91 Face Me, You Coward (1/2)
The next morning, Ye Shuang did not receive the call from An Zining saying that she should take the day off. Ye Shuang assumed that An Zining was annoyed by the incident that had happened the day before. Having extra people around would be useful should Chen He decide to go and create more trouble. By the time her bus had arrived at An Zining's place, her boss still had not woken up, probably too tired from the stuff that had happened the day before. However, all the other people were present—even Lawyer Lin was there.
The intern immediately came to greet Ye Shuang when he saw her. ”Sister Shuang, I hear you have been promoted to an agent‽ Congratulations. Do take care of our workshop in the future—we can handle both group cases and individual cases.”
Now that their position had shifted, there was no more competition between them. One would be responsible for assigning cases, and the other would receive cases. Naturally, the relationship became better. Having a good relationship was beneficial for both parties. Ye Shuang understood that theory as well, so she smiled and said, ”Thank you. Actually, this is because both my and my partner's time is hard to schedule, and that's why we're assigned to do the backend job.”
Ever since she had realized that she was dumb to have attached herself to herself without actually having a boyfriend, when Ye Shuang met new people, she tried her best to undo this situation. The first thing she did was to change 'boyfriend' to 'partner'. After people got used to this setting, maybe people would think of the less innocent relationship first when they thought of Ye Shuang.
Miss Chef was the most excited to see Ye Shuang. The day before, she had been lucky enough to witness the gossip at close range but unable to find anyone to share it with. Finally, Brother Wong had arrived, but the man was a simpleton who had no interest in things like that.
Sharing it with her friends was a violation of her client's privacy. Among her colleagues, only Ye Shuang was female. Miss Chef had many things she wanted to 'share', and her lips could not stop moving when she saw Ye Shuang. ”Sister Shuang, you're finally here. Let me tell you just how insane the argument was last night between Sister An and Mr. Chen. Mind you, I've never seen Mr. Chen before, but according to rumors, he is supposed to be a gentleman, so why…”
”Miss Ye, do you mind if we have a talk?” Lawyer Lin interrupted her. Miss Chef's desire to gossip was extinguished immediately. Lawyer Lin was considered the leader of this small task force—not only because he was the most educated but also because he had the calmest mind of all. So, during stressful situations, they normally referred to him.
Ye Shuang smiled and looked at An Zining's bedroom door, which was still tightly closed. It would probably be some time before the woman woke up. Therefore, she accepted Lawyer Lin's invitation to chat. They both moved to the balcony. The wind was blowing so strongly that their conversation was silenced by the wind.
”Brother Lin?” Ye Shuang closed the balcony's glass door until only a palm-size sliver was left open before she turned to Lawyer Lin. ”Is there a problem with Miss An's case?”
Yes, things were complicated, but technically, it had nothing to do with them. It was a battle between Chen He and An Zining or the Chen family and the An family. Therefore, Ye Shuang was curious why Lawyer Lin would ask her out and purposely away from the workshop colleagues that he should have been closer to.
Lawyer Lin glanced at the people in the room before pushing on his glasses and calmly announcing. ”It was me who released the news about Miss An's pregnancy.”
Ye Shuang almost coughed up blood.
When Lawyer Lin saw the surprise on Ye Shuang's face, his lips twitched into an imperceptible smile. ”Miss Ye should have noticed by now that Miss An is intentionally avoiding us, and we have no way of getting the evidence we need to prove that she is preparing to escape from the country. If this was allowed to continue, we would only have ended up being in a war with Miss An.
”When things really go down and reach a point of no return, if we are unable to produce any evidence, to keep the fact that their daughter was running out of country to have the illegitimate child under wraps, the An family would probably use us as sacrificial lambs,” Lawyer Lin explained slowly and calmly. ”Therefore, it was my belief that since we were unable to achieve any progress, why not get an ally to help us halt Miss An's plan? No matter the result of the negotiation between Mr. Chen and Miss An, it has nothing to do with us.”
This was rather brilliant. Since they could not do anything, then they found someone who could. They did not want to have their relationship turn sour, so they found another target who was willing to risk that.
Ye Shuang was silent. Lawyer Lin's idea was not bad, but she did not expect he could be so decisive and resolute when necessary.
”You purposely called me out to tell me this…” Ye Shuang gasped. ”Does this mean your colleagues still don't know that it was you who leaked the news‽”
”Of course not!” Lawyer Lin huffed, directly mocking his colleagues' IQ. He even used his finger to point out their problems one by one. ”Look at our Miss Chef… With that busybody personality of hers, if she had known the plan, she probably would have retrieved a focus light to shine it on Miss An all day. And our bodyguard, Brother Wong… He probably would not dare to even look at Miss An if he knew that he had to keep the plan a secret. Well, you know how it is with the intern.”