I’ll Still Love You Even if You’re a Man 2, Chapter 7: Shameful?

I’ll Still Love You Even if You’re a Man 2 《你是男的我也爱》Ni Shi Nan De Wo Ye Ai
I’ll Still Love You Even if You’re a Man 2, Chapter 7: Shameful?


"See what?" Mai Ding asked in confusion.

"Still trying to play dumb? That night at the restaurant."

Mai Ding only then remembered, "So it's really you, I thought I was mistaken..." Gao Guo rudely interrupted Mai Ding, "Don't beat around the bush, you want to rat me out and take my place." Before he could understand what Gao Guo meant, Gao Guo himself spoke out, "I didn't expect to meet you in that kind of place, it's bad luck, now that the manager already suspected, what do you want?" Even if Mai Ding was even more foolish, he understood what he meant, and the person he was with that night was really the manager's wife. At that time, their seats were not far away, but fortunately, something was in the way, and they could not be seen clearly or be more easily discovered, so they had to wait anxiously for them to leave first. So as soon as Mai Ding left, they also hurried to the door, at which point Gao Guo saw Mai Ding probe out and look back in the head, and he assumed he knew. However, he was not alarmed, that night the secret was discovered may not be only himself, Gao Guo saw that Mai Ding did not speak, and said again, "You better not think of snitching on me, I too have got the dirty on you."

The words made Mai Ding even more puzzled, and Gao Guo also stood up: "The man you met at noon today is not a simple friend with you, right, if I spill about it, you will have even less face to stay in the company, think about it." That night An Ziyan was blocked in the face, but Gao Guo also heard some of their conversation and mistaken Li Ming for An Ziyan.

Mai Ding, who received too much information at once, has not yet straightened out, just stared blankly at Gao Guo leaving. When Gao Guo arrived downstairs, he bumped shoulders with the oncoming boy, he took a step back, because of his anxious mood and wanted to shout at the boy he bumped into, he looked up with a black face to curse, but when he saw the boy's grim face he unconsciously swallowed the foul words back, the boy just coldly swept him a glance and continued to walk inside. Gao Guo's instincts, which had been so numerous attuned over the years, told him that the one boy just now was not a good one to mess with.

Mai Ding only minded one thing, not the fact that the manager's wife had cheated on her husband with Gao Guo, not being misunderstood about himself and Li Ming, and not being threatened himself, but Gao Guo's contempt over his feelings. He looked around the entire office, a bitter smile seeping from the corners of his mouth, he could even see everyone's reactions from the empty seats, secretly exchanging words with each other, spreading around to add fuel and vinegar, this was his own emotions in the eyes of others, the same as other scandals, worthy of everyone's discussion and ridicule.

Is it shameful?

"Hello." An Ziyan walked slowly towards him, everywhere he passed, every location, the images Mai Ding saw turned into smoke that was blown away by the wind. Mai Ding's eyes had a bright flash of light in them, staring at where his emotions were, they must have been tainted with filth, otherwise who would dare to say their emotions were something shameful.

"Being silly?"

"There you are."




"Something's wrong."

"If there is something wrong, come home and tell me."

An Ziyan looked around indifferently, this was the first time he had come up, and casually picked up the papers on the desk next to Gao Guo's, flipping two pages and throwing them around.

"Don't throw other people's stuff around." Mai Ding picked up the papers and put them away, pushing An Ziyan's back from behind: "Go."

He told An Ziyan about it on the way home, but only that he found out that his colleague was having an affair with the manager's wife, and that he hadn't said anything about Gao Guo's threat about outing him.

"I won't care, it's not like I've encountered a thief or something illegal, even if their behavior is wrong, after all, it's someone else's private business, I'm still an outsider."

"So you know, I thought you'd be pissed off and drag the manager's wife and co-workers in for a serious moral code lecture."

"I'm not a fool to move and lecture people."

"So you think it's stupid to lecture people when they don't attune to your version of the moral code?" An Ziyan drilled the holes in Mai Ding's words, and Mai Ding was annoyed and wanted to fire back the replies. Not a moment later Mai Ding said, "I talked to you about work, so you talk to me about school too, to communicate more about each other's lives."

"Get up, go to school, get out of school."

"Can't a few more added words do it?"

"Get up, go to school and get out."

"You can make up sentences!" Mai Ding yelled.

Mai Ding, who was working as usual, thought that the matter with the manager's wife would slowly settle down, the manager already suspected that so Gao Guo and the manager's wife should break off their relationship and return to their respective lives. His thoughts were a lot simpler than the matter, the mystery man that was being bandied about in the company was the one in the office.

The manager came out of his office, everyone's heads bowed, and he said in a voice that couldn't hear the emotion, "Mai Ding, come down to my office." This was the first time the manager had called Mai Ding, normally he didn't care about this intern at all, Mai Ding could feel the chatter ringing behind him.

Arriving at the manager's office, the manager gestured for him to close the door, then looked at Mai Ding with a quirky expression on his small eyes, before he said, "You've been in the company for a while."

"En."

"I heard from Gao Guo that you have no heart for work at all, so what do you come to the company for every day?"

Mai Ding doesn't know how to answer. He's still a student, he hasn't learned how to talk to the superiors, he hasn't learned how to be smooth, he hasn't learned how to please his superiors, he's like a blank sheet of paper, restless and impatient in the face of work and society. The manager got more and more angry: "I didn't pay you to come to the company to get you a free meal, how dare you seduce my wife when you don't do your job?" Mai Ding looked up in shock, "I, I didn't."




"Of course you won't admit it, she told me everything, you were dead set on pursuing her, she wouldn't, and you threatened her to tell someone that there was an affair between you, she didn't dare because she was too scared. Who knew that things were getting worse and worse, she just couldn't take it anymore, and it was also confirmed that the rumors were propped up by you, come to think of it, they've been going around since not long after you came into the company." The manager became more and more convinced, taking everything for granted and putting it all on Mai Ding, while talking viciously and from time to time flashing his heartfelt wife's eyes, like how much he has been wronged, and how he himself wronged her.

"I, I didn't." Mai Ding shook his head hard and repeated the explanation, what more could he say that he was the easiest person to bully in the office and rightfully became the most suitable scapegoat, and who would believe him when he said that there was one powerless fact: the weight of words was proportional to one’s identity. Saying anything about people being equal to each other is more ridiculous than hyperbolic advertising.

The manager expected Mai Ding would not let go, so he pretended to be kind and said, "You admit your mistake honestly, I'll pretend it never happened, settle your salary and you're gone."

"I can't admit fault for something I didn't do."

"Okay! And you're a tough one!" He was still trying to say something when the phone next to him rang, it was an important client, and he covered the words: "Get out! Also, I'll have the security downstairs keep an eye on you and don't leave the company without my permission, who knows if you'll steal something and leave."

Mai Ding withdrew from the office and returned to his seat amidst the scrutinizing eyes of his colleagues, Gao Guo softly and coldly said, "I want to see how you still admit it yourself, how about exchanging your scandal for mine, no matter what, it's not as disgraceful as you liking men."




"Then you tell them." Mai Ding said with no expression on his face, ''You think I'd be scared? Do you think I would be ashamed?"




~ I’ll Still Love You Even if You’re a Man 2 (Sequel) ~



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