Chapter 43.2 “You look like my neighbor’s roast chicken, exactly like sh!t.”

Rong Sheng’s wave of passion really made him act quickly. Ten minutes later, he called again, “Two news. First, the hot search has been withdrawn.”

At this moment, Ji Lin had already arrived at the office. He put down his phone and decided not to engage in a war of words with silly netizens online. He made a cup of Blue Mountain coffee and returned to his calm and self-possessed noble demeanour, “What about the second one?”

“The second one, I didn’t pull the hot search, Lin Hui found someone to pull it, one step ahead of me.”

Ji Lin’s face sank down.

“Don’t get angry yet, listen to me, and don’t get angry at Bai Duanduan. This has nothing to do with Bai Duanduan. She definitely didn’t ask Lin Hui for help. I heard that Lin Hui called to withdraw the hot search almost immediately after this matter came out, it should be completely his own decision. This matter was probably also done by any unscrupulous person below him.”

Rong Sheng said upto here and let out a slow whistle, “It’s obvious that Lin Hui has old feelings for our lawyer Bai. As soon as he saw that someone else had hurt Bai Duanduan, he immediately went into a frenzy to go and remove the hot search, but what if he really does make a big show of pursuing Lawyer Bai again and the two people get back together?”

With the hot search issue resolved, Sheng Lin’s reputation would not be implicated and Sheng Lin’s lawyers would no longer suffer reputational damage. Rong Sheng completely relaxed and then thought of something else.

Although the eight characters of birth have not yet been matched, Rong Sheng was already worried, “But in case, I say just in case, if both people get back together, are you sure you can stand it? After all, you hate Lin Hui to death, and it turns out that one of our lawyer at Sheng Lin is Lin Hui’s girlfriend, so if Lin Hui comes to the law firm to pick up lawyer Bai from work to go on a date with him, and if you bump into them, wouldn’t you be annoyed to death?”

Rong Sheng analyzed solemnly,”And according to your character, I’m afraid you’ll get more and more upset with Bai Duanduan in the future, right? After all, she’s Lin Hui’s woman now. So then you see, if once Bai Duanduan and Lin Hui get back together, we’ll have to find a reason to fire Bai Duanduan? Although it’s not much to say that it’s reasonable to give financial compensation, based on your hatred for Lin Hui, you probably won’t want to give a penny more to his girlfriend, or perhaps future wife, right? After all, we specialize in labor disputes, and you are a professional at firing people, so we’ll have to find a few options to fire Bai Duanduan without spending a penny, what do you think?”

Ji Lin was silent for a moment before he pursed his lips and said, “I won’t be angry with Bai Duanduan because of Lin Hui. There is a clear distinction between public and private matters and I won’t fire her for this.”

Rong Sheng smiled and spoke to Ji Lin a few more words before hanging up the phone, but although Ji Lin sounded calm, his heart wasn’t the same anymore.

Lin Hui and Bai Duanduan were back together?

Why? !

After what Lin Hui did to Ji Lin’s father, why should he be able to be happy? Why could he just turn around and walk away and move on with his life? Why should he be able to be with Bai Duanduan after ruining someone else’s life? Did he deserve it?

Hearing the news that Lin Hui might be getting back together with Bai Duanduan, Ji Lin couldn’t calm down at all. He felt that he could not stand by idly in this matter.

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However, Bai Duanduan had no idea of the shocking waves in Ji Lin’s heart. The moment she saw that the hot search had been removed, her first thought was that it was probably Ji Lin who had helped her to remove it, so she happily knocked on the door of Ji Lin’s office in a vain attempt to say thank you.

“Ji Lin, thank you for helping me remove the searches!”

However, what she got in response was a rather ugly face from Ji Lin, who was silent for a moment before saying with a lowered gaze, “It’s not me.”

Bai Duanduan just wanted to ask who it was, but she didn’t expect her phone to ring. She glanced down and was quite surprised that the caller was Lin Hui. She glanced at Ji Lin and apologetically excused herself, “I’m going out to take a call first.”

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“Teach….” As soon as she left Ji Lin’s office, Bai Duanduan pressed the answer button. She changed her words before the phrase teacher Lin came out of her mouth. She calmly said, “Lawyer Lin, do you want something from me?”

Lin Hui’s voice paused, and then Bai Duanduan heard him sigh somewhat vicariously and sadly before saying “Duanduan, I’m sorry.”

He apologized as soon as she picked up the call, but it did not soften Bai Duanduan’s heart. She remembered Du Xinyi’s old grudge and said sarcastically, “You’ve come to claim the hot search package is a gift from you, haven’t you? I’ve used all the public marketing numbers that ZhaoHui has worked with, this package cost a lot of money, didn’t it? How can I, Bai Duanduan, ask you to spend so much money?”

“I’m sorry, Duanduan.” Lin Hui was rarely angered by Bai Duanduan’s attitude, his voice was low, “But this time, the hot search was really not authorized by me, Du Xinyi did this privately. Even though I found out about it and immediately got someone to pull the hot search, I know you all suffered because of this and it is my fault.”

Bai Duanduan was stunned, not expecting that the one who deleted the hot search for herself was Lin Hui.

“What do you mean by saying this to me now? Do you still expect me to thank you? Or do you expect me to let go of Du Xinyi after hearing your apology?”

Lin Hui’s attitude was gentle as he smiled softly, “You are so vindictive and have such a big idea of your own, how can you not do anything I tell you not to do? Du Xinyi did have a fault in this matter and I sent out a group email at the institute to criticize her. I will also let her apologize to you in person……”

Bai Duanduan laughed coldly, “No, no, no, I can’t stand her, you’d better not let her disgust me. I’m too busy to meet her face to face.”

“Then are you free to meet me?”

Bai Duanduan frowned.

Lin Hui seemed a little embarrassed, but coughed, and even though it was unnatural, he continued, “Because I think there are some things for which I also need to apologise to you in person.”

Bai Duanduan hadn’t expected Lin Hui to say this and she was a little shocked.

“I know there was a problem with the way I treated you before, Duanduan, I’m sorry. I’ve been tossing and turning these days, unable to sleep, thinking about when you first followed me from University to start ZhaoHui, always feeling that we shouldn’t have come to this point. Having sent you to B City for the last three years, we have been so busy with our respective work that we have not been able to communicate properly. After you left I have thought a lot and reflected on my behaviour during those times and would like to have a good talk with you.”

Bai Duanduan pondered for a moment and eventually agreed to meet with Lin Hui during the lunch break.

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In the end, Bai Duanduan and Lin Hui met at the restaurant below the Sheng Lin office building.

After all, Lin Hui was a former university teacher so he was able to speak in an unflinching manner. Compared to Ji Lin, he was less blunt and had a gentle and elegant gesture in him, and he could make himself sound very approachable when he talked, “I know you are now in Sheng Lin, but this person Ji Lin is very unbeneficial, you may not realise it now with the little contact, but you and he …… are not the same kind of person. I am afraid that you two may not fit in many aspects together. It would be difficult to gel up in the future and there would always be conflicts. I heard that after you joined, he also did not give you any source of cases to start with.”

Lin Hui paused, and then continued, “I wonder, if you are considering coming back to ZhaoHui? I’ll pay you twice the monthly salary of whatever Sheng Lin’s offering, and the rest of whatever treatment you want. Feel free to say, after all, you’ve been at ZhaoHui from the beginning of your career until now, and you’re familiar with whatever work atmosphere we have over there, and you also know your colleagues very well……”

After Lin Hui finished poaching, he looked like he was finally a bit tired and said in a solemn voice, “Recently, the situation at ZhaoHui is not good, and many partners have left. Although new partners have been brought in, I am not comfortable handing over the management authority to them. Duanduan, come back and help me. I am only comfortable handing over the management authority to you. Come back and be promoted to a junior partner, the cases and resources in my hands will also be yours sooner or later. As long as you continue to work at ZhaoHui, middle partner, high partner, or any other income generating thresholds will be met by you sooner or later, and I will help you…..”

In theory, Lin Hui’s words can be regarded as heartfelt when he talked about the predicament of the law firm. Not to mention that there was no hint of selfishness, but it can be regarded as some true feelings plus there was his previous kindness to herself. If it had been any normal girl, she would have been moved to agree, but unfortunately Bai Duanduan was not a normal girl.

She interrupted Lin Hui, “I just want to ask, if I come back, will Du Xinyi leave?”

With just this one sentence, Lin Hui really fell into silence.

Bai Duanduan laughed coldly in her heart, “Lawyer Lin, historically, you can’t have both the fish and the bear’s paw together. Look at how Du Xinyi and I have gotten into this mess, do you still expect us to get along peacefully?”