time she wasn’t serving drinks but bringing food. Although it was rather late at this hour, the plane provided meals since some passengers might not have eaten yet."Sir, would you like to order somet...Chapter 475: A Woman Deserving a Beating - Wuyou Chinese Network

To walk from Ning Jie's residence to Wangjing Tower, which is also where her company is located, only takes ten minutes. The Yiren Fashion Co., Ltd. on the tenth floor of Wangjing Tower is where Ning Jie works.

Yiren Fashion Co., Ltd. is not a big company; in fact, their office space in Wangjing Tower is just over one hundred square meters, and there are only about ten employees working here. Ning Jie is one of the three fashion designers in this company.

The boss of the company is a man in his early forties who, despite being unremarkable in appearance, has a talent for recognizing potential. Although Ning Jie isn't a beauty and wasn't originally studying fashion design, when he first saw her designs, he immediately decided to hire her, offering a monthly salary of five thousand yuan. Though this amount is not high by Beijing standards, it's quite good for a recent graduate who didn’t major in fashion design.

However, what Ning Jie values most isn't the five-thousand-yuan-a-month salary but rather how much her boss appreciates her talent. Even though Yiren Fashion Co., Ltd. is not a large company, its owner has grand ambitions and wants to establish his own brand. In reality, apart from this office space, the company also owns a clothing manufacturing factory and several retail stores, making it an integrated production-to-sales operation. Previously, however, the designs created by their two fashion designers were unsatisfactory. Now, the boss is pinning his hopes on Ning Jie; upon her joining the company, he immediately decided to use her designs as the main brand to promote, even registering a trademark under her name and branding it with Ning Jie's identity.

Now, Ning Jie's clothing line is officially available in the stores and has received a very positive response, making Ning Jie an increasingly important figure at Yiren Apparel Co., Ltd.

Because of this, when Ning Jie brought Xia Tian into the company, although many people had surprised expressions on their faces, nobody said anything. They didn't want to offend Ning Jie.

Of course, there was one exception.

"Hey, Ning Jie, is this your boyfriend" a somewhat seductive voice rang out in everyone's ears. "Not bad, he looks pretty handsome and suits you well."

The speaker was a woman in her mid-twenties who looked fairly good but dressed rather provocatively, as if she wanted to show off every inch of her figure.

The other people in the office couldn’t help but look at this woman, their expressions odd. This person had always been like this; if one only heard her compliments, they would think she was praising someone, but hearing her last sentence made everyone realize that it wasn’t praise but sarcasm.

Just now, for instance, on the surface, she seemed to be complimenting Ning Jie’s boyfriend as handsome, but the final phrase "very fitting with Ning Jie" made anyone who knew about Ning Jie understand that this was intentional mockery.

No one didn’t know that Ning Jie had a disability in her legs and eyesight akin to blindness. If she said he matched well with Ning Jie, could it still be considered handsome

“Du Qing, don’t talk nonsense. He’s not my boyfriend,” Ning Jie said somewhat unhappily. Among the dozen or so people in the company, Du Qing was the one who always picked on her.

The reason why Du Qing went out of her way to offend Ning Jie was quite simple—she found that their boss highly valued Ning Jie, which seriously threatened her position within the company. If Ning Jie wasn’t unattractive, she might even worry that Ning Jie could replace her.

Du Qing, like Ning Jie, is also one of the three fashion designers at the company. Originally, she should have had little status there, but unfortunately, she's not just a fashion designer; she's also the boss’s mistress, or as it's簡稱，二奶 (èrnǎi). In this company, she even refers to herself as the boss’s wife, making her the de facto second-in-command after the boss.

It is said that Du Qing has been at the company for two years. During these two years, every time she senses a potential threat to her position, she resorts to various means to get rid of the person. However, this time, no matter how much she tries to butter up the boss by sleeping with him, he refuses to dismiss Ning Jie and instead shows increasing favor towards her. This naturally makes Du Qing feel even more threatened and thus causes her to create trouble for Ning Jie more frequently.

"I say, Ning Jie, having a boyfriend isn't something to be ashamed of. You've finally found one; why hide it" Du Qing speaks in an odd tone, saying, "Actually, I think you two really suit each other. Look at him..."

"Is there something wrong with your eyes" Suddenly, an irritated voice interrupts Du Qing’s words: "She wears glasses for nearsightedness; are you even more nearsighted than her Where do you see us being compatible"

The person who spoke up was Xia Tian. He naturally felt annoyed after being repeatedly told by Du Qing that he matched Ning Jie. What kind of eyesight does this idiot have, anyway With his good looks, how could he possibly match Ning Jie

Du Qing was taken aback for a moment, then became rather angry: "How do you罵人呢？什麼素質啊！" (Note: The word "ma ren" is an expletive meaning to insult someone.)

"Don't come bothering me; otherwise, I'll beat you up!" Xia Tian glared at Du Qing and then turned to Ning Jie, saying, "Ignore her and quickly help my wife with the portrait."

"Okay." Ning Jie nodded. She didn’t want to bother with Du Qing either; it was just that Du Qing liked to pester her all day long.

Ning Jie soon arrived at her position, turned on the computer, and then told Xia Tian, "Wait a moment."

"Oh, do you want to hit me Try hitting me! Really don't know where this bumpkin came from… Do you think this is your backwoods village" Du Qing followed up, starting to verbally mock Xia Tian. However, before she could finish her sentence, she let out a慘叫了一聲,"呃!" (Note: "Can jiao" translates to a cry of distress or pain.)

翻譯註釋： 1. 第一句中的“罵人呢？什麼素質啊！”是帶有強烈情感的口頭表達，其中包含了對對方行為（即罵人）的不滿和質疑其道德水平。直接翻譯為英文可能會使讀者理解困難，因此保留了原文中“ma ren”這個詞並加以解釋。2. 最後一句中的“呃！”是一個擬聲詞，代表突然發出的聲音，如痛苦或驚訝時的叫聲。為了保持這種效果，這裡使用了“慘叫了一聲”。

"Deserves a beating!" Xia Tian kicked Du Qing to the ground and then said discontentedly.

Ning Jie couldn't help but be stunned, as were the others in the office. Did this guy really hit Du Qing

Du Qing was nearly driven mad; did this bumpkin really dare hit her

"You actually dared to hit me Do you know who I am Are you aware of the consequences for hitting me Let me tell you…" Du Qing got up from the ground and shouted at Xia Tian in a somewhat crazed manner.

"You're so annoying!" Xia Tian kicked her again, this time sending Du Qing flying several meters out of the company's entrance.gaze, Xia Tian quickly met up with the blonde beauty, then both of them got into a car and disappeared from Dai Jin's sight. Meanwhile, some people coming down from the cruise ship were still looking...