Chapter 22: She Can Find a Way to Fire You

Ali: This is the style of an overbearing CEO; that's how they act in TV shows. If you hate someone, you just make them disappear. Especially a romantic rival.

Han Yangting typed a string of ellipses.

He had the ability to do so, but he could never do something that would ruin a person's future. For an average family, raising a graduate student inevitably requires a massive expenditure of effort.

He replied to Ali: My Ruoruo is beautiful, so it's normal for her to have many suitors. There's no need to cut off someone's future just because they like Ruoruo. Don't worry about this for now; I trust Ruoruo.

If Bai Shuruo couldn't handle it, then he would make other plans.

Ali felt depressed.

It was all for nothing, and in the end, there was no result at all; it couldn't demonstrate his work capability in the slightest.

Just as he was about to continue eating his barbecue, Han Yangting sent him a red envelope.

He was pleasantly surprised. Although it was only 88 yuan, it fully demonstrated that his boss recognized his work capability!

……

Over the next few days, Bai Shuruo's life remained the same, a two-point line between the company and home every day—busy but fulfilling.

Wang Xuekai did not come to look for her again. She met him in the cafeteria once, but he didn't speak to her, and she pretended not to know him even more.

Zhang Yuanyuan, however, continued to mock and satirize Bai Shuruo whenever she saw her. But this was the company after all, and everyone was an intern; as long as Bai Shuruo didn't argue with her, the conflict couldn't escalate.

Bai Shuruo was capable and quick-witted. After doing odd jobs for a few days, He Jian began to assign her some simple design tasks, and Bai Shuruo put her heart and soul into completing them.

On Friday, the department held a regular meeting, and all 30-plus people in the department had to attend.

Wei Zhuguan sat in the center seat. He started by summarizing the department's performance for the week, first with all sorts of praise, and then came a turn: but...

When speaking of certain shortcomings, Wei Zhuguan appeared very agitated, even slamming the table, like an angry Grand Eunuch.

"CG gives you such a high salary, and this is how you do things? You have no efficiency when you need efficiency, and no result when you need result..."

The interns sat on the outermost chairs during the meeting, each one of them terrified.

Finally, the department's problems were finished, and they moved on to discuss product design.

CG made mobile phones, and phones had different series. Each series had to be upgraded to the next generation every few months, and how to upgrade them was a problem.

You couldn't just change the name every time, nor could you just increase the memory a little; the appearance and performance all had to be improved.

After Wei Zhuguan raised the question, he let the people below discuss it.

Having just been yelled at, the company's veteran employees, in order to save face, vied to express their opinions. Some talked about how the appearance should be, some about how to strengthen performance, and some suggested combining it with daily life to add features, such as using the phone to distinguish between real and fake currency, or adding a fortune-telling function, and so on.

After the veteran employees finished expressing their opinions, Wei Zhuguan glanced at the interns on the outermost edge and said, "Interns can also share your ideas."

The interns panicked instantly.

But after all, they were at the company every day and in contact with design work, so they had to say something.

Moreover, students from prestigious universities were not lacking in expressive ability, and everyone could come up with one or two points.

It was just that many ideas had already been proposed by the veteran employees; they were merely echoing someone's opinion, agreeing that someone's opinion was good, or proposing some relatively superficial ideas.

When it was Bai Shuruo's turn, her heart tightened first.

She rarely spoke in front of a crowd, and now that everyone was looking at her, she panicked even more.

Furthermore, she had been accustomed to being a beat behind since she was a child. By the time she organized her thoughts and was about to speak, Wei Zhuguan could no longer wait: "The next one."

Bai Shuruo was filled with regret, blaming herself for being so nervous.

She clearly had ideas.

Even after the meeting ended, Bai Shuruo still regretted it so much she wanted to beat her chest and stamp her feet.

Back at her seat, the more she thought about it, the angrier she became—angry at herself for lacking courage, angry at herself for being so cowardly.

After thinking it over, she simply opened the office system and sent a message to Wei Zhuguan: "Wei Zhuguan, just now at the meeting, you asked us to share our opinions. I didn't dare to express them at the time, but I did have some thoughts in my mind, for example..."

Bai Shuruo listed two of her ideas.

Wei Zhuguan didn't reply for a long time, and Bai Shuruo remained anxious.

Sigh, next time there's a meeting, I must take the initiative to speak, organize my language in advance, and be ready to speak at any time.

It wasn't until she got off work in the afternoon that Wei Zhuguan replied to her: "The ideas are good, but I hope you can improve your courage, just like that song 'Courage' you sing."

Bai Shuruo's heart finally settled down.

She felt that Wei Zhuguan was actually a decent person.

……

That night after work, Bai Shuruo got on the subway. Just as she managed to grab a seat, she saw Wang Xuekai get on as well. He stood by the pole right in front of her.

The subway was crowded, and it was very packed at this time. She couldn't be bothered to avoid him; avoiding him would only imply she had something to hide.

Wang Xuekai stood right in front of her, but he didn't speak, and she didn't either, just like strangers.

After the subway passed two stations, the person next to Bai Shuruo left their seat, and Wang Xuekai quickly sat down.

He finally spoke: "Are you doing okay at CG?"

Bai Shuruo asked: "Why are you asking this?"

"You should be careful with what you do lately. Zhang Yuanyuan's uncle is a high-level executive at the company. She said she could have her uncle fire you."

Bai Shuruo couldn't help but ask: "Can you just fire people at will because you're a high-level executive?"

Wang Xuekai said: "Zhang Yuanyuan is very close with her uncle. As long as she acts spoiled, her uncle might just go along with her wishes. Besides, you're only an intern and haven't signed a formal labor contract."

Bai Shuruo clenched her fists and said: "Zhang Yuanyuan hates me because of you, right?"

"She doesn't allow me to be with you, so I've been trying to keep my distance from you during this time, so she doesn't actually go and beg her uncle to fire you."

Bai Shuruo: "..."

Their business—why did it have to involve innocent people?

……

Han Yangting squeezed a glass of juice for Bai Shuruo as usual that night.

He discovered that Bai Shuruo was truly lazy when it came to eating. Even though he put some fruit on the coffee table every day, she always acted as if she didn't see it and never touched a single piece.

It seems only by juicing them can she replenish her Vitamin C.

The two sat at the bar counter drinking juice.

And he asked her as if it were official business: "Was everything alright at the company today?"

"It was fine, it's just..." She hesitated, wondering whether to talk about the meeting today.

"Tell me about it. Don't look at me as if I'm just at home all day; I have worked before, so perhaps I can understand the confusion in your heart."

Seeing him with the air of a veteran workplace leader, Bai Shuruo told him about not daring to speak up during the meeting today.

He looked at her and counseled: "You've only been working for a few days and you already have your own ideas; this shows you are a good employee who is skilled at thinking, but you are not good at expressing your thoughts. This doesn't matter in daily life, but it won't do in the workplace. The workplace is exactly where you need to dare to showcase yourself."

Bai Shuruo nodded.

She suddenly felt that it was quite nice to have someone to talk to, especially someone like Han Yangting who appeared mature and steady.

"Besides this matter, is there anything else?" Han Yangting asked again.