Chapter 28: I Come from the Twenty-First Century

  After a simple familiarization with the environment, Qilin was most satisfied with the small stream in the backyard. Although there were several clusters of withered rose branches and a few smooth willow trees beside the stream, it made her feel at ease.

  Next to it was a large white stone, although covered with moss, but still quite satisfactory. Qilin simply removed the moss with her bare hands and finally sat down on the white stone, panting, looking at the completely dark sky, thinking that the time had almost arrived.

  "Miss Red Snow."

  As expected, a soft voice came from behind, Qilin stood up and patted the mud off her body, turned around and said "What?"

  "Miss Hui, dinner is ready. Also, Miss Bu Yao has arrived." As he said this to Bu Yao, Huan Sha tried to find a hint of surprise on Qi Lin's face, but even when Qi Lin came before her, under the faint light of the lanterns, she couldn't detect any.

  Qilin smiled slightly and said "Let's go."

  Arriving at the main house, Green Bamboo was standing by the side and came forward to pay her respects as soon as she saw her.

  "My humble abode is simple, please forgive me, Miss Bu Yao. She quickly walked to the desk and sat down, smiling at Bu Yao's displeased face. She must have been waiting impatiently on her way here. Then, she turned to Qing Zhu with a serious expression and said, 'Miss Bu Yao has arrived, why didn't you tell me sooner? You made Miss Bu Yao wait. Be more careful in the future.'"

  The Legend of Zhen Huan is not just a casual watch! Qi Lin even admires herself.

  Hong Xiang and Lu Zhu knelt down to apologize, Qi Lin spoke up saying "Fortunately, Miss Bu Yao has a broad mind and doesn't generalize, hurry up and thank Miss Bu Yao."

  "Thank you, Miss Bu Yao." Although he was still confused, he did as she said.

  Qilin smiled slightly, and Yuxi's face turned even uglier than before.

  "Alright, you all go down first." A belly full of fire almost burst out, but it's not good to lose temper. Compared to this, more important things are still behind.

  Green bamboo raised her eyes and looked at Qi Lin, Qi Lin also nodded silently, but left a hint for Green Bamboo.

  Finally, only she and Bu Yao were left in the house. The golden candlelight flickered inside, making a crackling sound.

  "I won't beat around the bush with you either, let's just get straight to the point."

  Upon hearing this, Qi Lin's tea-drinking motion paused for a moment. The fragrance of the tea was not as captivating as before, and her mind was no longer on it. She put down the teacup, abandoned her upright posture, and switched to sitting cross-legged instead. Extending her left hand with a smile, she said, "Hello, I'm from the 21st century."

  She glanced at Qi Lin's stained hand with disdain, and Bu Yao reluctantly stretched out her hand to shake hands with him before quickly letting go. "Since we're both from the 21st century, let's make things easier. You know about the Lu Corporation, right? I'm their sales director."

  Lu's Group? Isn't that the company that competes with Feiyu Construction, where she works, and is also a well-known real estate company? And wasn't she able to become sales director because she used a clever trick to win a case against Lu's Group? I heard that Lu's Group has a very formidable general manager, but I just can't remember the name. It turns out they're rivals in the 21st century!

  There was no surprise on Zilin's face, she originally believed that as long as she said the road was a group, she could make her surprised and worship, after all, the Lu Group had a great influence in China.

  "Ah, nice to meet you, I'm Qi Lin, Sales Director of Feiyu Construction."

  "Bang"

  Smiling as he looked at Bu Yao's angry face, his gaze slowly shifted to the white jade hand on the case table. Tsk, tsk, tsk, the case table was cracked, the quality is really poor, but it must have hurt a lot.

  "Miss, what's wrong?"

  A faintly worried voice came from outside the door, and Qilin looked at Buxia and said softly, "It's okay."

  "Hmm, your dog is quite obedient. Suppressing the anger in my heart, I gritted my teeth and said, 'It was you who snatched away my case, causing me to lose face. Good, enemies meet on a narrow road.'"

  "Firstly, Qing Zhu is my maid and a human being. Secondly, in the workplace, everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses, so don't blame others. A slight smile played on her lips, but her eyes were exceptionally serious and solemn as she continued, "Lastly, this is my private residence. If we were in modern times, destroying someone else's property would be against the law."

  Bai Yao was even more furious, staring at Qi Lin as if she wanted to stare a hole through her. But seeing Qi Lin eating snacks with an air of leisure, she grabbed the snacks on the table and slammed them into Qi Lin's face. Then, grabbing Qi Lin's collar, she gritted her teeth and said "Do you know how much face I've lost because of you? How many people have ridiculed me?"

  Gently patting away the remnants on his face, he raised his eyes to look at Bu Yao, gave a slight smile, and lifted his teacup to splash it onto Bu Yao's angry face.

  "Ah, you're crazy!" She didn't expect Qilin to do this, and Bu Yao suddenly fell backward, her black hair in front of her forehead was wetted by the water and tightly stuck to her forehead, looking very disheveled. Pointing at Qilin, she almost shouted out "You're crazy, you lunatic."

  "Now, who looks more like a lunatic?" He pulled out a handkerchief and carefully wiped his hands, then raised an eyebrow to look at Bu Yao coldly. "I've said it before, in the workplace, everyone relies on their own abilities, you can't blame anyone else."

  She stood up, facing Bu Yao, with her long shadow covering Bu Yao's body. Qi Lin stretched out her left hand, but Bu Yao thought she was going to be hit and subconsciously covered her face. Qi Lin shook her head helplessly, squatted down, reached out to touch Bu Yao's head, and helped tidy up her slightly disheveled black hair.

  "Hey, I'm saying, this isn't the time to talk about that, and even if we did, it wouldn't do any good anyway." He took a deep breath, withdrew his hand, and looked at Bu Yao calmly. "Look at me, the winner, still trapped here with no control over my own body. So what's the point of arguing? You already knew when you came here today, didn't you?"

  Although she was unwilling, Qilin's words were reasonable and she couldn't find any reason to refute them, so she could only glare at Qilin with a huff.

  Qilin stretched out her hand again, with a professional smile, "So, Bu Ya Miss, can we put the past behind us?"

  "Hmph, that's just your luck. Placing her hand in Qilin's, she slowly stood up with the help of his strength and said, 'If it weren't for that damned cat, that damned broken car, and that damned rainy weather, I wouldn't have ended up in this damned place.'"

  Uh? Hearing Pei Yao say this, Qi Lin was stunned, her hand loosening.

  "Bang."

  "Ah." Unexpectedly, Zilin suddenly let go, and Bubao lost her balance again and fell to the ground, rubbing her sore buttocks in pain and anger, saying "What are you doing?"

  But when she saw Qilin's completely black face and the furious eyes that she had never seen before, her heart skipped a beat and cooled down. When she opened her mouth again, she was already incoherent "You... what are you doing?"

  What's going on? The scene before the crossing was like a lantern slide reappearing in my mind, on a rainy night, a speeding car, a white cat jumping out of its eyes, she hadn't forgotten at all. I even cursed that damned driver back then.

  "Alright, I'll tell you." He slowly crouched down, his mouth curving into a good-looking arc, but his eyes were icy cold, making people shiver. He pinched Xie Yao's chin and said, "On the night I crossed over, it was also on a stormy night in Shanghai suburbs, waiting for the bus, then when crossing the road, I was hit by a speeding car and flew away. And I saw a cat with a terrifying expression too."

  What?! Pei Yao's eyes widened in disbelief, her mouth agape, she shook her head woodenly, how could that be.

  "This is impossible. This is too coincidental."

  Yes, it's impossible, but this damn thing happened to her! This time Qi Lin gritted her teeth and grabbed Buo Yao's collar, shaking her non-stop. "You said this damned place is what? But I came here because of you, who do I ask for this account?"

  She thought she had let go of the past, but it wasn't until now that she realized she hadn't let go, she just chose to forget. However, a part of her hatred was well hidden, and now Bu Yaoke is the spark that sets her off completely.

  Qilin is like that, when she bursts out, she absolutely won't suppress her emotions. Just like the time when the chubby team leader tried to fire her, but instead, she beat him up badly in his office. Originally thought she would be fired, but unexpectedly, it was the fat-headed guy who got fired, and she took over his position.

  So now she has lost her mind and grabbed Bubao fiercely for questioning.

  But Bù Yáo also thoroughly exploded, isn't she also very wronged here? As soon as she woke up, she had to face so many perverts, and she didn't remember anything anymore. More importantly, she was always being trampled underfoot by others, even that damn Elm tree was indifferent to her own love, damn it!

  Yu's questioning turned into a fight between two people, and Bu Yao grabbed Qi Lin's clothes and pulled them down violently.

  Tear apart

  Her clothes shattered at the sound, Qilin looked at her body covered with a simple version of a bra made by herself, stared at Bu Yao, stretched out her hand to grab Bu Yao's hair and pulled it.

  "Ah."

  A sharp stinging sensation came from the scalp, and Bù Yáo suddenly felt humiliated, pouncing on Qí Lín's body, scratching and biting, while Qí Lín also refused to give in, biting down hard on Bù Yáo's left shoulder.

  Until their mouths were filled with a bloody taste, Qilin and Buxiao could no longer bear the sharp pain, and both of them relaxed their jaws at the same time.

  "Miss." Green Bamboo and Willow Creek pushed open the door, when they saw that Qi Lin had been knocked to the ground, her clothes disheveled, especially with the sensual bloodstains at the corners of their mouths, making the two people who looked quite disheveled appear somewhat ambiguous. The two exchanged a glance, both cheeks flushing hot, then lowered their heads and closed the door in tacit understanding.

  "Wait...!" He wanted to stop it, but the door had already closed.

  Qilin closed her eyes in distress, thinking about how to explain herself, when she suddenly felt a weight lift off her body. She opened her eyes to find Bixiao sitting beside her, leaning against the pillar and panting. Qilin slowly got up, looked at the row of neat teeth marks on her right shoulder with bloodstains, casually pulled up her clothes, leaned on the table with one hand, and licked the bloodstain on her lips.

  "Just one stroke." She said calmly, looking at Bu Yao who was slightly surprised. Qi Lin poured two cups of tea and handed one to Bu Yao, asking "How is it?"

  The weird guy touched the wound on his shoulder, took the teacup from Zilin's hand and raised his chin saying "Hmph, I'm out of luck."

  Qilin raised her hand, drained the tea in the cup, and then threw away the teacup, slightly furrowing her brow. This tea is really hard to drink. But she still swallowed it down, looking at Buxia's slightly flushed face, and smiled slightly, saying "Let's talk business."

  "Uh? I didn't expect Qilin to change the subject so quickly. Looking at her calm face, it's as if nothing had happened earlier. She wiped the tea stain from the corner of her mouth, put down her teacup and said, 'Do you know the purpose of my trip this time?'"

  "What else besides peony?" It's impossible to recall the past.

  "I underestimated that cheap woman, Peony." She didn't expect Peony to be so brazen and take action against her without being held accountable. "Who is the idiot backing her up?"

  "Is that little Prince Wang, Long Ye? I've heard of him?" This was also told to her by Yu Mu, otherwise she wouldn't have known.

  Long Ye? Bu Yaowen's eyebrows furrowed slightly, and then she raised the corners of her mouth, standing up with an elegant posture, the candlelight reflected in her eyes casting a confident glow.

  "Although I don't want to cooperate with you, but since you can still come up with the idea of using the clichéd 'Huan Zhu Ge Ge' to win the competition, I'll reluctantly cooperate with you this one time." He said disdainfully, looking down at Qi Lin.

  Qilin smiled and stood up straight, saying with the same disdain "I think so too. Being able to shamelessly claim Jay Chou's song as their own and acting so well, I currently need a partner like that."

  "Hmph, I won't consider you as my partner, you're just a pawn at best." With an arrogant turn, he walked to the door and stopped, saying "I'll take care of Dragon Flame King, no need for me to teach you next time."

  "Of course." Turning around to face away from Bu Yao, hearing the sound of opening and closing doors, thinking about Bu Yao's words, aren't they partners??? However, an opponent's opponent is a partner, even if it's temporary.

  Her body suddenly felt a weight, Qilin turned around, only to see Green Bamboo standing quietly behind her, with an extra cloak on her body. With a satisfied smile, she walked over to the desk, picked up some undamaged pastries and put them in her mouth, then lifted a relatively intact plate and handed it to Green Bamboo, saying "Let's share."