In the next week, Ding Yinan and Huo Zhixiao came to Jiushan Office together, but this time, Ding Yinan did not wear his normal working attire.
The two little girls at the front desk showed the expressions of troublemakers and tacitly touched each other with their elbows. When other colleagues in the office saw Ding Yinan, they also looked at him in surprise and asked, “Secretary Ding, are you on vacation today?”
Ding Yinan didn’t want to explain too much but just shook his head with a polite smile.
The regular meeting on Monday morning went on as usual. Ding Yinan was an outsider, so it was inconvenient and he didn’t want to participate. He waited for the end of the regular meeting in the public office area, but after more than ten minutes, other colleagues returned to their workstations with their notebooks, only Huo Zhixiao was called to the office by Huo Xun.
Ding Yinan reckoned that Huo Xun was looking for Huo Zhixiao to talk about Miss Song. He was a little worried that the father and son would quarrel again, but he also knew that there was nothing he could do, so he had to go to the personnel department with various handover materials first.
The procedures for resignation were not complicated. Handing in the work card and receiving the wages… the whole process took only ten minutes at most.
However, just ten minutes were enough to spread the news of Ding Yinan’s resignation throughout the firm.
As soon as Ding Yinan left the personnel department, three or five colleagues immediately surrounded him, each wearing an incredulous expression.
“Secretary Ding, why do you want to resign?”
“You usually work very well.”
“Is Master Huo too strict with you?”
“My God, even Secretary Ding is going to resign. It’s hard to imagine how difficult Master Huo is to serve.”
“Master Huo is really good. He doesn’t even know how to cherish such a good assistant.”
Ding Yinan felt helpless and amused when he heard his colleagues chattering. Obviously, he offered to resign on his own initiative, but these people subconsciously looked for the reason from Huo Zhixiao.
“It’s none of Master Huo’s business,” Ding Yinan said. “It’s me who wants to resign.”
“Did you find a better job?” someone asked.
“That’s right,” Ding Yinan said. “Isn’t it human nature to change jobs? There’s really nothing to make a fuss about.”
“But you are Secretary Ding. Tsk tsk, when you first came here, we all thought that you would not be able to persist, but you didn’t resign no matter what. And now…”
“It’s just a change of working environment.” Ding Yinan smiled. “We will still keep in touch.”
“By the way, which company is your new job in?” Someone asked curiously.
“I’m going to help out my classmate,” Ding Yinan simply replied.
“So that’s how it is. It was a classmate who invited you.”
These colleagues finally accepted the reason for Ding Yinan’s resignation and stopped speculating about Huo Zhixiao.
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The two returned to the office under the gossiping eyes of their colleagues, and Ding Yinan took the initiative to close the blinds on the entire glass wall.
“Is it Miss Song’s business?”
Ding Yinan asked while walking to the desk. In the past, he would stand one step away from the desk and talk to Huo Zhixiao, but today, he came directly behind the desk and stood beside Huo Zhixiao, leaning half of his butt on the desk.
“Yes,” Huo Zhixiao said irritably. “He asked me to have dinner with Miss Song at noon today.”
Ding Yinan raised his eyebrows in surprise and asked, “Brutely?”
“That’s right. I said I wouldn’t accept the interior design project, but he insisted on me.” Huo Zhixiao frowned and said, “If I don’t accept it, he will ask the reviewer to block my construction drawing of Sanyang Village.”
Changing the design draft was the most frustrating thing. If the review deliberately made things difficult for Huo Zhixiao, then the library he designed in one go would have to go through many hardships, and it was still uncertain what would happen in the end.
“So you still have to go have dinner with Miss Song,” Ding Yinan concluded calmly.
“I know I say I won’t go,” Huo Zhixiao said, pursing his lips. Probably feeling sorry, he raised his hand to hold Ding Yinan’s wrist. “But the current situation…”
“It’s okay,” Ding Yinan took Huo Zhixiao’s hand with his backhand.
If you were unhappy, you would definitely be unhappy, but there was no way. Ding Yinan was not as irritable as Huo Zhixiao because he had already had a premonition that Huo Xun would not be easy to deal with.
“Wife, you’re so kind,” Huo Zhixiao moved the office chair forward, hugged Ding Yinan’s waist wearily, and buried his head on his lower abdomen.
In Ding Yinan’s eyes, this scene looked a bit contrary. You know, when Huo Zhixiao used to sit on this office chair, he would only give him instructions with a blank face.
“The coffee is not strong enough.”
“Why hasn’t the report been filed yet?”
“I don’t fly early in the morning.”
And so on, Ding Yinan only saw a boss who was picky and hard to please. However, that day, that boss had transformed into a big dog acting like a baby.
It was against the norm, but Ding Yinan still preferred the big dog. If he had to say it, he even had a little bit of a sense of accomplishment after taming a fierce big dog.
“You learned all this from San Baisui?” Ding Yinan asked while rubbing the messy hair on the back of Huo Zhixiao’s head.
“Learned from San Baisui?” Huo Zhixiao put his hands behind Ding Yinan and straightened his upper body, but he still had to look up at Ding Yinan. “Do I need to learn it?”
“I see that you were doing well,” Ding Yinan raised Huo Zhixiao’s chin with his index finger and said.
The two looked at each other quietly for a while. Outside the closed office, there was the sound of busy conversations and footsteps of colleagues. The thick shutters isolated the entire office from the outside working atmosphere. The entanglement of their gaze gradually heated up.
“Do you know what I’m thinking?” Huo Zhixiao suddenly asked.
“I probably know,” Ding Yinan said.
Two seconds later, the two said in unison, “There should be condoms in the office.”
After saying that, they both laughed tacitly. It was an idea that deviated from common sense in society, but they both thought of it together. It could only be said that these two social animals were really outrageous.
The reason why office romances are banned is simply to prevent the office from becoming a love hotel. But for Ding Yinan and Huo Zhixiao, what place could be more exciting than their own workplace where they had worked for three years?
“It doesn’t matter if we don’t have protection,” Huo Zhixiao’s hands began to wander, “I don’t want to wait.”
“Okay,” Ding Yinan cooperated and leaned back, opening his knees to both sides.
This feeling was truly amazing. Who would have thought that their office could become a place for two people to engage in secret intimacy?
Memories of Ding Yinan’s three years of working in the office flashed through his mind, and he suddenly had a deep understanding of Huo Zhixiao’s words. It felt as if he had wasted three years of joy in vain.
Huo Zhixiao was more devoted than Ding Yinan. After all, this was his desk. In the past, his design drawings were placed here, but now it was Ding Yinan whom he couldn’t get enough of.
…
There was a sudden knock on the door, and Ding Yinan, who was kneeling under the desk, subconsciously tried to stand up but bumped his head with a “bang”.
However, Huo Zhixiao didn’t give him a chance to stand up again. He sat up straight, put his hands on the desk, and said, “Please come in” to the person at the door.
As the doorknob turned downwards and the office door was pushed open from the outside, Ding Yinan’s heart also jumped into his throat.
Huo Zhixiao could have waited for him to stand up before letting the person in, but it turned out that he had to hide under the desk like a thief. Since Ding Yinan was sensible, he had never done such a disgraceful thing in public.
It would be a lie to say that he wasn’t angry. Ding Yinan ruthlessly caught the Big Huo Huo who was still in that state, and served it to make it more difficult for Huo Zhixiao to deal with his colleagues.
“Master Huo, Miss Song has already arrived in the lobby downstairs. Do you want to pick her up in person?”
The voice belonged to one of the girls at the front desk, which made Ding Yinan even more nervous. The front desk was the site of Jiushan Office’s gossip information station. If the girl at the front desk found him suspiciously hiding under the desk, the consequences would be unimaginable.
But Ding Yinan quickly calmed down. He thought that only the few colleagues who were chatting with them a moment ago knew that he was in Huo Zhixiao’s office, and the girl at the front desk shouldn’t pose a threat.
“I have something on my hands,” Huo Zhixiao said. “You go and pick her up.”
“Okay, Master Huo.”
The girl at the front desk left Huo Zhixiao’s office, and Ding Yinan crawled out from under the desk without any incident. He let out a breath of relief. After composing himself, he frowned angrily and looked at Huo Zhixiao. “Can’t you be a little more cautious?”
Huo Zhixiao smiled mischievously and said, “Actually, I kind of hope we get caught.”
A question mark appeared above Ding Yinan’s head. He asked Huo Zhixiao in puzzlement, “Do you think it’s thrilling to be discovered, like fighting on a battlefield?”
To Ding Yinan, it wasn’t a thrill at all; it was the behavior of a lunatic.
“I’m thinking,” Huo Zhixiao said, “If my dad finds out about us like this, it will save me from coming out to him.”
Ding Yinan was stunned when he heard those words. He subconsciously followed Huo Zhixiao’s line of thought and imagined the consequences.
If they were discovered, Huo Zhixiao would definitely not be able to stay in Jiushan Office any longer, thus eliminating the need for him to resign. He wouldn’t have to go on a blind date with Miss Song, nor would he have to accept the interior design project he disliked. It would be killing three birds with one stone.
And most importantly, Huo Xun’s face would surely be unsightly.
Thinking of this, Ding Yinan suddenly understood why Huo Zhixiao wanted to act recklessly.
However, they were both sensible adults. They knew that the consequences of such reckless behavior would do more harm than good. So after the girl at the front desk entered the office, Huo Zhixiao didn’t do anything out of the ordinary.
“Take your time,” Ding Yinan exhaled. “There will be a more suitable time.”
“Hmm,” Huo Zhixiao agreed.
They both straightened their clothes. Just as they finished, there was another knock on the door. The girl from the front desk stood outside and said, “Master Huo, Miss Song is here.”
Huo Zhixiao adjusted his tie, clasped his hands on the desk, and said, “Please come in.”
They exchanged one last glance. Ding Yinan withdrew his gaze, nodded to Miss Song who was approaching, and greeted her, “Hello, Miss Song.”
“Hello, Secretary Ding.”
Today, Miss Song was wearing a professional women’s suit, with long trouser legs hanging down to the ground, looking chic and confident.
Ding Yinan walked out of the office, and as he did, the girl at the front desk suddenly said, “Secretary Ding, your T-shirt is tucked into your trousers.”
Ding Yinan was startled, and he pretended to be calm as he pulled out the hem of his shirt and said, “Thank you for reminding me.”
The office door closed again, and Huo Zhixiao stood up, intending to introduce himself. But before he could speak, Miss Song in front of him looked at him, then glanced at the closed office door, and asked jokingly, “Are you two a couple?”
Thanks for the update
Hoping that Miss Song is secretly a fujoshi lmaoo
WAIT I NEED THE DEED DETAILS
Women’s intuition
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Thanks for the chapter 💞
love me a smart woman