Quick Travel: Destiny for Thirty Lifetimes

Lian Qingyang paused, turned around, smiled brightly, raised his hand, pointed to the elevator not far away, and replied, "I just went to the bathroom, I'll be leaving now. Besides, Manager Gu, you just came out too."

The man was standing in the backlight, and his figure was obviously taller than himself. He was definitely not the short, fat and arrogant superior. Lian Qingyang couldn't help but think of Manager Gu, the department manager who came in early and came back late and could sit in the office all day without coming out.

It is said that he is a conservative person as his name suggests. Although he is young, he is serious and never smiles. He always likes to wear a pair of black-framed glasses, always button his clothes to the top, send and receive documents by email, rarely use chat software, and even does not attend department parties. He usually comes to work earlier than anyone else and leaves later than anyone else, as if he was born for work.

The man in front of him nodded, stopped talking, turned around, walked to the elevator and pressed the button. Lian Qingyang breathed a sigh of relief and followed behind to wait for the elevator.

There was a lot of space in the elevator. After the man got in, he pressed the button for the basement floor and stood on the other side. Lian Qingyang followed suit by pressing the button for the first floor and then leaned aside without moving. For a moment, the only sounds in the air were the man's shallow breathing and Lian Qingyang's deliberately slowed breathing.

The elevator reached the first floor in a long silence. Lian Qingyang breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the door open. He glanced at the man standing aside like a sculpture, and said naturally as he walked out: "Manager Gu, I'll go down first. See you tomorrow!" He didn't forget to add a cheerful smile after saying this.

The man raised his eyes and looked at him, then said "hmm" and the elevator door slowly closed.

After walking out of the company and finding his electric scooter, Lian Qingyang inserted the key, turned it on, put on his safety helmet, hummed a song happily while feeling the wind, and his mood was as wonderful as floating in the clouds.

Until he stopped at a traffic light, his feet tapping the ground, his body still swaying to the rhythm in his mind, and suddenly he found that the man he had just parted with was sitting in a car not far away from him, with the window half open, one hand holding the steering wheel, and the other hand taking off the black-framed glasses that seemed to be embedded in his face. His face, which was not ugly to begin with, became even more resolute and handsome. From this angle, you can see the knife-like jawline, the high nose bridge and the full forehead. Is it true that the glasses sealed his good looks?

The little tune in his mind disappeared, replaced by Manager Gu's profile. Lian Qingyang stared blankly in that direction, and was about to reach into his bag to get his phone to take a picture when he heard a horn behind him. He was startled and turned the handlebars to cross the intersection, watching the distance between him and the black car widen until it disappeared around the corner.

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The next day, Lian Qingyang woke up early to meet him. His mother, who was still preparing breakfast, was a little surprised to see him. She looked up at the clock on the wall and said, "Don't you go to work at nine o'clock? Why are you up so early today?"

It takes about half an hour to ride an electric scooter from home to the company, and there is no need to worry about traffic jams. So Lian Qing usually gets up at 8 o'clock to eat and can punch out before 9 o'clock. But today he actually got up an hour early.

Lian Qingyang yawned as he sat down at the dining table. He squinted his eyes, picked up a fried egg, and stuffed it into his mouth. After swallowing a sip of milk, he spoke again, "Our department manager, Manager Gu, is truly amazing! I left late yesterday and happened to catch him getting off work. He was said to arrive at the company at 7:30 this morning. Now that I've met him, there's no guarantee he'll remember my face. What if he's secretly observing me? If I behave well, he might even see me and make me a permanent employee."

Lian's mother brought a plate of soup dumplings to the table and frowned at what she said, "How can they be the same? Your manager must be about the same age as us. They sleep less and get paid more than you, so of course they have to do more work and do their job well."

Lian Qingyang, who was drinking milk, nearly spit it out. He couldn't match the middle-aged man's appearance with the Manager Gu he saw last night, and quickly waved his hands in denial, "What?! He's not that old. He doesn't look more than 30. Anyway, he's young and promising, but he's too old-fashioned. He doesn't even use chat software much."

"Oh, you're already a manager at such a young age. You must have some strengths. You can learn more about the work from others. You won't suffer any loss."

Lian Qingyang picked up the soup dumpling and took a bite resentfully, thinking that if he could really meet him in normal times, he wouldn't have to get up so early just for a chance encounter.

I arrived at my workstation before eight o'clock. Lian Qingyang looked around and found that no one else had arrived yet. Everyone wanted to sleep in bed a little longer and brought breakfast to the company on time to eat, so as not to come early and stay in this place full of resentment for a long time, even the company employees who got off work on time were no exception.

He put his bag on the table, took out his water cup and filled it with water from the water dispenser, but his eyes glanced in the direction of Manager Gu's office. However, the manager's office had solid walls and no blinds, unlike the office of the intern's superior, which had a window through which he could observe the work situation. Therefore, he stared until his eyes were blurred, but he had no idea whether Manager Gu had come or was inside.

When everyone arrived, even Qingyang didn't see Manager Gu. Instead, that annoying superior, Manager Zhou, came around several times throughout the morning. Although he was called a manager, it was just an empty title. He was only responsible for managing a few interns. He would throw any work assigned by his superiors to the interns to do. After the interns handed in the work, he would find fault with it everywhere, complaining that they did not do it well. Everyone called him Zhou Paopi in private.

The guy who greeted Lian Qingyang yesterday was called Xia Xunyang. He was also lively, outgoing, and very sociable, a skill he usually used to pry out gossip. So, at lunch, the two of them gathered together, and Xia Xunyang shoveled his food while whispering, "I didn't go to the tea room. I heard from a sister that she saw Xiao Zhang sneaking over to Zhou Paopi's place yesterday afternoon and didn't come out for ten minutes."

Lian Qingyang chewed his food and frowned at him. He tutted and continued, "Isn't it usually Zhou Paopi who comes out to ask for documents? How could we go looking for him? And Xiao Zhang didn't take anything when he went in. How could he be here to discuss work? And," he glanced around, leaned in closer and lowered his voice, "the blinds are all closed!"

Lian Qingyang swallowed his food before speaking calmly, "I don't doubt this, I'm just a little surprised."

"What are you surprised about?" Xia Xunyang stuffed a mouthful of rice into his mouth and looked at Lian Qingyang curiously.

Lian Qingyang picked up the water cup beside him and rinsed his mouth. Then he curled his lips and said in a low voice, "I'm surprised Zhou Paopi actually lasted ten minutes?"

"Cough cough cough..."

Xiao Zhang is the intern who hooked up with Zhou Baopi and accidentally pushed Lian Qingyang to death in the plot. However, no one expected that he would devote himself to Zhou Baopi so quickly to pave the way for him.