The Wealthy Tycoon's Game of Life

Chapter 1271: Chapter 487: Triangle

Jiang Qingkui seemed very busy, but only she knew that she was using this way to cover up her inner anxiety.

Once she stopped, her gaze couldn’t help but drift towards Ding Yi or Xia Xiwei.

She never thought she would lose to any woman in terms of appearance, but she had to admit that Ding Yi and Xia Xiwei did indeed pressure her.

Jiang Mo was also very beautiful, but perhaps because she had long been by Zhou Wang’s side, or perhaps because her personality was not so aggressive, subconsciously, Jiang Qingkui never harbored any hostility towards Jiang Mo. In fact, in the occasional interactions, Jiang Qingkui would deliberately avoid Jiang Mo.

But Ding Yi and Xia Xiwei were completely different.

Originally, Jiang Qingkui was also puzzled by the difference until five minutes ago, when Jiang Qingkui was checking around to confirm whether there were any mistakes in guests’ seating arrangements, Ding Yi suddenly smiled and waved at her from the first table on the east side.

”Sister Qingkui, could you please come over for a moment?”

”Is there something you need?”

At this table, besides Ding Yi and her mother Nie Xiaoyun, there were also some important guests from Beidou, so Jiang Qingkui did not neglect them, adjusted her expression, and quickly walked over... even though there was clearly a hostess standing right beside the table.

”Here’s the thing, could you please take this to Zhou Wang?”

Ding Yi took a gift box from under the table and handed it to Jiang Qingkui.

Jiang Qingkui glanced at the inconspicuous ”Charvet” logo on the bag and asked, somewhat puzzled, ”What’s this...”

”A handmade tie... Zhou Wang showed me a photo of this suit on WeChat before, and I thought everything was great except the tie was a bit lacking in color layering, so I ordered this tie for him in advance and forgot to give it to him just now.”

Ding Yi smiled, ”So could you give it to him? He’ll change into it, I mentioned it to him before.”

This seemed like a very ordinary conversation, but the information revealed in Ding Yi’s words inevitably made Jiang Qingkui think erratically.

So Zhou Wang shares so many things with Ding Yi, including daily outfits, and even listens to her opinions...

And what about herself?

Their conversations seemed mostly work-related. She used to flirt subtly with Zhou Wang; their text message chats were far more daring than when they met in person, but at some point, as both became busier, these little flirtations gradually disappeared.

Feeling inexplicably sad, Jiang Qingkui hadn’t recovered when she heard Ding Yi introducing someone to the woman beside Nie Xiaoyun.

”Aunt Lin, this is Jiang Qingkui, Zhou Wang’s secretary. I’m not sure if you’ve met...”

Jiang Qingkui had actually met this dignified woman surnamed Lin once in Beidou; she was Mrs. Lin, Qiu Zeyu’s mother. Ding Yi’s introduction didn’t seem inappropriate, but the emphasis on ”Zhou Wang’s secretary” subtly revealed the difference.

She was just one of Zhou Wang’s subordinates, whereas Ding Yi seemed to be Zhou Wang’s real confidant, someone on an equal emotional footing.

Yet Jiang Qingkui had no way to vent her frustration because what Ding Yi described seemed to be just the truth, so Jiang Qingkui could only force a polite smile, nod, and hastily turn away.

What made Jiang Qingkui’s mood even worse was not just this incident.

When she wanted to go look for Zhou Wang, she was stopped by Lin Ran on her way.

”Sister Qingkui, I think you need to see this...”

Lin Ran’s expression was somewhat strange. She quietly pulled Jiang Qingkui into an empty corner, then handed her phone to her.

”What is it?”

At first Jiang Qingkui was confused, until she lowered her head to see the content on the phone, and her expression turned unpleasant.

Lin Ran was showing her a trending list from Weibo’s real-time hot searches. Among the rising hot topics, a few very noticeable ”small titles” appeared–

”Xia Xiwei’s romance”

”International Gold Center charity gala”

”Xia Xiwei’s personal response”

”Wuyou Media’s Zhou Wang”

...

Jiang Qingkui instinctively clicked on the ”Xia Xiwei’s personal response” topic and found that the most popular entry was a media article published by a famous paparazzo, intricately analyzing the relationship between Xia Xiwei and this man named Zhou Wang, which was not just the ”just friends” that some fervent fans imagined.

The article first found the microblog post Xia Xiwei posted back when she met Zhou Wang for the first time, with the sentence ”It’s like from this day forward, my life has an accurate measure” highlighted in red.

Moreover, this all-seeing paparazzo even found some screenshots from Xia Xiwei’s circle of friends, though they were deleted posts, the ambiguous words were suggestive.

In addition, the paparazzo specifically analyzed Xia Xiwei’s recent changes over the past few months, including changes in clothing, increasingly conservative filming choices, etc...

There were many other corroborating pieces of evidence.

For example, on the Little Sweet Potato platform where Xia Xiwei was not very active, Zhou Wang was the only male on her follow list. Another example was the avatar she changed to for a period, which was a blooming Jacaranda, pointing to Ming City where Zhou Wang often resided...

Apart from these, there was the ultimate evidence deemed conclusive, which came from Xia Xiwei’s own response a few minutes ago.