119 Dinosaurcerer’s Plan (1/2)

”Ruo… are you very close with Li Lanlan?”

After hanging on until 10 a.m. in the morning, Xiaoxiao finally could not help herself from feeling curious. She slid her chair over to the front of the office desk next to hers. She stared at Qin Ruo who stuck his head in loads of papers and files as he continued to work. She then asked a question that she had kept to herself for over two hours. Although she was not a white-collar girl who loved to play games, that did not mean that she was completely unconcerned with things in the game. When a few female colleagues from the HR department were discussing something interesting in the game, Xiaoxiao would also be listening to their conversation at the side. After a certain period of time, she also acquired a certain general understanding of H&G.

But today, many of her colleagues in the company were discussing the same topic. They also kept mentioning ”Qin Ruo”, who had been getting by in the game in the most ordinary way possible. The topic, which involved Qin Ruo had instantly aroused Xiaoxiao's curiosity. After she asked, she realized that Qin Ruo had played a relatively important role in the operation the day before and he made a big splash.

Even though most of his colleagues did not notice his presence on the battlefield, among the people Qin Ruo rescued were Brother Da, the renowned Big Mouth King who was deemed to be an expert in spreading gossip; two assistants from the Finance Department; and dozens of his colleagues from other departments. After his heroic deeds were sung to everyone's ears, it did not take long at all for his colleagues in the Citadel to know about his appearance and involvement in Devil's Swamp's incident. They knew that the Tier 3 Aquamancer had brought two pro friends and saved more than twenty comrades. Furthermore, he only used some extremely normal skills and aided them in taking out more than thirty Hunters from the Order of the Eight Gods Clan.

But the thing she was most concerned about was what a few of her colleagues said. They mentioned that Li Lanlan from the Finance Department and her sister, Li Xinqin seemed to be very close to Qin Ruo. They seemed to understand each other very well.

Based on Xiaoxiao's understanding of Qin Ruo, she knew that Qin Ruo would not be interested in a woman like Li Lanlan who was as cold as an ice queen, even though Li Lan Lan was indeed a ravishing woman…

However, Xiaoxiao was not able to suppress her curiosity, which expanded relentlessly deep down in her heart. She knew that if a woman truly had someone in her heart, there was a high possibility that she would change—she had also gone to the Finance Department to confirm before. The icy cold expression on Li Lanlan's face now seemed to be a little different compared to the usual. She could not help but recall a few questions that Xinqin asked her, and the ”idea” she suggested to Xinqin.

An inexplicable frustration came into her heart and unsettled her so much that she could not calm herself to focus on her work.

***

After he was pulled out from the documents on his computer by Xiaoxiao, Qin Ruo rubbed his eyes. They were a little tired. He then turned his head over and said, ”Didn't I already tell you about this yesterday?”

”That's why I'm curious to know.” Xiaoxiao's eyes were sparkling strangely at him. ”Take a guess and see. Do you think that the ice demon would be interested in you?

”You're the one she's interested in!”

Qin Ruo rolled his eyes as he was rendered speechless. He turned his head back toward the screen on his desk, ready to bury himself back into his work as it was a Friday. The workload before the weekend was always heavy. He planned to get his work done a little earlier so that he would not need to come in during the afternoon. That should buy himself some time to grind his level in the afternoon.

Xiaoxiao puffed her cheeks in dissatisfaction. She was apparently not happy with the answer that Qin Ruo had just given her. Just as she was about to ask Qin Ruo more questions, a man walked into the office and came straight toward them.

Xiaoxiao was instantly shocked. She thought that the manager had come in to inspect them. She quickly retreated back to her place.

Suddenly!

”Qin Ruo!”

The voice echoed next to the both of them. Qin Ruo and Xiaoxiao were startled by the voice as they looked in its direction…

”Why are you here?”

Qin Ruo pushed his seat back a little and stood up. The thin and tall man who came was the Assistant Manager of the Finance Department, ”Luo Qian”. He was also known as Dinosaurcerer whom Qin Ruo met before dawn that day. It was really unexpected of him to actually look for Qin Ruo in the office during working hours.

Luo Qian smiled and touched his nose a little. He then pulled a chair over and invited Qin Ruo to have a seat. ”Come, let's sit down and talk… I sent you a few short messages in the morning, but you didn't reply me… So I came over to take a look.” After hearing what he said, Qin Ruo felt even more confused. What made Luo Qian look for him then?

”Oh, it's been busier today, so I didn't notice. What's up? Anything?” Qin Ruo asked.

”Right, a busy day. Alright then. I'll make it short.” After that, Luo Qian actually started to talk about what happened in the game yesterday with Qin Ruo. Qin Ruo was dripping in cold sweat as he was listening to Luo Qian. He thought to himself that this Luo Qian was not really true to his responsibility as a leader. He actually got distracted from work and came downstairs to talk with Qin Ruo about the game. He even picked Qin Ruo's office to do it…

Awkward sweat!