Boss's Sweet Secretary

A smile was still plastered on Kevin's face, though the smile was more playful than before.

Hans, who was usually calm, showed a hint of impatience in his eyes after noticing Kevin's strange look. "Kevin, that was not funny."

"I have never seen you care so much about a woman."

On the other side of the screen, Kevin was showing his white teeth, with rare seriousness in his smile.

"Even when we were at school, you didn't even take a proper look at the arrogant popular girls, let alone asking me which woman I didn't take seriously. Hans, you are really serious this time."

A trace of strangeness flashed across Hans's face, and he avoided Kevin's eyes. "It's just a woman. There are so many women in the world, and no one is indispensable."

"So do you mean that I can woo her?"

"No way."

Hans said that without even thinking, he reflexively glanced at Kevin on the screen.

"Oh, okay then..." Kelvin shrugged and shook the screen a few times.

"I knew you would be like this. Back then when I pestered you for a month, you didn't even let me see her once. When I realized how overprotective you were over her, I knew that you like her more than a sister."

Hans frowned and looked like he wanted to refute.

"Hans, don't lie to yourself. You said no one is indispensable, but you won't know it until you lose her."

"Kevin, I..."

"Well, I'm going to have a date with my 'gorilla' princess. Let's just stop here. I think you're in a good mood recently. I hope you can introduce her to me next time as your girlfriend..."

Kevin's face broke into a grin. "Remember, it's not that I've failed to woo her. I let you have her because you're my best friend. If you hadn't fallen in love with her a long time ago, I would never have missed such a good opportunity. If there's no progress next time, I'll take the initiative. Don't regret it then."

Although he knew that Kevin was joking, Hans still felt inexplicably nervous.

The video on the computer flashed a few times and returned to the main screen's blue interface.

Hans frowned for no reason and looked up at the door of the president's office as if he could see the busy figure inside the secretary's office through the door.

In the afternoon, half an hour before they finished work, Rose just came back from the Planning Department with a pile of food and drinks. It was obvious that she heard something good there.

"Here, these things are for you." Rose put most of the food in her arms on Jennifer's table, and said with a smile, "Let's go to the Planning Department dinner after work."

Jennifer was busy crosschecking data and did not look up. "Did John, the manager of the Planning Department invite you to dinner again?"

"He didn't just invite me, he invited the whole secretary's office."

"You go ahead. I have something to do after work."

"What's the matter? What's this important thing you need to do? You have to eat, don't you?"

Rose grabbed her wrist and refused to let go. Jennifer couldn't focus on work because of this so she looked up at her. "Come on. I have to finish this as soon as possible so I don't have to work overtime. I have to buy a new phone later."

She hadn't had the time to buy a new phone after breaking it outside the company last time. She was using an old phone but it was not convenient. She even missed customers' calls several times.

"It's just a mobile phone. You can't buy it at any time. Just go with me to dinner first, I'll go shopping with you after dinner..."

Jennifer frowned. "I don't drink..."

"Who said we are drinking?" Seeing Jennifer was giving in, Rose looked happy. "You don't have to drink. If someone asks you to drink, I will drink for you, alright?"

"I have to go home before 10 o'clock."

"All right, all right..."

Rose looked as if everything was negotiable.

Jennifer had a headache thinking about Rose's track record. She always said yes in the beginning, but the reality was that later on, it would spiral out of control.

Before getting off work, Jennifer knocked on the president's office door.

"Come in..."

Hans said with a hint of authority.

Jennifer closed the door and stood a little far away from Hans.

"The Planning Department is having dinner tonight. I might go home a little later tonight."

She didn't want to repeat the same mistakes. It was better to inform Hans in advance about any gathering in the evening in order to avoid the same thing from happening again.

Hans seemed to be thinking about something, he looked absent-minded when she came in. He was in a daze when he heard what Jennifer said and frowned. "What does the Planning Department's gathering have anything to do with you?"

"The manager of the Planning Department, John, was close with Rose. Their department has always cooperated well with us, so it was their manager's idea to invite us to dinner..."

The department manager could make decisions about the private gathering of each department, they didn't have to ask Hans for permission. Moreover, it seemed that they were paying for themselves for this dinner and it was after work hours, so they really didn't have to get Hans's permission.

When Hans heard Rose's name, his face slightly relaxed.

He said indifferently, "This is your own business. You don't need to ask for my permission."

Jennifer was slightly stunned, and she looked incredulous.

Hans had always been overbearing and liked to intervene in everything. Now Hans was saying that it had nothing to do with him, she felt as if she was in a dream. Thinking of how he had been polite and estranged these days, she felt a twinge of sadness.

Coming out of the president's office, Jennifer looked lost. Rose had already packed up her own bag, picked up Jennifer's bag, and locked the door of the secretary's office. She carefully approached her ear and whispered. "Did he say yes?"

Jennifer was stunned for a few seconds and nodded.

He said that it had nothing to do with him so he did not really agree or disagree. It was more like he did not care.

Rose did not know what had happened, and she thought that Jennifer looked upset because Hans had ridiculed her. She could not help but be a little angry. "What the hell, do you even have personal freedom? Let's just ignore him, Jennifer."

Jennifer stopped for a moment and forced a smile looking at Rose. She pretended to be relaxed and said, "Never mind. Let's just leave early, otherwise, we won't be able to squeeze into the subway during peak hour."

Speaking of this, Rose gave her a knowing look.

"Taking the subway? Don't make me laugh. The people in the Planning Department are buying us dinner. They have eight managers in four departments and all of them earned over a million dollars each year. If they don't even have cars, how can they bring girls to dinner?"

"Girls?" Jennifer's face grew serious. "Other departments? Isn't this a Planning Department dinner?"

Rose snickered. "Yes, the Planning Department planned it, and it was a perk for all the eligible bachelors in the company. We are both honoured guests..."