Step 6: Make the best out of an embarrassing situation 1.

Hours later in a two-bedroom apartment in the art district.

Song Ruoxin open her eyes and leaned away from the three-seater couch at the loud ding from the front door. She pulled down the blanket covering her leg and stood.

Her eyes quickly went to the clock across the room, It was a little after 9 pm. "You are back," She said with a small smile as she pulled her house coat close.

"Yes, we had a team dinner after work. I just managed to get out of that," Tang Yun shook off her coat and hung it on the rack next to the door.

"How was the job hunting".

"Terrible," Song Ruoxin muttered sighing deeply. They sat by the dining table, Song Ruoxin pulled her leg up on the seat and gently rested her chin on her knees.

"I think that it will be difficult for me to get a job in a cafe in this city, Yun'er"

"Huh?" Tang Yun tilted her head to the side, "Why?"

Song Ruoxin bent her head down slightly and replied in a squeaky soft voice, "I got blacklisted, Yun'et".

"I am sorry... You said you were what?"

"Blacklisted"

"By your former boss?"

"Yep".

"Just who the heck is she and how can she even do that?"

"Well, it is not necessarily her that is doing it but her ex-husband. Apparently He is a major player in the banking industry".

"And so f-ing what? They are divorced for Pete's sake, how can she still use his name to bully others!"

"She can if she gave birth to all his children and his family likes her. I heard that his mother is her godmother. You know that someone as rich as him doesn't care about a poor graduate like me".

Tang Yun swore silently and shook her head, "I guess her little boy toy of a husband is too spineless to step up and clean up his little mess," she rolled her eyes and continued,

"Forgot about those two idiots, my company hires part-timers all the time. I will let you know when they start hiring. As for the rent just let it be, I will cover it. You can just pay for the feeding and utility until you get another job to supplement..."

She paused and brows drawing together Ruoxin shook her head, "Don't be stubborn Ruoxin, my salary is enough to cover the rent. It is not like I am doing this on credit, you can pay me back later".

Song Ruoxin frowned, she did not like this suggestion. Tang Yun's situation was not any better than hers, it felt bad to let her do this.

She opened her mouth to reject the offer but shut it as Tang Yun narrowed her eyes at her. "Fine! We will do things your way for now," she fell back and threw her head back on the backrest of the couch.

"Good," Tang Yun yes went to the stove as she stood, "have you eaten anything?"

"mmm, I ate something before coming back," Song Ruoxin replied while slowly scrolling through weibo.

"Huh? It is him!" she shut up from the seat eyes wide as she saw a post from one of the big-time Entertainment bloggers that she followed.

"Him? Who..." Tang Yun rushed to her side, rested her chin on her friend's shoulders, and looked into her phone.

She arched a brow as her gaze fell on the article on Song Ruoxin's phone, "why are you looking at an article about Qin Shoiming and Shu Feifei dating?"

Song Rouxin pulled back slightly and turned to her friend and pointed at the picture of the tall man in the three-piece suit, "you know who this is?"

"Yep, he is the Vice chairman of our company's good friend, our company collaborates with Qin group on a few projects.

"I have seen him a few times during business meetings. Why... Wait it can't be that this is the 'him' you meant?" she said to which Song Ruoxin nodded.

"What happened?"

"I met him at the book cafe today, well to be exact I met him and his son".

"Huh? What is Mr Qin doing at a bookshop?"

Song Ruoxin clicked on a link to another article, "I ran into his son while I was at the bookshop, he was being chased by the paparazzi.

"Now that I think of it, that must have been because of this dating scandal. So he is dating an actress? Cool".

Tang Yun scoffed, "Please, that is completely false".

Song Ruoxin tilted her head to the side and asked, "It is false, strange... How do you know that?"

"I joined the team leader to submit a report to the Vice-chairman Meng today and overheard him speaking over the phone with CEO Qin.

"From the bits of their conversation I overheard, looks like the actress faked the news for popularity. Which is not strange, our department does publicity for entertainment companies".

Song Ruoxin left the blog page and shook her head, "How disgusting! A child got caught in this mess just to satisfy her greed".

Tang Yun rubbed her shoulder, "Don't worry, I am sure CEO Qin will handle her. I heard that he is quite overprotective of his kids".

"I hope he does handle this actress before someone gets hurt".

"I am sure he will, Mr Qin seems like the stern type".

The next few days were uneventful for Song Ruoxin but were the complete opposite for Qin Shoiming.

Even with his quick response, the effects of the dating rumors were much worse than he expected.

Although it had no negative effects on his company, the effects on his private life were much greater.

A few days after the official statement from the company was released the hype died down and everything went back to normal until he received a call from his grandmother.

The call came in a little after 6 pm, he was called over to the old house for dinner. Qin Shoiming left the company at exactly 7 pm, there was no need to change into something formal since he was coming from the office.