Michael’s office was previously used for other purposes, so the soundproofing wasn’t all that great. For that reason, everyone heard our conversation. They most likely heard him hauling me over the coals loud and clear earlier.

I returned to my table morosely, still saddened by his attitude earlier.

 

“Are you okay, Anna?” Millie inquired in concern from across me upon seeing my despondency.

Sniffling, I feigned a nonchalant expression to mask the sorrow within me.

“I’m fine.”

 

I flashed Millie a forced smile, but even I myself found it utterly unconvincing.

“Gosh, Mr. Shaw was really blowing things out of proportion! It was just a design proposal, no? Was it really necessary for him to blow a gasket?” Millie muttered after stealing a glance at Michael’s office.

“Alright, that’s enough. You’d better hurry up with your work if you’ve got time to grumble. Otherwise, you might be the next unlucky person.”

 

While I no longer had anything to do with Michael, I was still perturbed to hear her speaking ill of him.

At my reminder, fear seemingly struck Millie. She hastily buried her head in work and dared not say a single word further.

 

I was simply hard-pressed to come up with any design proposal. I had to submit the new design proposal to Michael before the end of the workday, yet I was at sixes

spent the entire day zoning out in front of the computer, my thoughts a thousand miles

blink of an eye, evening fell, and it was about time to get off work. All my colleagues had already started packing up, but my computer screen was still blank. I hadn’t written

off work now. Let’s leave

up her table, she invited me to get off work with

I’ve got to stay for a bit since I’m

in the office now, so I

felt particularly agonizing when it came from Michael. Thus, I decided to stay and work overtime to avoid angering him again when I came

on my work. In the next two hours, I sat

I was finally done with the new design proposal, I printed it out. Then, I walked over to Michael’s office and knocked

“Come in.”

inside. Upon hearing

perusing documents. His serious expression as he worked was particularly beguiling. Indeed, the saying that men were most attractive when they were at work

“What is it?”

staring at him. Only when he looked up at me did I swiftly

is the new design proposal I did today. Please have a look at

my wits about me, I hastily placed the document

before picking up the document and scanning through

“Redo!”

only crude and concise word from Michael, cutting straight

already amended it

my brains the entire day for this design proposal! Besides, I’ve also made the appropriate

Joyful Success are

soon as his words fell, my eyes instantly filled with tears. By then, I could already tell that he was deliberately making life difficult for me. I initially thought we could have an amicable parting, but I never expected him

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