Jian Yan didn't have many friends, and the only one who could truly be considered a close friend was Lin Zhen. But for some reason, she could chat with Nan Si so naturally now, even though they hadn't even met in person yet.

  Tangzhi: I'm preparing a new work recently.

  Nan Si: You really are a model worker in the comic industry, Ms. Tangzhi. You're already preparing a new work right after "Shang Ke" ended [laughing and crying emoji]

  Tangzhi: Hmm, making money is more important.

  Tangzhi: I mean, work is more important [sweat emoji]

  Nan Si: Making money is indeed very important, 23333

  Tangzhi: [embarrassed emoji]

  Jian Yan reflected on herself in front of the computer. How could she have accidentally blurted out her true thoughts?

  Nan Si: Can you reveal what the new work is about? [cute emoji]

  Tangzhi: I want to draw a female protagonist who sells clothes in a mall.

  Nan Si: (⊙o⊙) Is it a department store? Like Xingguang Department Store?

  Tangzhi: Hmm

  Nan Si: It sounds quite interesting. I'll definitely support it when you publish it :)

  Tangzhi: Thank you ^_^

  Nan Si: Actually, I've always been curious. For you cartoonists and writers, your works often involve fields you're not familiar with, right? Usually, do you go to the scene to gather materials?

  Tangzhi: It depends on the individual. Many of the authors I know do.

  Nan Si: Do you do that too, Ms. Tangzhi?

  Tangzhi: Hmm

  Nan Si: Okay, I see :)

  Nan Si: I'm going to work now. Let's chat next time.

  Tangzhi: Okay

  He Xiu smiled when he saw these two words she sent, closed the QQ window, and dialed the internal line of his secretary: "Ask Zhou Wenwen from the Human Resources Department to come here."

  "Okay, Manager He."

  Zhou Wenwen was summoned and quickly stood in He Xiu's office: "Hello, Manager He. May I ask what you want me for?"

  He Xiu looked at her and slightly raised the corners of his mouth: "The friend you introduced last time, the famous cartoonist Tangzhi, right?"

  Zhou Wenwen was startled and asked in a hurry: "How did you know?"

  He Xiu smiled: "I just confirmed it from you."

  Zhou Wenwen: "…"

  Manager He, your schemes are so deep.

  She wiped her face and explained to He Xiu: "Well, she said she wanted to come to the department store to gather materials. I thought it was exactly the busy season at the end of the year, and she's always very responsible in her work, so I let her come... I asked Huihui, and she said Jian Yan works very seriously and has good sales performance too!"

  "Okay."

  Zhou Wenwen: "…"

  What does "okay" mean?

  "Um... Do you want to fire her?" Zhou Wenwen asked hesitantly. But saying "fire" wasn't really appropriate either, since she was still in the probation period and hadn't signed a formal labor contract yet.

  He Xiu said: "Why would I fire her? It's our honor that Ms. Tangzhi can come to our mall to gather materials."

  …

  Zhou Wenwen was silent for a moment and quickly agreed with the boss: "Manager He is absolutely right! She didn't choose the department store on the next street!"

  "Because the head of the Human Resources Department of the department store on the next street isn't her alumni from university," He Xiu said.

  Zhou Wenwen: "…"

  "The teacher's new work is set in a department store, and it's very likely to be based on our mall. With her huge number of readers, it can be regarded as promoting our mall."

  "Yes, yes! That's exactly what I thought too!"

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  He Xiu raised his eyes and looked at her, saying: "All right, go back to work. Don't tell the teacher about this, so as not to make her feel embarrassed."

  "Understood!" Zhou Wenwen heaved a sigh of relief and quickly scurried out.

  But there was one thing she couldn't figure out. How on earth did Jian Yan expose her identity?

  … Manager He truly lives up to his name.

  Jian Yan had no idea that her true identity had been uncovered and still went to work at Xingguang Department Store as usual. Generally, the customers who came to the Dream Wardrobe were almost all women. Even if there were male companions, they usually sat aside and waited. But occasionally, there were exceptions.

  Like the man in front of Jian Yan now.

  "This coat is nice. It should look great on you." The man in a suit picked up a long coat and showed a smile on his fair face.

  Jian Yan took a few steps back and said to him, "It mainly has to look good on your girlfriend." She felt helpless. When she saw this man coming, she had planned to ask another colleague to serve him, but he had directly called for her.

  Although she was reluctant, she couldn't just ignore the customer.

  The man smiled and said, "My girlfriend has a similar figure to yours. Come to think of it, she also looks a bit like you!" As he spoke, he leaned towards Jian Yan, as if carefully examining her facial features. Jian Yan frowned. This distance was almost beyond her limit of tolerance.

  Come on, Jian Yan. You're already an adult. You can't beat people up like you did when you were a child.

  "Then let's choose this one. The cashier is on your left," she took a step back and pointed in the direction of the cashier.

  The man didn't care at all where the cashier was. He just looked at her with a smile: "Why don't you take me to pay?"

  Jian Yan took a deep breath and was about to randomly grab a colleague to deal with him when a pleasant male voice came over: "Tang Zheng, what are you doing here?"

  Even without looking, she knew who the owner of this voice was.

  He Xiu, Manager He.

  The man who had been pestering Jian Yan turned his head to take a look, then held up the coat in his hand: "Buying clothes."

  He Xiu gave a cold smile: "I've known you for so long, and this is the first time I've heard that you have a cross-dressing fetish."

  Tang Zheng said: "Can't I buy it for my girlfriend?"

  He Xiu said: "Didn't you just get dumped?"

  Tang Zheng: "…"

  "I dumped her, okay!" Tang Zheng was extremely angry.

  Jian Yan interrupted their conversation and asked He Xiu: "Excuse me, Manager He. Is this your friend?"

  He Xiu nodded and said: "Yes. You don't have to worry about him. Leave it to me."

  "Okay." That's exactly what Jian Yan had been waiting for.

  Looking at Jian Yan's quickly retreating back, Tang Zheng was very dissatisfied with He Xiu's service attitude: "Is this how you treat customers?"

  He Xiu said: "What's wrong? The manager is personally serving you. Aren't you satisfied?"

  "… Who wants you, a rough guy, to serve me? I want a girl!"

  He Xiu took the coat from his hand and put it on the cashier counter: "Don't disrupt my employees' work here."

  Tang Zheng made a face behind his back, and then heard the girl at the cashier say: "Hello, it's a total of 29,873 yuan. Thank you for your patronage."

  Tang Zheng: "…"

  "Pay up," He Xiu turned to look at him.

  Tang Zheng: "…"

  He had never seen such blatant extortion!!!

  But in front of so many girls, he, Young Master Tang, couldn't lose face! Tang Zheng took out his bank card nonchalantly and even snorted at He Xiu.

  He Xiu smiled. After the cashier finished the transaction, he handed the receipt to Tang Zheng: "Thank you for your patronage."

  "You're welcome. Consider it a reward from me," Tang Zheng picked up the paper bag with the logo on it and walked towards Jian Yan. He Xiu quickly grabbed him and asked: "What are you doing?"

  Tang Zheng said: "Sending the clothes. Do you really think I'll wear them?"

  He Xiu looked at him: "Didn't you say you were giving them to your girlfriend?"

  "Yeah, and she's the one who's about to become my girlfriend. Is there a problem?"

  "Hehe, you think too highly of yourself," He Xiu snatched the paper bag from his hand and smiled at him. "I'll keep the clothes for you until you get a girlfriend."

  Tang Zheng: "…"

  Why?

  On the way to He Xiu's office, Tang Zheng kept muttering: "The female employees in your company are of good quality. Especially the one who served me just now. She's really pretty."

  He Xiu, who was walking in front, turned around and gave him a warning look: "Don't have any ideas about the female employees in our company."

  "Yo yo yo~" Tang Zheng raised his voice and looked at him teasingly. "She works for you, not sells herself to you. Do you still care about who she dates?"

  He Xiu said: "I'm doing this for your own good. The female employees in our company have high standards and won't like you."

  …

  Tang Zheng pursed his lips, nodded, and patted his shoulder: "I can tell. It's not that they don't like me. It's that you like her, right?"

  "Who are you talking about?"

  "Jian Yan."

  He Xiu frowned: "How do you know her name?"

  "Because it's written on her name tag."

  …

  He Xiu was silent for a moment, then raised the corners of his mouth at him: "I knew you didn't come here to buy clothes."

  Tang Zheng felt a chill down his spine from his smile and immediately put his arm around his shoulder as if they were good buddies: "Of course I didn't come here to buy clothes. I came here to have a meal with you!"

  While Tang Zheng and He Xiu were having a meal at a Chinese restaurant in Xingguang Square, Jian Yan also took her lunch box and found a seat in the cafeteria.

  She had only taken a few bites of her meal when a colleague from the Dream Wardrobe sat next to her with a gossipy look on her face and whispered to her: "Do you still remember that male customer who was pestering you just now?"

  Jian Yan nodded and said: "Yes. He said he was buying clothes for his girlfriend."

  "Exactly!" When the colleague heard her say that, she was so excited that her face turned a little red. "I just heard from the cashier that he gave that coat to Manager He!"

  Jian Yan: "…………"

  ?

  "I said Manager He is so handsome and talented. It's not normal that none of us have been able to seduce him!"

  Jian Yan's eyes showed even more confusion. The colleague spat and said: "I mean, attract. " She took a sip of soup to calm herself down. "Although the media has paired him with nine girlfriends, none of them are real! I used to think that Manager He was a clean-living person, but it turns out that... he's gay."

  Jian Yan: "…"

  "But it doesn't make sense. Even if he is... gay," Jian Yan said these three words very softly, "Why would he give women's clothes to him?"

  "I don't know. Maybe it's their kink."

  Jian Yan: "…"

  Indeed... you can't judge a book by its cover.