After Transmigrating Into a Book, I Was Played by the Black Lotus – Chapter 75

Strike Back with a Rake¹

At three in the afternoon, the meeting began.

The huge meeting room was filled with people. Sun Li sat in the main seat, listening to the person in front report before a giant projector. Lin Xingzhu sat to her left, opened the materials for the meeting, and likewise put on the appearance of listening attentively.

But using the table as cover, Lin Xingzhu’s left hand was pressed tightly against her pants seam, tucked into her pocket.

In her pocket was a silenced phone.

Unable to resist Bai Xiying’s pleas, Lin Xingzhu still did as she requested, opening the software and, from time to time during the meeting, touching and swiping.

Bai Xiying’s original words were that the moment she thought of Lin Xingzhu sitting in a meeting room full of elites, her expression serious and cold, her formal wear so distant and cool that people wouldn’t dare to be profane, yet privately moving her slender fingers to control her, she would more easily climax².

Lin Xingzhu, upon hearing these words: “……”

She didn’t want to either; she just felt this was too absurd.

But on the other end of the phone, Bai Xiying had tearfully expressed that she was being left hanging, neither here nor there, and it was very uncomfortable, and had been uncomfortable for half the day.

Listening to Bai Xiying’s feigned trembling and hoarse begging, Lin Xingzhu’s heart immediately softened.

…Anyway, the main person for the afternoon meeting is Sun Li. There probably won’t be much for me to do.

Thinking this, Lin Xingzhu’s free right hand balled into a fist and pressed against her lips to conceal that trace of guilt.

Just at this moment, Sun Li also noticed the movement on her side.

She smiled slightly. “Why don’t we first hear Director Lin’s opinion?”

Sun Li had already received news that Lin Xingzhu would be resigning in a few days to go to the headquarters.

In the few months Lin Xingzhu had been at Xingyuan, her ability to handle matters was there for all to see. As far as Sun Li knew, many old-timers she was familiar with had privately sighed that after Chairman Lin’s successor was further trained, he truly had a worthy successor.

Thinking that Lin Xingzhu had also participated a little in the early stages of the project research the presenter was reporting on, Sun Li looked at her with a smile, her eyes holding hidden expectation.

Lin Xingzhu: “……”

She moved her eyes. With an air of being as light as wind and as faint as clouds, she turned her gaze back to the head of the table. The young man standing in front of the projector was looking at her nervously, hoping she could offer some guidance.

But she really hadn’t heard clearly. Just now, while her finger was swiping, Bai Xiying’s charming image had inappropriately appeared in her mind.

Lin Xingzhu quickly scanned the projector, and a plan formed in her mind.

“The previous part was explained very well, but regarding the research on the company’s market competitors…”

Pausing for two seconds, amidst everyone’s anticipation, Lin Xingzhu’s cold and restrained voice sounded in the meeting room.

As her words fell, the young man’s cheeks flushed slightly red.

Sun Li nodded. “The problem Director Lin just mentioned is precisely my question. Xiao Qi³, you should focus more on this aspect.”

Lin Xingzhu inconspicuously raised her water cup with one hand and took a sip to wet her throat.

While she was speaking just now, the phone’s faint vibration had occurred several times.

It was clearly Bai Xiying urging her.

So bad, clearly knowing what my situation is over here.

Thinking this, Lin Xingzhu lowered her eyes slightly. Her left hand in her pants pocket was merciless, swiping quickly.

It was just that in her heart there was a slight regret that she couldn’t see Bai Xiying’s appearance with the corners of her eyes faintly red, moist and full of spring.

And in a deeper part of her heart, a few indistinct, malicious thoughts even arose: she wanted to let Bai Xiying taste the consequence of eating her own bitter fruit—by satisfying her on such an occasion.

She would definitely like it very much, right?

But the next second, Lin Xingzhu raised her crow-feather-like eyelashes and, trembling, scattered this dark thought.

How could I think like this? It’s too much!

Taking a deep breath, Lin Xingzhu picked up her water cup and materials and followed the flow of people out of the meeting room.

She nodded and greeted Sun Li, then turned back to her own office.

After handing over her work, Lin Xingzhu used the remaining time to look at some materials that Father Lin’s assistant had sent her.

The Lin family had started out in real estate. By Father Lin’s generation, although the Lin Corporation had many subsidiary companies, the core enterprise of the Lin Group was still related to real estate. So before going to Tianqi, Lin Xingzhu still needed to understand many things.

Time slowly passed as she buried her head in her work.

Of course, it was not without Bai Xiying’s company, just like in the morning.

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When Wen Lin received the item someone sent to her email, she was drinking.

【The materials have been sent to your email.】

After receiving this message, Wen Lin waved away the woman who was clinging to her back, trying hard to please her.

“You can go down first.”

The scantily clad woman bit her lip and said in a soft, low voice, “Did I do something wrong?”

Wen Lin drank all the crimson wine in her cup, pinched the woman’s chin and moved closer, leaned over and passed the slightly astringent wine into the woman’s mouth, then straightened up, frivolously patted the woman’s smooth and delicate cheek, and said in a hoarse voice, “Be good, you go down first.”

After speaking, she ignored the woman’s reaction.

The woman left alone on the bed, a trace of disgust flashed quickly in her eyes, but then when Wen Lin turned back, she put on a satisfied smile again, held her skirt and gracefully left.

Sitting in front of the just-opened computer screen, Wen Lin’s eyes flickered for a moment, then she clicked open the newest file in her email.

It was filled with densely packed words. She read very carefully, from beginning to end, not missing a single word.

After a long while, Wen Lin realized her hands and feet were a bit stiff.

Her eyes were fixed on a sentence in the middle of the file.

“Year 20xx, August 29th, Monday, Lin Xingzhu and Shang Cengrou at a bar called Di Tang Xi You⁴ were suspected of drugging Bai Xiying. Afterwards, Shang Cengrou left, and she took Bai Xiying to the hospital…”

Two short lines of black words on white paper, written very clearly.

Wen Lin sat cross-legged on the bed, biting her finger. The light from the computer screen reflected on her face, making it look deathly pale.

Since hearing Bai Xiying’s name last night, Wen Lin had been purposefully mobilizing those memories from her past life that had long been thrown into a corner, but unfortunately, the effect was not good. What she could remember was very, very little.

But today, combined with the life story of Lin Xingzhu that she had someone investigate, she seemed to remember some things again.

Drugging, Lin Xingzhu drugging Bai Xiying, isn’t this plot exactly the beginning of the novel?

Remembering this point, Wen Lin also remembered that this cannon fodder character Lin Xingzhu shouldn’t have succeeded. The drugged female lead, in a panic, would have run into the first gong.

So there definitely wasn’t this hospital plot.

Looking at what happened later, Lin Xingzhu’s series of changes really seemed like she had become a different person.

Wen Lin, who had a fortuitous encounter, immediately thought of the possibility of transmigration.

She bit her finger, her heart already certain that the current Lin Xingzhu must have transmigrated.

And looking at some of the things she did, basically everyone who liked Bai Xiying was dealt with by her, one by one, as if with a purpose. So Lin Xingzhu is definitely not an ordinary transmigrator; she herself must know that she has transmigrated into a book.

She herself even remembers the original work’s plot very clearly.

Thinking of this, Wen Lin ground her teeth. She, the original author who should know the plot best, now had a fuzzy impression of the novel’s plot.

“Lin Xingzhu…”

When mentioning this name, Wen Lin was faintly apprehensive.

At this moment, how could she still remember the Bai Xiying who had amazed her yesterday? Her mind was full of this world’s other variable, Lin Xingzhu.

Wen Lin always felt that this Lin Xingzhu was very likely the same Lin Xingzhu whose name she had once used as a prototype.

Although there was no evidence to prove all this, Wen Lin had this feeling in her heart.

What should I do? Will the next one be me?

Her delicate fingers were already rubbed red. Wen Lin couldn’t care about the pain in her fingers. Counting the characters Lin Xingzhu had gotten rid of, she was somewhat worried and afraid.

After all, her own identity seemed to be the originator who caused the Lin family to go bankrupt.

Wait… bankrupt?

Wen Lin’s eyes lit up, suddenly feeling like she had grasped something.

The reason Lin Xingzhu has the ability to take down others, isn’t it because of the family background behind her?

If the family background she relies on is gone, no matter what she does, she won’t be able to stir up any waves.

But then Wen Lin became worried again. Regarding business matters, she really didn’t understand much. The Lin family was not some third-rate family. To truly take them down would probably require a lot of scheming, and it might not even succeed.

After all, this wasn’t like writing a novel, where you can finish it by writing a few vague sentences.

Wen Lin was essentially a hedonist. After transmigrating and having the Wen family as a great backer, she had latched onto her parents’ and second uncle’s thighs from the very beginning. Relying on a bit of cleverness, she secretly built this treasure basin⁵ for the family to rake in wealth and gather information, and has always been very doted on.

The money is endless, and the beautiful women are endless to play with. Why should she work herself to death? Did she not get enough of being a corporate livestock in her past life or something?

Releasing her finger, which had teeth marks on it, Wen Lin ground her teeth, thought for a moment, and realized the main problem was still with Bai Xiying.

…What if she implicitly indicated that she had no interest in Bai Xiying?

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Coming home from work, Lin Xingzhu had just opened the door when a flash of white appeared before her eyes, and a soft mass pounced on her.

She looked down and saw it was Bai Xiying, who should have been upstairs. Her cheeks were white with a hint of red, the corners of her eyes and brows were full of charming spring intent, watery like a fresh and juicy peach, and also like a ripe fruit soaked in water that would fall apart at a touch.

Swallowing twice, Lin Xingzhu stared at her damp forehead. “Just took a shower?”

Hugging her slender waist, Bai Xiying was almost hanging entirely on Lin Xingzhu’s body, as if she had skin hunger, breathing in big gulps of Lin Xingzhu’s fragrance, her expression indulgent.

She had basically been getting off for a whole day, but in a sense, she had also been empty for a whole day.

Hearing Lin Xingzhu’s question, Bai Xiying secretly licked her earlobe, then said sweetly, “Yeah, I only had time to take a shower just now while you were driving back.”

Lin Xingzhu’s gentle eyes stared at her.

And now she’s striking back with a rake. Was it my fault she didn’t have time to take a shower? It was clearly her own misbehavior.

One must know, for the whole day, Lin Xingzhu’s phone was only completely quiet when she was driving.

Brushing aside her still-wet hair, Lin Xingzhu asked with concern, “How is your body?”

Bai Xiying rolled her eyes, pursed her lips and moved closer, deliberately misinterpreting her meaning and said ambiguously, “I just took it out. Do you want to see? If you want, I’ll go get it and put it in for you to see.”

Saying that, Bai Xiying exited Lin Xingzhu’s embrace, her slender white legs in slippers about to go back and get it.

Lin Xingzhu: “……”

She speechlessly watched as Bai Xiying’s legs appeared weak even when exerting force, and for a moment didn’t know what to say.

“Just be a little more well-behaved.”

After a while, Lin Xingzhu closed her eyes and said in annoyance.

She grabbed Bai Xiying’s arm and stopped her in annoyance.

Bai Xiying leaned against Lin Xingzhu in response. The suit jacket showed creases along her bent arm, which was a little bit uncomfortable.

Bai Xiying adjusted her posture, looked up and asked innocently, “You endured for a whole day. It must have been very hard, right?”

Cough.

Lin Xingzhu paused for a moment. To say she had no reaction after being teased by Bai Xiying all day would definitely be abnormal.

But thinking that Bai Xiying had been acting up all day, just as Lin Xingzhu was about to say it was okay, Bai Xiying, who was wearing button-up pajamas, reached out and gestured to unbutton the top buttons.

While unbuttoning, she said gently and considerately, like water, “To reward you for today, I just washed myself clean… and used your favorite body wash scent.”

The unrestrained softness was suddenly half-exposed, sparkling like jade, exuding an alluring luster, and also that moist look like the cherry cheese pastry⁶ she had just learned to make.

Lin Xingzhu’s temple throbbed twice. Bai Xiying had really grasped her preferences.

Why is my girlfriend at home so fresh and unconventional?!

Lin Xingzhu had a gut feeling that her girlfriend being like this wasn’t quite right, but meeting her smiling, encouraging, and indulgent eyes, her hanging fingers moved imperceptibly.

At the same time, a pair of fair hands wrapped around her neck and slowly covered the back of her head. A moment later, Lin Xingzhu followed the force and involuntarily bowed her head.

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