Chapter 38

Chapter 38: This Freaking Works Too?

Du Yu Xi and Xi Jing Yue, who knew the whole story, were feeling about the same as Du An Rao right now, and there was more sympathy in their eyes when they looked at Tang Qian Qian.

Tang Qian Qian did not notice the subtle change in the others. When she saw Du An Rao freeze again after hearing her last name, a vague bad feeling rose in her heart.

“Grandmaster, is there something wrong with my last name?”

Du An Rao snapped out of it and said: “No, no, your last name is pretty good. It is just this pot of flowers…”

“What is wrong with this flower?”

“This flower is not exactly bad. It is just not very suitable to put on an office desk and stay with people for a long time.”

Because she already knew the tragic end waiting for the person in front of her, Du An Rao gritted her teeth and decided to let this pot of flowers take the blame.

“Snow in June has a less common name, the hourglass tree. There is a taboo about hourglasses. I just talked about it in the Finance Department. It can mean money leaking away and losing wealth.”

As soon as Du An Rao finished speaking, Tang Qian Qian could not help crying out.

Everyone around had already been paying special attention to her. When they saw this, they all looked over at once.

Only then did Tang Qian Qian realize she had overreacted a bit. She said awkwardly: “Two days ago, when I was riding my bike to work, I ran into a guy who faked getting hit by me. There was no camera at that intersection, and I was in a rush to get to work, so in the end I had no choice but to pay three thousand to settle it. Does that count as losing money?”

Xisheng Entertainment might be a well known big company in the industry, but she was just an ordinary employee. Three thousand was already more than half a month of her salary, and she had felt the pain for a long time.

Now that she knew the bad luck she had suffered was very likely because of this pot of flowers, Tang Qian Qian even felt like smashing it.

With such a real example as proof, the people who had still been half doubting Du An Rao as a Grandmaster suddenly looked at her differently.

They had no idea that Du An Rao herself was still completely confused.

[This freaking works too?]

Du Yu Xi and Xi Jing Yue both snorted with laughter: “Pft…”

However, in order to keep up her persona, no matter how excited she was inside, Du An Rao still forced herself to put on a gratified “the child can be taught” look.

Seeing this made Xi Jing Yue both angry and amused. Silently, he cursed in his heart: [Little liar.]

“Besides, even though this flower looks pure and elegant, its yang energy is strong. When it blooms, it also has a stink. The smell is not strong and it is not poisonous, but being around it for a long time can still affect a person’s health.”

Tang Qian Qian nervously patted her chest and said: “Lately I have been feeling a tightness in my chest, it is kind of uncomfortable. I was thinking that when I had time I would go to the hospital for a checkup, but I have been busy these days, so I kept putting it off. Could it be…”

It was obvious what the Public Relations Department had been busy with these last few days. As soon as Du An Rao heard her description, she more or less guessed.

[Is it possible you just hurt yourself from working too much and staying up late? It probably has little to do with this.]

“Pft…” Du Yu Xi almost burst out laughing, then quickly covered her mouth and lowered her head to hide it.

Luckily, everyone’s attention was on Tang Qian Qian and Du An Rao, so no one noticed her acting strange.

Du An Rao let out a deep, pretentious sigh and said: “I am afraid that is it. Also, Miss Tang, the glabella palace between your brows looks dim, and there are dark shadows under your eyes. If you keep being this careless, it will harm your health. I am afraid there may be a blood calamity.”

“Blood calamity?” Tang Qian Qian trembled all over. She never thought a phrase she only heard on TV would one day be used on her.

If this had been before, she would have just taken it as a joke. But after everything that had just happened, she only felt cold all over and did not know what to do.

Li Zhao Yang and the others also had not expected that before Du An Rao even met their company’s entertainers, she had already seen a blood calamity in one of their own staff.

Hong Shi Tao was panicking too. After all, she was his employee. If something happened to her while she was on duty, as her direct supervisor he definitely would not be able to escape responsibility.

“She has just been staying up late a lot recently. How did it get dragged into a blood calamity?”

“Isn’t it exactly because people stay up late too much that they are more likely to run into a blood calamity? Don’t people often… drop dead from staying up late?” a male employee beside Tang Qian Qian muttered in a low voice.

In an instant, the air in the whole department visibly froze.

Wasn’t that true? All of them were heavy late night workers. The one who might drop dead today could be Tang Qian Qian. Who knew if the one who would drop dead tomorrow would be themselves?

For a moment, many people had already started weighing it in their hearts: money or life.

Tang Qian Qian could not help widening her eyes in shock. The more she thought, the more she felt the symptoms she had just described sounded exactly like signs of sudden death.

“G g… Grandmaster, is the blood calamity you talked about sudden death?”

Just now Du An Rao had not refuted Tang Qian Qian on purpose, because she wanted to lead the topic in this direction. Now that her goal was reached, she quickly nodded along.

Tang Qian Qian sucked in a sharp breath. Li Zhao Yang’s face also darkened as he asked: “Do you often work overtime late into the night?”

Hong Shi Tao was afraid the fire would burn all the way up to him, so he carefully defended himself: “We only work through the night once in a while…”

“From now on, if you need to work all night, use a shift system. No one’s overtime shift can last more than six hours in a row, and the total cannot exceed forty eight hours in a month. Overtime pay will be doubled on top of the current rate.” Li Zhao Yang took a deep breath, then turned to Tang Qian Qian: “You do not need to work overtime for the next while. Go to the hospital for a full checkup tomorrow. I will approve your leave, and the company will reimburse the cost.”

“Long live the Chairman!”

“Long live the Chairman!”

“…”

Many of the employees in the Public Relations Department were young people who had only just entered society. When they heard about this real new benefit, they could not help shouting with joy.

When Tang Qian Qian heard that she did not need to do overtime, and even her hospital checkup would be paid back, her face lit up too.

“Thank you, Chairman, thank you, Chairman.” Then she looked at Du An Rao, full of hope.

Du An Rao pondered for a moment. Although Tang Qian Qian had run into the crime scene because she was working overtime and went home late, if she was no longer allowed to stay late at work, that would cut off the chance of her going home late. In theory, that should be enough to change her fate.

But what if one night she suddenly wanted to go out and wander around, and after walking around she still bumped into it?

After thinking about it, Du An Rao decided to give her one more layer of protection: “Snow in June also has another meaning, ‘snow in the sixth month.’”

“Snow in the sixth month?” Du Yu Xi frowned. “Isn’t that…”

Du An Rao glanced at her fourth sister and said: “Yes, the one you are thinking of, The Injustice to Dou E. Simply put, it means you may soon run into a wrong that you cannot explain yourself.”

[That is not a lie either. Once you are dead, your name after death can only be guessed at and judged by others. It is not like you can jump out of your coffin to clear your own name.]

Du Yu Xi suddenly understood, and she thought of the things Du An Rao had mentioned that happened after Tang Qian Qian died.

To die innocent was already bad enough. Worse was not even being able to rest in peace after death, being used and slandered, and dragging close family into bearing undeserved bad names along with her.