Although Du Xiaoxian ran far away, Lu Haochen still could not suppress the inexplicable anger in his heart and kicked the mop far away.

He sat down and lit a cigarette. He didn’t know why he was so angry. He felt everything was wrong. From the morning when he went out, everything was wrong. He came to the company an hour earlier in order to see her. When he saw her, his eyes couldn’t move away. Then she got panicked and made a mess, wetting her shoes. He had never seen such a clumsy person, so he was very angry. In his company, no one was incompetent. By his standard, she was quite incompetent today!

How could such an incompetent person be arranged to clean his office?

When Rose came to the company, as soon as she entered Lu Haochen’s office, she found that something was wrong. There was water on the floor, cleaning tools were thrown aside, and the mop was far away in the corner. It seemed that someone threw it there.

Lu Haochen sat there and smoked without a word. The room was full of smoke, and he was enveloped completely in it. The atmosphere was quite strange. At least she had never seen that before.

“Boss,” Rose called out to him cautiously.

Lu Haochen, however, acted as if he had not heard anything and was only absent-minded with the cigarette between his fingers.

Rose raised her voice and shouted, “Boss.”

Only then did Lu Haochen turn to look at her. “You’re here. Good, get someone to come in and clean up.”

Instead of calling someone, she hurriedly did it by herself. Although Rose was a white-collar beauty, she was very efficient in doing housework. She quickly cleaned the floor and packed up the things before leaving.

What was going on? Where was the cleaner Du Xiaoxian? How did she mess up the boss’s office? Why did she disappear? No wonder Lu Haochen looked unhappy. It would be strange if he was not angry when he came early in the morning and saw the mess in the office.

Although Lu Haochen was a strict person, he was well-educated and never easily lost his temper. He had always acted against facts, not people. He might utter harsh words, but his expression would not be gloomy. It was rare to see that his face was cold like that just now. So Rose was also very angry. She picked up the phone and looked for Du Xiaoxian. But no one knew where Du Xiaoxian was. When the Administrative Department heard Rose’s unfriendly voice, they all guessed that Du Xiaoxian must have made a big mistake. Otherwise, Rose would not be so angry!

Rose said on the phone in the end, “Hurry up and find her. Tell her to come to me!” Then she hung up the phone.

The one in charge of cleaning was Chen Liyi, manager of the Logistics Department. She had a good impression of Du Xiaoxian who did not like to talk but was agile and tough. Because of this, Du Xiaoxian was specially transferred upstairs to clean Lu Haochen’s office. Chen Liyi did not expect that in less than a month, Du Xiaoxian went wrong!

Chen Liyi called Du Xiaoxian a few times, only to find her phone was turned off. Then Chen Liyi had to call someone to look around. As long as she was in this building, they could always find her. Later, when the security guards saw Du Xiaoxian going to the rooftop in the surveillance camera, they reported it to Chen Liyi.

Chen Liyi became anxious upon hearing this. Could it be that when Du Xiaoxian did something wrong, she was frightened and took it so seriously as to commit suicide? Chen Liyi called a few people and led them quickly to the rooftop.

They took the elevator to the top floor and walked through a flight of stairs. When they pushed open the thick iron gate, they didn’t see Du Xiaoxian on the wide rooftop. Chen Liyi walked past the water tower anxiously and saw a pair of black cloth shoes on the slope that stuck out of the water tower. Chen Liyi recognized that they were the cleaner’s shoes. She looked around and saw a thin figure in a cleaning uniform leaning against the guardrail. It was the barefoot Du Xiaoxian.

When Chen Liyi saw that she just quietly stayed there and did not seem to want to do anything stupid, she could not help but let out a sigh of relief and shouted, “Du Xiaoxian, come here!”

When Du Xiaoxian turned around and saw that Chen Liyi and a few people were walking towards her, she quickly went to them.

Although the rooftop was exposed to the sun and the floor was a little hot, Du Xiaoxian just walked on it with bare feet.

Chen Liyi asked, “Where are your shoes?”

Du Xiaoxian pointed at the water tower. “I dry them there!”

Chen Liyi asked again, “Why were they wet?”

Du Xiaoxian lowered her head and did not speak. Chen Liyi knew that something must have happened. She sent the persons who came with her away and pulled Du Xiaoxian to the shade to talk. As Du Xiaoxian’s leader, she had to figure out what happened first. Even if the higher-ups were to blame her, at least she had to get prepared in advance.

Du Xiaoxian did not hide it from her and told her everything in detail. In the end, Du Xiaoxian said, “I’m sorry, Miss Chen. Mr. Lu was very angry. He definitely won’t let me clean his office again. I hope I won’t implicate you.”

After Chen Liyi heard this, she did not feel that Du Xiaoxian had made a very serious mistake. Du Xiaoxian just knocked over a bucket of water. Was there a need for the boss to be so angry?

However, no matter how small the matter was, as long as the boss was angry, it would become a big matter. Chen Liyi didn’t know the outcome of this matter. From Rose’s tone, she felt that the odds were against her.

She comforted Du Xiaoxian with a few words and then asked the latter to go to Rose’s office. Seeing that Du Xiaoxian was about to leave with bare feet, she said, “Put on your shoes!”

Du Xiaoxian touched her shoes and said, “My shoes are still wet. Dry them for a while longer.”

Chen Liyi asked, “Didn’t you bring your own shoes?”

Du Xiaoxian shook her head in embarrassment. Other cleaners kept their work shoes in the company and only wore them when they were working. After work, they would wear their own shoes. Only she wore work shoes both in the company and at home. It saved her the money to buy shoes.

“This won’t do. It doesn’t conform to the rules. Everyone is well-dressed. Look at what you look like being barefoot. This would ruin the company’s image.” Chen Liyi said, “Go to the secretary’s office first, and then come downstairs to find me. I’ll get you a pair of shoes to wear.”

Du Xiaoxian looked at her gratefully. “Thank you, Miss Chen. You are such a kind person. I don’t even know how to thank you.”

Chen Liyi smiled and said, “Then don’t cause trouble for me again.”

Du Xiaoxian was even more embarrassed. She lowered her head and apologized to Chen Liyi.

“Let’s go.” Chen Liyi pulled her downstairs. “If Miss Rose scolds you, don’t say anything. Just listen to what she says. I think you are no longer able to clean the boss’s office. So I will let you work downstairs.”

“As long as I can stay here, working downstairs will not be a problem. I am just sorry for troubling you.”

“Take it as a lesson this time. Be careful when you do things in the future. Don’t be nervous even if you see the boss. He doesn’t bite people. What are you afraid of? Just do your own business.”

Du Xiaoxian felt it was impossible for her not to get nervous when Lu Haochen stared at her like that. But she did not say anything and just nodded.

Knowing that she was going to be scolded, Du Xiaoxian was surely afraid and timidly entered Rose’s office. “Miss Rose, are you looking for me?”

Rose looked her up and down and frowned when seeing her bare feet. “Where are your shoes? How can you be barefoot at work? Have you thought about the company’s image?”

“Sorry, sorry,” Du Xiaoxian hurriedly explained, “My shoes were wet. I had set them on the rooftop for drying. I’ll wear them if they dry up.”

“Where are your own shoes?”

“I came here wearing the work shoes. I didn’t bring my own shoes.” Du Xiaoxian lowered her head and answered timidly.

“Tell me, what happened this morning? Why did you make a mess in the boss’s office and then run away?”

Du Xiaoxian had no choice but to tell Rose what had happened again.

Rose remained silent for a while after hearing it. Like Chen Liyi, she did not think that Du Xiaoxian had made a big mistake. How could this make Lu Haochen so angry? She seemed to have never seen the boss directly telling someone to get out by shouting. She only felt that she had missed or ignored something.

Since that was the case, Rose scolded Du Xiaoxian for a while more and then let her leave.

Rose speculated that the boss was angry about something else when Du Xiaoxian happened to be in his office. So he vented his anger on her. This was the most reasonable explanation that Rose could think of!

After Du Xiaoxian left, Rose called Chen Liyi and said that she was afraid that Du Xiaoxian could not stay upstairs and asked Chen Liyi to replace Du Xiaoxian. Chen Liyi also thought so, and immediately said yes.

After hanging up the phone, Rose made a cup of coffee and sent it to Lu Haochen. Seeing that he looked normal and was seriously doing his job, she finally got relieved.

A storm seemed to have passed just like that.

Lu Haochen had been suppressing the inexplicable anger in his heart. He tried his best to focus his attention on work. But all kinds of complicated emotions constantly arose like rolling waves, making him uneasy. His mind was in a mess. His self-control ability had always been strong. But this time it was barely satisfactory. In the end, he was even not sure whether he had made a mistake in signing the documents.

After calming down, Lu Haochen felt a little regretful. He felt that he must have scared Du Xiaoxian. He thought about finding an opportunity to apologize to her. But he did not want others to know this. Therefore, after thinking about it, he decided to apologize to her tomorrow morning.

The next day, he arrived at the company early again. After waiting for a long time, someone pushed open the door and came in. It was a middle-aged woman. The woman probably recognized him and greeted him in fear, “Boss.”

He was stunned and glanced at the cleaning tools in her hand. “Are you here to clean the office?”

“Yes, Boss.”

“Where is the previous cleaner?”

“Do you mean little Du? She is now in charge of cleaning downstairs.”

Lu Haochen frowned. “Is she here?”

“Yes! She is working downstairs.”

Lu Haochen hesitated for a moment before waving his hand. “Go down and ask her to come here. She did a good job.”

“Yes, Boss.” The middle-aged woman replied respectfully and turned to leave.

Lu Haochen looked out of the window. He suddenly stood up and stretched himself. He opened a window and let the morning wind in. The cool wind blew on his face like a child’s hand. It was soft and light, touching every pore. It was extremely pleasant.

Lu Haochen was inexplicably happy. Perhaps it was because of the good weather! Although it was no different from usual, he felt that the sky was bluer and the clouds were whiter. Even the red sun was brighter than usual.

Someone knocked lightly on the door. He knew it was her and said loudly, “Come in!”

The door was gently pushed open and Du Xiaoxian stood at the door. Although she was not as panicked as she was the last time, her expression was still nervous. “Boss, I am here to clean the office.”

He keenly found that the way she addressed him had changed. In the past, she had always called him Mr. Lu. But now she was calling him boss. Almost everyone in the company called him boss. When he first met her and heard her calling him Mr. Lu, he felt that it was pretty good because this title did not limit their relationship to the scope of the company. Instead, it freed the relationship from it. But now, she changed her way and called him boss like the others.