All My Colleagues Are Animals 29p2

Chapter 29 p2

Recently, the preparations for the “Small Animal Survival Guide” had become more and more intense.

Shui Zhu, sitting to Ye Qingyu’s left, was engaged in an online battle with the publishing house’s reviewers. In order to preserve a passionate passage in her new story, she was so anxious that the orange on her head fell off several times.

And Jin Can, like a little dog waiting for a ball launcher to dispense a ball, would pick up the round orange with sparkling eyes the moment it fell.

Gu Yue, to Ye Qingyu’s right, was in charge of the small animal popular science column. Her main job was to receive materials from the animal hospital and select and organize them.

She secretly added her own personal touch, attaching a line to the science section:

【If clamped by a pelican, small animals should cooperate obediently. This will prevent any life-threatening danger.】

This line was rejected by the chief editor, Bai Shuang, with the note: The person in charge is forbidden from abusing their authority.

Gu Yue, unconvinced, went to confront Bai Shuang. “This was sent by the animal hospital. What does it have to do with me, Gu?”

Bai Shuang was expressionless, her voice as calm as ever. “No matter how I look at this line, I can see your signature.”

Gu Yue returned dejectedly and sent a WeChat message to the big goose next door to complain.

The big goose replied quickly: Who else are you trying to clamp?

In the fiery work atmosphere, Ye Qingyu’s bot submission inbox was empty.

Ever since her cover had been blown, her beautiful boss had not submitted anything under the guise of a red panda again.

Should I not have exposed her?

As she reflected, she felt a little regretful.

Just then, a clear ding sounded. A new email had arrived.

Ye Qingyu’s heart stirred. She immediately clicked it open and saw a submission from an unfamiliar email address—

Submitter: I’m really not a pelican!

Submission content: If clamped by a pelican, small animals should cooperate actively. This will prevent any life-threatening danger.

Her eyelashes trembled.

To her right, Gu Yue let out a satisfied hum in her heart.

She, a pelican, is still the clever one. Since this line couldn’t be put in the science column, she would just put it in the bot column. At least the small animals would be able to see it.

In her smugness, Ye Qingyu’s voice suddenly sounded by her ear. “Gu Yue, is this a test submission from you?”

Gu Yue froze.

A melancholic cowlick suddenly popped up on her head.

I already said I’m not a pelican! How can my colleagues tell it’s me at a glance!

…

Without realizing it, she had been working at the new company for over a month.

During this time, Ye Qingyu often felt that she was mentally unstable, experiencing things like visual and auditory hallucinations, and not understanding what her colleagues were saying.

At other times, she felt that it was because her new colleagues’ behaviors and cognitions were not quite in line with the general public’s.

However, she had gradually developed a strong heart. She thought it would be difficult for anything to open her eyes any wider…

At 10:30 in the morning, Luo Bian drove the tricycle on time to take Ye Qingyu shopping.

After buying a large amount of beef, they then went to the seafood section with practiced ease.

Luo Bian was very familiar with the owner and, in a few words, ordered several jin of fish, crabs, scallops, and so on. After Ye Qingyu had negotiated the price, she waved her hand and had the bill put on Pei Rong’s tab, with an air of someone who ruled the entire seafood section.

Before leaving, she habitually searched through the mantis shrimp for sale in the glass tank and found that two females were intimately entangled.

After a few seconds of thought, she silently reached in and separated the two.

Ye Qingyu blinked, a little amused. “What’s wrong?”

“I’m petty. I can’t stand to see this kind of scene,” Luo Bian muttered.

Ye Qingyu thought of Sister Luo and her partner who loved to go wild swimming, and her heart tightened slightly.

Have they already broken up?

“It always brings back memories, thinking of the happy times with her.”

Luo Bian sighed softly and walked out of the store with an air of indifference. But she couldn’t help but stop and turn back, asking the owner to buy the two mantis shrimp to take back and raise.

Seeing that Sister Luo said she couldn’t stand it, but her actions had brought the two sweet mantis shrimp together, Ye Qingyu couldn’t help but be a little touched.

While waiting for the owner to pack them up, she said softly, “If you miss her that much, why don’t you try to win her back?”

Luo Bian shook her head.

After a moment of thought, her usually cool eyes actually turned a little red.

“Her lifespan was up. She died many years ago.”

Ye Qingyu’s heart skipped a beat.

A relationship with a decades-long age gap, it was hard not to face the pain of being separated by death. Her lips moved, and she didn’t know how to comfort Sister Luo, feeling that any words would be pale.

“Sister Luo, don’t you never buy shrimp? Why are you suddenly buying two mantis shrimp today?”

The seafood store owner said with a chuckle, “Perfect timing. I just got a new batch of mantis shrimp, even better quality than the ones in the tank. Do you want to take a look?”

Luo Bian haphazardly sniffled. “Sure.”

Even though I know she’s already gone, I still blindly stick to this habit.

The owner turned and went into the storage room. When he came back, he was carrying a large bag of mantis shrimp and poured them into an empty glass tank.

Luo Bian waited on the side, her bad mood making her want to light a cigarette.

She fumbled in her pants pocket but didn’t find anything. She ran a hand through her light-blue hair in frustration and glanced casually at the glass tank.

Her gaze suddenly sharpened, as if on fire.

“Stop!”

The owner’s shrimp-pouring hand paused. He subconsciously asked, “What’s wrong?”

“No way.” Luo Bian’s brow slowly furrowed, and she walked toward the tank of mantis shrimp.

“I think I just saw my ex-girlfriend.”

Ye Qingyu: “…!”

Didn’t she just say she had already passed away?

Wait—

Why is Sister Luo looking at the shrimp tank?

Luo Bian walked to the edge of the tank, reached in with precision, and a mantis shrimp came out of the water, splashing and struggling.

“Let me see…”

Luo Bian uncurled the shrimp, carefully holding its head with her fingertips, and brought it close to her nose, wanting to observe closely if it was really her ex-girlfriend.

The shrimp’s light-blue shell visibly and slowly turned crimson. It suddenly raised its tail high and, with a wet smack, smack, slapped Luo Bian on both cheeks with two crisp sounds.

Luo Bian let out a cry of pain and clutched her face.

“This really is my ex-girlfriend!”

Ye Qingyu’s eyes widened.