Chapter 216 : Being Excluded

Fu Sichan had originally given Bai Xuan not even a glance, but upon hearing her words, he stopped in his tracks.

He slowly looked down at her, his eyes devoid of any emotion.

It was as if she was just an inconsequential passerby.

Bai Xuan felt a sharp pang in her heart, her eyes welling up with sadness.

“Senior Brother, are you too scared to answer me?”

In the depths of Fu Sichan’s calm gaze, there was finally a flicker of emotion.

But it wasn’t the tenderness she had hoped for; it was disgust and confusion.

“Do you think that by allowing you to enter the company, I’ve agreed to let you stay by my side?”

What a ridiculous joke.

By that logic, there were thousands of people around him every day!

Tears trembled in Bai Xuan’s eyes, threatening to spill. “Isn’t it?”

If he had no feelings for her, why would he agree?

Moreover, he had allowed her to stay in the department closest to him.

Wasn’t that a silent understanding between them?

Fu Sichan furrowed his brow, his thin lips coldly uttering words that chilled her to the bone:

“I let you into the company purely out of respect for Old Man Bai’s relationship with my grandfather. When Old Man Bai humbles himself to ask, our Fu family isn’t rude enough to refuse.”

Bai Xuan couldn’t believe it. “Senior Brother, do you really have no selfish motives at all?”

What selfish motives could he have?

His only desire was for Bai Xuan to stay as far away from him as possible.

“You think too much.”

With that indifferent remark, Fu Sichan turned his gaze away and walked past her.

He approached Lu Yunyao, took her hand, and stuffed the pink phone into her pocket.

Bai Xuan even heard him gently remind her “Make sure to keep your phone with you so I can find you, alright?”

Lu Yunyao smiled sweetly, “I know, Mr.”

“Thud”—

The tears in Bai Xuan’s eyes finally slipped down her cheeks, splattering onto the marble floor.

The clean tiles reflected her current state of disarray.

Just moments ago, Fu Sichan had spoken to Lu Yunyao with such tenderness, as if afraid of scaring her.

But when he faced her, he was so high and mighty, looking down on her coldly.

Bai Xuan couldn’t accept that after following her Senior Brother for so many years, she couldn’t even compete with a newcomer like Lu Yunyao.

Why was that?

When she met her senior brother, Lu Yunyao was suffering in some corner!

She was clearly the one who came here first, why should she give way to Lu Yunyao?

Bai Xuan’s eyes kept reflecting on the image of her senior brother squatting in front of Lu Yunyao, speaking to her in a gentle and low voice.

Why should that good-for-nothing woman make my senior brother bow down to her?

Maybe it was because she was too shocked, or maybe she lost too much blood.

Bai Xuan’s body swayed and she fell to the ground weakly.

Her fainting immediately aroused the sympathy of many male colleagues.

“Our President Fu is too cold-hearted. His girlfriend hurt Bai Xuan so badly, and he didn’t care about it, but he actually said such heartless words?”

“Is it wrong to like someone? Bai Xuan just likes Mr. Fu, and she didn’t interfere with the relationship between him and his girlfriend. Is that girl so hostile to Bai Xuan?”

“Alas, I used to admire Mr. Fu very much, but now it seems that he is just an ordinary man obsessed with sex.”

“If I were Bai Xuan, I would be heartbroken to hear President Fu’s heartless words.”

A colleague called 120 and said, “Stop talking and send Bai Xuan to the hospital!”

Several people sent Bai Xuan to the hospital.

Bai Xuan was lying on the hospital bed. She was already awake, but in order to arouse everyone’s sympathy, she pretended to be asleep.

“Bai Xuan is so pitiful. Mr. Fu’s girlfriend doesn’t seem to be as kind and harmless as the rumors say.”

“Don’t jump to conclusions. Look at the video Assistant Wang just released internally!”

A few people opened their phones and found that every company group was forwarding this video.

The video shows that Bai Xuan was not pushed down by Lu Yunyao, but she fell down by herself!

“Ah? It looks like Miss Lu didn’t push Bai Xuan. How did she fall?”

“Friends who often read novels know what the passive skill of Bai Xuan is? It is to frame someone!”

“I’m from the technical department. I can testify that this video does not have any traces of photoshop. It is real!”

“So, Bai Xuan was playing a self-torture trick from the beginning to the end? Didn’t some people say that Bai Xuan had no intention of interfering? Does your face hurt now?”

If this doesn’t count as being a mistress, then what else counts?

Do I have to take off all my clothes and stand in front of Mr. Fu to be considered as interfering?

In an instant, everyone’s opinion of Bai Xuan did a complete 360-degree turn!

They had thought she was just a lovesick admirer, but it turned out she had ulterior motives!

“I can’t believe I was feeling sorry for her earlier. I thought she was one of those who silently loved someone and wished Mr. Fu happiness. Who knew she was already plotting to climb the ranks?”

“Luckily, Mr. Fu and Miss Lu have a deep bond, and she wasn’t able to sow discord between them. Otherwise, wouldn’t that have allowed this little third party to get her way?”

“If anyone is still defending Bai Xuan right now, I can only wish you find yourself a ‘good junior’ like her for your boyfriend.”

The few colleagues standing in the hospital room all looked incredibly awkward.

“Ahem, I have family matters to attend to, so I’ll be leaving first.”

“I need to get back to work for overtime, so I won’t stay.”

Before long, the colleagues who had brought Bai Xuan to the hospital each made excuses and slipped away.

What’s the worst thing in the workplace? Being two-faced! Putting on a front while acting differently behind people’s backs!

Bai Xuan was exactly that kind of person.

Today she could act and frame the innocent Lu Yunyao, and tomorrow she could stab her colleagues in the back.

Soon, the hospital room Bai Xuan occupied was empty.

She opened her red-rimmed eyes, intending to see the video everyone was talking about, only to find—

She had already been kicked out of the work group.

…

The next day, when Bai Xuan arrived at the office, she noticed that everyone was ostracizing her.

She was about to get on the elevator, but as soon as the others inside saw her, they immediately pressed the close door button, leaving her outside.

Bai Xuan rushed forward but nearly bumped into the just-closed elevator doors.

She awkwardly hit the brakes, her bandaged hand resting against the wall.

“Hey, have you guys seen that video? Our Mr. Fu is so protective of his wife! I’m starting to think it’s getting more and more appealing!”

“I’ve said it before, this world is like a huge romantic novel! It’s called ‘Addicted for Ninety-Nine Days: The Dominant CEO’s Sweet Wife’.”

“When looking for a man, you want someone like Mr. Fu, who isn’t fooled by green tea or white lotus types and has top-notch discernment.”

As a few colleagues chatted, they approached the elevator.

Upon seeing Bai Xuan, they simultaneously fell silent and exchanged glances.

When the elevator reached the first floor, the group entered.

Bai Xuan was about to step in when someone unexpectedly pushed her, causing her to get shoved out of the elevator.

The people inside didn’t wait for her, eagerly closing the doors and moving up.

All that was left was Bai Xuan, standing alone with a gloomy face.