My Wife is a Workaholic

Chapter 38 – Extra 2: Jin Jie Has A Wisdom Tooth Removed

The fact that Zu Jin was married was not a secret in Xishui.

But with the exception of Xu Tianqing, a few bosses, as well as her secretary and assistant, no one knew who her husband was.

However, everyone had vaguely heard that her husband was a homemaker and took care of their child.

This kind of thing was actually quite tough to chew, so people often gobbled up this gossip in private.

Later, Yan Yuelin crazily exposed Yan Lin’s identity on the Internet, and also announced the husband-and-wife relationship between Zu Jin and Yan Lin at the same time. Xishui’s employees were buzzing like it was the Spring Festival for a while.

After all, the husband of the female boss was an extremely important person, and everyone was excited about the news for a few days.

However, as soon as the popularity of this news was over, everyone calmed down.

They had no chance to meet this legendary man because it seemed like he never came to Xishui.

Thus, it was useless to be excited.

It was a sunny and very ordinary day.

Everyone went to work as normal. Employees drove to the underground parking lot of the building and were waiting to take the elevator.

Their cold and powerful female boss came over  while they were waiting.

One of them, an old youtiao1who had been unfairly holding onto his position in the workplace for many years, was the first to break the silence. “Morning, President Jin.”

The others quickly took the chance to say hello too, but they were shocked when they looked up.

It was because today, their female boss looked particularly… different.

Zu Jin was a standard oval face with balanced facial features and fair skin. No matter what her temper was like, she was at least acknowledged to be a cold beauty.

But right now, her left cheek was swollen as if she had two buns stuffed into that side of her mouth, but her right face was still intact and beautiful.

The contrast was so shocking that everyone could not stop their expressions from wanting to smile.

“President Jin, you…” The young office worker couldn’t help it any longer and pinched his thigh.

Zu Jin gave him an indifferent look. “I pulled out a wisdom tooth yesterday, I’m fine.”

Her reply was a bit inarticulate and the elevator door opened right on time.

When she went in, everyone bowed their heads and followed while holding in their smiles.

The atmosphere in the elevator was strange and everyone looked like they were in pain.

But then, standing in front of them, a tall man in casual clothes suddenly arrived.

He looked back at Zu Jin and softly said, “We forgot to bring some ice.”

No one realized who this was, and they didn’t know who the man was talking to.

But Zu Jin replied in the next second. “Ice water should be fine.”

Everyone suddenly looked at the man standing at the front. They saw that the man had a tall figure with wide shoulders and long legs, and if they only looked at him from behind, he seemed like a man with a warm and refined temperament.

The female employee standing a little behind Yan Lin recognized who he was at a glance.

After seeing her expression, everyone finally confirmed their guesses. Their eyes widened one after another, and their faces flushed with excitement.

This chance in the elevator soon came to an end.

Since Zu Jin’s office was on the top floor of the building, they had to get out on the other floors.

When Zu Jin and Yan Lin were the only ones left in the elevator, she immediately put away her cell phone and frowned painfully.

“Oh! I feel awful!”

Yan Lin looked at her again with worried eyes and reached out and patted her on the shoulder as a sign of comfort.

Zu Jin was a person who separated her work and life, but the situation this time was really special.

After she had her wisdom tooth pulled out, she felt terrible and had a fever in the middle of the night.

Although the fever was not very serious, it was enough to cause some serious damage to her mental state.

Yan Lin came with her because he was going to take her home after she finished her important meeting this morning and some of her official duties.

In the office on the top floor of Xishui, Zu Jin was frowning in annoyance. She had one hand covering her face as she dealt with some official business.

Yan Lin was sitting on the sofa, steeping tea alone and flipping through a business magazine.

Zu Jin worked for a while and felt like she had been almost out of breath for an entire year.

“Hey, can you flip the pages a little more quietly?”

She was already unwell, and felt even more upset from the sound.

Yan Lin had a good temper and naturally wouldn’t argue with her about this.

He put the magazine down and asked with great concern, “Can you work now, or should I help you?”

Zu Jin raised his eyelids and glanced at him with half-dead eyes. “What do you think?”

The murderous aura was simply unmistakable.

Yan Lin immediately realized that he had said the wrong thing.

Questioning the ability of a person extremely dedicated to her work was undoubtedly an insult to her personal dignity.

Yan Lin put his hands together and made a gesture to her to beg for mercy, and then he obediently stopped talking.

He also did not read the magazine anymore since the sound of the page turning was too loud.

The sound of turning the page is too loud.

While the atmosphere in the president’s office was stifling, it was cheerful outside, especially in the departments at the bottom.

It was a coincidence that employees from several different departments were gathered on that elevator.

As soon as they arrived at their department, they couldn’t help but describe the crazy event of meeting Zu jin and her boss husband, Yan Lin, in the elevator to their colleagues.

“Oh my god! He really is the same as what we’ve heard before! The boss is really a man of three good values2!”

“Hahaha, what kind of demon is the boss…”

There were similar scenes like this in every department.

When the leaders of these departments passed by them, they wanted to scold them for gossiping during office hours. However, they were soon entranced by this thrilling news and immediately joined the gossip group.

Today was destined to be a very restless day.

Zu Jin was suffering from the deep pain of the tooth extraction, while Yan Lin was too busy helping his wife and had no time to take care of anything else.

On the other hand, the staff in Xishui were still interested in the gossip from this morning even after they got off work.

As a result, when the day passed and it was nighttime, the new gossip posts about the couple sprung up everywhere on the Internet.

# August 18, my boss’s husband—is a full-time husband behind a strong woman #

# Li Tao3: the world of an influential man is no different from that of ordinary people #

# awsl4 I met Chloe’s boss, Yan Lin, in the elevator, the big guy, aaahhhhh… #

In a few hours, these posts have built a thousand-story building5.

Thus, in the early hours of the morning, when everyone was still lying in bed and scrolling through their cell phones, they saw that Yan Lin and Zu Jin’s names were still on the most searched headlines.

The thing is, everyone envied this low-key, well-matched couple that were deeply in love…

Zu Jin suddenly sat up from the big bed. With a pained expression, she pinched Yan Lin’s arm.

“Didn’t you say you wouldn’t sleep until I fell asleep?”

Yan Lin rubbed the red spot  on his arm and concentrated on opening his eyes that wanted to close. “Wife, if I wait until your pain is gone, then I might already be trapped to die while I am awake.”

“In that case, you can’t fall asleep before me!” Zu Jin shouted angrily in the bedroom.

 

The author has something to say:

Haha, this is the last extra and with that, I am done writing. This is the end of this novel. Thank you friends for reading until the end. *bows*

 

Footnotes

老油条 (lǎoyóutiáo) – a youtiao is a fried strip of dough and an old one is a cunning person三好男 (sānhǎo nán) – it translates more literally as three-good man. It’s a man who has a stable income, takes care of the wife and kids, and is filial to both parentsLi Tao is a name, but it is also an Internet word for rational discussionawsl comes from the first letters of 啊我死了 (a wǒ sǐ le) which translates to “Oh, I’m dead”. It’s used to describe excitement for seeing something cutein forums, a post is considered a “floor”