I’ll Still Love You Even if You’re a Man 2, Chapter 3: Maybe the timing wasn't so bad.

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 3: Maybe the timing wasn't so bad.

An Ziyan nudged Mai Ding, "You can go."


Mai Ding snapped back slightly and nodded woodenly, "Hmm."

He walked into the building, took the elevator to the third floor only to find that this company is not a big size, several people in front of Mai Ding back and forth hurriedly shuttle back and forth, no one wants to look at him more than once, Mai Ding awkwardly clutched his resume in his hand not knowing who to ask, after standing for a while he finally walked to a sister who seemed to be quite face to face: "You, hello, I'm Mai Ding who came to interview today," the woman raised him eyelids, measured Mai Ding from top to bottom, Mai Ding's stomach contracted together from nervousness. The woman turns his head and asks his colleague behind her, "The company is hiring?"

"Don't know, haven't heard."

The conversation between the two made Mai Ding even more awkward, as he became an uninvited guest who disturbed people's work, and who had previously seen warm and cordial colleagues on TV or an atmosphere of solidarity. The whole office was deadpan lifeless, everyone’ expression numbed as they went about their own business.

"I'll go ask the manager for you." The woman's opening rescued the somehow good Mai Ding, and the woman took the resume in his hand and walked into an office, not long afterward out. The woman pulled his voice open and called out to a middle-aged man in his thirties in the far corner, "Gao Guo, the manager asked you to bring down the new one."

The man grunts reluctantly, "Why does it have to be me."

Mai Ding, like a newly enrolled student standing next to the teacher, stared at Gao Guo, who was working hard: "May I help you with something? Gao Guo didn't even raise his head, grabbing the pile of information next to him, his voice was a bit impatient: "Go to the side and arrange the information according to the time, and by the way, pour me a cup of coffee."

“Okay.”

The newcomers in the company have become the easiest targets to use and bully around, everyone put all the coffee pouring and ordering chores to Mai Ding to do, of course his performance was not satisfactory, because Mai Ding wanted to do a good job but appeared more nervous, spilled a few cups of coffee, Gao Guo also did not do a good job of explaining things. He was a bit frustrated, thinking that An Ziyan must be sitting leisurely in the classroom at the moment, putting his legs on his stool, and he couldn't help but be envious. The first time you do this, you'll be able to get a good deal of information about the company.

During the lunch break, everyone had gone out to eat, and Mai Ding finally put the papers neatly in order on Gao Guo's desk and felt for his cell phone to dial An Ziyan's number.




"And you didn't call to ask if I'd got the job?"

"The kind of small companies that have what to apply for that don't apply for that are short-staffed anyway, just right for you to gain work experience, and it is not too stressful." An Ziyan said lazily on the other end of the phone.

"Talk like you know it all." Mai Ding had just finished talking when he remembered that something wasn't right, he hadn't told An Ziyan the company's address, he had driven himself directly to the exact location this morning, too nervous to pay much attention at the time.

"What are you doing behind my back again?" Mai Ding pursued.

"Just had someone look into it, it's a shame it's a regular company, I was hoping it was a human trafficking ring that would send you away from me to relieve me."

"Can't you just take the time to study hard?" Mai Ding did his best to sound dissatisfied, thankfully it was a phone call and he couldn't see his expression.

"Study hard sounds stupid."

"Gee, look what you're saying, even though I'm temporarily gone, your man as a study committee member should have you set an example in my place, don't people miss the good study atmosphere that I created when I was in class?"

"They don't remember who you are anymore."

"Is my sense of being so weak?" Mai Ding asked about the injury.

"Yeah, presumably I'm the only one who remembers that, too." He's at it again, some random surprise attack, and before Mai Ding can figure out how to answer, An Ziyan asks, "Did you eat?"

"Not yet."

"You're already retarded enough to eat and want me to scream to you if I hadn’t?"

The phone hung up, Mai Ding wrinkled his nose at the phone and rushed out of the office, Mai Ding thought he might never be able to get used to any of An Ziyan's ways of expressing his feelings, like groping uneasily in the dark, not knowing when and where the warm light would suddenly emerge, and under more and more precipitation, he could smile in the dark, because now he knew with certainty: he, would not leave himself alone.

On the first day of work, Mai Ding's rusty performance was subjected to Gao Guo's scornful sarcasm. He is a serious and somewhat curmudgeonly man who is afraid of trouble. The manager handed Mai Ding to him to make him feel resentful and watched Mai Ding. Everything he does is not pleasing, not to mention that he does not understand anything, and Gao Guo has no patience to teach him. As for other co-workers, they can't say they like Mai Ding even if they don't hate it, after all, it's hard for a person to feel like they've seen another person at first sight.

It wasn’t until after work that Mai Ding’s stomach tightened all day long. He was still in a dull state of mind about what had happened today, and he felt that he hadn't been sitting in a classroom for long as a student, uncomfortable with the sudden change in life, and for a moment he felt like a real adult. Mai Ding’s bag was dangling in his hand and he planned to walk home. He was smart enough to vote for a resume that would not be too far from home.

The walk took more than twenty minutes to reach home, when he went upstairs, he heard the sound of footsteps coming from the stairwell, looked down to find An Ziyan had returned from school, could not help but laugh, hid in the corner ready to scare An Ziyan, even after so long, he still did not give up to find a way to trick An Ziyan, to avenge all the humiliation he had suffered in the past, especially the April Fool's Day time!

Mai Ding was quite smug, people are most easily frightened when they are defenseless, and it would be a rare sight if An Ziyan was pale and covered his mouth to scream later. Unexpectedly, An Ziyan's voice came from below, "Not tonight, Mai Ding is going home soon, you can come back tomorrow when he leaves, didn't leave anything in bed from the morning." Seems to be on the phone with someone. It's common to hear experienced people talk about going home early to surprise their boyfriends only to discover amazing cheating secrets, Mai Ding didn't expect this to happen to himself, who was it? A man or a woman? How long have they been together? This time, it was Mai Ding's turn to cover his mouth and go pale. He could not resist rushing out of the corner, full of pathos: "This is not true, how can you...." his words stopped, this really is not true, only to see that An Ziyan who acted like there was nothing wrong, holding nothing but a book in his hand, seeing Mai Ding rushed out also did not have the slightest surprise.




He understood and pointed at An Ziyan and yelled, ''Childish! Thought I'd fall for it? A little sculpting!" Who was the one who fell for it and was so sad? Then he whispered again, "Lost again, damn it."

"What are you trying to compare me to?"

The two went up the stairs side by side, and Mai Ding certainly didn't have the guts to admit it, except to say, "It's nothing, I knew you wouldn't cheat."

"How could you have caught me cheating?" An Ziyan took on a dismissive tone.

"Did you really cheat?"

"En."

"Don't be so generous with your admissions!" Mai Ding jumped up two steps in a row and An Ziyan asked behind him, "You don't believe me?"

"Don't believe."

"Why?"

Mai Ding turned around, his hands back, his eyes half narrowed, "Because you'd never admit to something you've done, just like you'd never admit to being nice to me."

"Who's been nice to you?" An Ziyan's words came off like inertia. No filter.

"You see." He spoke and was about to jump on An Ziyan, just about to jump lightly when An Ziyan squeezed his shoulder to stop Mai Ding from completing the move: "Don't even think about it."

"I can't believe you recognized me."

"How's work going?"

"Not too good and not too bad."

"You're not the same." An Ziyan's words were something Mai Ding didn't catch and was just about to ask when An Ziyan continued, "Never complain about things that really upset me." Mai Ding is always complaining about An Ziyan's sleeping, throwing things around, and other irrelevant things, but whenever he really feels like he's working badly and being called around, he never wants to complain to An Ziyan, he doesn't want An Ziyan to worry about himself.

For Mai Ding, An Ziyan is like a sea that shifts with the seasons, and just jumping at him and can wash everything away.




Maybe time isn't so bad, it makes each other more and more familiar, like the touch of skin, like the emotion in the eyes, like the words in the mouth, more and more familiar, more and more....




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



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