Why aren't you laughing in Chapter 30? Isn't your existence funny enough?

"Whoa? Have you been possessed by someone else?!" Team Leader Chen Rui's eyes widened, and she squeezed forward, scrutinizing her up and down for thirty seconds.

Where was her signature "office-drudge" outfit?

What the hell, why is she so polished today!

Team Leader Chen Rui was leaning in too close, causing Ling Yue to lean back slightly. Her office chair creaked, and she furrowed her light brows. "Team Leader Chen Rui, you just ate baozi, didn't you? Your breath smells a bit."

Subtext: Can you please stay away from me?

Team Leader Chen Rui choked on her words, feeling even more astonished.

Her dark, beady eyes rolled around, scrutinizing Ling Yue.

It was unimaginable that Ling Yue, who was always taciturn and didn't even make a sound when scolded, had actually shown disdain for her just now?

Other colleagues were also drawn over by Gu Shaonan's voice.

Team Leader Chen Rui was thus squeezed to the back row.

"Haven't seen you in a month, Little Yueyue, you've completely changed. Tsk, tsk, tsk, you even put on makeup!" Gu Shaonan proudly raised his chin. "I see hope now; our team finally has a real beauty!"

He pulled Zhou Ze over. "How about you swap seats with Little Yueyue? I want to see a beauty 'every time I look up'~ It helps improve my work speed."

The way he raised his eyebrows reached a certain level of sleaziness.

Zhou Ze looked mocking, half-joking, "Your speed is already fast enough; any faster and you'll become the 'Three-Second Dragon King'."

"Damn you!" Gu Shaonan feigned a punch at Zhou Ze.

After all, the other person was a team leader, and jokes needed to have limits, so Zhou Ze helplessly cupped his hands to beg for mercy.

What harmonious camaraderie.

Slap.

Ling Yue slammed her bag onto the desk, glanced coldly at Gu Shaonan, and said loudly, "Are you some kind of porn site spirit come to life?

Talking about 'looking up'—to live like you do is to bring shame upon eighteen generations of your ancestors; you'll never be able to hold your head up in your life.

Since you like making dirty jokes so much, how about I go help you knock on the boss's door?

That way, you can ask the boss what color underwear he's wearing today, whether his sex life was harmonious last night, and then you can flash that thing of yours to the boss to compare. If he fires you, you can just grin and say, 'Boss, why can't you take a joke?'

Hey, weren't you laughing just now? Why aren't you laughing anymore? Isn't your existence funny enough?"

"..."

"..."

The scene was dead silent.

Everyone stared blankly at Ling Yue, as if they had seen a ghost.

Gu Shaonan's expression gradually darkened. "Ling Yue, did you take the wrong medicine!"

Ling Yue stared unblinkingly at Gu Shaonan, enunciating every word, "Get! Lost! Stay away! Don't spray your saliva on my desk! You dirty trash."

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Goodness! A show first thing in the morning.

The colleagues looked at each other, some excited, some sweating for Ling Yue.

Team Leader Chen Rui opened her mouth in surprise, looking like she could fit a lightbulb inside.

Was this still the Ling Yue she knew? Did she take a crash course in sass over the New Year holiday?

Honestly, she also hated Gu Shaonan. When she sassed him, it was because they were on the same level, so she could naturally be tougher. But Ling Yue was, after all, Gu Shaonan's subordinate and still had to work under him.

Although Ling Yue wasn't very sociable, her work ability was obvious to everyone, and she was her "office-drudge" outfit buddy. Gu Shaonan was vindictive; if he went to the manager and whispered a few things, the girl might lose her job.

Team Leader Chen Rui coughed lightly and stepped in to save the situation. "Hahaha, our department's Ling Yue knows how to joke now. It seems you recovered quite well during the New Year. By the way, I haven't asked yet, how is your body recovering after the surgery?"

Ling Yue withdrew her sharp gaze and, in the blink of an eye, put on an amiable smile. "Thank you for your concern, Team Leader Chen Rui. My body has recovered just about enough."

"Good to hear, good to hear! Work is about to start, remember to clock in." Team Leader Chen Rui pulled the members of her team back to their workstations.

Once Team Leader Chen Rui's group dispersed, the others dared not stay to watch the show.

The crowd that had just gathered dispersed completely within three seconds.

Everyone busied themselves with their own tasks, as if everything just now was an illusion.

Ling Yue hung her bag on the armrest of her office chair and bent down to turn on the computer.

Zhou Ze looked left and right, then resignedly dragged Gu Shaonan back to his workstation.

"Calm down, calm down. She just had surgery; maybe the blade cut into her cranial nerves." Zhou Ze whispered to console him.

"Hmph!" Gu Shaonan was the most vindictive!

He sat back at his desk with a dark face, his gaze passing over rows of computers, staring sinisterly at the back of Ling Yue's head. When he entered his computer password, he pressed so hard it was as if he wanted to break the keyboard.

The clacking sound echoed in the air. Ling Yue slowly turned her head and, right in front of Gu Shaonan, rolled her eyes at him.

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Ling Yue glanced at the bottom right corner, slowly entered her password to open the computer, and calmly logged into WeChat and Feishu one by one.

Even without looking, she knew the department's various small group chats must be exploding.

Ling Yue really disliked Gu Shaonan!

When she first came to the company, Ling Yue didn't have much contact with Gu Shaonan and thought he was an easygoing and tolerant leader.

Not long after her internship period, Gu Shaonan gradually revealed his true colors and began making dirty jokes about her, sometimes very explicitly. Ling Yue couldn't take it anymore and expressed her discomfort to Gu Shaonan privately.

Since then, she had endured a year of being ignored and isolated.

He could pretend to be easygoing and make jokes with everyone without restraint, but as his subordinate, she couldn't show attitude because of his jokes, couldn't be unable to take a joke, and certainly couldn't refute his jokes.

This was the "team leader rule" in Gu Shaonan's words.

And since Ling Yue had broken the rules, she had to be punished. The punishment was workplace bullying: making team members isolate her, mocking her from time to time, using his authority to suppress her, giving her all the dirty, miscellaneous, and tiring work, and making her the scapegoat when things went wrong.

Back then, Ling Yue had just entered society, was desperate to settle down in Hangzhou, and needed money, so she endured it no matter how painful it was.

When she slowly got the hang of the work and started to be genuinely helpful to Gu Shaonan, he finally lifted the ban of indifference, and that was when Ling Yue truly began her workplace life.

She remembered it very clearly.

When the indifference was lifted and she was invited to the team building event that day, she felt both grateful for Gu Shaonan's tolerance and relieved for her own persistence, but she had also learned to be silent because of it.

She pretended not to hear Gu Shaonan's dirty jokes, and she couldn't fully integrate into her colleagues' enthusiastic invitations.

This led her to talk less and less. Everyone said she was a gourd with its mouth sealed, and she didn't refute it, simply becoming a non-entity in the company.

Looking at it with her current mindset, she was pitifully stupid!

The department colleagues were all burying their heads and typing.

In some secret group chat.

Dong Dong: Oh my god, that was so awesome!

Li Qiaohan: Ling Yue, the honest person, has finally snapped!

ZRO: When an honest person snaps, that's when it's the scariest.

Baba Bo Ei: How do you think Gu-Jiba will deal with Ling Yue?

The group chat was silent for a while.

Eat Something Good: Isolate her, that's Gu-Jiba's go-to tactic.

Li Qiaohan: But I noticed Ling Yue is different now. This time she gives me the feeling of 'Chapter 1: Female CEO Returns Home'.

Axin: You're crazy, you've been reading too many novels.

Li Qiaohan: Didn't you notice? She's become prettier and thinner.

Dong Dong: If you get sick and have surgery, can't eat or drink, and just lie there, I bet you'd turn out like her too.

Li Qiaohan: ... Getting beautiful requires money! You straight man!

ZRO: Thinking of something, I think I saw her on the road outside the company just now. She got out of an Audi A8L.

Baba Bo Ei: That thing costs at least a few hundred thousand at its cheapest; she probably took a ride-hailing service.

Li Qiaohan: Not necessarily, she's wearing designer brands from head to toe.

Li Qiaohan: I can't tell the brand of the coat. Her shoes are TODS metal-buckle leather boots. Her earrings are Chanel BOUTON DE CAMÉLIA. The ring on her right middle finger is a Chaumet Liens series platinum diamond ring. Her bag is a Chanel 2025 Spring/Summer MAXI flap bag. This whole outfit adds up to nearly 200,000!

Dong Dong: You must be mistaken!

Huai: Maybe it's a knockoff.

Full of Vitality: No need for that, right? Isn't she afraid of being exposed?

Li Qiaohan: Maybe she suddenly won the lottery. Saying it's a knockoff is a bit too sour, isn't it?

ZRO: Do you think her illness might be very serious? That's why she's being vain before she dies?

Holy Crab: Damn, that's possible.

Cai Cai Loves Veggies: No wonder she dared to sass Gu-Jiba today.

Waiting for My Big Break: Then we should be nicer to her; it's not easy for her.

Axin: You should say that to Gu-Jiba.

Waiting for My Big Break: Then I wish him nightmares.

Huai: [Evil smile]