After I Woke Up to Find I Had a Wife - Chapter 9

Why do I feel like Fu Xinran actually isn’t that repulsed by the original body? Lin You propped her hands on the desk, thinking about that awkward scene from this morning.

Could it be because, at this stage, the original body had not yet had time to do all those excessive things to her before Lin You transmigrated?

Then the things the original body had done before—perhaps the current Fu Xinran had not yet taken them to heart. As expected of a beautiful and kind-hearted villainess. Until the very last moment, she absolutely would not blacken.

Slap.

Lin You slapped the underside of the heavy office desk and made up her mind in secret. She absolutely had to properly protect her new bestie.

She would let Fu Xinran give birth to the child early, live beautifully on her own, and Lin You would escort and protect her from behind.

Hiss. Her hand was a little numb. Lin You lowered her head and discreetly rubbed her palm.

A pile of documents was neatly sorted on the desk, but Lin You had not opened a single one.

Instead, she wandered around the original body’s large office. This office was roughly four hundred square meters and was divided into a cloakroom, inner and outer lounges, a bathroom, a gym, a study, and a small kitchen.

Lin You’s private chef would make lunch for her around eleven and serve it precisely at twelve.

The huge space was arranged neatly. The office style was simple and grand, with wide, bright floor-to-ceiling windows on both sides.

After wandering around, Lin You found there was nothing much to look at, so she could only return to the comfortable boss chair and open a document she could not understand at all. On the first page was the name of the project.

“Think carefully again.”

Hm? What am I supposed to think about?

“Damn it, who’s talking?” Lin You shot to her feet.

Her sharp gaze slowly searched the room. Just now, she had heard someone speaking, telling her to think again.

That voice sounded so familiar. Where had she heard it before? It seemed to have come from inside her head. Lin You frowned and reached out to press the phone on the desk. She was the only one in the office, but just in case—

Lin You calmed herself and said, “Sun Yue, Li Ping, come in.”

These were two of Lin You’s assistants.

Her assistants were all Betas. Betas were the most stable. They did not have bonding heat and would not be disturbed by pheromones, so they could devote themselves fully to work.

A man and a woman entered the office one after the other.

“President Lin.”

The two elites stood before Lin You.

Lin You nodded. “Start checking from the innermost room.”

The two did not ask further questions. They merely nodded and split up to leave.

Lin You lowered both hands, her gaze deep as she looked at a pastoral painting on the wall.

At this moment, Lin You was like a quiet lion, her gaze profound and her aura imposing. Her slightly raised head carried a unique nobility and coldness.

Sun Yue came out first. Seeing Lin You standing there quietly, she respectfully said, “President Lin, there’s nothing abnormal.”

Could there be a corporate spy? Looking at President Lin’s posture, could someone already have infiltrated the office?

Sun Yue’s imagination ran wild. Yesterday, President Lin’s mood had finally improved a little, but today she was back to normal again. Who knew whether there would be overtime today?

Li Ping also came out, putting away the instrument in his hand. “President Lin, we found nothing.”

“Mm. Go back to work first.” Lin You nodded and dismissed them.

“By the way, President Lin, Madam’s eldest sister has invited you to lunch today. What do you think?” Sun Yue informed Lin You of the message that the eldest daughter of the Fu family had just sent.

Lin You raised a brow. Fu Xinran’s elder sister?

The Fu family heir, Fu Xinyan. She was the first person Fu Xinran had directly arranged to be taken out through a car accident.

Lin You remembered that in the original plot, this eldest Fu sister and Fu Xinran were not born from the same mother. Their relationship was not close either. She had to go meet her.

“I understand. Did she say which restaurant?”

“Mingxi Restaurant in the city center.”

“All right. Go back to work first.”

Lin You looked at the instrument Li Ping had placed on the desk. She was familiar with this thing. It could detect all communication devices in the room.

It showed that everything was normal.

Forget it. She would ignore it for now. Lin You irritably scratched her head and continued battling with those documents. The sense of responsibility in her heart did not allow her to sign randomly without even flipping through them.

She continued reading the document she had just opened. Lin You’s gaze gathered on the first project process, and her brows furrowed. This obvious numerical error—how could they submit something like this?

Hm!? Hm?!

I actually saw it!

“Hiss… ah…” Lin You let out a low gasp and covered her head.

A large stretch of memories suddenly drilled into her mind. All sorts of business terms and methods filled her head until it felt like it was about to explode.

Lin You shook her head and collapsed onto the desk, forced to accept the memories. Were these the original body’s memories, arriving fashionably late?

The memories suddenly stuffed into her mind were like English vocabulary she had spent an entire day memorizing. She had not remembered a single word, but she still had an impression of them.

Bang.

Lin You fell onto the desk.

Her breathing became rapid. Her face flushed red, and the veins on her forehead bulged. Cold sweat quickly soaked her clothes. Inside her mind, one scene after another flashed by like a roller coaster.

She had wondered what she had forgotten these past two days. Where were the original body’s parents?

The novel had never said that the original body’s parents were dead. At the beginning, the original body was already the head of the Lin family, managing the Lin Group, and her parents had never appeared.

“Youyou, Mommy is going to find your Mami. Take good care of yourself.” The older, cold and hard Mother Lin patted Lin You’s shoulder, then boarded a plane and left.

At that time, the original Lin You was only eighteen and had just gone through her belated second differentiation period.

“Marry her. It’s the best choice for you. You know each other’s backgrounds, and she won’t despise you.” A distant overseas phone call decided the original Lin You’s lifelong marriage.

The original Lin You was like a machine. She accepted this cold instruction, while at the same time feeling conflicted and secretly resentful.

My god! This sudden movie is making me feel like throwing up. So uncomfortable.

Lin You propped herself against the desk and picked up the tea beside her, downing it in one gulp.

The bitter tea cleared the nausea in her mouth a little.

What Lin You had just seen and heard were all the original body’s memories. These were things not written in the plot.

Lin You rubbed her temple, her face pale. She had only seen the original body’s memories from ages sixteen to nineteen.

She had to admit, the way people were raised in large families was truly different from ordinary students outside.

At sixteen, the original body had already begun handling the group’s business affairs.

Back then, her methods were still immature. But because she had grown up exposed to it, the business knowledge she had absorbed allowed her to handle these procedures and matters rather easily.

Before the age of sixteen, the original body still had smiles on her face. She would play basketball and games with her friends.

After sixteen, something happened between the original body’s parents, and her Alpha mother hurriedly handed the family over to the original body.

Only now did Lin You know that the gender the original body had wanted to differentiate into the most was not Alpha, but Beta.

As for the specific reason, this part of the memories did not contain it.

Why did it feel like things were becoming more and more complicated?

“System, System, get out here.” Lin You shouted for the system in her mind.

Knock, knock.

Hearing the knock on the door, Lin You immediately sat upright. “Come in.”

“President Lin, it’s almost time. We can set off now. Are you all right?” Sun Yue saw Lin You’s pale face. If not for the bit of lipstick covering her lips, Sun Yue would have been even more worried.

“I’m fine. Take this document back and let Director Liu see for himself where the problem is. I’ll go change clothes. See you in a moment.” Lin You imitated the original body’s method of handling things from her memories and returned the document with the obvious data error.

Seeing that Lin You had no further instructions, Sun Yue simply nodded, took the document, and left.

Lin You got up and went to the cloakroom. She casually picked out an ink-green suit, tidied her makeup and hair, and put on the gold-rimmed glasses she used as cover.

Heroic yet sharp, slender brows. A high nose bridge. Deep, indifferent eyes. A refined and handsome face. Lin You nodded in satisfaction. Very perfect.

Actually, Lin You looked best when she smiled. Her faint dimples softened her entire person quite a bit.

Inside a private room at Mingxi Hotel, a tall, slender woman with long hair and sharp bones wore a fitted black dress.

Her eyes tilted slightly upward, her brows were long and thin, and her eyes were like still water, enough to make one’s scalp tingle.

Lin You sat nervously on one side of the round table, looking at her bestie’s eldest sister. With this aura, no wonder Fu Xinran had directly sent her away. There was absolutely no daring to confront her head-on.

“Ranran is pregnant?” It was clearly a question, but when Eldest Sister Fu lifted her eyelids, she said it with a murderous certainty.

Lin You worked hard to maintain the coldness on her face and answered in a low voice, “A little over one month.”

“Mm. Since Ranran is pregnant, my expectations of you aren’t high. Can you at least manage the care between spouses?” Fu Xinyan picked up a green leaf and placed it into her bowl, speaking lightly.

“Cough. That’s what I should do. I’ll take good care of her.” Lin You lifted her head, looked directly at Fu Xinyan, and made the promise seriously.

“I hope so. This is my gift for Ranran. Bring it back to her.” Fu Xinyan pointed to the two black gift bags beside her.

Lin You nodded and stiffly put on a smile of thanks. “Thank you, Eldest Sister.”

A younger sister being pregnant should be a happy thing, right? Why use black gift bags? Shouldn’t they be a little more festive?

If she brought this gift back, would Fu Xinran really not throw it out?

Or was the way these two sisters gave gifts just different?

“Mm. You should also take better care of your health usually. I still have matters to attend to, so I’ll leave first. Pass a message to Ranran for me. I’ll visit her next time.” After Fu Xinyan finished speaking, she stood and left.

Lin You got up to see her off, but Fu Xinyan stopped her and told her to stay.

Lin You looked at the table. Aside from the plate of greens that Eldest Sister Fu had taken one bite from, none of the other dishes had been touched.

This was truly the first time she had seen someone with such a powerful aura. Even when Fu Xinyan sat there quietly, she made people feel uncomfortable.

Lin You had no appetite anymore either. She picked up the gifts and left together with the assistant waiting outside. She would go back to her office to eat. The skills of her private chef were truly beyond words.