Chapter One Hundred and Fifty-Four: Rumors Will Only Be Stopped by The Wise (2/2)
Shao Yue answered innocently, “But I’m a youngster too. Men are like fresh flowers at age forty – I’m still a budding flower.”
Yan Jin refused to interact with him and threw a pile of documents at him.
Shao Yue did not avoid in time, and was smacked with a pile of A4 papers right in his face. He screamed dramatically, “Dammit! A gentleman uses his tongue not his fists! How could you throw hidden weapons at me?!”
“Look at what crap they wrote. It’s fine to fool around after working hours, but such a small thing affected their working ability?!”
Shao Yue clicked his tongue and randomly pulled out one of the A4 papers. He laughed, “This is not our department’s report. It belongs to the HR and thus is none of my business.”
Yan Jin gestured for Shao Yue to leave.
“Hold on, don’t try to brush it off.”
Shao Yue was not in a hurry to leave. He shook off the A4 papers on him and took two steps forward. “Let’s talk about what’s going on with that car accident. If you had explained earlier, none of this would have happened.”
“Accident.”
“Huh?”
“Accident.”
“Ah?”
Yan Jin picked up a file just beside his hand.
“Hey, hold on hold on, I really don’t get it.” Shao Yue surrendered with both his hands raised in the air. “You can’t mean to say that the crash was just an accident?”
“How else?”
“Damn. That’s not reasonable.”
Shao Yue was now really surprised.
“You guys are the ones that are unreasonable. Would I really go that far to win someone over?” Yan Jin put down the file. He could not understand what his employees had been thinking all day long.
“Well…” Shao Yue hesitated and spoke again with a tone filled with doubt. “It’s true that you wouldn’t go to such extent if it was the past you. But when I connect the dots of the whole incident, the more I think, the more reasonable it seems.”
“There’s other plots involved? Explain clearly.”
“I shall declare outright that I did not leak out this information to them, so don’t accuse me.”
“Spill it.” Yan Jin’s patience was at the breaking point and once it went beyond that point, he would not care who he was dealing with.
Would it be difficult to understand something in detail? No.
It was only a QQ group chat. He could directly get Liu Ye to check on it and within hours he would get every detail of it.
As for the rest of them, he would let the Yan family’s undercover spies to investigate. It would only take a few days for them to report in fine detail to him.
As for Shao Yue, for slacking at work, he should be sent to Africa as a mining worker.
Shao Yue sensed a foreboding uneasiness when Chairman Yan suddenly change his aura. He did not hesitate anymore and immediately corrected his attitude. He respectfully answered, “This is what I thought – if it’s really for the sake of a genius designer, it’s true that you probably wouldn’t go to that extent and do such an outrageous thing. After all, YL is just… you know. But this is Xiao Yu we’re talking about. Not only was his identity Mr. Mystery, he is also your lover.”
“So?”
Shao Yue shrugged his shoulders. “So I think the accident was just a method you used to woo him and from the results it seems like it has been successful.”
“…… It’s really not the case. It was just a normal accident. At least it seems like it at this point.” Yan Jin did not want to elaborate further with Shao Yue about the accident. He changed the topic and asked him something that he was more worried about, “And that is what had been causing all of you to be so inattentive?”
“More or less.” Shao Yue suggested, “Do you want me to clarify on your behalf? Otherwise they probably won’t be in the mood to do their work properly.”
Yan Jin took a deep breath and replied, “No need.”
“Huh? Why?”
“Because gossip and rumors will only be stopped by the wise.” Yan Jin let out a long sigh and continued worriedly, “Rather than explaining and making things more complicated, I might as well wait and see.”
“Wise indeed…”
“Moreover,” Yan Jin palmed his forehead, “The current situation is beneficial for Fishy.”
Shao Yue nodded his head in agreement: “A lot of them in the group chat agreed to treat Xiao Yu nicely in order to make up for your horrendous, devil-like actions. Hahaha, I think that sounds workable. Very workable. For the sake of your lover, you shall sacrifice yourself.”
Yan Jin: “……”
“Oh right, aside from those I mentioned, there’s also some hostile voices too.” Shao Yue did not sound as light-hearted anymore. He spoke earnestly as if he was dealing with proper business. “I initially planned to report to you within the next few days that a unique group of people has emerged from the group chat. They are fascinated with the idea of you and the mystery designer as a couple. And so, you know, they clashed with those people with ulterior motives. I would say it’s an unexpected surprise.”
The unique group obviously referred to the fujoshis. Over the past few days, they had been promoting and recruiting more people of the same hobby. If a normal employee came across what they had shown, they probably would take a look and brush it off. If they could not accept it, they would at most laugh it off. However, for those people who had gotten into arguments with that group of people, they were most probably people who had ulterior motives for Yan Jin.
YL had been very careful when they were recruiting employees. They would do their best not to hire those who had hopes of crawling into their chairman’s bed. But occasionally, there would be special circumstances that would happen, and they would get hired.
The moment these people make the slightest move that resembled seducing Yan Jin, regardless of their identities, they would be terminated immediately.
After several rounds of dismissals, those that escaped and had survived so long were considerably highly-professional.
Even Shao Yue did not expect them to be fished out by such an incident.
“Hah. They probably let their guards down knowing that I’m not in the group.”
Yan Jin crossed his hands on the desk as a deadly look flashed in his eyes. “It’s about time they reveal themselves. I’ll think of a way to let Fishy report to work a few days later. We need to clear up the mess before he gets here.”
“Roger that.”
Shao Yue saluted on the spot. When he lowered his hand, he said gleefully,
“Letting so many people put in so much effort, someone sure is, gravely sinful aren’t they…”
“Shut up. You may get lost.”
……
That night, Yan Jin took out his precious collection of white wine, planning to kill two birds with one stone.