Chapter 30 - To Try Her Luck

Chapter 30: To Try Her LuckTranslator: Qiu YiProofread by Liang Ya Ping

Almost demeaning himself, Zhao Weixing took Qi Xiaoguang home by her hand and tried to calm her down by addressing her as the queen. Seeing her husband’s sincere attitude, Qi Xiaoguang decided not to divorce with him despite her anger.

It had been many years since they established their relationship. It was impossible for them to break up their two-year marriage just for this affair…And it was his mother who triggered this incident. He didn’t do anything wrong except for being filial in a foolish way…

Qi Xiaoguang planned to stay with her friend for a few more days but gave up this attempt in the end, recalling the cold eyes of Colonel Qin… She had been a third wheel these days, so she thought it was time to leave.

Therefore, the happiest person must be Qin Zheng. He tortured Ji Xiaoli fiercely on the bed. Knowing the maid was not in the villa today, he wanted to have sex with her again in the kitchen but was refused firmly by Ji Xiaoli!

“You don’t look well. Are you still thinking about that thing?” Obviously, Qin Zhenyang was indicating the report on the newspaper.

Ji Xiaoli shook her head, not intending to tell Qin Zhenyang about her resignation. After all, it was her own affair on the job. Perhaps he could use his relations to help her, but she was not that fragile to ask for help. Instead, she always wanted to solve problems on her own.

“No, I’m just wondering who did it?”

Qin Zhenyang held her in his arms and narrowed his eyes which were glistening with coldness and seriousness, “I have sent someone to investigate it. The result should be out soon! The person who once played the trick will play it again. I won’t let him run away!”

This was how he used to treat his enemies. Although she refused to say more, he could still have a rough guess at the whole thing. Even if the person who pulled strings behind the scene was Ji Xuewei, and then? She was also Ji Chunlin’s daughter. Considering her father had brought her up, Ji Xiaoli might just let it go.

Crouching in his arms, Ji Xiaoli replied in a soft voice, seeming to be absent-minded.

On the next morning, Qin Zhenyang went back to the army. She also got up early and drove to work after breakfast.

Although she got the driving license several years ago, she was still not skillful in driving for lack of practice… Now Qin Zhenyang picked a black Audi for her from the garage and let her have a try. After two days of practice, she seemed to perform well and was allowed to drive on road alone.

After parking the car, Ji Xiaoli went upstairs. However, no matter which floor she reached, she felt that those colleagues who she used to be familiar with were looking at her with weird looks, which were stinging and strange.

She knew the power of public opinions, which could even drown a person with spittle. Faced with so many nosy eyes, she was extremely anxious.

The department manager was waiting for her in the office. Seeing her coming, he took out the letter of resignation from the drawer, “I haven’t expected your coming. Have a look at it… It is 10th, but we will pay the salary of this month to you since it is company’s decision to dismiss you.”

For a moment Ji Xiaoli felt lost, and then she nodded with a forced smile, “I know.”

“Don’t be so upset…Since you are in good relationship with those two men of Qin family, you can live a good life even if you don’t work here anymore.” The manager said to her with a meaningful and unreadable smile and continued, “Are those stories in the newspaper true?”

Her aversion to this manager started long time ago. He had a relative in the department who was always hard on other designers. His competence in designing being not satisfying, sometimes he would copy other designers’ ideas, which made them annoyed. However, this manager just shielded him from punishment… It was proper to say that he was a Pekingese in front of the president while a tyrant when commanding his subordinates.

Now that she was going to be dismissed, not giving a thought to his possible reaction, she refused to answer his question.

“If you think they are true, then they are…This is what I know.”

The manager looked up at her, “You used to be quiet. It is unexpected that under the low profile is the wild ambition… Both of two men have great power. Your tactics never fail to work!”

Ji Xiaoli sneered, “I am afraid that my affairs have nothing to do with you now.”

“Don’t be too arrogant. By virtue of you appearance, you can rely on those rich men. But what kind of pretty girls they haven’t known? The time when they are bored of you is the end of your good day!”

If he said this in the past, Ji Xiaoli would never dare to talk back but tolerate. But now she was totally unscrupulous.

“You are not right! Anyway, I can catch their eyes! Besides, what if I whisper in their ears that I am bullied? You are not so foolish as to think that they will do nothing… You are no longer young. If you are dismissed for some unknown reason, where can you go?” Ji Xiaoli laughed grimly.

Although gossip was a fearful thing, it was useless for her to explain more on the pictures. As long as she did her own things well, why bother to care about other people’s opinions?

What she wanted to do now was to give a good warning to this man who had abused her for three years!

On hearing this, Wang Qing looked pale. Being the most powerful family of the capital, Qin family had some influence in the army and business world. Despite the fact that no one entered politics, they had many acquaintances who worked in government institutions.

If she was serious about what she said, it was not a favorable thing for himself. Thinking of this, he changed his attitude, laughing bitterly, “As you see, I’m not bullying you…Well, I don’t know anything about it.”

Fearing to offend Qin family, he had to shut up!

Ji Xiaoli glanced at him in indifference and walked out of the office after finishing those procedures, only to find quite a few of colleagues waiting for her outside.

Among them were some sincere comforters, indifferent onlookers and even scoffers…

“Xiaoli, are those news reports true?”

“Ji Xiaoli, you said you have no boyfriend. But why did they fight for you? You are so amazing!”

“You are my senior but from mow on I should address you as the queen! The men in the newspaper are so handsome. How do you make it? Could you teach me…” Her desire to marry into a wealthy family was so apparent. After all, no girl didn’t want to be the wife of some handsome elites of Qin family.

Surrounded by those fly-like talkers, Ji Xiaoli felt her brain was in buzz, “Enough!”

Then an unwise intern designer opened his mouth wide, “Ah?”

“I know what you are curious about and I have nothing to clarify about those stories. If I say they are fake, you won’t believe, will you?”

The crowd shook their heads unanimously, all convinced by those pictures, of which the first two seemed to indicate some affairs!

Ji Xiaoli shrugged, “Since you don’t believe, what can I say?”

“Senior, even if pictures are fake… at least one of them is true; otherwise, their fight wouldn’t be shot. Am I right?” The intern grinned. She liked Detective Conan and reasoning most, so it was normal for her to guess something.

But now Ji Xiaoli didn’t plan to make public her relationship with Qin Zhenyang, so she kept silent, which might be taken as acquiescence. It was not easy to associate with Qin family, and even if she couldn’t marry into it, she could still gain lots of benefits from the relation established.

All of them regarded her as the goddess of wealth! Qin consortium was not beyond reach any more. Initially they wanted to console her, but now there seemed to be no need…

“Xiaoli, do you have any plan for your future? Will you work in this industry?” A colleague, who was friendly to her, asked.

Ji Xiaoli shook her head, “I am not sure yet. Maybe.”

Seeing the fat manager walk away, someone joked, “You are free now, but we still are exploited by this fatty…What a bitter life!”

Ji Xiaoli just smiled.

After leaving the company, she went to a bank.

Not counting in the two million dollars given by Qin Zhenyang, there was only less than fifty thousands on her credit card.

She sighed in disappointment…She knew that she would get everything she wanted as long as she relied on him. However, being an ambitious woman, she couldn’t bear a life which depended on others. She refused to be a good-for-nothing.

So she had to think about next steps to take after the resignation.

Only fifty thousand dollars…

Suddenly an idea occurred to her and caught her attention.

When in university, her major was finance, and fashion design was just her hobby or the second major. So in terms of investment and finance, she shouldn’t be an layman.

Somehow…

She walked into a stock exchange. A tint of passion flickered in her eyes when her eyes lingered on the changing large-cap indexes. When she was still a student, she was commented by her supervisor as an excellent student with firm stock of expertise and ability to use in practice. The only shortcoming was the lack of enough courage.

This time she wanted to try her luck.

She gambled once before entering the company but quit it since then. Having nothing else to do now, she wanted to have a try. But first of all, she needed money to make preliminary preparations.

Taking out a pen and a piece of paper from her bag, she started to record and calculate. In the end she found a promising stock. Heart beating in big thumps, she knew it clearly that two million was a big sum but the opportunity could never be met again once she let it go this time…

In the meanwhile, a man in suit sitting on a sofa in the corner was flipping over the financial newspaper, “Finished?”

“Everything is ready. That one is very likely to roar up though it is plummeting now. You will earn a lot this time!”

Pushing his glasses up slightly and putting the magazine aside, the man stood up with a vague smile, “I am wondering how many people find this stock. It seems to fall, but the trend…”

Having everything done, Ji Xiaoli left the stock exchange happily in the hope of good news…

When passion and high spirits faded away, a feeling of regret came over her.

The only forty-five thousand dollars left on her credit card was what she had now.

And what she could do now was to pin her hope on that stock and pray for good outcome.