Can Alpha Also Have Babies? QAQ - Chapter 16

Chapter 16 – A Picky Eater Who Transforms into a Foodie

On his first day at work, Lin Shuangyu worked overtime until 10 o’clock before going home.

After returning home, he was so tired that he wanted to fall asleep. However, when he thought of the newly bought long mermaid dress of the “Rich Summer” series, Lin Shuangyu seemed to be injected with chicken blood and couldn’t wait to try it on.

He drew the curtains, threw away his glasses, and picked up a wavy headband to tie up his bangs, which were so unfashionable that everyone hated them. A few strands of bangs hung down casually, and he looked like a completely different person. The country bumpkin began showing some signs of his beauty.

Lin Shuangyu took off his rustic clothes and put on the long blue dress. The fabric was light and soft. When he walked, it rippled and shone with a light golden light, just like the shimmering water reflecting the sunlight.

The hem of the dress is designed to imitate a fishtail, gradually changing from blue to transparent light gold. When walking, the hem looked like a golden mermaid swimming in the water, which is beautiful beyond words.

Lin Shuangyu took pictures in front of the mirror from various angles.

When turning sideways, Lin Shuangyu looked at himself in the mirror and frowned slightly. It seemed that his belly had really gotten fatter.

When he wore this kind of dress before, his stomach was flat, but now it is slightly protruding. From the side, it looked like he had a small belly.

Lin Shuangyu couldn’t help but touch his slightly protruding belly. How could someone gain weight only in the belly?

Fortunately, he is thin to begin with, and the dress has a little pleated design at the waist, which is very effective in covering the belly without affecting the overall appearance.

After taking the photos, Lin Shuangyu selected the best ones, without showing his face or his chest which looked a little odd due to its flatness, and put them together into a nine-square grid to post on his WeChat Moments.

This WeChat account was based on his “Yutian” account on Weibo. The people he added are some friends he met in the game “Fuyao” and friends in the painting circle. Basically, they all knew the value of this dress.

Just a few minutes after Lin Shuangyu posted it, he received a row of likes and compliments, and he was very satisfied.

The next morning, Tian Yawei walked into the office on time and saw Xiao An from the Propaganda Department, who was in contact with her, taking a few bottles of yogurt from the quite expensive dessert shop downstairs and distributing them to the people in their group.

She thought about how she had to revise that terrible poster today. The people in the Propaganda Department were nitpicking and making things difficult for her, while at the same time trying to use some small favors to make her feel embarrassed to complain. They were always disgusting.

So, when Xiao An handed over the yogurt, Tian Yawei made a gesture of rejection.

“Thank you, I don’t drink. I’ll change the poster as you requested and give it to you as soon as possible. No need to be so attentive.”

This was unpleasant to say, but now that she needed help from her, Tian Yawei was not afraid that she would turn against her.

Unexpectedly, Xiao An was very confused.

“Poster? Didn’t Xiao Lin from your department finish the poster and send it to me yesterday? There’s no need to make more changes.”

Tian Yawei: “???”

Tian Yawei almost suspected that she had entered the room in the wrong way today, which was why she heard such outrageous words.

“He changed it?”

“Well, not really changed.”

So, she was just kidding, how could Lin Shuangyu, a recent college graduate, have such ability…

“He just redid it.” Xiao An said with a deep breath.

Tian Yawei: “…………”

“Oh, when Xiaolin sent it to me yesterday, it was already past nine o’clock in the evening. You should have left work long ago by then. By the way, your newcomer is really talented. I almost want to recruit him to our department.”

Tian Yawei’s face turned so ugly that it couldn’t even be described. Xiao An’s words were like a slap in the face, loud and clear, making her lose face in front of her colleagues.

Now the whole department knew that the poster she had worked on for several days was not as good as the one produced by a graduate whom she looked down upon in half an afternoon and an evening.

“Oh, I have to go to work. If you don’t want to drink this yogurt, give it to someone else.”

Xiao An put the yogurt on her desk and left in a hurry, leaving the office in silence.

Tian Yawei threw the yogurt into the trash can without thinking, then pulled out a chair and sat down angrily.

Lin Shuangyu really wanted to cover his face. This Xiao An was really going to make him hate him.

But then again, Tian Yawei had always looked down on him, and it seemed to make no difference whether the hatred was there or not, as their relationship as colleagues had never been harmonious.

The team leader was out again this morning and the office was as quiet as a chicken. Lin Shuangyu was about to open the webpage to continue reviewing when his WeChat flashed a few times. It was Zhu Xin, the intern assistant sitting next to her.

Zhu Xin: [You’re so strong! Tian Yawei took over a week to create that poster, and you defeated her in just a few hours!]

Zhu Xin: [I really want to interview her and ask her what it feels like to be defeated by the graduates she looks down upon.]

Zhu Xin: [Her face is so green, so cool, hahahaha.]

Lin Shuangyu hadn’t replied to her message yet when he heard Tian Yawei calling him, “Lin Shuangyu, where’s the poster? Why didn’t I receive a copy in my mailbox?”

“I sent it to you on DingTalk.”

After he finished yesterday, he sent the poster to Tian Yawei and Xiao An’s DingTalk.

“Who told you to send DingTalk? Don’t you know you need to send it via the company email address and copy me, the team leader, and the other party’s supervisor? Who told you to send it without your supervisor? Does that mean you don’t need to go through your supervisor and will be solely responsible if anything goes wrong?”

Lin Shuangyu had never worked in an office before, so he really didn’t understand this.

After he finished it yesterday, he sent it to Xiao An first to confirm with her if there was anything that needed to be changed. Xiao An was very satisfied after looking at it and only asked him to change a few details. After Lin Shuangyu finished the changes, he sent it directly to her and Tian Yawei, and then went off work.

He had never considered the method of sending it, and didn’t know there were so many things to say about it.

However, Tian Yawei should also be looking for trouble. If the problem is really that serious, Xiao An would have definitely reminded him.

So Lin Shuangyu said very kindly: “Sorry, this is my first time doing this, so I don’t know much about it. I think it’s not too late to reissue it now. They haven’t used the poster yet.”

Tian Yawei: “…”

Tian Yawei had originally wanted to use this as an excuse to make a fuss, but she hadn’t expected Lin Shuangyu to be so quick-witted. It was still in time to send the message. She felt a lump in her chest, unable to speak, so she could only grit her teeth and say, “You send it.”

Yesterday afternoon, the HR department had already applied for his corporate email and sent it to him, but Lin Shuangyu didn’t know how to use it. Fortunately, Zhu Xin joined the company earlier and had learned all these things. After teaching him, Lin Shuangyu quickly sent the poster to Xiao An’s corporate email, and copied both parties’ subjective opinions and Tian Yawei, thus filling this small loophole.

Tian Yawei saw a prompt pop up in the corporate email and opened it. She was still unhappy and wanted to find fault. When she opened the email, the first thing she saw was the poster made by Lin Shuangyu.

Xiao An said that he redid it, which was not an exaggeration at all. There was no trace of her work on the poster. Moreover, not to mention Xiao An, even she, who had a critical eye, could not find any problems with the poster.

Even at first glance, her eyes brightened. It seemed that the Propaganda Department had put forward so many messed-up requirements, and this was the result it presented.

Tian Yawei held the mouse tightly, and a line of words popped up in her mind: talented player.

Her anger doubled! Insidious graduates!

•|•

The next few days were very uneventful, and Lin Shuangyu slowly adapted to working life.

The only thing he couldn’t get used to was that his mother had some crazy idea and asked the servants to deliver lunch to Pei Jichuan every day, including his share, so he had to sneak up to the 33rd floor to eat lunch every day at noon.

The Pei family holds a family dinner on the 15th of every month. Except for those who are on business trips and cannot attend, all members of the Pei family would return to the Pei family mansion to get together with Old Madam Pei.

After turning 18, Lin Shuangyu, a foreigner, would basically find an excuse to turn down any offer.

But this time, Pei He, who had almost never sent messages to him, suddenly sent him a message, asking him to return for lunch, saying that Lin Lan hadn’t seen him for a long time and missed him. He used the excuse that since they had met, she probably had something to talk to him about, and Lin Shuangyu agreed.

At noon that day, Lin Shuangyu sneaked into the president’s office to have lunch as usual. One of the main dishes today was hot and sour noodles, which was exactly what Lin Shuangyu wanted. He broke his usual habit and slurped up all the noodles and even drank the soup.

Because there were other staple foods, the portion of hot and sour noodles was not large. Lin Shuangyu still felt unsatisfied after eating it, and secretly glanced at the hot and sour noodles that Pei Jichuan had not touched.

Pei Jichuan didn’t like hot and sour noodles. He pretended not to see Lin Shuangyu’s eager eyes and said, “Don’t squeeze into the subway tonight. Take my car to Pei’s house.”

Lin Shuangyu said “Oh”, and when he saw that the always observant Master Pei didn’t get his look, he glanced at his hot and sour noodles even more blatantly.

Pei Jichuan seemed to have finally noticed it, and he said, “Has this hot and sour noodle grown legs?”

Lin Shuangyu: “Ah?”

“You’ve been staring at it, aren’t you afraid it will run away?”

Lin Shuangyu: “…”

Sometimes he really feels helpless.

Lin Shuangyu had gotten to know him a bit better recently, and knew that although this guy with a paralyzed face was cold, he wouldn’t eat anyone, so he boldly spoke up: “If you don’t eat hot and sour noodles, can’t you give them to me?”

Seeing that he dared to ask for it himself, Pei Jichuan raised the corner of his mouth slightly, but his tone was still so cold and hard: “Eat it.”

Lin Shuangyu was afraid that he would regret it, so he quickly took his portion, opened the flour bag, and poured the sweet potato flour into it.

The sweet potato noodles were cooked, but they were a little sticky after being packaged for a long time and needed to be soaked for a while. Pei Jichuan saw that he was completely focused on the bowl of noodles, as if it was a treasure, and labeled him in his mind: picky eater, but a foodie when he spots something he likes.

“Did you like that mermaid dress?”

“Like!”

Lin Shuangyu, who was preoccupied with the hot and sour noodles, answered fluently before realizing he was being tricked. He immediately added “bar,” scratched his face, and laughed dryly, “I just sent it out. She hasn’t received it yet, but she will definitely like it!”

The reaction is quite quick.

Pei Jichuan said: “After receiving it, ask her to send me a picture and also send it to me to see the effect.”

Lin Shuangyu: ???

‘Here we go again, right?’

‘Are you a turtle? Once you bite something, you just won’t let go.’

Lin Shuangyu immediately took out his phone: “There are a lot of pictures online, I’ll search for them and show them to you!”

Pei Jichuan: “But I want to see hers.”

“…”

‘Okay, okay, you forced me to do it.’

Lin Shuangyu’s face fell. “She may not send it to me. She’s a very busy person. It takes several days for her to reply to me with an “oh” or “ah”.”

Pei Jichuan: “…”

Pei Jichuan’s face suddenly fell. Seeing him lower his head to eat the already soaked hot and sour noodles, he reached out and scooped up the large bowl of noodles, scooped the whole bowl in front of him, and said indifferently: “I suddenly want to eat it too.”

Lin Shuangyu: “…”

The textbook example of changing one’s attitude faster than turning the pages of a book left Lin Shuangyu speechless.