Chapter 307: She Just Wants to Read, Not Watch Videos
It looked like Manager Yang was about to lose his job! Was this considered bullying?
Well, maybe not exactly bullying. Workplaces with this kind of attitude really need to change. Why should a girl be targeted just because she rejected her boss's romantic interest?
And now that the girl’s boyfriend was standing up for her. Wasn’t that just fair payback?
The company was still running fine. It didn’t stop working just because Lin Yibai took time off, and it didn’t collapse because a department manager might get fired.
Compared to whether Manager Yang stays or goes, the company cared more about the entire year’s business.
They were trying to win Xia Changyu back and convince him to still sign the deal. After all, if Manager Yang hadn’t acted like a fool,
"We were this close to signing the contract!"
During the company’s manager meeting, General Manager Tang Ning just couldn’t get over how a perfectly good business deal had fallen apart.
So, what should they do to fix it?
The key person in this situation was definitely Lin Yibai.
People discussed it for a long time in the meeting. Someone suggested, “Maybe we could ask Manager Yang to apologize or something?”
General Manager Tang Ning rejected the idea right away, “Mr. Wang, are you crazy? From what I’ve heard, Manager Yang had a crush on that girl and got mad when she turned him down. Then he made things difficult for her on purpose. We’re not letting him come out again just to make things worse, got it?”
Mr. Wang was not convinced and asked, “Then what do we do now? General Manager, give us a plan!”
Tang Ning shook his head and said helplessly, “I don’t really have a good plan either. Whether we get this deal or not mostly depends on the Xia family. Let’s just go with the flow.”
He was a responsible manager. He really wanted to earn that money.
But if it couldn’t be done, then he had to let it go. The best thing now was to focus on doing his current work well.
Of course, they also needed to treat Lin Yibai with more respect. After all, based on her resume, she was clearly a very good employee.
As for Lin Yibai, things were actually going pretty well for her.
When she left the company earlier, she was still angry and had already prepared for the worst.
“Whatever! If they want to fire me, then fire me! There are plenty of other jobs out there.”
She was definitely going to take her leave!
She had worked hard for the civil service exam. After so much pressure and effort, there was no way she was going to give up the exam for the company's low-paying job, just because they wouldn't let me take time off.
Why should she cancel her leave just because the company said no? Forget that!
Anyone who didn’t know better would think she was making hundreds of thousands a month, like she couldn’t live without this job.
But in reality, her monthly salary was only 3,000 to 4,000 yuan.
So why should she push herself so hard?
If it weren’t just for the work experience, Lin Yibai wouldn’t even have stayed at this job in the first place.
But her anger soon disappeared. The company chat group was super active. Some of her closer coworkers were tagging her like crazy.
[@Mengmeng: @Baiyi, Something big happened Baiyi, hurry and check — our department is falling apart!]
[@Little Shi Pretty Girl: Hey hey hey, be careful! If the manager sees us all chatting in here, we’re done for.]
[@LoveFattyFoodHahaha: What manager? Latest news: Manager Yang might be getting kicked out!]]
[What the heck? Manager Yang got fired?]
[What happened exactly?]
[Is there new gossip?]
[I’ve disliked Manager Yang for a long time.]
[I heard he messed up a big deal with the Xia Group, and the General Manager got so mad he fired him on the spot!]
Lin Yibai looked at the messages in the work group chat. She couldn’t help but raise her pretty eyebrows.
“Xia Group?”
To be honest, as Xia Changyu’s girlfriend, she had a general idea about his family’s business. But she didn’t expect it to be this powerful.
It’s like this, you definitely know the KFC brand, right?
But KFC is actually owned by a company called “Yum! Brands”, which also owns Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and other brands.
Xia Changyu’s family acts as the distributor for many big international brands in China. Just like “Yum! Brands”, they manage several different companies under them. One of those brands was planning a business deal with Lin Yibai’s company, and that deal alone could’ve fed the company for a whole year.
But thanks to that idiot Manager Yang.
Boom. Deal gone.
Lin Yibai sorted out all the connections and scratched her head in surprise. “What the heck? My boyfriend… Xia Changyu doesn’t even look like a very super rich guy. But it turns out… he’s actually really powerful?”
Suddenly, she felt a bit unsure. “Maybe I don’t know my boyfriend as well as I thought.”
But that feeling quickly disappeared. After all, Xia Changyu was already "shaped like her". He belonged to her, didn’t he? No matter how strong or powerful he was, so what?
Also, ever since he accepted that mysterious “sub-system,” he did grow stronger…
But that system also had a strange side effect, he could only get “excited” for her.
When she got back to the apartment, Xia Changyu had already been waiting.
Lin Yibai asked, “Did you go to my company today?”
Xia Changyu quickly said, “No, of course not.”
Lin Yibai walked over and flicked his forehead. Annoyed, she said, “My boss, that Manager Yang, seems to have made some big Xia Group heir mad and got fired. Now he’s jobless and stuck with a 30-year mortgage and car loan. Poor guy!”
Xia Changyu said bitterly, “But he bullied you.”
Lin Yibai narrowed her eyes and smiled, “And you still say you didn’t go to my company? That Xia Group heir, it was you, wasn’t it?”
Xia Changyu saw he couldn’t hide it anymore and said with a guilty smile.
“Baiyi, let me explain! I just wanted to help you focus on your civil service exam.”
Lin Yibai shook her head. “Was it really just for me? No personal grudges at all?”
Xia Changyu looked away and said quietly, “Okay, okay… you’re not wrong. That Manager Yang tried to hit on you, and when you turned him down, he got mad and tried to make things hard for you. I didn’t like him for a long time, so is it really wrong for me to do something about it?”
Lin Yibai finally laughed. “As a person, I feel sorry that Manager Yang lost his job. But as a woman, I’m really happy you did that for me.”
Xia Changyu grinned and revealed his real motive. “So… do I get a reward?”
Lin Yibai: “What are you planning now?”
Xia Changyu: “I want…”
Lin Yibai: “No, I mean, what are you actually planning to do?”
Xia Changyu said, “I recently found a great video. I thought we could watch it together and, you know… learn something?”
Lin Yibai quickly shook her head, “Get lost! I’m about to take the civil service exam, so no, we’re not doing that. Right now, I just want to read. Got it?”
Right now, she just wanted to read books.
Not watch videos.
OK?