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Chapter 11 The White Lotus

Song Jianzhang perfectly explained how rogue and shameless he was. Wen Ran didn't want to look at him anymore.

She now understood that she could reason with others, but she couldn't reason with "it".

Song Jianzhang turned to look at the policeman. "Officer, I want to be a good person now. This beauty...why don't you believe me?"

The policeman couldn't stand it, so he said sternly, "Sit down and talk!"

"Okay, okay, okay." Song Jianzhang put down his legs and sat up straight.

After all, Song Jianzhang did not do anything illegal to Wen Ran, and the police could not punish him. They could only verbally remind him of some relevant regulations.

Wen Ran signed and walked out of the Police Station, intending to call a taxi with her mobile phone. Song Jianzhang followed her closely with the car key in his hand.

He sized Wen Ran up with his lecherous eyes and whistled like a hooligan. "Wen Ran, right? That's a nice name."

Wen Ran glanced at him and went straight to the street, intending to call a taxi and leave as soon as possible.

Song Jianzhang followed her. "You can take my car. I'll send you back as an apology."

Wen Ran turned a deaf ear and quickened her pace.

Song Jianzhang continued to follow her. "Do you think we got to know each other through fighting? Is this also a kind of fate?"

“...”

Seeing that she was ignoring him, Song Jianzhang quickly stood in front of Wen Ran and forced her to stop.

Wen Ran looked at him coldly.

Song Jianzhang thought that the girl was as beautiful as a little star. He put his hands on his hips and teased her. "Why is a beautiful little girl so hot-tempered? How about I treat you to some ice?"

Wen Ran warned him, "If you do this again, I'll sue you for harassment."

"What's wrong? Am I going to be sued for courting a girl now?" Song Jianzhang looked as if he didn't care. "Are you going to sue me? If you have evidence, you can sue me?"

“...”

Seeing that Wen Ran didn't speak, Song Jianzhang smiled again and said in a flattering tone, "Beautiful girl, why don't we let bygones be bygones?"

As he spoke, he looked down and raised his hand to grab Wen Ran's. "How about we shake hands and make peace?"

Wen Ran took a step back to avoid him. She stared at him as if she were staring at a fly. "Get lost!"

Song Jianzhang was not angry. "Look, you have no one to rely on in Shanghai, don't you? Huh? Do you want me to help you?"

Wen Ran felt sick and wanted to vomit.

She looked at him and said in a cold tone, "I warn you for the last time, if you appear in front of me again, I will make you regret it, whether you do it intentionally or unintentionally."

The determination and coldness in her eyes did not make her look like a weak little girl at all.

Song Jianzhang was really stunned. He thought to himself, "Could it be that she has some background?"

Wen Ran raised her hand and stopped a taxi. She got in the car decisively and left.

Wen Ran knew that the reason why Song Jianzhang was behaving so shamelessly was that he thought she was a weak little girl from another city and was easy to bully.

If it were a tall and strong man or a high-ranking member of the upper class, he would only hide his tail and behave himself.

He was a typical example of someone who used oppression to satisfy his distorted mentality.

To put it bluntly, they bullied the weak and feared the evil.

As a result, Wen Ran showed her strength and tried to scare him.

In the next few days, when Wen Ran worked overtime and returned to the community, she would first look around vigilantly before getting out of the car.

Everything was normal, and Song Jianzhang did not appear again.

On Thursday, Li Wan and Wen Ran had lunch together.

Li Wan had an appointment with Mrs. Wong this afternoon. Although she had made the greatest effort and preparations for this reception, she still felt uneasy. After all, it was related to whether she would stay or leave.

Li Wan couldn't eat anymore. She looked at Wen Ran with a bitter smile and said in a melancholy tone, "If I leave, I'll miss you."

Wen Ran raised her eyes, looking a little confused.

Li Wan quickly put down her chopsticks and said, " Wen Ran, you're the first friend I've made in the past two years."

Friend?

It had been less than a month since Wen Ran joined the company, and she didn't think she had a close relationship with Li Wan.

Wen Ran felt that a friend should be someone she gets to know and get along with well like Zhai Xinyi.

Wen Ran changed the topic. "There's no result yet. Don't be depressed."

"Yes, yes, yes!" Li Wan nodded in agreement and said with a smile, "I should think in a good way. For example, I should get it done with Mrs. Wong this afternoon, and then follow Jessica to make some work. With this achievement, I can still participate in this year's Apollo Jewelry Design Competition in the company. Then I will accidentally win the top three, sell the work at a high price, and then make a name for myself in the design circle, and then..."

Li Wan was still thinking about it and did not notice that Wen Ran had changed her expression at all.

Wen Ran clenched her chopsticks and interrupted Li Wan, "What achievement?"

"Ah?"

"You said that with the achievement you could participate in this year's Apollo Jewelry Design Competition. Do you mean...you need achievements to participate in the competition?"

"That's right."

Wen Ran felt a basin of cold water pouring down from the top of her head when she heard the word "yes" from Li Wan.

Why were achievements necessary to participate in the competition?"

Why didn't they mention it in the competition's documents?

Then wouldn't her plan of winning the Flower Filigree Incense Box by participating in the competition be ruined?

Wen Ran didn't give up and asked, "What kind of achievement do you need?"

Li Wan swallowed the soup in her mouth and said, "At least one needs to participate in a haute joallerie design."

Wen Ran gave up now.

Haute joallerie designs were all from the haute joallerie design department.

Li Wan was lucky enough to participate in Mrs. Wong's haute joallerie design this time. It was also because of her outstanding performance in the counter design last year that she was invited by Jessica of the haute joallerie design department.

The preliminary stage of the competition was at the end of August, and there were only two months left.

Wen Ran knew that it was extremely difficult for her, a new employee in Counter Product Design Department, to make such achievements.

All the good emotions and principles of Wen Ran collapsed at this moment.

She became ignorant and impulsive because of the fearlessness and hard work for the Flower Filigree Incense Box.

She felt that she was a fool. What had she been doing in the past few months?

During the lunch break, Wen Ran did not fall asleep at all.

After lunch break, her colleagues went back to work.

The modern-style office was very bright. From time to time, the sound of high heels hitting the ground could be heard, and faint voices could be heard...

Wen Ran stared blankly in the air.

Her eyelashes were curly and distinct, and their reflection was reflected on her eyelids.

After an unknown period of time, she felt someone touching her arm.

Wen Ran turned around and saw Ivy coming back from the counter.

Ivy teased her while putting down her purse. "You can't slack off so brazenly, can you?"

Wen Ran came to her senses and blinked.

She didn't say anything. It was already past four o'clock in the afternoon.

Ivy sat down. "Why aren't you drawing your draft design today?"

After all, every time she came back, she would see Wen Ran drawing draft designs. She looked like a good student at school.

Wen Ran shook her head.

What else is there to draw?

It was meaningless.

Ivy still wanted to ask something, but suddenly, the sound of high heels approached her.

Ivy and Wen Ran turned their heads and saw that it was Xiang Xiaoyue.

She stared at Wen Ran with determined eyes.

Before Wen Ran could react, Xiang Xiaoyue had already walked over and scolded Wen Ran, "What are you doing as an intern? You were just sending a document. How can you make such a simple mistake? Do you know how much trouble your mistake at work will bring to other colleagues? As an adult in his twenties, don't you understand the basic principles of being a human being? Don't you understand that it's basic quality not to cause trouble for others? If you can't do this job, go home obediently and don't let others take the blame for you every day!"

Her voice was so loud that it was not suppressed at all. It seemed that she wanted everyone in the department to hear her.

Everyone in the office was attracted by the noise. They stopped what they were doing and turned to look here.

Wen Ran tidied up Xiang Xiaoyue 's words and stood up to look at her. Her voice was louder than usual as she asked, "May I ask how I caused trouble for my colleagues?"

Xiang Xiaoyue didn't expect Wen Ran to confront her head-on. She gritted her teeth and asked, "Let me ask you, did you send a file paper bag to the Fushan Villa last week."

"Yes."

"Humph, now, the ring wax model inside it is lost."

Wen Ran frowned slightly and immediately replied, "It's none of my business. I didn't lose it!"

"Who else could it be?" Xiang Xiaoyue crossed her arms in front of her chest. "Do you know how important that wax model is? I asked you to send it to her in order to shorten the construction work. Now the colleagues in the wax carving team have to make a new model because of your mistakes, and the director's time has been wasted on you."

What did she mean by being wasted on her?

What did she do?

Wen Ran felt suffocated in her heart, but she only chuckled in her mind. Then, she said word by word in a firm voice, "When I handed that file bag to the person opposite me, the seal was intact, so I didn't lose it."

"Are you shirking your responsibilities?"

Wen Ran asked in reply, "Are you looking for someone to take the blame?"

As soon as she finished speaking, the office was so quiet that even a fallen needle could be heard.

Xiang Xiaoyue was so angry that her thoughts were exposed that her face turned red. She pointed at Wen Ran with her index finger and said, "I didn't expect a fair and clean little girl like you to do such dirty things!"

Wen Ran didn't flinch at all because of her attitude, nor was she led away by her personal attack. Instead, she seized the most fundamental problem. "So you've already decided to push the blame onto me regardless of the evidence, haven't you?"

Xiang Xiaoyue gritted her teeth and roared, "How can you be so shameless?"

Who on earth was shameless?

Wen Ran was so angry that her face turned red. She was going to make it clear today.

She opened her mouth slightly. Before she could say anything, she saw Chen Xing coming over.

Chen Xing glanced indifferently at Xiang Xiaoyue and then looked at Wen Ran. "Wen Ran, what's going on?"

Wen Ran explained in detail, "Xiang Xiaoyue asked me to send a document bag to the Fushan Villa last week. When I sent it, I confirmed that the paper bag was complete and there were no flaws. But now Xiang Xiaoyue said that there was a ring wax model missing in it."

She didn't use honorifics. She didn't want to.

Hearing this, Chen Xing looked at Xiang Xiaoyue and asked, "Why did you say that Wen Ran lost it?"

"I...I checked it out when I gave it to her. Everything is there." Xiang Xiaoyue pointed at Wen Ran. "She must have lost it!"

Wen Ran took a step forward and questioned, "Are you sure the thing you checked before was there?"

Xiang Xiaoyue's eyelashes trembled for a moment, and then she asked loudly, "What do you mean?"

Although she hid her expression very quickly, Wen Ran still saw the panic in her eyes.

And her suddenly raised voice is to cover up her guilty conscience.

Wen Ran felt that her guess was almost right.

No wonder she didn't want to find out what went wrong at all and directly targeted her, because things couldn't stand up to scrutiny at all.

She just saw that the new employee was easy to talk to and thought that by threatening the seriousness of the matter, she could cover it up. She didn't expect Wen Ran to be so resolute.

Wen Ran looked at Chen Xing and said, "Miss Chen, the file bag she gave me is as thin as only a few pieces of paper. The ring wax model should not be in it at all, and..."

"Nonsense!" Xiang Xiaoyue interrupted Wen Ran and took a few deep breaths. Then, she took a step forward and said, "Are you trying to push all the blame onto me?"

Now, one of them said that she put it there, and the other said she didn't. One of the senior employees of Group II said, "Xiaoyue has been in the company for so many years, so she shouldn't have made such a mistake."

Ridiculous!

Wen Ran felt that this reason was absurd.

Perhaps it was because Wen Ran knew that she couldn't get the Flower Filigree Incense Box even if she stayed in Carlyle. Or maybe it was because she was upset by the sudden injustice and unfair treatment.

She forgot her teacher's instructions to stay calm and think before acting.

She retorted, "So there shouldn't be any mistakes with a senior like you, right?"

"You..." The colleague was choked and changed the topic, "Who are you showing this steadfast look to?"

Ivy couldn't stand it anymore. "Senior, what are you talking about? Wen Ran is so kind that she helped Miss Xiang deliver things, okay? What did she do?"

"Kind?" Xiang Xiaoyue rolled her eyes. "You have the same heart as your face, you white lotus."

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