The man was very impatient that she was interrupting his work and interrupted her: "This is not my responsibility, I just send the task to you."
Ji Zinyin stood there, pinching her nails tightly.
Seeing that she didn't leave, the man seemed annoyed by her pestering him, so he stopped what he was doing and said a few more words to her: "You don't have to wait here, she won't come today."
Ji Ziyin's eyes moved, and she looked up and said to him, "But the Privy Council stipulated that we come to get the mission today."
The other party seemed to think that what she said was ridiculous. He sneered, looked at her again, and simply said to her directly: "How should I know? Mr. Xue came to me this morning to get the task and said he would deliver it personally. If you have any dissatisfaction, you can also ask Mr. Lei to come and get the task for you and deliver it."
The Privy Council is clearly divided into factions.
They are not from the same faction, and that person didn't give Leonard any face at all.
He was even more mercilessly sarcastic towards people like Ji Zinyin who got in through the back door through connections.
Ji Ziyin felt as if a bucket of cold water was poured over her head. Her face gradually turned pale. She clenched the task in her hands and turned around and left without saying a word.
The man didn't care whether she left or not. Not long after she walked away, she could still hear the other person talking.
"Why is it so arrogant for a person who only got in with the help of Mr. Lei?"
"Mr. Lei doesn't take you seriously, so you blame me?"
Ji Ziyin pursed her lips tightly and walked faster.
…
She hadn't walked far when she ran into Leonard and his group coming towards her.
"You..." Leonard saw her and waved at her: "Why are you here? Come here."
Ji Ziyin thought of the humiliation she had suffered at the mission site, and then saw the old man with the hooked nose. She pursed her lips, walked over calmly, and greeted him politely as before: "Mr. Lei."
"Yeah." Leonard nodded indifferently, turned around and said to the others, "You go over first, I'll talk to her alone."
The other radical members were in no mood to pay attention to Ji Zinyin, and they left without looking back.
In a blink of an eye, Leonard and she were the only ones left in the corridor.
The old man with the hooked nose didn't even look at her. He walked aside and asked in a businesslike manner, "Did you get the mission?"
Ji Ziyin lowered her eyelashes, and the thorn in her heart became even hotter: "I got it."
"Oh, just get it." Leonard said to her without looking at her: "The Queen just called and asked about you."
Ji Zinyin suddenly raised her head, a light burning in her eyes.
"The Queen asked about your mission, and I was just about to come find you." Leonard really didn't even look at her.
If he had not just received a call from Shadow, and the other party had not mentioned Ji Zinyin, he would have almost forgotten that there was such a newcomer in the Privy Council.
However, Ji Zinyin was someone that their radical faction had worked hard to bring in, so she could be considered a member of their faction.
Whether for the sake of interests or face, he should also show proper concern.
So Leonard asked her about the mission casually, and Ji Ziyin answered one by one. When he heard that Qiao Nian did not come to the Privy Council today, he frowned slightly.
When he heard Ji Ziyin vaguely mention that Mr. Xue had gone to get the task specifically to deliver it to Qiao Nian, he was even more surprised, and then he raised the corner of his mouth with disdain, as if he looked down on the other party's behavior of rushing to please a newcomer.
"He just wants to curry favor with the Ji family."
Ji Ziyi said this to test Leonard's attitude, but after she finished speaking, the old man with the hooked nose concluded with disdain.
(End of this chapter)