Just then, Fang Qianqian walked over, looking at Ling Yiran in contempt and said, “Sister Xu, why are you talking to her? She’s been to jail! She’s taken a human’s life!”
"Qianqian, we're all colleagues. Why do you have to say that? Besides, Yiran went to jail because she wasn't driving carefully..."
Sister Xu had barely finished speaking when Fang Qianqian interrupted her. "But the person she killed was Hao Meiyu. Sister Xu, do you know who Hao Meiyu is? She's Hao Yimeng's sister! I was wondering why Hao Yimeng wanted so many of our colleagues to look for a non-existent ring. It was because she was targeting Ling Yiran and we were all dragged into it."
"But didn't she also apologize and compensate us?" Sister Xu asked.
Fang Qianqian's expression was unpleasant and she was clearly not pleased with Sister Xu standing up for Ling Yiran. She had been the one who had leaked the news of Ling Yiran's imprisonment.
She had accidentally come across Ling Yiran speaking to Xiao Ziqi and Hao Yimeng. Therefore, she had spent some time scouring the internet looking for any news relating to Xiao Ziqi and Hao Yimeng and had discovered that Ling Yiran had been the one who killed Hao Meiyu all those years ago.
"Sister Xu, did you receive a bribe from Ling Yiran? Why are you standing up for her?" Fang Qianqian mocked her.
"You..." Sister Xu was furious.
"All right, what else is there to say? The car crash was an accident. Yiran didn't intend to do it." A man's voice interrupted her.
Ling Yiran saw that it was Guo Xinli who was defending her.
However, that only angered Fang Qianqian more. She had always found Ling Yiran offensive to the eye because she liked Guo but he was interested in Ling Yiran instead.
"Guo Xinli, what's the point of standing up for Ling Yiran? Do you think she'll like you? Do you know that her ex-boyfriend is Xiao Ziqi? He's the young master of the Xiao Group!"
"There are so many sanitation workers surrounding us and they're looking at me! Usually those who have established careers consider themselves better than others do. Everyone has a tacit understanding of it but I can't say that out loud now."
"Ling Yiran, you... wait and see!" Fang Qianqian glared at her hatefully and hurriedly left.
Ling Yiran exhaled and just as she turned to leave, Guo Xinli shouted after her, "Ling... Ling Yiran, I... I don't think you're the person Fang Qianqian says you are."
She stopped walking for a moment but she did not respond to him and resumed walking away.
"I'm very grateful that Guo Xinli was willing to stand up for me just now, but now that I think about it, since he already knows that I've been to jail, he probably won't have any feelings for me anymore."
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