Since Kai intervened, I hadn’t run into Jarvis again. I acknowledged his performance at work and decided to raise his year-end bonus by a couple of percentage points.

Kai remained as stoic as ever, quietly placing a cup of warm ginger tea and a heating pad on my desk. Suddenly, it hit me—no wonder I had been so irritable lately—it turned out my period had just started.

I collapsed onto the sofa, and Kai set a lunchbox in front of me.

“Why this place? It’s not the one I usually eat from!” I complained.

Kai calmly pulled out a spoon from the bag, saying, “This is the chicken soup I...