After I Woke Up to Find I Had a Wife - Chapter 41

Those who should know about this matter all knew. Those who should not know were still kept in the dark, or pretending not to know.

Lin You handed Zhang Yu directly over to the police. She did not interfere, nor did she have anyone privately question Zhang Yu about why she had done this.

All under heaven bustles for profit; all under heaven rushes for gain.

“Director Wang, there will not be a second time.”

Lin You’s deep gaze fell on Wang Tingshan. She leaned back in her chair, her figure like a tiger crouching in its territory. Her brows and eyes were cold, her thin lips lightly pressed together. Her gaze seemed to pierce straight into the heart, and the powerful pressure made even Wang Tingshan break into a sweat.

“Yes. This time was my mistake. There won’t be a next time.” Wang Tingshan had deeply reflected on himself.

The only reason he had been invited into the Lin Group was to prevent these things from happening. Yet something like this had happened right under his nose, and he had even been the last one to know.

He had truly neglected his duty. He had failed his own identity, and also failed the salary President Lin gave him.

Lin You did not say anything more, nor did she care how remorseful Wang Tingshan might be. She only let them withdraw. Then she privately assigned Sun Yue a few simple tasks before once again lowering her head and continuing her work.

Sun Yue rubbed her chin. She really was understanding President Lin less and less. Li You strode past Sun Yue. He still had a pile of things waiting for him and had no time to guess people’s hearts together with Sun Yue.

“Dad, the person was discovered.”

In a medium-sized office with an excellent view, a middle-aged man wearing glasses irritably loosened his tie and unbuttoned several buttons on his blue shirt.

“You really are mud that can’t be propped up on a wall. Compared to Lin You, you simply don’t seem like someone from the Lin family. She wants to act as the stabilizing anchor, and the one whose heart gets thrown into chaos is yours. Look at what you’ve become.”

The merciless scolding made the middle-aged man feel ashamed and furious. His eyes were full of hatred, and both fists clenched tightly together. If the call on the other end had not yet ended, he might have exploded in rage.

The man breathed in large mouthfuls, but he did not dare let the person on the other end hear even the slightest sound. He only tightly covered the phone and fiercely inhaled several times.

“All right. You don’t need to interfere in this matter anymore. Just take care of the things currently in your hands.” The other side hung up impatiently.

The man sat in his office trembling all over. In the end, unable to endure it, he directly threw the phone out, smashing it onto the floor.

His chest heaved as he gasped heavily. After venting, the middle-aged man took off his glasses and pressed his right hand against the bridge of his nose. In the end, he still endured it and quickly tidied up the mess in his office.

The man walked to his desk, picked up the shattered phone from the floor, pulled open a cabinet, and took out an identical phone.

He casually threw the broken one into the cabinet. Inside the cabinet, there were already seven or eight identical smashed phones.

Lin You still did not know that such a show had happened inside the company. She happily finished her work, stretched, and prepared to go home to accompany her wife.

After this incident, everything remained calm for the next week. No one caused trouble.

Instead, Su Qingfeng would circle in front of Lin You from time to time. At first, Lin You ignored her and simply left her hanging.

This continued until Su Qingfeng went to attend the Xie family banquet, while the outside world had already learned about Fu Xinran’s pregnancy.

Su Qingfeng wore a pure black women’s suit. As an Alpha, she was also tall with long legs, and her long-maintained fitness habit made her body proportions even more perfect.

Many unmarried Omegas’ eyes fell on this clean-living and self-disciplined person. Su Qingfeng single-handedly controlled the Lin Group’s M Country branch, which made many people extremely envious.

Some Omegas whose hearts were stirring did not mind at all that Su Qingfeng was nearly forty.

As for the head of the Lin family beside Su Qingfeng, she drew even more attention. She possessed the noble coldness of an aristocratic family. Even rarer was that she held immense power.

A graceful male Alpha walked over, a smile on his lips. “President Lin, President Su, you are both rare guests.”

He was the Xie family’s Second Uncle. He could not participate in managing the family affairs and could only follow around the already retired old master, doing odd jobs and showing the old master that he still had nothing.

As for Old Master Xie, no one knew what he was thinking. He had handed the company affairs to his Omega daughter and left all his other sons idle. Many outsiders had been privately guessing about this matter.

But no one dared run in front of the Xie family and point at Old Master Xie by name to ask, “Are you getting senile?”

After all, even his sons had the same thought, but none of them dared overturn the heavens.

It was just like Lin You, who had taken over the Lin Group at nineteen. Not many people had been optimistic about her. Some had even openly mocked and ridiculed her, saying the Lin family was about to collapse and preparing to take a share of the spoils. In the end, how many of them had been slapped in the face?

And how many people who had tripped her up in the dark had been pulled out by Lin You one by one?

Speaking of which, these things were not hard to guess. It all came down to two words: ability. Those who wanted the family to continue would never favor men over women. They only looked at family interests and methods.

Lin You simply nodded and greeted the Xie family’s Second Uncle, Xie Yunfeng. She glanced at her aunt, whose face was refined, elegant, and calm, but who was actually panicking like a dog inside.

Lin You smiled faintly, hiding her contributions and fame. She would never show that she wanted to watch the drama unfold. Before coming, Lin You had told Su Qingfeng a piece of news that had blown her mind.

Su Qingfeng only glanced at Xie Yunfeng. Her gaze swept around the venue, but she did not see the person she wanted to see.

She withdrew her gaze in slight disappointment. Lin You silently watched the show for a while. When she had first learned this news, she had also been struck dumb. Smiling face. She absolutely had to go back and tell Ranran.

Xie family’s Second Uncle intuitively felt that neither of them wanted to chat. Sensible and tactful, he smiled and had the Xie family servants bring wine.

“President Lin, President Su, please enjoy yourselves. I’ll go see President Li. He came today as well.”

“This second son of the Xie family is quite something. He’s clearly the second son of the Xie family, yet he acts like a butler, willingly managing the Xie family’s household affairs.” A rich son who looked down on him sneered at this.

Whether Xie Yunfeng heard it or not, this greatly offended the Xie family.

The other rich young masters, who were also his idle, useless friends, heard this and exchanged glances. Their faces were smiling, but in their hearts, they were all cursing him as a complete idiot.

They turned around, picked up their wine glasses, and went to greet other people. No one continued surrounding the fellow who had spoken arrogantly. If they kept chatting, they feared they would be knocked out by the Xie family’s Second Uncle before even returning home.

Aside from Lin You, Lin Sizheng and his father had also come to attend the banquet today.

Everyone knew that the Lin family’s collateral uncles did not get along with Lin You’s branch. But today, Lin Sizheng followed behind Lin Gong with a smug, radiant expression.

Leaning on his cane, Lin Gong slowly walked up to Lin You. He put on the appearance of a kindly elder. If it were usual, Lin You might have acted politely with him. Today, she was not in the mood.

Lin Gong stroked the beard he had grown, his gaze bright and benevolent. “Youyou, I heard from your eldest aunt that Mount Li is going to hold a family banquet. Why haven’t we received notice?”

His light words carried a faint inquiry, without the slightest trace of blame.

Lin You also pulled up a smile and said casually, “Because the date hasn’t been set yet. Once it’s confirmed, all the granduncles and elders will be notified.”

After all, although the Lin family old residence was inherited only by the family head, the others could still return home to worship the ancestors.

“Haha, good. Your branch has always been rather thin in number. Starting from your grandfather, then to your mother, then to you, each generation only had one seedling. You and that young lady from the Fu family should work hard and continue the family line.”

Lin Gong took on the posture of an elder and carefully instructed her, which drew several people around them to join in.

“That’s true. Lin Zhi’s line has only had single seedlings generation after generation. That’s rather rare in family inheritance,” another female Alpha around Lin Gong’s age said with pointed meaning.

“Mm, it is indeed rare. But our Lin family has always paid more attention to quality. This thing called quantity is useless no matter how much you have. What matters is excellent quality. Don’t you all agree?”

Lin You looked at Old Madam Wei with a half-smile. When Old Madam Wei heard Lin You’s words, her expression changed.

The Wei family was now struggling alone. A group of sons, but the sons were useless. A group of grandsons, but the grandsons were useless too. Was that not exactly only caring about quantity and not quality?

Lin You had stabbed right into someone’s heart in a tricky way. The people nearby who knew the inside story no longer answered.

They turned and called for Lin You to drink, all saying that she was young and should go talk to the younger people instead of accompanying old people like them.

Old Madam Wei watched with a dark face as Lin You elegantly left with a champagne glass in hand. Along the way, Lin You even drew the gazes and attempts at conversation from some Omegas.

“This grand-niece of your family is really something,” Old Madam Wei said, looking at Lin You’s back as she headed toward the second floor. Her complexion had already recovered.

“Heh. No matter how something she is, after tonight, that may not be the case anymore.” Lin Gong narrowed his eyes like a jackal or hyena, full of malice as he watched Lin You walk toward the second floor.

He had prepared a great gift for his good grand-niece. He hoped she would enjoy it properly.

On the other side, Su Qingfeng kept wandering through the crowd. The banquet had already begun, but Xie Yun’an still had not appeared. Her heart grew a little restless as she wondered whether something had happened.

“Mom, Mom, I don’t want to sleep at home. Can I?”

A little girl in a puffy dress hugged a stuffed rabbit and pouted pitifully at the elegant, luxurious woman.

The woman wore a red qipao that outlined her figure perfectly. Her chestnut-colored long hair was coiled behind her head, and her bearing was noble and graceful. Her looks were also bright and grand, with slender willow-leaf brows and charming red lips.

“Junjun, no. You know Mom will be back in a while. Let Aunt Wu play games with you, all right?” The woman gathered her qipao and crouched down, gently stroking the little girl’s head.

The little girl pouted unhappily, but she could only watch her mother open the door and leave.

“Junjun, come here. Don’t you like word games the most? Come, Auntie will play with you.” Aunt Wu, whose temperament was gentle and whose appearance was rather ordinary, softly touched the little girl’s face and brought her along to play games.

The late-arriving head of the Xie family immediately quieted the banquet as soon as she appeared. The crowd gathered toward both sides of the second-floor platform. Xie Yun’an stood on the high platform in a red qipao, her bearing graceful and composed.

A smile hung on her face as she raised the champagne glass in her hand to greet everyone. She did not say much, only hoped everyone would enjoy themselves at the Xie family banquet.

Originally, she had not wanted to hold this banquet at all. It was Old Master Xie who, after being egged on by her second brother, felt the house was not lively enough and insisted on holding this banquet to make things more festive.

Su Qingfeng stood among the crowd, raised her head, and stared blankly at that beautiful figure.

Author’s Note:

Happily posting a chapter. Bugs have already been caught.

Lin You: A chapter without Ranran. I’m not happy.

Fu Xinran: Me, appearing only in someone else’s mouth. Not happy. I miss my Youyou.