Chapter 13: Paid Project (5)

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

It was only after mulling over the phrasing for some time before she sent him a text.

‘Can you give me the money for last night?’

He did not reply to her message, but Lu Weixi was too embarrassed to directly call him and confront him about such matters. Coincidentally, the lift had reached her floor, so Lu Weixi placed the phone in her pocket and entered the lift.

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Once she arrived at work, her superior called her into the office. As expected, she was welcomed with a brutal scolding. Lu Weixi quietly waited as he scolded her for ten minutes straight before she said, “I’ll immediately give you the compensation fee.”

Her superior was so stumped and he could not say anything. After a long while, he exploded. “Do you think compensation can solve everything? If this continues, you will offend the entire company’s clients! Don’t think that your sales can make up for this. We are in the service industry and clients are our Gods. Do you think you’re the prominent miss of a renowned family? In the end, you’re living a wretched life of a servant. If you want to enjoy life, why didn’t you reincarnate into a better family?”

When Lu Weixi came out, Assistant Xiao Chen was horrified. “Lu Gong, are you okay? You don’t look too well. Lu Gong, Lu Gong?”

Lu Weixi recovered her senses and lightly shook her head. “I’m okay. Help me make a cup of black coffee.”

Five minutes later, her hands held the black coffee as she stood in front of the office’s French windows and watched the cars pass by downstairs. Her gaze started to drift far away.

Lu Weixi’s original surname had been Bai. Her parents were university classmates and her father had grabbed the opportunity and made his first pot of gold through investments in real estate, making a name for himself in Yan City’s real estate industry. Later on, when her mother had her, she consequently quit her job and peacefully stayed at home to take care of the family. As her family was rich and both her parents doted on her dearly, she naturally became the ‘arrogant and prideful’ Bai family’s eldest miss in Xue Feifei’s eyes.

Originally, she thought she could continue living happily, until six years ago when her parents’ marriage met with a crisis. The reason was simpleーher father had cheated on her mother. The most infuriating thing was that his mistress was her mother’s good friend for many years. If that wasn’t bad enough, the woman’s daughter was once also her best friend.

Her mother simply could not handle or accept such a thing. After many intense quarrels, her parents finally divorced each other and her father married that woman. Afterward, that woman’s daughter also naturally moved into her original house and called her father, ‘Father’. She had even snatched her then-boyfriend and replaced her for everything.

As she had left with her mother, they were initially leading a decent life. However, not long later, her mother was found to have lung cancer. Cancer was a bottomless pit and one had to spend a huge sum of money if they wanted to extend their lives. At that point, some specialized medicine was not included in the medical insurance, so her mother’s monthly hospital bills would amount to a frightening few hundreds of thousands.

At that point, the real estate industry was in a bad state and the company was in a lot of debts, her mother did not receive much alimony when they divorced. However, afterward, she found out that her father had consulted someone to make a fake account and secretly transferred away the majority of the finances. He had also used a lawyer to win the lawsuit and claimed a huge amount of their assets.

However, her father did not wish to give them any money as their divorce did not end on a good note. He had even migrated a while later and completely severed all ties with everything here.

Day by day she watched her mother becoming weaker and weaker and finally made a decision.

Lu Weixi drank a mouthful of coffee. The black coffee that had gone cold and its fragrance dissipated was only left with intense bitterness.

Other than the fact that she was of equal status with the Qin family, she could marry into the family because of Qin Zhiyou’s grandfather’s liking toward her, in addition to something Mother Qin had secretly told her about ‘that incident’ that Auntie Hao had mentioned.