Falling For The Contract Bride

Chapter 340

Chapter 340 What Does Your Husband Do?

At the time, Xiao Qing was seated at her desk. Mu Zhi went to her and said gently, “Hello, I am Ann. Nice to meet you.”

Xiao Qing quickly closed her chat box and put up a smile. Then she looked at Mu Zhi and said, “Hello, hello. I am Xiao Qing. Nice to meet you.”

She acted very friendly, leaving Mu Zhi with a good impression of her.

Furthermore, Xiao Qing had a slight roundness to her face, which made her seem harmless.

As Mu Zhi was about to talk to Xiao Qing about work, the colleagues around them suddenly stood up and headed out of the door.

Tian Xinran had also come near Xiao Jing and said to Mu Zhi, “Let’s go and have lunch first. Both of you can get to know each other later.”

She then looked at Xiao Jing and asked, “Do you want to have lunch together?”

Tian Xinran was the liveliest woman in this company. However, she did not harbor any ambitions. Even after joining the company for a long time, she had no interest in being promoted. She came to work to look for something to do and have fun.

However, she was a very clever woman. Nothing can be hidden from her eyes.

She had asked Xiao Qing to have lunch with them so that when Mu Zhi was talking to Xiao Jing, she would be able to observe from the side and help Mu Zhi.

She could see that Mu Zhi was kind and innocent.

She felt the need to protect someone with such innocence. Property © of NôvelDrama.Org.

Xiao Qing hesitated at Tian Xinran’s invitation to have lunch together. She turned around and saw her clique Luo Jiajia.

Luo Jiajia said, “That sounds good, Xiao Qing. We should all go for lunch together. We haven’t had the chance to have lunch with Ann even though she had joined our company for so long.”

She glanced at Xiao Qing as she spoke.

Xiao Jing nodded immediately and smiled in agreement.

They headed slowly to the cafeteria with Tian Xinran and Mu Zhi walking together at the front. Nothing notable had happened.

However later, while taking food, their order was disturbed. When Mu Zhi had gotten her food, Luo Jiajia and Xiao Qing were already seated at the table.

Luo Jiajia approached Mu Zhi excitedly with the intention to gossip. She asked, “Ann, what is your relationship with Mr. Lu? How did you manage to be promoted so soon? Was it because of your work experience?”

She was obviously trying to trap Mu Zhi in an unwanted direction.

Mu Zhi looked at Luo Jiajia and did not seem to suspect what she was doing. She explained calmly, “There’s nothing between us. I am also astonished at being promoted.”

“Sigh, previously I thought Xiao Qing would be promoted. She had been an assistant leader for a long time. No one expected that you would be promoted instead. Poor Xiao Qing, I think you have bad luck with job promotions. Do you now regret not accepting the assistant general manager’s offer to bend the rule for you?

There may not be such thing.

However, Luo Jiajia deliberately played on this matter to imply that Mu Zhi had gotten someone to bend the rules for her.

Mu Zhi was now placed in a quandary. She didn’t know whether to explain or stay quiet.

The silence had become awkward.

When Mu Zhi could not figure out what to do, Tian Xinran suddenly came over and sat beside Mu Zhi. She placed a chicken drumstick on her plate and said happily, “Here, I had asked the cafeteria lady to help me set aside two drumsticks for me. One of them is for you, and the other one is for me.”

“Hey Tian Xinran, there were no drumsticks left when I was there just now.”

Tian Xinran looked at Luo Jiajia gleefully.

“You’re right, there was none. I had to ask the cafeteria lady to keep them for me. These days even getting drumsticks in the cafeteria requires one’s wit and charm, what more to say in a business competition. I think advancements in work depend on one’s abilities.”

With that, she had indirectly admonished Luo Jiajia.

Beside her, Xiao Qing could no longer continue to act as a victim of missed promotion. She quickly smiled and said, “That’s right. I am happy that Ann became our team leader. That way, I can relax a little.”

“By the way, Ann, do you have your own family?”

Luo Jiajia still would not give up. She continued to find ways to attack Mu Zhi.

Mu Zhi took a bite of the drumstick and thanked Tian Xinran before replying Luo Jiajia, “I am married.”

Initially, Mu Zhi had planned not to reveal any personal details to anyone in the company.

However, she had no choice but to reveal something.

Everyone suspected that she had relations with Lu Jinye, so if she continued to pretend to be single, it would attract even more criticism and gossip. As such, Mu Zhi said that she was married.

She did not expect that Luo Jiajia would continue to ask after she had answered, “Then Ann, what does your husband do? What is he like?”

Mu Zhi considered for a moment. If she revealed Xie Xiu’s identity to her, it would cause an uproar. Lu Jinye had already caused her enough trouble at work. So she did not reveal Xie Xiu’s identity directly.

She decided to make up an identity.

However, she did not know who to base this fake identity on.

After some thought, she decided on Eric.

Mu Zhi said to Luo Jiajia, “My husband is a programmer.”

Eric was a computer genius. Mu Zhi interpreted what he did as programming.

Luo Jiajia was immediately surprised, “Then your husband must be making a lot of money. It should be at least twenty thousand a month.”

“Nothing out of the ordinary. He is just a normal employee.”

Mu Zhi immediately replied. She had no idea how much a programmer actually made.

At that moment, Xiao Jing added, “Aren’t programmers all nerds? How did you meet him?”

The pay for Mu Zhi’s job was low. As an assistant team leader, Xiao Qing had only earned around five or six thousand a month. So, in Xiao Qing’s eyes, twenty thousand was a lot.

Xiao Qing wanted to marry a programmer, especially one that made large sums of money but did not spend much.

Then she could relax.

So, she asked Mu Zhi to know how to meet one.

Mu Zhi did not know how to explain… Why are these people such busybodies?

“Hey, why do you keep asking about her husband? Do you want to hear about my boyfriend?”

Tian Xinran sensed that Mu Zhi was uncomfortable, so she quickly helped her out.

Mu Zhi was thankful for her help.

At this moment, Luo Jiajia suddenly stood up and called out to the colleagues around them, “To celebrate Ann becoming team leader on her fourth day, why don’t we let her treat us to KTV?!”

Mu Zhi immediately tensed up.

All eyes were looking at her expectantly.

What could she do? She had no choice but to treat everyone to KTV.