In less than ten minutes, the Uber driver pulled up on the sidewalk. Alan confirmed the person's car license and the driver's name before waving to Lin Que. He helped Ginny place her luggage into the trunk of the car. When she was getting into the vehicle, he placed his hand between the ceiling of the car and her head in case she hits herself.
As Ginny entered the backseat, she noticed his caring action. She smiled and quickly settled in the vehicle. Almost immediately after she got in, Alan also followed from behind. Once the Uber driver drove off, Lin Que entered Jiang Corps' address in the GPS and asked his assistant to drive.
On their way to her company, he saw the concerned look on her face. Reaching out, he rubbed the crease between her brows and massaged in a circular motion until it was gone. "Don't worry. If something big happened, your assistant would've emailed you about it or called your international number."
She took a deep sigh as she attempted using her phone again. Once the black screen brightened up and the notification screen showed, Lin Que took the phone away from her again. This time, he turned her phone on the airplane mode.
Lily asked, "What are you doing?"
He explained while helping her remove certain apps from her home screen.
"The problem with your phone is the spams in the apps you have installed. In the airplane mode, all wireless connections are turned off. You can uninstall the apps from your phone from here and remove the spam. The messages through Snapchat and some apps might be gone, but the ones in your text messages, messenger, Line should be saved. This way, you can reinstall after switching back to regular mode and read the messages."
Lin Que chose to uninstall the apps that he knew would save the chat messages first. Then, he looked at Lily and asked her for permission in reinstalling the other apps. "Are you alright with me uninstalling the rest of these apps with the risks of losing all your data? The pictures from your photo album should remain saved on your phone."
"Sure. As long as my phone functions properly after this, then I'm fine with what you have to do." Lily quickly answered as she focused on her phone. After everything was done, he switched her phone back to normal.
"Here, try it now. It should work." Lin Que handed the phone back to her.
"En." She took the phone and clicked into a random app. This time, the apps worked smoothly and everything returned to normal. "Wow! My darling is so smart!!!" She wrapped her arm around his shoulder and leaned in for a kiss.
Before she could check the messages on her phone, the assistant interrupted and announced that they've arrived at Jiang Corps. Lily gave Lin Que a quick peck on the cheeks before getting out of the car.
She waved her hand by the window and thanked the assistant for dropping her off. After exchanging a quick farewell, the assistant looked back at Lin Que with a confused expression.
"What is it?" Lin Que asked.
"Um, Miss. Jiang forgot to take her luggage with her. Mister Lin, do you want to bring it up to her office before we leave?" The assistant reminded him about their luggage.
Reading the time on his watch, Lin Que shook his head. "The meeting will be starting soon. I'll bring it to her later. Let's head over to the company first."
"Alright." The assistant replied.
Meanwhile, Lily didn't even feel like she had forgotten anything behind. She strolled to her office after getting out of the elevator and greeted everyone along the way. When she reached her office, her assistant walked up to her.
Shannel smiled, "Miss. Jiang, welcome back. I thought you were coming back tomorrow. How was your trip?"
"It went well. While I was away, did anything major happened? Anything unusual?" Lily removed the blazer around her shoulder and secured it on the hook.
"Oh! You received a lot of mail during your vacation. Let me go down to the fifth floor to bring it up for you." Shannel politely excused herself as she closed the door from behind.
Taking a deep breath, Lily took out her phone and started checking the messages she missed. Normally, not many people would message her, especially leaving these many messages. Hence, she started reinstalling the apps and opening them to read the messages.
Her hunched back quickly straightened when she saw the name on her screen. "Meng Meng." Before reading the loads of messages, she decided to search through the apps that had many unread messages to confirm her thoughts. After a few minutes, she scoffed. "Jiang Meng Meng, exactly what are you up to now?"
When she scrolled up hundreds of messages, she realized the files delivered to her end were nearly identical. Some messages were slightly changed in terms of wording, but that was all there were. After going through three apps and recognizing the content sent to her, Lily rubbed her temples.
"Just what the hell is this? Huh? What does her having an engagement have to do with spamming me? What's her logic? The hell? All these messages were from her." Lily muttered complaints as she randomly scrolled down the long messages. Her eyes felt dry from staring at the screen for a minute due to the excessive bright colored files screenshotted to her.
Two knocks took her attention away from the bright screen. She said, "Come in."
Shannel took a minute or two to fully open the office door. She apologized for her tidiness as she slowly carried five bags of colorful — neon — envelope cards. The assistant panted as she informed Lily where these envelopes came from. "Miss. Jiang, these invitation cards were from your cousin, Miss. Jiang Meng Meng."
Staring at the stashes of cards, Lily could literally see half a forest of trees chopped down and shredded. "I got it. Thank you. You can leave the bags there and I'll move it myself. Can you give me the most recent one she sent?"
"Here. This is the one she sent yesterday afternoon." The assistant handed her a neon green colored envelope with a matching colored card inside of it. She took a small peek inside the envelope and saw a distasteful color.