Lili was alone with the secretary in the entire complex and she had to say it was pretty nerve-wracking. The plane with Leilei and the whole team departed two hours ago, and she waited for the message that they had arrived safely.
They would come back tomorrow morning after sleeping in a hotel. Because the final was planned to start around 8 pm. And who knows when the celebration and so on would end?
Lili still had three hours to sit here and stare at the walls. And she did not know what to do. Lili opened the laptop and opened the site, which would broadcast the finals.
She had Yitian bookmark it for her because she would never find it. Hanzi was her death. Then she opened her work and started to translate the document she was given.
When Dylan bent over her shoulder and asked what she was doing. That scared the hell out of her. She even jumped up.
"Don't do this to me. I almost had a heart attack." Dylan, the secretary, rolled the chair next to her and sat down. Lili was sitting downstairs by the computers. She was sitting in Chao's chair and had a game open on his PC. She had automatic forging on, for slow, painfully slow EXPs.
"Sorry, I'm a bit bored. There is nothing to work on, and I'm supposed to keep you company. That's my only work for today." He turned on the PC before him and signed in.
"Sorry. I'm translating this thesis." He looked at her, surprised.
"What is it about? Something interesting?" Lili looked back at the laptop.
"I don't know. It is interesting but heartbreaking at the same time." His brows rose.
"It's about the psychological trauma of rape victims." Dylan's eyes became twice as big as before.
"That's… sad… How can you bear it?" She just shrugged her shoulders.
"It's only a medical text. Not an actual story of a victim, so it's not personal but professional text. But the truth is that I'm pretty emotional sometimes when I translate. Once I even started crying when translating an episode." She smiled. Yeah, in that episode someone died, and she was crying while translating it.
"Wow. You are weird." Lili smacked his shoulder. She couldn't count how many times she was called weird while being here.
She slowly worked, sometimes turned to play, and had a break while chatting with Dylan. It was funny when he told her why he was using his English name, even when talking in Cantonese.
Lili first thought he was born overseas, because of his deep blue eyes, but nay. He was from Hong Kong, but his name was so girly that he hated it since being a child.
It meant a white flower. Baihua. And she lost it. She got why he hated it. He looked nothing like a white flower. True, he was very slim and tall. Had a bit of a girly face, and pale skin… She lost it again. It was so fitting.
"Your mom wanted a girl, right?" His face said it all, and she started laughing again. She was still laughing/crying when her watch vibrated. She looked for a phone and picked it up when she found him.
"It's me, fu jan." This guy. He joined the teasing side.
"I know. I see the name. Wanna know what you are called?"
"Sure, bou bui."
"Lou gung." Dylan by her side laughed out loud. There was silence on her phone.
"You won," Lei admitted, and Lili was happy.
"You were browsing on the internet again, right?" He sighed. Yup, she was. It was her only defense against them.
"I think I will ban you from it. You are being badly influenced by it." Dylan stood up and walked a tiny bit away to 'give her privacy'. She did not care. She won.
"You would never do that. Because…" She turned down her voice to whisper, "… I learned a lot about night activities there. And there is even more there to learn." She looked at Dylan. He was red, trying not to laugh, but pretended he heard nothing. But on Lei's side, she heard Chao's unmistakable laugh. Oh, he heard.
"Sis-in-law vs. brother, two, zero." Was the next thing Chao said and Lili could imagine Lei being bright red.
"Wow, Chao, you have really big ears, right? What are you? Bat? That you hear me…"
"Wow. She is tearing us apart. Nope. Bro has volume on max and I'm sitting behind him," Chao's voice was somewhat distant suddenly.
"We are on our way to the hotel. We will have a meal there. Tell Dylan to take you out to eat, too. Both of you forgot to eat, so I have to remind you." Lei said. She nodded. Silence. She facepalmed herself.
"Roger, sir." Lili saluted with her free hand. And Dylan couldn't take it anymore, and laughter erupted behind her.
"Good, fu jan. I have to go. We are almost there. I will call you again after the game," he said, teasing her again.
"Bye-bye, lou gung. Chu." She made a kissing sound at the end and heard laughter.
"Hey, what's so funny in there?" she asked Dylan.
"Nothing, nothing. It's just absurd. Have you ever seen a boss at work? He is merciless. Never smiles. Have demands which are almost impossible to fulfill. But once he is with you. He is like a lamb. Docile." Lili snorted. He was nowhere near docile.
"We need to have some food. I'm starving." It was almost 3 pm. Usually, there were cooks cooking for the team, but because they were all out, Lei let all the staff go on a vacation.
Dylan chose the Riverside grill for her because there was western food. Not that she couldn't eat Chinese. She loved it. But yesterday her mouth suffered 'mild burns'. It was too spicy for her. And she did not want to die again today.
Lili saved her work, closed the laptop, and looked at the game. Wow, she made premium gloves on auto. She put it up for sale and looked into her inventory.
Her surprises for Huobai, the magician, and Hongjie, the healer, were the new weapons she made for them. And talked it over with Chao, that she will send them before the game. They were better than the ones they had now.
"Should I send it now?" She asked, and Dylan looked at her.
"No. Wait. They are not online." True and offline gifting was tricky. Sometimes it took too long to transfer it.
"What if something happens?" She was anxious because something felt off.
"Do you have double authentication?" Lili nodded.
"Then what can happen?" Dylan looked at her doubtfully.
"Okay, so, let's go eat!" She closed the game and logged off.
She enjoyed the food a lot. But something was still bugging her. Lili had a bad feeling she should have sent it before.