Chapter 68 - 68 064 Bribery

68: Chapter 064 Bribery 68: Chapter 064 Bribery Li Zhaojun watched Ye Fan with a cold gaze, especially noting the damp hair on his head. “Heh heh, morning,” said Ye Fan with a forced laugh, feeling a bit guilty. “I just have a habit of taking a morning bath occasionally.” Li Zhaojun gave a cold snort, her beautiful eyes openly showing her disgust and disdain. Then, she turned her face and walked towards the dining room. “Got caught,” said Ye Fan, shrugging nonchalantly. After tidying up in his room for a bit, Ye Fan went to the dining room for breakfast. In the luxuriously decorated dining room, Li Zhaojun sat upright at the dining table, eating her breakfast with focused elegance. When Ye Fan sat down opposite her, she swallowed a mouthful of bird’s nest porridge and wiped her sensual lips with a plain white cloth, then stood up and left, leaving half a bowl of bird’s nest porridge behind. Stepping out of the main hall on the first floor and into the front courtyard of the villa, Li Zhaojun suddenly stopped, her slim back straightened. She lifted her delicate chin at a forty-five-degree angle, gazing at the misty morning sky, clenched her fists tightly for a moment, then released them and continued with her usual walk rhythm toward her Maserati President. Arriving at the office punctually, all the colleagues in the same office were already there. After fiddling around for a while, Ye Fan approached Su Meizhen’s desk with a brown paper bag in hand and said with a light smile, “Director Su, do you have a moment? I have some work-related ideas I’d like to report to you.” Su Meizhen looked up at Ye Fan, then stood up, walked away from her desk, and left the office. Following her out, Ye Fan said, “Let’s talk at the safety staircase.” With a sullen face, Su Meizhen walked down the corridor towards the safety staircase. Inside the safety staircase, Su Meizhen turned around to face Ye Fan with a somber expression, “What is it? Speak.” Ye Fan chuckled and handed her the paper bag. Su Meizhen took the bag with a puzzled hand. When she felt the outline of something through the paper at that moment, her expression changed abruptly, and her gaze became sharply focused on Ye Fan. “Hehe, take a look inside,” said Ye Fan with a light smile. Immediately, Su Meizhen opened the paper bag and saw a stack of crisp, red banknotes inside. “This is fifty thousand yuan. Freshly withdrawn from the bank, every bill is new,” Ye Fan said. Su Meizhen sealed the mouth of the bag and looked at Ye Fan, “What do you need me to do?” “The administrative department’s work is tedious, but I really dislike dealing with drudgery, so I hope you won’t assign me any menial tasks for the next year. For example, I did not enjoy typing up those forms on the computer yesterday,” Ye Fan spoke slowly and deliberately. He figured he would stay at the Emali Group for about a year. Su Meizhen frowned, “You want me not to assign you work? That’s difficult.” “Hehe, of course not,” Ye Fan replied with a light smile. “I still need to work, being completely idle is also boring. What I’m asking for is the right to choose and refuse the type of work I do.” seaʀᴄh thё Nôvelƒire.net website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality. Su Meizhen thought for a while, then looked up and said, “For one year?” “Yes, one year,” Ye Fan nodded with a smile. Su Meizhen said, “Deal.” Actually, Ye Fan joining her office was superfluous; even without his doing any work, things would still function normally. The fifty thousand yuan would be a nice supplement for household expenses. Her son was in high school and the expenditures were hefty. In fact, to secure a better seat, she even needed to give a gift to his homeroom teacher before school started. “Heh heh, thank you,” said Ye Fan with a faint smile. Fifty thousand yuan was but a trifle for him, yet it secured the pleasure of playing carefree for the next year. After Su Meizhen left with the kraft paper bag, Ye Fan sauntered out of the emergency stairwell and headed towards Lu Xiaoman’s office. He knocked on the door and a voice as sweet and clear as a oriole’s sang out from inside, “Please come in.” Pushing open the door, Ye Fan walked in, a playful grin on his face as he called out, “Sister Xiaoman, I’ve come to see you!” His gaze shifted to Lu Xiaoman’s desk and he saw her stand up, her pretty face brimming with surprise. “Ye Fan,” Lu Xiaoman called out joyfully, stepping out from behind her desk. Approaching Ye Fan, she bombarded him with questions in quick succession, “How’s the new department? Are your office colleagues easy to talk to? Did you arrive late today?” “Hehe, you’re asking so many questions at once, how can I answer them all?” Ye Fan teased with a laugh. Lu Xiaoman’s face flushed, seemingly embarrassed as she said, “Then you don’t have to answer. Hmph!” With a hint of petulance, she turned her face away, leaving Ye Fan with just half of her exquisitely beautiful profile. Ye Fan quickly offered an apologetic smile, “Don’t be mad, I’ll answer them one by one. But let’s sit down and talk, shall we?” Once they were seated face to face, Ye Fan stared at Lu Xiaoman for quite some time. Lu Xiaoman’s cheeks blushed slightly as she spoke in a shy voice, “Why are you staring at me like that?” “Hehe, I feel like you’ve become prettier since I last saw you a day ago,” Ye Fan said. “Where?” Lu Xiaoman exclaimed shyly. However, down deep, she agreed. Ever since He Jiaqiang, who harassed and pressured her, was hospitalized and Ye Fan helped her find a specialist for her mother’s breast cancer treatment, all the gloom in her heart had cleared. A good mood, better sleep, and full of anticipation for life naturally made her even more beautiful. Thinking of this, she couldn’t help feeling grateful as she looked at Ye Fan. Ye Fan then went on to answer all of the questions Lu Xiaoman had just asked him. Afterwards, they chatted for a while, then Lu Xiaoman, worried that Ye Fan staying too long would give a bad impression to his colleagues and leaders, sent him back to his own office. Ye Fan laughed and agreed, getting up to leave. However, as Ye Fan reached the door, Lu Xiaoman called out, “Ye Fan, let’s have lunch together.” Ye Fan stopped in his tracks and turned around, about to agree, when he suddenly remembered Li Zhaojun’s warning and hesitated. Seeing this, Lu Xiaoman’s smile on her pretty face faded, the brightness in her eyes dimming. This was the third time Ye Fan had declined her invitation, which gave rise to an ominous feeling in her heart. “Did I do something wrong?” She couldn’t help but wonder anxiously. Seeing the disappointment in Lu Xiaoman’s eyes, Ye Fan felt a bit choked up. He walked back to her and said, “I’ve made plans to go to KTV this Friday with my office mates. Why don’t you join us, too?” “Sure. Hehe.” Lu Xiaoman’s eyes immediately lit up again. Back at the office, Ye Fan returned the forms to Su Meizhen. Since the whole office knew Su Meizhen had delegated that task to Ye Fan, she couldn’t pass it to someone else and had to spend time doing it herself. At three o’clock in the afternoon, while Ye Fan was browsing the “That Year Those Rabbits Those Things” forum, his cell phone suddenly rang. Pulling it out, he saw it was a call from an unknown Hua Hai number. Stepping out of the office, Ye Fan saw the phone was still ringing, so he answered, “Hello, who’s this?” There was a brief silence on the phone, followed by a smooth, elegant, slightly coquettish voice, “Look at you, Ye Fan, how dare you delete Auntie Rong’s number!”