Are you going to be responsible for me? (2)

Because they had a chat with Su Zheng, Yue Qianling and Gu Xun didn’t catch the elevator.

She stared at the elevator door, her mind wandering for a moment.

“Actually,”

Gu Xun stood beside her and spoke unhurriedly, “You can refuse.”

Yue Qianling knew what he meant.

Although she was paid to help the Ninth Business Division solve Sigrid’s concept art design, she also had the right to refuse to work overtime.

“I’m not trying to be tough.”

Gu Xun raised his eyebrows slightly. “Crying like that last night, wasn’t that being tough?”

Yue Qianling thought for a moment and decided to tell him her thoughts, so that he wouldn’t think she was pretending even after experiencing such a danger.

“I admit I’m scared, but so what?”

She paused for a moment before continuing, “When I first came to HC Interactive Entertainment, I heard about a sister who was a developer in your Ninth Business Division. I don’t know if you’ve heard of her.”

Gu Xun: “Huh?”

“We don’t have a female developer.”

“Yeah, because she resigned in September last year.”

Yue Qianling knew he probably hadn’t heard of it at all. She lowered her head, stared at her fingers, and said in a low voice, “I think she was forced.”

Gu Xun didn’t say anything.

“Her family background isn’t very good. To save money, she rented a house outside the third ring road, which is very far away.”

“Don’t you guys often work overtime? So, she often missed the last subway and had to take a taxi. But she lived in a suburban village, where there were all sorts of people, and one night she was stopped by a drunkard on the way. Fortunately, the owner of a barbecue stall helped her.”

“Later, she told her colleagues about this, and everyone told her not to work overtime so late. The male colleagues could help share the work.”

“That sister was quite happy. She went home at nine o’clock every day. But as time went on…”

Yue Qianling looked up and glanced at Gu Xun. Seeing he was listening attentively, she continued, “She couldn’t keep up, so she took the initiative to resign.”

In fact, Yue Qianling put it quite delicately.

What she heard at the time was that as the only female developer in the project team, her colleagues did want to take care of her at first, but over time, they felt it was unfair and complained that she was slowing down the progress of the project.

In the long run, in addition to her own embarrassment, her contributions to the project were indeed not as good as the others, so she resigned.

But in Yue Qianling’s eyes, she was forced.

Although she couldn’t do what Su Zheng did, coming to the company alone in the middle of the night, she didn’t want to end up like that sister.

Because she was a girl.

Because she was pretty.

Because she needed “special care.”

So, she gave up an opportunity that was right in front of her.

“So I—”

“I get it.”

The elevator door opened at this moment. Gu Xun didn’t wait for her to finish speaking, and he patted the back of her head. “You’re not going up yet? Waiting to be late and get docked pay?”

“I got to go!”

Yue Qianling was reminded by him. She glanced at the time and quickly rushed into the elevator.

But Gu Xun didn’t get in.

He stood outside, looking at Yue Qianling deeply until the elevator doors slowly closed, then turned and walked outside.

***

Yue Qianling almost ran all the way to her workstation. After sitting down, she immediately turned on her computer, and as expected, she received the demand document sent by Su Zheng.

On the other hand, the lead artist of the mobile game project team she was in also sent a new demand document.

Yue Qianling hurriedly sorted and archived the two documents. After a careful comparison, she found that the literary description of the character personality and background of just the boss Sigrid from the Ninth Business Division alone was more than all the planning documents of the mobile game project she was in.

She sat on the chair, looking at these two documents, and sighed silently.

She was really tired. She felt like there was an engine pressing down on her brain, urging her not to stop for a moment.

After a short rest, Yue Qianling took out her drawing tablet and began to sketch the design for the mobile game.

A few minutes later, she felt her stomach growl twice, so she opened a drawer and took out two cookies.

Just as she took a bite, the DingTalk on her computer started flashing.

Yue Qianling thought there was a new demand, but when she opened it to check, she saw a message from Gu Xun.

【Ninth Business Division – Gu Xun】: Come out, I’m waiting for you at the elevator.

Yue Qianling: “……”

It seemed he still didn’t know he had been released from the small black room.

It felt strange to chat with Gu Xun on DingTalk, so Yue Qianling took out her phone and sent him a message on WeChat.

【Glutinous Rice Twist】: What’s the matter?

【School Grass】: ?

【School Grass】: Damn.

After a while.

【School Grass】: Come over and get your breakfast.

【School Grass】: If you don’t come soon, I’ll start charging admission for the onlookers of your department.

Yue Qianling was stunned for a moment, looked around to make sure everyone was busy working, then gently pushed her chair away, stood up, and walked towards the exit.

Gu Xun was indeed waiting at the elevator entrance of their floor, carrying two bags in his hand.

It was just that there was no one around, so where were the onlookers?

At this time, Gu Xun also saw her and said a little impatiently, “Can’t even catch a hot meal?”

Yue Qianling could only hurry over to him.

As soon as she stood in front of him, the elevator door next to them opened.

Yi Hong was standing inside, and upon lifting his head and seeing Gu Xun, he immediately stepped out in two strides.

“I thought you didn’t see my message when I asked you to help me buy breakfast.”

Unlike Su Zheng, who rushed to the company in the middle of the night, Yi Hong had never left the company all night.

After working all night, he finally had a chance to rest. He was so hungry that his eyes were blurred. When he saw the time, he estimated that Gu Xun should be here too, so he sent a message asking him to help bring some breakfast.

“You haven’t eaten either?” Yi Hong was so hungry that he was dizzy. He didn’t pay attention to why Gu Xun was on the floor of the mobile gaming department. He just saw him holding a bag of sandwiches, milk, custard buns, and coffee, and his saliva was almost drooling. “Give it to me quickly.”

As he spoke, he reached out to take it.

But Gu Xun disdainfully raised his hand, that handed that bag of breakfast to Yue Qianling.

Only after she took it did he give the other bag to Yi Hong.

Yi Hong looked at what Gu Xun handed to him—a bag of simple breakfast—and then looked at the things in Yue Qianling’s hand and was visually and gustatorily shocked.

He swallowed his saliva and did not accept it with dignity.

“Gu Xun, why are you so biased?”

Hearing this, Yue Qianling’s eyelashes trembled, and she also raised her eyes to look at Gu Xun.

But Gu Xun just disdainfully stuffed the bag into Yi Hong’s hands.

Then, he brushed his hair and looked very justified as he stared at Yi Hong.

“Is your heart in the middle?”