Shen Yi instantly went on guard.
He was the one who had been casually sending flirtatious signals all along, yet now he was turning the question back on Shen Yi... How unfair. Shen Yi wanted to argue back at once, but they were at work, so he could only swallow his protest.
"Please don't say things like that."
"Like what, exactly?"
Shen Yi quickly pulled his hand free of Yuan Chen's grasp and stepped back.
Just then, the internal phone rang. As though nothing had happened, Yuan Chen picked up the receiver in a businesslike manner.
"Speak."
"President Yuan, Minister Zhou says there's something urgent he needs to report."
"Send him in."
Shortly after that brief reply, a knock came at the door.
Minister Zhou entered with the Marketing Team Leader.
"Hello, President Yuan. Did you have a pleasant weekend?"
"Get to the point."
Yuan Chen's dry tone cut straight through Minister Zhou's pleasantries. Sitting upright, he looked at the visitors, once again the impeccable President Yuan he always was.
Minister Zhou had come to report that the first cut of the advertisement was complete. He opened his laptop and played a video about five minutes long.
The quality was quite good. From the video alone, no one would have guessed how tense the atmosphere had been on the day of the shoot.
The footage of the two Alphas sitting across from each other in conversation looked perfectly harmonious, and the effects and editing precisely catered to the target audience's tastes.
The marketing team had probably put in plenty of overtime that weekend to achieve this result.
President Yuan had left visibly angry last Friday, and Minister Zhou must have been on edge ever since. To protect their superior's position, his subordinates naturally had to give it their all.
That