Ye Qian stared at me in astonishment, as if she was trying to find a weakness on my face.
In the end, she failed. She averted her gaze, stirred her coffee, and asked, "I heard it was you who introduced Lu Yan to Gu Nian?"
I nodded. "Yes! Is that a problem?" I tilted my head and thought for a moment. "It was hard for the four of us to get together, so we went to celebrate. We patronized a Cantonese restaurant. We happened to bump into Gu Nian there. He said his assistant had recently left for personal reasons and he needed a new stand-in, so we recommended Lu Yan to him. They had an interview on the spot. It worked out. Lu Yan thanked us profusely and said that we were her lucky stars."
Ye Qian looked at me with a sad smile.
I looked at her innocently. "What's wrong? Is she not good at her job? Did she make you mad?"
Ye Qian shook her head and suddenly teared up. "Nanxing, do you think there's karma in this world?"
All these snakes