The entire group exploded.
“Chasing a girl? No way.”
“Didn’t the boss say he’s been working hard to break through a technical bottleneck lately?”
“Oh, give me a break.” Liang Ming chuckled. “Working hard? When was the last time any of you even saw him in the lab? He’s been off chasing a girl!”
The moment he put it that way, everyone’s eyes lit up.
“What kind of girl is she? Is she pretty?”
“Idiot! The boss has practically been living at that café lately. He hasn’t even come to the lab. She has to be a girl from the café!”
“I bet the girl wanted to come to the hot springs, so the boss brought all of us along. Otherwise, with his brain, would he ever think of such a great team building activity?”
Everyone turned toward Li Yi in perfect unison.
Those looks, those expressions.
Those knowing smiles.
“Ohhhhhhh!”
Li Yi: “…”
But he couldn’t even argue.
The only reason he had chosen the hot spring resort for their team building outing was because of the message Yu Wan had sent him before.
【Yu Wan: My greatest hobby is lying around doing absolutely nothing.】
If Yu Wan liked it, then that was where he would take her.
Just then, a voice came from the entrance to the lounge.
“Li Yi?”
Everyone turned around simultaneously.
Yu Wan was standing at the entrance.
She had just finished showering, and her hair was still slightly damp, hanging loosely over her shoulders.
Her fair, delicate face seemed almost luminous beneath the soft lighting.
She was wearing the same casual lounge clothes as everyone else, yet somehow, on her, no one could look away.
Silence, a deathly silence.
More than a dozen pairs of eyes stared at Yu Wan.
Li Yi could hear his own heartbeat.
Thump! Thump! Thump!
Each beat was louder than the last.
“Boss.” Beside him, Liang Ming lowered his voice. “You’re drooling.”
Li Yi snapped back to reality and instinctively wiped the corner of his mouth.
There was nothing there.
He turned to glare at Liang Ming, only to find him doubled over with laughter.
Meanwhile, Yu Wan grew increasingly uncomfortable under everyone’s gaze and unconsciously took half a step backward.
“Um… am I interrupting something?”
“No, no, no!”
Chen Siwei was the first to react. He shot to his feet, his face instantly breaking into a broad smile.
“And you are…?”
“I’m Yu Wan, the manager of the café.” She nodded politely. “Li Yi said there was a team building event today and invited me to join.”
The moment the words “manager of the café” left her mouth, everyone’s eyes immediately shifted back to Li Yi.
Those looks, those expressions.
That collective, enlightened “Ohhhh…”
Everything was understood without a single word needing to be said.
Li Yi: “…”
“Sister Yu Wan, come on! Sit over here!”
Having laughed his fill, Liang Ming immediately gave up the beanbag chair beside Li Yi with remarkable enthusiasm.
Yu Wan wasn’t very good at refusing people.
So she could only walk over carefully and sit down beside Li Yi.
Everyone here was simply too welcoming.
So welcoming that it made Yu Wan feel rather restrained.
“We can’t just sit here doing nothing,” someone suggested. “Why don’t we play something?”
“What about mahjong?” another person proposed.
Liang Ming immediately smacked the back of that person’s head.
“Are you an idiot? Why would we play mahjong?”
He glanced at Yu Wan, then at Li Yi beside her, his smile becoming even more meaningful.
“Truth or Dare, of course!”
Yu Wan: “…”
…Wasn’t this just a little too obvious?
The group of more than ten people quickly gathered into a circle, placing a bottle of Evian water in the middle.
“There are too many of us, so let’s keep it simple. Whoever the bottle points to goes!” Liang Ming proposed.
Yu Wan looked at the bottle, then at the burning curiosity in everyone’s eyes, and suddenly had a very bad feeling.
…This was a classic case of pretending to dance with Xiang Zhuang while the real target was Liu Bang.
She secretly glanced at Li Yi beside her.
Li Yi, however, appeared completely calm. Sitting cross-legged on the beanbag chair, he looked as though he couldn’t care less what game they played.
But his thoughts gave him away.
【System, do you think Truth or Dare will work?】
【Host, based on my analysis, this is an excellent opportunity to bring the two of you closer together.】
【Then what should I ask later?】
【You could ask questions that help you learn about her preferences. For example, what kind of man she likes.】
【Wouldn’t that be too obvious?】
【…Host, do you really think you haven’t already been obvious enough?】