Chapter 65: 『Surprise』 (Part 1)

She thought of how Gu Liyan had said he would give her at most a week of leave to let her adjust.

So Zhou Xiaoru thought, then she would wait until next week to officially go back to work.

Right now in the Personnel Department, everyone thought she had gone back to her hometown to attend a funeral, so it wouldn't be appropriate to go back too early.

After thinking about it, she planned to use these two or three days to prepare the PPT needed for her defense.

Otherwise, once she started working, there would be a pile of work matters to attend to, and after returning to the Dormitory, she wouldn't have any extra energy to deal with other things.

Tomorrow is Sunday, and two more days have passed since payday.

Zhou Xiaoru was starting to feel restless; she had originally had many opportunities to ask Gu Liyan about her salary.

But every time she was with that guy, there were always more accidents and unexpected situations.

How could she still remember anything about her salary? It had long been forgotten to outer space.

Ever since the two parted on bad terms the day before yesterday, Gu Liyan had sent her back to school, and after that, he had never contacted her again.

Zhou Xiaoru thought that this time, Gu Liyan should have given up, and he shouldn't be pestering her like before anymore.

Her life should be returning to peace!

But a peaceful life was, after all, just a beautiful fantasy; she could only dream about it when she was asleep.

These past two days, Gu Liyan's harassment had stopped, but there was one person whose calls and WeChat messages had never ceased.

Du Feng's daily greetings and concern were like the surging river water, flowing on endlessly, making the young lady Zhou feel somewhat exhausted.

She didn't know why, but she felt, why the hell was it so tiring!

What is a peaceful life...

For her, it simply doesn't exist!

Although she had spoken boldly to Gu Liyan that day, saying she wanted to find Du Feng to be her boyfriend, when it came to actually doing it, she felt it was too difficult.

Falling in love is not playing house; she couldn't just find someone else to be a shield because she wanted to dodge Gu Liyan's "attacks."

This is not only unfair to Du Feng, but also irresponsible to herself.

Should she accept Du Feng or not? This is a very tangled question!

Zhou Xiaoru was just about to go to a temple to burn incense and pray for a fortune stick to solve it!

For now, she decided to put the matter of falling in love aside and first solve the issue regarding her salary.

She had originally wanted to send a message to ask Zhang Yao, but for someone who was back in her hometown for a funeral, sending a message at this time to ask if the salary had been paid, wouldn't that be inappropriate?

After thinking it over, she decided to ask the Supervisor of their Personnel Department, Mao Mao!

After sending a WeChat message to Mao Mao, she got a reply in less than ten minutes.

Seeing the replied message, Zhou Xiaoru was so angry she almost swallowed her phone!

The Supervisor said that the Big Boss had specifically instructed that her salary would not be issued by the Finance Department, but would be issued to her by the Big Boss personally!

If she wanted to ask about her salary, she could ask the Big Boss Gu directly!

Zhou Xiaoru felt that Gu Liyan was deliberately messing with her!

Not only did he make her sign a contract of indentured servitude, but he also monopolized her salary?!

On what grounds!!!

What is the difference between her and a slave now!

This Gu Liyan is simply Huang Shiren reborn! And she is the miserable White-Haired Girl!

There was no other way; for the sake of her hard-earned money, she had to take the initiative to send a message to Gu Liyan.

And after the message was sent, it was like a stone sinking into the sea, with no movement at all.

Today is Friday, and it is already past one in the afternoon; their major still has classes in the afternoon.

It was rare that all four people in the 601 Dormitory were present today, so Xiao Lan suggested that they all go to class together.

After class, they would go for a stroll nearby.

The closer it got to graduation, the less time they would have to gather together.

Regarding Xiao Lan's suggestion, Yao Xiang immediately agreed, while the other two showed little interest.

Zhou Xiaoru had been pacing back and forth, staring at the phone on the table, anxiously waiting for a reply.

And Jiang Bufan was the same, her mood was not high, and she was lying listlessly on her desk.

After seeing their reactions, Xiao Lan asked the question she had asked no less than a hundred times these past few days once again.

"What exactly is going on with you two lately?"

She clearly felt that these two guys were hiding something from her!

She knew that whenever Zhou Xiaoru had something going on, it was usually because of Gu Liyan.

But Jiang Bufan, who had always been on her own, had also become a bit strange recently.

And to her repetitive question, besides a tacit sigh, Zhou Xiaoru and Jiang Bufan only remained silent.

They didn't even let out an extra fart for her!

Xiao Lan had no choice; she quietly walked behind Jiang Bufan, like a ghost, and slowly leaned her head toward the person lying on the desk to see what she was actually doing...

The person who was lost in thought, when she discovered a large head suddenly appearing above her, was already scared out of her wits.

"Oh my god!"

She was so scared she bounced right off the stool; this bounce was no small matter, and her head hit the bed frame above with a bang.

In pain, Jiang Bufan covered her head with one hand and patted her chest with the other!

She glared at the culprit who caused all this! Who had she provoked!

Xiao Lan leaned her body and carefully backed away; she hadn't done anything.

Jiang Bufan said angrily, "Why are you standing behind me without making a sound!"

Startled by this shout, Xiao Lan shivered all over and replied stutteringly.

"I... I... I just... wanted to... see what you were doing..."

Zhou Xiaoru, on the opposite side, saw this and hurriedly came over to interject.

"Let's go, let's go, pack up, we're going to class. Come to think of it, it seems like I haven't been to class in a long time."

She wanted to change the subject to keep Xiao Lan from asking further and potentially angering Jiang Bufan.

The course was ending this month, and today's class might be the last professional course of her university life.

After thinking about it, she decided to go.

It was also rare for everyone to be here today.

Xiao Lan returned to her bed like a frightened bird.

Jiang Bufan rubbed her head, her heart gradually calming down.

She felt her reaction had been a bit too much; she shouldn't have taken her anger out on her good friend.

Now, in the dormitory, everyone was busy changing clothes or packing their bags.

The atmosphere was somewhat heavy.

Yao Xiang watched all of this, her Sherlock Holmes-like wisdom coming back online.

She recalled when Jiang Bufan had started acting abnormally.

Last Sunday, the two of them went out to hand out flyers and didn't return for the night, although Zhou Xiaoru's explanation was that they had had so much fun that they spent the night at a friend's house of Jiang Bufan's in the city.

However, based on her understanding of the two, in their four full years of university life, they had never spent the night out before.

Yao Xiang felt that something must have happened last Sunday night...

But what could have happened...

Ten-plus minutes later, the four of them were all packed and set off.

It was just that everyone had their own hidden agendas, each lost in their own thoughts.

The classroom was in Phase One, and their dormitory was in Phase Two, so they had to run for nearly half an hour to reach the classroom.

At this moment, the main road on campus was very lively.

With less than an hour until class, everyone was rushing to their respective classrooms.

Yao Xiang and Xiao Lan walked in front, while Zhou Xiaoru and Jiang Bufan walked behind.

Zhou Xiaoru deliberately increased the distance between them and the others, pulling Jiang Bufan to the back, wanting to have a chat with her.

"What's wrong with you today?" Just now in the dorm, her reaction was indeed a bit too much, and it had scared Xiao Lan.

Jiang Bufan crossed her arms, took a deep breath, and said.

"Nothing much, it's just that ever since that incident, I've felt inexplicably irritable."

Zhou Xiaoru knew it; it really was still about the Su Poyang matter.

"If you really feel unhappy, we can just call that guy out and let you beat him up; that should relieve your anger."

"Forget it, I'm afraid of being beaten by him instead."

"That won't happen. Even if you really hit him, I don't think he would do anything."

Although Su Poyang was a bit of a playboy, he looked harmless to humans and animals and shouldn't be a violent maniac.

"Sigh... once I find a formal job, maybe I won't let my imagination run wild anymore. Don't worry, later, help me say something to that Xiao Lan. I'm afraid she'll overthink things..."

Her emotions had been abnormal lately, and her temper might have been a bit too big; the ones suffering were definitely the people around her.

"It's fine, you know Xiao Lan, she doesn't remember things and won't overthink it."

"Don't talk about me, how is your job? Are you still quitting?"

Hearing this question, it was Zhou Xiaoru's turn to sigh.

"Sigh... my personnel contract has already been processed, and Gu Liyan tricked me into signing a breach of contract statement!"

"What breach of contract statement?"

"If I resign within two years for an invalid reason, I have to pay double the penalty!"

Jiang Bufan was stunned upon hearing this and shook her head, saying.

"This time, Gu Liyan really used every trick in the book to pursue you."

Zhou Xiaoru asked back, "Even you think Gu Liyan is genuinely interested in me?"

They weren't strangers before; he didn't like her when they were dating back then, so why did he suddenly like her again after two years? She felt this made no sense.

"A person like Gu Liyan, if he wasn't interested in you, would he waste his time on you?"

Jiang Bufan knew what Zhou Xiaoru was worried about; after all, happiness came too suddenly, and not everyone could accept it all at once.

"Anyway, now that Gu Liyan is interested in you, you can torment him however you want. However, if you still like him, you can consider starting over."

This was the sound advice Jiang Bufan gave her.

Zhou Xiaoru fell into deep thought; she did want to start over, but the object could not be Gu Liyan!

After a while, she told Jiang Bufan that Du Feng was pursuing her.

"Xiaofan, it's already impossible between Gu Liyan and me. Now there's a guy in the company pursuing me, and I've been considering for the past two days whether to accept."

Jiang Bufan looked at the somewhat dejected person with some surprise.

"You mean that Du Feng?!"

"Mm..."

"Have you thought it through?"

"Not yet, I'm still thinking about it."

Hearing this, Jiang Bufan really couldn't resist her itching hands and simply slapped the forehead of the distressed Zhou Xiaoru.

"Ouch!" The person who was slapped cried out in pain.

Jiang Bufan looked even more heartbroken, "What is inside that silly head of yours? What are you thinking, passing up a golden turtle to go for a little shrimp?"

Zhou Xiaoru clutched her head and replied.

"What's wrong with shrimp! The cost of golden sea turtle is so high, who can afford to eat it."

She would rather be honest and down-to-earth; that is better.

Just as they were walking and discussing in the back.

The two people in front were also in the middle of a discussion along the way...