Chapter 160: Chapter 159: First Day on the Job, Company Absconded?
"What are you talking about?"
Pu Tongren walked over from the doorway with an air of openness and sat down with a plop, looking puzzled at the three people whispering to each other.
"Ahem, it's nothing. You guys should have breakfast quickly! It's almost nine, and you just woke up. Even lazy pigs are more proactive than you."
Seeing Pu Tongren sit beside her, Hu Xiaoya coughed and quickly changed the subject.
Gu Yu and Lin Xinyue exchanged glances, understanding each other and ending the topic.
Matters of the heart are best left to Hu Xiaoya and Boss Pu to slowly adjust to each other.
As good friends, they could provide support, but they absolutely couldn't help uncover the truth!
In matters of affection, only when the people involved feel it's right does it truly become right.
Pu Tongren scanned the three with a suspicious gaze, always feeling that they were hiding something from him.
But since he couldn't guess, he turned his attention to breakfast.
Soon, he was drawn to the sponge cake on the table.
"Sponge cake! My favorite!"
"Go ahead! Have some!"
Hu Xiaoya proactively picked up a piece of sponge cake and placed it on his plate in front of him.
Boss Pu chuckled with a hehe.
Meanwhile, at the men's dormitory building at Haidong University.
Carrying a laptop bag, Kang Jia stood cluelessly in front of room 502.
He had arrived punctually at nine o'clock for work.
When he arrived, he found the door to room 502 wide open and the room completely empty.
All the living necessities and study tools were gone.
"Is this... a theft, or did they run away?"
Kang Jia walked into room 502, looking at the scattered A4 paper on the desk and the clothes hanger on the balcony that hadn't been completely taken down, utterly bewildered.
On his first day at work, had the entire company run away?
That can't be right?
It's not like he, Kang Jia, is some disaster!
He just wanted to have a class to attend!
Picking up his phone, he prepared to call Gu Yu to inquire.
Suddenly, a figure walked in behind him, "Hey, Shutong? Why did you come back?"
Kang Jia turned and saw a guy holding a toothbrush brushing his teeth, wearing a white tank top and floral shorts.
"Huh, it's not Yu Shutong? Who are you?"
Wang Dun paused with his toothbrush, looking puzzled at the unfamiliar face in front of him.
He had initially been brushing his teeth in the bathroom and upon hearing noise from next door room 502, he thought Gu Yu and the others had forgotten something and came back to get it.
That's when he ran over to see.
Just in time to see a back figure resembling Yu Shutong, he instinctively called out.
"My name is Kang Jia. Do you know Gu Yu and Pu Tongren? Gu Yu is my boss, and I'm trying to find out where he went."
"Did he used to live in this dormitory?"
Kang Jia quickly inquired about Gu Yu's whereabouts.
He couldn't believe that Ideal Paradise had run away on his very first day on the job.
"Ah? Know them? Of course, I know them! Gu Yu and the others used to live right in this room, 502!"
Wang Dun walked to the sink, turned on the faucet, and filled his mouthwash cup with half a glass of water.
Then he gargled thoroughly.
Kang Jia's eyes lit up, since this person in front of him said he knew Gu Yu and the others, he must know the whereabouts of Ideal Paradise.
"So do you know where Gu Yu and the others went? And has the Ideal Paradise Company moved away?"
Kang Jia asked impatiently.
Wang Dun finished rinsing his mouth, looked at Kang Jia with a grin, and revealed a set of sparkling white teeth, "Yes, that's right! They've moved!"
"Damn, your teeth are so white!"
Kang Jia looked enviously at Wang Dun's teeth.
"That's not important. The important thing is that Gu Yu and their dormitory have all moved to the West Gate Student Apartments."
Wang Dun waved his hand.
Kang Jia: "West Gate Student Apartments?"
"Yes, that's right!"
Wang Dun nodded, sizing up Kang Jia in front of him.
Clutching a laptop bag and dressed in a blue and white checkered shirt, topped with thick, bottle-bottom glasses, he looked every bit the programming expert!
Unexpectedly, he was an employee of Gu Yu's company.
He envied the other's sparkling teeth, while the other envied his luck to have joined Gu Yu's Ideal Paradise.
"Thanks, buddy!"
Having learned of Gu Yu's whereabouts, Kang Jia didn't linger, quickly thanking Wang Dun and leaving 502 to head straight for the West Gate Student Apartments.
At the West Gate Student Apartments.
After breakfast, Gu Yu, Boss Pu, and the others had just come downstairs, ready to check out office spaces like office buildings.
After all, the company had already moved out of the dorm.
They couldn't just hang the sign on the balcony, could they?
It was time to get a proper office.
They planned to first check out the Haidong University Innovation and Entrepreneurship Park.
"Laosi, are you saying that Mr. Qin Hong, the president's assistant, is already waiting for us at the park?"
"Awesome, Laosi! You even know the president's assistant!"
A few of them stood by the roadside waiting for a car, casually chatting.
Two cars stopped, one after the other, by the roadside; Gu Yu and two girls got into the front one.
After letting the girls in first, Gu Yu was about to open the passenger's door when he saw a figure not far away, waving and sprinting towards him.
"Boss! Boss, wait for me!"
Kang Jia, clutching his laptop bag, sprinted all the way, nearly catching up with Gu Yu before he could get in the car.
"Kang Jia? What's up?"
Gu Yu looked puzzled at the gasping Kang Jia standing in front of him, wondering what the rush was all about.
"Boss! No, Old Gu, I'm here for work!"
Kang Jia, holding the laptop bag and grinning while panting, said.
Recollecting that Gu Yu had asked not to be called boss, he quickly corrected himself.
"Driver, you go ahead!" Gu Yu leaned out of the window and spoke to the driver, then turned to the back seat where Lin Xinyue was sitting, "Xinyue, you guys go ahead to the park, I'll be right there."
"Okay!"
Lin Xinyue nodded, her curiosity piqued as she gazed at the man in front of Gu Yu, instantly guessing that he was the just-mentioned Kang Jia.
Both cars left.
Gu Yu then turned back to Kang Jia.
With a laugh, he said, "I haven't even told you to come to work yet! How did you just show up?"
He had initially planned to wait until the company's office location was set up before notifying Kang Jia to come to work.
He had never expected that Kang Jia would take the initiative to come on his own.
"Ah? I saw that you hadn't mentioned it, so I just assumed today was the day to come to work. It turns out work hasn't started yet?"
Kang Jia was stunned, realizing the situation.
"Yeah! I'm actually about to look for the company's office location now; our company can't really operate out of a dorm or an apartment building, can it?"
"But I also made a mistake; I should have notified you before moving out from the dorm."
Looking at Kang Jia's sweaty face, Gu Yu felt apologetic.
He also realized that now, as a boss, he could no longer act impulsively.
Regarding matters like relocation, he had actually forgotten to notify Kang Jia ahead of time.
It was fortunate that Kang Jia had found them; if not, wouldn't he have thought that Ideal Paradise had bolted?
That would have turned into a huge misunderstanding!
"No worries, no worries!" Kang Jia quickly waved his hand, looking at the receding taxi, "You mean you were heading to the incubator?"
Gu Yu nodded, "Yeah, I heard that the sites there are good to rent and the rent is also cheap."
"Then you should take me along! I'm familiar with the incubator! I also know which sections are good!"
Kang Jia quickly patted his chest, volunteering himself.
Gu Yu's eyes lit up.
That's right! Sword Barrier Network was indeed in the incubator, and having been there for two years, Kang Jia was certainly familiar with the conditions.
"Let's go then! Let's head to the incubator together."
Gu Yu slapped Kang Jia on the shoulder and hailed a taxi that was just passing by.
Kang Jia got in the car with Gu Yu.
Thinking about how he was about to return to the incubator, possibly encountering his former classmates and colleagues from Sword Barrier Network.
His heart filled with both excitement and apprehension.