Marrying the Short-Lived, Maniacal Eldest Miss for Good Fortune 60

Chapter 60

It was not working hours now. Fang Yi had just sent a message to Zong Heng, and a string of red exclamation marks immediately popped up on the screen.

She had been blocked.

Fang Yi was familiar with this. She copied the message, opened another office communication software, and pasted it again.

This contact lens had given her some new inspiration, and she was eager to consult a professional’s opinion.

Although Zong Heng hadn’t replied, according to Fang Yi’s understanding of her, she should still be in the office at this time.

The intermittent sound of a piano came from outside the door. It was Lin Shuxing teaching Lin Xinyou to play.

Lin Xinyou’s hands were also very soft. It was clear that they had also been carefully maintained, but at this moment, they were covered with the traces of life.

There were many calluses on her fingers and the web between her thumb and index finger. Even with the most ordinary housework, pots and pans, long shirts and short jackets, she had been eroded by detergent over the years in these trivial matters.

There were many problems with her fingering. It was not like she had been systematically trained, but she could skillfully play “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star Variations.”

This was a very simple piece among the beginner’s repertoire, but Lin Xinyou played it very seriously, without a single wrong note.

The young lady, who had once won countless honor certificates, sat side by side with Lin Xinyou, and pressed those black and white keys with her.

Their duet became more and more skilled, more and more perfect, and the moving notes knocked on their hearts one by one.

When the piece ended, Fang Yi opened her eyes and looked at her phone again. Zong Heng still hadn’t replied.

Although it was quite unethical to disturb a colleague during a break, Fang Yi really wanted to know if this technology could be used in the development of a holographic game.

If she doesn’t look at private chats, she should glance at the group chat, right?

Fang Yi opened the core R&D team’s group chat.

[Fang Yi: @Don’t Bother. Senior Zong Heng, please check your private messages. I have a technical question for your guidance.]

Zong Heng, just like her ID, still didn’t reply, as cold as ever.

Instead, another team leader who was familiar with Fang Yi first popped up a smiling soybean.

[ZERO: [Smile] Little Yi, what’s the problem? Post it in the group. Let’s discuss it and brainstorm.]

This group chat was filled with a group of great gods that Wang Quan had poached with a lot of money. Fang Yi was the youngest and least experienced. Except for Zong Heng, everyone took good care of this junior.

Fang Yi posted the question and soon received many professional opinions.

In fact, even the most genius idea is not unique. The fact that many plans have not been circulated proves that there must still be major flaws in practice.

Top-tier VR equipment has already been able to partially realize the interaction of virtual reality, but the price cannot be cheap.

Fang Yi had also been proud and complacent, thinking that the large sum of money Lin Shuxing had invested was because she valued the potential of the project. But later, she realized that the major part should be personal connections.

Lin Shuxing was born in the Lin family. What good things hadn’t she seen?

In the era when even small cars were not popular, her toys were already dolls that could talk and dance.

Technology has a lag. The world that the rich and the poor see is completely different.

When she had first arrived in Z City, she had been curious about the high-speed rail and the subway, and had even specially taken the light rail and the maglev train during her vacation.

Her phone screen lit up. Fang Yi turned it around, and a private chat dialog box popped up.

[Wang Quan: Boss, if you have any questions in the future, just post them in the group. Zong Heng didn’t block you because she hates you. Don’t mind it.]

Fang Yi hadn’t really minded at first, but Wang Quan’s special mention of it made it very suspicious.

[Fang Yi: What’s wrong?]

[Wang Quan: Alright, Zong Heng was a little angry when you were sick and took leave a few days ago.]

[Wang Quan: At that time, no one could take over the task you had on hand. She was also worried about delaying the progress.]

A large company’s sound security system should ensure safety. If one person has an accident, it should be distributed to others to do.

But Fang Yi had not assigned any team members to herself. Others had looked at the things she was researching for a few days and were still clueless.

Zong Heng had also just noticed this problem and had almost smashed the keyboard on Fang Yi’s desk.

She called Wang Quan over and angrily denounced this as reckless individualism, and had given Fang Yi a good scolding.

Wang Quan thought for a moment and carefully tried to make her retelling not so blunt.

[Wang Quan: She actually cares a lot about the Genesis project. The first thing on the to-do list after the lab was established was your request. And she’s very concerned about you. She asked about you many times when you were in the hospital. So warm.]

It was just that what kind of greeting it was, it was hard to say.

Fang Yi understood. She was angry again. No wonder her attitude was so bad when they were handing over work after she returned. The files were passed back and forth without any written explanation.

Thinking about it carefully, she was indeed a little too much. She had made a bet with Zong Heng to implement it in four years, and had also taken all kinds of leave and skipped work.

But heaven and earth are my witness. Except for the first day when she had a fever and almost died, from the second day when she was lying in bed and could move her hands, she had been replying to Zong Heng’s messages.

She made up for what she owed during the day at night. She hadn’t delayed any progress.

Fang Yi thought for a moment and raised her hand.

[Fang Yi: @Don’t Bother. Isn’t your job just to piece things together? Why is your research so slow? Please reply after you see this.]

There was a brief silence in the group.

3, 2, 1.

The phone rang on time.

After a period of getting along, Fang Yi had a very thorough understanding of “Zong Heng-ology.”

She answered neatly, turned the volume to the minimum, and let the woman on the other end vent her anger freely.

“Yes, senior is right. I was wrong. I will definitely change in the future.” Fang Yi didn’t hear a single word, but her tone was very respectful.

“…”

Scolding was scolding, but Zong Heng’s professionalism was still beyond doubt.

The woman gradually broke down those problems and explained them to Fang Yi in a concise and clear way.

Fang Yi nodded, saved the call recording with satisfaction, and after the problem was solved, she asked about the banquet that night as if unintentionally.

Zong Heng’s softened tone instantly became cold. “This is not something you should be asking.”

Fang Yi didn’t give up and wanted to try to trick her.

“Didn’t Li Xianqing ask you to find someone? How’s it going? Do you need help? I happened to have written a program for identification and screening before.”

After a moment of silence, Zong Heng sneered. “Find someone? Find death!”

“Don’t mention this name again. Just be a good kept man. If you climb too high, you’ll fall to your death.”

With that, she hung up the phone with a smack.

The door happened to be pushed open.

Lin Xinyou stood against the light, smiling gently in the shadows. “Good child, come out and play. Don’t be restrained. This is Star’s home, and it will be your home in the future.”

“Alright.” Fang Yi put away her phone.

After being yelled at by someone, Lin Xinyou’s gentle and soft words were particularly pleasant to the ear.

According to the agreement, Lin Shuxing should be able to stay at Lin Xinyou’s place for a few days.

But after dinner, Lin Xinyou suddenly raised a concern. The master bedroom that had been prepared for the two of them was where she and He Zhuang had been living. It was not good to give it to an unmarried child now.

She didn’t know where this custom came from, but Lin Shuxing didn’t want to make things difficult for her mother and quickly agreed to come and see her again tomorrow.

Lin Xinyou saw them off all the way downstairs. In the narrow stairwell, the sunlight spread out, and a figure stood there abruptly.

Lin Lan looked up and nodded slightly at Lin Xinyou.

The two simply shook hands, as if they had completed some kind of power transfer.

Lin Shuxing said, “I’m staying at Fang Yi’s place.”

Lin Lan’s gaze swept over, and the corner of her eye glanced at Fang Yi.

Unexpectedly, she did not refuse.

This should have been a happy thing, but on the way back in the car, the atmosphere became very strange again.

Faced with a toddler, a parent must hold their hand and walk step by step.

When the child gets a little older, they will feel resistant. Growth and independence are not just a proposition for children.

They want to grow up, to be bigger and more powerful than the hand that holds them, to be able to walk to a wider world as they please.

But when this hand, which is like a shackle, really lets go one day, they will feel bewildered.

This normal growth experience did not include Fang Yi.

She had been running since she could walk and had no idea what kind of awkwardness Lin Shuxing and Lin Lan were having.

But Lin Shuxing was playing with her fingers over and over again. From the force, she was not happy.

Lin Lan talked about the result of the wine cellar incident. Xue Lan had been grounded by the Xue family and had applied to see Lin Shuxing on another day, but Lin Lan had not agreed.

Li Sinian was the main culprit. She had been severely beaten with a cane by her grandmother and had also taken the initiative to give up a tenth of the profit from the Yanjing cooperation project to the Lin family as a token of her sincerity.

The outside world didn’t know what had happened and was teasing that the flirtatious Li Sinian also had a hard time with beauties. As soon as she met Lin Qingwan, she had become so generous. It was probably that the two families were about to have a happy event.

Fang Yi’s brow twitched.

Few people could make Lin Lan take the initiative to say these things, but the young lady clearly did not appreciate it.

Lin Lan said that the project shares could not be given to Lin Shuxing, but she had allocated an equivalent amount of other assets to her as compensation.

Compensation.

Lin Shuxing rested her chin on her hand and let out a light huff from her nose.

“I don’t want it.” The last thing she lacked was money.

Not giving her the shares was just because she was worried that she would become powerful and compete with Lin Qingwan in the future.

Lin Shuxing completely understood this kind of thing. Who would want a stranger to compete with their own child for the family property?

Lin Lan had never been a soft-hearted person. Otherwise, she would not have been able to intimidate the behemoth that was the Lin family.

Lin Shuxing raised her eyelids and said coldly, “Don’t worry. I will never touch what doesn’t belong to me, nor do I disdain to touch it.”

Lin Lan frowned but said nothing in the end, just looked away slightly.

There were too many knots between them that were difficult to untie. Her pride and hers were so similar that neither was willing to show weakness first.

After getting out of the car, Lin Lan suddenly threw a key at Fang Yi and said stiffly, in a roundabout way:

“A gift for you, a meeting gift.”

Fang Yi subconsciously caught it and saw the overlapping R on the key.

A pure black SUV drove up to Fang Yi. The Parthenon grille was simple and domineering, and the large wheels looked very high-performance.

A Cullinan.

It was like a leopard lurking in the darkness, so elegantly licking its paws, ready to chase its prey at any time.

Fang Yi couldn’t help but swallow and stared at it without blinking.

It even had a sunroof, which was very suitable for guerrilla warfare from above.

If it had been a flamboyant Ferrari or the business Maybach that Lin Shuxing often rode in, it might not have had this effect.

This car was a trap set completely for Fang Yi’s aesthetic.

It turned out that she was not without material desires, but that her previous material desires were not to her taste.

“I can’t take it…” Fang Yi said with some difficulty.

It’s not that I don’t want it, but that I can’t take it.

When Lin Shuxing heard the three words “meeting gift,” the corner of her lips actually curled up.

“Take it. You’ve been fixing that broken bicycle for half a day. You can’t let others ride that with you, can you?” Lin Lan sneered.

Fang Yi looked at the young lady.

Lin Shuxing raised an eyebrow. “What’s wrong with a bicycle? I like bicycles. They’re so environmentally friendly.”

But she turned her head, pressed Fang Yi’s hand, and stuffed the key into her arms. “Are you stupid? Are you against money? Even if you haven’t worked hard, you’ve at least suffered. If she tells you to take it, then take it. Say, thank you, Ms. Lin.”

Fang Yi followed her advice and lowered her eyes obediently. “Thank you, Ms. Lin.”

If she takes it, she takes it. She can just pay her back later.

Their eyes met. The infinitely noble woman’s eyes raised a little. “Is that it?”

Fang Yi: … As expected, taking things from people is a short-term gain. Suddenly, the pressure is so great.

“Then I don’t want—”

Before Fang Yi could finish, Lin Lan directly interrupted her. “You have nothing to show for it?”

Her subordinates had reported everything. When Fang Yi had gone to see Lin Xinyou, she had brought large and small bags. When it came to her, it had become a “thank you, Ms. Lin” that her daughter had coaxed her to say?

Fang Yi was stunned, a little dazed, not sure what Lin Lan meant.

The young lady’s hand softly wrapped around her. She stood on her tiptoes and whispered a few words in Fang Yi’s ear, her face full of a cunning smile.

Fang Yi hesitated. “…That’s not good.”

The young lady poked her. “What’s not good? Are you reluctant?”

“Alright…”

A moment later, Fang Yi came down from upstairs, holding a bag in her hand.

Lin Lan narrowed her eyes in satisfaction.

Fang Yi touched her nose, subconsciously squeezed the car key, and then handed the bag over under Lin Lan’s expectant gaze.

Inside were Jiang Wan’s posters and merchandise.

Lin Lan had been a powerful figure all her life and had probably never received such a perfunctory gift.

The hot summer air was filled with a dead silence.

Seeing the woman’s expression turn strange, the young lady couldn’t hold it in and let out a silver-bell-like laugh.

Infected by her, Lin Lan nonchalantly looked up at Fang Yi, and her cold expression also softened a little.

The evening wind blew her hair, and the dim yellow light made their expressions blurry and soft.

The cicadas chirped one by one, and the moonlight was bright tonight.

In the support bag, besides Jiang Wan’s merchandise, there were actually two photos.

One was of Wen Qianxue. She had also graduated from Z University. Fang Yi had found her old photo in the school archives, restored it, and printed it out.

The other was a photo of Lin Shuxing participating in a competition as a child. The telephoto lens had swept to the audience.

The woman with a silver watch was quietly watching the girl’s back against the light on the stage, a faint smile on her lips.

They rarely had a photo together. Even Lin Lan herself didn’t know that such an accidental one existed.

Lin Shuxing also didn’t know. She had thought that her mother had been absent from those piano competitions, but Lin Lan had actually gone.

The woman stood in front of the car lights, her gaze on the photo in the bag, her shadow stretched very long.

She coughed, and only spoke when the two of them were walking up the stairs, arm in arm:

“In a few days, call Lin Xinyou and come back for dinner. A family banquet, a get-together.”