Phi-Fic Chapter 154 Protecting His Wife
Chapter 154 Protecting His Wife
Words, once spoken, are hard to take back.
In particular, the person in front of him clearly didn't give him a chance to take back his words.
Huo Sili's eyes clearly reflected Jiang Qin's expression, which had changed from obvious displeasure to "okay" at this moment.
The phrase "go with the flow" seemed to linger around her at that moment.
An indescribable sense of powerlessness rose in Horstley's heart.
“Qinqin…” Facing her, his handsome brows furrowed slightly, showing a rare display of vulnerability.
Just as he was about to say something, he heard a woman's footsteps outside the door, which were not quiet.
The room was unusually quiet, one being a trained fighter and the other a natural lover of peace and quiet.
They have excellent hearing.
Huo Sili heard the sound, and Jiang Qin naturally heard it too.
Before the person in front of her could say anything more, Jiang Qin used a little force to pry open Huo Sili's hand that was holding her office chair.
This single sentence perfectly illustrates the principle of clearly separating public and private matters.
"Mr. Huo, it's time for work. You closed the door, so please open it yourself. Don't disturb my work anymore. We can talk about it after get off work."
Now is definitely not the time to continue discussing personal matters.
Huo Sili loosened his grip on the chair a little at this moment; otherwise, if he really didn't want to let go, Jiang Qin naturally wouldn't have been able to pry it open.
Jiang Qin, having pried open Huo Sili's hand, immediately turned her chair around, sat up straight, and focused intently on the computer, typing away at the keyboard.
Huo Sili gazed at Jiang Qin's profile, his breathing becoming slightly heavier.
But then Fu Rongying's questioning voice and knocking sounded from outside the door.
Huo Sili finally removed his hand from Jiang Qin's desk.
A few seconds later, Horstley, who had just been full of resentment, opened the door.
Outside the door, Fu Rongying was taken aback at first, then gave Huo Sili a sweet smile.
"Mr. Huo, you're inside. I was just about to call..."
At this point, Fu Rongying heard the clattering of keyboards coming from inside.
He paused, glanced over, and felt a little strange.
But before the strangeness could last two seconds, Horstley gave her a cold look.
"Secretary Fu, do you know what time it is? As a probationary employee, isn't it a bit too late? If I'm not mistaken, you're the last one to arrive on this floor."
Horst's voice was cold, chilling, like the water in a deep pool in the mountains in late autumn, enough to freeze one's bones.
Fu Rongying shivered. If she had any other thoughts at this moment, then her three years as chief secretary would have been for nothing.
In particular, she knew very well that Horstley was indeed right.
In fact, she was also startled when she came out of the elevator.
Because it was already 8:59, and now it's past 9 o'clock!
Although the Huo family has a flexible work system, most of the secretaries on this floor still need to work from nine to six every day.
They even have to go on business trips with their boss on weekends.
However, she is still in her probationary period and has not yet been officially hired. With this kind of work attitude, it is indeed very likely that she will not be able to be officially hired.
Of course, she didn't do it on purpose. It was just that she was having such bad luck today. She took a taxi and the driver hadn't filled up the tank!
She had to get off the bus halfway and hail another one, which made time very tight.
Fortunately, although Horstley seemed quite unhappy, he wasn't particularly difficult to appease.
A few minutes later, Fu Rongying breathed a sigh of relief as she watched Huo Sili walk completely into the inner room.
He glanced again at Jiang Qin, who was diagonally in front of his workstation.
Jiang Qin kept typing on the keyboard from beginning to end, looking completely focused and attentive.
Fu Rongying took out the documents Jiang Qin had given her before she left work yesterday from her bag. She considered going over, but then thought better of it and decided not to go for the time being.
Undeniably, Jiang Qin possesses a face that would be stunning and unforgettable to anyone, regardless of gender, who would take a single glance.
She has a cool and aloof temperament, but not so cold that people feel she is difficult to get along with. In addition, she has almond-shaped eyes and her features have a touch of sweetness, which balances out the coldness in her temperament and makes her look less aggressive.
However, Fu Rongying's woman's intuition told her that Jiang Qin seemed to dislike her quite a bit.
Realizing this, Fu Rongying was naturally not happy—
No wonder Horst doesn't like her. She's an ordinary woman whose background is far worse than most people's. She should be grateful to marry a man like Horst, but she even dares to give him the cold shoulder every few days.
No, does she think she's the Empress? Her temper is so awful.
Seriously, she deserves to be married and keep it a secret from the public. Seriously, she deserves her husband to cheat on her.
If she were a man, she wouldn't be able to stand a wife who gives her the cold shoulder every other day.
Jiang Qin, who was focused on replying to emails diagonally in front of Fu Rongying's desk, was unaware that Fu Rongying was not only quite good at brainwashing herself, but also believed, like Li Xueqian, that it was normal for her to try to seduce a married man.
He even mentally labeled her as "the grumpy queen who deserves to be cheated on."
However, although he didn't know, after replying to the last email in his inbox, he glanced at Fu Rongying's expression and had a general idea of what was going on.
"Secretary Fu, how was yesterday's material review? If there are no problems, you can try it out. After you're done, let me check it. If you don't understand something, you can come over first, and I'll teach you in detail."
But no matter what the other party is thinking, as long as they don't provoke her, Jiang Qin doesn't care.
Huo Sili can manage such a large corporation well, so a mere secretary wouldn't be able to turn the world upside down. Besides, Huo Sili already knows that Fu Rongying's identity is not right and has already started to create a "drum," ready to "reverse-operate" Fu Rongying at any time.
"Okay, I understand. I'll do it once first and show it to you, Secretary Jiang."
"Well, let's go."
Despite her displeasure, Fu Rongying didn't dare show it too much after being scolded by Huo Sili early in the morning.
Fu Rongying returned to her workstation and started working, while Jiang Qin also began reviewing paper documents.
Lunch was the same as yesterday; Jiang Qin and Lin Xiaoyu went to the restaurant together and ate there until four o'clock in the afternoon without anything happening.
With all her work finished, Jiang Qin only needed to attend a meeting with Huo Sili later before she could go home.
Unfortunately, drowsiness crept in, and Jiang Qin rubbed her eyes, but it didn't help.
I decided to get up and go to the bathroom sink to give my face a good cold compress.
Unfortunately, I ran into two people as soon as I stepped out of the CEO's office.
Jiang Qin hadn't seen these two people for a long time, and feeling sleepy, she couldn't recall their names at all when she looked at them and the person next to them.
"Oh, isn't this Secretary Jiang? Long time no see, Secretary Jiang. I heard you're resigning? Where's your new company? A company even more powerful than Huo's, I don't think there are any in China, right? Is it overseas?"
At first glance, the words seemed fine, but the moment the person opened their mouth, their tone became sarcastic and unpleasant.
Jiang Qin glanced at the young girl next to the speaker, and then it dawned on her.
Oh, this is Liu Wenli, the secretary of the food department who slandered Lin Xiaoyu, and Li Nana, the intern Liu Wenli was mentoring.
I'm not familiar with them, I'm so sleepy, I don't want to talk to them, and I don't want to chat with them at all.
I'm quitting, whatever.
Jiang Qin pretended not to hear and walked straight to the washroom.
"Hey!" Liu Wenli's eyes widened, and she suddenly exploded like a lit bomb.
"Hey, Jiang Qin! I'm talking to you! What do you mean?!"
Liu Wenli was, after all, the second-in-command of the food department. After becoming a full-fledged employee, she was in charge of several major food brands under the Huo family. Apart from serving the top sister, she could do whatever she wanted to her younger sisters and brothers.
When has she ever been ignored like this?
Liu Wenli became increasingly annoyed, especially with Li Nana standing next to her.
"Nana, did you see that? How could she be like that?! So rude, and she's the chief secretary?"
Liu Wenli has always harbored resentment and grievances about the fact that she and Jiang Qin were selected as the general secretary during their interviews, while she could only be a department secretary.
So when I went to lunch today, I overheard two HR people chatting in the restaurant. After learning that Jiang Qin was actually going to resign, I couldn't wait to find out what Jiang Qin had to say.
I want to know if Jiang Qin resigned because she couldn't handle the pressure of her position as general secretary, or if she switched to a better company.
If it were the former, Liu Wenli couldn't help but feel secretly pleased.
I knew it. Jiang Qin was completely incapable of being the chief secretary. She resigned after only two years. Tsk, trash!
If it were the latter, Liu Wenli didn't believe it would be. After all, it was already outrageous enough that Jiang Qin, an art major, had taken the job of a secretary. If this experience could also enhance her future career...
That world is utterly rotten!
Liu Wenli never expected that she would at least get an answer about what happened today, but Jiang Qin simply ignored her!
Liu Wenli's heart pounded, and she felt as if she had been greatly humiliated.
"Sister Liu, don't be angry, don't hurt yourself." Seeing that Liu Wenli was obviously very angry, Li Nana panicked and quickly patted Liu Wenli's back.
Liu Wenli glanced at Li Nana, even more annoyed, "Didn't you do worse than Lin Xiaoyu in the last assessment? Seriously, it's infuriating! Are you as stupid as a pig? You'd better go back here right now..."
Practice now, you must beat Lin Xiaoyu in the next assessment!
Before he could say anything, a few seconds earlier, the door to the CEO's office opened from the inside, and Huo Sili, wearing a pair of light gold metal-rimmed glasses on his high-bridged nose, happened to appear at the front of the corridor.
He was tall and handsome with a slender figure and long legs. His skin was as white as jade and his features were exquisite, but his expression was cold.
I wonder how much of what I just said was heard by the other party.
Liu Wenli's face paled, and she couldn't help but recall the embarrassing incident where she had slandered Lin Xiaoyu and was later forced by Huo Sili to apologize to Lin Xiaoyu in front of all her colleagues.
He instantly fell silent, and after a couple of seconds of hesitation, he dared to say, "Mr. Huo, good afternoon!"
"No good." But before he could finish speaking, Horstley interrupted him.
Liu Wenli was startled, breaking out in a cold sweat. "What? Something's wrong?"
Huo Sili's thin lips curled slightly, his dark eyes deep and unfathomable.
"If I heard correctly, you were just questioning my judgment in choosing the general secretary?"