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Tuesday.
Chengxi Branch Bureau, General Office.
Today was Dong Xuebin's first official day at work. His desk had been assigned to a corner by the window. Sunlight poured through the glass and beat down harshly on the glass desktop protector, making it hot and glaring. Only after he pulled the curtains did it block some of the light. Directly opposite Dong Xuebin was Zhuangzi's desk. They sat face-to-face, desk-to-desk, with only two seventeen-inch computer monitors and a desk calendar opened to January between them.
Besides Dong Xuebin and Zhuangzi, everyone else in the office seemed quite busy.
The lively girl standing by the copier, Tan Limei, hurriedly sorted through some documents without turning around. "Guo Shunjie, I can't free up my hands here. Help me copy something—the bureau needs it urgently."
Guo Shunjie, who was about twenty-eight or twenty-nine, clattered away at his keyboard. "I'm busy too. Ask someone else."
Lao Yan, the oldest person in the office, sat as steady as a mountain reading the morning paper, showing no intention of helping whatsoever.
Guo Panwei, with his sharp, monkey-like features, kept his head lowered as he wrote something. "Wait until I finish this. I'll be right over."
The last one, Chang Juan, was applying eyebrow pencil with a small mirror in hand.
Dong Xuebin blinked, closed out his keyboard, and immediately volunteered. "Sister Tan, I'll do it."
"Sure, sure." Tan Limei stuffed the finished documents into Dong Xuebin's arms and directed him, "You know how to use the copier, right? Set them down neatly and line them up first, then press that big button. Right, single-sided. Make four copies in total, then staple them and leave them there. Oh,