stubborn?"
Ji Zhiyi nodded.
She didn't know if it was because Qi An had been with Jiang Ya for too long, and had been subtly influenced by her, or if it was her personality to begin with. Ji Zhiyi’s biggest impression of her was that she was stubborn, and didn’t really take other people's opinions into account.
Thinking of this, Ji Zhiyi said: "Would you like to change departments?"
Su Lingyue said: "Change departments?"
Ji Zhiyi nodded.
Su Lingyue said: "Are you afraid that I'll be targeted by her?"
Because of the misunderstanding of their relationship, there were indeed many people who had used ‘Ji Zhiyi’s’ name to target her. Su Lingyue said: "If she wants to target me, it would be the same no matter which department I was in. It’s better to let it happen naturally."
Ji Zhiyi said: "I'm sorry."
Su Lingyue said: "Why are you apologizing again?"
Ji Zhiyi didn’t say anything.
She was sorry that they couldn’t make their relationship public, and she couldn’t resolve those misunderstandings, and she couldn’t even tell anyone except for Zhang Xian about them. As Xiao Li drove the car, Su Lingyue smiled at Ji Zhiyi, winking to make her happy.
Ji Zhiyi lowered her head, and laughed.
They soon arrived at the company. Xiao Li sent their luggage back. Su Lingyue followed Ji Zhiyi out of the car. When they went into the company, the receptionist quickly walked up to them, and pressed the elevator button for them.
Then the two went into the elevator.
The air was silent for a moment.
When they got out of the elevator, Su Lingyue thought she had gone to the wrong company. Everyone was frantically busy. Every person’s expression and body language radiated tension. She looked around for a few seconds with a frown. She then glanced at Ji Zhiyi. Ji Zhiyi’s expression was natural, as if she was used to it.
When they got to the door, Ji Zhiyi said: "Don't stare at her legs."
Before Su Lingyue could understand what she meant, she saw Ji Zhiyi push open the door. A woman was sitting in a wheelchair by the floor-to-ceiling window, holding a cup, and looking down at the view. The office was the same as it was before they had left, except there was now a thick stack of documents on the desk.
Qi An turned around when she heard the noise, and smiled when she saw Ji Zhiyi: "You’re back."
Her voice was as gentle as the spring breeze in March.
Ji Zhiyi responded: "Sister An."
Su Lingyue also said: "President Qi."
Qi An just glanced at her, and asked Ji Zhiyi: "Are you leaving tomorrow?"
Ji Zhiyi paused for two seconds: "Mm, tomorrow."
Qi An said: "Then I'll see you off tomorrow."
Ji Zhiyi said: "No need, Sister An. You just arrived at the company, and you still have a lot of things to familiarize yourself with. Let Xiao Li take me tomorrow."
Qi An said: "How can I be at ease with just Xiao Li taking you?" She didn't speak a lot, but just those few sentences were enough for Su Lingyue to understand what 'stubborn' meant. Qi An said: "It's been a while since I last saw you. I want to chat with you a bit more."
Ji Zhiyi said: "That's good, I can also talk to you about company matters."
Qi An nodded.
Her gaze then landed on Su Lingyue, and asked: "Is this the new assistant?"
Ji Zhiyi said: "The new assistant, Su Lingyue."
Qi An smiled warmly: "So it's the new assistant, I was wondering why I hadn't seen her before." She looked at Su Lingyue, and said: "Then would you please trouble the new assistant to get us two cups of coffee?"
Her polite tone sounded cutting.
Su Lingyue said: "Okay, President Qi."
She glanced at Ji Zhiyi, and then turned around and left the office. As soon as the door closed, she dropped her smile.
People's preferences were really obvious.
For example, just by meeting once, she could tell that Qi An didn't like her.
Of course.
She didn't like Qi An either.
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