Newcomer in the department

On a Monday morning, a girl with shoulder-length hair was sitting at her desk in the office of the A-City Criminal Police Brigade, her ten fingers tapping rapidly on the computer keyboard, although her eyes were blocked by the thick shadows of her fringes, her tightly pursed lips still showed her concentration at the moment.

"Gu Xiaofan!"

Suddenly, someone shouted out the girl's name, and at the same time, she was tapped heavily on her shoulder, the girl was taken aback, her hand shuddered, and a few more nonsense words were instantly added to the manuscript on the screen.

Gu Xiaofan sighed and deleted those extra words while looking up at her colleague Han Lele who had sneaked up behind her at some point, sighed helplessly and said, "Lele, you must have been a cat in your last life, you walk without any sound at all and you especially like to jump out and scare people out of nowhere."

Han Lele is Gu Xiaofan's colleague, one is CID's internal staff and one is field staff. Although the job content is a bit different, it hasn't affected the two girls from being sisters who have a good friendship in such a yin and yang environment of the CID.

"They say Monday is the day when work motivation is at its lowest, how come you're not like normal people?" Han Lele sat next to Gu Xiaofan's table with her cheeks in her hands, "What are you busy with this early in the morning?"

"Writing my personal year-end work summary." Gu Xiaofan continued to bury her head typing.

"Why do I remember that your year-end summary was almost finished last weekend. Why are you writing it again?" Han Lele asked a little strangely.

"It's not mine, it's ...... oops, forget about it, Lele. Did you come over to see me for something?"

"Yes, Ni Ran and I have heard that our brigade's field office is about to transfer a newcomer. I don't know if he will be a handsome guy. When the guy comes, he must be in the same office as you. Remember to give us information!" Han Lele said to Gu Xiaofan with a gossipy face.

Ni Ran is another internal police officer of the criminal police brigade works in the same office with Han Lele, also Gu Xiaofan's classmates when he was in college, so usually the three of them are close.

"Sure" Gu Xiaofan hadn't heard of any new people being transferred in, and didn't have the leisure to wonder about a completely unrelated stranger, so she promised Han Lele with her mouth, but all she could think about was the work summary that needed to be written out in a hurry.

"By the way, didn't you go to your classmate's wedding this weekend and become a bridesmaid? How do you feel?" Han Lele didn't see that Gu Xiaofan was distracted and after explaining to help keep an eye on the newcomers, she started to care about Gu Xiaofan's weekend life.

Suddenly asked about this, Gu Xiaofan's face immediately became like a bitter melon, waving her hand and sighed, "It's unbearable to look back. I'm both physically and mentally traumatised, don't ask if you have sympathy!"

"Fine, I won't ask, you're busy, I'll go back first!" As soon as Han Lele saw Gu Xiaofan like this, she quickly raised her hands in surrender with a smile and slipped back to her office.

Gu Xiaofan sighed and continued to focus on the half-written work summary. She had a terrible weekend. It hurt her self-esteem and she was embarrassed. As a older soft-hearted young woman, she can't bear the softness of others. But because she became the bridesmaid, she had to block the drinks for the bride and was finally turned into a drunk cat, vomited in a mess. After returning home, she was dazed and dizzy, and her parents continued to hold her by the ears and recited the question of why other people could get married, but she could not.

After sending Han Lele away, Gu Xiaofan was finally able to concentrate on her work summary, but her peace of mind didn't last long, as the office became noisy again when other people came in one after another.

"Xiaofan, have you finished writing the summary of my work?"

When Gu Xiaofan looked up, she found that her colleague Gao Xuan had already arrived and was standing next to her desk looking at her, which made her face redden a little, biting her lips gently and she said with some regret, "Not yet ...... just a little bit... ..."

"This is not like your style ah." Gao Xuan seemed a little disappointed, his good-looking face had a unhappy expression, "Didn't we talk about it last weekend, you said you can definitely handle it before I handed it over to you. If I had known you could not finish it, I would have directly found someone else to help me."

"It won't be impossible, it won't delay you from handing it in." Gu Xiaofan anxiously assured him, just short of putting up three fingers on the spot.

Only then did Gao Xuan smile and give Gu Xiaofan a thumbs up, "That's the Gu Xiaofan I admire the most!"

After saying that, he turned around and walked away to chat with the others, leaving Gu Xiaofan red-faced as she continued to write the year-end work summary that had not yet been completed.

It was just the last paragraph, just the last little paragraph of the summary, and she would have completed his task! Gu Xiaofan buried his head in writing for half a day and finally saw the light of victory. Just at this time, the office door opened and the captain of the criminal police brigade walked in from outside, followed by a long-built man.

"Come on, everyone, pay attention ah, I'll introduce you to a new colleague." The captain clapped his hands to call the attention of the others in the office, then pointed to the man beside him, "This is Zhong Han, who has officially been transferred to our brigade, and will be working with you guys from now on, Zhong Han has just returned from a peacekeeping mission, so all of you help him get more familiar with our work."

Gu Xiaofan lifted her head and glanced at the new colleague who had been tipped off by Han Lele, and she was stunned.

The world couldn't really be that small, could it? Although she had never seen the black tweed jacket before, nor the dark grey striped wool scarf around his neck, she had definitely seen the face above the scarf before!

To be precise, she had not only seen it, she had vomited on it!

On Sunday, when she went to an old classmate's wedding, and her stomach turned upside down as she drank for someone else, so she covered her mouth and rushed to the bathroom.

Even now, Gu Xiaofan can still remember the man's ironic face, and before she could apologize, he had already rushed off to the men's washroom.

However, she never expected that this person would actually appear in her office!

Gu Xiaofan glanced at the sky outside the window and let out a silent wail in her heart - God, you are deliberately doing this to me, right?

"Hello everyone, my name is Zhong Han. I'm new here, and I still need a lot of guidance from everyone." The man waved to the group after the captain's introduction, smiled and said hello, his tone sounded as if he was very friendly and casual.

"Hello, my name is Tang Hongye" a medium build, somewhat baby-faced young police officer was the first to open his mouth to introduce himself and his hand pointed to a tall and handsome boy standing next to him, "his name is Gao Xuan."

After Tang Hongye introduced himself and Gao Xuan, a man with a dark complexion and a strong figure sitting beside him also nodded to Zhong Han, and introduced his name concisely in a low voice: "Tang Li. "

"Xiaofan, Xiaofan, it's your turn." After everyone else introduced themselves, only Gu Xiaofan remained awkward and did not speak. Tang Hongye couldn't help urging her.

Gu Xiaofan couldn't help but feel that her short-term goal was to find a secret way to poison Tang Hongye, the famous chatterbox of the criminal police team and make him silent.

"My name is Gu Xiaofan." She glanced at the man named Zhong Han somewhat sheepishly and stammered, her voice was very low as if her throat was caught by something.

The good thing is that Zhong Han did not say anything, and his face did not show any strange expression, smiled at her kindly and went to clean up his desk with his things under the arrangement of the captain.

Gu Xiaofan heaved a sigh of relief, she barely had the energy to reach out and pat her chest to help her calm down. She was so embarrassed just now. It seemed that he didn't recognize him, but when she thought about it, she remembered, that day she was in such a hurry that he might have only saw her for a second, moreover she was wearing a bridesmaid dress, and her face was covered with heavy makeup by the bride's makeup artist. Even she was startled when she looked in the mirror. That Zhong Han is not the golden-eyed Monkey King and it is normal for him to not recognize her.

Thinking about it this way, Gu Xiaofan sincerely thanked the makeup artist whom she despised that day.

After her heart settled down, she started to write Gao Xuan's unfinished work report again.

Not long after, Tang Li came over and said to her,  "Xiao Fan, come, follow me to the scene."

"Me? I don't want to......?" When Gu Xiaofan heard this, she was immediately embarrassed. Although she accidentally entered the criminal police team and was still a field worker, she has always been timid and only did some visits for investigation. Not to mention the scene, she didn't even dare to look at the photos taken at the scene. For so long, other colleagues have been taking good care of her in this aspect. She didn't expect Tang Li to actually come and call her to follow along to the scene.

Tang Li also seemed a little helpless: "Everyone else is busy, and there is no one else except you."

Gu Xiaofan's lapel was almost twisted by her fingers, but it was within her duties, so she couldn't find a reason to refuse.

"All right then." She stood up with a bitter face and put on a cotton jacket, as if she was about to go to the torture chamber.

"Is there a case? I'll join you."

Just as Gu Xiaofan and Tang Li were about to walk out of the office, Zhong Han also put on his jacket and followed.

"A male corpse was found at a construction site." Tang Li and Tang Hongye had the opposite personalities. He had always been relatively taciturn, he sized up Zhong Han and nodded, "Let's go together."

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