'Killing and Cutting Deep' Had Nothing on This

Li Yichen's face turned green, then black from what he had said.

The heart that had started to soften was locked shut again. He really was stupid right now, but that was no reason for Zhu Yu to call him stupid.

"Zhu Yu, I advise you to be kind."

"I think I'm quite kind. But you, Young Master Li, are you using work hours to meet someone irrelevant?"

Zhu Yu looked at Li Yichen with a smile at the corner of his lips.

Li Yichen's mouth moved. Damn, he had forgotten about that. It was over—Zhu Yu the skinflint had caught him, and his paycheck was going to shrink again.

As the saying went, a penny could stump a hero. Over the past few days, he had deeply understood the meaning of those words. Without money, he could do nothing.

"Assistant Zhu, listen to yourself. I just saw that everyone was working so hard and wanted to order them some milk tea. I was afraid I'd disturb them upstairs, so I came down. How could I possibly be doing something else during work hours? Impossible. Absolutely impossible."

"Hehe..." Zhu Yu rolled his eyes. Even a dog wouldn't believe that.

With a dashing turn, Zhu Yu walked straight into the company without even looking back. Li Yichen, I'm definitely docking your pay.

"Xiao Chen?" Mu Yuqing looked rather confused.

"Miss Mu, you should hurry back. You're seriously interfering with my work now. Next time, I'll have to call security." As soon as Li Yichen finished speaking, he sprinted into the company building at full speed.

The moment he sat back down, Shen Jingyan leaned over.

"Brother, you're pretty lucky. Assistant Zhu just went into his office, and he looked to be in a good mood. I was terrified he'd ask where you were. I wouldn't even have known how to cover for you." Shen Jingyan opened a bottle of soda and took a sip. The soda was provided by the company break room, so it was free.

Li Yichen's expression froze at Shen Jingyan's words. Should he say that everything that was supposed to be seen downstairs had already been seen, and that he had been caught red-handed? But according to A-Yan, Zhu Yu was in a good mood. Did that mean it might be fine?

Maybe he was worrying too much.

Having figured that out, Li Yichen let out a sigh of relief.

Beside him, Shen Jingyan had no idea his best friend had gone through such a long train of thought. Excitedly, he wrapped an arm around Li Yichen's neck.

"But Xiao Zhuang told me that whenever Assistant Zhu smiles, nothing good ever comes of it. Some unlucky bastard is definitely about to get unlucky. Who do you think it'll be?"

"..." Li Yichen's face darkened. Why the hell didn't you say that earlier?

Meanwhile, Xiao Zhuang was reporting on the documents to Zhu Yu.

"Very good. You've all worked hard today. Tomorrow's workload will be lighter, so make sure you get some proper rest then."

Zhu Yu nodded as he looked over the flawless documents and reports before him.

"This is what we should do. If there's nothing else, I'll head out first." Xiao Zhuang could not hide his smile after receiving praise from his idol.

"Mm. Oh, right. When you go out, remember to tell Xiao Li that the company has rules about doing things unrelated to work during work hours. What should be deducted still has to be deducted, so tell him to prepare himself this month."

"Also, he said downstairs just now that he'd treat everyone in the assistant office to milk tea. Tell him not to forget. We can count it as the first milk tea of the new work period."

Xiao Zhuang's mouth twitched. Sure enough, his sixth sense had never been wrong when it came to Assistant Zhu.

So Li Yichen was the unlucky one. Xiao Zhuang felt both surprised and unsurprised.

Filled with complicated thoughts, Xiao Zhuang walked out of the office and came to Li Yichen's workstation.

"Xiao Zhuang! You're out! So nothing happened, right? I think he was just in a good mood today. How could anyone possibly be unlucky?" The moment Shen Jingyan saw Xiao Zhuang, he hurriedly rolled his chair over and said with a smile.

Xiao Zhuang said nothing and simply looked at Li Yichen.

Li Yichen silently looked back at Xiao Zhuang.

Neither of them spoke, yet they both seemed to know perfectly well what the other was about to say.

Shen Jingyan looked at Xiao Zhuang, then at his friend. What kind of charade were these two brothers playing?

"Go on. I can take it."

"Assistant Zhu said that the company has rules about doing things unrelated to work during work hours. What should be deducted still has to be deducted. Please prepare yourself this month, ha!"

Xiao Zhuang was extremely meticulous and tried to repeat Zhu Yu's words exactly.

"Huh???" Before Li Yichen could say anything, Shen Jingyan was already utterly stunned, three huge question marks practically floating over his head.

"So you're the unlucky one!!!"

For the first time, Li Yichen clenched his fists and desperately wanted to have a "friendly" spar with Shen Jingyan.

"Oh, right. Assistant Zhu also said that you promised downstairs to treat everyone to milk tea. He told you not to forget. This also counts as the first milk tea we've had since work started."

Li Yichen was so angry he nearly fell backward. Nothing could be crueler than this—first Zhu Yu docked his pay, then he had to spend his own money right after that.

Shen Jingyan quietly edged away. His brother was truly miserable. After his roast chicken, now there was his brother's milk tea. This job was really too hard.

Even the hand holding Li Yichen's phone was trembling, but he still had no choice but to open the food delivery app and add the drinks one by one.