Su Lingyu pulled a band-aid out of her bag—it was originally prepared for her own blistered heels.
“Thank you.”
Xia Bai accepted it with gratitude.
She hadn’t dared to stop by a pharmacy for fear of being late.
“You’re welcome.”
Yes! The female lead had finally accepted her kindness!
This barely counted as taking a small step closer to her inner goal!
“Oh, in such a good mood?”
After Xia Bai left, Qiao Feifei, who had been standing at the door for who knows how long, approached and spoke with sarcasm.
“Not bad.”
Su Lingyu shrugged and half-joked, “What, do you want a band-aid too?”
“Who wants your band-aid?”
“If you don’t want my band-aid, then you must want my concern?”
“What nonsense are you talking? Who wants your concern?”
Qiao Feifei pushed away Su Lingyu, who had leaned in, and retorted.
Su Lingyu tilted her head in feigned confusion: “Since you don’t want my concern, why did you sound so sour when you saw me caring for Xia Bai?”
“I…”
Qiao Feifei suddenly choked.
Right, what did it matter to her if Xia Bai and she were close?
They weren’t elementary school students—why be jealous just because someone was playing with others instead of her?
“Su Lingyu, did you finish the script selection I assigned you last Friday?”
Just then, Li An, who had just entered the company, spotted her and walked over to ask without even putting down his bag.
“Oh, yes, I did.”
Su Lingyu pulled the document out of her bag.
“Good.”
Li An took it and casually flipped through it.
His superiors had told him to keep a closer eye on the interns, so he had assigned her a task on short notice.
Truthfully, given Su Lingyu’s performance since joining the company, he hadn’t held out much hope.
But after examining it carefully, he was surprised to find that it was actually quite well done!
Not only was the table format neat and clear, but the strengths, weaknesses, and key points of each script were listed one by one, and the meaning was conveyed clearly at a glance—it was obvious she had put effort into it.
It seemed she wasn’t as useless as he had thought!
“Not bad.”
Li An closed the file.
“Just alright.”
Su Lingyu responded modestly.
After all, she hadn’t been reading those novels for nothing these past few days.
“You actually know how to do these things now?”
Qiao Feifei was somewhat surprised and curious.
“Well, Group Leader Li assigned it, so I had to give it a shot!”
She could be lazy usually, but since it was work, she couldn’t slack off too much.
She couldn’t afford to get fired before her internship period was over—how would she follow the plot then?
“You really seem to have changed a bit.”
Qiao Feifei stared at her and, after a long moment, came out with this remark.
“Hey, people have to grow up eventually!”
Su Lingyu patted her shoulder and returned to her seat.
Meanwhile, Li An had already arrived at Xia Bai’s workstation.
“Xia Bai, where’s the task I assigned you on Friday?”
“Right here!”
Xia Bai handed over the document she had prepared earlier.
Li An took it and, similarly, opened it on the spot. Before he could even clearly see the contents, a strange odor hit his nose.
“What’s this smell?”
“Sorry, it might be my sister—my little sister was being mischievous and ate some snacks on it.”
“Alright, I’ll look at it later.”
Li An glanced at it and quickly closed the file.
Xia Bai saw the disdain in his eyes, clenched her teeth, but said nothing more.
Little sister?
Did Xia Bai have a younger sister?
That character didn’t seem to exist in the book, did she?
Or had she really been too careless and overlooked it?
Su Lingyu propped her chin on her hand, her face full of confusion and bewilderment.
9:30 AM, the weekly Monday meeting.
Li An had already notified everyone to gather in the conference room.
“The meeting is about to start. How come you’re not even wearing your work pass?”
Xia Bai noticed Su Lingyu’s empty chest area and, remembering the band-aid she had given him earlier, hesitated for a moment before quietly reminding her.
“Ah, I forgot. Thanks for reminding me.”
Su Lingyu quickly returned to her workstation and carefully searched the area several times, but couldn’t spot that blue work pass.
“Where did I put it?”
“What are you looking for?”
Qiao Feifei, who was just putting her work pass around her neck, asked.
“My work pass.”
Su Lingyu replied without looking up.
“Didn’t you used to keep it in the drawer since you didn’t like wearing it?”
“I already checked the drawer just now. It’s not there.”
“What should we do now? The meeting is starting and you don’t have your work pass. If the supervisor sees, you’ll definitely be called out and criticized.”
“You go ahead first. I’ll keep looking.”
Reluctant to give up, Su Lingyu rummaged through the bottom drawer again, only finding an old blue strap and a slightly yellowed empty transparent sleeve – probably some former employee’s antique.
“No other choice, I’m running out of time!”
Seeing that everyone had entered the conference room, Su Lingyu had a quick wit and took out the empty work pass sleeve, randomly stuffed a piece of paper inside, and put it around her neck to make do.
“Found it?”
Qiao Feifei asked quietly when she saw Su Lingyu enter.
“Yeah.”
Su Lingyu responded casually and found a seat to sit down.
The meeting began. After conveying this month’s task targets, the department manager launched into a lengthy speech full of empty talk.
Then, the supervisors and team leaders took turns reporting their work one by one.
Some people in the audience were nearly falling asleep listening.
Su Lingyu was no exception.
Fortunately, she had brought a notebook and pen.
Holding the mentality of letting information go in one ear and out the other, she cleared her mind and randomly doodled in her notebook.
Seeing her actions, Qiao Feifei couldn’t help but curl her lips. It seemed Su Lingyu had really changed – not only was she not targeting Xia Bai anymore, but she was also taking work seriously now!
Outside the one-way glass window, Fu Yuchen and Lu Jiuyan stood watching every move inside.
Seeing both Xia Bai and Su Lingyu taking notes seriously, they suddenly thought that this batch of interns might not be so bad after all?
Had they perhaps held some incorrect biases against them before?
But when Fu Yuchen’s gaze shifted to Qiao Feifei – who was sometimes picking at her manicure, sometimes checking her phone for the time, sometimes yawning – he couldn’t help but frown deeply.
When could they finally send this bad apple back?
“…Finally, regarding the interns. Although you’re not yet formal members of our company, since you’ve joined us, you should still focus on work. If you want to become regular employees, you need to learn more, listen more, observe more, and work harder. Feel free to ask questions to those around you, including me, whenever you don’t understand something.”
In the conference room, the department manager’s gaze swept over Xia Bai sitting upright with a serious expression, Su Lingyu nodding slightly, and Qiao Feifei who was clearly spacing out.
Some people, even when you see them slacking off, you can’t say anything about it. Being a manager was really frustrating!
“Alright, that’s all for today’s meeting. Everyone, you’re dismissed.”
“Never thought you’d become so dedicated to work now.”
After leaving the meeting room, Qiao Feifei looked at the notebook in Su Lingyu’s hand.