Chapter 1

Translator: Atlas Studios  Editor: Atlas Studios

Xia Yangyang was merely late for five minutes, but her boss summoned her to his office.

She was lectured for an hour.

When she came out from the President’s office, her cheeks were red and her eyes were swollen. She looked as though she had lost her soul.

It was obvious she had cried.

All her colleagues in the entire secretary department pitied her.

Xia Yangyang was a new intern assigned to the secretary department. Her job included writing press releases and other miscellaneous tasks such as organizing documents.

For no reason, the president disliked her.

Every day, he would find a reason to lecture her in his office.

And every time Xia Yangyang exited his office, she would end up in this state.

She finally sat down at her desk.

Xiaoman, a fellow intern, came to her and grumbled on her behalf. “The President is too much. He is bullying you because you look like someone who can be easily bullied.”

She sighed as she continued, “Yangyang, how did you offend the President? Why does he target only you? The first thing he did when he came back from his work was to lecture you!”

Xia Yangyang hadn’t snapped out from what had happened in the office earlier on. Her mind was still spinning with the intense and passionate images.

He had merely been gone for two days, yet his stamina had improved.

If she hadn’t pleaded and cried just now, she might be there for another hour.

Xiaoman felt that Xia Yangyang was too pitiful but she couldn’t do anything to help her.

She patted Xia Yangyang’s shoulder and said, “Yangyang, cheer up. You only have one last week of the internship left. You’ll be fine once you’re done with it.”

Xia Yangyang was a journalism management student in her third year. She had applied for an internship for a month.

She nodded in a daze.

Xiaoman’s voice turned gentler. “There is a department dinner gathering tonight. All of us will help you think of a way out. Don’t be too worried.”

Xia Yangyang snapped out of her trance. “A department dinner? Do we all have to go?”

Xiaoman whispered, “Of course we have to! Lin Yuanyuan is giving us a treat. It’s rumored that she has secured a permanent position. But that’s not the point. More importantly, there are many senior colleagues in the secretary department who will be attending. So interns like us can’t turn them down.”

Lin Yuanyuan was also an intern but she was in a different class. She had been dispatched to Flourishing Origin Corporation due to her family connections.

All right… She had also actually landed her internship due to connections…

Xia Yangyang had been fretting the whole afternoon. That was because, in the office earlier on, he had told her to go home after work.

Nonetheless, after contemplating for an afternoon, she decided to go for dinner.

If she had gone home, Xia Yangyang felt that her body wouldn’t be able to take it.

She had no idea why an aloof and forbidding man like him would turn into a starving wolf every time he met her. To others, he was like a revered god that was above everyone else.

Anyway, when he had whispered in her ear earlier on, Xia Yangyang was not in the right frame of mind and her consciousness was slipping away. She could pretend that she didn’t hear him.

Thus, Xia Yangyang and Su Xiaoman went to the dinner gathering happily after work.

Although Lin Yuanyuan was the one treating everyone to dinner, for some strange reason, Xia Yangyang became the one cast in the limelight.

And the topic didn’t wander off from why the President disliked her.

Xia Yangyang replied innocently, “I have no idea.”

Everyone pitied her even more.

Halfway through dinner, Xia Yangyang’s phone rang.

Her heart thumped at the sight of the number.

She strode to a corner before answering the call.

Gu Qichen’s deep, masculine voice sounded. “Where are you?”