Cui Peng just found it funny. She was the last one to enter the conference room.

Luo Qi put down her coffee and untied the cotton string on the portfolio.

There were copies of contracts inside; these would be shown to Shu Rui and the others later. These contracts were signed directly with Yuanwei Group, bypassing Ruipu and Lingjia Capital.

There were still five minutes left before the meeting, but all meeting participants—including Lingjia Capital executives on the video screen—have already arrived.

Luo Qi glanced at them at the big screen. Yu Bo was checking his phone to reply to messages. He seemed to not care very much about today’s meeting. He probably thought that she could not afford to make a big splash.

“Let’s start since everyone is here.”

… …

As soon as she finished speaking, there was a noise outside the conference room door.

“Sorry, you can’t come in. Our executives are in a meeting.”

“Ah! Who are you? How could you just break in??” Chi Xin’s voice rang out, her tone urgent.

“This is our Yuanwei CEO, Chief Jiang,” Xiao Jiang could be heard to explain. “We are not intruding. The front desk let us in directly.”

Shu Rui approached the door, taking a few steps.

Although he was mentally prepared, he was still slightly startled. The person who came was really Jiang Shenghe.

“Chief Jiang, I’m very sorry. We’re having a meeting here, so we didn’t have time to welcome you.”

“You go on, I’ll just listen.”

It wasn’t until someone had dragged a chair over and Jiang Shenghe sat down that Luo Qi realized what was going on.

Across the long conference table, their eyes met for a few seconds.

It wasn’t that he didn’t trust her. He worried that she wouldn’t have enough confidence and would be manipulated by them, so he came.

It was warm in the conference room, so Jiang Shenghe took off his suit jacket and put it on the back of the chair.

He sat by the door, two or three steps away from Shu Rui.

Cui Peng took in all this.

In her eyes, Luo Qi’s reaction just now was like she was trying to seduce the man.

Men liked this the most.

Jiang Shenghe arrived suddenly; Lingjia Capital temporarily let go of all other matters and whispered among themselves about what was going on.

Yu Bo looked at the calm Jiang Shenghe on the screen and was himself not sure. Yuanwei Group had at least seventy or eighty subsidiaries, likely even more.

Jiang Shenghe probably didn’t even remember the names of some of those companies. Among the companies controlled by Yuanwei Group, Ruipu could not be considered as a high-quality company—but it somehow had the leverage to make Jiang Shenghe attend this meeting in person.

“Let’s begin.”

The cold words calmed everyone down.

Luo Qi was not at all disturbed by Jiang Shenghe’s appearance and simply followed her original plan.

“There are two things on the agenda today. First, the matter of Cui Peng. Second, Ruipu’s market positioning adjustment.”

When her name was called, Cui Peng raised her head quietly, her expression calm.

Except for Jiang Shenghe, everyone else, including those in the Lingjia Capital conference room, focused on Cui Peng.

Luo Qi continued, “Cui Peng’s matter is originally my private matter, but Cui Peng herself doesn’t distinguish between work and private affairs. She pretends to be working to further company interest but is actually pursuing personal gain, so it can’t really be considered a private matter anymore.”

But Cui Peng was not to be outdone. “Ms. Luo and I do have some personal grudges. It seems that Ms. Luo has always intended to avenge her personal grievances against me. Do you now intend to let Lingjia transfer me away?”

“No one needs to transfer you away. I will let you get out of here on your own two feet.”

As soon as these words came out, there was an uproar.

Cui Peng was being scolded in public, but this was also the time to gain sympathy.

“It’s obvious you want to incriminate me, so it’s useless no matter what I say. Many people can see how difficult it is whenever I try to work with you. I have long wanted to give up the job, but when I think about it, why should I? This is my job. Lingjia’s money is invested here and I have no choice but to endure it again and again.”

“We’re all here, I thought you’d put away your desire to act. But it seems after all that you can’t help but perform.” 

Luo Qi’s eyes turned from Shu Rui to Yu Bo on the big screen, “Go and perform in front of Mr. Shu and Mr. Yu. They’re both used to this.”

Shu Rui: “…”

Yu Bo: “…”

It was like being slapped in the face in public.

“Mr. Luo,” Yu Bo said sharply, “This is an attack on me personally.”

He naturally wanted to keep his face. All this made him look like he was worthless.

Luo Qi followed his words, “Then let me ask Mr. Yu, has Cui Peng ever told you how she’s having a hard time with me, saying that she resigned from Pei Shixiao’s company because I couldn’t tolerate her? If I guessed correctly, she also said that was misunderstood as a mistress.”

Yu Bo said nothing.

At this point, denial was impossible.

“Oh, by the way, I forgot to introduce Pei Shixiao’s relationship with me. He’s my ex-fiance who cheated on me with Cui Peng before we got married.”

“Ms. Luo,” Cui Peng called out, forcing back her nausea, “Don’t accuse people of being a mistress just because we worked overtime on projects together. I can’t guarantee what Pei Shixiao thinks of me, but I myself have never done anything to make me feel I have wronged you. “

She has never sent any ambiguous messages to Pei Shixiao, and those words that crossed the line were only spoken face to face.

“This is an official meeting, Ms. Luo. Please pay attention to the occasion,” Yu Bo reminded her.

“I said at the beginning that the first matter to be discussed in this meeting was Cui Peng. She has affected my work, and that makes this official business.”

Luo Qi looked at Cui Peng, “You may not have imagined that in the year after we broke up, Pei Shixiao came to me several times to beg for reconciliation and asked me to forgive him. In an attempt to win my favor he also explained in an email how he was confused by you, asking for my understanding.

“Let me pick out a few items and tell you about them to see if he’s just making things up to drag you down.”

Cui Peng’s expression froze.

“For example, you drank some alcohol and called him in the middle of the night, saying that the pain was too much and you had to go to the hospital. For example, you sent him a work document at midnight on his birthday.”

Cui Peng reflexively clicked the mouse in her hand. She didn’t even know where she clicked; the entire page was messed up.

Her eyes could not focus at all.

Her entire face burned, from her cheeks to her ears. She could feel her ears were red and burning hot.

She had just done this to Shu Rui.

How she wished now that she had never known Shu Rui.

This hurt her face far more than actually slapping her in the face.

“It seems that Pei Shixiao hasn’t lied about these. This was how he fell for you step by step. Maybe all men would naturally fall into this trap; such an the iron-clad routine, such fickle men.”

Shu Rui took off his glasses. He wanted to laugh but didn’t.

He could clearly hear that Luo Qi thought he was the same.

Cui Peng was in a daze, and she couldn’t reply at all.

“Before I came to Ruipu I didn’t know at all that you would be here,” Luo Qi said. “But what about you? You are so disgusting that you sold your house to my aunt at a loss just to get my family’s debt from her, and you asked me to transfer money to you every month to pay it off.

“I have all the evidence in my laptop.” She asked Cui Peng, “Do you still need me to show it to you again?”

“Ms. Luo, I got your debt only to win you over to our side. I just want to work together to make Ruipu great. I also said that there was no rush to pay back the money. Please don’t confuse the situation.”

Cui Peng tried to calm herself down. She has already lost Shu Rui—she could not lose Yu Bo’s trust too. Yu Bo didn’t know that she also did those things to Shu Rui.

“If you believe what Pei Shixiao says, then there’s nothing I can do about it.”

Right in front of Shu Rui, she lied like this. Now that things had come to this, what else could be done? Love was gone, but her career could not be lost too.

Anyway, only she and Shu Rui knew about certain things, and it would only be embarrassing in front of him.

Moving forward, it would not be a big deal.

… …

Shu Rui couldn’t help but frown when he heard what she said.

If she really hadn’t called Pei Shixiao in the middle of the night and sent the documents on Pei Shixiao’s birthday—same as she did to him—how could Luo Qi make these things up.

Luo Qi directly played a video from her laptop and projected it on screen, “Mr. Yu, Mr. Lu, please keep your eyes open and watch if what she said is consistent with the truth. See if I have wrongly accused her of being a mistress.”

Jiang Shenghe suddenly smiled after hearing the phrase ‘keep your eyes open and watch’.

He also said this to Qin Moling.

He was not interested in the video. Everyone was staring at the video being projected, but he only looked at Luo Qi.

Luo Qi just raised her head and smiled lightly at him.

Seventh Year of My Secret Love for You translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

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A list of all advance chapters is HERE.
Chapter 55.3 — He Worried About Her, So He Came Over
Chapter 55.4 — He Worried About Her, So He Came Over
Chapter 56.1 — In Public, He Held Her Hand
Chapter 56.2 — In Public, He Held Her Hand
Chapter 56.3 — In Public, He Held Her Hand