"There's no misunderstanding. I saw it with my own eyes. It's already perfectly clear."
Seeing that Chen Leyao seemed to want to explain, Xia Xu's expression grew a shade colder.
"I..."
Chen Leyao opened her mouth, then took a deep breath as though gathering herself. "Boss, at least let me know what happened."
"Of course."
Keeping a stern face, Xia Xu looked her up and down. "I remember explicitly telling you, Sister Le Yao, that you weren't allowed to look too beautiful during working hours. Especially..."
His gaze gradually drifted downward.
"Pfft!"
Chen Leyao, who had been caught up in mixed feelings and unable to understand what she had done to cause a misunderstanding, froze for a moment. Then she caught on and covered her mouth as she laughed.
"All right, it looks like I did accidentally violate company rules."
Looking as though she were pleading guilty, she asked with a smile, "Then how are you planning to punish me, boss?"
She had essentially been running Star Sea Venture Capital since its inception. All the company's rules and regulations could be said to have come from her.
If there was any rule at Star Sea Venture Capital laid down by the boss himself, it really did seem to be that one joking remark from back then.
Everyone appreciated beauty. People might have different attitudes toward their own looks for all sorts of reasons, but absolutely no one fundamentally detested their own beauty.
Chen Leyao disliked the special treatment and lewd thoughts her appearance inspired in others, but she found her boss's "clean" compliments and jokes very pleasing.
After that interruption, she forgot, or rather temporarily set aside, her complaints about her boss mysteriously disappearing for an entire month while the company was still getting off the ground.
"Since this is