Chapter 2 The Life of a Social Animal
"Xiaoye, why are you glowing?"
Sister Wang’s exclamation made Ye Xiaoxuan’s heart beat faster suddenly.
Could it be that...
My mind turned over and over again, forcing myself to look down -
Fortunately, it’s just an ordinary fluorescent star and not too conspicuous.
But before she could catch her breath, she saw it.
ah!
"Xiao Ye, what's wrong with you?" Sister Wang asked with concern after noticing that something was wrong with her.
"Ahahaha, nothing, nothing."
Ye Xiaoxuan was sweating profusely. She wanted to run away and ask for help.
Who can come and save her!
We must not let Sister Wang see this thing!
Ye Xiaoxuan made the decision almost immediately.
He turned over his work badge, picked up the fluorescent star, and said to Sister Wang with a smile:
"Hahaha, it's nothing, Sister Wang. I think I got it on the subway."
Sister Wang was puzzled: "I didn't ask that."
Ye Xiaoxuan: ...
"Okay, okay, Sister Wang, I have to go to work. Bye."
Before Sister Wang could react, Ye Xiaoxuan quickly fled back to her workstation.
"You..." For a moment, Ye Xiaoxuan was stuck. Oh, what is the name of this thing? She didn't ask!
Forget it. Never mind.
"You purple thing, what the hell is going on?"
Ye Xiaoxuan held up her work badge and saw that the originally ordinary work badge now had the words "35-year-old limited edition magical girl" printed on it.
The photos also changed from capable workplace photos to the eye-catching image of a magical girl.
What’s the difference between this and a colleague taking an ugly photo of himself and posting it all over the internet?
"What is going on?" Ye Xiaoxuan, who was finding it increasingly annoying, asked the magic creature again.
"You have been chosen to be our magical girl. This is your exclusive card." The magical creature replied happily.
"I've already said that I don't want it." Ye Xiaoxuan said angrily in a low voice.
What is going on?
Life is hard enough, not to mention the daily stress from work, but now I have to deal with this kind of nonsense.
“But you have to be one!”
"Why?"
"Because you were chosen!"
"Take a good look at me. I'm 35 years old!"
"Who says you can't be a magical girl at 35?"
Ye Xiaoxuan: ...
After the subway argument, they went on to the company argument, with one meaningless sentence after another, until Ye Xiaoxuan walked into the office area tiredly and met a colleague head-on:
"Xiaoye, why are you in such a hurry?"
"Oh, it's okay. I'm a little tired from working overtime yesterday." She forced a smile.
You can't say that she was chosen to be a magical girl and now she's arguing with her own magical creatures!
Even she herself doesn't believe what she said. She might be considered a psychopath, so it's better not to say it.
Ye Xiaoxuan was thinking this when a bald man walked towards her with a cup of coffee.
The project leader, Zhou Mingyuan, is her number one colleague. His position is neither too high nor too low, just one level higher than her.
At the age of 48, he is the ultimate living fossil in this era when people retire at the age of 35. I don’t know if it is for this reason that he likes to recite a few lines of ancient poetry, like now.
"I've never seen the sunset after working overtime, and I've only got home at midnight.
Thousands of lines of data on the screen have changed, and in the dream, the salary is not even a penny in debt.
I angrily point to the lights in the high-rise buildings which make it as bright as day, and I wearily look at the workstations where there are ants swarming like hemp.
News from the MoYu group today: the boss has added a new player, Parame.
It’s crazy to work part-time, thank you for understanding each other.”
Fortunately, he is quite open-minded, so he gets along well with his colleagues.
"Wow, you are worthy of being the team leader, you sound so impressive!"
Colleague number two, Tian Zihan, is a 19-year-old intern. She is a silly beauty like in anime. She carries documents and shuttles around the company every day. Strangely, she does not cause any dissatisfaction in anyone.
Such an unreasonable phenomenon made Ye Xiaoxuan feel for a long time that this person might be a person with connections.
Then something even stranger happened. It seemed like she was the only one who felt this way.
"Well, Team Leader Zhou, I agree with you." A frustrated voice sounded from the workstation. "These days, the market is full of chickens, ducks, cattle and horses. Xiaoye, you should be careful. Don't let the company say you resigned voluntarily if you suddenly die one day."
Oh, yes, I almost forgot.
Colleague No. 3, Zhang Yaozu, is 28 years old, but because he came to the company a year earlier than her, he always calls her Xiao Ye.
The ultimate lover of hell jokes.
It’s a pity that although it’s a hobby, my writing is very bad, otherwise I would be a congenital internet saint.
Apart from these three, there are many other employees in the company, but she is not familiar with them, so there is nothing to introduce.
There are still more than ten minutes before the official start of work. Several people gathered together to chat, and a rare relaxed atmosphere filled the office.
"What are you all gathering for?!"
The peaceful atmosphere was interrupted by a roar from the supervisor, and the group had no choice but to return to their workstations and continue to deal with their unfinished work.
This is Ye Xiaoxuan's job - disgusting, but better than unemployment. This is her life - suffocating, but better than being in the ICU.
It's very tragic.
How ironic, she is like a Stockholm syndrome patient who is repeatedly ravaged by life, hating everything but relying on it tremblingly.
so--
"I won't sign a contract with you." Ye Xiaoxuan stared at the computer screen, too lazy to even lift her eyelids.
"Why?" The magical creature blinked its big eyes. The scene was not really pretty. "How could anyone not want to be a magical girl?
"Why?" Ye Xiaoxuan sneered in her heart, her fingers mechanically tapping the keyboard, "Let me ask you, do you get paid for saving the world?"
"Ah? Salary?" The magical creature didn't react for a moment, and the halo on its body dimmed.
"Yes, salary." She switched between spreadsheet windows numbly, "You can't let me work for nothing, right?"
The blue light from the screen shone on her face, revealing a pair of lifeless eyes.
"But, but," the light of the magical creature jumped in panic, "If you don't become a magical girl, the world will be destroyed!"
This is a threat.
Ye Xiaoxuan hit the enter key a little harder: "So what?"
"Ah?" The magical creature didn't understand what she was talking about for a moment, and his voice rose an octave.
"I mean," she finally stopped her finger and gave a tired smile, "what is there in this world that is worth saving? It's just right to destroy it, the poor and the rich will perish together, how fair it is."
The keyboard sounds rang out again, more rapidly than before.
"I'm not some Stockholm syndrome patient. I can't destroy the world, and I can't sacrifice myself to save the world. Find someone else."
But this is obviously impossible. The magical creatures seem to have a hard time explaining this, so they can only continue to make excuses, "But if the world is destroyed, your family and friends will also..."
This is persecution.
This sentence is useful for most people, but unfortunately it happened to Ye Xiaoxuan.
"Sorry, orphan." Ye Xiaoxuan interrupted it neatly, "As for friends..."
Ye Xiaoxuan looked around - the workstations were filled with workers who, like her, had dark circles under their eyes and were like zombies in front of their computers.
"They should understand me." She chuckled.
"But, but, if you become a magical girl, you will have magic and can fulfill many wishes that you could never fulfill before."
Finally, the real purpose was revealed, and it came to the last link: bribery.
This is exactly what Ye Xiaoxuan wanted, but it is not enough.
“And then? Like the monster in the subway, I might just tell him next time.” She clicked the save button. “I’m an adult and I know there’s no such thing as a free lunch.”
There is no such thing as a free lunch. Just like the bonus promised by your boss, you may think it is a free lunch, but it is actually a trap.
After the magical creature said this series of words, all the threats and inducements were in vain.
Then it began to rattle off the terms of the contract like an insurance salesman.
But Ye Xiaoxuan wanted to say that compared with the road construction noise that lasted for three months outside her window during her internship, this little harassment was nothing.
So, when the sunset dyed the office blood red, she had learned to block out the magical creatures just like she blocked out her life, and at the same time handed in the plan that she had completed with great difficulty.
"What a rubbish you made! Redo it! If you can't hand it in tomorrow, you'll be fired!"
In the office, Director Li threw the document hard at Ye Xiaoxuan, leaving red marks on her face and scattering all over the floor.
She stood there like a stone statue, not even her eyelashes fluttering.
"The plan has been revised once." When the roar stopped, her voice was eerily calm. "Can you please point out the specific problems? I can make targeted revisions."
"If I say you are wrong, then you are wrong. Why do you care so much? Just go back and do it again." Manager Li's saliva splashed on Ye Xiaoxuan's face, and his eyes seemed to be burning with anger.
"Okay, Director Li." She bent down and picked up the document, her movements as precise as a machine.
The moment the office door closed, the magical creature shuddered in her mind. That was not an ordinary door closing sound, it was clearly the last warning before the pressure relief valve of the pressure cooker was blown away.
"Oh, that thing." She spoke to the magical creature "You just said that being a magical girl can make wishes come true, right?"
"well?"
In an instant, the halo of the magical creature brightened three degrees. This turn was more exciting than any human TV drama it had watched.
The magical creatures thought, is this what the human world means by “after so many twists and turns you think there is no way out, suddenly you see a new village”?
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