Chapter 77: Chapter 35.1 It really takes a thousand lies to make up for one lie.

Bai Duanduan was sitting bored in Ji Lin’s room when she didn’t expect that from the other side of the door, Rong Sheng would push the door open and really start to accuse her with a sad face as she had imagined.

Bai Duanduan almost subconsciously explained, “No, no, no, don’t misunderstand, Ji Lin and I are innocent!”

Unfortunately, Rong Sheng had obviously mourned to the point of overdoing it, “Don’t say anything, I don’t believe you! I won’t listen to you either! I won’t listen to anything!”

Before the scene continued to spiral out of control, Ji Lin finally returned to the scene.

When Rong Sheng saw Ji Lin, he immediately glared at him, pointing at Bai Duanduan, “What’s wrong with her? Why is she in your room? Ji Lin, what else do you have to say?”

Bai Duanduan tried to say, “This is really a misunderstanding, I can explain, I just ……”

“She’s the one I hired to do housekeeping for the family.”

? ? ? ?

Bai Duanduan choked and saw Ji Lin lie with a calm and cool face —

“She did housekeeping for my mom before and did a pretty good job, so I asked her to help take on the housekeeping duties on my side of the house as well in her free time. She was in my room because she was preparing to tidy and clean my room.”

For the reason that Ji Lin’s attitude was so frank, Rong Sheng was taken aback for a while. He gave Ji Lin a suspicious look, “But your house is always clean and tidy, there’s nothing to clean, why did you deliberately pay her to do housekeeping? Besides, I’ve been meaning to ask, she’s already joined our firm. Why does she need to work part-time as a housekeeper?”

“Oh. Cleaning is secondary, I got her as a housekeeper, mainly to cook. As I said, eating takeout made in gutter oil all the time is not good for your health.” Ji Lin gave Rong Sheng an honest look, “As for why she works part-time as a housekeeper, because she has an external debt.”

Speaking of this, Ji Lin glanced at Bai Duanduan, “Otherwise why would our lawyer Bai pretend to be someone else’s girlfriend for a few hundred yuan without any bottom line? The main thing is that the debts are weighing her down, causing her to lose her mind. Now that I’ve offered her a stable, well-paying part-time job, I believe she won’t do such things again in the future.”

? ? ?

“No… I didn’t…”

When did she ever say she wouldn’t earn this money? She doesn’t mind earning extra money. What’s wrong with a few hundred yuan? Wasn’t money something that adds up to a lot if you earn more? If she has nothing to do, why not help her colleagues and earn some extra money at the same time?

Unfortunately, Ji Lin didn’t give Bai Duanduan a chance to finish her sentence, he gave her a warning glance and then ended the conversation, “Rong Sheng, so do you have any more questions?”

Rong Sheng was stunned. Ji Lin’s appearance was too direct, as if he was wrong to believe him to be the most wicked person. He looked at Ji Lin, then at Bai Duanduan, and finally at the sumptuous leftovers on the table. He was finally convinced at last, “So this table of dishes is actually made by Bai Duanduan?”

“Yes.”

“I can’t tell, but lawyer Bai is quite a good cook …. But Ji Lin, since you so legitimately invited someone over to work part-time as a housekeeper, why didn’t you tell me at the beginning that this was done by lawyer Bai? And mislead me that this table was cooked by you?”

Ji Lin coughed, “I was afraid that if I said it was done by Lawyer Bai, you would misunderstand, and it just so happened that Lawyer Bai was cleaning in my room at the time, so I thought it was good that you didn’t know about it, so I saved myself the time of explaining. You also know that in that saved time, I might as well answer a few more emails.”

Rong Sheng muttered, “I just asked, when will you personally cook ah? It’s been so many golden years that your future wife probably won’t even get a chance to eat your cooking, hahahahahahahaha.”

After saying that, he picked up a piece of seafood cake and threw it into his mouth, while chewing it, his eyes lit up, “You don’t say, this taste, if you had let me have a bite just now, I would never have misunderstood it! This skill of Lawyer Bai’s, not to mention you want to pay for her cooking, I want to too!” After he finished, he turned his head to look at Bai Duanduan, “Lawyer Bai, do you still have a slot? Can you cook a meal for me also on the side?”

“……”

Bai Duanduan shook her head with a dry smile, “No, there’s no more time.”

Was he kidding, asking her to cook? She was afraid he would die if he ate her cooking!

It’s a pity that Rong Sheng didn’t know the inner workings of it at all, as he enthusiastically said, “Lawyer Bai, I can pay you twice the salary Ji Lin pays you! Why don’t you come to my place?”

How can he pry someone out of their corner in front of them?

Bai Duanduan looked at Ji Lin, whose face looked really bad and immediately refused in a righteous manner, “Partner Rong, this is not a matter of money. This is a matter of the bottom line of professional ethics. Since I agreed to take Partner Ji’s order, then I have to have the spirit of contract. Even if you give me more money, I will not break the contract with Partner Ji. There is really no more slot available but I will invite you to eat my cooking later when I have the chance.”

But while her mouth was full of serious words, her heart was full of regret.

Rong Sheng, ah Rong Sheng, if it weren’t for her who really can’t cook, she would have cancelled Ji Lin’s contract for you if you gave her a few hundred yuan more!

Fortunately, although Rong Sheng was quite regretful, he finally accepted the result.

“Alright, now you can go, I have to work.” Ji Lin pursed his lips and gave Rong Sheng an expulsion order.

“Alright, I’ll go first then.”

Bai Duanduan followed closely behind, “Partner Ji, I’m leaving too then.”

Unfortunately, Ji Lin didn’t let herself get what she wanted. Bai Duanduan had just walked to the entrance door when Ji Lin’s cold voice came over, “You, stay here and continue cleaning. Bookshelf in my study is a bit dusty, go and take care of it.”

“……”

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With Rong Sheng gone, Bai Duanduan also stopped pretending, and she immediately expressed to Ji Lin what she had been wondering just now, “Ji Lin, why didn’t you just say the truth directly?”

“Do you know how rich Rong Sheng’s imagination is?” Ji Lin snorted coldly , “It’s okay to say that you are a neighbor who came to eat, but how would you explain that you were in my room?”

“Do you…… need me to remind you of that?” Bai Duanduan worded it carefully, “So why did you let me hide in your room? If you didn’t ask me to hide inside and let me open the door to welcome Partner Rong together with you, wouldn’t there be no need to lie at all? One lie can really take a thousand lies to make up.”

“Do you not want to eat lunch today when you talk so much?”

At the mention of lunch, Bai Duanduan immediately shut up. She doggedly ran to the table and helped clean up and rinse all the leftover dishes and put them in the dishwasher.

“Then I’ll come back later at noon? Call me when lunch is ready.” Bai Duanduan looked at Ji Lin in a flattering way, “Make sure you call me.”

After she finished speaking, she turned around and reluctantly prepared to leave, only for Ji Lin to call her back again.

“Wait.” The man glanced at Bai Duanduan, his handsome face indifferent in expression, and said clearly in one sentence —

“In the future, it is forbidden to conduct internal transactions in the firm.”

“Ah? What internal dealings? I don’t have one.”

“Earning money from colleagues, that’s what I define as internal transactions. In the future you are not allowed to win money by arm wrestling with colleagues, nor are you allowed to make money from your colleagues by pretending to be their girlfriend. In short, you can only earn money from external clients, not from internal colleagues. The money from internal colleagues is just going from the left pocket to the right pocket without generating any economic benefits.”

“……”

It doesn’t generate any economic benefit for you, but it does for her! After all, the money goes from her colleagues’ left pocket to her own right pocket!

Having been cut off by Ji Lin on the spot, Bai Duanduan immediately rose to the challenge, “Then, am I not allowed to work for your mother as a domestic helper as well? Isn’t this also an internal deal that you defined? Lawyer Ji, you can’t have double standards. The rules must be fair and equal for all. If you are like this, then from your mother’s work, I can only tearfully resign ……”

“It’s okay to earn from me.” As a result, Ji Lin said with brazen calmness “I define internal transactions as earnings from a colleague. Do I need to remind you?” He gave Bai Duanduan a sinister look, “I’m the boss.”

“……”

To survive, people have no choice but to yield. Although she was usually no different from Ji Lin, at the critical moment like that, she had to accept that he was the boss in the end who signed her pay check.

But Bai Duanduan was still not very comfortable in her heart. She couldn’t help but mutter, “If internal dealings are prohibited, is it also prohibited to find love and settle with someone from the internal office?”

Bai Duanduan did not expect Ji Lin to pay attention to her tirade, but to her surprise, he did.

“Oh, that’s not.” Although his face was expressionless and his tone was cold as ice, probably because he resented such questions, and his voice was slightly unnatural, Ji Lin really answered. He did not look at Bai Duanduan, his eyes looked at a potted plant by the window, and his answer even looked like a serious one.

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Anyway, in the end, Bai Duanduan had a perfect day, and she happily dined at Ji Lin’s house again. Soon after, Ji Lin was ready to go back to the office to work overtime like a model worker. Bai Duanduan thought about it, but decided to be a salty fish, against the other party’s strong hint that she should also go to work overtime and she cheekily went home to take a nap.

Ji Lin was working overtime and she didn’t know if he would be back at night. Even if he did, three meals in a day would be a bit too much for him. Therefore, when she woke up from her nap, Bai Duanduan decided to go out for dinner, even though she was reluctant.

She slowly finished her ramen at a noodle shop, and when she looked at the time, it was already half past seven. Thinking that there were not enough rubbish bags at home, and that it was time to buy some new daily necessities, she simply turned around the corner and went into the large supermarket nearby.

Bai Duanduan pushed her shopping cart and filled up her basket, then queued up at the end of the long queue behind the cashier. She was bored and waited for a quarter of an hour, so she took out her mobile phone to read the news, but as soon as she took out her phone, she found a problem: to her surprise, the phone was somehow blacked out and could not be turned on.

Nowadays, with mobile payments, one don’t have to carry a wallet with themselves, but at the critical moment, her stupid phone malfunctioned!