I Revealed My True Identity After Confessing My Love - Chapter 6

When Ye Nanning returned to her seat, she touched her cheek hot.

The goddess stood up for her. Amazing!

“Are you okay?” Xu Huan asked while staring at the screen. “There was such a commotion in the printing room just now.”

“I’m fine. Director Du took care of it.”
Ye Nanning’s heart was bubbling with sweetness.

“Oh? How did she handle it?”

“Not telling you.”
Ye Nanning wanted to secretly keep it in her heart this was her little secret with Director Du.

“I know anyway. She definitely scolded that girl for you.”

Ye Nanning was surprised.

Xu Huan laughed. “She’s famous for being protective of her people.”

Ye Nanning nodded hard and silently thanked the heavens for her good luck being able to meet Director Du during her internship, and even becoming her intern. Truly incredible.

Ye Nanning felt energized like she’d been injected with chicken blood. She buried her head in the materials, working so seriously that she even ran to the bathroom.

No idea how much time passed before Xu Huan knocked on her desk. “Work’s over! Let’s go, if you don’t leave soon I’ll start getting sour.”

Ye Nanning looked up and saw that the team members still had no intention of shutting down their computers. “You guys aren’t leaving?”

“Of course we still have to work overtime. We’re miserable finance dogs,” Xu Huan said bitterly.

“Then I’ll stay a bit longer too. I still want to sort through some materials.”

“Do you have to be this competitive?” Xu Huan said. “Come on, go. It’s the rule that interns don’t work late on the first day to show our company’s humane care, haha.”

Those two “haha” were… very expressive.

Ye Nanning looked up again and saw that the other interns had all packed up and gone to wait for the elevator. She glanced back into the office. Du Xiran was still on the phone with a client. “Then I’ll stay with you guys a bit.”

“Oh my god, why am I actually a little touched?” Xu Huan said. “You are definitely the most hardworking intern I’ve ever seen. I hope you keep it up and not just pretend.”

After working another ten minutes, she suddenly heard people around her saying, “Goodbye, Director Du.” She lifted her head in surprise and saw Du Xiran walking out with her bag, swinging her work badge in hand.

“Why aren’t you going home?” Du Xiran asked as she passed by, puzzled. “Xu Huan, didn’t you tell her she doesn’t need to work overtime today?”

“I did tell her, she insisted on staying,” Xu Huan said.

Du Xiran looked at her in surprise. “So hardworking? Then if you work overtime every day from now on, wouldn’t that be perfect for you? Where else can you find such a great job?”

Ye Nanning: “……” Your mouth… really is a bit sharp.

Everyone laughed.

“Director Du, are you going to see a client or heading home?” someone asked.

“I’m going to work out. Haven’t gone in a long time. Things with the client are mostly settled already we’re just waiting on our materials,” Du Xiran said, tapping her badge lightly on Ye Nanning’s head.

Ye Nanning touched her head and looked at her, confused.

“Where do you live?”

“Near B University,” Ye Nanning answered. The apartment nearby.

“Stop working. It’s unsafe to go home alone so late. It’s on my way anyway. Come on, I’ll give you a ride.”

Ye Nanning was thrilled. She secretly pinched her thigh to stay calm and replied with a straight face, “Okay.”

“Tsk, why does this girl seem so hard to please?” Du Xiran said.

Ye Nanning quickly looked up to explain, but realized the woman was joking with the others.

“Well yeah,” Xu Huan said dramatically, “and yet the unpleasable one gets a personal escort from our benevolent Director Du. Back then I didn’t get such treatment. Truly only the new laughs, never the old cries.”

Du Xiran said, “Who told you to puke in my car? You’re banned from the passenger seat forever.”

Xu Huan: “Sob sob sob.”

Du Xiran: “Stop making those weird noises.”

Everyone burst out laughing.

“Alright, enough nonsense. Finish your work early and go home. There’s more waiting tomorrow,” Du Xiran said like a devil whispering.

Everyone: “Sob sob sob.”

She rolled her eyes. “Ye Nanning, you done packing?”

Ye Nanning found it funny but kept her straight face, picked up her bag, and said, “Mm.”

“Wow, long reaction time.”

Ye Nanning: “……” Was that another insult?

In the parking lot, she looked at the rows of tightly packed cars and felt grateful she hadn’t driven—there wouldn’t have been a space for her anyway.

“Get in,” Du Xiran said, pointing at a Mercedes.

Not the expensive kind one of the more affordable Mercedes but still not cheap for the average salary earner.

Ye Nanning pulled open the back door.

“What are you doing?” Du Xiran asked.

“Uh?” Ye Nanning pointed inside blankly. “Getting in?”

“You’re sitting in the back? You want me to be your chauffeur?”
Du Xiran opened the front passenger door. “Sit here.”

Ye Nanning sat in the precious passenger seat, heart pounding.

After getting in, Du Xiran started looking around. “Where are my tissues?”

“Here…” Ye Nanning pointed to the pack right beside her hand.

“Oh.” Du Xiran pulled out two tissues and wiped the front windshield. “Why is it so dirty? Haven’t driven in a while.”

She finished wiping and realized the stain was still there.

Ye Nanning said, “Have you considered that maybe… the outside is dirty?”

Du Xiran: “……”

When the car started moving, Du Xiran tried to cover up her embarrassment. “I wash it often, okay? I just haven’t had time because I’ve been so busy lately.”

“Mm.”

If I could drive, I wouldn’t have met you…

Ye Nanning darted her eyes around, sneaking a look at her for a moment before covering her eyes.

Du Xiran glanced over. “What’s wrong? Your eyes uncomfortable?”

Ye Nanning nodded, closing them to rest before opening them again.

“This is only the first day. You’ll have plenty of time staring at screens in the future,” Du Xiran said.

Staring at screens doesn’t drain me. Staring at you does.

At a red light, Du Xiran suddenly dug through her bag. “Crap, I forgot to buy cat food.”

Ye Nanning immediately said, “Let’s go buy some now.”

Du Xiran looked up in surprise. “You know who I’m feeding it to?”

Looking straight ahead, Ye Nanning said, “It’s cat food… so, a cat.”

Du Xiran: “……” True enough.

“You’re not in a hurry to go home, right?”

Ye Nanning shook her head she’d be happy not to go home at all. Spending the whole night sitting in a car with her sounded perfect.

“There’s a stray cat nearby that keeps clinging to me. It waits for me every day to bring food,” Du Xiran said while rambling. Then she paused, sighed with a small laugh. “Why am I telling you this?”

Ye Nanning kept looking forward. “You can talk. I like listening.”

Du Xiran couldn’t help glancing at her again and smiled helplessly. “Have you never interacted with a boss before?”

Excuse me, I have a huge huge boss at home YOU.

“You don’t have to be so tense. Relax. I don’t eat people.”

But you are dangerously attractive…

“Or are you always like this?”

For once Ye Nanning responded quickly. She nodded then worried the nod was too small, so she nodded again, harder, her upper body practically moving with it.

Du Xiran: “……”

They stopped outside a pet shop.

“I’ll be quick. Wait in the car,” Du Xiran said, rushing inside.

Ye Nanning watched her run into the store, then took out her phone and snapped a photo of her back. Her hand shook from nerves, so the picture came out blurry.

She sighed. Even the first time she saw her, she’d only gotten a blurry photo.

A month ago, after dinner at the Ye family, she was walking home and saw a stray cat that wouldn’t come near no matter how she coaxed it. Thinking it was hungry, she went to buy cat food. When she returned, she saw that proud little cat chasing after a beautiful woman.

It looked utterly humble.

The woman was busy talking on the phone while stopping to tease the cat then she smiled.

Falling in love happens in a single instant.

After that, she began passing by at different times, always hoping to run into that woman. Sometimes she did, sometimes she didn’t those times she’d feed the stray herself.

But the cat never warmed up to her. It only came out to eat after she left.

Du Xiran returned with the food. “The cat’s not far from here. Let’s go take care of him first.”

Ye Nanning of course had no objections.

Soon they saw the little stray running over, rubbing affectionately against Du Xiran’s leg.

“You little lord,” Du Xiran said while opening a can. “Oh wait no, you’re a eunuch now.”

Ye Nanning laughed quietly.

It was Du Xiran who had brought the cat for neutering, and its left ear was clipped with a small triangle to show it had already been fixed, so others wouldn’t take it for surgery again.

Watching Du Xiran play with the cat, relaxed and happy, Ye Nanning finally asked the question she’d always wondered:
“Director Du, since you like him so much, why not take him home?”

“Too troublesome. Work’s too busy. I don’t have time to take proper care of him,” Du Xiran said. “If I can’t guarantee he’ll have a better life with me, it’s better to wait until he finds a more suitable owner.”

Ye Nanning thought that made sense someone who barely had time to eat wouldn’t have the energy to raise a cat properly.

After eating, the stray cat rubbed against Du Xiran’s hand and then strutted away.

“Hey, you eunuch.” Du Xiran muttered.

Ye Nanning snickered.

Du Xiran stood up. “You look really pretty when you smile.”

Ye Nanning froze.

Thank goodness the lighting was dim otherwise her flaming red face would’ve been exposed.

“There you go again. Why the tragic face?” Du Xiran sighed, then glanced around sneakily and waved. “Come on, hurry.”

Ye Nanning followed, confused. “What’s wrong?”

“There’s a creep in this area. I ran into him yesterday. Don’t walk this way alone again.”

Ye Nanning: “……”

As expected… she had been mistaken for a creep.