After Becoming Roommates with an Obnoxious Wealthy Heiress - Chapter 44.2

However, the maid standing aside looked uneasy. She tentatively asked Jiang Feiwan, “But… Little President Zhu instructed that we shouldn’t let Miss Qin know…”

She didn’t finish the rest of the sentence, her eyes darting toward Qin Shuyue’s position.

Jiang Feiwan looked up and thought for a moment, “I believe that no matter what means are used, as long as the orders given by Little President Zhu are completed, that’s what matters.”

Then she glanced at the back of Qin Shuyue, who was silently eating at the dining table.

She raised an eyebrow, let out a helpless sigh, and moved her gaze back down.

Jiang Feiwan had never received such a ridiculous and absurd order.

In a short while, Qin Shuyue had finished her meal. When she turned to look at them, she was holding a mouthful of water and swallowing the pills.

She pointed at the food and medicine on the dining table, “I’ve finished it all.”

The maid heard that she had finished both the meal and the medicine in the time it took to say a few sentences. With an expression of disbelief, she walked to the table and carefully scanned the meal tray.

She really finished everything?

the servant flipped over the medicine packets to check.

Indeed, she had taken them all.

The maid was stunned.

Are Zhu Lingyi’s words this effective?

If she had known, she would have used threats and promises even at the risk of being scolded by Little President Zhu.

Seeing that she had truly eaten everything, the maid finished her task and took the tray to the sink to rinse it.

Qin Shuyue, on the other hand, picked up her small, worn bag and dashed to the door.

A gust of wind flew past. Jiang Feiwan looked up and saw that Qin Shuyue had already put on her shoes and was wearing her bag. She stood up abruptly, her eyes quickly scanning the clock.

9:45 PM.

Where was this Miss Qin going again with her small, worn bag?

But before Jiang Feiwan could ask her, Qin Shuyue lowered her head and pushed the door open to leave on her own.

The words Jiang Feiwan was prepared to speak were suddenly stifled back into her throat, and the remaining syllables she didn’t have time to withdraw were squeezed out of her throat as an “uh…”

The maid heard the noise and also looked back.

After washing and putting away the dishes, she crossed the dining table and walked to Jiang Feiwan.

She took out a smooth and soft silk handkerchief from her pocket. The middle and side corners of the neatly folded handkerchief were darker in color, clearly having been soaked by something.

Jiang Feiwan took the silk handkerchief from her hand, looked up somewhat puzzled, and asked, “What… what does this mean?”

The maid replied, “Miss Qin threw it into the trash can, and I picked it up.”

Jiang Feiwan nodded and then threw the silk handkerchief back to the maid. She acted indifferent: “If it’s thrown away, let it be thrown away. Little President Zhu doesn’t lack this one silk handkerchief. There’s no need to tell Little President Zhu about such a small matter.”

Then she turned and walked away from the first floor.

The maid nodded. She tossed it casually, and the silk handkerchief spun half a circle in mid-air before landing steadily inside the trash can.

She walked to the sink, wiped the water stains off the tiles, and looked out the window.

Her figure was faintly reflected on the glass. The sky outside was pitch black. An ancient, towering tree stood majestically in front of the building. Under the moonlight, the tree’s shadow fell in clusters on the ground, leaving circular gaps that projected blue rings of light.

A thin and graceful figure covered the gap and then moved away quickly. The shadows of the trees swayed, and the silver light scattered on this small person, enveloping her in a layer of gentle radiance.

“Boss Yuan, I am truly sorry. I have been sick these past few days and couldn’t ask for leave in time. I’ve caused you trouble. I am truly sorry!”

A faint voice was enveloped in the falling tree shadows, followed by a beam of light from a streetlamp illuminating the little person’s path.

Qin Shuyue quickened her pace, and a gentle voice came from the phone.

“It’s alright, just rest well when you’re sick. You can set things here aside for a while and come back once you’ve recovered.”

Qin Shuyue left the school gate at her fastest speed and got on a shared bicycle.

She was terrified that her vacant position would be taken by someone else, so she shook her head repeatedly, “It’s okay, Boss Yuan, I’m already on my way.”

Yuan Mei’s end went silent for a second, and Qin Shuyue’s heart rose into her throat.

Afterward, a short, warm laugh came from the other end of the phone, “Alright, then come over first. Be safe on the road; we’ll talk about the rest at the shop.”

Only then did Qin Shuyue’s heart drop back into her stomach. She gave a soft “mm,” “Okay.”

Today was already September 25th.

That is to say, she had been lying in bed unconscious for 16 days.

During these 16 days, Qin Shuyue hadn’t earned a single cent.

What about her mother’s hospitalization fees?

Mother…

Qin Shuyue pedaled the bicycle with all her might, and in less than a moment, she was already somewhat out of breath.

Why did I faint!

Why am I so useless!

She hated herself so much hated that she was so useless, hated why she would faint, hated the charity and sympathy of others, and hated why she was so weak.

She actually had to rely on the charity and sympathy of others to get by.

But if Zhu Lingyi hadn’t called a doctor for her and just let her lie on the floor without caring about her life or death…

Would she be satisfied then?

Ridiculous.

Qin Shuyue suddenly felt it was too ridiculous.

Ridiculous, these past three years of her life that were like dog sh*t.

At that moment, the phone in the bicycle basket suddenly rang with a female mechanical broadcast voice.

“You have arrived at your destination, please lock your beloved bike~”

After parking and locking the shared bicycle by the roadside, Qin Shuyue stepped into the restaurant she had entered and exited countless times.

The landlady was sitting behind the front desk, a pair of glasses perched on the bridge of her nose, the black pen in her hand waving left and right.

When she looked up and saw Qin Shuyue enter, she immediately beamed with joy.

Yuan Mei took off her glasses and hurried over enthusiastically.

“Oh, baby Xiao Qin, you’re finally here! Hurry and come help me look at this account. I’ve calculated it so many times and it’s still wrong. It’s off by exactly twenty cents. Did I misrecord a transaction somewhere?”

As she spoke, she grabbed Qin Shuyue’s arm and led her inside.

After ushering Qin Shuyue to sit down, she placed the ledger in front of her.

“Take a look and see where the error is.”

Qin Shuyue was stunned for a moment, appearing to be very sensitive to contact with others.

When Yuan Mei touched her forearm, she felt as if the area touched was crawling with countless little insects, gradually gnawing at her entire arm and entering every nerve in her brain.

Half of her body felt numb.

But if her reaction were too big.

Qin Shuyue sighed in her heart; she was being too sensitive.

She maintained a proper smile on her face and took the ledger handed over by Yuan Mei.

“Let me see…”

Qin Shuyue was used to processing data on a computer, but Yuan Mei probably didn’t like it. During the ten-plus days she was absent, Yuan Mei and her husband recorded everything word by word by hand.

She even hesitated for a moment when she took the ledger, but quickly regained her composure, “I’ll transcribe the data onto the computer first, and then double-check them one by one.”

Seeing Qin Shuyue calmly open the computer and her fingers nimbly tapping on the keyboard, Yuan Mei finally felt at ease.

It was like finding a pillar of support.

“Fortunately, I have you.” Yuan Mei took a deep breath and complained with a frown, “That man of mine can’t do anything except look after the shop. He’s really… completely useless and makes me angry every day.”

Qin Shuyue kept a polite smile on the corner of her lips. She gave Yuan Mei a light glance and then fixed her gaze back on the computer screen.

While they were talking, a crisp tinkling sound rang from the restaurant entrance, and two customers walked through the wind chimes into the restaurant.

Seeing customers, Yuan Mei wiggled her hips and greeted them with a smile piled on her face, “Welcome to the shop, table for two? We still have seats here…”

Silence returned to Qin Shuyue’s surroundings.

Instead, she became even more focused.

Her two large, grape like eyes scanned the computer screen up, down, left, and right. After an unknown amount of time, a piece of data finally turned red. She clicked on it with the mouse and modified the data.

The accounts were finally balanced.

She let out a soft breath.

She glanced at the bottom right of the computer screen: 24:00 (Midnight).

Qin Shuyue’s brain went blank for a second.

It also seemed unbelievable that she had been working on it for three hours.

Yuan Mei had come behind her at some point. Looking at the data in the computer that was finally correct, her eyes practically shone, “Is it finished?”

Qin Shuyue gave an “mm” and nodded.

Her well-behaved and cute appearance was like a little cat that had done something very impressive and was squinting its eyes waiting for someone to pet it and praise it.

Although Qin Shuyue didn’t think that way, seeing her upright and well behaved sitting posture made Yuan Mei think of her own daughter at home.

“Truly wonderful.”

Qin Shuyue’s cheeks were flush pink. She bit her lip shyly and lowered her head.

Yuan Mei picked up the keys from the counter, “I originally wanted to call you just now, but you looked so serious that I didn’t want to disturb you.”

She turned to look at the sky outside; it was pitch black, as if enveloped in a thick layer of black mist.

“It’s too late.”

Yuan Mei muttered a sentence, and then asked Qin Shuyue, “Do you usually ride a bike here?”

Qin Shuyue moved her gaze to the shared bicycle parked in the corner outside the restaurant.

She nodded, “Yes.”

“In that case…” Yuan Mei decided on the spot, “I’ll drive you back to school.”

Qin Shuyue was a bit dazed; she didn’t know whether to accept.

But…

She looked at the pitch-black sky outside.

Qin Shuyue lowered her eyes and agreed, “Thank you, Boss.”

“It’s nothing.” Yuan Mei picked up Qin Shuyue’s canvas bag in one hand, her gaze falling on the bag.

It had a small pink flower whose paint had already peeled off, and the green leaves below had withered. The painted sun was crumpled, and a smiling little girl had her eyes bent sweetly, wearing a floral dress and carrying a light-green hand-woven bag slung across her back.

But very strangely, everything on the canvas bag seemed to have lost its color and paint due to age, yet there was one place that was extremely unusual.

The smile on the girl’s face seemed to have been deliberately scratched off by someone.

Seeing Yuan Mei pause in place, Qin Shuyue looked at her with her large, watery, deer-like eyes in confusion, “Boss… Yuan?”

The sentence pulled Yuan Mei back.

She reached out and patted the non-existent dust on the canvas bag, smiling as she said, “It’s nothing, let’s go.”

Hopefully, she was just overthinking it.

Qin Shuyue, however, turned her head somewhat apprehensively.

Her bag… was very old.

It was the bag her mother gave her for extra classes in the first year of high school, but now…

Song Jiajia and the others had ridiculed her countless times for this ragged canvas bag.

But for her, this canvas bag carried her precious and unrecoverable memories.

Yuan Mei, walking in front, naturally didn’t see the conflicted and crumpled expression on Qin Shuyue’s face.

She walked to a small dark-red sedan, pressed the bottom button on the car key with her fingernail, and the car made a “clack” sound as it unlocked.

Yuan Mei walked to the car door, pulled it open, sat in the driver’s seat, and didn’t forget to call out to Qin Shuyue, “Come on~”

Qin Shuyue walked quickly to the back seat, opened the rear door, and sat inside.

Soon the car vibrated, and the engine let out a muffled roar.

Yuan Mei tapped the map on the car screen and asked warmly, “Which school is it?”

“Xingxi University.”

“Xingxi?” Yuan Mei was slightly taken aback, “Heavens, that’s one of the top one or two universities in our city, right?”

She lamented, “I remember back then I only got into an ordinary private second-tier university and studied an unpopular major; after graduation, I couldn’t even find a job.”

However, she let out a breath of relief, “But the school you attend is good; your job prospects after graduating should be quite good too.”

Qin Shuyue didn’t feel any waves in her heart when she heard this sentence, but after hearing Yuan Mei’s next sentence, Qin Shuyue instinctively tensed her body, and her fingers curled up involuntarily.

“I heard the new chairman of the Zhu Group is the daughter of that famous President Zhu from C Country? Her name is Zhu Lingyi?”

Yuan Mei heard no movement from the back for a while and asked suspiciously, “Is it not? Then I might have remembered it wrong?”

Qin Shuyue shook her head, her thin voice coming from the back seat, “Miss Zhu is indeed at our school.”

Hearing her say this, Yuan Mei’s heart finally settled, “Glad I didn’t remember it wrong.”

She couldn’t help but sigh, “I remember when I was still in school, Xingxi University was just an ordinary first-tier university. but in just these two or three years, ever since the investment and construction by that Little President Zhu, Xingxi University’s reputation has skyrocketed. Countless wealthy families are scrambling to get in, and even families with a bit of money are sending their children there to study…” Yuan Mei sighed, “This is truly extraordinary.”

As soon as this sentence came out, Qin Shuyue almost failed to maintain the smile on her face.

Yuan Mei looked at the news reports that were full of praise, so she naturally viewed everything inside with kindness and longing.

But Qin Shuyue…

She didn’t know how to put it.

She even deeply loathed every single person in this school.

However, the position where Qin Shuyue sat in the back seat was very dark, and Yuan Mei didn’t notice the change in her emotions.

“Have you seen Miss Zhu?”

The smile at the corner of Qin Shuyue’s mouth stiffened for a moment, “I have.”

“I’ve seen her on the news broad shoulders, narrow waist, a pair of long legs that could be called 1.8 meters, and her looks are stunning. Her actions are even more crisp and decisive, like a whirlwind. I heard that after she inherited the group enterprise at eighteen, she officially took over the power in less than a month, intimidated the board of directors, and took away 80% of the shares… Heavens, this is simply too amazing.”

The more Yuan Mei spoke, the more excited she became.

Her tone was full of admiration.

In contrast, Qin Shuyue forced a twitch of the corner of her mouth.

The outside world has truly built that person into a perfect persona.

Just as Qin Shuyue didn’t know how to answer Yuan Mei, Yuan Mei asked her another question.

“I heard Miss Zhu lives at the school? Heavens, how could someone from a family like hers live at the school? I heard she donated two buildings to the school; is that true?”

Qin Shuyue had a bit of a headache.

How did she never discover that her boss was such a gossip?

Qin Shuyue let out a long, very light sigh in the darkness.

Then, after gathering her mood, she replied, “The rumors are not false.”

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