Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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After a short month of recuperation, Huading had slowly returned to its normal work pace from its earlier restlessness. Because of the large staff turnover, the remaining employees were also particularly serious. Huading’s salary and benefits were first-class in the industry. Everyone had come out to make a living. The more meat there was in the bowl of rice, the more people would serve that bowl of rice.
When Lu Chengyu entered Huading, some students in the school who heard the news felt sorry for him and some gloated. However, seeing that Huading’s momentum had gradually stabilized, many people began to sigh again, saying he was worthy of being a celebrity in the school, this vision was really long-term. As long as Huading could recover, then Lu Chengyu who entered Huading at this time would definitely be successful, which was more cost-effective than going to other large companies. They even liked to say that a friend in need was a friend indeed and he should have told them also. But Lu Chengyu was not interested in caring about what other students thought of him. For him, the opinions of these people in his previous life were not important, and they were even less important in this life.
“Xiao Lu, a new Chinese restaurant has just opened under the company. I got a few coupons. I’ll give you two,” a female colleague walked up to Lu Chengyu and put two coupons on his desk. “The soup dumplings you brought us two days ago tasted really good. Where did you buy them?”
“Thank you,” Lu Chengyu said without hesitation after putting away the coupons. “It’s at the entrance of the alley where you turn right out of the company. Business is booming there. You have to line up early to buy them. I was lucky to buy them the day before yesterday.” This person was Manager Luo’s secretary Tang Xuan, who was about 26 or 27 years old and had worked at Huading for two or three years. Manager Luo was a serious woman in her 50s. She was very capable at work. Many people in the company respected and feared her. It was said that she was willing to work at Huading only because she had a good relationship with the boss’s mother.
Lu Chengyu occasionally came into contact with Manager Luo at work, but he didn’t think there was anything scary about this Manager Luo. In his previous life, he had seen women with higher fighting power than this one.
Tang Xuan glanced at the time: “It’s already twelve o’clock, let’s do it after lunch.” She had heard rumors that the higher-ups valued Lu Chengyu’s ability. She originally thought it was just a rumor, but after working together, she felt that even if the higher-ups didn’t value Lu Chengyu, it couldn’t erase Lu Chengyu’s excellence.
She had graduated from college and already worked for several years, and she hadn’t seen such a good man for a long time. He was good-looking, had a good personality, was capable, and was polite. He was simply a model of a good Chinese man. If she wasn’t five years older than him, she would have decided to pursue him long ago.
“It’s already so late?” Lu Chengyu glanced at the time displayed on the computer desktop, saved the plan he had typed, and then added a password to the file, “Let’s go together.”
The two went downstairs to the cafeteria on the 10th floor. There was a free employee area and a small stir-fry area that required extra money. When Tang Xuan went to the employee’s meal preparation, Lu Chengyu went to the small stir-fry area to order a few dishes, found a vacant seat and invited Tang Xuan to eat together. While eating, he casually asked some information about Huading’s past.
Because Lu Chengyu didn’t ask questions that were taboo in the workplace, Tang Xuan had nothing to hide. After the meal, Tang Xuan said, “There are rumors in the company that you are some kind of rich second-generation, and you drove to work even before you even officially started working.”
Hearing that Tang Xuan was implicitly reminding him that someone in the company was gossiping about him behind his back, Lu Chengyu smiled, unscrewed a bottle of drink and handed it to the other party: “It only cost about 100,000 to buy a car and get a license. Is there a rich second-generation as poor as me?” He lowered his voice and said mysteriously, “I won 200,000 in the lottery some time ago. I even covered my face when I went to claim the prize. Don’t let it slip though.”
Tang Xuan’s eyes changed slightly, and then she said, “Okay, you’re so lucky, but you can’t stop me from talking by treating me to such a small meal.”
“Sister Xuan, don’t make it difficult for me. After paying taxes on 200,000, I only got 160,000 in hand. There wasn’t much left after buying a car,” Lu Chengyu sighed, “But since Sister Xuan has spoken, I will invite everyone in our secretariat to dinner tonight. You can choose from a buffet hot pot or hot skewers.”
“How generous,” Tang Xuan took the drink and took a sip. “Okay, I’ll tell them later that we can have a hot pot buffet. Although there are many women in our department, they have big appetites.”
“Okay, then I’ll trouble you, Sister Xuan,” Lu Chengyu smiled and twisted the lid of another bottle of drink, his manners full of gentlemanly style.
Tang Xuan just remembered that the other party had opened a bottle of drink for her first, and her mood became better. She sighed again, it was a pity that he was much younger than her, and she was not fond of sister-brother love.
In the corner, Cao Jingshen watched Tang Xuan and Lu Chengyu leave together. It had only been a short month, and Lu Chengyu had become so familiar with the people in the department? Although Tang Xuan was only twenty-six or twenty-seven years old, her work ability and interpersonal skills were unmatched by many people. She was the person that Manager Luo trusted the most. She had always looked down on other male secretaries in the secretarial department and usually preferred to be with female secretaries. You know, women like Tang Xuan who were beautiful on the outside but tomboyish on the inside usually had invisible misandry. Then how could she get along with Lu Chengyu?
Yan Mu finished his meal with a mouthful of rice and a mouthful of vegetables. Seeing Cao Jingshen staring at the entrance of the cafeteria, he wiped his mouth and asked, “What’s wrong?”
“Nothing, I just think that Lu Chengyu has good luck with the opposite sex,” Cao Jingshen unconsciously sighed, “He can even win over a tomboy like Tang Xuan.”
Yan Mu’s eyes passed over Cao Jingshen’s face, then he stood up, picked up the plate and said slowly: “It’s mainly a face problem.”
Cao Jingshen looked at his boss’s back, silently took off his glasses and wiped them. Sometimes people who didn’t like to talk could kill people with just their words.
After work that day, Lu Chengyu went to eat hot pot and sing karaoke with his other colleagues. By the next day, people in the same department had become much closer to him. Because Lu Chengyu accidentally let it slip after getting drunk, everyone knew that the money Lu Chengyu got to buy a car came from the lottery, so they kindly teased him for being lucky. There were envious people, but no one would be jealous of just 200,000 yuan. In this society with soaring prices, 200,000 yuan was not enough to even buy a toilet of a few square meters within the second ring road of this city.
A person on Cao Jingshen’s level was obviously not present at the party that night, but he soon discovered that the people’s attitude towards Lu Chengyu in the department had changed a lot. He did not investigate what was going on, but he looked at Lu Chengyu with a higher opinion. It was not easy for an intern to integrate into the department so quickly. Even if everyone had been polite on the surface because Lu Chengyu was his assistant, they would not really let him integrate into this circle. Instead sometimes, just because Lu Chengyu was his assistant, he should be even less able to integrate into that circle. This was just like when elementary school classmates had secrets, they would not tell their classmates who were the children of teachers. This was a kind of natural psychological rejection. To get rid of this kind of psychologically suggested rejection, it depended on a person’s ability.
Therefore, since Lu Chengyu could do this, this was enough to prove that he was not simple.
Because Lu Chengyu was still in the internship period, Cao Jingshen naturally told Yan Mu about this matter. Yan Mu’s reaction was still the same as usual, that was, no reaction.
“Children’s Day is just a few days away,” Yan Mu signed his name on a document, “Q University’s degree certificate will be issued soon.”
Cao Jingshen looked at Yan Mu in confusion.
Yan Mu did not explain to him, but just said: “Set aside that day for me.”
Cao Jingshen nodded when he heard this and recalled that there were no major cooperation plans in the next week, so he did not ask more questions.
At the end of May, the weather was getting hotter and hotter. As soon as Lu Chengyu left the office, he felt that he could not breathe without the air conditioner. When he arrived at the underground parking lot and walked to his own Pentium with the car keys, he was shocked to find that his small Pentium had been made to look like a pile of scrap metal by the Maybach worth tens of millions next to it.
Lu Chengyu looked up and down at the Maybach shining like black gemstones with some envy, and even walked around it in a circle. Finally, he couldn’t help taking out his mobile phone to take a photo of his Pentium and Maybach, painting over the license plate, and posting the photo to Weibo with some envy and jealousy.
“As the owner of a small Pentium, facing this clear gap between the rich and the poor, I instantly understood what hatred of the rich is.” After editing this paragraph, Lu Chengyu sent out this Weibo.
Just when the Weibo was successfully sent, the door of the Maybach in front of him opened, a pair of shiny leather shoes stretched out, and then a man who was familiar to Lu Chengyu got out of the car.
“Do you like it?” Yan Mu walked up to Lu Chengyu and saw that he had put his mobile phone in his trouser pocket. Thinking that he was embarrassed, he handed the car key to him, “Do you want to try it?”
“I like its price more,” Lu Chengyu opened his car door and put his bag in the car. There was no embarrassment on his face. Instead he stepped forward and touched the door of the Maybach, “It’s too expensive. My hands will shake a little even when I drive. Let’s forget it.”
Yan Mu nodded when he heard it and took the key back: “If there is a chance in the future, I will drive and you can sit beside me.”
Seeing the serious look on Yan Mu’s face, Lu Chengyu didn’t know what to say for a moment. People like this who stuck to their words were often stubborn. He thought about it and replied seriously: “Thank you, boss. If there is a chance, I must sit in your beloved car.”
Yan Mu looked back at his Maybach, and after a long silence, he said, “It’s not that I love the car.”
Lu Chengyu: “…”
In fact, sometimes, being too honest was also a shortcoming.
“Well, boss, I’ll be leaving first,” Lu Chengyu opened the car door, and when he saw Yan Mu nod to him, he got in the car, backed the car out, and drove out of the parking space.
When the car turned the corner out of the parking lot, he saw in the rearview mirror that Yan Mu seemed to be still standing there.
After returning home, he found that his Weibo post had an unprecedented high number of reposts, and everyone who reposted it expressed their gloating in the form of candles. The result was that there were a lot of likes under the Weibo post.
This society that knelt before and licked the rich was really shameless. The most hateful thing was that he was not one of the rich people!
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