Chapter 122

Jiang Lai was shaking the pinecone wind chime when the doorbell rang.

On the display screen was Ke Zhongying, who was crossing her arms and pouting at the camera.

Jiang Lai was stunned.

Since yesterday, she hadn't received any messages from Ke Zhongying, and none this morning either.

She opened the door.

Ke Zhongying stood at the door, glaring at her with an angry yet not angry look. After her black eyes rolled around, a smile full of surprise bloomed on Ke Zhongying's face.

"Ahhhhh! You are too amazing!" Ke Zhongying was so happy that she stomped her feet on the spot, spread her arms, and hugged her.

Although Jiang Lai was squeezed a bit tight, she smiled when she saw that she wasn't angry and was so happy.

"I thought you were angry, you didn't reply to my messages."

Ke Zhongying said "Hey," let go of her, walked toward the sofa, and said: "It's all the old man's fault. I was watching the reports about you on the news and my phone, and he called me over and locked me in the laboratory until now."

Jiang Lai sat beside her and handed her a box of juice.

Ke Zhongying drank it in big gulps, and after finishing, she looked at her with bright eyes: "The first time I met you, you helped me look at my thesis. I thought you weren't simple then, but you are too not simple. Yesterday, our whole family was shocked."

"Our whole family didn't have praise for my brother, only surprise and recognition for you."

Jiang Lai smiled lightly, feeling she was a bit exaggerated.

"Oh, by the way, I also heard one thing. Your ex-husband and the third sister went to the bureau, is it true? If it's true, the Fu Family's ability to control public opinion is too strong, there is no wind outside at all."

"True." Jiang Lai nodded, "But Shen Xun cleared his suspicion and came out, Lin Shutong didn't."

Involving the Self-developed Chip Project, someone would tell her about any movement immediately.

At this moment, she received news that Lin Shutong had met with a lawyer.

Gu Zhiyan carried his briefcase into the police station and met with Lin Shutong alone.

Lin Shutong had been locked up for more than ten hours, looking exhausted, her beauty faded, and she had lost the glamour and spirit of yesterday.

When she saw Gu Zhiyan, a layer of water mist quickly floated in her eyes, full of excitement and grievance.

"Zhiyan, I thought you wouldn't come."

"You are in trouble, how could I not come?" Gu Zhiyan was thirty years old this year, with a noble temperament, steady and reliable.

Lin Shutong met Gu Zhiyan abroad at a party. Someone put something in Gu Zhiyan's drink, which Lin Shutong saw.

Just as Gu Zhiyan was about to take the wine glass, Lin Shutong walked over and said in Chinese: "Don't drink it, there is something in it."

The person who handed the wine didn't understand and continued to look at Gu Zhiyan with expectation.

Gu Zhiyan changed his face on the spot.

Learning that it was the woman on the side who exposed it, the person cursed at Lin Shutong, "Bitch!", and picked up the wine glass and splashed it on Lin Shutong's face.

Gu Zhiyan quickly blocked it for Lin Shutong.

The two met this way and exchanged contact information.

Gu Zhiyan invited her to dinner to show his gratitude, and she acted as the host, taking Gu Zhiyan around when he wasn't busy.

During that week, the atmosphere between the two was ambiguous.

Lin Shutong learned that he was a well-known lawyer in China and the eldest son of the Gu family in B City, and she had some other thoughts in her heart.

However, this different thought was quickly broken.

Shen Xun flew over to celebrate her birthday, and the phone call was answered in front of Gu Zhiyan.

Under such circumstances, Lin Shutong could only give up her thoughts.

When Gu Zhiyan asked: "Was the person who just called Miss Lin Miss Lin's boyfriend?"

Lin Shutong immediately determined that Gu Zhiyan had fallen for her and was testing her.

"Guess." Lin Shutong replied ambiguously.

Later, she discovered that Gu Zhiyan was very boundary-conscious, probably because he was sure she was already with another man.

However, he would still contact her often and send her gifts during festivals, but compared to Shen Xun, Gu Zhiyan was a bit stingy.

Thinking about it later, it was better not to cling to Gu Zhiyan. Gu Zhiyan was a lawyer, and such people were shrewd and wouldn't be willing to give up everything for her like Shen Xun. She estimated that even marriage would require a thick prenuptial agreement.

She treated Gu Zhiyan as a friend on the surface, while secretly hanging onto him.

After all, he was such a good connection.

Look, didn't it come in handy now?

With one phone call, Gu Zhiyan flew to A City overnight.

"Zhiyan, I was wronged." Lin Shutong said, "I don't have any intention of leaking national secrets."

"I know." Gu Zhiyan looked at her seriously, "Tell me the whole process of what happened."

"Okay." Lin Shutong vividly described all the inequality she suffered after returning to China and entering the Self-developed Chip Project. "As for the so-called video evidence, I just felt that I was also a member of this project. If someone asked me later and I knew nothing about the project data, it would be too unreasonable."

Gu Zhiyan asked: "Did you get the data in the end?"

"No." Lin Shutong looked bitter, "Didn't I tell you? Jiang Lai has been guarding against me, and the entire project group has been guarding against me."

Gu Zhiyan nodded, seemingly thinking.

"Why does Jiang Lai feel that you would leak the data? Does she know about your relationship with President Shen of Star Universe Technology?"

It was really hitting the nail on the head.

Lin Shutong tried to hide the relationship between the three, but didn't expect that she couldn't avoid it at all.

She bit her lip and nodded.

"Zhiyan, I didn't know Ah Xun and Jiang Lai were already married at first."

Gu Zhiyan was stunned and looked up in disbelief.

"You mean Shen Xun and Jiang Lai are husband and wife? And you intervened in this relationship?"

Lin Shutong refuted: "I didn't intervene. Ah Xun and I were together in college. We just separated after I went abroad, and Ah Xun suddenly married Jiang Lai. I didn't know at all. By the time I knew, it was already too late."

"Jiang Lai has always known about the relationship between Ah Xun and me, but I have never known that Ah Xun and Jiang Lai had a relationship." She didn't lie; she really didn't know that the Dr. Jiang of the Self-developed Chip Project had a relationship with Shen Xun.

She hadn't seen Jiang Lai since she joined the project group until the day of the bidding.

Gu Zhiyan was silent for a moment and said: "Shen Xun lied to you."

Lin Shutong lowered her eyes, and a tear fell.

Gu Zhiyan handed her a tissue.

"Thank you, Zhiyan."

Lin Shutong didn't immediately admit Gu Zhiyan's statement, but changed the subject.

"Jiang Lai knows President Ke of the Ke Group. During the confidentiality agreement period, Jiang Lai was Ke Zhongyu's secretary for a month. Everyone in the Ke Clan knows."

"So, you suspect that President Ke and Jiang Lai joined forces—one to crush a competitor, and the other to defeat a rival in love." Gu Zhiyan summarized.

Lin Shutong nodded without hesitation, and when she looked up, her eyes were red.

The originally bright rose suddenly shed tears, and anyone would feel sorry for her.

Gu Zhiyan promised her: "I will let you get out of here safely very soon."