Chapter 21
Probably because they had just returned from holiday, many people still couldn't accept the reality that they would have to work tomorrow. Yin Xue watched drama until two o'clock, and Yue Qianling also played games until two o'clock.
The reason why games are addictive is that they can pull people into a parallel world and temporarily forget the troubles of reality.
For example, tonight, Yue Qianling forgot about Gu Xun, and did not think about the awkwardness between her and Lin Xun. Her mind was full of how to kill all 96 people in each game.
Until three o'clock, she tossed and turned in bed, still thinking that if the camel hadn't moved around randomly and blocked her view at the last moment, she would have led the whole team to win the game!
Just as she was about to fall asleep, Yin Xue sneezed again and said in dissatisfaction, "It's almost spring, why is it still so cold? I'm freezing to death."
After saying that, she turned over and fell into a deep sleep.
For some reason, spring seems to have come particularly late this year.
The numbers on the calendar kept jumping up and down, but the temperature remained as stable as a mountain, with no sign of rising at all. It was not until the beginning of March that there was a hint of early spring.
But the warm sunshine only lasted for a few days before the late spring cold came impatiently. The cold wind was as sharp as a pair of scissors, making those who had already changed into spring clothes early sneeze continuously.
It was not until late April that the weather gradually stabilized and Yue Qianling was finally able to take off her heavy clothes.
In fact, she was quite happy during this period.
The project team recruited two more original artists, and the work pressure was instantly reduced. Yin Qin was busy building relationships with the newcomers and had no time to find fault with her.
She has also completed the first draft of her graduation project, and the teacher is very satisfied with it. There is no need for major changes, only some details need to be adjusted.
Sometimes she would also hang out at the company and try out some painting styles she had never tried before.
Every night I return to the dormitory and play games with Lin Xun and others.
Camel and Wheat have made great progress recently. Their ranks are getting higher and higher, and the ranks of the enemies they match with are also rising. The gaming experience is more exciting than before.
Amid the hail of bullets, Yue Qianling quickly got over the embarrassment of having rejected Lin Xun out of self-conceit, and the other party never mentioned it again.
Only in the first few days after the holiday, she would always meet Gu Xun in the elevator, and undercurrents would surge in her heart.
This also caused her to show complicated emotions when she saw the elevator for a while -
I kind of want to see him, but I also kind of don't want to see him.
This tangled emotion showed signs of subsiding only after I hadn't seen Gu Xun in the company for a long time.
But when Yue Qianling came to his senses, he was a little confused.
The company is so small, how come I haven’t even seen you?
After work that day, Yue Qianling met Chen Yin in the elevator.
She had been talking about the company-wide team building for a while, so Yue Qianling asked casually, "Are you going to the Ninth Division?"
"Of course."
Chen Yin said, "Originally, the team building was held in June in previous years, but because the ninth business unit was closed for development for a period of time and it only ended in the past two days, we specially moved the team building time forward just to let them relax."
From this conversation, Yue Qianling got two pieces of information.
1. It turns out that the reason we haven’t seen each other for so long is because he went somewhere else.
2. They will also attend the company’s team-building activity this time.
“Oh, I see…”
Yue Qianling had never participated in a team building before, and asked hesitantly, "Will team building be tiring? I might be on my period during those days, so if it's too tiring, I won't go."
"Don't worry!"
Chen Yin smiled and said, "I just thought that the Ninth Division has been busy for so long, and they just want to relax, so this time we will go to a hot spring hotel in the suburbs to enjoy two days. Why would it be so tiring?"
Yue Qianling nodded, "The company is quite humane."
Later it was proved that Yue Qianling was still too young.
When the team building was scheduled for the May Day holiday, almost everyone was dumbfounded.
Can you still be so opportunistic? ? ?
It’s a great idea to combine statutory holidays with the fixed team-building activities written in the contract!
But no matter how speechless and complaining they were, after a few days, 90% of the people still chose to participate in the team building, and only some people who had already made travel plans could not attend.
On the day of the team building, the administration arranged for us to gather at the company at nine o'clock and be taken to the hot spring hotel by a unified car.
It was seven o'clock in the morning and the sky was already bright, but the curtains in the dormitory were still tightly drawn, not letting in any light.
Yin Xue's biological clock was stable, so she woke up in a daze at this time. She saw a long-haired woman sitting in the dormitory, and all her sleepiness was scared away in an instant.
When she came to her senses, she found that it was Yue Qianling sitting there fixing her hair, and she almost threw a pillow at her.
"Yue Qianling, do you know that it's scary to see you sitting there so early in the morning?!"
Yue Qianling looked back at her and said with a smile, "Are you awake? Why don't you get some more sleep during the holiday?"
"I was scared awake by you!" Yin Xue sat up angrily, calmed down for a while, and asked again, "No way, you are still wearing makeup today?"
Yue Qianling began to apply foundation, carefully looking in the mirror to see if there were any flaws, and asked nonchalantly, "Why not?"
"It's better to sleep a little longer if you have this much time." Yin Xue said, "Gu Xun has it anyway..."
She didn't utter the last few words.
Yue Qianling's fingers paused for a moment, and then she forced a stiff smile.
"Don't worry about the life of a beautiful woman."
"I think you haven't given up?"
Yue Qianling said gloomily: "You're overthinking. Should I be unkempt just because he has a girlfriend?"
Moreover, she got up early and went to bed late to put on makeup, not to attract Gu Xun's attention. After all, she is not single now.
But subconsciously, she still hoped that the image she presented in front of Gu Xun would be exquisite and beautiful.
She won't take the initiative to approach him now, but that doesn't mean she can ignore her own image. After all, they worked in the same company and went to the same school after get off work. No matter where they met, if she looked haggard and sloppy, even if Gu Xun didn't care at all, she would be upset for several days.
When we arrived at the hot spring hotel, everyone was divided into departments and played on their own. It was such a big resort that it was not easy to meet each other even if we wanted to.
It wasn't until dinner time that everyone gathered in the restaurant.
While Yue Qianling was changing clothes in her room, she suddenly received a call from her thesis advisor, who wanted to talk for a while, so she asked Huang Jie to go eat first and not wait for her.
So when she came downstairs the restaurant was almost full.
Yue Qianling didn't know which table their department was sitting at. She looked around and slowly walked inside. When she passed a table, someone suddenly called her.
"Yue Qianling?"
She turned around and blinked in a daze.
It turned out to be the boss calling her.
The boss waved at her and said, "Come and sit down."
After she said this, almost everyone at the table was looking at her.
Under the gazes of several people, Yue Qianling quickly looked around the table.
Among the nine people, except for the boss, the only one she knew was Gu Xun.
As luck would have it, the only empty seat was between the boss and Gu Xun.
What is this called.
Good things don’t come when they should, but when they shouldn’t come, they come rushing in like a whirlwind.
But since the boss had spoken, Yue Qianling naturally couldn't refuse.
She nodded, walked towards the empty seat, sat down, stroking her skirt, first greeted the boss, then turned her head and nodded to Gu Xun.
Gu Xun looked over calmly, his eyes appearing amber under the bright light.
After a brief eye contact, Yue Qianling's heart was suddenly shaken, and then he restrained himself and withdrew his gaze.
"You're graduating next month, right?"
The boss drank some wine and looked at Yue Qianling lazily with a meaningful look in his eyes. "What are your plans after graduation? Will you stay in the company?"
Where is such a question?
Can I tell you in front of you that I want to leave?
"Of course I hope to stay."
Yue Qianling took a deep breath, kept her expression calm, and flattered her without changing her expression, "After all, there is no better platform in the industry than our company."
The boss laughed, poured himself another glass of wine, and asked, "Why did you leave at the end of last year?"
Yue Qianling: “…”
Before she could catch her breath, the boss asked again: "Why do you want to come back after only two days away?"
At that moment, Yue Qianling felt that everyone's eyes at the table were focused on him again.
Even Gu Xun beside her seemed to be looking at her.
Maybe the boss just mentioned it casually, but Yue Qianling was almost rolling in the frying pan.
She told Gu Xun at the beginning that the boss would not let her leave and insisted that she stay.
The lie was exposed on the spot, and Yue Qianling wanted to crawl under the table.
But she felt that Gu Xun's gaze was still on her, making her feel uneasy and fidgety.
During those two seconds of silence, who knows what kind of torment she went through.
"Of course it's because..." Yue Qianling paused and spoke with great difficulty, "I was young and ignorant."
"So that's how it is..."
The boss smiled and shook his head.
Yue Qianling breathed a sigh of relief, and his tense back relaxed.
Next second.
"I thought it was because a handsome guy came to our company and you were reluctant to leave."
“……!”
Amid the laughter from everyone at the table, Yue Qianling suddenly clenched his fists and held back the breath he was about to take.
She was less than half an arm's length away from Gu Xun, but she could clearly feel his presence and even seemed to hear him chuckle.
That breath, like a flame, roasted her.
Fortunately, before she could say anything, another girl at the table spoke up, "That's right. Shi Yue had just resigned not long ago and told me that if she had known, she would not have left. I said, then come back, as long as your husband doesn't mind."
There was another burst of laughter at the table.
The boss was just joking, so everyone just laughed it off and didn't really care about Yue Qianling's answer.
But Yue Qianling's thoughts were suddenly exposed, and she was flustered and tilted her head with a guilty conscience.
Amid the noise of the crowd, the two men's eyes met again.
The sound in my ears seemed to disappear suddenly.
Yue Qianling's heartbeat quickened, her blood rushed forward, and her cheeks turned red.
She was almost certain that Gu Xun saw through her thoughts!
With such an uneasy mood, Yue Qianling had no taste for the meal and felt as if he was sitting on pins and needles.
He was communicating with Gu Xunling next to him the whole time, without even turning his head to the other side.
The more this happened, the more her attention shifted to Gu Xun, and she kept an eye on his movements at all times.
Like a little spy, the meal made me feel physically and mentally exhausted.
Fortunately, Gu Xun didn't seem to care about the question just now and never spoke to her.
After finally making it to the end, there was not much food left on the table.
Yue Qianling was planning to find an excuse to leave, but at this moment, everyone in the restaurant started toasting each other.
The boss was called to another table by them, and there was an empty seat next to Yue Qianling. Soon a man sat down with a glass of wine.
Yue Qianling was not familiar with this person. She only knew that he was the head of the Human Resources Department. They had almost no interactions in normal times and had only met a few times during the campus recruitment interview.
But this supervisor remembered Yue Qianling.
"Yue Qianling, right?" He drank until his face was red, and he filled the empty glass in front of Yue Qianling with white wine. "I was the one who recruited you, so you are half a mentor, right?"
He pushed the glass in front of the moon and said, "Come on, let's have a drink. Cheers!"
Although Yue Qianling can drink, it is limited to low-alcohol beer.
As for white wine, she once tried it at home. After just one sip, she choked in pain and her throat felt like it was burned.
Now this supervisor wants her to drink a glass of white wine. Isn't this asking for her death?
"I don't drink."
Yue Qianling smiled and picked up another glass of juice, "Let me drink the juice."
"You are just ignorant."
The leader smiled, but his tone revealed obvious dissatisfaction, "I drink white wine and you drink juice, what's that?"
"I'm sorry, I really can't drink."
Yue Qianling looked at him without giving in.
The supervisor considered himself a leader and became unhappy when he was not treated respectfully by the intern.
"No one ever learns. Isn't today a good opportunity?"
He forcefully took the juice from Yue Qianling's hand with such rough movements that a lot of it spilled.
Yue Qianling dodged quickly, leaving only a little juice on her clothes, but she had to watch helplessly as the juice splashed onto Gu Xun's legs.
She was suddenly a little flustered and quickly took out a tissue.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, please wipe it off."
Gu Xun took the tissue handed to him by Yue Qianling and casually wiped the juice off his pants. Hearing Yue Qianling still apologizing, he frowned.
"What are you apologizing for?"
Before Yue Qianling could react to what he meant, the supervisor had already stuffed the wine glass into her hand.
"Come and have a walk, the feelings are deep, and it's a mouthful."
Who has a deep affection for you?
"I really can't drink." Yue Qianling suppressed her impatience and tried to keep her tone less aggressive, "I'm allergic to alcohol."
"Hey, I've heard too many girls make this excuse."
This guy is so fat that when he smiles, the flesh on his face is squeezed together. "You pretty girls are just good at pretending. You say you are allergic, but after work you go to the nightclub and drink more than anyone else."
"What nonsense are you talking about—"
Before Yue Qianling could say anything, the cup in her hand was suddenly taken away.
She turned around in surprise and saw Gu Xun holding her cup and drinking it all in one gulp.
With a "bang", he put the cup on the table.
He looked at the supervisor with a heavy gaze, his voice full of obvious dissatisfaction, "I helped her drink it, can we end it now?"
The supervisor was stunned for a moment, his expression a little stiff, but he still smiled and said, "I'm drinking with Qian Ling. I'll drink with you later. Don't worry."
As he spoke, he took the glass away again and began to pour the wine.
"You are young and ignorant. I am teaching you how to deal with people—"
"Why don't you go back and teach your own daughter?"
Hearing Gu Xun's obviously unhappy voice, she was stunned for a moment and slowly turned her head to look at him.
"You think you're awesome for forcing a girl to drink?" He still had a sullen face, with undisguised contempt and ridicule in his eyes, and chuckled, "Or do you think she's pretty and want to take advantage of her?"
The bad intentions were exposed so directly that the supervisor could not save face. His face turned red due to the alcohol.
But the three sentences that Gu Xun said pierced his heart, and he was unable to utter a word.
But everyone at the table was staring at him with a mocking expression, except Yue Qianling, who was silently lost in thought, no one knew what he was thinking.
The supervisor didn't say a word, just stood up and left with his glass, slamming a chair heavily.
Others at the table comforted Yue Qianling: "Girl, don't pay attention to this kind of person. We are not begging him for anything. There is no need to tolerate him."
Yue Qianling forced a smile and said thank you.
Then she thanked Gu Xun again.
Gu Xun didn't say anything, but just used a tissue to wipe the wine that had just spilled into the quilt.
If it were in the past, if Gu Xun helped her out at a time like this, Yue Qianling would be so happy that she would fly.
He just said she was beautiful.
But now, when Yue Qianling thought about the fact that he had a girlfriend, she felt sad.
Under such circumstances, his occasional kindness to her became another form of torment.
Yue Qianling lowered her eyes, her burning fingertips tightly grasping the hem of her skirt, her mind full of random thoughts.
Until everyone left, Yue Qianling became more and more depressed on the way back to the room. He took out his mobile phone and sent a few messages to Yin Xue.
[Glutinous Rice Dough Sticks]: When I was having dinner today, a man pestered me to drink, and Gu Xun helped me block the wine.
[Glutinous Rice Dough Sticks]: She also scolded that guy and made him so angry that his stomach was about to explode.
[Glutinous Rice Dough Sticks]: If he didn’t have a girlfriend, I would have been unable to hold back!
【Glutinous rice twisted dough sticks】：? Please pay attention to me, I'm annoyed.
I don’t know what Yin Xue is doing and she hasn’t replied to the message.
Yue Qianling returned to her room in a depressed mood and changed the clothes that were spilled with wine and juice.
After she finished all this, the phone on the bed finally vibrated twice.
When I opened it, it was a message from Yin Xue.
[Yin Xue]: This is really wonderful!
[Yin Xue]: I just found out that Gu Xun doesn’t even have a girlfriend!
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