In My Desperate Time

I check the money. There is about twenty thousand dollars, but I don’t dare to take it. Instead, I look at him blankly.

“Half of it is your salary, and the other half is the money for the vegetables. I am afraid you’d quit suddenly, so I give you the money just in case.”

Yeah, I'm really short of money right now, so I don’t pretend to be awkward and just take it.

When I am about to go out, my mother calls.

“What's the matter with you? I don't care whether you went out last night. Why don't I come back today? Your brother's cell phone is broken because of you. He wants to buy a 7Plus, you quickly get the money back for him to buy a new one.”

I laugh bitterly, Do they really think I am stupid! I just threw it on the tea table last night and it was broken? They just want to find an excuse to ask for money.

I hang up the phone directly. They call me afterwards but I don’t answer them.

When I arrive at the company, everyone sees me and Steven Song showing up together, and they all cast envious and resentful eyes. In an instant, I become the public enemy of all the women in the company.

“How could she hook up with the President when she just come the

“You just come here for three years, I have been here for five years! It can’t be your turn speaking of seniority.”

mean you are old.”

“Who is old?

The two women beside me, they sim at me at last second, and for the next second they have

scene a lot of times. He pulls

As soon as I get into the elevator, I ask Steven

Steven Song lets go of my hand and says, “Sorry, I have no other ideas. These women are so annoying. I need a shield. And I don't think there's

“Why me?”

“Because you are not attracted by me.”

is right. All the women in the company are eager to climb into his bed, but I

that call he made last night actually saves my life. Otherwise, I would have climbed into Frances Louis' bed by now.

But at this time, I do not know, between me and Frances Louis, doomed to be entangled