On Lin Yao’s first day at work, Xiao Dong personally took her to the HR department.
“Tina, this is the new TCM health-care physician. Help her handle the onboarding procedures and introduce her to the company environment while you’re at it,” Xiao Dong said, his peach-blossom eyes constantly sending out flirtatious sparks.
“No problem. Leave it to me, Director,” Tina quickly agreed.
“Just follow Tina. I have a meeting soon, so I’ll go handle that first,” Xiao Dong said to Lin Yao.
“Okay, thank you.” Lin Yao nodded in thanks.
Xiao Dong nodded, then threw Tina another flirtatious wink before leaving.
“The director really is getting more and more handsome,” Tina said dreamily in the direction Xiao Dong had left.
Lin Yao looked at Tina in surprise.
“Isn’t he handsome?” Tina suddenly asked Lin Yao, who had been silent beside her.
“Ah?”
When a fangirling woman asked whether her male god was handsome or not, how should one answer?
“Is Director Xiao handsome?” Tina repeated.
“Do you… have a crush on him?” Lin Yao asked carefully.
“It’s not just me.” Tina nodded wildly. “Half the female employees in our company have a crush on him.”
So he was a public male god. That made it much easier to answer. Lin Yao immediately stated her position.
“Very handsome.”
“Right?” After receiving agreement, Tina seemed to be in a very good mood. Even her work became a little more brisk. She quickly helped Lin Yao complete the onboarding procedures and began introducing the company.
“This TOS system is Tengfeng Group’s internal office system. It was independently developed by the IT department. This is your account and password.” Tina handed Lin Yao a sticky note with the account and password written on it, then continued, “The TOS system is different from ordinary office systems. Besides having all the functions that other office systems have, its biggest highlight is an employee community, which makes it easier for colleagues to get to know one another.”
Tina logged into her own account, clicked open her electronic business card, and said, “There are some required fields in the TOS system. You can fill in a brief description of your personal abilities here. Write down the conditions you’re better at treating. That way, colleagues in the company can come to you for treatment based on what you’ve written.”
It was equivalent to the departments in a hospital. Lin Yao understood and nodded.
“There’s also an appointment function here. You can use it to arrange consultation times reasonably.”
“Online registration?” Lin Yao understood instantly.
“That’s right.” Tina then took out a white card and handed it to Lin Yao as she explained, “Also, this is a meal card. The company will deposit five hundred yuan into it every month as a meal allowance. It can only be used in the employee cafeteria.”
Tina introduced a few other things to pay attention to and said that if Lin Yao still had anything she did not understand, she could ask her at any time. Only then did she begin showing Lin Yao around the company.
Tina first gave Lin Yao a general explanation of the company’s structure, then showed her around with more specific focus.
“The latest company health examination data shows that the floors with the worst physical condition are the twelfth floor, the IT R&D department, and the eighteenth floor, the International Trade Department. I think the people you’ll probably see most in the future will be from these two departments.”
Lin Yao raised an eyebrow.
She had been to the twelfth floor during her interview before, so she was not unfamiliar with the place. However, there seemed to be fewer people in the office today, probably only half as many as yesterday.
“The R&D department just finished a case, and the company gave them three days off, so there aren’t many people here today,” Tina explained.
“Excuse me, please let me through.” A slightly cool and low male voice suddenly sounded behind the two of them.
Lin Yao turned to look. A handsome face with sharp, defined features abruptly entered her sight. Completely unprepared, Lin Yao seemed to hear her own heartbeat quicken in that instant.
“Good morning, Director Yan.” Tina, blushing, pulled Lin Yao aside to make way for the man.
“Morning.” The man nodded at Tina. The corner of his eye casually swept over Lin Yao, then calmly moved away.
“This is…” Lin Yao could not help asking. “Who is he? Is he also from the R&D department?”
“He’s the head of the R&D department, Yan Lüji,” Tina introduced in a low voice. “One of our company’s three great male gods.”
“Yan Lüji!”
Upon suddenly hearing this name, Lin Yao was so shocked that she failed to control her volume, causing the three words “Yan Lüji” to echo for a long time through the large office.
The programmers all raised their heads and looked around.
Who had such a death wish that they dared call their boss by his full name like that?
Yan Lüji was still holding the coffee he had bought on the way. His black shirt made his whole person look cold, stern, and abstinent. There was a trace of displeasure on his pale but handsome face, and his dark eyes carried a questioning look as he turned back to Lin Yao.
“Is something the matter?”
“Uh… I…” Lin Yao wished she could find a hole to crawl into. “I was saying… people should be strict with themselves.”
Even Lin Yao herself could not bear to listen to such an awkward explanation.
Damn it. Looking closely, his eyes really did resemble yesterday’s uncle. But just because he was handsome today, even his gaze seemed a few degrees cuter?
“Then why did you shout it so loudly? Were you trying to call on all of us to learn from you?” Yan Lüji asked coldly.
“No… no, I was saying it for myself to hear.” Lin Yao hurriedly denied it. She was not some chuunibyou girl. Why would she shout slogans?
“Then would Doctor Gao… please pay attention to the occasion. This is an office, not a KTV.” When Yan Lüji said the “Gao” in Doctor Gao, he deliberately paused.
“My surname is Lin,” Lin Yao corrected angrily.
Yan Lüji ignored her. He swept his gaze around and, seeing that the programmers who had been watching the drama had all lowered their heads and continued working, turned around and continued walking towards his office.
“Why did you shout so loudly just now? You scared me to death,” Tina could not help complaining once the two of them returned to the eighth floor.
“Sorry, I was just too surprised.”
“I know Director Yan is extremely handsome. Even though he’s cold, heartless, sharp-tongued, and domineering, it still can’t stop fangirls from rushing towards him one after another.” Tina warned her, “But although handsome men are nice to look at, work is more important. I don’t want you to become yet another employee fired for harassing Director Yan.”
What did that mean? This was practically an insult to her character. Lin Yao retorted, “Do I look like the kind of woman who isn’t reserved?”
“Only you know that. In any case, I’ve warned you.” After Tina finished speaking, she looked at her watch and smiled. “That’s about it for the company introduction. Don’t forget to fill in your information in the TOS system. Lastly, welcome to Tengfeng.”
“Thank you.”
As soon as Tina left, Lin Yao impatiently called Yue Mingyuan.
“Medicine Bag, how does your first day at work feel?”
“Xiao Ming, let me tell you, you definitely won’t expect this. That uncle actually turned out to be super handsome. No, not an uncle. I think he isn’t that many years older than me. It was all the beard’s fault.” Lin Yao did not care whether Yue Mingyuan understood or not and just kept talking by herself.
“Wait, what are you talking about? What uncle? What fault?”
“You know, the super annoying uncle I told you about yesterday, the one who bullied me. Today, he changed clothes, shaved his beard, and changed his hairstyle. He looked at least ten years younger, and he really is very handsome.” The difference from before and after was unbelievable.
“No way, Lin Medicine Bag, is your face-con disease acting up again?” As soon as Yue Mingyuan heard this, he knew what had happened. Lin Yao was good in every way, except that when she met the type she liked, she was prone to becoming lovestruck. “Girls need to be reserved. You can’t be this shallow as a person.”
Lin Yao said, “Who’s shallow? Everyone loves beauty, okay?”
“Lin Medicine Bag, wake up. Think about how he treated you yesterday.”
Thinking of Yan Lüji’s poisonous mouth, Lin Yao temporarily calmed down. “I didn’t say I was going to do anything. Although he looks pretty good, his temper is bad. His face is as cold and expressionless as if he has ALS, and he’s super sharp-tongued. This kind of person is only suitable for admiring from afar, not for being a boyfriend.”
Only then did Yue Mingyuan relax. “Then why did you call me?”
“Right, why did I call you? Hanging up.” Lin Yao hung up with extreme decisiveness.
“…” Phone bills aren’t free, you know.
==
In the whole morning, Lin Yao only finished filling out her information in the TOS system. Seeing that it was lunchtime, Lin Yao took her freshly issued meal card and headed straight for the tenth-floor cafeteria.
What was the concept of an entire building’s worth of people gathering together? A dense, surging crowd filled the cafeteria. Holding a tray, Lin Yao found the queue with the fewest people and joined it. But after buying her food, she searched the entire cafeteria and could not find a single empty seat.
Just as Lin Yao was considering whether to take her food back to the medical room, Xiao Dong spotted her from afar.
“Doctor Lin, over here.” Xiao Dong waved.
“Director Xiao.” Lin Yao carried her food over.
“Sit here.” Xiao Dong pointed to the seat opposite him.
“There’s no one sitting here?” Lin Yao asked, finding it a little strange that Xiao Dong was occupying a four-person table alone.
“There’s one more colleague. He went to buy food.”
Lin Yao nodded and sat down.
“There’s a huge flow of people in the cafeteria. Next time, you need to come a bit earlier to get a seat,” Xiao Dong said with concern. “How is it? Is the food to your taste?”
“It’s pretty good. I saw lots of different dishes,” Lin Yao said.
“Our colleagues come from all over the country, so the cafeteria dishes have all kinds of different flavours too. Don’t look at how our cafeteria isn’t that big—the eight great cuisines are pretty much all covered here,” Xiao Dong said.
“Then doesn’t that mean I’m in for a treat?” Lin Yao said happily.
The two were eating when suddenly, a figure walked past behind Lin Yao and sat down beside Xiao Dong.
“Old Yan, why are you eating so lightly? There isn’t any oil or meat at all.” Xiao Dong glanced at Yan Lüji’s tray.
“I don’t have much appetite.” Yan Lüji raised his head and saw Lin Yao sitting there with a strip of kelp hanging from the corner of her mouth, her mouth open as she stared at him with an idiotic expression. Yan Lüji asked in disgust, “Why are you sitting here?”
“Is this table yours?” Lin Yao shot back.
“Can you swallow what’s in your mouth before speaking?” Even Yan Lüji, who did not have mysophobia, was nearly forced into developing it.
“…”
Lin Yao covered her mouth, swallowed, and drank water in one smooth sequence.
Good thing I’m not planning to like him. Otherwise, I’d have lost all face.
**Author’s Note:**
Crab revised too late yesterday, then got up very early this morning to take an exam. After the exam, I immediately felt like my body had been hollowed out. I went home, collapsed, and slept. After waking up, I wrote until now…
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