Chapter 716: Do You Think I Only Look at Faces?

Half an hour later—

The two arrived at the entrance of a magnificent hotel.

Cai Xiaotang was already more than familiar with this place; she and Liu Qingze casually grabbed a room card for one of the rooms and got into the elevator.

Once they reached the room, she first took a look around.

"How is it? Any problems?"

Liu Qingze asked.

Cai Xiaotang nodded: "There are, but the problems aren't too big. The guest rooms should be fine like this. In a while, we still need to go check the Presidential Suite and the hotel's other facilities. After all, since it's a four-star aiming for five-star, the requirements must be a bit more stringent."

"So professional?"

It was the first time seeing Cai Xiaotang at work, and a flash of interest crossed Liu Qingze's eyes.

Hearing this, Cai Xiaotang put her hands on her hips and glared at him: "Duh! If I weren't professional, why would you hire me?"

Liu Qingze immediately waved his hands: "I didn't say that, I just thought... I didn't expect you to be quite so impressive."

"Tch..."

Cai Xiaotang looked around the room again, then suddenly thought of something and looked at Liu Qingze with a meaningful expression: "Hey, you don't happen to know absolutely nothing about this, do you?"

"I don't know anything."

Liu Qingze looked perfectly calm.

"You've never studied it?"

Cai Xiaotang was a bit surprised.

Liu Qingze was even more righteous: "Never studied it. Isn't that what I'm learning right now?"

Cai Xiaotang: "..."

Fine, she could see it now.

This person was truly being forced into a role he wasn't ready for, which was why he accepted this kind of job!

"Big sister, are you going to teach me?"

Liu Qingze's voice sounded again, this time with a hint of probing.

Cai Xiaotang nodded without the slightest hesitation, her expression suddenly becoming somewhat smug: "Of course! You are the project lead, after all; you can't go wrong following me! I guarantee I'll teach you until you've mastered it!"

The two went around the hotel again, briefly understood the situation, and then quickly headed to the next hotel.

By the end of the day, they had gone through more than half of the hotels under the Liu family that were still at the four-star level.

At dusk—

Cai Xiaotang received the time for the gathering sent by Ren Qing.

She took one last look around the hotel, then planned to take Liu Qingze to the gathering spot.

As they stepped outside, she suddenly saw that snowflakes had started drifting down at some point.

"It's snowing?"

Cai Xiaotang was stunned for a moment and instinctively reached out a hand to catch one.

The snow wasn't very heavy; as soon as it landed on her palm, it vanished without a trace.

Then, the next second—

Her vision suddenly went dark.

"Liu Qingze!"

Cai Xiaotang pulled off the hood that someone had pulled up over her from behind, looking at Liu Qingze with amusement.

Liu Qingze, meanwhile, had a very punchable smile: "I was afraid you'd be cold. After all, big sister is getting on in years; if you get sick, you won't be able to work."

Cai Xiaotang immediately pulled a long face on purpose: "Tch... how come you already have the shadow of a little capitalist? As expected, you only know how to exploit us working stiffs! And! This big sister is incredibly young! Unlike some..."

Halfway through her sentence, the image of Li Xiao suddenly surfaced in her mind.

Tch...

Why did she think of him again?

But that guy is the real middle-aged old man!

"Unlike what? Why did you stop talking?"

Liu Qingze poked her shoulder.

"Don't want to talk about it anymore. I'm hungry, let's go eat!"

Cai Xiaotang turned and walked away, too lazy to say anything more.

After a while, the two arrived together at a very high-end hot pot restaurant.

When Cai Xiaotang and Liu Qingze arrived, everyone was already seated.

And as soon as they walked through the door, they immediately drew gazes from all directions.

"It seems our Xiao Tang and Young Master Liu are getting along well? The relationship between the two of you looks much closer now."

As soon as Cai Xiaotang sat down, she heard Chen Jialin make a teasing remark.

She paused slightly, smiled, and said nothing.

There were many people from the company, but there were only about a dozen who were often by Cheng Yue's side.

At this moment, except for Cheng Yue, their eyes were all discreetly sweeping over Cai Xiaotang and Liu Qingze, looking somewhat inquisitive.

"Alright, everyone is here, let's have a drink first."

Cheng Yue took the initiative to raise his glass, and the others followed suit.

Everyone chatted for a bit, and the topic shifted to this collaboration.

Chen Jialin took the lead in stirring up trouble, looking at Liu Qingze with a smile as she asked: "Young Master Liu is truly young and promising. We had heard before that we might be collaborating with the Liu family and had even spent a long time preparing for it. We didn't expect that as soon as Young Master Liu came on board, you would directly designate Xiao Tang. It really took us by surprise..."

"Who's to say it didn't."

Another woman followed up, "Although it's a bit unexpected, setting aside her work ability, Xiao Tang is pretty, and I would also want to work with someone like that..."

The two women sang in harmony, implying in every way that Cai Xiaotang had merely used her beauty to land this job opportunity.

Cai Xiaotang's eyes flickered for a moment; she naturally understood what they meant.

She wouldn't take it to heart, either.

In any case, it was nothing more than a few sour remarks; she didn't need to lower herself to argue with such people.

But she hadn't expected—

"Why set aside work ability? It seems the two of you think I am so shallow that I decided who would take on this job just by looking at their face?"

Liu Qingze spoke up suddenly.

His tone was nonchalant, making it impossible to tell if he was happy or angry, yet one could intuitively feel that he was displeased.

Everyone was stunned for a moment.

Cai Xiaotang was also taken aback, suddenly feeling that the person before her was somewhat unfamiliar.

She had originally thought he was just a spoiled, impulsive big boy.

But she hadn't expected... to suddenly see his sharp side.

The atmosphere turned awkward for a moment.

As the boss, Cheng Yue naturally understood the infighting among his subordinates, but as long as it didn't go too far, he wouldn't intervene.

Yet, at this moment, he still couldn't help but smooth things over: "Of course not, Xiao Tang is indeed very excellent, and the reason Qingze chose her..."

"I chose her because I have already reviewed everyone's profiles, and after spending this day together, she has also fully demonstrated her work ability to me. Don't you think so... Sis..."

Before Liu Qingze could finish saying "sister," he immediately received a glare from Cai Xiaotang.

Sister, what sister!

If these people heard them addressing each other so intimately, there would definitely be endless trouble!

Receiving her warning, Liu Qingze finally braked in time and changed his words: "Miss Cai... forget it, I'll just call you Xiao Tang, okay?"

It was the first time she had heard him call her that, and Cai Xiaotang felt a bit subtle.

Yet she still replied in a businesslike manner: "Mm, Young Manager Liu is also very professional; I believe this cooperation will be very pleasant."

Soon, the previous topic was brushed aside.

Everyone chatted casually about work topics as if nothing had happened.

Cai Xiaotang, however, was too lazy to say much and just ate her food in silence.

Scanning the area, she looked at the meatballs not far away and was just about to stand up—

A pair of chopsticks beat her to it, picking up a meatball and placing it on her plate.

The air went quiet for another moment—

Liu Qingze put down the serving chopsticks with composure, the corners of his lips curling slightly.

Cai Xiaotang: "..."

What kind of move was this?

Was he afraid that others wouldn't be able to tell they knew each other!