Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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After receiving the consumption text message from the bank, Lu Chengyu felt as if all the coolness he felt when he walked out of Bai Weixuan was shattered into dregs. He ate a meal worth thousands. Whose prodigal son was he?
The next morning, he received an interview call from Huading’s Human Resources Department. He found a casual suit from his closet. As a newly graduated college student, dressing too maturely when applying for a job was not a good choice. It was far better to dress appropriately and to be neat and clean so that the interviewer could see you more pleasingly. If they wanted mature employees, why would they bother recruiting freshly graduated college students? Just choose employees with working experience.
In his previous life, he believed that the internal situation of Huading was changing, so he did not submit his resume to this company. After he failed in the interview in Liang’s, he went to a brokerage company and ran errands with an agent. After working there for two years, he was finally qualified to lead artists. However, an investor fell in love with him instead of his artist. But he had no intention of playing this trick and was kicked out by the agency. Then, he opened a small fast food restaurant. However before he could make back the capital, the store was smashed. He was also accused of using gutter oil for no apparent reason, and it was even published in a local tabloid. He was really disgraced.
After the fast food restaurant closed, he was introduced by an acquaintance to a production crew as an assistant. As a result, he met the person who wanted to support him before and found out that this person was an investor in the drama, and he was eventually dismissed from the production crew as well. Life was not good in those few years, and his relatives treated him very coldly. After that, he found some jobs, but there were always inexplicable problems with them. In the end, he became the lobby manager of a certain star-rated luxury hotel, but just when he was about to be promoted, he died.
A man of great influence in the Economics and Management Branch of Q University, who had reached this level, could really be considered a failure. He felt that he must be a negative example to many alumni in the same grade, but later on he rarely attended class reunions, so what others thought had little to do with him.
However, looking back on the life he lived in his previous life, it was simply not something that could just be described with one word. Even he himself did not understand that many times everything started smoothly, but at the critical moment, they inexplicably fell out of control, just like an old man. It was as if God didn’t like him and wanted to make him unlucky.
“Since ancient times, no one has not died when living. They can only be divided into early death and late death.” He skillfully manipulated the computer and looked up the information he wanted, with a cold smile on his face. “But one’s death cannot be in vain.”
Early the next morning, he put on the clothes he had prepared in advance, hailed a taxi, and arrived at Huading in high spirits without squeezing into the bus or the subway. He looked at the shining golden signboard of Huading headquarters and the energetic security guard at the door. Then he straightened his collar and walked into the Huading gate unhurriedly.
The front desk receptionist knew that many people would come for interviews today, so they quickly explained the interview location to Lu Chengyu.
After entering the elevator, Lu Chengyu felt that Huading’s headquarters was a little deserted. It didn’t look like the atmosphere the headquarters of a large company should have. This showed how big the impact of Huading’s turmoil was. He somewhat understood why the industry was amazed when Huading stood up.
There was still half an hour before the interviews started, and all the job seekers were sitting in a conference room waiting for the interview to start. This showed that Huading attached great importance to talents. When Lu Chengyu entered, there were already six people sitting inside, four men and two women. When the six people saw him coming in, they only raised their heads and then went back to playing with their mobile phones.
Lu Chengyu chose a seat nearby with a smile on his face. He glanced around pretending not to care and saw a camera placed in an inconspicuous corner. If he hadn’t been working in the hotel for a while, he really wouldn’t have discovered it.
There were some color pages of promotional materials about Huading on the conference table. He took one and flipped through it slowly. Before he could read it for two minutes, there was another person beside him.
“Hello,” he looked up at the person next to him. She was a very beautiful girl.
“Hello,” the girl nodded politely to him, smiled back, and imitated his example, taking out the promotional material manual and flipping through it slowly.
At 9:40, the interviews officially started. There were a total of twelve people participating in the interview. Because they were recruiting two assistants, ten people had to be eliminated out of the twelve.
Lu Chengyu felt a little confused, whose assistant were they hiring?
Department manager or branch manager?
Huading International also had branches in other places, and it was involved in several industries, but its main focus was electronics and real estate. Even if newcomers like them succeeded in the interview, they were more likely to be transferred to a branch office.
Lu Chengyu admitted that he was ambitious, so he came to interview when Huading was in crisis. He had so much bad luck in his previous life, so he must have accumulated a lot of good luck to use in this life, right?
This society was very realistic. Only when you stand high enough can you settle old accounts and prevent others from bullying you casually. He was not that pretentious and aloof, and he was not willing to let go of things that could be speculated on.
The first few people who went in for interviews came out quickly, with bad expressions. One of them even complained: “They’re going to go bankrupt, and there are still so many demands. Do they think I can’t find a job?”
Lu Chengyu knocked on the door twice, entered the interview room, and there were three men and one woman sitting inside. They all looked gentle, but it was people like this who made it easy for people to relax their vigilance, and finally expose their shortcomings involuntarily.
After introducing himself, the four interviewers took turns asking him a few questions, which were not too tricky. Presumably, these people wanted to see the overall quality of the job seeker.
After answering these questions in an orderly manner, Lu Chengyu finally heard them ask about the business trip. Lu Chengyu smiled and said: “There is no problem with business trips.” In his previous life, he ran around for work and almost became a dog from exhaustion. Traveling for work was a normal thing, and he felt there was no pressure in accepting business trips.
This society was always a world of relationships and abilities, there were no exceptions.
The several interviewers nodded. The middle-aged woman sitting on the far right pushed up her glasses on the bridge of her nose and showed a professional smile: “Welcome to our company. Please report to the Human Resources Department next Monday. Then we will sign the contract.”
Lu Chengyu nodded with a smile, stood up and nodded to the four people: “Thank you, I will be here on time on Monday.”
The four interviewers all smiled back, and after they left, the middle-aged woman with glasses said: “This young man is young and has a calm temper. He will have a lot of room for development in the future.”
“If it weren’t for the fact that his information is here and he doesn’t understand some of the rules, I would really suspect that he is a veteran in the workplace,” said the deputy manager of the Personnel department who was a man of about forty years old. He wiped his half-bald forehead, put a checkmark on Lu Chengyu’s job profile, and put it in the drawer. “No wonder someone called last night and asked about him.”
The four of them were all old people in the workplace, and they know in their hearts that this Lu Chengyu was either someone from above, or someone from above was interested in his ability. It was rare for a top student from Q University’s School of Economics and Management to be willing to work at Huading at this time.
Lu Chengyu left the Huading headquarters and felt a little surprised. How could a company like Huading directly retain people during interviews?
He glanced at Huading International’s gleaming golden sign in the sun. No matter what company it was, as long as the word “international” was added to its name, it still looked a bit awesome. What’s more, the name was also called Huading, the Ding of China. This name was so domineering.
Turning the corner, he saw a lottery station and stopped in his tracks. He remembered that when he failed to apply for a job and was looking for a job, he lamented the auspiciousness of the winning numbers. But was it the sports lottery or the welfare lottery that he commented on?
In the end, Lu Chengyu bought four sports lottery and welfare lottery double-color balls. Years had passed, and many of his memories had long been blurred. So now he was just trying his luck.
Anyway, the total of eight tickets only cost sixteen yuan, no matter how much money was wasted, it would not be as cruel as the buddy he met last night.
Putting the two added lottery tickets into his wallet, Lu Chengyu found an antique teahouse and sat down, ordered a cup of Bamboo Leaf Green, listened to the quiet guqin music, and looked at the people coming and going downstairs through the glass window on the second floor, then he slowly took out the phone, and elegantly started reading the online novel that he had not finished last night.
The protagonist should be about to enter the Nascent Soul stage, but why hadn’t the girl around him appeared yet? It was his master who was always trying to make his presence felt. However, the description of this novel was magnificent, and whether or not there was a girl would just be the icing on the cake. The author’s writing was very good, and the description of the protagonist made up for all the shortcomings.
While he was watching the highlight, he heard a girl’s slightly unexpected voice, “What a coincidence.” The pleasant female voice caused him to quickly bring up the bookmark and link it to a certain custom magazine, and then look up with a smile, “Yes. You?” He hadn’t expected to meet the girl he had interviewed with before here. What a coincidence.
He stood up and walked to the other side of the table, gently moved the carved chair back, and whispered, “I didn’t expect to meet you here. It’s such a fate. Let’s have a drink together. Please sit down.”
Zhang Jiayu hesitated for a moment, but seeing that the other party had pulled the chair already, she smiled and thanked him, sat down on the chair, and looked at the tea menu handed over by Lu Chengyu, “I don’t know much about tea. I really don’t know what kind of tea is better.”
Listening to the other party’s words, Lu Chengyu knew that this was a girl with a relatively straightforward personality, so he smiled and said: “Girls usually drink rose tea to invigorate the blood and nourish the skin. The taste is not irritating, why not give it a try?”
Zhang Jiayu did not pretend to be an expert and directly nodded. Originally, because she was hired by Huading, she came here specifically to familiarize herself with the surrounding tea restaurants so that she could build a good relationship with her colleagues in the future. She didn’t expect to meet the person she had just interviewed with by such a coincidence.
“My surname is Lu and my first name is Chengyu. I will work at Huading in the future. Miss, what is your surname? I wonder if we will have the opportunity to become colleagues in the future?” Lu Chengyu ordered a few more Chinese pastries with tea. Looking at the girl’s expression, he asked so as to know whether the result of her interview was satisfactory.
“Don’t call me Miss. My name is Zhang Jiayu. Both of our names have the word “yu”. That’s fate. You can just call me Xiao Yu.” Zhang Jiayu smiled heartily, but she was very impressed by Lu Chengyu’s respectful attitude towards her. “From now on, we will be colleagues.”
Lu Chengyu smiled cheerfully, and his tone became less polite and more casual, enough to make the other party aware of his closeness. “In this case, just call me Da Yu. From now on, if you need to get your computer repaired or get something big moved at work, just call me.” When it came to this job, there was nothing to choose from. As for whether the two of them would work in the same place in the future, that didn’t matter. What mattered was that the other person understood that he was willing to help her.
Sure enough, Zhang Jiayu’s words and deeds became much more casual because of his attitude. By the time the tea was almost drunk and the pastries were finished, the two of them had already exchanged mobile phone numbers, added WeChat, and even followed each other on Weibo.
After they separated, Lu Chengyu had already been marked with a big red tick in Zhang Jiayu’s heart.
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