"Zhou Lina, someone’s looking for you," a colleague walked into the office, a strange expression on their face.
Someone was looking for her? Zhou Lina lifted her head in bewilderment and looked at her colleague with confusion, "Who is it?"
"Don’t know them, someone claiming to be your partner." The colleague paused, "And it’s not Gu Kai."
What? Zhou Lina became even more puzzled, wondering if she had been dealing with data for so long that her brain had become muddled.
Otherwise, how could she hear such an absurd thing, "Claiming to be my partner, and it’s not Gu Kai?"
"Yeah, isn’t Accountant Zhou’s partner Gu Kai?"
Both parties had already acknowledged it, it was supposed to be a certain relationship, so why would there be a problem, everyone felt so curious.
"I don’t know," her colleague insisted that he hadn’t misheard, that’s exactly what the other person had said.
After thinking for a moment, Zhou Lina said, "I’ll go down and see."
Scanning everyone’s eager faces, forget it, she figured they were quite interested as well, "Why not come along?"
Upon hearing this, everyone of course was willing, although they might have gone down without Zhou Lina’s invitation.
But it is generally unacceptable to openly eavesdrop; now that the person involved had extended an invitation, they could just listen in from the side.
Feng Hao had been waiting downstairs for a long time and was really becoming impatient, even starting to grumble and curse.
But when he saw Zhou Lina’s figure, he charged straight at her, "You slut, you actually hid someone else from me."
As soon as he said this, there was a sudden uproar, like a thunderbolt out of a clear sky, and everyone turned to look at Zhou Lina in surprise.
"Who are you calling a slut, who’s hiding someone from you?" Zhou Lina was certain she did not know him.
Even though she didn’t know his situation, seeing his pig-headed appearance, she really couldn’t bring herself to like him.
"It’s you, Zhou Lina, from the finance department of the steel factory," Feng Hao said angrily.
It was indeed Zhou Lina; everyone looked at her, puzzled.
"I am Zhou Lina, but I don’t know you. My boyfriend is Gu Kai, we’re officially in a relationship, and both our parents have met," she said.
"As for you, where did you come from?" Zhou Lina retorted, "You must think that by raising your voice, you can just fish in troubled waters."
"And tarnish my reputation. Sorry, my reputation is very important."
No matter when, a girl’s reputation is truly important, if she didn’t clear this up right here, no matter what she explained later, no one would believe her.
"If you don’t clear this up now, I’m going to the police," Zhou Lina thought, the only idea she had was that this man might be from GWH.
In that case, there’s no need to involve them, they might just protect one of their own.
"Right, I’ll go to GWH as well," Feng Hao was not at all afraid, ready to escalate the situation even further.
Ah, everyone was literally stunned, not knowing whose words were true and whose were false.
"Alright," Zhou Lina signaled for a colleague to make a phone call.
She didn’t forget to have her co-workers inform Zhang Shifen, since such a big incident should not be without the presence of the family.
It didn’t take long for some to rush downstairs, and others to peer out the windows above, watching the scene unfold below.
It was only yesterday that Zhou Lina had just announced her relationship with Gu Kai, and today someone was knocking on her door; no wonder everyone was astonished.
Gu Wei wasn’t too busy today; having just finished her rounds in the ward, she was preparing to take a short rest, after having been summoned from home early in the morning for a surgery.
The last thing I expected was to receive a message saying someone had come to make trouble, claiming to be Zhou Lina’s boyfriend.
How could Gu Wei believe that? She knew Zhou Lina’s social circle all too well, which was nothing beyond work and home, occasionally going out with Gu Kai.
Zhou Lina hardly had any interaction with her colleagues—where would she meet a man?
Gu Wei put down the phone and rushed over, spotting a man from afar who looked strangely familiar. As she got closer,
"Feng Hao, you?" Gu Wei was shocked to find that it was Feng Hao who had shown up.
Feng Hao didn’t expect to see Gu Wei here, "Doctor Gu, what are you doing here?"
Although he had no reason to be afraid of anything, and if she were to tattle on him—but then he thought, as this time he hadn’t done anything wrong, he couldn’t help but stand up straight.
"Aren’t you the one always going on about how Zhou Lina is your girlfriend, accusing her of secretly dating another man behind your back? Well then, you didn’t know that I’m that man’s aunt."
Gu Wei said irritably, rightly deserving his nickname—the fool. He truly was a fool.
What? Feng Hao was stunned, disbelievingly staring at Gu Wei, "Your nephew is her man?"
"No, that’s impossible." Even as a small-time gangster, Feng Hao knew that Gu Wei’s nephew was pretty impressive.
"How can it not be possible? Don’t you know to do a little research?" Gu Wei was amused, "Tell me, how did you come to know Zhou Lina?"
"No lying," Gu Wei demanded sternly, "or I’ll tell your parents."
Feng Hao grimaced, "It was Luo Lili who introduced me, she even charged me a finder’s fee."
Luo Lili made the introduction? And charged a finder’s fee? This infuriated Zhou Lina greatly, "How much did you give her for this favor?"
"I arranged a permanent job for her brother." Feng Hao became angry at the thought, "She sneaked around to meet you with me."
"And then she kept asking me for various things and money."
Arranging a job for Luo Lili’s brother? "Didn’t she ask for a job herself?" Despite Luo Lili’s support for her family home, ever since she was jobless, she had been dependent on Zhou Yong to provide for the household.
Zhou Dajiang despised how his son-in-law and daughter treated him like an ATM, demanding various things, and after her confinement period ended, they split the households again. It seemed like they fought countless times over money.
She was capable of securing a job for her brother—there’s no way she wouldn’t seek a job for herself.
"I could only help with arranging one job," Feng Hao said—it was his brother who had the means, not him, and if it weren’t for a stroke of luck, he might not have even secured his own job.
Fine, it wasn’t her place to care whose job it was. What irritated her was, "Are you brain-dead? Couldn’t you have found out about my relationship with her first?"
"She married Zhou Yong, and I didn’t even attend the wedding, nor did I attend when she gave birth."
"To me, she is a stranger."
"Not even an acquaintance."
"Besides, I’m an adult—I can handle my own matters, and she has no say over them."
The more Zhou Lina thought about it, the more she questioned whether this kid was dimwitted or simply wasn’t telling the whole truth.
Gu Wei spoke up, "Think carefully before you tell the truth. Do you think you can fool us ?"
Gu Wei admitted Zhou Lina was attractive. Weren’t there plenty of pretty girls out there?
Feng Hao lacked ambition, but considering his brother’s sake, there were still people willing to cling to him.
Feng Hao let out a long sigh, knowing he couldn’t hide anything from Gu Wei. He was just about to speak,
"It’s almost time for the lunch break—I want you to come with me to the machine factory." Since this matter involved Zhou Dajiang and his family, it was natural to go straight to them.