Married The Crybaby Childhood Crush First, Then Fell in Love - Chapter 26.2

Lin Wanqing closed her eyes, casting facts aside: “I also like people with a limp, who sit helplessly in a wheelchair every day, so I can push them wherever I want and have them at my mercy.”

The little sister was horrified. She couldn’t very well break her own legs.

In the car, Yan Qiu: “…”

Lin Wanqing was so annoyed by this sister that she yanked open the door of the black business car, pointed at Yan Qiu, and said,

“My wife is here to pick me up. You’re too young to be a homewrecker.”

Yan Qiu was publicly and passionately confessed to, and she slightly raised an eyebrow in surprise, looking at her Miss Rabbit.

The little sister at the school gate looked utterly heartbroken, her face pale as she burst into tears right there on the street, almost fainting from despair. It was truly pitiful.

Lin Wanqing got straight into the car, which fell into an extreme silence.

Her heart was thumping wildly, and her pale little face flushed bright red in an instant.

Yu Fei gave a thumbs-up: 6.

She, too, had steeled her heart and blurted things out, but now, in front of Yan Qiu, she wished she could find a hole to crawl into.

Yan Qiu: “You like people with a limp?”

Lin Wanqing: “…”

Yan Qiu: “You like people who are helpless?”

Lin Wanqing: “…” Boss, please stop talking.

Yan Qiu: “You like people at your mercy?”

Lin Wanqing was as timid as a dog, not daring to speak.

Lin Wanqing was pulled up by the scruff of her neck, looking vulnerable and helpless, but tearfully watching her.

Yan Qiu smiled noncommittally twice. “Very good.”

Lin Wanqing became even more frightened.

Yu Fei: “Do you know about that unfinished building in the east of the city? The last person who made fun of the boss’s leg is cemented inside it.”

Lin Wanqing shivered in fear.

Yan Qiu glanced at the secretary and told her to focus on driving.

Lin Wanqing was so scared that she whimpered softly and took out the registration form from her bag. “There’s a designer competition in a few days. I’m afraid I’ll be quite… busy.”

Lin Wanqing spoke while carefully observing Yan Qiu’s expression.

In the spacious business car, Lin Wanqing breathed with extreme caution. She was only concerned about Yan Qiu’s expression and didn’t notice the months-old embroidered handkerchief she made being stroked by Yan Qiu’s hand.

The scene was ambiguous and perverse.

Yan Qiu: “I know about this competition. Huiyan Group has invested in it.”

Oh, it was organized with investment from Yan Qiu’s side.

Yan Qiu reached out to wipe the tears from Miss Rabbit’s eyes, then put the finger in her mouth.

It was a little salty, and she wanted to lick it again.

Yan Qiu smiled meaningfully: “The first-place winner can directly receive an offer from the Group and a two-million yuan prize.”

Yu Fei added, “More importantly, they can launch a designer collaboration with a brand under the Group, helping the new designer make a name for themselves in the industry.”

Lin Wanqing only knew the general details of the competition before. After the secretary’s explanation, she understood better.

Yu Fei: “However, since Miss Lin is the Group’s boss’s wife, the first place is definitely an internal nomination.”

Yan Qiu smiled with hidden meaning: “The competition is fair and just. If any insider deals between the judges and contestants are discovered, all cooperation agreements will be terminated, and they will never be allowed to work with us again.”

Essentially, they would be blacklisted by the entire industry.

Lin Wanqing drooped further.

Upon arriving at the dining location, Yan Qiu patted her on the shoulder: “Such an excellent wife as mine certainly won’t embarrass me.”

Her smile was kind and friendly, yet Lin Wanqing felt a terrifying sense of being immediately devoured and consumed by her.

With the expectations of her teacher and her status as the boss’s wife, Lin Wanqing was under double pressure.

Yan Qiu received an urgent call. She told Lin Wanqing to eat slowly and not wait for her.

Lin Wanqing looked worried: “If I don’t get first place…”

Yu Fei chuckled: “The boss thinks so highly of Miss Lin. How could you not be first place?”

Lin Wanqing: “…”

You think too highly of me.

Yu Fei: “You can’t bribe the judges, but Miss Lin can directly bribe the boss! Just put in a good word, and not only will you get first place, but the entire Group could be yours.”

Lin Wanqing: “That’s not right.”

Yan Qiu hung up the phone, her wheelchair stopping at the private room door, where she could vaguely hear the secretary and Lin Wanqing’s conversation inside.

She gently and lingeringly kissed Lin Wanqing’s handkerchief, as if kissing Lin Wanqing’s palm.

The scene was both intimate and stimulating.

Yan Qiu: “Has she decided? I can secure the championship for her.”

Yu Fei: “Madam hasn’t decided.”

Yan Qiu: “…”

Yu Fei tried to be highly emotionally intelligent: “Not only that, Madam also questioned our company’s workplace environment, making me praise Madam’s integrity as being clearer than crystal and nobler than diamond, a role model for us all.”

Yan Qiu: “… Tsk, shut up.”

She bit the handkerchief.

…

Lin Wanqing returned to school and heard that the little freshman sister had cried herself into depression after her declaration at the school gate.

She wasn’t seen around for a long time.

Lin Wanqing was working almost non-stop these past few days, preparing for the competition during the day and going to the studio to blend perfumes at night.

Lan Xiaoxiao saw her friend falling asleep while eating in the cafeteria. “Wake up, your phone is ringing.”

Lin Wanqing, in a daze, almost fell into her soup. “Ah, let me see. Thanks.”

Lin Wanqing picked up the constantly vibrating phone from the table. The caller ID showed “Father.”

Lin Wanqing frowned, walked outside the cafeteria, and answered the call.

Lin Hui nervously paced back and forth in his office. “Wanqing, how are you doing lately? Come home for the weekend if you’re not busy.”

Lin Wanqing’s voice was very soft: “No, I’m very busy lately.”

Lin Hui’s lips moved. He had the natural lethargy of a middle-aged, declining man, and a cigarette with falling ash hung from his mouth.

“Dad knows it’s unfair to make you marry Yan Qiu, but our family has no other choice,” Lin Hui knew his eldest daughter was always sensible. “You should try to understand your parents.”

“If you have something to say, please say it,” Lin Wanqing saw a familiar teacher standing not far away outside the cafeteria.

The teacher was mumbling. Lin Wanqing discerned through lip reading: Strange, where did Lin Wanqing’s previous Su embroidery handkerchief assignment go? Could it have been stolen?

The other teacher’s lip reading: I went to check the surveillance. The monitor went black just as the doorknob moved.

Lin Wanqing: “…?”

Such a familiar move.

Her father prattled on in her ear. Lin Wanqing listened quietly, without any emotional change.

Lin Hui: “Go and beg Chairman Yan to invest more money into our family’s factory. As long as we reorganize the staff and resume production, we can definitely make a profit.”

Lin Wanqing laughed out of exasperation: “Why would Chairman Yan listen to me?”

Lin Hui took a deep drag of his cigarette. He didn’t want to sell his daughter, but he had no choice.

“Just act coquettish, and she’ll listen. People of her status like the gentle, submissive, and well-behaved type the most. Please help your father with this favor.”

“Wanqing, you’re so sensible. You can’t just stand by and watch. Your sister still has to go to school, and everyone is talking behind our backs.”

Family affection surely couldn’t compare to money.

Compared to his younger daughter’s sensible coquettishness, the elder daughter always sat there quietly, like a block of wood.

Such a person was destined to be incompetent. Instead of keeping her in the family business, it was better to marry her off as a favor.

Both daughters were his flesh and blood, but they couldn’t be treated equally in the end.

Lin Wanqing was silent. Her father had always been the absolute authority in the whole family, and everyone was afraid of him.

She always had to rely on the expressions of her mother and father to live. The authority of the past shattered into pieces and vanished like fine bubbles in the midst of a string of pleas.

Lin Wanqing’s heart ached intensely. Finally, she sighed helplessly.

“I heard your factory maliciously recruited disabled people to defraud the state of subsidies before laying them off. My mother’s distant relative, who is a manager at the factory, broke a worker’s rib,”

Lin Wanqing listed the issues one by one,

“Not only that, but my mother illegally transferred funds from the eighty million that Chairman Yan invested into a private account. That’s already illegal.”

It was hopeless.

Lin Wanqing was also a businesswoman. The entire Lin family factory was saturated with rot and decay from top to bottom.

Lin Hui froze in place, painfully smashing the cigarette on the ground. “What good is saying all this now?! As long as Yan Qiu is willing to give us money, all this can be solved!”

“How can you talk about your mother like that behind her back, you unfilial wretch! Your mother loved you for nothing.”

Lin Wanqing pinched the bridge of her nose. Just moments ago, her father was humbling himself and asking her to point out problems, and now he was suddenly violent and agitated. She hung up the phone.

It was hopeless; just wait for death.

Lin Hui listened to the busy signal on the phone and violently threw his mobile phone against the wall.

The middle-aged man covered his face in pain. How could he not know the bad things his wife had done? They had been together for more than twenty years, and their interests had long been intertwined.

Outside, workers were protesting with banners, demanding an apology and compensation. A dozen reporters were banging on the factory gates. Lin Hui, as the chairman, forcibly closed the window.

His younger daughter, Lin Zhenxi, said at the door, “Dad, the school needs preparations for the Antarctic research trip. All my friends are going. When do I pay the fee?”

Lin Hui roared painfully, “Get out.”

So unthinking. Lin Wanqing was so unthinking! She could have done it just by asking Yan Qiu, so why wouldn’t she help!

…

Lin Wanqing had been working almost non-stop for the past few days. The phone call made her lose her appetite for continuing to eat in the cafeteria.

“Teacher, was my embroidery assignment stolen?” Lin Wanqing went up to ask the two clueless teachers.

“Ah, yes…” The storage teacher was very apologetic. “Student, the advisor wanted to take photos to compile and print an album for case studies, but we couldn’t find it. The surveillance footage is also missing.”

The value of a handkerchief was difficult to estimate, and since it was just a student’s work, it wasn’t considered valuable. Even if they called the police, no one would investigate.

Just like Lin Wanqing’s glove assignment before.

If it was lost, it was lost. She could just make a new one.

Lin Wanqing contacted her advisor to remake one. She stood at the school gate, waiting for Yan Qiu, who was scheduled to pick her up.

In the cold wind, Lin Wanqing felt a sudden dizziness. Her stomach churned uncomfortably, and her consciousness gradually scattered like foam…

Her feet were unsteady, and the feeling of losing balance signaled an imminent fall to the ground—

“Be careful!”

It wasn’t the cold, hard ground. Lin Wanqing woke up to find Yan Qiu forcefully catching her, her arm firmly resting on her shoulder.

“Sister Qiuqiu?!”

Yan Qiu thrust a piece of milk candy between her lips. “What were you thinking so intently that you didn’t even notice your low blood sugar?”

Yan Qiu herself also had low blood sugar, and she often kept candies in her pocket.

Lin Wanqing said dazedly: “I… I was thinking about why my assignments are always stolen. Both my gloves and handkerchief are gone. This thief is too much.”

Yan Qiu silently tucked the bitten, damp handkerchief further into her pocket to hide it securely.

Is there a possibility that you’ve lost more than just a handkerchief and gloves?

Yan Qiu was wearing the V-neck silk shirt made by Lin Wanqing close to her body. Feeling guilty, she avoided the topic.

“It is indeed too much. They must be severely punished when caught.”

She said, playing the innocent party.