Yan Lüji looked in annoyance at the woman he had just pushed to the ground and realised he had seen her before. She was one of the people who had come to the company this morning to interview for the programmer encouragement specialist position.
He had long since told Xiao Dong that the company did not need any so-called programmer encouragement specialist. What kind of people had he hired?
“Hey, I’m telling you, you’d better apologise to me immediately.” Rubbing her sore backside from the fall, Lin Yao glared at the man in front of her.
Yan Lüji glanced sideways at the woman constantly rubbing her buttocks. Even like this, she still had not given up trying to seduce him.
“Where are you looking?” Lin Yao noticed the man’s gaze and angrily pointed at his nose as she questioned him.
“Did no one teach you not to point at people when you speak?” Yan Lüji’s eyes were full of disdain.
“And now you’re lecturing me…” Lin Yao was furious. “Hurry up and apologise to me.”
“I can’t be bothered with you. Move.” Yan Lüji pushed Lin Yao, who was blocking the way, aside in disgust and left the TCM health-care room directly.
“Stop right there!” Lin Yao was just about to chase him, but as soon as she turned, her backside hurt terribly. “It hurts so much. It must be bruised.”
By the time Lin Yao chased to the doorway, the man had already disappeared somewhere. “Bastard, don’t let me run into you again.”
==
HR Director’s office.
Xiao Dong was on the phone with Professor Fang Zhongfang, verifying Lin Yao’s identity.
“What? Lin Yao went to your company to become a health-care doctor? Absolutely don’t agree to it. Isn’t that wasting talent?” When Professor Fang heard that Lin Yao had actually left Sixth Hospital and gone to Tengfeng Group to become a health-care doctor, he was utterly heartbroken.
“Professor Fang, isn’t that a bit much? How is coming to our company wasting talent?”
“You don’t understand. That girl is a good seedling for clinical practice,” Professor Fang said. “A hospital is the place that suits her.”
“Isn’t treating patients the same wherever she is? Our Tengfeng Group has several thousand people from top to bottom. The flow of people isn’t any less than a hospital.”
“I can’t explain it clearly to you. In any case, you’re not allowed to agree… I’ll call her later and ask what exactly is going on.”
Xiao Dong put down the phone, already having made up his mind. He did not care what Professor Fang said. In any case, Lin Yao’s medical skills were qualified, and that was what mattered.
Knock, knock.
“Come in.” Xiao Dong looked up and saw Yan Lüji enter with a dark expression.
“Didn’t you go home to rest? Why are you still at the company?” Xiao Dong knew that the case Yan Lüji had been handling had just ended that morning. The people in the R&D department had all been given the afternoon off to go home and rest.
Yan Lüji did not answer Xiao Dong’s question. He merely said coldly, “Don’t hire any more programmer encouragement specialists in the future.”
“What happened?” This scene seemed a little familiar. Xiao Dong guessed at one possibility, and his eyes immediately lit up as he asked, “Did another beauty try to curry favour with you?”
Ever since Xiao Dong had brought in some beauties to act as these programmer encouragement specialists, after those women found out that Director Yan, who was in charge of the software development department, was single, there had indeed been no shortage of open and secret pursuits. But like today, where someone took advantage of him being asleep to directly climb onto his bed—this was the first time Yan Lüji had encountered it.
“Among the women who came for interviews this morning, there was one whose hair just reached her chin. Fire her immediately.”
“One of the women who came for interviews this morning?” Xiao Dong said teasingly. “She’s already set her sights on you before even joining the company? She probably asked around about you in advance. Could she be one of the romantic troubles you stirred up outside?”
“Fire her!” Yan Lüji said angrily.
“Fine, fine, fine. I’ll listen to you.” Seeing that his friend was truly furious, Xiao Dong could only soothe him. In any case, she was only an interviewee. “But I’m really curious. What did this woman do to you to make you this angry?”
Yan Lüji swept Xiao Dong with a cold glance.
Xiao Dong immediately tactfully stopped asking and changed the subject. “By the way, Xiang Chong invited us out for drinks. Are you coming tonight?”
“No.” Yan Lüji’s purpose—
Having achieved his purpose, Yan Lüji turned to leave. “I’m going home first.”
On the other side, Lin Yao, who had suffered an undeserved disaster, was no longer in the mood to continue organising the medicinal herbs. After resting for a while, and once her backside was not hurting as much, Lin Yao planned to go and let Xiao Ming’s cousin know before heading home.
Limping slightly, she had just reached the entrance of Xiao Dong’s office when—enemies really did meet on a narrow road—she ran into her enemy.
“It’s you!” Lin Yao’s voice rose sharply in agitation.
“Move aside.” Seeing this woman blocking his way again, Yan Lüji’s expression also turned ugly.
“Dream on.” To stop him from running away again, Lin Yao stepped forward and grabbed his sleeve. “Apologise to me right now.”
Hearing the commotion, Xiao Dong rushed to the doorway and saw Lin Yao holding tightly onto his friend’s sleeve, the two of them facing off like swords drawn and bows bent.
“What’s going on?” Xiao Dong was dumbfounded.
“It’s her. Fire her immediately,” Yan Lüji said to Xiao Dong.
“Are you apologising or not?” Lin Yao planned to give him one final chance.
“Let go.” Yan Lüji pointed at the sleeve Lin Yao was gripping and snapped.
“You’re not apologising, huh?” Seeing that the other party stubbornly refused to apologise, Medicine Bag, who had never been willing to suffer a loss, instantly exploded. Grabbing the man’s arm, she lowered her head and bit down.
I’ll bite you to death!
Yan Lüji’s brows furrowed tightly in pain. The muscles all over his body tensed, and he desperately tried to pull his arm back. But Lin Yao held on tightly, and he simply could not pull free.
Xiao Dong was so shocked by the explosive scene before him that he lost the ability to speak. With a bite that fierce, she had definitely drawn blood.
“Are you insane?” Yan Lüji finally pulled his arm back. He lifted his sleeve to take a look.
Damn… it was bleeding.
“You deserved it.” Lin Yao was in a much better mood.
“You…”
“Let’s talk properly, let’s talk properly.” Seeing that the two looked like they were about to fight again, Xiao Dong hurriedly rushed between them and separated them. “Old Yan, Doctor Lin, let’s talk this through properly.”
Xiao Dong brought the two of them into the office, poured each of them a cup of coffee, and began mediating.
“Can either of you explain what exactly happened?” Xiao Dong asked.
“This uncle,” Lin Yao angrily pointed at Yan Lüji, “suddenly shoved me and made me fall on my bu— Anyway, it hurts when I walk now.”
“Old Yan, you actually used force against a girl?” Xiao Dong said in disbelief.
“You were clearly the one behaving indecently,” Yan Lüji said.
“What do you mean? Explain yourself properly.”
“Both of you, stop arguing first. Can we describe the situation at the time in detail?” Xiao Dong suggested.
“I’ll explain.” Lin Yao said, “At the time, I was organising medicinal herbs in the storage room. Around two o’clock, I got hungry and wanted to come out to eat something. But when I opened the storage room door, this person had somehow moved a bed over and was sleeping directly in front of the doorway. I was blocked inside.”
After Yan Lüji heard this, his brows furrowed. He thought back for a while but did not recall there being any storage room there.
“I was starving, and I didn’t know how long he was going to sleep, so I wanted to climb out. In the end, without asking any questions, this person shoved me away. I nearly fell crippled.”
“You weren’t halfway through climbing over the bed, were you?” Xiao Dong asked in disbelief.
“If it was like you said, why didn’t you wake me up at the time?” Yan Lüji asked.
“Because…” Lin Yao absolutely would not admit that she had softened for a moment because he looked unwell and slept uneasily, and had somehow been possessed enough to care about this scumbag. “How do you know I didn’t? You were the one who couldn’t be woken up.”
“Impossible. I’m always a light sleeper,” Yan Lüji said. “And there’s no storage room there at all.”
“You…”
Xiao Dong hurriedly stopped Lin Yao, who was about to jump up again, and quickly testified, “There is, there is. I can prove it. It’s beside the rest area. There’s a hidden door.”
Yan Lüji looked at Xiao Dong suspiciously. Seeing him nod, his eyes also showed some confusion.
Could he really have misunderstood?
“Alright, I understand now. This is just a misunderstanding.” Xiao Dong chuckled and planned to act as the peacemaker. “You two can be considered acquainted after fighting. Everyone should get to know each other. You’re colleagues, after all.”
“Make him apologise first,” Lin Yao said angrily. “What kind of person did he take me for? And he doesn’t even look at himself. He’s sloppy and messy, and so old he could be my dad. Would I fancy him? He even said I was indecent. Are you sick or what?”
“Pfft…” Xiao Dong looked over his friend’s current appearance. Compared with his usual looks, it truly was a little too tragic to bear. So men really did need to shave.
Having realised that he had misunderstood her, Yan Lüji had been preparing to choose his words and apologise. But after Lin Yao’s round of “personal attacks,” he no longer apologised and directly shot back, “Then how do we settle the matter of you biting me?”
“That was what you deserved.”
“Alright, alright.” Seeing that the flames of war were about to reignite, Xiao Dong hurriedly stopped them. “How about this? Let’s call it even.”
Xiao Dong leaned closer to Lin Yao and whispered, “That bite of yours drew blood, you know.”
Lin Yao blinked, feeling a little guilty, and no longer insisted that the other party apologise.
“From now on, everyone will be colleagues. Let me introduce you. This is our company’s new TCM health-care physician, Lin Yao. Lin as in two trees, Yao as in Chinese medicine.” Xiao Dong then introduced Yan Lüji. “This is our company’s R&D Director, Yan Lüji. Not Yan as in stern, but Yan as in language.”
“Your surname is Lin?” Yan Lüji stood up and asked.
“What about it?” Lin Yao asked, puzzled.
“I just think the surname Gao suits you better.” Yan Lüji lifted the arm that had been bitten and said, “Once you stick on, you can’t be shaken off.”
“What did you say…”
Yan Lüji shoved his hands into his trouser pockets, turned around, and left Xiao Dong’s office in an extremely arrogant manner, leaving Lin Yao inside stamping her feet in anger.
“What does he mean?” Lin Yao said furiously.
“Nothing. He was joking.”
Old Yan really was getting more and more sharp-tongued. “Gao Yao”—how did he even come up with that? But it really was funny.
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