Chapter 103: Small-Mindedness

Qin Miaoyu had not expected Zhou Zhaolin to be shameless enough to say something so narcissistic.

"Zhou Zhaolin, Jingjing only came because she had a fight with her fiancé. Beating you up was just a side errand."

"Fiancé?"

Zhou Zhaolin turned to look at Qin Miaoyu.

"Yes. What, you can have your cake and eat it too, but Jingjing cannot date normally after breaking up with you?"

That was exactly what Zhou Zhaolin had been thinking, and his face darkened at once.

Just then, the man beside Jin Xi spoke again.

He extended a hand toward Zhou Zhaolin. "Allow me to introduce myself. I am Jin Xi's fiancé, engaged to her after she broke up with you."

Zhou Zhaolin's pupils widened.

When he had first seen the man standing beside Jin Xi, he had assumed he was only a casual friend. After all, Jin Xi was popular, and she had many male friends.

It was only after she began dating him that, because he disliked her having too much contact with other men, Jin Xi had tried to reduce her interactions with male friends as much as possible.

Who could have imagined that the man before him would claim to be Jin Xi's fiancé?

Clearly, not long ago, he and Jin Xi had still been discussing marriage. How could things have changed so quickly?

The hand at his side clenched into a fist, and the next instant he swung it straight toward the man opposite him.

The man opposite seemed caught off guard. By the time the fist was almost upon him, he tried to dodge, but in the end the blow still grazed him.

Jin Xi hurriedly steadied the man as he leaned back, then glared at Zhou Zhaolin in anger.

"Why are you always hitting people at the slightest provocation? How many times have I told you, and you still refuse to change!"

After speaking, Jin Xi anxiously checked the injury on the man's face.

At a height Jin Xi could not see, the man shot Zhou Zhaolin a provocative look.

Qin Miaoyu nearly wanted to applaud at the sight. The next moment, Zhou Zhaolin turned again and glared at Qin Miaoyu with malice.

Qin Miaoyu shot back without the slightest politeness, "Why are you looking at me? Don't you know what you've done yourself?"

With that, she told Jin Xi to take her fiancé to have the injury looked at, and she and Xu Xiaoqi took a taxi and left.

Only Zhou Zhaolin, fully decked out in his defenses, remained standing there.

That night, Qin Miaoyu recounted the incident to Gu Jing as if it were a joke. After hearing it, Gu Jing was indeed delighted.

"Hmph, Zhou Zhaolin really is full of himself, actually thinking I might still be pining for him! Not to mention I have such an excellent fiancé now; even if I didn't, I still wouldn't be able to forget him!"

"Oh, so excellent? Jingjing, your assessment of Xia Linyan is getting higher and higher."

At first, Qin Miaoyu had heard from Gu Jing that Xia Linyan was a rather decent person. Little by little, he had become pretty good, then very good, and now he had become excellent.

"What's wrong with that? I'm only telling the truth. Besides, compared with a specimen like Zhou Zhaolin, they aren't even on the same level."

The two of them laughed and teased each other for a while, then Gu Jing grew serious.

"Miaoyu, you need to be careful around Zhou Zhaolin. He's extremely petty. The last time I went to your studio, you were there. This time you were there again. Since he said those things, it proves he thinks you and I are scheming together. He may try to trip you up again."

Seeing how solemn she was, Qin Miaoyu took the matter to heart.

"Still, you don't need to worry too much. We have Miss Jin's wedding order now, and we won't be taking new clients for a while. He shouldn't be able to scheme against us."

As for Miss Jin's wedding arrangements, when she had come earlier to discuss them, probably because of Zhou Zhaolin, she had wanted an understated yet beautiful ceremony.

But this time, because Miss Jin's fiancé came from a family of considerable wealth, everything was being done to the highest standard, and the price had rocketed upward accordingly.

"Miaoyu, just be careful, all right? He was already causing trouble before. He may still come looking for trouble after this."

"So exaggerated?"

"Yes." With a mocking smile, Gu Jing leaned back and told Qin Miaoyu about something from the past.

"Back then, my relationship with him was going well. I suppose love had blinded me, because I only felt that something was off, and didn't think much of it."

Qin Miaoyu leaned against Gu Jing's shoulder. "Mm, we'll be careful when the time comes."

The next day, Qin Miaoyu went to the studio. Just as she reached the front desk of the company, someone rushed up from behind and dropped to his knees before her.

Qin Miaoyu was startled.

"Qin Miaoyu, please let Zhou Zhaolin go, you and Gu Jing both. Let bygones be bygones. Why cling to the past so stubbornly? How much money do you want? Within reason, we can pay you!"

Hearing such absurd words, Qin Miaoyu looked at the person in front of her and found him vaguely familiar, especially those eyes.

Ah, she remembered now. Wasn't this Zhou Zhaolin's childhood sweetheart?

"We're not exactly short of money. What I'd like to know is, after clinging to each other for so many years, are you really that inseparable?"

Zhou Zhaolin had probably dated God knew how many girlfriends by now, yet this childhood sweetheart had remained by his side all along. She could even keep her own identity hidden and still be willing to let Zhou Zhaolin date someone else on the side.

"I'll ask you one thing: how can we make you let Zhou Zhaolin go? Aside from what happened back then, we have no grudge against each other, do we?"

Qin Miaoyu honestly felt wronged. "How is it that we're refusing to let Zhou Zhaolin go? At most, we just couldn't stand seeing an innocent person being deceived, so we mentioned what happened back then. Everything else was found out by Miss Jin herself, or discovered by her. What does that have to do with us?"

Seeing the subtle movement of the person kneeling on the ground, Qin Miaoyu pressed her lips together slightly.

"Miss, there's no need for you to kneel there. Anyone who doesn't know better might think I've done something to you. But if you want to keep kneeling, that's fine too. The cameras here can capture everything. Not only can they record the image, they can also record the sound."

The moment she said that, the person immediately got to his feet.

"Qin Miaoyu, we sincerely want to reconcile with you. If you have any demands, contact us. As long as we can meet them, we definitely will. This is our studio's business card. Contact us after you've thought it over!"

A business card from Zhou Zhaolin's studio was shoved into Qin Miaoyu's hand, and then the person left at once.

Qin Miaoyu glanced at the card in her hand and, passing a trash bin, tossed it inside.

When she passed the reception room, she saw someone inside. It seemed to be the client from the earlier order?

She remembered that this client had only just come by. Why was she here again?

Qin Miaoyu asked around before learning that the client had come to say what still dissatisfied her.

"This client keeps changing her mind. We've already revised it several times, and she still wants it changed."

This really did call for a solution. Though they had said they would revise it until the customer was satisfied, this kind of major overhaul was another matter altogether. If it went on like this, no one knew when this order would finally be completed smoothly.