Chapter 47: Don't Tell Me You Think We're Gay?

Bai Shuruo felt a lump in her throat and said, "Brother Han, I..."

"What happened to you?" The voice on the phone began to grow urgent.

"I've been fired!" Once she said this, her tears fell uncontrollably. "I'm truly useless. I finally had an internship with a high salary, yet I couldn't hold onto it."

The breathing on the other end of the phone became slightly rapid, but the voice remained calm: "Tell me the specific details!"

Bai Shuruo sobbed as she recounted what had happened.

After she finished, Han Yangting said, "Find a cafe near the company and sit for a while, drink some coffee, and I will come to pick you up in a bit."

After hanging up, Bai Shuruo was a bit puzzled; why go to a cafe instead of going home?

But she followed his instructions, found a cafe to sit and wait, and then sent the cafe's location to Han Yangting.

20 minutes later, Han Yangting walked in.

He was wearing a black overcoat today with a grey turtleneck sweater underneath, his figure tall and upright; as soon as he arrived, the cold cafe seemed to warm up all at once.

"Brother Han!" Bai Shuruo stood up.

Han Yangting walked up to her first, and seeing her eyes were red, he couldn't help but rub her head, then said, "Silly girl, why didn't you tell me the first moment you were wronged?"

Bai Shuruo was confused; she clearly had told him the first moment she could, she hadn't even told her sister, so as not to worry her.

The two sat down, and Han Yangting even ordered a cup of coffee, drinking it in a relaxed and leisurely manner.

Because he was here, Bai Shuruo's mood calmed down a lot, so she followed his example and drank coffee.

After a while, Han Yangting's phone rang; it was a call from Ali. Not knowing what was said, Han Yangting only responded a few times: "Mm," "Okay."

Not long after Ali's call ended, Bai Shuruo also received a call; it was from the CG Human Resources Department.

"Miss Bai Shuruo, we are sorry. Today's incident was our oversight; we didn't investigate clearly. You can come back to work."

"What is going on?" Bai Shuruo insisted on getting to the bottom of it: "You investigated clearly? Was it Zhang Liang who stole my file?"

"That's correct. Although Zhang Liang didn't use your computer, he installed plug-in software and remotely stole it without your knowledge. He has also confessed."

Bai Shuruo was suddenly both excited and thrilled.

She looked at Han Yangting happily and said, "Brother Han, I can go back to work. My situation has been cleared up; it was that male colleague who stole my proposal."

Han Yangting was drinking his coffee, also putting on an appearance of surprise: "So fast? Then congratulations to you."

Bai Shuruo picked up her belongings and then apologized: "Brother Han, I... have to go back to work. I'm very sorry for making you come over to comfort me."

"The key is, did my comfort have any effect?" Han Yangting's gaze carried a smile.

"It did," she said honestly.

Han Yangting couldn't help but chuckle softly, then said, "Then how do you plan to thank me?"

"Go back and juice some fruit for you? Or, make chicken soup for you on the weekend?"

Han Yangting put down his coffee and then stood in front of her: "How about a hug?"

"..." Bai Shuruo was stunned, but then she thought, he is gay, so what is the difference between hugging him and hugging a best friend?

She then took the initiative to hug him.

Han Yangting was satisfied, rubbed her head again, and said, "Hurry back to work."

Bai Shuruo trotted away excitedly.

In the office, the roles were reversed; Bai Shuruo returned, and Zhang Liang left.

Zhang Liang was packing his things; he was not reconciled at all. He had been the pride of his school, the hope of his entire family at home, and had finally managed to get an internship at CG. He had thought his future was limitless, yet he had fallen on this day.

He went to find Wei Zhuguan and He Jian to plead for mercy, but it was useless. He had not only stolen the fruits of others' labor but also refused to admit it afterward.

When Bai Shuruo returned, their eyes met, and Zhang Liang's gaze seemed as if he wanted to kill her.

Bai Shuruo felt her skin crawl from being stared at with such a gaze, and she quickly quickened her pace to walk back to her seat.

Xiang Feifei saw that Bai Shuruo had returned and was extremely happy. She leaned over the partition and said, "Shuruo, just after you left, the people from the Human Resources Department came again. This time they investigated thoroughly; they even found the plug-in software."

Bai Shuruo was puzzled for a moment: "The people from the Human Resources Department were looking for security to check the surveillance at first, so how did they think to check for software later?"

Could it be... Han Yangting?

He is a construction foreman; presumably, he would have a wide network of contacts, know people at CG, and ask an acquaintance to tell the Human Resources Department to investigate properly?

Xiang Feifei said, "Maybe there have been similar incidents before. Think about it, current software is varied and complex; any verification code can be used to scam money. The Human Resources Department can't be careless, right?"

Bai Shuruo thought that was also true.

In the blink of an eye, it was the weekend again.

Ling Feng and Ni Xianglei bought a large flat in the city center to stay in temporarily. The two chose this Sunday to move in and invited Han Yangting and Bai Shuruo and the others to their home to hang out.

Their two apartments were one upstairs and one downstairs, very close to each other, and the place for eating was at Ling Feng's home.

Neither Ling Feng nor Ni Xianglei knew how to cook, so they had the restaurant send over all the food and drinks. There was plenty of everything, whatever one wanted to eat, just like a hotel buffet.

Besides Han Yangting and Bai Shuruo, they also invited Bai Shunan, Bai Shuhua, Ali, and others, as well as some colleagues from the company; in short, everyone they knew in Fengcheng came.

Ling Feng's home was richly decorated; the house not only had a dedicated gym but also a KTV, a billiards room, and a mahjong room.

After eating and drinking for a while, everyone started playing in his home's entertainment room. Bai Shuhua liked to sing and hogged the KTV as the microphone hog, singing Xu Chong's love songs.

Han Yangting liked to play billiards, and he played against Ling Feng and Bai Shunan.

Ali and a few other colleagues were on the large balcony eating barbecue, drinking beer, chatting, and shooting the breeze.

Bai Shuruo was not interested in any of these, so she took some melon seeds and sat in the living room slowly shelling and eating them, watching a show while she ate.

After eating for a while, Ni Xianglei also came to sit beside her.

"Little sister-in-law, aren't you going to play with them?" Ni Xianglei asked.

Bai Shuruo shook her head with a smile: "I don't know how to play those, and I'm tone-deaf, so I'll just watch TV."

Ni Xianglei said: "What a coincidence, me too."

Because they were not very familiar with each other, it would be awkward not to speak, but the only topic they could discuss was Han Yangting.

Bai Shuruo said to Ni Xianglei, "You all have such a close bond."

"We grew up playing together, how could we not be close?" Ni Xianglei laughed, "Otherwise, I wouldn't have traveled thousands of miles to come to him."

Hearing this, Bai Shuruo tentatively asked, "Actually, since the three of you are so close, have you ever thought about... uh... living together in the future?"

"Why would we live together?" Ni Xianglei smiled.

Although it was brotherly love, everyone would eventually have to take a wife, so how could they possibly live together?

However, when he saw the face of the young woman in front of him flushed red from nervousness, and remembered that Han Yangting and she had not yet consummated their marriage, he suddenly realized something: "You wouldn't happen to... think the three of us are gay, would you?"