Seeing that Li Tongwen had brought Zhang Xiaoyan up, Xu Ye went to the office door and called Zhang Xinzhou and Yuan Yuqi over.

Zhang Xinzhou had never laid eyes on Zhang Xiaoyan, but he already knew about all this from Xu Ye's phone call in the dorm the night before. Yuan Yuqi was another matter. The moment she saw Zhang Xiaoyan her eyes went wide. "Mr. Xu, she— how did she—?"

Xu Ye laughed. "The two of you are coworkers as of today. This is Yuan Yuqi. Her situation isn't very different from yours, so stay with her today and get to know the place… Yuqi, set her up at a workstation as close to my office as you can. She's my assistant from now on."

"Right away."

"Zhang Xinzhou, get her onboarding done and register her fingerprint while you're at it."

"Mm."

Zhang Xiaoyan got up and followed Yuan Yuqi out, and Xu Ye took Lü Cheng and Tang Bowen into the meeting room to start the morning's interviews.

Yuan Yuqi had grown a good deal more outgoing since joining the company, where the working environment was easy. Out of Xu Ye's office she pulled Zhang Xiaoyan aside and asked her a great many questions, and in the end Zhang Xiaoyan laughed too. "I was actually talking about you at the office at lunch yesterday. I never thought you'd be at our company by today."

"At lunch yesterday?"

"That's right. At the fair yesterday morning I saw that creep getting handsy with you. Our boss is a genuinely good person — he brought me into the company when I was just about at the end of what I could take in Shanghai."

"How old is our boss? He seems very young."

"He is. He's still a university student." Yuan Yuqi giggled. "But he's extremely capable. You are definitely not going to regret coming here."

Then she thought of something. "Oh — have you found somewhere to live yet?"

"Not yet. I thought I'd wait until the end of the month and then find somewhere a bit closer to…