Gazing at the Rainbow

Chapter 11: Working Overtime in Such a Manner

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Inside the elevator, Qin Rongze couldn’t help but touch his chin. He pondered over these questions for a long while. “You work here too?””Which department are you from?”

However, he felt that both of these questions were lame, so it didn’t matter even if he didn’t ask.

Ever since Qin Rongze first saw this girl who bore a deep resemblance to “her” on Stadium Road, he had been intrigued. But before he could even do anything, the girl slipped away and vanished like a puff of smoke

Qin Rongze merely caught a glimpse of her, so he didn’t know where to go find her.

He never expected that in the elevator, especially in the elevator of Orlando, he would encounter this very same girl again.

What was even more unexpected was that he would yet again be ignored by her when he encountered her again.

However, this was all extremely fascinating, wasn’t it?

Due to his identity and appearance, from his childhood until now, he had encountered or come into contact with many types of women in terms of personality and appearance.

After seeing him, these women would always react in one of the two following ways: they would appear frightened, which bored him, or obsess about him, which made them seem boring.

This girl was different.

So she was at Orlando all along?

Why hadn’t he met her before?

Perhaps he should loiter around in the company more often in the future?

…

“Ding, dong!” When the elevator door opened again, it had reached the 49th floor.

Only then did Qin Rongze remember why he had hurried back to the company.

His assistant Liang Kaiwen greeted him, “The chairman and the representative of Aero Sportoa are already waiting for you in the meeting room.”

Qin Rongze nodded slightly, then took the folder from Liang Kaiwen’s hands and walked straight towards the meeting room.

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Lin Yao encountered several of Jiang Mingshu’s colleagues. They walked as they chatted and laughed, and it looked like they were preparing to go home.

“Hello!” Lin Yao smiled as she greeted them, “Getting off work?”

“Yeah.” An older woman smiled at her, then said, “If you’re looking for Xiao Jiang, she is still working overtime.”

“Yep, I’ll wait for her to get off.”

After Lin Yao waved goodbye to them, she walked to Jiang Mingshu’s place.

Lin Yao didn’t know how many employees were at the Orlando Group, but she knew that there were probably more than 100 people on the 23rd floor.

This floor had two sample rooms with clothing that were of different styles but equally gorgeous, and they were all original clothing samples provided by European and American designers. There were also several meeting rooms of varying sizes in order to suit different needs…

More than a hundred people were concentrated into the large office. Since there were many people, naturally, there were many phone calls as well, even into the night.

It was already time to get off work, yet more than half of the people were still here working overtime. Many people nodded to her after noticing Lin Yao’s presence. Lin Yao also smiled and greeted them.

Lin Yao couldn’t help but fawn over how the elites who worked for Orlando were indeed elites. These elites were not only well mannered, but they were also well-dressed, and they all appeared very attractive, regardless of age or gender!

However, Jiang Mingshu looked a little different from them.

For example, she wore smokey eye makeup, a hedgehog hairstyle, distressed ripped jeans, and jackets with various strange logos on them. Her style definitely made her seem out of place at Orlando.

But since she won the genetic lottery, no matter how she rebelled with her style, she didn’t appear ugly in the slightest. She was truly beautiful.

Lin Yao knew that as a friend of Jiang Mingshu, she was also probably a weirdo in the eyes of others.

Jiang Mingshu saw Lin Yao coming from afar, but she didn’t even lift her head, as if to tell her, “I’m busy, don’t bother me.”

This is a bit awkward…

If Lin Yao knew that Jiang Mingshu was this busy, then she would definitely wouldn’t have come, but since she was already here, she at least had to say hello to Jiang Mingshu before she left.

When Lin Yao walked over to check up on her, she couldn’t help but be caught off guard.

On Jiang Mingshu’s computer screen, the new drama, starring Takashi Kashiwabara, was at its climax, where the male lead and female lead had a misunderstanding between them.

This was what she called “overtime”?

Lin Yao had already seen how other people worked overtime when she was at the Tianfeng Company. So it wasn’t difficult for her to understand why Jiang Mingshu was working overtime like this.

Jiang Mingshu entered Orlando Apparel purely due to chance. In large companies, it was normal for seniority to be prioritized.

Since Jiang Mingshu’s seniors were still “working overtime,” how could she not have a reason to work overtime as well?

If she went home early every day, after a while, what would the seniors start to say about her? What would the supervisors think about her? Would there be any promotions, salary increases or year-end bonuses in the future?

Besides, an employee that ran home every day compared to an employee that was willing to stay and work overtime every day after work—which employee would be appreciated more in the eyes of a boss?

The answer was obvious!

After all, Lin Yao was fired by the uninfluential Tianfeng company not long ago, but Jiang Mingshu was able to successfully gain a foothold in Orlando Apparel, so this already explained everything.

This type of feeling was a bit strange…

It was obviously inappropriate for Lin Yao, a random person from outside, to loiter around in other people’s offices, so she stood by the window and pretended to be enjoying the night view of Hangzhou.

It didn’t take long for Lin Yao to start struggling to keep her eyes open, so she found a chair beside Jiang Mingshu’s desk and took a nap.

As for Jiang Mingshu, she was still concentrating on the soundless soap drama.

In her half-asleep, half-awake state, Lin Yao heard Jiang Mingshu say, “After I finish sending these two emails, we can go!”

Lin Yao drowsily raised her head to discover that Jiang Mingshu had turned off the TV show and was seriously writing emails.

She finally understood that Jiang Mingshu was indeed working overtime. The two emails could be finished within ten minutes, yet she worked overtime for nearly five hours because she waited until the people in the office were almost gone before starting to get to business.

This sort of “overtime” working method wasn’t devised by Jiang Mingshu, nor was she the only one who used it!

At 22:05, Jiang Mingshu shut down her computer and was about to leave, but Lin Yao discovered that they weren’t even the last ones to leave!

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Under the streetlamp, Jiang Mingshu held Lin Yao’s arm and asked enthusiastically, “Spill it, what are we going to do today?”

Lin Yao was a little dispirited. “What can we do at such an hour?”

Jiang Mingshu stared at her like she was an alien. “Please, it’s only ten o’clock now, so the nightlife has only just begun!”

Lin Yao yawned. “But I’m so sleepy, so I should go home and go to bed.”

Jiang Mingshu clamored, “God, who sleeps as early as you do? Isn’t your life a little too boring?”

Lin Yao felt very offended, but she also didn’t think that what Jiang Mingshu said was wrong. It was true that her life was boring.

Jiang Mingshu tried to coax her, “Let me tell you, there is a super interesting Hangzhou forum, and they organize different *** activities every day. By the way, do you know what *** is?”

Of course Lin Yao didn’t know, and she didn’t want to find out for the moment.

Jiang Mingshu still continued to ramble, “Let me tell you, our single men and women section is the most interesting part of the entire Hangzhou Forum… The most important thing is that there are many handsome guys and beautiful women on here. For example… let me tell you, my master is so extraordinarily handsome!”

If obsessing over physical beauty was a disease, then no doubt Lin Yao would be a severely ill patient, and Jiang Mingshu would be a terminally ill patient beyond saving.

After all, handsome men like the Hong Kong star, Bai Gu, and Hollywood’s Leonardo DiCaprio were merely considered okay in her eyes!

Lin Yao couldn’t imagine how handsome this master must be for Jiang Mingshu to actually deem him handsome.