The Company Dinner Party

Unable to give Enrico a reasonable explanation, Ji En had to return empty-handed. And Xiao Yu, who understood the situation, could barely hold back his laughter. Having worked with Ji En for so long, this was the first time he had seen Ji En so depressed. So in Enrico's office, he had a hard time suppressing his laughter and almost suffered internal injuries.

Ji Aier returned to her office and let out a sigh of relief. Fortunately, she had run fast just now. Otherwise, she didn't know what strange things Ji En would do.

"Ai'er, what happened to you just now?"

Wu Yaqi turned to Ji Aier and asked when she saw her return to her seat.

"Nothing," Ji Aier batted her eyes, pretending that nothing had happened.

"Your action just now was really strange. You looked like you saw a ghost when you saw the president," Wu Yaqi whispered the last part.

"Did I?" Ji Aier looked at the ceiling with an innocent expression.

"Don't do that again. It won't be good if the president gets the wrong idea," Wu Yaqi reminded her.

"I'll follow your advice for sure," Ji Aier said with a smile.

"The president is treating us to dinner tonight. Let's go together after work later," Wu Yaqi said at last.

"Okay," Ji Aier could only agree. Otherwise, she would be the odd one out again.

During the dinner party in the evening, they had hot pot, which was the most enjoyable thing to do in winter. They watched the light snow falling outside while enjoying the warm hot pot inside.

More than a dozen people from the design department sat at two tables. Ji Aier chose what she thought was the safest seat and sat down, thinking that she could eat comfortably there.

Since the superiors hadn't arrived yet and it was just the dozen or so newbies in the private room, they chatted with each other. Somehow, the conversation turned to what had happened in the afternoon.

"Ai'er, your performance today was so funny. Were you scared when you saw the president for the first time?" Designer Yang Cheng couldn't help laughing when he thought of Ji Aier running away like a rabbit in the afternoon.

"That's right! Ai'er said the director was looking for her, but she went in the direction of the restroom. I almost burst out laughing at that time," Assistant Designer Xin Ye said and burst into laughter. She had always been an outspoken girl and was also the first girl Ji Aier met when she joined the company.

"Ai'er didn't do it on purpose," Wu Yaqi defended Ji Aier. Although Ji Aier's performance this afternoon was indeed a bit funny, it wasn't something to be made fun of.

"Was it really that ridiculous?" Ji Aier asked innocently. She just wasn't good at pretending. Her first thought at that time was to run away, so she had acted that way. She didn't expect to become the laughingstock of the design department.

"Ai'er is definitely the live wire of our design department," Yang Cheng concluded.

Just then, three superiors arrived, and everyone stopped chatting and laughing. The atmosphere suddenly became a bit stiff.

But Ji Aier would never have expected that the two empty main seats were taken by Enrico and Xiao Yu. And the empty seat next to Ji Aier was naturally for Ji En.

Ji Aier smiled awkwardly, and the expression on her face was as strange as could be. Everyone also peeked at their immediate superior sitting next to the new newbie with great interest, and the newbie's expression was so comical.

"You don't mind if I sit here, do you?" Ji En deliberately turned to ask Ji Aier.

"Of course not. Not at all," Ji Aier said, looking at Ji En, but her eyes showed that she minded very much.

Ji En smiled and said to everyone,

"Let's start eating. If we're late in the future, you can start without waiting for us."