A few days later.
While Li You was working that day, he suddenly received a friend request on WeChat. When he opened it, he saw that the profile picture was of a woman in a manga style. Li You was a seasoned anime fan, but he couldn't remember which anime featured this character. He guessed that it was a photo of a real person turned into a manga style. The message she sent read: "Hello, I'm a friend of Lu Yunhan."
Unfortunately, this anime-style avatar doesn't really reveal how good-looking the person is.
Li You was a little incredulous. He had thought it was just a joke, but he never expected that Yunhan would actually introduce him to a potential partner.
After Li accepted the friend request, the other party immediately sent a message: "Hello, my name is Tan Xiaorui, what's your name?"
"Hello, my name is Li You."
"You know why I'm here, right?"
"Since Sister Yunhan introduced you to me, I should know about it."
"You call her 'sister'? How old are you?"
"twenty two!"
"Just graduated?!" The other person seemed quite surprised by Li's age.
"Yes! I just graduated. Yunhan is two years older than me, so you two were classmates?"
"That's right, I'm two years older than you! Can you accept that?"
"It depends on whether you get along well."
"Don't give me that, you just want to know what I look like!"
Li You felt a little embarrassed that the other person had guessed his thoughts. He didn't know what to say for a moment, and he also became a little wary of the woman named Tan Xiaorui, who was currently dominating their conversation.
Before Li You could reply, the other party immediately sent a coordinate address: "are you far from here?" Li You looked at the address, "Starry Night Coffee," located in the CBD of the city center, while Li You and Chen Yanfei's small company was in the suburbs: "It's not close at all, it takes about an hour and a half by subway." Li You answered truthfully, specifically mentioning the subway, also to tell the other party that he did not have a car, and if they minded, they could stop communicating.
"Alright, the subway goes directly to the CBD. Come over now, and let me know when you get off, then I'll come downstairs!"
"I'm a bit busy right now, can we do it another time?" Li You looked at the string of text he typed on his phone, hesitated for a while, then deleted and re-edited it: "Okay, I'm on my way now."
After sending the message, Li You put on his coat, stood up, and went to Chen Yanfei's office. He knocked on the door ."Come in!" As Chen Yanfei's voice fell, Li You pushed the door open and entered, then told him what happened. "Old Chen, I didn't expect Sister Han to actually introduce me to someone. She's added me on WeChat now, and she really does work in the CBD. She's asking me to come over to meet her!"
"Really? Do you have photos? Let me see!" Chen Yanfei also seemed particularly excited.
Li You then realized he hadn't checked her WeChat Moments yet, but when he clicked on it, he only saw "Friends only show Moments from the last three days." He then shook his phone to show Chen Yanfei.
"Then why don't you hurry up and go? What are you arguing about?" Chen Yanfei urged.
"Okay, then I'll head out now. I might not be able to get back this afternoon, so I'll come back tonight to catch up on the progress." Li You said, already walking out of Chen Yanfei's office and heading towards the company gate.
Chen Yanfei poked his head out of the office and said to Li You's retreating figure, "You're the boss yourself! You don't need to tell me about things like whether you come or not. We won't be paralyzed if you're not here for half a day or a day."
Li You raised the hand holding the phone, waved it at Chen Yanfei, and then disappeared from his sight.
Chen Yanfei suddenly remembered something, quickly ran to the company entrance, and shouted at Li You's back in the corridor, "You don't need to come back tonight. Have a good date and try to find a girlfriend soon." After saying that, Li You's figure disappeared around the corner at the end of the corridor. Although there was no reply from him, he must have heard it.
Chen Yanfei turned around to go back to his office, but as soon as he turned around, he saw the six employees, four men and two women, who all stood up and looked at him. They pointed to Li You's workstation, as if to say, "Going on a date?"
"Go away, don't ask such nonsense!" Chen Yanfei's amused expression already told them the answer.
One of the girls said coquettishly, "President Chen, since President Li has gone on a date, can we also take the afternoon off to celebrate President Li having a girlfriend?"
After he finished speaking, the other five people immediately looked at Chen Yanfei with expectant eyes.
"What do you mean him having a girlfriend? It's not even close to happening yet!" Chen Yanfei said, just about to lift his foot, when he heard: "Please, Mr. Chen!"
"Please, Mr. Chen!"
"President Li has been working so hard with us, day and night to meet deadlines. We need to relax a bit, it's for better work later on, right, President Chen?" the girl who started said coquettishly.