After quickly running through a list of pleasantries in his head, Liu Xiaojiang smiled at the approaching figure. "Kexin, what brings you out?"
Yu Kexin snorted. "So I’m a ’sister’ now? Didn’t you all think I was a boy?"
"How could that be? You’re so sweet, cute, and pretty, Kexin. How could you possibly be a boy? In our hearts, you’re the most beautiful girl of all."
However, Yu Kexin’s current expression had nothing to do with being sweet, cute, or pretty. Especially not pretty. More like a tigress—a raging tigress, at that.
The others hurriedly nodded, their expressions clearly saying that Liu Xiaojiang was speaking for them all.
"At least you know your place!"
When Yu Kexin returned to the eting room, everyone looked as though they had just survived a disaster.
You should never provoke a female programr, especially a busy one. Otherwise, the consequences are more than most people can bear. The only exception is if you’re as handso and clever as the boss, capable of solving any of their coding problems in just a few sentences. Judging by Yu Kexin’s expression just now, she had clearly been pacified by the boss. You had to hand it to him; the boss was truly impressive. He had solved a problem that had stumped Yu Kexin for days in less than half an hour. Wait, ’pacified’? Why does that word sound so weird? Oh well, as long as it doesn’t affect us, it’s fine.
The group returned to their desks and continued with their work.
***
Cui Hao, Shi Zichen, and Feng Jiajun found Xue Yang’s Audi and were about to open the trunk to get the items inside.
"Cui Hao, Xiao Ya isn’t the boss’s girlfriend, is she?" Shi Zichen couldn’t help but ask.
Feng Jiajun was equally curious, and both of them turned to look at Cui Hao.
Cui Hao casually replied, "No."
What a joke. Xue Yang’s first love was Chen Ying, the campus belle of Yanbei University. Why would he settle for soone like Wu Xiaoya? While Wu Xiaoya wasn’t ugly, she was a far cry from being beautiful, let alone a campus belle. Besides, if Xue Yang actually got together with Wu Xiaoya, he, Cui Hao, would be the first to object. Just because he couldn’t win over the campus belle himself didn’t an his best friend should lower his standards so drastically.
"Oh, so it’s not her," Shi Zichen and Feng Jiajun muttered.
That made sense. Xiao Ya was Chen Ying’s best friend, after all. If she got together with Xue Yang, wouldn’t that be stabbing her best friend in the back? People who did things like that were despised everywhere. Besides, from what they knew of her, Wu Xiaoya wasn’t that type of person. Her values were quite solid.
"Then do you know what the boss’s girlfriend looks like?"
"That guy keeps her so well hidden, I can’t get anything out of him no matter how I ask," Cui Hao said in frustration. His position as Xue Yang’s one and only best friend was in jeopardy.
"Even you don’t know?"
If even Cui Hao, Xue Yang’s best friend, didn’t know, then they had reason to doubt the story’s authenticity. Could it be that the boss had been rejected after confessing his feelings and made up the story to avoid becoming a laughingstock?
Cui Hao wasn’t thinking about all that. He opened the trunk and was imdiately stunned. "Just how much stuff did the boss bring? This box is huge! Co on, give a hand." No wonder he didn’t carry it up himself and told to bring two more people down. A box this big is definitely too much for one person.
Once they got the box into the studio, everyone couldn’t help but gather around.
"What is it? That box is massive!"
"We’re curious too. Let’s take it to the lounge and open it."
"Boss, did you empty out your entire house?" Cui Hao couldn’t help but tease as he and the others lugged the box inside.
"Xiao Ya, I ant it when I said to consider the offer carefully, but the offer is only good for today. After that, I’ll have Kexin find soone else."
The reason he thought Wu Xiaoya was a good fit was because she was about to graduate. She wouldn’t have many classes, which ant more ti to focus on work. He was currently juggling the operations of the fashion brand with his classes, leaving his schedule incredibly tight. It seed he would have to drop a hint to Teacher Gong and hope she would cut him so slack. But what could he say to convince her? He was only a freshman, after all. Openly skipping classes was definitely not an option, as that would be unfair to the other students. Forget it. It was work ti, not ti to worry about school. Anyway, he still had over a week. He’d deal with the problems at hand first. Right, it’s almost noon. A big hodgepodge hotpot with ingredients from all over the country seems like a good idea for lunch. But... it looks like we don’t have a pot.
"Madam Zhong said she only cleaned out the fridge. Was it heavy?"
"Definitely! Didn’t you see the three of us had to take turns carrying it up? Our arms are killing us!"
Three people taking turns? Wu Xiaoya recalled the scene of Xue Yang single-handedly carrying the box out of the security office. She had assud it wasn’t very heavy, but... it took three of them taking turns to get it up here. Just how strong was he? Wait, Madam Zhong? Could it be... that Madam Zhong was actually his mother? A wave of guilt washed over Wu Xiaoya. She had been thinking such terrible things about her just a mont ago. How could she?
"Xiao Jiang, get so scissors."
Liu Xiaojiang had the scissors ready and quickly passed them to Xue Yang. "Boss, scissors."
Xue Yang squatted and calmly cut a line down the center of the box.
Upon opening it, a veritable feast was revealed to everyone. First, there was poultry: chicken, duck, and goose. Then ca an assortnt of fruits and lon seeds. There were also other delicacies like dried bean curd sticks, cured ats, and more. What surprised everyone was that there were even fresh vegetables.
Zhong Hailan had truly not disappointed him. She had practically emptied out their entire refrigerator. It was as if she’d packed up half of their vegetable garden as well.
Xue Yang took out a sampling of the contents and placed them near his workstation.
"With all this food, we can cook lunch here in the studio today. Think of it as a small get-together. Xiao Ya, want to join us?"
"Ah? Can I?"
It would be a lie to say Wu Xiaoya wasn’t envious seeing all the delicious food Xue Yang had brought. As for her, forget about bringing things from ho; she was lucky if her own belongings weren’t constantly being taken by others.
"Even though you’re still considering the offer, you can be an honorary studio mber for today. So yes, you can join the feast."
"I brought so local specialties from my hotown too!"
" too!"
"I did as well!"
One by one, others in the studio raised their hands, announcing that they had also brought food. Just as Xue Yang had expected, they were all local specialties from their various hotowns.
"Now all we need is a pot."
"I have one in my dorm," Wu Xiaoya said, quietly raising her hand.
"Alright then. Cui Hao, go with Xiao Ya to her dorm and get the pot."
"Why don’t you go? Your car would be faster."
"My little electric scooter is perfect for short trips, you know."
"..."
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