Chapter 48.1: Heh, man! 

After two days of team building activity, Bai Duanduan returned to her daily work again, but she didn’t know if it was her own illusion, but she always felt that Ji Lin was acting strange these days. Every time she looked down at her phone to reply to a client and when she looked up, she would always see Ji Lin staring at herself with a gloomy face. Although he didn’t say anything, his expression was obviously not very good.

After several times in a row, Bai Duanduan became a bit concerned and couldn’t help but find an opportunity to ask, “Ji Lin, do you have a problem with me recently?”

As a result, Ji Lin denied it, “No.”

Bai Duanduan didn’t think much of it. She felt that she was probably overthinking things, but as she was about to turn around and leave, she heard Ji Lin’s voice ring out again, and the man looked at her and said it naturally, “Oh, from now on, play less on your phone and send less messages when you’re working.”

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Ls? Fbl eslp zssj yv bla rbsdl, cwv pbl oyp kd vswnb okvb bla nzkldvp! Ebyv eslp y zycswa ekprwvl zyoula es? Eypd’v kv vs nsxxwdknyvl okvb vbl osajlap sa vbl nsxrydu? Rd vbkp xselad osaze, kq usw esd’v wpl y xsckzl rbsdl, es usw dlle vs plde y zlvvla?

Kk Nkd, oyp bl yd sze taydery?

However, recently, Bai Duanduan’s career has been going well. Several of her old clients in B City have introduced several cases in A City to her, not to mention that Ji Lin has also somehow given herself several cases with quite a large bid amount, and after calculating the final share she could get after closing the cases, Bai Duanduan was excited to find that according to this momentum, her income was expected to double that year! 

Even Ji Lin didn’t know if he’d had a brain fart or if he’d found his conscience, but he’d given herself a pay rise after he’d come back from the team building activity, which made Bai Duanduan so happy that she only hoped his brain wouldn’t recover.

The only downside was that because there were so many cases, there was hardly any time left for rest, and all of it was dedicated to working overtime. Duan Yun and Xue Wen asked her out a few times, but Bai Duanduan couldn’t find the time to have dinner together with them.

There was one thing that made Bai Duanduan regretful, and that was the fact that her one-month contract with Ji Lin had ended silently four days ago. So Bai Duanduan had not been able to eat Ji Lin’s meals for four days. After a month of dawdling, not only had she dawdled with breakfast, but she had also dawdled with lunch and dinner, so even if she was thick faced, Bai Duanduan was too embarrassed to dawdle any longer.

And that night, working overtime until seven o’clock in the evening, Bai Duanduan was so hungry that she was about to pick up her mobile phone to order takeaway while packing her things. By this time the large office area was deserted, except for her, and only Ji Lin, who was still in his separate office, was left.

As a result, when she picked up the phone, she bumped into Ji Lin, who happened to come out of the office. He glanced at Bai Duanduan, “Focus on working overtime, don’t play with your phone.”

“……”

If it wasn’t for the fact that Ji Lin had just given herself a pay rise, Bai Duanduan would have wanted to hit him, what was wrong with her phone? Did she provoke him?

But having just finished a case, Bai Duanduan was in a good mood and decided not to remember the small man’s fault, “I’ve finished working overtime. I took my phone to order takeaway and now I’m doing it so just when I get home, the takeaway will be delivered.”

Ji Lin pursed his lips and looked at his watch, “Don’t order takeaway, you stay and wait for another ten minutes.”

????

Bai Duanduan was a little hungry and immediately said reluctantly, “But I’ve finished working overtime! I can’t wait another minute!”

Ji Lin rightly said, “I haven’t finished working.”

What does it matter to me if you haven’t finished working overtime?

Probably sensing the question in Bai Duanduan’s mind, Ji Lin raised his head again and explained in a condescending manner, “I’ll be done with my shift in ten minutes, after that I will take you back with me.”

“A car? That’s fine! I’m good again! I can wait!”

“……”

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Ji Lin has always done what he said. Ten minutes later, he finished his work, turned off the lights, and then took Bai Duanduan with him. As soon as Bai Duanduan got in the car, she turned on her mobile phone again and was about to order takeaway. However, Ji Lin stopped her again.

“Don’t order takeaway.”

Bai Duanduan didn’t understand, “Why?”

“I’m cooking.”

She didn’t respond for a moment, “Huh?”

Ji Lin sat in the driver’s seat, not bothering to look at Bai Duanduan, but obviously slightly disgusted by her reaction, probably a little on fire as his ears were slightly flushed, but his face was still calm, “You can come over and eat together.”

After he finished, he glanced at Bai Duanduan and said, as if inadvertently, “Why haven’t you come over for dinner in the past four days? Aren’t you working overtime every day? Did you have to squeeze in a date among all these overtime with someone to go out to eat?”

This black-hearted capitalist! She was so busy, how could she still find time to eat with people?

Bai Duanduan immediately argued loudly, “What I ate these four days was not even takeaway! It was just instant noodles!” She was so aggrieved, “I’ve been so busy, how could I have time to go out for dinner?”

The result was that after hearing such complaints, Ji Lin looked like he was in a better mood. He looked at Bai Duanduan, coughed, and looked ahead of the road, “I’ve been cooking for the past four days.”

“Oh.”

Ji Lin paused, looked at Bai Duanduan again, and said as if it was natural, “So why didn’t you come to dine? Aren’t you usually the one who comes when I cook?”

Bai Duanduan was honest, “Didn’t my month-long hobnobbing period expire?” She said curiously, “Can I still come over and continue to dine?”

Ji Lin said without changing his face, “Oh, I forgot, it’s already been a month.”

When Bai Duanduan heard this reply, she immediately wanted to travel back in time and beat the person who had reminded Ji Lin of herself to death a few minutes ago. She said in anticipation, “I’m asking you now that the month is up, can I still come and dine? I can eat less, usually I can eat two bowls of rice, I can now eat only one bowl, or even less, half a bowl is fine. Anyway, the night is over, I’ll eat less and still be slim.”

“No.”

It’s because it’s impossible to eat at all is it……