Chapter 136: Don't Forget What You Need to Do

"So what if it is?" Meng Ze replied.

Meng Xinghua sighed with grief and indignation: "So what? What can be done? Don't forget what you need to do."

Meng Ze said indifferently: "I haven't forgotten."

"Then you must work hard, strive to gain Bai Shuruo's trust, gain a firm foothold at Baiyin, and be able to take charge on your own!"

"Alright, I understand!" Meng Ze said.

Then he pushed open the door to one of the rooms, turned on the light, and lay down on the dilapidated little bed.

This bed was still the one from his middle school days and hadn't been replaced to this day; when he stretched his legs, half of his calves were exposed outside the end of the bed.

Even after he had money as an adult, he didn't want to change the bed; this was the place where he grew up, yet it didn't feel like a real home.

A real home should be warm, right?

He had never felt that; his memories of this home only consisted of getting beaten, so it didn't matter what kind of bed he slept on, as long as there was a place to stay; in a while, he planned to go out and rent a place.

Han Jiani returned home tonight in a daze; Ms. Qu and Han Jiaren called out to her, but she didn't hear them.

Ms. Qu couldn't help but raise her volume and ask: "Jiani, what's wrong with you? Jiani?"

Only then did Han Jiani come back to her senses: "Mom, did you call me?"

"Why did you come back so late?" Ms. Qu asked.

The reason Ms. Qu and Han Jiaren hadn't slept so late was that they were looking at the new limited-edition fashion that had just come out this season; these also had to be snatched up, and there was a time difference with foreign brands.

Han Jiani answered honestly: "I went out for a drink."

"Why are you going out for drinks again? Can you do something proper for once?" Ms. Qu was quite dissatisfied with her.

"Alright, I'll do something proper when I go to work tomorrow," Han Jiani said.

"Wait!" Ms. Qu handed her phone to Han Jiaren, letting her younger daughter help with the purchase.

Han Jiaren took the phone and, without changing her expression, transferred 1 million from one of her mother's cards to her own.

Ms. Qu walked up to Han Jiani and said in a concerned tone: "Are you dissatisfied with this job? Sigh, the original intention of letting you go to work at the company was to hope that everyone in our Second Branch would work at Baiyin, so that more people would know that our Second Branch people are also ambitious, and then slowly infiltrate. But since you don't like this job, and this job doesn't allow you to get any training, then you should resign. Go out and do something you like yourself, whether it's opening a shop or starting a company."

Upon hearing this, Han Jiani couldn't help but fall silent.

If Ms. Qu had said this a few hours earlier, she would have gone to the company to resign tomorrow, but she happened to say it at this moment.

"Mom, I don't want to resign," Han Jiani said.

"You don't want to?" Ms. Qu was surprised: "Didn't you say that going to the company to do odd jobs every day was very boring?"

"Mom, I haven't been working for long and haven't adapted yet; you have to let me adapt first, let's talk about it after a while, at least after the three-month probation period."

"Th-then you decide for yourself; Mom just said that, if you like doing it, do it; if you don't like doing it, don't do it." Ms. Qu wore a loving expression, and her heart was also filled with joy.

Bai Shuruo rested on the sofa in her office after finishing her meal that noon.

There was a lounge inside, but she found it troublesome, and that lounge held many memories of her and Han Yangting; she didn't want to go in and add to her sorrow in vain.

After lying down for a while, she drifted off to sleep in a daze.

When she woke up, she discovered a blanket covering her body.

It was strange; she remembered not covering herself with a blanket before she slept, so why was this blanket on her?

This blanket was taken from the lounge; it was possible that Linda had come in halfway.

But when Bai Shuruo took the blanket to put it back in the lounge, she passed by the office desk on the way and caught a glimpse of several circuit board prototypes on the table.

This matter had always been assigned to Meng Ze to follow up on, which meant that the person who came in was Meng Ze, and the person who covered her with the blanket was also Meng Ze.

Covering someone with a blanket was a very intimate act, and it wasn't appropriate for a man and woman to do it, but Meng Ze was her assistant, so it seemed to make sense. Bai Shuruo didn't think much more about it.

Meng Ze's office was outside the Secretary's area, the furthest from Bai Shuruo's office, and since this position was one level lower than the Secretary, his desk was near the entrance.

The President's office had an access card; only people from the President's office could swipe their cards to enter, and if people from other departments wanted to come in, they had to ring the doorbell and wait for someone from the President's office to open the door.

Meng Ze was working when he heard the doorbell ring, so he pressed the button to open the door.

He thought it was someone from the departments below coming to deliver documents, but he didn't expect the person who entered to be Han Jiani.

Han Jiani was indeed holding two documents in her hand; it wasn't her turn to deliver these documents, but she had specifically snatched the task.

"Data from the Administrative Department that needs the President's approval; who should I give it to?" Han Jiani asked Meng Ze.

At the same time, her eyes were darting over Meng Ze's body.

Meng Ze pointed to the document rack on his desk and said indifferently: "You can put it here."

Han Jiani carefully placed it inside, but she didn't leave.

Meng Ze raised an eyebrow: "Does the eldest Miss Han have other business?"

Han Jiani smiled, then walked up to him: "Meng Ze, give me your contact number."

She was dressed very beautifully and brightly today; a blue top, a yellow skirt, and a red headband—her whole outfit was in the colors of Snow White.

Meng Ze pointed to the desk phone: "Go back and check the internal network; you can find the number for this desk phone."

Han Jiani wasn't annoyed: "That's not what I want; give me your mobile number. If you aren't at the company and I have other matters, I can call to consult you."

Han Jiani's performance attracted the attention of the other 4 secretaries in the office.

It was also because Meng Ze was too handsome; recently, many secretaries and clerks from below had been scrambling to deliver documents.

Seeing the four secretaries in front looking at her, Han Jiani greeted them with rare good temper and took several La Mer samples out of her pocket to give to them.

"Sisters, I am Han Jiani from the Administrative Department; please take care of me in the future."

These secretaries didn't care for these small samples; they had high salaries and could buy them whenever they wanted.

Furthermore, Linda had seen Han Jiani's resume and knew she was from the Second Branch, so Linda returned the items to her without hesitation and then intentionally or unintentionally showed off the La Mer hand cream on her desk.

Han Jiani understood Linda's meaning, and she couldn't help but say: "I am President Han's cousin; can I come up to sit often in the future?"

Linda said, "If you have business, come up; if not, don't come up. Your position has not yet reached the level where you can come up to sit for a while, unless Bai Vice President invites you up."

Han Jiani was humiliated and felt extremely displeased.

She could only blame her own current lack of ability.

She left the office sullenly, but when passing by Meng Ze's desk, she bent over and smiled at Meng Ze: "I will find a way to get your phone number, and I'll ask you out for dinner tonight; you aren't allowed to not come. If you don't come, I will post the video of you kissing me last night to the company; my friend recorded it all."