Under the moonlight

When Huang Meng arrived at the company, she ran into Liang Yuanyuan coming out of the archives. "Hey, what brings you here? Didn't you finish your work this morning?" Liang Yuanyuan looked at Huang Meng with some surprise.

"I'm done with work, but the boss asked me to come over this afternoon. I guess there's some other work to arrange!" Huang Meng recalled that Zhao Meng didn't seem to have told her anything about work, just asked her to come to the company in the afternoon.

Liang Yuanyuan greeted her and then went about her business. Huang Meng had nothing else to do, so she followed behind her and helped out.

"Hehe, thank you for your help~" Hearing that someone was willing to help her, Liang Yuanyuan didn't stand on ceremony and directly brought out a large stack of file boxes and put them on the table. "The documents in these boxes are all messed up. If you don't help me sort them out, then all the photocopies from before this year that don't have a bright red stamp are gone. You understand?"

"I understand, I understand, haha~" Huang Meng couldn't help but laugh at Liang Yuanyuan's funny way of speaking.

"Hey, you have a really pretty smile! I think you're the kind of beauty who gets stopped on the street and asked for your contact information!" Liang Yuanyuan said, winking at Huang Meng while busy with her work.

"Hey, no way, I'm socially awkward. If I see someone walking towards me, I can't even run away as fast as I can," Huang Meng said with a pout, making a self-deprecating remark.

"No way, I think girls like you with such good looks must be very outgoing. After all, people always treat you with some preferential treatment." Liang Yuanyuan chuckled after saying that.

She was a chubby girl since she was a child. Even now, she tries hard to control her diet, and she is only not as fat as before, but she is far from being slim. She was given nicknames by boys she disliked when she was young, and she is just an ordinary girl in other people's eyes when she grows up. Therefore, she envies those pretty girls.

Huang Meng was busy with her work, but she secretly glanced at Liang Yuanyuan and said, "Actually, I think you are very special."

"What? Me? Am I particularly fat? Haha~" Liang Yuanyuan burst into laughter after saying that.

"She is incredibly cute, but she is also very capable at work, with clear thinking and quick reflexes."

Huang Meng recalled the first time she and Li Shuo met Liang Yuanyuan. Although she was immediately attracted to Li Shuo, this "femme fatale," she remained clear-headed and did not neglect any of her work. If it hadn't been for her timely intervention, she might not be here today, and their company would have lost a great asset.

"Huh? Really? This is the first time someone has praised me like this! Thank you!" Liang Yuanyuan was overjoyed to hear Huang Meng's evaluation of her.

Looking at her round, rosy face, Huang Meng smiled happily and laughed along with her. "Hey, your boss is really lucky to have found you. Your work ability is quite different from your appearance!"

Upon hearing Huang Meng's words, Liang Yuanyuan suddenly stopped her work and said mysteriously, "Speaking of which, do you want to know how I got the job at this company?"

Seeing her feigned mystery, Huang Meng asked curiously, "How did you get the job?"

“I’ve always studied in X city. After graduating from university, I was hesitant about whether to stay in X city to find a job or come back here. So I prepared two resumes, one with the job address in X city and the other with the address here. I thought that whichever city’s HR called me first, I would give priority to that city.”

"The result?" Huang Meng's curiosity was piqued, and she asked impatiently.

"As a result, I received a call from the boss, who left a deep impression on me. We communicated entirely by phone and never even met in person. He just asked me a few questions and then hired me."

"what is the problem?"

"First, he asked me what kind of person I thought I was. I answered honestly that I'm a very straightforward person. It was my first job interview, and I hadn't had time to look up standard answers to these kinds of questions online, so I just told the truth. Then, he asked me what kind of person I was in school. I answered honestly again that I was a nobody in school, chubby and seemingly clumsy. Apart from a few close friends, I hardly interacted with anyone else. Later, I looked it up online, and all the standard answers to these kinds of questions were completely different from my own. I thought I definitely had no chance, but I actually passed." Liang Yuanyuan finished recounting her interview experience in one breath, still looking at Huang Meng with an expression of disbelief.

"Yes, indeed, it's very different," Huang Meng said leisurely. His way of doing things is still the same as before; he always does things unpredictably, and no one can understand his thoughts.

Liang Yuanyuan looked at Huang Meng and continued, "However, I later found out that I was the first person he interviewed, and also the company's first employee. The company had only been registered the day before my interview, haha. Don't you think our boss is quite bold? He's practically a first-time boss himself. Maybe he doesn't even know how to conduct an interview, haha~"

Every time Liang Yuanyuan thinks about her experience joining this company, she feels like it was just children playing house. However, she also witnessed firsthand how her boss grew from a company with only one employee and one boss to a company that is now quite large and can do business with foreign countries. He is quite a remarkable person.

Huang Meng listened to Liang Yuanyuan's account, smiled at her, and then stopped talking, focusing on organizing the documents in her hands.

There are so many things about him that I don't know. Since he transferred schools, I haven't heard from him at all. I can only get a little closer to him in my dreams, but even then, it's just an unreachable silhouette.

Huang Meng sighed, suddenly feeling inexplicably irritated. She didn't know the source of this feeling, but whenever she encountered Zhao Meng, she would unconsciously think of the past, of what had happened, and wonder if she would have been unable to let go if she had gone to the hospital and seen him. If she hadn't transferred schools, if she had stayed in X City, what would have become of her and him?

But now that she has Xu Ao, she feels that constantly reminiscing about the past is a form of infidelity, both morally and emotionally.

So when Zhao Meng called her, Huang Meng seemed to be still immersed in her own world until he approached and grabbed her wrist, which was still searching for documents.

Huang Meng raised her head, and a pair of gentle, questioning eyes fell into hers. How could she not think of the past?

This face, the face I've searched for countless times in my dreams, yet could never reach. These eyes, the eyes I've imagined countless times turning around in a crowded place to see—all of this is now truly before my eyes.

In that instant, Huang Meng only wanted to reach out and gently touch his face, as if a dream had come true. She no longer had to chase after him; finally, she could touch him.

"Um, boss, I have something to do, I'll go take care of it first!" Liang Yuanyuan saw the two of them looking at each other without saying a word, and her gossip cells immediately became active.

Holy crap! What's going on? Could it be that the handsome guy who came with her that day wasn't her boyfriend? And what's with her and the boss? The way they looked at each other, like they had so much untold suffering to tell! Oh my god! So what they wrote in novels is true! What does it mean to be heartbroken and have such intense, lingering gazes?!

Liang Yuanyuan quickly left the archives with a pile of documents and headed straight for the conference room. Unfortunately, there was no one in the office with whom she could share the gossip. She helplessly pounded her chest and stamped her feet. It turned out that having no one to confide in could really be suffocating!