“Yo~”
As soon as Gao Sijin went downstairs, he saw a slender figure draped in a trench coat.
The person greeting him was Yu Qingxue, who had been waiting for a long time.
Her delicate features and cascading black hair gave her a charming yet ethereal aura. The wind, mingled with snowflakes, caused her valiant high ponytail to sway.
Gao Sijin felt that Yu Qingxue was simply an angel of winter, the queen of a world of ice and snow.
“I’m saying hello to you.”
Seeing Gao Sijin’s dazed expression, Yu Qingxue walked over gracefully and hooked her arm through his.
“Mom, look! It’s a couple!”
A primary school student carrying a backpack nearby pointed at Gao Sijin and Yu Qingxue, and the atmosphere instantly became a bit suggestive.
Gao Sijin swallowed hard, trembling slightly. “Qingxue, I still have to work today. I can’t play with you.”
“I know you have to work today, which is why I’m driving you there.”
“Driving me?”
“That’s right. No time to explain, get in the car.”
The butterfly doors of the BMW i8 swung open for them, its silver-white body looking exquisitely beautiful.
However, Gao Sijin didn’t particularly want his colleagues to see him arriving at work in a luxury car. He hated showing off and instinctively feared the focused gaze of others.
“Why are you driving me? I have a shuttle bus I can take.”
“Sijin, don’t you know? We girls are extremely possessive creatures. I must let everyone in your company know that you have a girlfriend who drives a BMW i8.”
“But I don’t like doing that. Besides, we aren’t officially dating. Didn’t I say? If you still have feelings for me after you graduate from university, then come find me…”
“Why are you being so long-winded? Either you sit in my car, or you lie in it.”
Yu Qingxue stretched her joints, striking a combat pose.
At the thought of how her Joint Locks had once left him in agony, Gao Sijin had no choice but to yield.
“I don’t want others to see…”
“Do you have a girl you like at the company and you’re afraid she’ll see?”
“No.”
“Afraid of being seen by a boy you like?”
“My sexual orientation is normal.”
“Tsk.”
“Why do you look disappointed? Do you want me to be gay?”
“Wouldn’t turning a gay man straight highlight my charm even more?”
She pulled an insulated lunch box from the back seat.
“What’s this?”
“It’s for you. You didn’t eat breakfast, right?”
“How did you know I didn’t eat breakfast?”
“A character in your webnovel has a habit of skipping breakfast because he has to rush to work every morning, so I guessed you were just like that character.” Yu Qingxue pointed to her head triumphantly and said, “This is called profiling ability.”
Opening the insulated lunch box, he saw that it wasn’t any particularly luxurious dish, but ordinary preserved egg and lean pork congee, pickles, and meat buns.
Since leaving home after graduating from high school, it had been a long time since anyone had made breakfast for Gao Sijin.
“What, do you not have an appetite?”
“No, I’m just feeling a bit emotional…”
Gao Sijin turned his head. Yu Qingxue had a casual expression, as if making breakfast for Gao Sijin was the most natural thing in the world.
“If it’s not to your taste, there’s still time. We can go eat somewhere else.”
“This is enough.”
“That’s good. I thought you looked down on my cooking.” Yu Qingxue turned on the car stereo and said to Gao Sijin, who was about to start eating, “Fasten your seatbelt.”
“It’s fastened.”
“Then let’s head to work~”
The sound of an *Initial D* track burst from the speakers.
Along with the sound of “Deja Vu,” a bad premonition suddenly rose in Gao Sijin’s heart.
Immediately following that, Yu Qingxue released the clutch like a professional racer and slammed the accelerator to the floor.
The car shot forward like an arrow from a bow. The inertia caused the hot congee in the lunch box to splash all over Gao Sijin.
“Holy crap, it’s hot!”
Hearing Gao Sijin’s cry of pain, Yu Qingxue immediately slammed on the brakes and said with an apologetic face:
“Sorry, I forgot you were eating. It’s mainly because my DNA kicked in when I heard this song.”
Gao Sijin wanted to cry, but no tears came.
He rushed upstairs to change his clothes and take a quick shower, leaving only 10 minutes before he had to be at work.
When she learned that Gao Sijin was about to be late, Yu Qingxue’s expression became excited, as if it gave her an invisible excuse to speed.
“I swear today is the last time in my life I will ever ride in your car.”
“That won’t do. Until I leave the country, I’m going to pick you up and drop you off every day. Don’t even think about escaping.”
“What grievance or enmity do I have with you…”
He took a few quick bites of the meat buns Yu Qingxue had made. They were delicious.
It was said that people who cooked well usually had kind, meticulous, focused, and caring personalities, just like Gao Sijin’s aunt.
Beneath Yu Qingxue’s boisterous exterior, perhaps there was a lovely side as well.
“Sijin, if you think the food I make is bad, you have to say it’s good. If my cooking is good, you have to say it’s very good.” Yu Qingxue asked with a smile, “How is my cooking?”
“It’s very good!” Gao Sijin said from the bottom of his heart. “Your culinary skills are on par with my aunt’s. Impressive!”
“If you like it, you can eat it every day.”
“I’ll give that some serious thought…”
Gao Sijin took a bite of the pickles. Although the taste wasn’t world-shaking, if the rest of his life tasted like this every day, it wouldn’t be bad.
They were almost at the company.
However, no matter how good Yu Qingxue’s driving skills were, she ultimately could not escape the judgment of a traffic jam.
On the partially congested street, traffic police officers were braving the wind and snow, laboriously directing traffic.
“It looks like I’m definitely going to be late today.”
“At least while we’re stuck in traffic, we can listen to music and play on our phones.”
Yu Qingxue was quite optimistic.
But Gao Sijin wasn’t nearly as open-minded.
If he was late, the one getting a pay cut wouldn’t be Yu Qingxue—it would be him.
Feeling that the air conditioning in the car was a bit stuffy, Gao Sijin wanted to open the window for some fresh air.
Running parallel to Yu Qingxue’s BMW i8 was a Honda Accord.
At the same time Gao Sijin’s face was exposed, the rear window of the Honda Accord also rolled down.
Gao Sijin saw the fair, exquisite, oval-shaped face of his beautiful colleague, Feng Xiaohe. Her beautiful eyes were wide open as she looked at Gao Sijin in disbelief, frightening him into immediately closing the window.
“What is it? You look like you’ve seen a ghost.”
Yu Qingxue asked softly.
“It’s nothing…”
After battling through the congested area for about 30 minutes, Yu Qingxue finally broke through the perimeter, with the Honda Accord following closely behind.
The two cars arrived at the company at almost the same time.
Meanwhile, inside the company.
“Is Gao Sijin late?”
Director Liu, who was a mother, made her rounds. Puffing out her slightly bloated figure, she spoke in a piercing voice.
In the entire department, she was the one with the most instances of lateness and absenteeism, yet she always used being a mother as a shield, causing anyone who pointed it out to return in defeat.
However, while she was extremely lenient with herself, she never tried to be tolerant of others—especially a hothead like Gao Sijin, who had argued with her before. She would suppress him whenever she could.
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