Daddy! Come Home for Dinner!

She couldn’t help thinking to herself that Zhao Dingli really was quite good to Li Xiaoyun!

Watching Li Xiaoyun walk into the company, that relationship sure looked close enough.

As soon as Li Xiaoyun stepped through Ruishi’s main entrance, she was stopped by Liu Meiyun and Guo Miyan.

"Xiaoyun!"

Hearing her name, Li Xiaoyun turned around and saw Liu Meiyun and Guo Miyan walking toward her.

Seeing the two of them, Li Xiaoyun immediately felt a headache coming on.

But she couldn’t just ignore them.

She could only brace herself and wait for the two to walk up to her.

"Xiaoyun, we just saw it was Zhao Dingli who brought you here. So he’s not just picking you up at night, he’s sending you in the morning too," Liu Meiyun said as soon as she saw Li Xiaoyun.

Li Xiaoyun smiled and didn’t explain.

Because there was simply no way to explain it clearly anymore.

A sudden flash went through Li Xiaoyun’s mind.

As if she’d just realized something.

Only the thought flashed by too fast. Before she could catch it, it slipped away.

And besides, Liu Meiyun and Guo Miyan were right in front of her.

Even if Li Xiaoyun wanted to stop and think it through, she had no time.

But once a thought runs off like that, it’s hard to catch it again later.

Li Xiaoyun could only let it go with some regret.

But Liu Meiyun wasn’t going to let Li Xiaoyun off so easily.

"Xiaoyun, you’re not actually dating Zhao Dingli, are you?" Liu Meiyun asked.

Only, the smile on Liu Meiyun’s face looked a bit stiff.

It seemed like she was really hoping Li Xiaoyun would deny it.

But if Li Xiaoyun did deny it, Liu Meiyun would just think she was pretending and deliberately keeping it from her.

Basically, no matter how Li Xiaoyun answered, she wouldn’t be satisfied.

Li Xiaoyun didn’t know exactly what Liu Meiyun was thinking, but she knew enough about the kind of people Liu Meiyun and Guo Miyan were that she could more or less guess their thoughts.

Was she and Zhao Dingli in a romantic relationship?

Of course not.

Li Xiaoyun thought, if she admitted it now.

There were so many people in Ruishi, and there were even people nearby eavesdropping.

It probably wouldn’t even take until lunchtime for the news that she’d called herself Zhao Dingli’s girlfriend to spread all the way to Changlin and into Zhao Dingli’s ears.

But if she didn’t admit it, they obviously weren’t going to believe her anyway.

So Li Xiaoyun simply smiled and threw the question back: "What do you think?"

Liu Meiyun: "..."

What did Li Xiaoyun mean by that?

Was that considered admitting it or not?

Liu Meiyun wanted to press further, but Li Xiaoyun didn’t give her the chance and walked off directly.

"What on earth did she mean by that?" Liu Meiyun asked Guo Miyan. "Did she admit it or not?"

"What do you expect us to say?" Guo Miyan said. "To me it sounds like she admitted it. She’s just showing off to us."

That sounded quite reasonable to Liu Meiyun, and she nodded. "I think so too."

Li Xiaoyun entered the elevator.

She didn’t run into President Lin today, so she naturally didn’t go take the executives’ elevator.

The staff elevator was crowded, and when Li Xiaoyun walked in, there were already people inside.

So in the end she was squeezed into the middle.

She was surrounded by people, and Li Xiaoyun could clearly feel the gazes coming at her from all around.

But none of them were from her department, nor even from the same floor.

They usually had no contact with one another, so they were too embarrassed to be like Liu Meiyun and directly ask her.

Li Xiaoyun felt that this was already pretty good.

After finally holding out until she reached the floor where the business department was, Li Xiaoyun hurried out of the elevator.

Fortunately, since Zheng Xuelin left, the relationships in the business department had been quite good.

Besides Lin Lingli and Zhou Yunyun, who were especially close to Li Xiaoyun, Brother Chen and Sister Li, while not exactly intimate with her, were very kind.

As for Wang Honglin and Zhou Chuanwu, who had been Zheng Xuelin’s lackeys, they’d both settled down now.

Even if they couldn’t be on good terms with Li Xiaoyun, things had eased up, and they didn’t dare provoke her.

Whether it was because Zheng Xuelin had already left, or because of Zhao Dingli, or because Li Xiaoyun was about to become their superior.

Any one of those reasons was enough to make them think twice about messing with her.

So the current situation in the business department was that Zhou Yunyun and Lin Lingli had a pretty good idea about Li Xiaoyun’s relationship with Zhao Dingli.

Even if Li Xiaoyun hadn’t admitted anything yet, they felt it was only a matter of time.

Even if they weren’t officially dating yet, they were at least in the ambiguous stage.

At a time like this, it made sense that Li Xiaoyun didn’t want to admit anything.

Anyone else in her shoes wouldn’t easily admit it either.

Brother Chen and Sister Li couldn’t be bothered to gossip, and since they were in the same department, they didn’t feel comfortable being as nosy as Liu Meiyun and the others.

And as for Zhou Chuanwu and Wang Honglin, they simply didn’t dare ask.

Right now, Li Xiaoyun was probably the most at ease in terms of atmosphere in the business department.

"Xiaoyun, come to my office for a moment," Manager Tang said as she walked in.

Li Xiaoyun quickly put down her bag and went into Manager Tang’s office.

Manager Tang was smiling easily and pointed to the chair across from her desk. "Sit."

Li Xiaoyun sat down, knowing this had to be good news.

At least, it wasn’t bad news.

"I wanted to let you know that it’s been decided—you’ll be taking over my position," Manager Tang said with a smile.

"You’ll officially start on the first of next month," Manager Tang added.

Although Li Xiaoyun had more or less expected this.

It wasn’t until she actually heard Manager Tang confirm it that she finally felt fully at ease.

"Do a good job," Manager Tang said with a smile.

"Thank you, Manager," Li Xiaoyun replied, smiling.

Leaving the office, the first person Li Xiaoyun thought of sharing this with was Zhao Dingli.

When she got back to her seat and took out her phone to send Zhao Dingli a WeChat message, she suddenly realized something.

In the past, whenever something made her happy and she wanted to share it, the first person she thought of was Ye Fei, then her parents.

It wasn’t that she wasn’t close to her parents.

It was just that there were some things her parents might not understand very well and would take more effort to explain.

After sharing with them, she’d have to spend time explaining why it was something to be happy about.

By the time she finished explaining, that initial burst of joy would be gone.

So usually, Li Xiaoyun would share with Ye Fei first, then tell her parents later when she had plenty of time to patiently explain.

Sometimes she would go home that night, and talk to her parents about it over dinner.

But during the workday, she’d tell Ye Fei first.

And now, the first person she thought of telling was actually Zhao Dingli.

Ye Fei had been bumped down the list.

The fingers Li Xiaoyun had poised over the screen hesitated for a moment.

After thinking it over, she still sent Zhao Dingli a WeChat message: "Manager Tang just told me it’s been confirmed I’ll be taking over her manager position."

Right then, Zhao Dingli had just parked his car in the parking spot.

He picked up the thermos, looked it over several times in high spirits.

Hearing the WeChat notification, he picked up his phone to check.

He didn’t have many contacts on WeChat; everyone he added was important.