What To Do When The Boss Takes A Liking To You chapter 10

 Ivan?

Not long after Xu Le returned to his workstation, Cao Xinyi and the others crowded around him.

“Lele, what did President Lan talk to you about just now? I’ve never seen him call someone to his office before!” Cao Xinyi asked curiously.

Xu Le first glanced cautiously at the tightly closed door of the CEO’s office, then heaved a sigh of relief.

He gave a somewhat embarrassed smile. “Uh, President Lan didn’t ask anything specific. Maybe… maybe because I’m new and inexperienced, he was just cornered.”

“It seems that President Lan really appreciates you. There are other interns in our company, but it seems like he only remembers you!” Jiang Wan said with a smile.

Cao Xinyi grinned and said, “I think so too. Maybe you’ll be able to become a regular employee in less than three months.”

“Really?” Xu Le’s dark eyes instantly brightened even more, his face showing a hopeful expression.

Cao Xinyi liked seeing him in this cute puppy-like state and couldn’t help but reach out and pat his head. “Hmm, If you perform well, it’s very possible to be converted to a regular employee ahead of time.”

Feeling even happier at the words, Xu Le’s expression turned even brighter, but—

Thinking of the scene in the office just now, he couldn’t help but furrow his brows in confusion.

“What’s wrong? Did President Lan say something else?” Jiang Wan, with her keen observation, noticed his slight change in expression and asked softly.

“It’s just—” Xu Le hesitated, wanting to ask something but not knowing where to start. Should he mention how President Lan had strangely smiled at him earlier in the office?

Although that smile was indeed very nice…

He gave up and stammered, “No, it’s nothing.”

Jiang Wan spoke gently, “It’s okay, don’t worry. Whatever President Lan said, as long as you do your job well, you’ll definitely pass the probationary period smoothly.”

Xu Le nodded, “Hmm!”

After a fulfilling day at work, when he returned to his apartment, he instinctively went to find the stray cat.

For the convenience of feeding it, Xu Le had stuffed a piece of ham sausage into his sports bag before going to work.

“Little kitty, where are you?”

He searched around the flowerbed and found the cat sleeping with its eyes closed in a corner.

Hearing the familiar voice, the cat woke up instantly, meowed at him a few times, and then crawled out of the flowerbed, its collar bell jingling.

Different from the usual affectionate orange cats, this cat was very proud and didn’t pay much attention to Xu Le, just focused on eating.

It was very quiet and didn’t like being petted much. But after it finished eating, it would “graciously” allow Xu Le to touch it a little, though it quickly retreated and curled back into a ball.

Xu Le stroked the cat while it ate, then noticed that the cat’s pupils were also blue.

He couldn’t help but squint and smile, “You, who don’t like people, also have blue eyes. Why do you look a bit like my boss?”

“Meow~”

Getting annoyed by his touches, the cat shook its plump butt, scratched Xu Le lightly with its claws, then went back to curling up in the flowerbed.

Xu Le touched his nose. He was naturally close to cats and dogs, but who knew he would encounter a little prickly one. “Forget it, I won’t argue with you. After all, you’re my little lucky cat. I’ll get going, see you tomorrow!”

He stood up, feeling great, and humming a tune, he walked into the apartment building.

At night, after finishing his hygiene routine, he continued to edit videos.

As he was editing, the computer suddenly froze. For someone who worked in post-production, this was undoubtedly frustrating. Seeing that the computer didn’t respond for a long time, Xu Le simply restarted the editing software.

While waiting, he idly opened the A station app on his phone to check for recent comment notifications.

Many fans urged him to live stream under his old videos, and there were also businesses messaging him privately about whether he would accept advertisements.

Xu Le clicked on the latest video. There was a comment asking if he would offer benefits if his fans exceeded five hundred thousand. Under this comment, there were many follow-up comments.

Curiously, he opened the nested comments. There were suggestions for him to do mukbang, to hold a lottery, and even one asking him to dress up as a maid and dance to a popular girl group’s song…

The first few suggestions were normal, but the idea of dancing to a girl group’s song made his mouth twitch. Yet strangely, this comment had an unusually high number of likes. Did netizens really have no limits?

As he was about to focus on his computer project, Xu Le suddenly, almost instinctively, remembered someone named “Ivan”.

That wealthy newcomer who had tipped him over twenty thousand.

He found the person’s ID through the tipping history. Upon clicking, he found that the profile picture was still the default one, and the IP address was still from the coastal city, but the number of followers had decreased to two.

Curiously, he clicked on it. Besides himself, the other follower was the official account of a website.

Xu Le: “?”

Did this person really only follow him?!

He noticed that among the videos this person had liked, one was from his freshman year. The content was somewhat embarrassing, featuring him wearing a straight bangs wig, blinking and acting coy at the camera, with added cat ear effects.

Xu Le: “…”

Damn it, he should have deleted it earlier!

Back when he was young and clueless, he wanted to give his fans some benefits when his fan count just exceeded ten thousand. As a result, the highest liked comment was a challenge to cross-dress and act coy. Xu Le couldn’t resist his fans’ persistence, so he had to wear a wig and make videos to meet their demands.

This video was released several years ago. It was unbelievable that this “Ivan” had found it. This person must have a lot of patience to even specifically like it?

Xu Le: “…”

Forget it, let’s not bother with these annoying things!

What cross-dressing and acting coy, what maid outfit dancing to a girl group’s song, these were all way beyond his capacity as a straight guy!

However, just as he was about to refocus on editing, his phone’s WeChat suddenly lit up with a notification.

It was a new friend request.

He clicked on it, and the profile picture was slightly blurry, appearing to be a strange Western handsome boy, with deep features and cold white skin, his expression somewhat indifferent, wearing a uniform resembling Western campus attire.

Seemingly familiar…

But Xu Le didn’t dwell on it. Perhaps this Western handsome boy was a screenshot from some European or American drama. He surfs the net a lot; maybe he came across this handsome boy’s picture somewhere.

He glanced at the person’s WeChat name.

“i,v,a,n? How do you read this, Ivan?” Searching his mind, Xu Le didn’t know anyone around him with this English name.

He straightforwardly declined and replied with a message, “Sorry, I don’t talk to strangers.”

Without specifying identity or origin, just adding people, who knows where they got his number from? And using this kind of handsome boy picture as an avatar, who knows if the person is a telecommunications fraudster?

Xu Le didn’t dwell on this matter and continued to edit the video.

Not long after he started editing, his phone suddenly vibrated with a message alert. He opened his phone, it was still the same person’s WeChat request.

Xu Le felt a bit impatient. He had already declined, why did this person still want to add him? This scammer was really persistent!

He was about to block this person directly, but then he saw that this time there was a note from the person.

He looked closely and almost dropped his phone.

“I am Lan Qing.”

Just four words made Xu Le feel stunned for a long time.

Damn… The person he just declined was actually a friend request from President Lan!?