She became a heartthrob among internet celebrities.

"Brother! You're back! Did you bring me a gift?" Although Qin Yifan sometimes felt both afraid and disgusted with her own brother, she could still tolerate the gift.

Qin Yijian handed over a beautifully packaged bag, "The bracelet you wanted."

Upon receiving the bracelet, Qin Yifan excitedly threw herself at Qin Yijian, exclaiming, "I love you, my brother!"

After saying that, she immediately took the bag and walked to the sofa, humming a little tune as she unpacked it. "He really is my brother~ He's so good to me! This one is so hard to buy, the stores here all said they were out of stock. It seems that Hong Kong has a good supply."

Qin Yijian took a sip of water, ignoring her sister's nagging.

"If I had known, I would have gone to Hong Kong too. I could have played with my friends..." Qin Yifan happily put the bracelet on her wrist. "Brother, please fasten it for me."

Qin Yijian put down her water glass and helped her younger sister put on her bracelet. "Which of your friends is in Hong Kong?"

"It's Jiang Lai! She's going to participate in some competition, lectures, and seminars. Oh? Brother, you told me before that an organizing committee invited you to a seminar, was it that finance-related one?"

"Okay." Qin Yijian helped her fasten it.

"So you and Jiang Jiang went to the same competition! But she's a student contestant, and you were there as a guest, right?" Qin Yifan twirled her wrist. "Did you meet her, brother?"

"Maybe you just haven't run into them? Anyway, you don't care about this kind of thing..."

“We ran into each other,” Qin Yijian said.

"Oh? Really? What a coincidence!"

Qin Yijian thought to herself: It's quite a coincidence, and she even has ulterior motives towards me!

"What's the situation with your friend?"

"Didn't Brother Fan tell you before? I even had him investigate her." Qin Yifan looked at her brother suspiciously. "You're not trying to interfere with my freedom to make friends, are you?"

Qin Yijian chuckled twice: "I don't have that much free time."

"That would be best!" Qin Yifan continued, "It's a friend of mine. We met by chance, and then we felt we got along well and became friends. She's beautiful and smart, and we get along really well! She knows so much, she's an expert on jewelry, clothes, and bags!"

Seeing her younger sister's adoring expression, Qin Yijian shook her head helplessly. Her silly sister was spoiled rotten by the family; she was too foolish. Didn't she ever consider that if Jiang Lai were truly an orphan, how could she know so much about luxury goods and be so knowledgeable about them?

To put it bluntly, they're just deliberately trying to please her!

The purpose of pandering to her was not to gain any benefit from her, but rather to—

"Ahem." Qin Yijian coughed twice, feeling a little uncomfortable. Although he knew that he was good-looking, from a good family, and had outstanding abilities, making him the ideal husband for many women, women of similar backgrounds would not go to such lengths to get close to him. On the other hand, women who tried to cross social classes would use more direct methods, such as seduction.

In short, Jiang Lai's indirect approach to achieving her goal was actually quite good.

Regardless, Qin Yijian did have some impression of her, and her feelings for her were quite complicated.

“Jiang Jiang is a really nice person! She’s beautiful!” Qin Yifan patted her brother’s hand: “Right? You’ve met her.”

Qin Yijian recalled his several meetings with Jiang Lai. She was always wearing a dress. The first time he saw her in a private room, she wore a black dress and acted flirtatiously and seductively. The second time, she wore a pink gradient gown. At that time, she boldly revealed her intentions, daring to touch him inappropriately and shamelessly saying that how would she know they weren't suitable if she didn't try? He didn't like that kind of person at the time, so he refused, only telling her to treat her sister well. After that, they didn't have the chance to meet again. The third time was not long ago. She was still wearing a long dress, her skin appearing porcelain white under the lights and the black dress. Her long, black hair cascaded over her shoulders. Because she was facing a man with ill intentions, she seemed a little impatient, her beautiful red lips tightly pursed, and her whole face looked somewhat world-weary. Out of respect for women, he went over to help her out of the predicament.

Is she pretty? Of course she is. I've met her three times, and each time it's a different feeling. From her initial naivety to her later boldness, and now to her intellectual charm, she has been constantly changing.

Qin Yifan is a sucker for good looks, and Qin Yijian, as her brother, is naturally the same; it's just that he's very good at disguising it, and no one else has noticed. If it weren't for his attraction to Jiang Lai's face, Qin Yijian would have forgotten about her long ago.

"Sigh, I don't even know what kind of person my friend likes." Qin Yifan sighed wistfully. "That guy Ye Lixuan met Jiang Jiang once before, and he's been asking about her ever since!"

Qin Yijian frowned and thought for a moment: "Is it the youngest son of the Ye family?"

“Yes!” “I remember he was the same age as you! They’re not a good match.”

Qin Yifan: "These days, there are plenty of relationships between older women and younger men. What's a year younger?"

Before Qin Yijian could say anything more, Qin Yifan spoke first: "But they really aren't a good match. That Ye Lixuan guy isn't good enough for my friend. I rejected him a long time ago without even giving him a hint."

Hearing this, Qin Yijian shut up.

Qin Yifan took a picture of her bracelet with her phone and posted it on her WeChat Moments, receiving a bunch of compliments. So she happily turned around and went back to her room, ignoring her brother.

Qin Yijian stayed in the living room for a while, then went to the study.

-

While Jiang Lai was still making plans for her summer vacation, someone approached her first and gave her a choice.

That day, Jiang Lai received a call from Qin Yifan.

"What's wrong?" Jiang Lai asked, holding the phone in one hand and editing her resume on the computer with the other.

"Busy?" "I'm fine right now. Need to talk to me?" "How did you know?"

"If you wanted to ask me out, you'd be yelling the moment the call connected, you wouldn't even ask if I was busy," Jiang Lai scoffed. "So, what's up?"

She knew Qin Yifan's personality all too well; he was the kind of person who wouldn't come to her unless he needed something!

"Would you like to come to Da Qin Entertainment?" Qin Yifan said solicitously, "I really can't explain this in a short time."

"Alright!" Jiang Lai clicked save. "Anyway, I don't want to do anything else today. I'll get ready and come find you."

"Okay, just tell the front desk to come directly to the 19th floor."

"it is good!"

Jiang Lai took the subway to Daqin Entertainment. The receptionist swiped her card to go to the 19th floor. As soon as she got off the elevator, she saw Qin Yifan waiting there.

She walked up happily, took Jiang Lai's arm as if afraid she would run away, and said, "Let's go to the conference room."

Jiang Lai saw the words "Variety Department" on the wooden paneling of the corridor.

Qin Yifan led Jiang Lai into the conference room, where three people were already seated: one man and two women. The projector was on, and some documents were on the table.

Upon seeing them enter, all three stood up. "Miss Jiang, Miss Jiang."

Qin Yifan waved his hand: "Don't worry about me, you guys talk to her yourselves!"

One of the women nodded to Qin Yifan, then looked at Jiang Lai: "Ms. Jiang, hello, we are all staff members of the Da Qin Entertainment Variety Department. My name is Zhou Wei, this is my assistant He Hanxiao, and this is Li Li."

Jiang Lai reached out her hand, "Sister Zhou."

"Hello, hello, let's sit down and talk!" Zhou Wei said.

After Jiang Lai sat down, Qin Yifan also sat down next to her.

“Although Daqin Entertainment is involved in many areas, our focus is still on variety shows and music,” Zhou Wei said. “I saw your performance on that variety show on Orange TV before, Ms. Jiang, and it was very good.”

Jiang Lai accepted the compliment readily, saying, "Thank you!" A document was then pushed in front of Jiang Lai.

“Ms. Jiang, this is a new variety show that our department is planning. It’s a workplace documentary-style reality show. I wonder if you’d be interested?” Zhou Wei turned on the projector. “Let me give you a detailed introduction.”

“There are many types of variety shows at present, but there are still few workplace variety shows. This area has potential for development. Our project is also an innovation. Our setting is two financial companies, and the ten contestants are divided into two groups, which will be switched after a certain period of time.”

"Huh?" Jiang Lai didn't understand.

"We'll divide them into two groups, A and B. Group A will stay at Company A for half a month first, and then go to Company B," He Hanxiao said. "The companies are those under the Qin family and other companies we cooperate with."

“We have already selected some contestants, and Ms. Jiang, you are the last person we contacted,” Li Li said. “You were also recommended by our young lady.”

Jiang Lai glanced at Qin Yifan, who guiltily turned her back to her.

-

Go back to a few days ago.

Qin Yifan received orders from her mother to go to the company and drag her workaholic brother home for dinner.

"Miss, the master is still in a meeting with guests. Why don't you wait for him in the lounge for a while?" the assistant stopped her.

"How boring!" Qin Yifan muttered. "I'll just wait for him outside."

She chatted casually with Brother Fan: "My brother is always working, working, working. When will he find a girlfriend? My mom called him home for dinner today, and she's sure to bring this up again."

"But given his personality, I don't think it's likely he'll make a living working his whole life! There's no chance of an office romance!"

"He always has a long face and can't say a word, who would want him!"

The assistant couldn't help but retort, "Sir, Mr. Qin, his face is quite handsome!"

Qin Yifan fell silent, looking the person in front of her up and down. "Brother Fan, something's wrong with you. You wouldn't be—"

Seeing Qin Yifan's expression, the assistant knew she had misunderstood and quickly said, "I'm straight! I'm straighter than steel!"

Qin Yifan still had an "I understand" expression on his face.

The assistant said helplessly, "Even if I'm not straight, President Qin is."

“How come you see?”

The assistant casually remarked, "Then he'll still pay attention to Miss Jiang and offer her help!"

"??who?"

"That's the young lady's friend! Her surname is Jiang! Jiang Lai!"

Qin Yifan: "What the hell is this?? Tell me in detail?"

Could her house have been raided?

"It was during the financial competition lecture in Hong Kong last time that you met Ms. Jiang. There was a banquet afterwards. At that time, Ms. Jiang was in a bit of trouble, and it was you who helped her out."

"That's it?"

"When have you ever seen someone so helpful, sir?"

"It's true!"

"Based on my intuition and my understanding of Mr. Jiang after so many years of working with him, that Miss Jiang is somewhat unusual!" Assistant Brother Fan made the final judgment.

Qin Yifan's eyes widened, she covered her mouth, and tried to calm herself down. She suddenly remembered what her brother had asked her a few days ago, "Which of your friends is in Hong Kong?"

She thought he was just asking casually, but she didn't expect him to have ulterior motives! He must be trying to find out about Jiang Jiang!

"My brother likes Jiang Jiang?" Qin Yifan murmured, "I didn't realize that!"

Brother Fan said helplessly, "It's not necessarily that I like it, it's just that I'm somewhat interested in it?"

"That's already quite rare! How could he possibly be worthy of her! No, wait, if Jiang Jiang became my sister-in-law, wouldn't I be able to play with her every day? That would be wonderful too! Jiang Jiang is beautiful and smart, and my nieces and nephews would definitely be adorable!!"

Brother Fan: You're thinking about all that in such a short time? That's not appropriate!

Qin Yifan patted Fan Ge's arm, "Remember to call my brother back for dinner later. I have something to do, so I'll be going now!"

She needs to go back and think of a way to bring Jiang Jiang and her brother together!

What a coincidence! There really was such an opportunity!

Daqin Entertainment wanted to produce a new workplace variety show and was short of people, so Qin Yifan thought of Jiang Lai and suggested changing the filming company to his own, claiming it would save money and effort.

The young lady's words were extremely useful, and the production team actually chose her family's company as one of the filming locations.

Similarly, Jiang Lai also appeared on the list of people the production team wanted to invite, while the other contestants were selected through open auditions.

-

"In short, our program will present viewers with a realistic, vivid, and interesting world of the financial workplace. So, Ms. Jiang, are you interested?" He Hanxiao finished presenting the PPT and asked Jiang Lai for her thoughts.

“I don’t really want to participate,” Jiang Lai said honestly.

It's another contest for the "King of Roll" award, and she's really a bit tired. She might consider being a "pretty face" instead.

Is it because of the compensation?

"No," Jiang Lai explained, "I just haven't figured out what I want to do yet."

Zhou Wei advised, "I understand. At your age, I was also feeling lost. Actually, life has many possibilities. If you can't find something you like or really want to do right now, why not start with something you don't dislike?"

"Try a few more things, and maybe you'll discover what you really want."

Li Li chimed in, "Participating in this variety show not only allows you to explore whether you truly enjoy this industry, but also helps you hone your skills and make more friends. It's actually quite an opportunity!"

Qin Yifan also shook her hand from the side: "Say yes!! I promise you, it will definitely be a lot of fun!"

She said coquettishly, "And, to tell you the truth, I'm actually in charge of this program as well."

"You?" Jiang Lai was a little surprised. It wasn't that she looked down on Qin Yifan, but no matter how you looked at her, she seemed like a rich young lady whose only job was to eat, drink, and have fun!

Qin Yifan lied, "My family wants me to prove I can live without them, otherwise they won't let me be a freeloader! That's too much, isn't it! Jiang Jiang, you're different from the other contestants, you bring your own audience, this show can't do without you, so please help me out! Okay~~"

"Okay, okay, I'll consider it," Jiang Lai replied helplessly, unable to resist Qin Fan's coaxing.

"Then it's settled!"