Next One Is a Babe

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All Ian needed was for Yulia not to cause any trouble. That way, he’d be able to enjoy his days with Cindy. Cindy had started cooking again, and he could hear the clanging of the pan from the kitchen. He narrowed his eyes as he glanced in that direction.

Things with Yulia are pretty much settled. My days with Cindy will be stable as long as Gary doesn’t try anything from now on, Ian thought.

The next day, Cindy arrived at work to find her colleagues eyeing her with the same odd look on their faces. They were talking behind her back, but they didn’t look like they were trying to hide anything. Cindy felt as if she was being boycotted by her classmates at school. They didn’t make any explicit claims, yet they had their ways to make sure that she knew what they thought of her.

She let out a sigh. She couldn’t do anything but to return to her seat and look at the design draft that she had made the day before. After changing some details and looking at it for a while more, she stood up and walked to Serena’s office. Serena had yet to reach the office, so Cindy left her draft on Serena’s table. As she walked out of Serena’s office, she bumped into the lady from the HR department.

The lady was especially friendly toward Cindy. She greeted Cindy and asked Cindy about her first day at work. “Did you encounter any issues?” the lady asked.

Before this, Cindy would’ve assumed that the lady was just a nice person. However, Cindy felt somewhat uncomfortable with the lady’s kindness now that she knew she had some connections that got her into the company. “I’m fine,” Cindy mumbled. She couldn’t bring herself to say anything else.

Cindy was stuck in a rather awkward situation. She had never hoped for her relationship with her colleagues to be great. She knew herself, and she wasn’t someone who could easily warm up to strangers. However, she felt rather uneasy now that she was being ostracized by her colleagues. No one in their right mind would like working in an environment like that.

The lady from the HR department didn’t seem to notice the complicated look in Cindy’s eyes. “Just let me know if you’re facing any issues. I’ll try my best to help out,” the lady offered. Cindy hastily thanked her.

“It’s my job. Don’t worry about it,” the lady replied with a smile.

After they split ways, Cindy passed by the entrance of the office. The moment she turned around, she saw her colleagues staring at her. It seems like these people saw me talking to the lady from the HR department. Cindy returned to her seat with a blank expression on her face. Cindy had just sat down when the lady who initiated a conversation with her the day before rolled her chair over to Cindy once more. “Do you know Mary from the HR department?” she asked softly.

Cindy responded honestly. “I don’t know her that well. She was the one who interviewed me.”

The lady nodded. “Mary has a pretty bad temper. She’s arrogant toward the rest of the staff, but I saw her being really nice to you.” Her words seemed to be implying something. She seemed like she was trying to get Cindy to say something.