The next day, when An Lan stepped into the office, all the colleagues of the law firm immediately looked at with admiration. Even the senior lawyer Ma Shuanghua looked at her with admiration on her face, âAn Lan, youâre good. When I heard the rumor about you and Chief Judge Xu, I thought it was you who kept pestering him. I didnât expect... Tsk, tsk! It seems youâve won his heart. Amazing.â
âI have a feeling that Chief judge Xu is the one,â Yan Wen said obsequiously. âMs. An, youâll definitely become a legend among the lawyers.â
Exasperated, An Lan wanted to tell her that she didnât want to become a legend in this way, okay.
Li Yuchen winked at her. âTo spice things up between you and Chief Judge Xu, Iâve decided... to make the event on Sunday more exciting.â
An Lan had an ominous feeling.
Li Yuchen chuckled. âIâve decided that we wonât take the cable car that day. Weâll hike all the way to the top of the mountain.â
âAre you crazy?â An Lan widened her eyes. âDo you know how high the mountain is? Did you ask othersâ opinion?â
âMs. An, we all agreed.â
The voices of their colleagues rang out at the same time.
An Lan, â...â
Yan Wen cupped her own face with both hands. âMs. An, donât worry. If the mountain is too high for you, you can ask Chief Judge Xu to carry you on his back and test his stamina in bed.â
An Lanâs lips twitched.
What the f*ck did stamina in bed have to do with climbing a mountain?
Moreover, Xu Baohan worked all day long in his office and she guessed he didnât do sports. Sheâd thank God if he could reach the mountain top and didnât expect him to carry her.
Forget it, sheâd better rely on herself.
...
Sunday.
At 8 am, the mini bus stopped outside the office building.
An LAN arrived relatively early. When she got on the bus, there were already four or five colleagues inside. She greeted everyone and Yan Wen immediately ushered her to the last row of seats, âMs. An, your and Chief Judge Xu sit in here. I cleaned the seats. Itâs clean and spacious. Itâs also private.â
An Lanâs lips twitched. Spacious was good, but what did she mean by private.
She knew that she and Xu Baohan would sit together, but these people were too deliberate.
âMs. Yan, well done.â An Lan smiled and praised her. âBut I donât plan to sit in the last row, because if thereâs an accident on the highway, itâs the worst spot for people to get out, so... maybe you should sit in this row. I still have a lot of money waiting for me to spend.â
After that, she sat down in the first row.
Yan Wenâs expression turned stiff. Now that Ms. An mentioned the danger of sitting in the last row, how dared Yan Wen sit in there?
After An Lan sat down, she suddenly regretted her decision. She should have listened to Yan Wen and sat in the back because the two-seater row wasnât very spacious. It was not crowded for a woman, but Xu Baohan was tall...
But after saying those words, she couldnât be so thick-skinned as to move to the back.
Just then, Xu Baohan stepped in wearing black sports clothes and white sneakers. The zipper on the jacket was golden, and there was a golden puma logo on the sleeves. The outfit made him, a 30-year-old mature man, six or seven years younger. Not only that, dressed in the black sports jacket which would look bad on an average person, he looked like a brand spokesperson. The jacket looked classy on him.
An Lan was not the only one who thought so. The other people in the bus shared her sentiments. Li Yuchen smacked his lips and said, âWhen did the Pumaâs clothes become so fashionable? Maybe Iâll go get one.â