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Besides, wasn't he perfectly fine last night?

How did you get injured?

That doesn't make sense... Li Chaoyang is now really looking forward to seeing Xu Damao's expression when he sees him in the propaganda department.

Moreover, he was quite certain that Xu Damao had a somewhat reckless personality.

Even knowing that he was his boss, he still dared to come out and continue to disgust himself!

That guy is a complete scoundrel...

But what Li Chaoyang didn't know at the time was...

In fact, Xu Damao already knew that he was the new head of the publicity department.

Moreover, Xu Damao had asked for leave yesterday, but he didn't even say goodbye before coming to work today.

Xu Damao was now ready to throw caution to the wind and do whatever he wanted.

He was on his way to find Director Liu, the former head of the publicity department...

He figured that Director Liu would definitely be very interested in the fact that he had been brutally beaten by the new section chief...

Unaware of all this, Li Chaoyang had already arrived at the door of his office.

But when they arrived at the door, they found only Jiang Datong inside.

He's applying varnish to the desk that's already been made.

Seeing someone coming in through the door, Old Jiang looked up.

Upon seeing Li Chaoyang, he grinned and said, "Section Chief Li is here?"

"Master Jiang, didn't you say you were going to collect timber today?" Li Chaoyang asked as he entered the room.

Jiang Datong put down his tools, somewhat amused and exasperated, and said, "Hey... my request for leave this morning wasn't approved!"

"Director Cao insisted that I get the table set up before I left."

"You said you urgently needed to use this office..."

"I couldn't very well tell him I was there to do something for you, so I stayed here for now."

"But this table only needs one coat of paint, it won't delay anything."

"I've already instructed my two apprentices to handle the rest."

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Li Chaoyang nodded, then thought for a moment and took out his room key and handed it over.

"Master Jiang, I won't be going back for lunch."

"Once you've found the right people, just bring them over and get to work."

"This...this isn't appropriate, Section Chief Li." Jiang Datong paused for a moment, then said somewhat nervously.

"I see you have a lot of valuables in your room. What if they get stolen..."

"Alright," Li Chaoyang smiled. "Is there anything else you're worried about?"

"All the stuff in my house isn't even worth as much as the grain coupons I gave you yesterday."

"Besides, what are you, Old Jiang, going to do, sell my stuff for money?"

Jiang Datong thought about it and agreed, so he stopped talking.

He silently took the keys and put them in his pocket.

"Then you go ahead with your work, but leave the windows open when you leave, there's a strong smell of paint."

Li Chaoyang walked out of the office as he spoke; he had come to ask Lao Jiang to deliver the keys.

But when he turned into the corridor, Li Chaoyang found himself with nowhere to go.

I can't stay in my own office; a bunch of people are busy in the big office.

Going there would only cause trouble, like supervising someone's work...

How about we go down to the library for a while?

Just as I was thinking this, I reached the top of the stairs, only to see Xiao Song rushing up in a hurry.

Li Chaoyang asked, "Xiao Song? What brings you here?"

"Uh... Section Chief Li." When Xiao Song heard the voice, she looked up and saw Li Chaoyang. She was also stunned.

But then he regained his composure and said, "I came to see you."

"I wasn't here just now. When I got back to the personnel department, I heard you were looking for me, so I came right away to find you."

"Section Chief Li, what was it you wanted to talk to me about?"

"Um..." Li Chaoyang really wanted to say that he was mainly there to see Director Li.

But seeing the girl's expectant expression, he still couldn't bring himself to say it.

"Oh, I called you this morning to ask if all the files of our factory's employees are in your personnel department."

"I came back first when I saw you weren't there."

"The files of all the factory's employees?" Xiao Song tilted his head and thought for a moment before asking with some doubt.

"Section Chief Li, what do you need this for?"

"The factory has nearly 20,000 employees, and if you include retired employees, the number exceeds 20,000!"

"So many files and documents must be in the archives department. The personnel department doesn't have room to store all of these as files."

"Oh, it's in the archives department. I thought it was in your personnel department."

"Okay, then I'll go find the archives department later..." Li Chaoyang smiled and prepared to go downstairs.

But Xiao Song had finally mustered up the courage to come looking for him, so she wasn't about to let him go so easily.

Seeing this, he quickly stopped Li Chaoyang and said, "No, Section Chief Li, you haven't told me what you need so many files for. If you need any help, just say the word."

"No need for that. I haven't thanked you yet for helping us clean yesterday."

"I can't possibly trouble you with something as simple as going through the files again."

"Besides, there are so many people in our department involved in this matter."

"You don't need to bother..." Li Chaoyang said helplessly as the girl blocked his way.

"But Section Chief Li, you still haven't said what you need the files of all the factory's employees for?"

Xiao Song still insisted on getting to the bottom of things.

Li Chaoyang was completely speechless... This girl, he had just praised her in his heart yesterday for being well-behaved, sensible, and cute.

Now? She's not as cute as she was yesterday!

After much deliberation, Li Chaoyang reluctantly adopted the airs of a leader.

"Alright, I was just asking, I don't necessarily need it."

"This matter needs to be kept secret for now. I'll have to talk to your director about it later."

"I can't tell you now."

"By the way, has your Director Li returned from the meeting?"

When Li Chaoyang became serious, the girl calmed down a bit, though she still looked unhappy. She moved aside, blocking the stairwell, and then replied with a pitiful expression, "Director Li is back too..."

"If you're looking for her, Section Chief Li, she's in the personnel department office right now..."

Li Chaoyang felt a chill run down his spine from the girl's expression...

Actually, he could tell that Xiao Song seemed to have some nice ideas about him.

But he definitely doesn't have the bad habit of developing any relationships beyond friendship with his fans...

If he really is that kind of person...

It's estimated that he had already become the king of the deep sea back when he was at Harbin Institute of Technology.

He was then sentenced to death by firing squad for hooliganism...

You can't mess around like this these days... One wrong move and you could end up being shot at.

After all, hooliganism is a serious crime nowadays!

The saying, "Any relationship not aimed at marriage is immoral," is a top-level directive...

Li Chaoyang didn't want to get into a relationship haphazardly and then be forced into marriage...

So if you're not 100% moved, then you must have a heart as hard as a rock!

These days, being a typical straight man... that's the way to go!

Yes, it is like that!

After silently reciting all of the above points again, Li Chaoyang suddenly said, "Alright, then take me to see your Director Li. I happen to have something I'd like to discuss with her..."

"Huh? Section Chief Li, you're really going?" The girl's expression suddenly changed, her aggrieved look turning into surprise. She chattered on as she went down the stairs before turning back to say, "Then let's go, I'll take you there, Section Chief Li..."