Professor Lu

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"Speak Fast! What do you want? I am very busy person unlike someone who refused to help. Hurry up! My wife is waiting."

God! Professor Lu! Can't he at least have shame? Does he even know that people around them are already looking at them with questioning gaze? It's her bad to talk to him. To expect Mr. Lu with modesty and considerate is like waiting the sun to turn black.

"How many classes are you behind?"

"Are you going to help me?"

If she wasn't going to help him, why would she be sitting here? As if she had enough time of the world.

"Aiyo! Our Miss Yu is very helpful. "

"Didn't you say you are very busy? Just list down the classes and I will attend them."

This man changes his faces faster than the chameleon changing its skin color.

"No hurry, No hurry. Let's talk slowly about the lessons. Today Teacher will give you full coarse meal as t thank you. Tell me Miss Yu, what would you like to eat? But you should have the most expensive meal, most expensive drink."

And then he ordered the most expensive meal on that restaurant.

God! Who will be able to eat that much? Did he think she was the starving beggar that hadn't seen the meal for a month?

"It's all on me, Miss Yu. Don't hesitate to dig in." He said while digging his chopsticks in the noodles.

"Stop calling Miss Yu, It's uncomfortable."

"Don't bother, don't bother. Today brother will you give you highest respect.

"It's not respectful. It feels like talking to Stranger." She gulped down the bowl of soup.

"If you had behave properly with your coworkers they would have help you but brother Lu you go around flaunting that stinky behavior of yours."

"Little Yu, it's not like that. You should be wary of your surroundings. You should never trust your coworkers. Interact with them normally. Neither as friend nor as enemy. When I and my friend first came to work here, we use to think everyone here was very warm and helpful. But their talks were like the crocodile tears. Not after working here for few months they showed their true colors. They bulled my friend one buy one. First they made them do lot of errands for them saying they are coworkers later they made him guilty of the things he never done. And finally he left that job. You should always stay on guard."

"And what about you?"

"From the start I was very intelligent so I didn't fall into their traps. So you should be filial towards me for protecting you." He said as a matter of fact.

Workplace was like that everyone tries to present they work hard but behind the scenes there is ongoing foul play. Bullying new workers are very common. Making them do overtime work and making them willing to be guilty of the mistake they have never done.

It was like the animal kingdom thriving to be no. 1 without any regard of shame and consciousness.

Thinking about this in her early days of her work, she was fully prepared to face such difficulties but she didn't get any. Once there was three co-workers who had asked her to help in their work but it wasn't related to any college works. They were for like delivering packages, helping to check the items online like that but those thrice times Professor Lu told them off. She didn't want to reject since she didn't want to have bad relations in future.

She was really thankful to Professor Lu at that time.

Then after he declared everyone in office she was his sister, no body dared to approach her in work related matters.

Their behavior towards her were lukewarm. They only spoke to her if they needed to or for the sake of their work purposes.

"Living in 'C' city coming from small place 'A' is very difficult. So we should have each other back." He advised gnawing the meat.

She also used to think that same way when going to the new places the people from the same city should help each other after all when the people in the big city will bully them there will at least be some support.

But at that time maybe she was the only one that thought that way, He...

May be he never considered them to be from same place after all he wasn't.

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