When he came out again, he threw himself into his work.

Seeing how serious he was, everyone stopped teasing him and focused on completing their work.

Huang Peilan kept glancing in Huo Minxue's direction, so much so that she didn't make any progress on her work.

I got off work in the afternoon.

Everyone started packing their things to go home.

Huang Peilan also got up, but instead of leaving, she walked to Huo Minxue's side.

"Senior Brother Minxue." Her face was slightly flushed.

"What's wrong?" Huo Minxue looked up.

"Are you free tonight?" Huang Peilan asked, sounding a little nervous.

“No, I have to feed the cats,” Huo Minxue refused outright.

"Feeding cats? You even keep cats?" Huang Peilan asked in surprise.

“I didn’t raise her, it was… a friend who asked me to take care of her.” Huo Minxue was momentarily at a loss for words to describe his relationship with Ruan Wushuang.

In the end, they only found one word that wouldn't make a mistake.

"Friend? Do I know them?" Huang Peilan asked.

"You don't recognize him." Huo Minxue glanced at the time, then stopped what he was doing and got up to pack his things.

"Are you leaving?" Huang Peilan asked anxiously.

"right."

"But... you haven't finished processing your data yet."

"I'll take it home to work on today." Huo Minxue said, putting all the documents into the document bag.

"Senior Brother Minxue..." Huang Peilan wanted to say something more, but Huo Minxue had already turned and left.

Left alone, Huang Peilan felt her pupils sting.

"Peilan, don't take it to heart. That's just how Senior Brother Minxue is." A colleague who usually gets along well with Huang Peilan stepped forward to comfort her.

"Do you think Senior Brother Minxue has absolutely no feelings for me?" Huang Peilan asked, her eyes red.

"It's not that Senior Brother Minxue doesn't have feelings for you, it's that he doesn't have feelings for anyone. I think if you really like him, you should just tell him directly. With you being so hesitant, I don't think Senior Brother Minxue understands your feelings at all," the person suggested.

"But...but I am a girl after all, how can I let a girl speak first in this kind of thing?" Huang Peilan felt that she had already been proactive enough.

If she takes any further initiative, she'll be lowering her standards too much.

“That makes sense. You can only wait for Senior Brother Minxue to figure it out on his own.” The colleague didn’t try to persuade him any further.

After all, if Huang Peilan really went to Huo Minxue to expose him, but was rejected in the end, Huang Peilan might blame him.

"I will definitely wait!" Huang Peilan stared intently in the direction Huo Minxue had left.

According to her observation, Huo Minxue shuttles between home and work every day. Apart from his family, the only female colleagues he can come into contact with are those in his workplace.

She had already revealed her feelings for Huo Minxue, so naturally her other colleagues wouldn't compete with her.

She will be Huo Minxue's only choice.

"..."

Huo Minxue was completely unaware that he had already been labeled as an object of his junior sister's possession.

They are feeding the kittens at Ruan Wushuang's house.

The kitten is in much better condition now than it was this morning.

Huo Minxue made it a big bowl of milk, which it drank clean.

Huo Minxue tidied up his surroundings and got up to go home.

But after taking only two steps, I suddenly felt something grab my trouser leg.

He looked down and saw the kitten jump out of the cardboard box, biting his trouser leg and refusing to let go.