The Cruel World (completed)

Chapter 18: Tell me the truth

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Tell me the truth

******Continuation of the flashback from the cafeteria

"Wahahahah!!" Everyone laughs on the way this cheeky front desk lady reveals her scoops except for YuChang.

"There's an impostor among us. What the heck? Are we playing games here?" One of the lady said.

YuChang is trying to disconnect everything about Yinzi and the president but every time he tries he also fail because it leads to both of them. Yinzi leaves early that night just like their president. Yinzi didn't go home this weekend and the president stayed in his pent house for the whole weekend. The guard clearly states that there's no other person who came at the company except from all the employees means it's one of them who spent the weekend with the president. When he came back this morning he saw Yinzi's thing untouched from the time they left for the party last Friday night. Today, Yinzi leaves alone for lunch and the president had a lunch out also. So every single situation only points to the two of them.

Then YuChang remembers how Yinzi got shocked seeing their president during their first meeting and feeling uncomfortable so they leave the conference room early that day. "If they are dating then, when did it starts? Is this why he got angry this morning easily with the president after giving a small project being a new project manager of this company?" YuChang asks everything in his mind and he cannot answer them all.

Until the guy who sits beside him finally talk. "YuChang.. don't you think it is your boss, Mr. Bai, that our president's dating?"

"What??" all the ladies asked in unison.

The guy gets shocked after being asked that way. "Ahmm.. I saw him leave for lunch today and there's a car who pick-him up."

"Have you seen the face of the driver? Or at least the plate number of the car?" The front desk lady asks.

"Why? Yeah! I saw the driver.. ehm.. his face is kinda familiar and I think I saw him somewhere I just can't remember where and when." The guy said.

"The car plate number..." The front lady asks again. "Is it YZ0261?" (*****plate no. is a fictional so please if someone by chance encounters it in real life it is just a coincidence.*****)

"Yes it's YZ0261. How come you know that plate number?" The guy said.

YuChang tries to remember the plate number and it is the same number of the car last Monday afternoon.

"Because I know the guy who drives that car. He is Si Hu, one of the most trusted assistant of our president."

"WHAAT!!!" YuChang exclaimed louder than everyone inside the cafeteria and all of them are making a commotion inside getting the attention of other employees having their lunch.

Lunchtime ended with a bang. "The new project manager is dating the president." Every group chats of the company employees are talking about the two. Of course it also reaches the office secretary of Mr. Gu. She cannot believe how things turn easily that fast. It is so fast that in a span of hours they already found out what they need to find.

Everyone have their own opinions. There are employees who are supporting the so-called office romance that anyone did not notice but easily exposed by their president's careless moves. There are some employees also who did not like what happen that the president gives a special attention to a new employee because he is dating him.

That's why after lunch, YuChang eagerly waits for Yinzi to be back and as expected he is ready to know the truth. "Yinzi tell me who are you with for lunch? The truth.. I want the truth Yinzi."

"What's the fuss all about YuChang? I thought we're already done talking about that since I told that I'll have lunch with someone."

"I know you tell me about it but I found out more than that during lunch at the cafeteria and you're the talk of the town now. Don't you find anything unusual when you came back after lunch?"

Then Yinzi remembers that when he came back from lunch everyone seems a little extra polite with him. The guard smiles wider than the usual when he sees him. The guard even open the car door for him. The front desk ladies are also extra when they greet him. Someone even asks him what floor he is going to and press the button for him. And everyone he walks upon greets him politely. "What do you mean? Is there something wrong I've done when I left for lunch?"

"Tell me first where did you go today?"

"In a restaurant.."

"Whose with you?"

"Someone..."

"Who's that someone? Is that our president, President Gu Hai?"

Yinzi almost collapsed from his seat when he heard what YuChang just said.

"Look at you... You can't even answer that. Now, read all these." YuChang give Yinzi his phone and let him read some parts of the group chats and emails he has."

"Now lie to me... if you don't want to tell me the truth." YuChang said. "Are you dating our president or not?"

"YESS!!" a loud and clear voice coming from the door. 

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:how did you spend your weekend sweeties?? My weekend is occupied by a lot of sleep and planting some cutesy golden pothos and snake plants.