CH 7

After a short month’s renovation, Huading’s internal affair restlessness slowly returned to the normal work pace. Due to the large scale of personnel mobilization, the staff left behind are particularly serious. Huading’s salary and welfare are first-class in the industry. Everyone is going all out, making sure that they able to stay in Huading. The more advantages one can get in the workplace, the more people are attracted to work here.

When Lu Chengyu chooses Huading, other students who heard the news feel either regrettable or happy for Chengyu’s misfortune. However, seeing Huading slowly and steadily gaining some momentum, many people began to sigh again. Chengyu really worth to be the school figure, he has the ability to think in long-term.

As long as Huading can slowly revive, Lu Chengyu can be hired again, which is more cost-effective for the company to pay his salary rather than hiring someone with experience. You know, everyone likes a person who doesn’t leave you when you are in trouble and Chengyu choose to work in Huading during the turbulent time.

Lu Chengyu is not interested in caring about what other students think of him. Since his past life, these people’ opinions are not important and even less important in this life.

“Xiao Lu, there’s a new Chinese restaurant under the company. I got a couple of coupons, two for you.” said a female co-worker. She went to Lu Chengyu and put two coupons on his desk. “Two days ago, you brought us that dumpling, it tastes really good, where did you buy it?”

“Thank you.” Lu Chengyu was not tried to be polite, he takes the coupon given by the female co-worker and began to explain,” At the entrance, right corner of this company, their business is booming. I managed to buy it by queuing early. I was lucky that day.”

This female co-worker is known as Tang Xuan, manager Luo’s secretary. She is 26 – 27 years old and has worked in Huading for two or three years. Manager Luo is around fifty years old woman who is very capable of working. Many people in the company respect and fear her. It’s said that she is willing to work in Huading because she has a good relationship with the boss’s mother.

Lu Chengyu’s work has occasional contact with Manager Luo, but he doesn’t feel anything terrible about Manager Luo. In his past life, he has seen women with higher working ability.

Tang Xuan looked at the time: “It’s twelve o’clock. Continue your job after lunch.” She had heard gossip about Lu Chengyu’s ability is highly valued by top management. She thought it was just a rumour, but after working together, she felt that even if the top management does not value Lu Chengyu, they can’t erase Lu Chengyu’s excellence.

She has worked for several years after graduating from university and hasn’t seen such a good man for a long time. He looks handsome, has a nice personality, excellent ability and good manners. This is a model of a good man in China. If she hadn’t been five years older than him, she would have decided to chase Chengyu.

“Already lunch?” Lu Chengyu looked at the time displayed on the computer desktop, then he saved the typed project document and added a password to it, “Let’s go together.”

They went downstairs together to the restaurant on the 10th floor. There are free-meal for employee areas and small special stir-fried dish areas that required extra money. When Tang Xuan went to the free-meal area, Lu Chengyu went to the special stir-fried area and ordered several dishes. Then he finds a good seat and greets Tang Xuan to have dinner together. While they were eating, he inadvertently asks for some information about Huading’s past.

Since Lu Chengyu is not asking about taboos in the workplace, so Tang Xuan has nothing to hide. After dinner, Tang Xuan said, “There are rumours in the company that you are a rich second generation and you drive to work before you graduate.”

Tang Xuan vaguely reminded Chengyu that someone in this company was gossiping behind his back. Lu Chengyu smiled and opened a bottle of drinks and handed it to the other party. “It only took about 100,000 yuan to buy a car and add a license to it. Is there a rich second generation like me?” Then he kept his voice down and said mysteriously, “Long ago, I won 200,000 yuan lottery tickets. I even cover my face when I go to collect the prize. Don’t tell anyone.”

Tang Xuan’s eyes changed slightly and then she said, “OK, having that good luck, you can’t stop me from asking you to buy meals for me.”

“Don’t embarrass me Sister Xuan, I need to pay tax for the 200,000 yuan lottery and only left with 160,000 yuan, plus there’s not much left after I buy a car.” Lu Chengyu sighed, “But since Sister Xuan has spoken, I’ll invite our Secretariat to have dinner tonight. We’ll go to either self-service hot pot [1] or hot skewers [2]. You can choose.”

[1]

[2]

“It’s generous enough,” Tang Xuan took a sip of the drink given. “Okay, I’ll tell them later, let’s go to the self-service hot pot. Although there are many women in our department, they are heavy eater.”

“Okay, I have to trouble you with this, Sister Xuan,” Lu Chengyu laughed and he screwed the lid of another drink. His manner was full of gentleman’s style.

Tang Xuan remembered that the other party had opened a drink to herself first. Thinking about this, Tang Xuan is in a better mood and then she sighs again. It’s a pity that he’s much younger than her. She’s not good at being in love with a younger man.

From a corner, Cao Jingshen watched Tang Xuan and Lu Chengyu leave together. It has been only one month, but Lu Chengyu was so familiar with everyone in the department. Although Tang Xuan is only 26 – 27 years old, many people can’t catch up with her work’s ability and interpersonal skills. She is Manager Luo most trusted person. She has never looked up to other male secretaries in the Secretarial Department and usually prefers to be with female secretaries. Everyone knows that Tang Xuan is a beautiful and independent woman, mostly being noticed as the Invisible Big Women, how can she get together with Lu Chengyu?

Yan Mu finished his dinner and saw Cao Jingshen staring at the entrance of the restaurant, he wiped his mouth and ask, “What’s wrong?”

“Nothing, I just think Lu Chengyu is good to the opposite sex.” said Cao Jingchen, he unconsciously sighs a little, “He even able to take down a woman like Tang Xuan.”

Yan Mu looked across Cao Jingshen’s face, he got up, took up the tray and slowly opened his mouth. “It’s mainly because of how he looks.”

Cao Jingshen looked at his boss’s back and quietly took off his glasses and wiped them. Sometimes people with a lesser word can kill others when they speak.

(T/N: Yan Mu told Jingshen that he is not handsome compared to Chengyu. Savage~)

After work that day, Lu Chengyu went to eat hot pot with other colleagues and they went for karaoke. The next day, many people from the same department were close to Chengyu. This is because he was drunk and accidentally slips out that he won 200,000 yuan lottery, thus everyone knew that Chengyu was able to buy a car using that money. They all are making fun of his good fortune. Although there were people who envy, no one will be so jealous because of a mere 200,000 yuan. In this soaring price society, with 200,000 yuan, he can’t even afford to buy a few square meters of a toilet in the second ring’s property.

Cao Jingshen didn’t go to the party that evening, but after that party, he saw the people in the department treat Chengyu differently. They become friendlier compared to before. He did not investigate what happened, but he thinks highly of Lu Chengyu. It wasn’t easy for an intern to integrate with the other senior staff in Department so quickly. Even if everyone is polite because Lu Chengyu is his assistant, it will not really help him to enter the workers’ circle. Furthermore, sometimes it was due to Lu Chengyu is his assistant, he will be even more unable to integrate into that circle.

This is the same as the primary school students who have any secrets and will not tell their classmates who are the class monitor, this is a natural psychological exclusion, To get rid of this psychological exclusion, it has depends on one’s ability.

Therefore, Lu Chengyu can do this step, enough to prove that he is not simple.

Because Lu Chengyu is still in his internship period, Cao Jingshen naturally told Yan Mu about this matter. Yan Mu’s response is still the same as usual, that is, no response.

“There will be Q University Graduation Ceremony in a few days.” Yan Mu signed his name on a document. “The degree certificate will be awarded.”

Cao Jingshen was confused and he looks at Yan Mu.

Yan Mu did not explain to him, but said, “Empty my schedule that day.”

Cao Jing nodded his head when he heard Yan Mu. He recalled that there weren’t any big cooperation plan last week, so he did not ask many questions.

At the end of May, the weather was getting hotter. As soon as Lu Chengyu left his office, he felt that he could not breathe without the air conditioner. When he arrived at the underground parking lot and walked up to Ben Teng (his car’s brand name [3]) while holding his car key, he was shocked to find that his little Ben Teng served as a foil to million-dollar Maybach beside it, making his car looks like a chunk of crap.

[3]

Lu Chengyu felt very envious and jealous. He looked up and down at Maybach, it’s shine like black jewels. He even circled around it. Finally, he couldn’t help but take out his mobile phone and take a photo of Ben Teng and Maybach. He erased the license plates and he sent the photo to his Weibo.

“As a small Ben Teng car owner, I instantly understand what is the hatred of the rich when facing this sharp gap between the rich and the poor.” After Chengyu edits this paragraph, Lu Chengyu posts it on his Weibo.

Just when he successfully sent his post, the Maybach car’s door in front of him was opened and he can see a shiny leather shoe stretched out from the car. The man who comes out from the car is not a stranger to Lu Chengyu. (T/N: WHAAATTT? YOU WERE INSIDE THE CAR?? ∑(ﾟﾛﾟ〃))

“Do you like it?” Yan Mu walk to Lu Chengyu and saw him put his mobile phone in his trousers pocket. He thought Chengyu was embarrassed and handed the car key to him. “Do you want to try it?”

“I like the price of it more than the car.” Lu Chengyu opens Yan Mu’s car using the keys given. Then, he enters the car and touches the interior of that car. There no is embarrassment shown in Chengyu’s face. He gets out of the car and touched its door. “It’s too expensive and I’m not confident to drive this car without shaking, better I don’t do it.”

Yan Mu nodded after he listens to Chengyu’s excuses and he took the keys back. “There will be opportunities in the future, I’ll drive and you sit.”

Lu Chengyu saw Yan Mu’s earnest face and didn’t know what to say for a while. A person with this kind of personality tends to have a dedicated character. He thought about it and answered earnestly, “Thank you, boss. If there is a chance, I must sit in your car.”

Yan Mu looked back at his Maybach, and after a long silence, “Doesn’t like cars.”

Lu Chengyu: “…”

In fact, sometimes too honest is also a disadvantage.

(T/N: Yan Mu thought Chengyu like the car, but when I ask Chengyu if he wants to drive it, Chengyu reject it, so Yan Mu was like.. “oh, he doesn’t like the car”)

“Well, Boss, I’ll go first,” Lu Chengyu open his car’s door and nodded to Yan Mu. He reverses the car and when the car came out at the corner of the parking lot, he saw from his rearview mirror that Yan Mu seemed to be still standing in that place.

When he returned home, Chengyu found that his Weibo had an unprecedented amount of sharing and each of the forwarders expressed their happiness by taking pleasure in other peoples misfortune. The proof is that there a bunch of praising fanatics under his post in Weibo.

This society’s style to knee and lick the rich is too immoral. The most hateful thing is that he is not one of the rich people!

(T/N: while others are praising how rich the car is, chengyu just feel a stab in his heart because it wasn’t his car = other take pleasure(praising him) by his misfortune (not his car).)