“Nobody enjoys the company of others as intensely as someone who usually avoids the company of others.”
―Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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<Present Day>
In an office, a young man stood nervously like a timid lamb, his legs shivered as he watched the wolf in front of him scan through the document he had written. The man held his breath as the wolf's icy, hazel eyes scanned through the document in his hand before placing it on the table and signing his name
The lamb let out a sigh of relief,
'Thank goodness, there is no error. If not, he would have asked me to do it again'
.
Before those icy, hazel eyes could even look up, the lamb quickly took the document and left the room.
A voice chuckled nonchalantly from the sofa, his heart going out to the pitiful lamb.
"Go easy on him, Junting. It's only his second day."
Junting typed an email on his computer and replied to the carefree man, "You’re being noisy."
"You should ease up a bit. How else are you gonna get a girl like that?" the carefree man said as he crossed his legs.
This man had been with Lee Junting since their university days. Not once he had ever seen him with a girl. It was as if being able to earn this wolf's heart was like winning the jackpot in a lottery.
A familiar, irksome feeling tingled in Junting’s head. He glared at the man on the sofa and said, "Are you already done with what I had asked you to do, Wu Fengyuan?"
"Tch. Changing the topic again, " Fengyuan sighed, "I’ve fired the designer and set up an interview next week for the open position. I’ve already put it in your schedule. It's strange
,
though
,
for you to suddenly want to go to the Shanghai branch. Normally you wouldn't even care about the job interviews happening within the company."
'The interviewees will be scared to death by this man,'
Fengyuan thought.
Junting went back to typing on the computer without a word. This indicated that Fengyuan had done a good job.
Fengyuan decided to tease the man on the office chair, "Come on, boss. Praise me. Say I did a good job!"
"If you make one more sound, I will have you thrown out," the wolf’s icy voice resonated throughout the room.
Fengyan stood up grumpily and nagged, "Is that how you treat your best bro? You’re not fun to play with at all. I'm going first, I need to settle some matters."
He walked towards the door before turning back with a worried look.
"Get some sleep, man. It's not good for your health," he called before leaving.
Whether it happened inside or outside the workplace, office gossip was everywhere and once it starts, it never stops. Gossip would always be there regardless of how strict their boss was.
The workers of Lee Corporation chattered frequently about their boss and how he was the most handsome guy but no girl had ever been within five meters of him before. They even wondered whether he was gay or not. Nevertheless, people admired how young he had been when he had taken over the corporation. His cold aura gave them a distant feeling, but his authority was unquestionable.
Fengyuan stopped in his tracks when he heard some heated conversation coming from a group of women in the pantry. He walked towards their direction and leaned in to listen in on their prattling, but what he heard made him quite irritated.
"...if you think he is gay, who do you think it is?"
"Maybe it’s Assistant Wu! He is handsome!"
As the girls were gossiping away, the figure of a man approached them from behind.
"Ahem! "
The girls were startled as they looked behind them and saw Fengyuan smiling like a devil.
"Are you ladies courting death?"
One of the girls, Dayoung, fidgeted with her fingers as he explained, " Assistant Wu! W-what are you talking about? We were just babbling... hahaha..."
Fengyuan may have been a carefree guy, but he only showed that side to people he acknowledged. To others within the office, he was as strict as Junting, which was why Junting trusted him for the job.
"If you have so much time to babble, why don't you finish your work? That crappy report you submitted last month was written half-heartedly!" he glared at Dayoung.
Dayoung’s face became red from being scolded in front of her colleagues and her toes curled up in her shoes.
Everyone in the office knew what kind of person Dayoung was. Today, she wore a short office skirt and her top two buttons were purposefully undone to show off her “assets”.
Dayoung bit her lips, not wanting to embarrass herself any longer. She resorted to the usual method she used to get away with things and squeezed her arms, accentuating her cleavage.
"Assistant Wu, I didn't mean it that way,” she said as she leaned in, “I will rewrite my last month's report if you want..."
The mere sight of this woman made Fengyuan want to puke. He smirked as he seized the chance to shove her deeper into the hole she had dug herself into.
"Since you insist, submit your last month's report and this month's report in 2 days. It must be over 3,000 words, or else don't ever think of stepping into this building again."
Fengyuan walked away as Dayoung fell to her knees.