Chapter 142: Chapter 62 (part 1)

Suspicious, Ning Wan decided to secretly observe Fu Zheng for a few days - the result being that she very quickly discovered that Fu Zheng was also frequently watching her.

Still internally bitter about having been lied to, she immediately inquired unhappily, "Fu Zheng, why on earth are you always looking at me?"

She had thought that being questioned would put Fu Zheng at a loss, but the fellow was much better than she had thought. Not only was he calm, but he even replied innocently, "If you weren't looking at me, how would you know that I was looking at you?"

“……”

However, Ning Wan didn't pester him on the matter. Today is a very important day. It was the day that the results of the written examination for the senior partner's team members would be announced.

Two days ago, Ning Wan had taken the written examination.

It had to be said that the senior partner had very high standards. At the outset, the questions seemed simple and ordinary, but the details were full of traps. Not only did it examine one's theoretical knowledge within the commercial field, it also required great practical skill. On top of the section on commercial law was another on civil law.

Although there was no overlap between the questions in the commercial section and the homework that the senior partner had given her before, so she hadn't been privy to any leaked topics, Ning Wan had nonetheless made up for her previous shortcomings thanks to that private tutoring. The most important part of how a lawyer handled a case was based on that lawyer's ability to analyze it. A different solution applied to the same case might obtain different results.

The senior partner's tutoring had been more akin to teaching Ning Wan how to fish rather than giving her a fish. When it came to complex commercial cases, she had greatly matured and become much more meticulous in her analysis, so Ning Wan was quite confident in her commercial law section. Meanwhile, the section on civil law involved a great many practical details, which given her many years of experience in the community was as easy to her as a duck swimming in water.

Nervous and absent-minded, Ning Wan waited and waited until the results were finally announced--

"Ning Ning!! You passed!! You're first place in the written exam!! 50 points higher than second place!"

Shao Lili was in the general office today, and almost as soon as the test results of the finalists were posted in the office's internal staff website, she sent Ning Wan a congratulatory message.

Coincidentally, that second place behind Ning Wan by 50 points was none other than Cai Zhen, the intern whom Jin Jianhua had almost forced to leave. Now that Jin Jianhua had been dealt with, Cai Zhen had no more worries, and had been able to bring out her true skills in the examination.

"Isn't this great? Cai Zhen's over the moon. She keeps saying that she was fated to work with this senior partner, since it was he who dealt with Jin Jianhua so severely earlier. She's thrilled to be working in the same team as you!"

Shao Lili soon arrived at the community office. She had even bought Ning Wan a bouquet in congratulations.

In addition to being posted in the internal staff website, the ranking of the written examination was also sent to each candidate via email. Upon seeing her own name ranked first, Ning Wan was of course excited and delighted, but soon, as she glanced down at the other names on the list, her face began to turn somber.

The written exam had an admission ratio of 1:3. A total of three people would be recruited into the team, therefore there were nine finalists from the first round. Among the remaining eight names apart from Ning Wan, Fu Zheng's name did not appear.

Ning Wan glanced secretly at him. He was on the phone at the moment doing a community consult, his appearance serious. His profile was gorgeous, his lips slightly parted, his dark eyes bright, his eyelashes long. The client on the phone didn't seem to know much about the key points of the dispute, and Ning Wan could hear his loud, irritable voice through the phone. But Fu Zheng was neither arrogant nor rash. His voice was patient and gentle as he explained the matter, without weariness or annoyance.

It seemed as though he had not had time to check the results of the examination.

All of a sudden, Ning Wan didn't have the heart.

Oblivious to what Ning Wan was thinking and still immersed in her excitement, Shao Lili said happily, "Let's go out and have dinner together tonight! It'll be a celebration..."

Although there was still a round of interviews after the written exam, it was mostly a formality. Unless a major accident occurred, as far and away the first in the written examination, and on top of that a gap of 50 points between herself and second place, Ning Wan's entrance onto the senior partner's team was already pretty much decided.

But here she was with a foot in the senior partner's team, while Fu Zheng wasn't even on the list...

Afraid that Fu Zheng would be sad to hear it, Ning Wan wanted to tell Shao Lili not to celebrate with such fanfare. But before she could do so, Fu Zheng hung up the phone and looked at her. "Is there good news to celebrate?"

"Y-yes, Ning Wan passed the senior partner's written examination. W-we were thinking about going out to celebrate."

Goodness knows why, but Shao Lili, who had just been passionate and enthusiastic, transformed instantly into a mouse who had just seen a rat the moment Fu Zheng asked. Her words came out rather nervous and stuttering.

Ning Wan didn't know why, but Shao Lili's mind was crystal clear. This is the senior partner himself, could she not be cautious?

Besides, this senior partner looked very gentle and kind while he was in the community, with no sharp edges at all. Except for his rather extraordinarily good looks, he could pass for a very ordinary man who just happened to be handsome. If it hadn't been for Shao Lili getting a glimpse of his secret, she would have thought that he was really intern lawyer Xiao Fu...

But now, the more gentle and kind Partner Fu was, the more anxious Shao Lili became for Ning Wan.

Because he wasn't really so gentle and harmless.

Shortly after she had inadvertently confided to him about Cui Jing, Cui Jing had returned from vacation. At a meeting, Gao Yuan had publicly praised the quality of some legal documents Cui Jing had recently translated while 'working overtime' and complimented her knowledge of legal English. Before Cui Jing even had time to be proud of herself, he had invited her to join a short-notice English conference call as the translator. After all, judging from her previously 'personally translated' documents, doing so wouldn't be an issue for her.

The result of course was a train wreck. The negotiations were nearly botched completely thanks to her random translations. At that moment, Gao Yuan called Shao Lili into the meeting room to save the show. Although on-the-spot translation like that was very stressful, thanks to the experience she had previously piled up, Shao Lili had done her job perfectly.

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Afterward Gao Yuan had been furious with Cui Jing's performance. After investigating the situation, he had discovered that she had been taking credit for other's accomplishments. There were secrets at the firm that could be kept forever, and the nastier a rumour was the quicker it spread, so soon everyone was aware of what had happened to Cui Jing, and for a period of time everyone felt a sense of crisis. Not a few other lawyers who had the same intern-bullying habits as Cui Jing trembled in fear and began restraining themselves, and the air at the firm was greatly purified.

Shao Lili was recognized by several senior partners for her excellent performance in that emergency rescue, and her boss was now willing to assign her more complicated cases to work on in.

Because she hadn't gone to a first-class university, Shao Lili had already felt very lucky to have a mentor. She had never imagined that one day she might be recognized for her ability and effort. Now that she had discarded the old prejudice of her university, been recognized, and been given the opportunity to participate in genuinely major cases, she was almost moved to tears.

She wasn't a fool. She was well aware that the incident with Cui Jing was not simply some random accident, and that her emergency rescue wasn't by chance either.

In front of Ning Wan, Fu Zheng seemed very gentle and harmless, as if consulting her advice in everything, but Shao Lili was well aware that when it came to affairs at the firm, he was strong and decisive, almost uncompromising. It was impossible for her not to know who had arranged for Gao Yuan to take care of Cui Jing's matter, but there were no traces left behind. No one knew that she had ratted Cui Jing out before the senior partner. Everything looks so natural, like a complete accident, in which Shao Lili had been called in at random to save the show.

That was why even if she had been the only beneficiary of the incident, no one had criticized her or spoken about her behind her back. Instead, they had sympathized with her for having been squeezed out by Cui Jing.

Shao Lili was grateful to Fu Zheng, of course, but beyond gratitude, she felt awe for this senior partner in her heart of hearts..

When it came to a black-bellied creature like this who looked sweet on the outside, if you were on his side everything was okay, but if he and Ning Wan were standing on opposing teams, what a bloody tragedy it would be...

All these thoughts racing through her mind, Shao Lili glanced secretly at Fu Zheng. At this moment, he was showing just the right amount of surprise. "Are the grades out?" Then he checked his email with his phone and said a tone of shock, "Ning Wan, you're first place! That's amazing! We've got to celebrate, let me treat you tonight."

Shao Lili couldn't help but feel that it wasn't easy to make partner nowadays. Not only did you have to be excellent at your job and a tough manager, you also had to take evening classes in acting...

Completely ignorant of the inside story, Ning Wan looked awkward. "But you..."

Even in this situation, the black-bellied senior partner could go on playing pretend. Looking a little melancholy, he seemed to try to cheer himself up. "It doesn't matter. You getting into the senior partner's team is great. I'll keep on working hard. Anyway, it's not like this means we won't work together in the future. There are lots of very coincidental things that happen nowadays..."

Not realizing at all the subtle implications of his words, Ning Wan gazed at him with eyes spilling out a love that was difficult to conceal.

But regardless, in the end Fu Zheng persuaded her to go have a celebration dinner together.

 

Ning Wan found that Shao Lili had been restless and nervous today. After the three of them took their seats, Ning Wan said she was going to the bathroom, and Shao Lili stood immediately--

"I want to go to the bathroom too! Ning Wan! I'll go with you!"

Ning Wan found it a little strange. "Didn't you just go at the community ten minutes ago? Why don't you stay here and look over the menu with Fu Zheng?"

"My kidneys haven't been very good lately!" Shao Lili insisted stubbornly. "I have to go a lot!"

“……”

In fact, when she thought about it, Shao Lili was acting very strange today. She seemed unable to look straight at Fu Zheng. Even interacting with him seemed to be very awkward for her.

When she came out of the bathroom stall, Ning Wan considered it from all sides and finally couldn't hold herself back from asking. "Xiao Li, do you have a crush on Fu Zheng?"

The result was that the moment she asked, Shao Lili shook so hard it seemed as though she had Parkinson's disease. "I don't! I don't dare! Don't scare me like that!"

If she didn't, then she didn't, why would she not dare? Fu Zheng was just an intern, not some overbearing president. Wasn't he a good match for a little white collar worker like Shao Lili? Even though he was a little more handsome than most, did that mean that you didn't dare to look at him?

"That why does it always seem like you're about to prostrate yourself every time you see him? Did he do something to you?"

"No, no." Shao Lili denied, repeatedly waving her hand, "I'm just a little scared of men recently, it's my own problem, it has absolutely nothing to do with Fu- Fu Zheng! Fu Zheng is innocent! It's definitely my fault!"

All right then...

Hadn't Shao Lili previously said that she hated the thought of marriage? How had it turned into being afraid of men? Had she gone on too many blind dates?

But well, she wasn't in love with Fu Zheng. Ning Wan felt relieved. After all, ever since she speculated that Fu Zheng had not received her cherry heart, Ning Wan had been playing around with the thought.

She wasn't going to get this man get away.

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