Around eight the next morning, Lu Xin arrived at the company.
Not the Guard Department, but the business company where he had already taken more than a week of leave.
Although Chen Jing had given him three days off so he could get some proper rest, Lu Xin thought it over carefully and realized he had nothing in particular to rest from. Having three whole days to himself only left him wondering where he was supposed to go...
...So he might as well return to the company. At least if he worked one day, he would get one day's pay, right?
The Director had approved a week of leave for him, but he had already been absent from work for eight or nine days.
That wasn't good.
Besides, if he remembered correctly, the selection for Outstanding Employee was coming up soon.
Following the narrow staircase, he reached the cramped, oppressive office cubicles. From far away, he could already hear a burst of laughter echoing through the stairwell. Mixed in were comments about whose wife had scratched up his face again, which female colleague was dressed beautifully today and would definitely go to a bar after work, and how going somewhere for drinks that night might lead to running into her...
Lu Xin, whose mood had been excellent lately, felt a familiar sensation. He let out a long sigh and hurried up the stairs.
Then, just as he appeared at the stairwell entrance, the racket beside the stairs abruptly stopped...
Several colleagues remained frozen in their roughhousing poses. One person was gripping another by the shoulders from behind, while another had crouched down, his palm shaped like a monkey stealing peaches as he reached toward the pants of the colleague being held, a wicked grin on his face.
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