Shadow and Light: The Bride Who Clicks Her Way to Love-Chapter 169 - 170: The Newcomer’s Seat

Anna was also taken aback, staring at Su Xingyu in disbelief: "You...you..."

Su Xingyu sighed slightly, as from childhood to adulthood, the identity of "Mu Liancheng’s granddaughter" had always drawn too much attention to her. Especially in those years after the Mu Family went bankrupt and stepmother Liu Meizhi married in, that woman would often boast proudly to others, "See, what’s so great about the Mu Family bloodline? It’s not better than my daughter, Qiqi!"

So, she had long been used to the odd looks of others, remaining composed regardless of praise or ridicule.

At this moment, she looked at the astonished Anna and said, "Yes, I am the granddaughter of the Mu Family, so I want that camera. My grandfather and mother have passed away many years ago, and I miss them very much, along with those things marked by the Mu Family."

Anna still stared at her in shock, unable to say a word.

She hadn’t expected that a living fallen aristocratic young lady would be right beside her. In the past, it always seemed like such a distant thing. She had seen aristocratic young ladies like Miss Zhuang who were high above, but she didn’t expect to have such a down-to-earth person right here, walking alongside her with a pile of employment materials in the company! It was incredible.

Nearby, Mr. Xu stammered: "The orphan of the Mu Family?"

"Of course there are orphans of the Mu Family," Xie Jian’s voice sounded again, "Actually, it’s not really a secret. If you paid attention to these kinds of news, you would have found out long ago—Miss Su Xingyu is the sister of the somewhat famous model Su Xingqi, and some reports about Su Xingqi have mentioned this matter." Of course, it wouldn’t be anything nice to say.

Mr. Xu fell silent; if that’s the case, then giving the limited edition camera to Su Xingyu seemed quite reasonable.

However—

He suddenly remembered a question: How did Miss Xie know about these things? Did they know each other?

He shivered, not daring to stop Xie Jian from giving the camera as a gift and merely stammered: "Miss...Miss Xie, you know that I, as a small employee, have a hard time. Giving the camera to Miss Su is fine, but if the higher-ups blame me..."

"I will take full responsibility." Xie Jian, of course, understood his meaning.

"Thank you, thank you, Miss Xie!" Mr. Xu was thrilled.

Xie Jian handed the camera to Su Xingyu again, and this time, she didn’t refuse.

Having obtained the camera, she and Anna left the storeroom. Once away from Xie Jian, Anna finally dared to exclaim extravagantly: "Xingyu, I didn’t expect you to have such an impressive background?! The Mu Family! That legendary great family twenty years ago!"

The bankruptcy of the Mu Family had been a sensation back then, and it was even adapted into a TV series, which Anna had seen.

She asked incessantly: "Is what they said in the TV true? The Mu Family’s estate was as big as several mountains, filled with rare protected animals like swans and tigers, and the young masters and ladies dined with full sets of silverware?"

Su Xingyu sighed again: "Those are just exaggerated depictions in TV dramas."

Anna marveled again: "I really can’t believe I actually get to meet a living descendant of the Mu Family. If they hadn’t gone bankrupt, wouldn’t you, Xingyu, be like Miss Zhuang, a high-society debutante?" Ah...I’m sorry." She suddenly realized she spoke too much and said the wrong thing, touching a sore spot.

Su Xingyu was unperturbed: "It’s alright."

She had heard this sort of speculation too many times in the past twenty years of her life, often dripping with malicious sarcasm from her stepmother Liu Meizhi and her gang of hangers-on, constantly reminding her to recognize her true status.

She had long stopped feeling sad about it.

"I’m just an ordinary person now," she told Anna, "just like you, like everyone else."

Anna nodded, unsure of what to say next.

The two walked silently for a while, returning to the photography center.

Anna arranged a window-side workstation for her: "Here, Xingyu, you can sit here from now on. The previous occupant of this seat resigned just yesterday, so you came just in time. Otherwise, you’d only have that outer corridor seat to squeeze into." Anyone with an office seat hardly likes sitting by the corridor, as the disturbances are too great; and everyone passing by could see what’s on your computer screen, which is too little privacy.

Su Xingyu smiled in thanks and set her things down.

She had just put them down when a garishly dressed young girl came over: "Hey, wait a minute, this workstation was supposed to be mine, Anna, make the newcomer sit outside." Saying this, she pointed sideways to the farthest corridor position.

Anna was taken aback: "Yun Xi, don’t you already have a seat?"

"I do, but," said the flamboyant girl named Yun Xi, casually brushing her hair, "I already told you my spot is too close to the water dispenser, too noisy with people constantly around. I want to change seats."

"The rules don’t allow changing seats," Anna said. 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚

An office only has so many positions, someone has to sit in the outer corridor spot. If everyone were like Yun Xi, complaining and making a fuss, there’d be no end to it. So Yun Xi’s reason for wanting to change seats was unfounded.

As the assistant in charge of these mundane affairs, Anna understood the rules well, thus refusing.

But Yun Xi narrowed her willow brows and said: "I didn’t make things hard for you before because there was no available seat. Now someone resigned and an ideal position opened up, yet you still won’t let me switch? Who is this new person, your relative or your mom? You’d rather give her the seat than me?"

Her voice was a bit loud, drawing several photographers in the office to turn and look.

Anna had long known that Yun Xi was difficult to deal with, but she was truly put on the spot this time. Initially, if Su Xingyu were an ordinary new hire, she might have just persuaded her to endure it; but she knew now that Su Xingyu was an orphan of the Mu Family, and more importantly, that Xie Jian had given such an expensive camera to Su Xingyu, indicating that in Xie’s eyes, Su Xingyu was different from others. In this scenario, how could she help Yun Xi bully Su Xingyu together?

"Sister Yun Xi..." Anna pleaded sincerely, "Please don’t make things difficult for me."

"Huh, it’s clearly you making things hard for me, how did it turn to me making things difficult for you?" Yun Xi, being a three-star photographer in the company, did not take a newly hired newcomer seriously, "Step aside," she arrogantly pushed Anna aside. Since Anna couldn’t be reasoned with, she decided to speak directly with Su Xingyu: "Newbie, know how to respect your seniors, right? Move to the outer seat."

The tone used for driving away a puppy.

To her surprise, Su Xingyu didn’t accept her approach and merely said: "This is my seat."

She disliked Yun Xi’s aggressive attitude. Perhaps she couldn’t resist the domineering demands of Lu Shifeng, but that didn’t mean just anyone could order her around!