When I woke up at night, Natalie had already come back. Her eyes widened in shock upon seeing me walk out of my room.

“Why are you back so early today? Don’t you have to work overtime?”

I stretched and yawned while answering her. “I took the day off today.”

“You took the day off? Holy sh*t. Is the sun rising from the west or something?”

Natalie gaped at me in utter disbelief.

I hummed in confirmation but remained otherwise silent. Noticing the gloomy look on my face, Natalie started eyeing me suspiciously.

“You didn’t come home last night. Where’d you go?”

My expression stiffened upon hearing Natalie’s question, and I replied somewhat guiltily, “I was working overtime.”

“Working overtime? Why are you lying? Who the hell works overtime for the entire night? Tell me the truth. Did you…” Natalie trailed off and raised her brows meaningfully.

Although she didn’t finish her sentence, her question was very obvious.

My face instantly flushed red when Natalie figured out what I had done the previous night. I began fidgeting on the spot, unable to meet Natalie’s eyes because of the guilt that I was feeling.

“What on earth are you thinking about? I really was working overtime. I’m hungry. Let’s eat now.”

The guilt in my voice couldn’t be mistaken. With that, I ignored Natalie and quickly went to set up the table.

relationship a secret from Natalie anymore. I couldn’t help but worry if she would look down on me if she found

me with a solemn expression, “Anna, why do I have the feeling you’ve been hiding something from me recently? Are you facing some kind of

flickered in my

asking this all of

night. You’re acting weird, Anna. Besides, it doesn’t make sense that such a large company like Joyful Success would need their employees to work until so late

cutlery and peered at me with

it was rare for any company to have its employees work overtime for so many days

temper, if she knew that I was being harassed and exploited by my

been working overtime to meet deadlines,” I said against my conscience, then quickly bowed my head to continue

that really what’s

scrutinizing me, as though she

Anyways, I’m done eating, so I’m going back to my room now. I have to wake up early for work

on getting to the bottom of this, I darted toward

began stewing over what

my chest at the thought of this. I should never have said those things to Conrad on the spur of the moment. I must’ve well and

make sure my life in the office was a living hell. Conrad was a very spiteful person. Now that I offended him, he

resignation, I shut my eyes and told myself to stop fretting over this matter as it would only make me more frustrated. I’ll

I didn’t do anything to offend them. I couldn’t help

me very uncomfortable, I refused to let them get to me. Ignoring all of them, I settled down

what they were saying, but seeing as they would peek at

“Anna, you’re here.”

whom I was on good

“Mm-hmm.”

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