To My Dear Mr. Huo - Chapter 523
Chapter 523: I’m Sorry, Mrs. Huo
Seeing the woman, Su Qingsang twitched her eyebrows slightly. Once again, she recalled the close interaction between the woman and Huo Jinyao in that video she had seen.
She stopped walking and tightened her hands around the rods of the suitcases she was carrying.
A few seconds later, she relaxed her hands and gave a smile, watching the woman walk towards her.
Su Qingsang was observing the woman closely.
She was wearing a white coat from Givenchy and a pair of lambskin ankle boots from Prada, with her hair put up in a bun. On her face, was a faint smile. Her purple eye shadow made her look charming and almost seductive.
Su Qingsang had to admit that the woman did look delicate. More importantly, she was aware of how pretty she was, as it was obvious that she had exploited her beauty to the full.
Su Qingsang herself always wore flats, as she needed to stand for a long time to perform operations on her patients. Unlike her, Ding Qing was wearing a pair of heels, and that made her look much taller than Su Qingsang. It and allowed Ding Qing to give out a strong vibe.
She walked to Su Qingsang step by step, with a peaceful and polite smile.
Su Qingsang watched her come closer and closer. A sullen look flashed across her eyes, but she adjusted her expression very quickly.
“Hi, Mrs. Huo.” Ding Qing made a few steps forward, walked up to Su Qingsang, and said, “I’m Ding Qing, President Huo’s secretary. He has sent me here to pick you up.”
In fact, the one Huo Jinyao was supposed to send, to pick up Su Qingsang was Yang Wenchang. He couldn’t come because he had a morning meeting to attend. However, Ding Qing happened to hear Huo Jinyao ask Yang Wenchang to go to the airport.
Yang Wenchang had already gathered the details of what Huo Jinyao had asked him to find out about yesterday’s operation. Thus, he hesitated when Huo Jinyao asked him to go to the airport. Then, Ding Qing offered to go instead of him.
“I met Mrs. Huo when she came to the company last time. I know her. Don’t worry, I’ll bring her back home safely.”
“Alright.”
In the past few days, Huo Jinyao had learned a lot about Ding Qing’s ability. He didn’t think much but agreed to let her pick Su Qingsang up.
Now, she was standing before Su Qingsang with a small smile, reaching out a hand toward the latter. Her lips were in a bright red color.
Her hands were different from Su Qingsang’s hands. In the hospital, Su Qingsang needed to sterilize her hands all the time, so they were always pale.
Ding Qing had red nails, decorated with beautiful floral patterns.
Su Qingsang glanced at her hands, then looked into her eyes. Ding Qing was still wearing a peaceful look in her eyes as if she hadn’t mouthed those provocative words to Su Qingsang the last time.
“Hi, Mrs. Huo.”
Su Qingsang didn’t shake her hand immediately, but Ding Qing politely reached her hand further forward.
“I’m Ding Qing. President Huo sent me here to pick you up.”
Su Qingsang glanced at her hand again. At last, she shook it. It was so soft, making it seem like it had no bones.
She shook her hand briefly and then quickly let it go.
“Where’s Huo Jinyao?”
“He has a very important meeting to attend, so he can’t come here himself.”
Ding Qing made a step forward to reach Su Qingsang’s suitcase while speaking. “Mr. Yang is busy too. I was the only one who had time, so he sent me here to pick you up.”
She pulled Su Qingsang’s suitcase towards her, then turned to look at her with a smile, saying, “I hope you don’t mind, Mrs. Huo.”
“Of course I don’t mind,” said Su Qingsang. She blinked her eyes. “I want to thank you, actually.”
“You don’t need to thank me. This is my job.”
Ding Qing pointed outside while saying, “Mrs. Huo, my car is parked over there. Let’s go this way.”
“Okay.” Su Qingsang nodded. Instead of taking her suitcase back from Ding Qing’s hand, she quietly walked by her side.
Su Qingsang didn’t have much luggage. She had brought only one suitcase to Lin City. However, before leaving, Old Master Li and Li Qianxue had given her quite a number of items and told her to bring them back to Huo Jinyao as presents.
Therefore, she came back with two suitcases. Seeing Ding Qing holding both suitcases, she offered to carry one of them.
“Miss. Ding, let me take one.”
“Oh, it’s okay. My car is right there.” Ding Qing was wearing heels, but she walked with firm and steady steps. Su Qingsang glanced at her feet, then turned her eyes away quietly.
Everyone had their own unique traits. She wouldn’t be upset only because Ding Qing was better than her at applying makeup and looked more dashing than she was.
The two of them left the airport and walked into the underground parking lot. Ding Qing put the suitcases in the trunk of her car, then came to the other side to open the car door for Su Qingsang.
“Mrs. Huo, please.”
Su Qingsang furrowed her brows slightly. But soon, she turned, looked at Ding Qing, and said with a smile, “thank you.”
Without saying too many words, she got into the car directly.
She watched Ding Qing walk to the other side of the car, get in and then start the car.
Everything Ding Qing did seemed fine. However, Su Qingsang still couldn’t forget the words she had mouthed to her silently, the other day.
She also couldn’t forget how Ding Qing had fallen into Huo Jinyao’s arms in that video.
She didn’t want to think of everyone as a bad person, but currently, she didn’t think that everyone was being nice and kind either.
She had every reason to suspect that Ding Qing was up to something. Or a more plausible explanation could be that she wanted something from Huo Jinyao.
As Huo Jinyao’s secretary, she surely saw him every day.
A man and a woman who were employer and employee but not a couple spent at least eight hours together every single day…
Su Qingsang blinked her eyes and cast those thoughts out of her mind. She didn’t want to doubt Huo Jinyao’s loyalty. She had many questions and she intended to ask him those questions in person.
She was very tired, as she had gotten up very early for the flight. However, she couldn’t let herself rest in the car, as Ding Qing was driving.
She was still thinking about that video, about how Huo Jinyao and Ding Qing had held each other in it. She wanted so badly to question the woman out loud, but she didn’t let herself do that.
She stayed silent, and Ding Qing didn’t mind that.
“Mrs. Huo, I didn’t get a chance to talk to you last time you came to the office. In fact, many girls in our company got their hearts broken when they heard that President Huo was married.”
She and Su Qingsang made eye-contact in the rearview mirror.
Her words sounded like a compliment for Huo Jinyao. Su Qingsang gave a smile.
“You must be exaggerating. At least thirty percent of Tianyu’s employees are female. If all their hearts are broken, who is doing the work?”
“Haha,” Ding Qing laughed a little dramatically. “Mrs. Huo, you’re so funny.”
“I wouldn’t call that funny. I was just telling the truth,” said Su Qingsang with a bland and affirmative look in her face. “I believe that Jinyao’s employees wouldn’t be so unprofessional. Don’t you think that I’m right, Miss. Ding?”
There was a hidden meaning behind her words. Ding Qing was smart enough to get what she meant. She looked a little embarrassed, and the smile on her face even faded a little.
The embarrassment only lasted a few seconds, though. She looked straight ahead, only focusing on driving. But still, she had to add something to what Su Qingsang said just now.
“Of course. The hard work of all our colleagues is part of the reason why Tianyu Group has become such a great company.”
Su Qingsang nodded, agreeing with her.
“I agree. That’s why I don’t think that the female employees in the company could have had their hearts broken because Jinyao is married. Or, Miss. Ding, did you have your heart broken for that reason too? Do you think everyone is like you?”
“Mrs. Huo, you really like joking.” Ding Qing wasn’t expecting to hear that soft but aggressive question from Su Qingsang, “I’m definitely not one of those girls. After all, I have a boyfriend.”
“As for why I know about how the other girls felt, Mrs. Huo, I assume you understand that in a big company, there will always be some people who like to gossip.”
“I believe that. Where there are people, there will be gossip. But I believe in Jinyao’s company more, and I believe in Jinyao. If he can’t handle small things like that, if he let his employees lose their working enthusiasm just because he announced his marriage, I think he might need to reconsider if he’s capable enough to run the company or not. Do you agree with me?”
Ding Qing fell silent. That was the first face-to-face conversation between her and Su Qingsang.
She thought that Su Qingsang was a weak person, but she turned out to be a fierce one, very hard to deal with.
“Mrs. Huo, you’re right. President Huo is a very capable leader. He can do a lot of things that others can’t. I believe that under his leadership, all the employees of our company will reach a higher level along with the company itself.”
“Miss. Ding,” said Su Qingsang as she leaned back on her seat. The heater was on, but she didn’t take off her coat. So at the moment, she was feeling slightly hot.
“Your President Huo isn’t here. You don’t need to say these flattering words in front of me.”
“Mrs. Huo, you’re joking again. I don’t consider those words flattering. Mrs. Huo, don’t you like people complimenting President Huo for his ability?”
“I don’t like that indeed,” said Su Qingasng, smiling slightly. With that faint smile, she added, “In my eyes, he’s perfect. So, I really don’t need to hear other people praise him.”
Ding Qing gave her a glance from the rearview mirror and detected the smile in her eyes and the sweetness on her face.
Ding Qing found Su Qingsang’s smile unpleasant to her eyes for some reason. Why did Su Qingsang have that sweet smile? It was surely because of Huo Jinyao.
Who would she be without Huo Jinyao? Without Huo Jinyao, Su Qingsang would be no one.
Ding Qing dropped her eyelids. She was aware that she had acted a little impatiently today. She should have been calmer.
However, thinking about the fierce and charming Huo Jinyao that she saw last night in Charm of Night, she couldn’t help it.
It was okay. She still had time. She spent time with Huo Jinyao every single day. She refused to believe that she wouldn’t have any more chances.
She didn’t say anything else, but fixed her eyes on the road and focused on driving.
Su Qingsang stayed quiet as well. She looked at Ding Qing’s back, wondering what the woman would do next.
On the way home, she figured out that Ding Qing had actually been trying to upset her all this while, even though it wasn’t very obvious.
She was a hundred percent sure that the woman was up to something.
