the seventh bride

Chapter 176 The Real Purpose

Bai Muqing said goodbye to Nangong Chen in the car as usual, took the initiative to kiss him on the lips and said with a smile, "See you at noon."

"Come up early at noon." Nan Gongchen kissed her back on the lips.

"I will." Bai Muqing said in a good mood.

Lin Annan's tricks did not seem to affect the relationship between her and Nan Gongchen, which she did not expect.She turned around and looked at Nangong Chen, and couldn't help but spit out: "Honey, I will trust you the same way you trust me in the future."

"Huh?" Nangong Chen raised his eyebrows: "You mean that I can freely associate with Miss Zhu?"

"Of course not." Bai Muqing was speechless: "What I mean is, I won't doubt you and Miss Zhu easily in the future."

"Why did you suddenly figure it out?"

"Because I want to be a smart person like you."

She will not be easily alienated by a third party. When encountering things, she must first think about her brain, and then her emotions. This is the truth that she only understood after the recent photo incident!

Nangong Chen chuckled, raised his hand and pinched her cheek: "Compared to me, you are still far behind."

"So I have to study slowly." Bai Muqing opened the car door: "I won't tell you, go up and earn full attendance first."

"Go, I will give you a bonus at the end of the month."

"Thank you." Bai Muqing smiled happily.

As soon as Nangong Chen returned to the office, Assistant Yan immediately followed and said solemnly: "Young Master Chen, I have something important to tell you."

"What's the matter?" Nangong Chen took off his coat and hung it on the back of the chair.

"Somehow, our design work from the last issue suddenly became someone else's."

"What do you mean? Whose design is it?"

"Ruian Group." Assistant Yan said.

Nangong Chen frowned: "Is that the company with a strong momentum?"

"Yes, Rui'an Company published the design draft on the work display area of ​​the company's website today."

"what is the problem?"

"I don't know. I just asked Manager Huang from the design department to conduct a thorough investigation. However, Manager Huang said that no one else has read the manuscript except him and you."

Although the leakage of the design draft is not a big deal, Nangong Chen absolutely does not allow this to happen in his own company. I want more details. Also, find out the person who leaked the secret in the shortest possible time and deal with it strictly!"

Although Rui'an Company has a strong momentum and rapid development in C City, and Nangong Chen has also heard of it, but as the head of Nangong Group, he has never paid attention to it, and has no interest in it at all.

Being affected by such things early in the morning, he took a deep breath, looked up and found that Assistant Yan was standing there motionless, and asked, "Any more questions?"

"It's like this..." Assistant Yan opened his mouth, and said hesitantly: "I have already checked the situation of Rui'an Company, but."

"But what?" Nangong Chen couldn't hide his dissatisfaction in his tone. In his impression, Assistant Yan never spoke like this.

Assistant Yan took a deep breath and said, "Young Master Chen, don't be angry when I tell you, the legal person of Rui'an Company is Lin Annan."

Nangong Chen's heart turned cold, and he asked instinctively, "Lin Annan?"

"Yes." Assistant Yan nodded.

*****
As soon as Bai Muqing turned on the computer and got ready to work, Xiaotian said to her, "Muqing, Manager Huang is looking for you."

Bai Muqing nodded, and replied casually: "I see, I'll be there right away."

Xiaotian sized her up, and reminded hesitantly, "Assistant Yan came here today, and he seemed to be quite angry, and Manager Huang's complexion didn't look too good, so be careful not to get caught by a thunderbolt."

Hearing what she said, Bai Muqing finally turned her head to stare at her: "What's wrong with Manager Huang?"

Xiaotian shook his head, then laughed: "But you are the boss's wife, even if something happens at work, Manager Huang won't dare to do anything to you, so don't worry."

After finishing speaking, Oda patted her on the shoulder: "Go quickly."

Hearing what she said, Bai Muqing became a little worried. She immediately got up and walked to Manager Huang's small office.

Manager Huang's complexion did not look very good. Bai Muqing raised her hand and knocked on the glass door before opening the door and walking in. Standing in front of him, she cautiously asked, "Manager Huang, are you looking for me?"

Manager Huang came back to his senses and saw that she was a little embarrassed to speak. He hesitated for a while before he hesitated and said, "Mu Qing, it's like this, I want to ask you, the last time I asked you to bring Chen Shao's design Uh, besides you, is there a second person who handled it?"

He asked very carefully, because he was afraid of offending the president's wife, and if he offended her, his job would definitely be lost.But if the truth is not investigated, he will lose his job.

The design draft was not handed over to Young Master Chen by himself, he had already dereliction of duty, but the draft was still leaked out, and he began to feel uneasy since he knew about it.But after thinking about it, he didn't pass the manuscript through the hands of anyone other than Bai Muqing.

"No, I handed it directly to Young Master Chen." Bai Muqing said.

"Really?"

"Of course it's true, what's wrong?"

Manager Huang sighed helplessly, and said, "The manuscript has been leaked, and now Assistant Yan is pursuing responsibility."

Hearing Bai Muqing's words, although Manager Huang was a little relieved, he was still very worried.Even if the manuscript was not leaked from him, but he did not hand over the manuscript to Young Master Chen, he was still negligent of his duty.In case the president pursues it in a fit of anger, he will also bear the blame.

"The manuscript was leaked? How could this happen?" Bai Muqing asked in surprise.

"I do not know either."

"Could it be leaked from Young Master Chen?" Bai Muqing remembered very clearly that after she read the manuscript and returned it to Nangong Chen, he immediately put it away, and his office was not accessible to ordinary people.

Manager Huang still shook his head, and said with a wry smile, "Since you said you didn't deal with the second person, it shouldn't be leaked from us."

Bai Muqing nodded: "Then I'll go up to have a look at noon."

"Okay, remember to say something nice for me." Huang Jingdi made a begging gesture to her.

Bai Muqing nodded: "Don't worry, I will." After speaking, she gave Manager Huang a comforting smile, turned and left.

*****
When she got off work at noon, Bai Muqing took the elevator directly to the top floor and came to Nangong Chen's office.

Assistant Yan just came out of Nangongchen's office, Bai Muqing greeted her with a smile, Assistant Yan stopped, stared at her, hesitant to speak.

Bai Muqing could tell that she seemed to have something to say, so she asked, "What's the matter? Is there something wrong?"

Assistant Yan wanted to remind her to be careful, but in the end she just shook her head: "It's nothing, you can go in."

"Okay, then I'll go in." Bai Muqing walked past her, and when she came to the door of Nangong Chen's office, she tentatively put half of her head in, just in time to meet Nangong Chen's cold gaze.

She was stunned for a moment, then pushed the door and walked in while asking with concern: "What's the matter? You seem very angry by your expression, are those manuscripts important?"

Nangong Chen stared at her and shook his head: "Nangong Group has a lot of excellent designers, even if you lose a hundred manuscripts, it won't affect you."

"Then why are you so angry?" Bai Muqing rolled her eyes speechlessly: "Our manager Huang's lips are so scared that his lips turned white."

She took a step forward and poked his chest with her finger: "You, it's okay, don't keep such a straight face, it's scary, okay?"

Nangong Chen stared at her for a while, then copied a company brochure from the desk and held it in front of her: "I really want to know when did you know that this company belongs to Lin Annan."

Bai Muqing's eyes moved to the word 'Ruian' on the brochure, and her heart skipped a beat.Why did Nangong Chen suddenly ask this?Could it be that he got angry not because the manuscript was lost, but because of Lin Annan's matter?

"Me." Bai Muqing thought for a while, and said, "I only found out about it recently."

"Recently?" Nangong Chen nodded, and sneered: "That's right, this company was started only recently. But I didn't expect that it was because of you that he rose so quickly."

"Chen, what are you talking about? How can I be credited?" Bai Muqing hurriedly explained: "You misunderstood, I just know this company and have never been in contact with it. Really, please believe me."

"You want me to trust you?"

"That's right, Chen, you can't lose your mind as soon as Lin Annan gets involved, you."

"Other than Manager Huang and I, you are the third person who read the manuscript in the last issue. Could it be that you want to say that Manager Huang secretly sold the manuscript to Rui'an Company?" Nan Gongchen copied another document and threw it at Bai Muqing. and said with a sneer: "I heard that Ruian took these manuscripts and sold them for a lot of money, and even won Huang's new real estate project with them. It seems that you have contributed a lot!"

The file bag was thrown on Bai Muqing's body, hurting her arm, she bit her lip, lowered her head to pick up the file bag, took out the manuscripts inside and looked at them one by one.

That's right, she did read these manuscripts at the beginning, and she read them with Nangong Chen, who also asked her to study.But she has forgotten these manuscripts since that time, and never mentioned it to the second person, let alone leaked it to him.

She held the design draft tightly in her hand, then raised her head and stared at him faintly: "What did you say? All these drafts have been taken by Ryan Company?"

"Miss Bai, you are not only good at lying, but also good at pretending to be innocent!" Nangong Chen was stimulated by the innocence on her face, angrily grabbed her arm and pulled her forward, staring at her: "Do you want to be innocent?" Justify that this matter has nothing to do with you? Did Manager Huang leak the document? Or did I leak it myself?"

Bai Muqing shook her head: "I didn't, really not."

"But apart from the three of us who have seen the manuscript, no fourth person has read it."

"Impossible!" Bai Muqing still shook her head: "Chen, you have to believe me, even though I have read those manuscripts, it is impossible to sell them to Lin Annan, why did I do this?"

"In order for Lin Annan to regain his footing, for him to rise again." Nan Gongchen gasped in pain, and looked at her with a touch of inquiry: "It seems that this time I was fooled again, and I was fooled by you again." That day's sincere and kind appearance was confused. Back then you were able to lurk by my side for so long, and you dared to switch identities with Bai Yingan, just to return to Lin Annan. This time, you can also behave obediently and obediently in front of me, waiting for him. Come back to him one day when he makes a comeback, right?"

"No!" Bai Muqing said anxiously: "Chen, I've told you many times that I didn't leave you to be with Lin Annan, I was forced. I don't know why the manuscript leaked to Lin Annan now. Without knowing it, it is impossible for me to betray you for him, please trust me, okay?"

"Isn't it really you?"

"Really, it's really not me!"

"Then what is this?" Nan Gongchen picked up a special paper for phone inquiries from the desktop and held it in front of her: "Do you want to tell me again that you didn't make these calls, and you didn't send the text messages?" of?"

The words on the paper were not big, in order to see the content clearly, Bai Muqing blinked her eyes hard, and took the paper from his hand.

There was a whole page of paper listed, which was full of records of her calls and messages with the UK, and when she saw a text message sent from her number, her brain was instantly blown up by something, and she was dumbfounded. Living.

The text message only has a simple sentence: I have sent the manuscript to your mailbox.

Since she didn't know when she sent such a text message!
And on the same day when I texted her, the same number replied her with two words: Received.

She froze on the spot for a moment, finally regaining her composure.She finally understood why she received such an inexplicable message that day. It turned out that everything was premeditated and planned.But she didn't think about anything at the time, thinking that he would be fine if he deleted the message and ignored him.

"What? You can't speak?" Nangong Chen was as cold as ice on the surface, but his heart was already burning with pain and anger.Especially when Bai Muqing was speechless for a long time.

After standing there for a long time, she hurriedly shook her head: "No, no, I didn't send this message!"

Nangong Chen gritted his teeth: "The evidence is all in front of you, do you still want to deny it?"

"No! This call record is fake, I have never sent such a message!"

"Fake? Then do you want to check it yourself?"

"Me." Bai Muqing gasped, the above call log was true except for the text message, there was no reason for Nangong Chen to question her with a fake one, but.

She wiped away the tears from her eyes, picked up the paper again, looked at the date on which the letter was sent, and did the math, it was actually sent when she went to the orphanage in the north of the city that day.

The message was sent in the morning, that is, the time period after she met Zhu Zhu in the orphanage.

Her brain, which had finally become clearer, was empty again, and she finally understood why Zhu Zhu liked to get close to herself recently, and she wanted to be good friends with herself again and again, so it turned out that this was her purpose!
She raised her head and stared at Nangong Chen with a frosty face, more tears welled up in her eyes, if she told Nangong Chen that the information was from Zhu Zhufa at this time, he would not believe it, would he?Not to mention him, but anyone would not believe it!

She and Zhu Zhu are almost irreconcilable people, so how could Zhu Zhu use the mobile phone to send messages?

She didn't even dare to tell this ridiculous thing, because not only would Nan Gongchen not believe it, she might even get even more angry!
"What's the matter? Didn't you want to check it yourself?" Nangong Chen asked, holding back his anger.

Although she knew that he couldn't believe her, Bai Muqing still wanted to explain. She met Nangong Chen's cold gaze and said, "The text message was sent by Zhu Zhu using my mobile phone. We met in the orphanage the other day. She... .”

"Bai Muqing!" Nangong Chen interrupted her without even understanding a word: "You are enough!"

"What I said is true. Zhu Zhu has been trying to get close to me recently. She is simply harboring evil intentions, her!"

"Is it you who have been biting her all the time, or is she harboring evil intentions? She is already so far away from us that she dared not even tell me that her leg was injured. You still have the face to push the good things you did on her head up?"

"Her leg injury is fake!"

"Then what about the password of your mobile phone? Did I tell her? Who else knows your mobile phone password except me?"

"I don't know either." Bai Muqing really couldn't explain this point. Her mobile phone password is not her birthday, nor is it an easy number to remember, but why did Zhu Zhu know her password, and how could she be able to tell her when she wasn't paying attention? Time to send out the message?
"In your eyes, everything about her is fake, she is useless, but what about you? You have been in touch with Lin Annan behind my back for so long, and you even used the company's works to help him start again!" Nangong Chen grabbed her The call record in her hand was thrown on her: "Zhu Zhu sent these messages, and she made the call. You mean she colluded with Lin Annan to frame you, right?"

"It was!"

"Then what happened to the manuscript? Did Zhu Zhu steal it too?"

"Why can't it be her?" Bai Muqing retorted: "At the beginning, she brought you snacks, showed her hospitality, and could enter and leave your office casually. How difficult is it to steal a manuscript?"

"Then why didn't she steal so many manuscripts, but stole this group?"

"How do I know!" Bai Muqing wiped the tears from her eyes with the back of her hand: "Only you believe that she really gave up on you, only you and that trust her..."

"With such conclusive evidence, how can you still shift the responsibility to others, and want me to believe your words?" Nangong Chen gritted his teeth and laughed: "Bai Muqing, do you think I was played by you once? Can I still be tricked by you a second time? No wonder you were able to go to the Civil Affairs Bureau to get married with me, so it turned out that you were retreating to advance, and you played this kind of ghost idea."

"I've already explained it, I didn't, Chen!"

Nangong Chen interrupted her angrily: "Get out! Don't let me see you again!"

"Chen."

"Get out!" Nan Gongchen grabbed the first base file on the desktop and threw it on her.

Bai Muqing was taken aback by his furious appearance, and finally didn't dare to say another word.She glanced down at the documents on the ground, then knelt down to pick up the documents one by one.

Nangong Chen didn't even want to see her again, took the document in her hand and threw it on the ground again, and roared angrily: "I'll let you go!"

Bai Muqing looked at his bloodshot eyes, and finally walked out without saying anything.

*****
When Bai Muqing returned to work, Manager Huang saw that her face was not looking well, and asked cautiously, "Mu Qing, is Young Master Chen very angry?"

Bai Muqing raised her eyes to stare at him, and said bitterly: "It's very angry, but don't worry, he's angry with me, not you."

Seeing her tears dripping down, Manager Huang wanted to ask but didn't dare to ask more, so he comforted him in a calm voice: "Don't be too sad, in fact, Chen Shao is only angry about the company's management loopholes, which makes this kind of Things happen, wait for her to calm down."

Bai Muqing nodded. Manager Huang didn't understand anything at all, and no one knew what happened between her and Nan Gongchen. Of course, she didn't plan to say anything.

Manager Huang gave a few words of comfort and then disappeared, leaving Bai Muqing to sit alone in her seat and secretly sad.

She tried hard to think about what happened in the orphanage that day, and the more she thought about it, the more she regretted it. If she could leave the orphanage as soon as she saw Zhu Zhu, she would not be allowed to get her mobile phone. .

Fortunately, she still thought that Zhu Zhu would go to the orphanage as a volunteer because he had a kind side. Now that she thinks about it, she was prepared to go!

Bai Muqing spent the whole afternoon in a disheartened mood, and after finally getting off work, she threw herself into the arms of Su Xi and Yao Mei.After crying, Su Xi patted her on the shoulder and comforted her: "Don't blame yourself, she came prepared, you can guard against her once, but not twice."

Bai Muqing nodded, feeling that this was extremely true, if Zhu Zhu deliberately framed her, she would be totally defenseless!
She wiped the tears off her face with a tissue, and said to her two friends, "I'm going back first."

"Wait a minute." Su Xi pushed her back on the chair: "What are you going to do?"

"I don't know either." Bai Muqing said helplessly. With such conclusive evidence, it was normal for Nan Gongchen not to believe her, and it would be hard for ordinary people to believe it.

Yao Mei sighed speechlessly: "I really don't understand, Lin Annan, why is he so clinging to you? Does he love you so much?"

"This is a man. He can afford to lose, but he can't afford to lose face. Nan Gongchen himself is the imaginary enemy of many men." Su Xi shrugged.

"Does that also include your Young Master Qiao?" Yao Mei asked with a smile.

Su Xi nodded generously: "Anyway, whether I look at Nangong Chen one more time or mention a word about Nangong's family, he will definitely react like a madman."

"Oh, man, this is a common problem of rich men." Yao Mei stared at Bai Muqing: "By the way, do you want me and Xiaoxi to help you get revenge? Tear that little bitch up."

"Don't do it." Bai Muqing hastily stopped her and said, "Nangong Chen is angry now, if I still touch his first love, he will definitely be even more angry."

"But if you don't move her, it proves that you are guilty."

"Whatever he thinks, anyway, I don't dare to provoke that woman casually." Bai Muqing took a bitter breath: "When I see her in the future, I will hide from a distance, I will definitely."

"Then why don't we accompany you to find Lin Annan? Let him come forward to help you clarify the matter."

"They made all kinds of designs, and finally succeeded. How can you clarify for me?" Su Xi glanced at Yao Mei, and said, "I'm really curious when Lin Annan and Zhu Zhu hooked up?"

"I don't know either." Bai Muqing shook her head, "I only know that if they join forces, coupled with the old lady's obstruction, the distance between me and Nangong Chen will only grow further and further."

"Hurry up and eat something before you go back, haven't you eaten at noon?" Su Xi pushed the dinner brought by the waiter in front of her, and comforted her with a smile: "Don't worry too much, because Nangong Chen was so kind to you before. Your feelings, he should forgive you soon."

Bai Muqing nodded, but she was actually not optimistic at all.

Lin Annan had called her so many times before, and the meeting with her was just to pave the way for what happened today.Nangong Chen could forgive her again and again, but there is a limit to human patience.In the face of so much evidence, she didn't dare to expect Nangongchen's forgiveness at all!

*****
After parting with Su Xi and the others, Bai Muqing went home alone.

She glanced at the garage, but did not see Nangong Chen's car, it seemed that he did not go home.

With a glimmer of hope, she walked to Nangong Chen's study room, but there was no sign of him there.It's past nine o'clock now, but he hasn't come back.

Back in the bedroom, she took out her mobile phone and dialed Nangong Chen's mobile phone while walking towards the terrace. The oncoming cool wind hit her face, and she closed her eyes in pain. Tone, she still dialed without giving up.

She didn't give up calling Nangong Chen until the phone squeezed in some time.

The call was actually from Lin Annan. Seeing the number jumping on the screen, she hesitated for a while before pressing the connect button, and then put the phone on her ear.She didn't speak, and the anger and sadness in her stomach finally converged into a low sob.

She cried softly, and Lin Annan on the other end of the phone listened quietly.

After a while, Lin Annan uttered softly: "Mu Qing, don't do this."

After a pause, he continued, "If you want to scold me, you can scold me as much as you want, as long as you feel comfortable in your heart."

Bai Muqing finally stopped her sobs and said, "Lin Annan, you have achieved your goal, should you be satisfied now?"

"No, I haven't achieved my goal yet." Lin Annan said without shame: "Nangong Chen forcibly took you away from me, and now I want to snatch you back from him. This is my goal."

"Lin Annan, when will you understand that I am not an item of your vindictiveness, and I am not something you can snatch back if you want. I have said it many times. Ever since you and Bai Yingan got married, I have Without you, never again!" Bai Muqing cried depressively: "What exactly do you want to let me go?"

"No, if he hadn't kidnapped you at the wedding last time, we are living happily and happily now, so..."

"Don't mention the last wedding, okay? I don't want to mention it anymore. Lin Annan, you are too despicable and shameless. In the past, you colluded with Bai Yingan to frame me, and now you colluded with Zhu Zhu. Do you think this way Can you really take me back?"

"It's Nangong Chen who is despicable and shameless." Lin Annan suddenly said angrily, "Mu Qing, you can't just ignore what he did to you just because you have him in your heart. , you are not sad or hate him at all, but you think I am despicable and shameless, it is too biased for you to think so."

Bai Muqing shook her head: "I don't want to argue with you on this issue anymore, Lin Annan, just let it out if you have any tricks, but let me remind you first, even if I break up with Nangongchen someday, I won't be with you Anything that intersects."

"Mu Qing..."

"Young Master Lin." Bai Muqing interrupted him: "This is the last time I'll talk to you, please don't call me again, and don't use tricks to meet me again. You and I will never be able to in this life! "

"Mu Qing, Nangong Chen loves Miss Zhu." Lin Annan said before she hung up the phone.

"If he loves Ms. Zhu, Ms. Zhu doesn't need to go out of her way to collude with you." Bai Muqing touched the tears on her face and sneered: "Tell her for me, don't go out of your way, even if Nangong Chen didn't I can't possibly marry her."

After Bai Muqing finished speaking, she hung up the phone.

She just sat in the corner of the terrace, her cheeks were wet, and it hurt like a knife when the wind blew.

Not far downstairs is the swimming pool, looking at the calm water above, Bai Muqing suddenly remembered the scene of Nangong Chen pressing her face into the water.Nan Gongchen warned her that if she dared to meet Lin Annan next time, she would take off her clothes and throw them into the pool.

Now she really hoped that Nangong Chen would be so angry that he would strip her naked and throw her into the pool, instead of angrily telling her to go away, so that she would not return at night.

She wiped her face with her hands again, and then dialed Nangongchen's number on her mobile phone, but no one listened to the call as usual.

Bai Muqing then dialed the phone to Su Xi and asked her if Nan Gongchen was with Qiao Shao.As far as she knew, Nangong Chen would ask Qiao to drink less when he was in a bad mood, and he was a person who couldn't drink too much.

Su Xi agreed to ask her questions, and called back 3 minutes later to tell her that Young Master Qiao had no social engagements today and had gone home early.

If he wasn't with Qiao Shao, who would he be with?

Su Xi thought for a while, and said: "Mu Qing, men will definitely drink at this time, and it's also the time when their psychological defenses are at their worst. At this time, Bitch Zhu will definitely come on stage, and come here to take advantage of it, so...you'd better be careful."

Bai Muqing was stunned for a moment, then suddenly stood up from the ground, sniffed and said, "I see."

"Hello, Mu Qing..." Su Xi wanted to say something, but Bai Muqing had already hung up the phone.

After hanging up the phone, Bai Muqing didn't hesitate, picked up her bag from the sofa and walked out.

(End of this chapter)