Twilight Tails

"Selene."

"Selene!"

The woman who was sleeping bent over her desk woke up with a start at the sound of her name.

She raised her head, revealing a handsome face with the hazy, watery glow of freshly awakened sleep in her eyes.

Selene rubbed her eyes and took a long sip of the iced Americano that had finished melting on the table before turning her head to look at the person who had woken her up.

It was Ethan, the manager of their department, her top boss.

The middle-aged man in a suit had his thick and short eyebrows raised high across his face, his tone was disgruntled: "Bring your monthly summary to my office when you've had enough sleep."

"... Uh-huh."

Selene stood up, against the "sympathetic" lines of sight coming from all around her, straightened herself at her desk, picked up a stack of papers, and headed in the direction of the manager's office.

Since the door to the office was open, Selene just raised her hand and knocked twice on the door panel before going straight in.

"Manager, this is my summary for this month."

Selene placed the bound paper in her hand on the desk.

"Close the door."

Ethan didn't look at Selene's monthly summary, he just moved it to the side, tapped his fingers on the desktop, and asked gruffly:

"Selene, what's been going on with you the last few days?"

"Sleeping at work every day, I've seen it myself alone. This week is the third time I think I have come to our company to sleep with pay, huh?"

"Sorry, my problem."

Selene couldn't refute the matter of sleeping at work. She was sincerely apologizing.

But Ethan, who heard this sentence, was choking, almost being pissed off on the spot. He was also strange. Her sleeping at work was not her problem. Could it still be his problem?

"Is it useful to apologize to me? Our company is also a large company in the industry. You're screwing up our company's morale is not good. If every employee is like you, the company would have gone out of business!"

You also know the economic situation in these two years. You can graduate from our company to work . That's your ancestor's grave smoke. You used to know to work seriously. Now every day you are the earliest to leave work, to 5:30 on time to leave work. What's the matter? Are you busy meeting a lover or do you still have a side business in the evening, ah?"

Ethan counted down in a high voice while measuring the woman standing in front of him from top to bottom.

He had turned a blind eye to a lot of things before because of her good looks, but this woman didn't know any better and refused to accompany him to a drinking party to socialize two days ago.

He glanced again at the closed door behind Selene, and suddenly had a little hidden thought.

Ethan slowed his tone and said softly:

"I am also for your own good. You are also capable people. I should be able to be promoted this year. By then the assistant manager is also mentioned, then the vacant position ..."

He paused for a moment, as if to imply: "If you know something, we usually drink a drink and eat a meal together to contact feelings, you this opportunity will not come?"

Selene, who had been keeping her eyes downcast as if she hadn't woken up, finally slowly raised her eyes to look at her superior after hearing these words.

She smiled: "A liaison?"

The man nodded approvingly, casting his eyes at her with a slight ambiguity, like a smooth and greasy snake wrapped around her neck and was trying to swim downward.

"Unfortunately, I shouldn't need this opportunity."

Selene finished coldly, then took two steps forward and pressed the piece of paper cupped in her hand onto her desk.

Ethan looked at the paper on the desk with a head full of fog, and after seeing what was written on the paper, his voice suddenly rose a few dozen decibels higher: "A resignation letter?"

Their department currently belongs to Selene's best performance. She left the stall in the middle of the run, her dream of promotion and salary increase at the end of the year is afraid not to be shattered into pieces.

Thinking of this, Ethan's face is even more ugly: "Why so sudden, there are more than three months to the end of the year, now quit your year-end bonus do not want?"

"Don't." Selene should be very decisive.

Dry attitude let Ethan directly choke a bit, he did not die next asked: "...

reason?"

"Still need to say the reason ah?" Selene tilted her head slightly sideways, "Well ... Do you want to hear the real one or the fake one?"

Her tone sounded quite flat, but it was hard to hide the hidden aggression in it.

Ethan froze as he looked incredulously at the woman in front of him.

Since Selene joined the company, she has always been very low-key, and is also the department's famous "good old woman", very amiable, never arguing with others.

But right now, she looked at him without hiding, her eyes as sharp as a knife blade, and her words also left behind the sense of proportion that adults should have in socializing.

It was like a gentle kitten that had been holding back for a long time and had finally revealed its sharp claws.

Ethan didn't listen to Selene's reply, but continued in a quick, no-nonsense tone.

"Less money, more work, far away from home, coworkers all day ineffective internal scrolls than who worked overtime for a long time, the leader of the fart much day by day to mention all kinds of unreasonable requirements, oh, even want to subterfuge subordinates."

"Cough, cough -" Ethan coughed red in the face and ears, loudly and angrily: "You do not talk nonsense! Who wants to subulate you? Don't flatter yourself, okay?"

"No?" Selene lifted the cell phone in her hand and winked languidly : "I recorded the audio, so I can share it for with others to listen to."

"..."

Ethan's face was about as colorful as if he'd spilled a dye store, for good measure.

But even at that sight, Selene wasn't much happier, and as if she thought of some unpleasant memory, she continued with a wooden face:

"The most important thing is that the cat food made by our company is really bad, the quality is so poor and still let me talk to others every day against my will. I think the problem is very big."

The office became quiet for a moment.

"Huh? Is cat food made by our company is awful?" Ethan's expression became distinctly subtle as he carefully asked, "... How do you know?"

That look looked rather like a humble feeling of being afraid that he had messed with a crazy person.

Selene:"..."

Never mind, she just knew!

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Eventually, Selene made it out of the company building where she had worked for two years, clutching the cardboard box.

She had a busy afternoon. She had to go to the HR and finance department to do paperwork again, organize her personal belongings, and make a handover plan to the colleague who would be taking over the job.

From tomorrow onwards she could not come here to work.

Selene looked at her reflection on the glass door and couldn't help but be in a trance for a moment.

The current economic situation was indeed bad, and it wasn't like she didn't know how hard it was to find a suitable job, so she worked her ass off every day.

Although she was just spitting with Ethan about the small salary given by the company, it was actually already considered to be the tallest among the shortest in the industry.

She majored in communication in college, and through the school recruitment, she joined this listed company that made pet food, and became a brand pr in the company's PR department.

If not for special reasons, she would not easily resign.

But after all the resignations, one still has to move on.

Selene picked up her cell phone, pressed the bright screen and looked at the time.

After seeing the time at this moment, Selene, who had appeared very calm since the beginning, suddenly changed her face, and there were a few more points of gravity in her eyes.

It was now the middle of August, and according to the sunrise and sunset timetable she had checked on the internet, today's sunset time was 6:35 pm.

And it is already five forty now, with less than an hour left.

The company is in the center of the city. She cannot afford to rent a house in this inch of land, so she rented a house farther away from this side. By subway also has to transfer. The fastest will be forty minutes ... may not be able to make it.

Selene immediately opened the taxi software, fixed a place to call a net taxi.

Two minutes later, the white net car appeared in front of Selene. She quickly opened the door and sat in the back seat.

Selene didn't even put her things down. She looked at the netjob driver in the driver's seat: "Master driver, I have something urgent, let's drive quickly."

"Okay, okay, no problem." The driver was a young guy, full of enthusiasm, very understanding of the passenger's needs, and immediately kicked the gas.

The car flew out instantly, Selene leaned back and the cardboard box in her hand almost smashed her face.

The car drove fast, the scenery out of the window in front of Selene's eyes flew past, so that she was slightly relieved.

Unfortunately, the good times don't last long ...

"Beauty, there seems to be a car accident up ahead."

The driver boy turned his head and looked at Selene with helplessness in his eyes.

Selene opened the navigation software on her cell phone, and sure enough, she saw that the road condition on the navigation was a very blinding long red line.

Red light alert.

Now that's what a house is like.

Although Selene's heart was anxious, she still kept a calm tone and patiently asked :"

"Master, about how long it will take us to leave."

The driver boy smiled bitterly: "In my experience, the fastest it should take is twenty minutes, but it's supposed to be rush hour now, so it's normal to be stuck in traffic for an hour."

"..."

Selene immediately made a good decision.

She raised her hand and opened the car door, holding the cardboard box in one hand, and stepped down sharply with one foot, looking sideways at the driver boy: "Then I'll just get off here, hard work for you."

"Eh?!" Hearing Selene's words, the driver boy was a bit shocked, "This is still four kilometers away from your destination! How are you going to get there?"

"Shared bike."

After Selene finished speaking, she closed the car door, and after paying for the taxi app, she walked to the side of the road and swept a shared bike.

She found a bundle of nylon rope in a cardboard box and tied the box to the basket of the shared bike before she started adjusting the bike cushion, finished adjusting it, got in, and started riding forward.

The driver boy froze and watched the woman's back as she rode off in style on her bike through the windshield, puzzled: "What on earth is so urgent?"

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Seventeen minutes later, Selene finally saw the gate of the neighborhood where her house is located.

She hurriedly parked her shared bicycle at a parking spot near the neighborhood, and then looked at the time on her phone.

It was already six twenty-three, twelve minutes before the sun set.

Even though Selene was scarlet and out of breath from the exhaustion of cycling, she still didn't choose to rest, but immediately picked up the cardboard box and ran furiously all the way in the direction of the neighborhood.

With victory close at hand, a smile finally appeared on Selene's face, before the smile could fully bloom ...

"Eh, Hour!"

Just as she entered the door of the neighborhood, she bumped into her landlord, Mrs. Maple.

"Mrs. Maple," Selene stiffened, reluctantly stopping her darting steps.

"Where are you rushing off to? Oops, why are you sweating so much."

Selene really wasn't in the mood for pleasantries at the moment, and just responded in a fast-talking voice: "I'm in a bit of a hurry to get home, Mrs. Maple, what's the matter with you?"

"Oh, it's just that the downstairs neighbors said that it seems like the water pipe in the house you rented is leaking, and they can always hear a ticking sound in their house. Didn't your uncle used to specialize in these? I'll bring him to your house later to check the water pipe. I'll say hello to you first."

"Ok, no problem, you just come straight there then, Mrs. Maple if there's nothing else, I'll leave first!"

Selene's mouth was still talking, and her footsteps were already moving towards the front.

Mrs. Maple looked at Selene's distant back with some puzzlement, and thought brokenly: "... This girl is usually so calm and steady. Why is she in such a hurry today?"

First floor, second floor, third floor ...

Selene climbed the stairs with difficulty while looking at the sky through the glass window of the building.

The setting sun melted gold and the sky was filled with red haze, an incomparably gorgeous and beautiful image that made it impossible to take one's eyes away.

But at that moment, she was unable to stop and watch. She only knew that the sun was about to set.

Thinking of this, Shi Yin immediately gained a little more motivation to climb the stairs, and she quickened her pace.

Finally, she reached the sixth floor.

Even the plain security door looked so friendly.

Selene hoofed it forward, took out a key from the small bag she was carrying, and opened the door.

She dropped the cardboard box as soon as she entered, and before she could catch her breath, the person disappeared into thin air.

And in her place on the floor was a pile of clothes.

The top garment was none other than the long-sleeved gray one Selene wore today, while underneath it was bulging as if it hid something.

A few moments later, a small orange colored head popped out of the collar of the shirt.

Selene sighed and looked down at her furry little cat paws.

She was a cat again.

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