C14 I'm Not Interested in General Manager Huo!

"Huo Liancheng, stop right there!" When Xia Bingbing saw that the man had no intention of responding to her, she stomped her feet in anger. From the sudden movement, she immediately clutched her shoulder in pain. "Agh!"

At first, she had thought that she wouldn't be able to catch up with Liancheng anymore. However, to her surprise, he had unhesitatingly turned towards her. He cocked an eyebrow up in the air.

"Is something wrong?"

Although she was stunned for a moment, she quickly recovered. Fluttering her eyelashes, a slow smile spread across her lips. "So you do care for me!" she exclaimed in ecstasy as if she had just won a lottery.

The two women, who were waiting for the elevator, shivered at the sound of their manager's flirtatious voice. Even Jian Yun had to stifle a laugh.

Although Huo Liancheng didn't look directly at Jian Yun, he could see her from the corner of his eyes. He didn't miss the subtle act, and an unknown feeling stirred in his heart. Turning away, he glanced at the woman clinging onto him like a koala.

"Liancheng!" Xia Bingbing clung her arms around his body, desperately trying to catch his attention once more. "My shoulder hurts so much! It's because of that ugly woman back at the coffee shop the other night. After she punched me, I've always been in pain."

Although Liancheng kept his distance, Jian Yun, who was facing the other way, couldn't have known. As she heard their manager's high-pitched voice, the hairs at the back of her neck stood. The smile on her face faded. Were they flirting?

She originally wanted to turn around and see how the two were flirting in such a crowded place, but upon hearing Xia Bingbing's words, she froze. Afraid that the man would suddenly point his finger at her and inform his girlfriend as to who the culprit was, she grabbed a hold of Wu Wenjing. "Let's go!" she whispered urgently.

As if the heavens had heard her prayers, the elevator door opened just in time. The two of them jumped in and she quickly slammed her finger onto one of the buttons.

"Yun!" Wu Wenjing furrowed her eyebrows, surprised by the sudden movements. "What are you doing? Are we being chased by a dog or something?"

"A rabid dog is more like it." Jian Yun snorted, staring at their manager's coquettish act.

As the elevator doors were about to close, a thought suddenly occurred to her. Her skin prickled from the heat as she felt an itch in her lower spine. Feeling as if someone was staring at her, she slowly looked up, only to meet Liancheng's gaze once more.

His eyes were even more piercing than last night. It was as if he was scouring through her very being, wanting nothing more than to suck her back into his grasps.

At the sight, her heart started pounding wildly.

They had only stared at each other for a second, but Jian Yun felt as if it had lasted an eternity. The back of her hands started to sweat as a weird ball rose up to her throat. Soon enough, her thoughts were interrupted by a soft ding as the elevator doors closed in front of her.

"What are you thinking about?" Seeing that her friend wasn't listening to her, Wu Wenjing slapped her on the arm.

"Nothing, nothing!" She could only lower her head. What the hell was wrong with her?

"How could such a perfect man like President Huo fall for someone like her! She obviously had a face lift and a nose job! And you've seen how she acts! How could she be pregnant with his child! Ugh! Is he blind or something?"

Wu Wenjing rolled her eyes exasperatedly, throwing her hands up in the air. Suddenly, she hesitated and turned to her friend. "But Yun...I still think that President Huo likes you, you know? I mean, you did say that–"

"Don't." Jian Yun pressed her hand against her forehead, not wanting to hear anything more. They had already gone over this last night, and as much as she tried to reject the woman's claims, her friend just kept on talking.

"No! Listen to me," she insisted. "For a rich and handsome man like President Huo, he probably has tons of women surrounding him. Maybe he wants to include you in his harem!"

"Stop it. Besides, you've already said he had a bunch of women, what do you think I'll add to the group?"

Wu Wenjing blinked, staring at her friend as if she had grown two heads. "Have you seen yourself? You look so much prettier than that bint Xia Bingbing. If I were a man, I would've dropped her like a hot potato and sleep with you instead!"

Jian Yun wanted to retort, but they had finally reached the 22nd floor of the HR Department. Although there weren't many of their co-workers around the area since it was lunch break, they weren't newcomers. Even walls had ears, especially in a department as bustling as this one. Naturally, the topic had been dropped. She slowly steadied herself and reached her seat, praying that all this drama would end here.

However, all her worries were slowly coming to life. Right after the lunch break, she was called into the manager's office, and just as she had entered, a folder came flying towards her. Jian Yun dodged it quickly, and when she turned back, she saw Xia Bingbing sitting behind her desks with a murderous glint in her eyes.

Had Liancheng told her about what she had done? Her arms stiffened to her sides as she prepared herself for the worst-case scenario. God! Couldn't the fates be on her side for once?

"Manager Xia?" she uttered.

"You're Jian Yun, right?" Xia Bingbing flung another document at her, cursing under her breath. Her eyes flashed dangerously. "I wasn't aware that Ming's would accept trash employees. Aren't you the one in charge of this document? Well? You can't even spot an obvious error. Are you blind?"

Struggling to calm herself, Jian Yun walked over and scanned the document in her hands. There was red ink encircled across the words that were claimed to be wrong, but after looking at them closely, all of them were judged by pretense. She scowled. She had always been serious when it came to her work, so there was no possibility for error on her part.

"Manager Xia, the document isn't–"

Xia Bingbing slammed her hand against the table, clenching her jaw. The softness in her features had receded, and instead, Jian Yun started to flashes of the rabid woman she had met back at the coffee shop.

"I'm your manager, so I'm just going to say this once," She snapped, sneering. "Don't think that President Huo is interested in you, you got that? There are thousands of others who want to climb into his bed, and all of them haven't succeeded. What makes you so special that you'd have the nerve to dream so high?"

"So you want to set me up?" Jian Yun narrowed her eyes. It seemed that the problem wasn't actually in the documents.

"I'm simply reminding you of where you stand." Xia Bingbing gazed up at her, eyes glittering in disdain. "He's out of your league, and if you keep getting yourself acquainted with him, you might as well start listing ways on how to die."

"What you've said makes a lot of sense." She held herself calmly as if unaffected by the manager's words.

"Well, it seems you're not that stupid after all." Nodding in satisfaction, she leaned back against her seat. "You can leave then."

Jian Yun picked up the document and walked towards the door. However, just as her hand rested on the door handle, she turned back. "Manager Xia can rest assured that I'm not interested in a man like President Huo."

After emphasizing her words, she turned around and closed the door behind her.

There was a few minutes of silence before a scream broke out in the manager's office, followed by a resounding crash.

The staff focused on their work, looking as if they hadn't heard the conversation that had just occurred in their manager's office.