At 5:30 p.m., with only half an hour left before the end of the workday, Lu Zhe had already finished all the work he was supposed to do that day, and even managed to squeeze in some time for self-study.
By this time, after several hours of diligent work, he was quite tired. So he closed the work interface, opened Papercraft, and started slacking off online.
After checking for a few minutes, he became slightly uneasy, so he sent his boss a WeChat message: "Mr. Xia, you don't need to work overtime tonight, right?"
Not long after, I received Xia Xiaobing's reply: "No need. By the way, did you see the news about Messi this afternoon?"
Lu Zhe: [What news?]
Xia Xiaobing: [Messi has gone to Paris Saint-Germain.]
Lu Zhe: [Wow!]
A shocked expression.
Xia Xiaobing: [You didn't even see such a major news story? Does that mean you were working diligently all afternoon?]
Lu Zhe: [Of course!]
Xia Xiaobing sent a smiling but silent emoji.
Just as Lu Zhe was pondering whether to reply with something, someone patted him on the back.
Getting photographed while slacking off is a pretty scary thing, and chatting with the boss on WeChat only makes it easier to panic. Fortunately, Lu Zhe remained relatively calm. He turned his head and saw Su Heng, the company's operations engineer.
Su Heng laughed and said, "Dude, I built you a new computer. Want to switch to it now? Installing the system will only take twenty minutes, it shouldn't be too late to leave work. By the way, you're not working overtime today, are you?"
Lu Zhe glanced at the time; there were still twenty minutes until he got off work.
So he said, "Okay, thanks. I really don't work overtime."
Su Heng turned and walked away, and soon returned with a small cart carrying a computer case. By this time, Lu Zhe had already unplugged all the cables from the old computer case.
"Please plug in the cable first, and I'll come over right away to install the system for you."
With that, Su Heng switched the two computer cases and pushed the old one away.
Lu Zhe plugged in the power cord and monitor cable, sat down in his chair, and seeing that the maintenance staff hadn't returned yet, picked up his phone and sent Xue Xiaodie a message: "I might be a few minutes late leaving work today."
Xue Xiaodie replied almost instantly: 【What's wrong?】
Lu Zhe: [I need to fix the computer, it should be done soon.]
Xue Xiaodie: [That's good. I'm all ready to leave work, just waiting for the time to come before I run away.]
Lu Zhe: [I've heard that comic artists have a lot of work, and they probably often work overtime, right?]
Xue Xiaodie: [So I have to run! I'm not a full-time employee, and I don't get overtime pay, so I can't let them catch me. You don't know, this project management is pretty chaotic. If you don't run away immediately after work, the lead writer can keep you behind at any time and assign you even more tasks...]
After this text, the girl posted a cat lying on the ground looking exhausted.
Lu Zhe: [Is it that complicated?]
Xue Xiaodie: [Of course! Okay, I'll vent to you on my way home from work later, you go ahead and do your thing.]
However, Lu Zhe wasn't busy right now. He looked up and noticed that Su Heng had returned and started installing the system.
I glanced at the time on my phone again; there were still ten minutes left before I got off work.
Su Heng suddenly said, "If you're not working overtime later, you can leave when it's time. I'll install the system here, and you can come back tomorrow morning to copy the data and work documents over. That's fine too."
Lu Zhe smiled and said, "Thank you, you've really worked hard."
Su Heng waved his hand: "This is nothing, a small problem!"
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Around 6:10, Su Heng finally finished installing the system. By then, Lu Zhe had already said goodbye and left.
Su Heng turned around and went to the door of the president's office, and carefully knocked on the door.
"Please come in."
Upon hearing that calm and aloof mature woman's voice, Su Heng subconsciously took another breath, pushed open the door, and reported, "President Xia, I've already installed the computer for that guy."
Xia Xiaobing: "What graphics card did you use for him?"
Su Heng: "Uh, RTX 3070..."
Xia Xiaobing smiled enigmatically: "Such a good graphics card? It doesn't need to do rendering, is it for playing games?"
Su Heng's forehead was beaded with sweat: "No, I don't know..."
Xia Xiaobing laughed and said, "It's okay. As long as the work is completed and it doesn't affect others, it's fine to relax with games. Anyway, the hardware is just sitting in the warehouse, so it's good to take it out and use it."
Su Heng let out a silent sigh and said, "Then I'll go back to work?"
Xia Xiaobing nodded.
Su Heng came out of the president's office and, in order to calm his fragile little heart, decided to play another round of CS.
And in this CEO's office...
Xia Xiaobing walked to the window and looked down.
Sure enough, Lu Zhe and another girl came out of the office building and came into Xia's sight. The two walked side by side, but still kept a little distance between them.
“If a man and a woman walk together and the distance between them is less than half a meter, it means they have an ambiguous relationship. These two…” Xia Xiaobing silently estimated, “It’s about half a meter.”
Of course she recognized the girl who was with Lu Zhe as Xue Xiaodie, whom she had met a few times.
It's known that Lu Zhe has acted strangely, suggesting that either Xue Xiaodie or Tang Qi may have gotten there first. The question is, who is it? Xue Xiaodie or Tang Qi?
Xia Xiaobing stared intently at the figures of the man and woman.
They passed by a KFC. The store was only a few dozen meters from the office building, and many people who worked there usually ate there. However, Lu Zhe and Xue Xiaodie certainly wouldn't eat there, because a girl was waiting for them at home to have dinner together.
Xia Xiaobing could guess that Lu Zhe was the one cooking. After all, she herself had 'once' relied on him for her daily meals.
Although she couldn't hear the two talking, Xia Xiaobing observed their body language and realized that their relationship didn't seem to be intimate enough to cross any boundaries.
At least it can be said that the two did not act abnormally in public.
As the two figures gradually walked away, Xia Xiaobing's perspective shifted from a bird's-eye view to a level one. However, even as the two figures disappeared from sight, they did not show any signs of being overly intimate.
They weren't even close enough to pat each other on the shoulder or arm, let alone anything too intimate.
"Xue Xiaodie is too cautious..." Xia Xiaobing muttered to herself, analyzing, "Even if she guessed that I might see her, the distance between her bodies is hard to lie about. If she had already succeeded, it's impossible for her to maintain a distance of about half a meter all the time. Besides, even if she's a superb actress, Lu Zhe wouldn't..."
She stood by the window, looked up at the sky, and had already come to a preliminary guess.
"It's more likely Tang Qi. Let's find an opportunity to test the waters."
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