47: Coming for me?

"Yo, is your boyfriend here to pick you up from work again?"

As Ye Su waved at Chen Xinyi, Lin Zhishan, who was standing to the side, caught sight of him as well.

Such a pleasing-to-the-eye boyfriend—he almost made her drool.

He's riding an electric scooter; money aside, at the very least, he's easy on the eyes and looks satisfying to be with.

The envious tone in Lin Zhishan's voice couldn't help but stir a little bit of pride in Chen Xinyi's heart.

This is the kind of bed partner worth showing off.

If he were kept by a rich woman, given this physique, he'd be making at least tens of thousands a month, right?

Rounding up, doesn't that mean I'm basically earning tens of thousands more a month?

"Envious? Then go find one yourself."

"You think I don't want to?" Lin Zhishan stared unreservedly at a certain part of Chen Xinyi's body. "Without your assets, I doubt I could find a Handsome guy like that."

"It's no use being envious; I was born with it." Chen Xinyi shook herself proudly.

If they weren't downstairs at the company, Lin Zhishan would have wanted to reach out and feel it for herself.

While joking and messing around, the two of them arrived in front of Ye Su.

"Hello." Ye Su nodded politely to greet Lin Zhishan.

"Hello." Lin Zhishan waved with a smile. "I won't disturb your two-person world."

Ye Su smiled but didn't respond.

"Xinyi, Zhishan."

Just as Lin Zhishan was about to turn and leave, a middle-aged man's voice came from behind them.

With their backs to the newcomer, Ye Su saw the expressions of disgust instantly appear on Chen Xinyi and Lin Zhishan's faces.

"Manager." As they turned, the two of them had already put on polite smiles.

"Hmm." Lin Hongyuan responded with a smile, his eyes sweeping over the two girls. "Tomorrow is the holiday. Where do you plan to go for fun?"

"I've arranged with a few friends to go around the area together."

"I also have plans with my boyfriend." As she said this, Chen Xinyi rested her hand on Ye Su's shoulder.

"Oh?"

Lin Hongyuan had already noticed Ye Su. After hearing Chen Xinyi say he was her boyfriend, he immediately scrutinized Ye Su up and down.

Lin Hongyuan had been coveting Chen Xinyi for a long time and had hinted at her many times, both openly and covertly, but Chen Xinyi never took the bait.

This made Lin Hongyuan increasingly restless, and he would often use work as an excuse, wanting something to happen between them.

Seeing Chen Xinyi, who was unmoved by him, with some young punk, Lin Hongyuan immediately felt annoyed.

Just a bit younger, with a gigolo face—he doesn't look like much.

He's riding a beat-up electric scooter to pick up his girlfriend; he probably doesn't have much money in his pocket.

I don't know what these women are thinking these days.

Money is the only practical thing. What's the use of being handsome? Can you eat it?

"You young people have no idea how precious time is. As soon as there's a holiday, you only know how to go out and play." Lin Hongyuan began to put on airs, acting like he was educating them:

"As someone who has been there, I have to advise you: don't just focus on dating. You need to make good use of your free time for self-improvement so you won't be eliminated by society."

Lin Hongyuan turned his gaze to Ye Su and said in a seemingly earnest tone, "Young man, you need to work harder. Forget about buying a house in Guangzhou for now; at the very least, you should have a decent car so Xinyi doesn't have to ride an electric scooter in the wind and rain."

Intentionally or unintentionally, Lin Hongyuan's hand brushed against the key ring hanging from his waist, making a [clink] sound, drawing attention to the conspicuous Audi car key on it.

Suddenly having the spearhead pointed at him, Ye Su, who only wanted to go eat, was taken aback.

"Hmm? What's going on? Is he coming for me?"

Worried that Ye Su would be unhappy because of her, Chen Xinyi immediately spoke up to smooth things over:

"Manager, I don't think there's anything wrong with riding an electric scooter. If it rains or is windy, we can just take the subway."

"Hmm?"

Being talked back to by a subordinate while lecturing, Lin Hongyuan immediately felt his authority as a leader was being seriously challenged.

"You have to have fun when you're young." Just as Lin Hongyuan was about to continue, Ye Su interrupted him:

"We're still young. Even if we play for a few years, we'll only be in our twenties. We still have plenty of youth left to make money. If we don't play while we're young, are we supposed to wait until we're in our forties, when our heads start going bald, to go have fun? Sir, at that age, do you think you can even handle it?"

In a corner where no one noticed, Lin Zhishan thought through every sad thing that had ever happened to her in her life and forced herself not to look at the light reflecting off Lin Hongyuan's scalp beneath his carefully combed hairstyle, finally managing to hold back her laughter.

So satisfying! He is literally my mouthpiece!

At a certain age, the two things men care about most are, without a doubt, their hairline.

Being directly exposed on his most sensitive point by a young man he looked down upon, right in front of two female subordinates, Lin Hongyuan's face instantly turned ugly.

Chen Xinyi was also holding back laughter, casting a reproachful glance at Ye Su before speaking up first just as Lin Hongyuan was about to open his mouth:

"Manager, we've taken your advice to heart. We'll start working on our self-improvement when we get back. We're going to eat now. Goodbye, Manager."

"I also have to catch the subway. It's a holiday tomorrow; if I'm any later, I won't even be able to squeeze onto the train. Goodbye, Manager."

Afraid that Lin Hongyuan would retaliate maliciously by making them stay overtime, Lin Zhishan dropped a sentence and then fled into the crowd behind them.

After all, he was Chen Xinyi's manager. Ye Su was afraid that if he just focused on satisfying his own desire to talk back, he might cause problems for her job later, so he didn't continue to escalate the conflict, only nodding to Lin Hongyuan.

Since there was no direct conflict of interest, Lin Hongyuan couldn't do anything about Ye Su. Seeing that all three were saying "Goodbye," even if he was unhappy inside, he could only turn and leave.

"Hmph! Daring to talk back to me like that—when you come back to work on Monday, you'll get what's coming to you!"

Seeing Lin Hongyuan leave, Chen Xinyi put on her helmet and lightly patted Ye Su:

"You don't hit people in the face or expose their shortcomings. He's always sensitive about those few hairs on his head; he combs them so much that flies would slip if they landed on it, and you just go and call him bald."

"What could I do? It's our first meeting; I didn't even know his last name. He started blabbering the moment he showed up. I had to retort and make that guy realize what he is."

Ye Su turned his head and asked Chen Xinyi curiously, "Are the managers at your company all this mansplainy?"

Chen Xinyi pouted. "Most people in the company are normal. It's just this middle-aged greasy man who loves to put on airs whenever he gets a chance and preach success theories from the last century."

Afraid that Ye Su would overthink things, Chen Xinyi simply hid the fact that Lin Hongyuan, relying on his status as a shitty manager, always tried to take advantage of his female subordinates.

"Looking at how he acted just now, I doubt his heart is any bigger than a needle's eye. Me retorting like that—won't it cause you any trouble?"

Chen Xinyi leaned her elbow on Ye Su's shoulder, annoyed. "Now you know that offending the manager will cause me trouble? What were you doing earlier?"

"Hehe." Hearing this, Ye Su could only scratch his head awkwardly.