The Different Stages of Life

Since Bai Yuyou had put it that way, Kou Kou went over to say hello as well.

“Hey, handsome.” She happened to see the team leader, Ted, walking in, so she raised a hand to greet him.

Ted was carrying breakfast from McDonald’s. When he saw Kou Kou waving at him, he froze for a moment. Then he noticed the two girls standing beside her and grew inexplicably nervous.

What was going on?

Had he been reported for performing too poorly yesterday?

A million possibilities flashed through Ted’s mind. As far as he could remember, he hadn’t made the two young ladies do anything yesterday. He hadn’t even dared ask them to pour him a glass of water, merely telling them to play on their phones.

Could it be…

That having them sit there doing nothing had been too awkward, making them feel as though they weren’t actually working, so they had complained to that man?

Ted’s heart gave a violent thump.

I’m doomed!

If he caught the eye of the living King of Hell, his days ahead would definitely be miserable.

In reality, Ted was overthinking things. Ye Shuang’s reputation was simply more frightening than the man himself. As long as Ted hadn’t done anything wrong, Ye Shuang naturally wouldn’t do anything to him.

While Ted was nervously working himself into a panic, Kou Kou came over to him.

“Huh? Ted, why are you just standing there?”

“Ah… Sis Koko, what can I do for you?”

“It’s like this. I hope you can treat the two of them the same way you would treat regular interns.” Kou Kou briefly explained the situation. “Normal treatment, understand?”

Ted lowered his voice. “How normal?”

Kou Kou: “…”

“Treat them like ordinary interns.” Kou Kou noticed how cautious Ted was being.

“Really? I can do that? I won’t get…”

“Of course, but you need to find the right balance.” Kou Kou smiled. “Just don’t be too harsh. That’s what the boss wants, anyway. They need some experience.”

After that, Kou Kou said goodbye to Bai Yuyou and the others before leaving.

“Find the right balance… How is that any different from a recipe saying to add seasoning ‘to taste’? Who knows how much that means?” Ted muttered helplessly. Still, he understood that having Bai Yuyou and Tang Keke do absolutely nothing, as they had the previous day, probably wouldn’t work.

“Hmm…” Ted thought for a moment, then glanced at the mountain of work piled up in front of him.

Before long, Bai Yuyou and Keke saw their team leader walking toward them.

“Um… Can you read résumés? I have some here that need to be screened.” Ted was holding a thick stack of documents. “The job isn’t difficult. It should be fairly easy to get started.”

Bai Yuyou and Tang Keke looked at the large stack of résumés in front of them, both somewhat surprised.

Bai Yuyou was surprised that there were so many résumés, while Tang Keke was surprised that an intern like herself was actually qualified to screen other people’s résumés.

When Ted saw that neither Bai Yuyou nor Tang Keke reacted, he began to feel uneasy.

Was this too difficult?

Should he start them off by having them run errands and deliver documents?

Or perhaps make photocopies first?

While Ted was lost in thought, Bai Yuyou reached out and took the résumés from him. She divided half of them and handed them to Keke.

“Could you briefly explain how we’re supposed to screen them?”

Seeing Bai Yuyou’s response, Ted immediately smiled.

Looks like there shouldn’t be a problem.

Ted gave them a simple explanation of how to screen the résumés and what sort of talent the company was currently looking for. Soon, Bai Yuyou and Tang Keke began working together.

Bai Yuyou was an outstanding student to begin with. Once she understood what she needed to do, she quickly got the hang of it. Whenever she came across something she didn’t understand, she would look it up online and study it.

Tang Keke, on the other hand, gazed at the stack of résumés before her like a curious child.

“Wow, this feels like being a teacher grading homework. Everyone who applied is so impressive. Can I really do this?” Tang Keke hadn’t graduated yet, and when she saw the dazzling array of internship experiences and prestigious universities listed on the résumés, her eyes practically lit up. “I’m definitely going to be the strictest judge!”

“Keke, don’t start rejecting people at random,” Bai Yuyou reminded her.

“Don’t worry.”

However, after going through the résumés for quite some time, Tang Keke still couldn’t make a decision. Every applicant’s résumé was outstanding, to the point that Keke began to feel as though she wasn’t qualified to judge them at all.

She thought that if she hadn’t become friends with Bai Yuyou, she might never have had the chance to work at a major company like this.

No wonder her brother had once told her that making the right choice was more important than putting in the right effort.

Soon, it was time for lunch. Right then, her phone rang. It was a message from Ye Shuang.

Ye Shuang: I’m back. Have you two eaten lunch yet?

Bai Yuyou: No.

Keke: We haven’t even taken a lunch break yet.

Meanwhile, Ye Shuang and Chen Qin had arrived at the company entrance. Both of them looked somewhat exhausted. Other than sleeping on the plane, they hadn’t gotten any proper rest.

“Ye, do you want to go back to the office and sleep for a while?” Chen Qin asked. “We can have an assistant send lunch up.”

“Yuyou and Keke just started working. Let’s eat together.” Ye Shuang shook his head.

“You’re always so worried about Yuyou, Ye.” Chen Qin smiled beside him, though there was a trace of loneliness in her eyes.

After all, even the doctors had no way to help with Ye Shuang’s amnesia. Although Ye Shuang tried his best to act normally, there were many small details he simply couldn’t replicate. Even when they were away on business and slept in the same bed, they no longer curled up together affectionately. Compared to a married couple, they were more like roommates.

In the past, Chen Qin had wanted nothing more than to melt into his embrace. But now, she had become cautious around him.

“They’re both still students. They haven’t really experienced life in society yet.” Ye Shuang’s attention was still on his phone, so he failed to notice the lonely expression on Chen Qin’s face. By the time he turned around, Chen Qin had already composed herself and put on a smile.

Chen Qin didn’t want to burden Ye Shuang with her negative emotions.

“Let’s go. You must be hungry too.”

“Mm.”

Before long, Ye Shuang saw Bai Yuyou and Tang Keke.

To be honest, he had never seen the two girls wearing professional attire before. At just over twenty years old, they looked entirely different in their neat work clothes, as though their youthful innocence had faded and they had suddenly grown more mature.

Sure enough, the moment someone started working, they gave off a completely different impression.

“Ye Shuang.”

“Big Brother.”

Ye Shuang greeted them, then couldn’t help laughing.

“You two look like adults now. It suits you.”

“Do we look dependable?”

“More or less. Just as long as you don’t look like you’re trying to sell insurance.” Ye Shuang chuckled again. He hadn’t expected a simple change of clothes to transform the girls’ whole demeanor so dramatically.

It was as though they had stepped into an entirely different stage of life.