Chapter One Hundred and Seventy-Eight: Retribution II (2/2)

Xiao Yu didn’t find anything strange and happily accepted it. But, when he opened it, he let out a sound of wonder.

When he turned around, Qin Xi was already nowhere to be seen.

Looking at the two large boxes of exquisitely adorable handmade cookies, he sank deep into thought.

Although he didn’t look like it on the surface, Xiao Yu was addicted to desserts. He had done all sorts of studies on desserts and had loved this brand of cookies for a long time. He had planned to go to buy some this weekend and hadn’t expected to receive them in this manner.

The only reason that he had to wait until the weekend was because only one store in S City sold this type of cookie. They were extremely popular; calling them an internet sensation would be doing them a disservice. The bakery’s regular desserts required over half an hour of waiting, and this new cookie needed a two hour wait under the sun on average. On weekends, the lines were even longer. Furthermore, after a two hour wait, each person was only allowed at most one box. Even worse, the cookies were only good for two days, so even resellers couldn’t enter the market.

Although Qin Xi had only given him a bag of the cookies, there were around two boxes’ worth of cookies in the bag. Perhaps another person might not have understood, but Xiao Yu was very clear that two boxes of cookies meant two people waiting in line. Thus—

This definitely wasn’t a company perk.

Something was wrong.

He munched on the cookie and sipped the red tea, deep in thought.

Something was definitely wrong.

No matter how he thought about it, there was definitely something wrong.

Xiao Yu felt like he was drowning in the strange out-of-sorts sensation. He wanted to know what was going on so badly that his heart itched.

Since he’d gone to go make himself some coffee, Jing Mo had given him the red tea bags, Shao Yue had given him the cufflink, and Qin Xi had given him the cookies. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that each felt more deliberate than the next.

Now that he thought back on it, Xiao Yu recalled how he’d grumbled to Jing Mo that everything had gone wrong today. On top of oversleeping, he had mentioned that he’d forgotten to bring his cufflink and that without He Xinjia around, he wouldn’t get his coffee today either.

So, he could see the reason for the cufflink and the red tea bags.

The cookies weren’t entirely out of the blue either. There weren’t many people who knew of Xiao Yu’s sweet tooth, but Qin Xi was one of them.

Were they playing a joke on him together?

Xiao Yu became gloomy. He wanted to ask, but he didn’t know who would be the best to ask.

It felt like they’d all gotten together to exclude him.

However, from their behavior, they didn’t seem to be against him. Qin Xi’s cookies that required a two hour wait were from the kindness of her heart.

Had they done something that required his apology? Perhaps all of this was just compensation?

But if that was the case, why did he not know about it?

“So, what exactly is going on…?” Xiao Yu was completely confused.

Fortunately, he didn’t stay confused for too long.

Every day, Xiao Yu dedicated between half an hour to an hour around lunchtime to clean out his emails. He checked the latest news, replied to those that needed replies, and deleted those that should be deleted. In over two months at YL, Xiao Yu had never encountered any problems dealing with emails. However, today, with his mind in a confused state, he had an additional consideration. In his spam folder, he saw a private email sent to him at a little past seven this morning.

He went to check why the message had been sent to his spam folder and discovered that within an hour, five people had successively reported the user for malicious emails.

After reading its contents, Xiao Yu’s first reaction was to die of embarrassment.

Ahhhhhhh!!! When did someone take this picture??!!!

Also, why did it show himself as so short but Yan Jin as so handsome?!!

Oh, lord, it was retribution. It definitely was retribution.

This was what happened when they “played” in the office too much. It was the heavens’ judgment.

With a burning face, Xiao Yu sent Yan Jin a text in retaliation. He didn’t care if Yan Jin couldn’t see it.

“‘Playing’ at the company is now cancelled. There won’t be any more!”

He thought about it and added another message.

“I’ve already thrown out your refrigerator for you. If you dare to bring any alcoholic drinks to the company again, you can sleep on the sofa at night.”

There wasn’t any reply.

After his initial embarrassment wore off and he finished throwing his tantrum, Xiao Yu’s second reaction was surprisingly to exhale deeply.

Indeed, in the face of the threatening blackmail that the email contained, Xiao Yu didn’t feel perturbed. Instead, he felt quite lightened.

Whether it was the remarks like “rank-climbing slut”, “cheating scum who isn’t qualified to stay in the design industry,” or just not-so-veiled malice, Xiao Yu didn’t feel hurt at all.

On closer inspection, it even seemed like a small smile broke out.

So, it was like this.

That was the reason behind the strange behavior from Jing Mo and the others.