In the end, He Qian wasn’t able to withstand Z’s silly pestering. With an extra person following behind him, even working seemed rather troublesome.
Busying about for a while, He Qian turned his head in exasperation: “It’s not like I’m going to run off. You can go follow CEO Rong right now. That’s your real responsibility.”
Z waved his hand at him.
“No need to follow CEO Rong at the moment. Mr.Lin just came.” If he went now, that’d be really called being a troublesome extra.
……
He Qian fell silent for a moment
Lin Ji came today as well?
“I understand.” Turning around, He Qian adjusted his glasses. Since he can’t get away from this guy, then it’s best to just ignore him. He picked up another file on his table and started to focus on work.
The amount of paperwork that passed his hands in Rong corp daily was too much to count. Pretty much all of the big and small issues first went through the secretary team, then came to him, before the most important files were selected and handed to CEO Rong.
In other words, the number of files he needed to look through was actually terrifying.
Watching from the side, Z couldn’t resist letting his jaw drop.
Wasn’t…. wasn’t the rate at which He Qian was looking through these files… too fast?
He was rather suspicious if He Qian even read the documents in such a short period of time!
Watching wide eyed as the paperwork on He Qian’s table decreased rapidly, Z couldn’t hold it in anymore: “Qian-ge, can you… can you read them properly like this?”
As He Qian was called out of his work mode, his wrist paused. Instantly he noticed a sharp, piercing pain. His brows slightly furrowed. Looks like he really injured it seriously this time. If he didn’t go get acupuncture, he’s really not going to make it.
He sighed and changed a hand to put the file back before turning his head: “Can you be quieter? That way I can finish these earlier.”
Z silently made a zipping motion over his mouth, and then quietly moved his stool back a meter.
He Qian turned his head back, and reached for another file. Looking at it for a moment, he threw out: “I’m pretty special. I have a photographic memory. So behave yourself.” Stop staring at him. It’s interfering with his work efficiency.
Photographic memory!
Z was suddenly enlightened. He propped up his chin lazily as he looked at He Qian’s back, clicking his tongue in awe inside his heart.
No wonder, he was just saying. Back then, he clearly only appeared briefly with his shifu, yet Qian-ge remembered him the next time they met. So it was like this. This was a skill that everyone all wished they could have.
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“Head assistant He.” Two people walked into the office, one following the other. Rong Qing waved his hand at He Qian.
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Since CEO Rong wanted to eat together with Lin Ji, those not so important meetings can be pushed off until later.
“Thanks for your troubles.” Rong Qing gave He Qian a thumbs up, then looked at Z who was next to He Qian, ready to stand up: “Oh right, Z, you don’t need to come. I’ll give you half the day off today.”
Z’s reluctant attempt to get up halted. Silently, he sat back down again. He really didn’t want to ask why he was given a break, so obediently shut his mouth.
“Then we’ll be going~”
Rong Qing naturally held Lin Ji’s hand and waved at them, then leaned against Lin Ji and whispered carefully and sweetly at him as they went downstairs.
When He Qian saw this scene, he strangely recalled his Sweet Pea at home. Everytime Sweet Pea clung to him and managed to successfully obtain a treat, it’d always reveal this kind of pleased expression as well.
He thought for a moment and felt it was a bit funny. CEO Rong and Sweet Pea were definitely not the same kind of animal.
Sitting down, He Qian continued to look at the endless files. However, not long after, he noticed his wrist began to hurt even more.
Was his bones really injured?
He Qian sighed inside and then increased his working speed. About one hour later, the secretary team members came over one by one to clock out and go home. He Qian was buried in the paperwork on his table.
A secretary who was punching out looked curiously over and said perplexed: “Strange, normally head assistant He would have finished these files by now. What’s going on today? Was there too many files?”
Hands supporting his chin, Z finally noticed that He Qian seemed to have maintained the same posture for a while?
He quickly walked closer and saw He Qian’s face pale as he flipped through the files. His efficiency right now was clearly slower than before.
Z took another look and noticed that the entire area of He Qian’s wrist was swollen, looking very serious.
It’s already like this, He Qian’s still enduring it?
“Qian-ge! Enough! Let me take you to the hospital!” His hand was already like this! This man was really too stubborn!
He Qian paused his movement to flip the page and then looked at his own wrist, sighing. Forget it. If he kept going like this, it’d be wasting time anyways.
“Let me clean up.”
He stood up. Z immediately came close: “Let me help you, Qian-ge!”
He Qian paused briefly and then nodded his head: “You just have to close the computer and tidy up the files somewhat, that’s all.” He backed up two steps and gave space to Z.
Z finished tidying up. He Qian nodded his head: “Let’s go then. Punch out.” Along the way, he grabbed the car keys off the table.
When they reached the parking lot, He Qian finally realized something. The way he was right now… there’s no way he could drive?
Seeing his expression from the side, Z immediately understood. He scratched his head and offered: “How about I drive, Qian-ge.”
“No need.” He Qian looked briefly at him. “Why don’t I call a substitute driver.” He paused and then added: “I remember that you don’t know how to drive, right?”
Z froze, and then immediately grinned: “Qian-ge, you even remember this?” He looked at He Qian with an even more inquisitive expression. This man, how come it seemed like he knew everything?
“If you can’t drive, then don’t show off. Go sit in the back and be good.” He Qian didn’t say anymore and really made a phone call for a substitute driver to come over.
When they reached a familiar traditional doctor’s place, He Qian didn’t even say what he was here for before he was berated heavily.
The old doctor was about 70 years old, but his back was upright, extremely vigorous. Even with all the cursing and reprimanding, he didn’t lose his breath: “I told you this wrist of yours would suffer sooner or later. Now look at it. It’s already like this. Why didn’t you wait until it’s completely broken to find me? Could you be any slower? What are you standing there for!”
As he talked, he carefully pulled He Qian into the examining room. While he berated nonstop, he began to inspect He Qian’s wrist. After a while, the old doctor furrowed his brows and looked up: “What happened? Did you get into a fight?”
This wasn’t injured during work. This was the result of being grabbed by a proper restraining hold. Wasn’t He Qian, this brat, in charge of doing paperwork? When would he need to be restrained?
Z stood behind He Qian, laughing dryly: “It was me. I accidentally hurt Qian-ge.”
The old doctor looked over. This youth was big and tall, lookin 70% like a peach blossom and 30% vicious. He can tell this guy wasn’t anyone good.
But he saw He Qian didn’t look particularly mad and guessed that these two were familiar, so can only huff.
“I can tell he’s not a good person with just a glance. So careless, and it took him this long to bring the person over.” He was only quietly muttering to himself, but it didn’t help that He Qian and Z both had very good hearing.
He Qian sat unmoving. On the other hand, Z was almost about to rub his nose off, so embarrassed that he could only laugh awkwardly.
The old doctor looked at He Qian’s wrist back and forth and then finally decided: “The injury is a bit serious. This kid looks rather heavy handed. Why don’t you ask for a break? Or find someone to help you type and use the mouse. I’ll do acupuncture for you for a few days, then you have to recuperate about a month before your wrist can get better.”
He Qian shook his head: “First get rid of the swelling. I can’t let others take over my work for me so we need to use a more conservative method to treat this.”
The amount of files he had to look through daily was huge. It contained many of Rong Corp’s secrets. He can’t even miss out on one day, much less one month?
The old doctor was choked by his words, and became displeased: “There’s no way I can make it better like that. If you want it to get better, then you can go find someone else!”
He carefully placed He Qian’s wrist on the table and then started to fume.
He Qian really stood up in response: “Then I’ll be going.” He turned and made to leave, even Z who was watching became dumbfounded.
His Qian-ge had moments where he acted so juvenile?
“Oi oi oi!” The old doctor saw he was about to go and became even angrier: “Where are you going? Even if you left this province you won’t find a more capable doctor than me to treat your wrist. With your wrist like this, where do you think you’re going?”
He Qian turned his head to look at him: “So are you treating it or not?” This stance was completely like he was the one giving the treatment or something.
The old doctor was so mad his beard puffed up, but he also couldn’t do anything about it: “Fine fine fine. I’ll treat you! Come back!”
Finally, He Qian smiled, walked back, and sat down.
“All you know is how to threaten me all day long. Aren’t you afraid that one day, I will genuinely get angry and then your hand will be untreatable? When that time comes, don’t even talk about making money, even picking something up will be quite strenuous. Let me warn you.”
The old man nagged unhappily as he looked at He Qian’s wrist for quite a while. Then, he turned his head to look at Z who hadn’t said a word: “Hey, the bad boy over there.”
Bad boy?
Z pointed at his own nose. Was he talking about him?
The old doctor’s brows fell and instructed forcefully: “Yea, I’m talking about you. Why are you sitting so far away after making someone’s hand like this? You should pay attention to some important matters, come over here and listen!”
In a rare moment, Z felt intimidated. He obediently said ‘oh’ and slid over.
“This hand, I don’t care what you do, even if you have to use your left hand, try to move it as little as possible! If you really can’t help it, don’t you guys have a way to do audio entries nowadays? And also you!” The old doctor glared at Z, expression unfriendly:
“You’re in charge of watching him. Don’t let him use that hand too much. If he does, then you better kidnap him back here so I can give him a few needles. And plus, if this wrist heals well. It’ll need to be massaged every morning and night. Don’t leave too quickly later. I’ll teach you how to massage it. Twice daily, not even once can be missed, got it?”
Z was intimidated by him and subconsciously nodded his head obediently.
On the other side, He Qian face-palmed: “Old doc, what nonsense are you saying? Messaging in the morning and evening has nothing to do with him.”
The old doctor was stunned briefly. He looked at He Qian and then looked at Z: “Isn’t he your partner? Didn’t you say you’d only bring your partner with you?”
At that moment, He Qian really felt like he dug himself a hole. He helplessly sighed and ignored Z’s gossipy expression: “I was talking about Sweet Pea.” Everytime he came, didn’t he always bring Sweet Pea?
When the old doctor heard, he scoffed: “How can a cat count as a partner!”
Oh~ new ship?
Assistant He and Sweet Pea is too cute.
I just feel Z as a younger brother not a partner for He.
thats a cat 😭
+1
Sweat Pea is love, Sweet Pea is life, must forfeit all mortal possessions to Sweet Pea 🛐
Thank You for the new chapter (⋆◗̑◡◗̑)⸝♡
Hmmmm. Another human serf may be on offer for Sweet Pea… heheh! Ty for the update 🤣❤️😹
i feel bad but i wish assistant he would remain single for now lol … as a fellow cat slave, i love his bond w sweet pea the most!
Actually, I sort of feel that Rong Qing and Sweet pea are actually kind of similar.
am i the only one who’s interested in this ship developing 😭 (even tho i’m also a cat slave 🫣)