Chapter 176: He Told Me
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Out of the corner of his eye, Li MO noticed that Huo Xunzhou’s palm placed on the armrest of the wheelchair tightened unaturally.
That gave him a clear answer.
The conversation Miss Lin and Big Brother were about to have was definitely not for an outsider like him to listen.
“I’m going to the bathroom.”
Li MO reacted quickly. He opened the door to Nan Mu’s office and immediately shut it after entering.
Nan Mu had just hung up from a phone call and happened to overhear Li Mo’s words.
He looked at Li Mo with an ‘are you alright’ expression and said, “There’s no bathroom in my office.”
Li MO smirked and pointed outside, “Miss Lin is here.”
“Oh…” Nan Mu revealed a look of understanding.
The two of them instinctively walked to the side of the door and leaned against it, listening to the commotion outside.
Li MO pressed his ear against the door for a long time but didn’t hear anything.
“Are they not talking?”
“I had this door custom-made at a high price. It has good soundproofing.”
Li MO rolled his eyes at Nan Mu.
Outside the door.
Huo Xunzhou loosened his grip on the armrest and said calmly, “Have you finished rehearsing for the third performance?” He went straight for the kill.
His light tone carried a hint of provocation.
Lin Shanchu had already mentally prepared herself to be embarrased on stage during the third performance.
However, she still felt a little angry when Huo Xunzhou teased her about it like this.
“That’s none of your business!”
“Sister Shanshan, do you think that we’re not in a relationship where we’re allowed to care for each other?”
This was probably what people would call ‘having a taste of your own medicine’.
Lin Shanchu choked on Huo Xunzhou’s words.
But she also felt relieved.
Fortunately, when she was discovered earlier, she didn’t try to play it cool and pretended not to hear their conversation.
If she did that, Huo Xunzhou would definitely be suspicious of her.
Lin Shanchu scoffed, “I don’t know how to rap anyway. Huo Chaosheng thinks I can’t do it too, so he can’t be bothered to teach me.”
Since Huo Xunzhou had brought up the topic of rehearsing for the third performance, she could use this opportunity to talk about Huo Chaosheng.
Sure enough, Huo Xunzhou’s expression darkened when she mentioned Huo Chaosheng’s name.
“What happened to Huo Chaosheng anyway?” Lin Shanchu asked.
“How did you know his name was Huo Chaosheng?” Huo Xunzhou asked in a deep voice.
“He told me,” Lin Shanchu replied as she smoothly slipped in another question, “Is he your brother?”
Huo Xunzhou looked at her with a scrutinizing gaze and didn’t give a direct answer, “Are you concerned about him?”
Lin Shanchu was slightly taken aback, but then she smiled and said, “He looks better than Lu Shiyuan.”
It was a simple sentence, but it incited an endless world of imagination.
“The performance is near. Go back and intensify your training,” Huo Xunzhou’s tone was colder than before.
Before Lin Shanchu could react, Huo Xunzhou had already turned around and opened the door to Nan Mu’s office.
He twisted the handle and felt some resistance when he tried pushing it in.
Huo Xunzhou pushed harder.
As the door pushed open, the muffled sounds of two heavy objects thud onto the ground.
Li MO quickly jumped up from the ground, looking guilty, “Big brother…” “The quality of this door is quite good. It’s not damaged at all…” Nan Mu’s body
wasn’t that flexible, so he simply sat on the ground and pretended to check the quality of the door.
Huo Xunzhou didn’t even look at them. He closed the door and walked in.
Nan Mu and Li MO exchanged glances, then huddled together and whispered to each other.
“Xunzhou seems a little angry…”
“It seems that the conversation with Miss Lin didn’t end well again.” “Isn’t this a normal thing? He has always been bad at chatting…” “You’re the one who’s not good at chatting! My big brother is great at it!”
“Yeah, yeah. He’s the best…”
They just kept talking until Huo Xunzhou’s voice interrupted their conversation.
“What about Jiang Ziyu’s information?”
Nan Mu immediately shot up in front of him, “I just got someone to send a copy of it to my email.”
He found Jiang Ziyu’s file and showed it to Huo Xunzhou.
The information on it was very detailed.
It provided comprehensive details on Jiang Ziyu including his personal information and family background.
Nan Mu had already carefully reviewed everything in advance.
“Based on this info, your troublesome brother had no connection to him whatsoever.”
Li MO also walked over and joined the conversation, “But I don’t think he would attack others for no reason.”
Huo Xunzhou scrolled to the bottom and read carefully.
“Check Jiang Ziyu’s interpersonal relationships.”
Lin Shanchu placed her hands behind her back as she strolled towards the training room.
Huo Xunzhou seemed genuinely angry when he dismissed her earlier.
Well, that’s good too.
After all, her future doesn’t look very bright.
Lin Shanchu quickly composed herself and summoned the system.
“Did you handle the surveillance footage?”
Judging from the reactions of Huo Xunzhou and his men, there was indeed no sign of her in the surveillance cameras.
Huo Hunzhou is usually adept at concealing his emotions.
But Li MO isn’t.
When Li MO saw her earlier, he behaved like usual.
[Of course I did! That was me! Did I do well?] The system proudly asked for credit in its childish voice.
“You think you’re so great?” Lin Shanchu sneered.
The system could tell from her tone that she was in a mood, so it hesitated to speak.
After a moment of silence, the system asked, [Are you not satisfied?]
Lin Shanchu took a deep breath and said with suppressed emotions, “You’re amazing.”
The system was just made up of lines of code. It couldn’t fully sense Lin Shanchu’s sarcasm and genuinely thought she was praising it.
It happily replied, [I will continue to do my best!]
After the system finished speaking, it waited for Lin Shanchu to praise it more.
But in the end, it realized that it had been blocked once again.
Lin Shanchu was utterly disgusted by this system.
The system had already erased the evidence of Lu Shiyuan murdering Jing
Ming.
Now, the video of her and Jiang Ziyu entering the director’s office together had also been manipulated.
It turns out that you had to be a villain to receive the system’s help.
Was such a system really necessary?
As Lin Shanchu neared the training room, she could see Xia Jinmeng loitering suspiciously at the entrance.
She tiptoed over and silently approached Xia Jinmeng.
“Looking for me?” she asked.
Xia Jinmeng was startled by the sudden female voice behind her.
As Xia Jinmeng turned around, her face was initially filled with anger, but upon relizing that it was Lin Shanchu, she instantly felt guilty.
Lin Shanchu stared at her with a straight face.
It was bad enough that Xia Jinmeng was feeling guilty, but she could feel the goosebumps growing all over her body after being stared at like this. She turned around and tried to slip away.
Lin Shanchu raised her hand to block her.
“What… what are you doing?” Xia Jinmeng stuttered in fear.
Lin Shanchu smiled mischievously, “Why are you so afraid of me?”
Xia Jinmeng couldn’t identify the emotions behind Lin Shanchu’s words.
For the entire day, Xia Jinmeng had been pondering about this matter and felt uneasy. So, she just wanted to confirm whether Lin Shanchu had really gone to the director’s office.
“You… Didn’t you go to the director’s office?” She deliberately lowered her voice, afraid of being overheard.
After listening to Xia Jinmeng’s thoughts, Lin Shanchu decided to tease her,
“Do you think I went?”
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