Everywhere was extrely dusty. From the tables to the floor, everything looked to be untouched.
Except for the footsteps in front of them, indicating that soone had entered it before them.
"This is one of the few buildings that we don't have to repair at all, and we can just move in like this."
"Really?"
Walking into the eting rooms, Xiaoyun froze as mories started flooding his brain.
"Yes, really. I had already sent a few engineers to check on the building beforehand, and they told it was fully usable..."
As Yuqi pulled the string to raise the blinds all the way, she quickly noticed Xiaoyun standing still.
"Are you going to help , or are you just going to stand there?"
"Sorry."
After five minutes of continuously pulling up the blinds, the two of them finally had natural lighting shining through the glass eting room.
"Why are you zoning out so much?" Yuqi curiously asked.
"I... I'm just having a flashback. That's all."
Seeing Xiaoyun not wanting to explain anything further, Yuqi didn't try to ask again about it.
"Let's go to our office."
As the two of them exited the eting room, Yuqi quickly headed back to the entrance to turn off the light before running back.
"Now looks much better... Ahem, I'm going to need to ask for a cleaning crew to get rid of all this dust."
Stopping by the door before them, Xiaoyun froze once again as he stared towards the door tag.
"Executive office..."
"Hey, as a warning. It's my office, not your office anymore. I changed a lot of things since you had left."
Seeing Xiaoyun nodding in agreent, Yuqi finally opened the door, revealing the inside once and for all.
"What the..."
The decorations still caught him a little off guard, as all the paintings he used to have were now gone.
In its place were a bunch of oddly looking
"Where did all the paintings go?"
"At the roof's storage unit. I ain't about to hang those old-fashioned looking paintings in this day and age."
"But those paintings are at the level of national treasures from centuries ago!"
"So? None of the co-workers I had could understand it."
Yuqi paused for a second, realizing she might have insulted herself and her peers for not understanding art.
"I can't hang that kind of painting when every company out there is trying to do sothing with tech."
"Still... The old man had those paintings up since he founded the company..."
Seeing Xiaoyun looking a little down, Yuqi's heart finally couldn't endure it any longer.
"I can hang them up again later if you want."
"It's fine... I'm just feeling nostalgic. It's your office, you can decorate it however you want."
As the two of them walked over to the desk, Yuqi suddenly rushed over to the file cabinet before checking the inside.
"Whew, thank god it wasn't opened."
"What's inside——"
"Nothing!"
Seeing Yuqi refusing to let him go any closer only made him more curious than ever.
"Co on, just let see it. It's the apocalypse already, business plans are useless anyway."
Despite trying to move past Yuqi, she remained adamant, with both arms on his shoulder.
"It's my secret, okay? Can you not give so privacy?"
"What are you so stubborn in hiding it? When did we hide secrets from each other?"
Once again, Xiaoyun tried to push her aside, but she quickly pushed him back.
"If you respect as your wife, you would not walk any closer than this."
"Fine, fine. You can keep your secret..."
Seeing Xiaoyun backing down, Yuqi quickly headed over to the desk cabinet, pulling out a lock.
With a click, the bottom part of the file cabinet was fully locked, unable to be pulled open.
"Since you're keeping your secret, I'm going to sit on this chair and relax."
Yuqi rolled her eyes, ignoring Xiaoyun, as she started removing stacks of papers from the various file cabinets.
"Hmph! I can do this myself——Ah!"
The loud noise imdiately made Xiaoyun jump out of his seat, only to see Yuqi on the floor holding her ankles.
"What's wrong?"
"I-I twisted my ankle. Ow!"
"Don't move."
As Xiaoyun examined her ankle, he quickly noticed a red spot she was pressing onto.
Slowly, he gently carried her up from the floor to his arm, before putting her down onto the sofa.
"How did you twist your ankles all of a sudden?" Xiaoyun curiously asked as he gently massaged the surrounding red spot.
"I thought there was a spider on the paper. I panicked and tried to run away, but my leg——ouch!"
"It's okay, just relax... I'll go clean up the paper. Don't worry about it, okay?"
Seeing Yuqi looking a little better, Xiaoyun quickly got out of his seat before gathering all the papers she had dropped earlier.
After gathering all of them into a neat stack, he quickly created a box before taking more paper out from the other file cabinet.
Soon, almost five boxes were full, all filled up with useless business paper from the file cabinets.
"Thank you so much, babe! Muah!"
As Yuqi jumped up from her seat to kiss him on the cheek, Xiaoyun's face, for so reason, blushed a little.
"No problem... Are you feeling better now?"
"Yep!"
As Yuqi jumped back up from the sofa, she looked almost as if she had never been injured at all.
"Let's carry these boxes down."
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After transferring all the trash docunts to the recycling and carrying them from their car, they finally set up their own office.
Several of the office workers had also started coming to the top floor to set up their office area.
"Yuqi, do we really need the entire building?" Xiaoyun curiously asked, his face looking towards people moving in and out.
"Yes, we do. Unless you want everyone to work in cages like the one back in Luoping...
Besides, all the buildings are free for us anyway. We might as well use it rather than letting it go unused."
"I guess that's true."
"Also, I didn't make every single departnt into this building... Look, don't you see people going inside that building?"
As Xiaoyun looked down, he could see people carrying boxes of work to the skyscraper across.
"Those crossing the street are going to be the new bank headquarters. Isn't it perfect?"
"Why would it be perfect?" Xiaoyun asked in confusion.
"Because that building used to be a bank itself."
"Really? I don't recall it... Wasn't it a construction company?"
"That construction company went bankrupt a long ti ago... Ahem, anyway, let's head back ho."
"Already?"
As Xiaoyun looked over to the clock, it was only four in the afternoon.
"This whole place is too dusty. I already called the janitors to clean everything first."
"Why does it feel like this is a little rushed..."
"I don't know what you're talking about. Anyway, let's go!"
Just as Yuqi hooked her arms around his, she quickly noticed him staring through the glass walls.
"What are you looking at?"
"Nothing. Ahem. Let's go back——"
"Do I look stupid? You were staring at my secretary's body, weren't you?"
"What? No. I'm looking at the person across from her. Don't you think that person looked a little familiar?"
The mont Xiaoyun finished responding, the shadowy figure suddenly vanished from his sight.
"What person?"
As Yuqi rubbed her eye and looked over at her secretary's direction, she didn't notice anyone else there at all.
"What are you on about? I don't see anyone else other than her. Co on, babe, are you just lying to ?"
"I'm serious."
Xiaoyun quickly moved closer to the glass wall, squinting his eyes as hard as he could.
"Stop staring at her, you pervert. If this glass isn't a one-way glass, you would have been reported for sexual harassnt."
"I'm not joking—Ouch!"
"You need glasses or sothing... Stop looking at my secretary, you idiot! Am I not better than her?"
"Okay, okay, you're better than her."
As Xiaoyun stopped looking over at the glass wall, Yuqi finally let go of pinching his ear.
"Hmph! You know what, let's go up and see if soone is really there."
Yuqi quickly opened the door, bringing Xiaoyun over to the office block as the secretary dropped her stuff onto the table.
"Good evening Miss Yuqi, Mr.Xiaoyun. Is there sothing I can help with?"
"Jianlin, did you see anyone walking past you earlier?"
"Soone walking past ? I don't think so."
"See? You're just a pervert."
"Whatever you say."
Just as Xiaoyun was about to give up looking, he suddenly noticed a dead plant in the corner.
Although the plant itself had nothing special, there was no shadow despite the light shining through it from the window.
"Who's there?"
"Xiaoyun, what are you on about?"
Both Yuqi and the secretary looked a little confused until Xiaoyun suddenly pulled out a pistol and aid it right at the air.
"Raise your hand and reveal yourself."
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