Married by Accident: The Rich CEO's Deeply Rooted Pampering Tactics

Chapter 73 Backer?

"Mr. Lu, that guy surnamed Gu came out and went to see Miss Qiao."

Gu Qiyan had just gone to see Qiao Luo when Lu Tingnian received the news. He frowned, "Wasn't it supposed to be fifteen days of administrative detention? How come she's out so quickly?"

Lu Tingnian asked.

Han Jian: "It's because that kid is too cunning and takes advantage of loopholes in the law."

The detention center has explicit regulations that individuals with serious injuries may have their punishment reduced or their sentence postponed depending on the specific circumstances. Gu Qiyan clearly fell into the latter category, so he was released after only a few days in detention.

Lu Tingnian raised an eyebrow upon hearing this, but he didn't take Gu Qiyan seriously at all. After all, he was just a petty person. Even if he got out by using some clever tricks, so what? If he dared to go and cause trouble for Qiao Luo again, he could send him back to jail just the same way.

"Send someone to keep an eye on him and prevent him from getting any closer to Qiao Luo."

"Yes."

Han Jian accepted the order.

Qiao Luo was unaware of all this. Fang Yan was waiting inside when she went in, and she rushed to greet her as soon as she saw her come in.

"Are you alright? Has he caused you any trouble?"

Fang Yan asked worriedly.

Seeing Fang Yan's anxious expression, Qiao Luo quickly reassured her, "I'm fine, look, I'm perfectly alright."

Hearing this, Fang Yan finally breathed a sigh of relief. She had been worried for Qiao Luo when she saw Gu Qiyan's fierce appearance, but now that she saw that she was alright, she was finally at ease.

"No matter what, you have to be careful of him from now on. I always feel like he's become a different person," Fang Yan said, expressing her concerns.

Qiao Luo nodded, "Don't worry, I'll be careful."

Afterwards, the two returned to their respective departments.

After Qiao Luo returned to her seat, she still had nothing to do. Lin Mei was determined not to assign her any more work, which was not a good thing for Qiao Luo. She was not someone who could stay idle and would help other colleagues with their work whenever she had free time.

Everyone's been rushing to finish the new project lately, working overtime and getting incredibly busy, but she's the one who's most relaxed.

This differential treatment is so obvious that even a fool could tell she was being targeted again.

Moreover, this time the targeting is different from the previous ones; it's more like being sidelined and shelved.

But she couldn't remember making any mistakes at work recently. Even if she had occasionally talked back to Lin Mei once or twice, given Lin Mei's usual way of doing things, it wouldn't have come to the point of freezing her out. Could it be because of her marriage?

But hadn't Lin Mei already targeted her before?

It shouldn't be over over this little thing.

Qiao Luo wasn't the type to swallow her anger; she wanted to get to the bottom of things as soon as she had a question. So, that day, she knocked on Lin Mei's office door.

"Enter."

Lin saw that she still had the same attitude as when she went to work.

Qiao Luo didn't waste any words and simply asked directly.

"Editor Lin, I want to ask you why you haven't assigned me any work these past few days. Is it because you think I'm not doing something right? If so, please point it out so I can try to correct it."

Lin Mei felt as if she had heard a huge joke when she heard this. She scoffed, "You still need to work? Haven't you already found a backer?"

Her words were full of sarcasm.

Qiao Luo asked in surprise, "What kind of backer?"

Lin Mei: "Stop pretending, they've already warned me."

Qiao Luo was even more confused.

"Warning? Who are you referring to?"

Lin Mei found the expression on her face interesting. That day, her boss suddenly called her in for a talk, subtly reminding her not to be too harsh on her subordinates.

After thinking it over, she realized that Qiao Luo was the only one who had talked back to her at work recently, so who else could it be? She originally planned to give her a few days of silence to give her boss an explanation, but she didn't expect that Qiao Luo would have the nerve to question her.

Thinking of this, Lin Mei scoffed, "Are you really unaware or pretending not to know? Or do you think that just because you've found a backer, I should fawn over you and let you do whatever you want in the magazine? If you think that way, you don't understand my style at all. Perhaps your backer can make me hold back in dealing with you, but if you think I, Lin Mei, will fawn over you, you're sorely mistaken. I, Lin Mei, also have my own principles."