Chapter 90

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Protagonist:

Jiang Wenyu

This is Jianghai City, inside a certain office.

A woman's expression was gloomy; a contract before her already bore her signature, and a moment later she let out a heavy sigh.

The door opened, and a young man with a calm expression walked in.

"Miss Ling, you called for me?"

Ling Shen nodded, forcing out a smile, and said, "Mulin, how long have you been working for me?"

Bai Mulin stood quietly in front, answering very precisely, "Two years, six months, and twelve days."

Ling Shen was surprised he remembered so precisely, and his expression now appeared even more sorrowful.

"Over two years... time really flies. When you first came to me you were still a clueless young lad; now you've matured considerably and grown much steadier."

Bai Mulin felt it was strange — normally Ling Shen was never this worried, never this sentimental. He asked with deep concern, "Miss Ling, what exactly happened?"

Ling Shen let out a long sigh, didn't say more, and instead pushed the contract in front of her toward Bai Mulin.

The latter immediately picked it up and read it seriously for a few moments; he only needed a few short minutes to spot the key contents. Bai Mulin, whose personality had always been steady and calm, also showed a sudden fluctuation in his expression. He looked up and asked, "The Railway Bureau... you sold the company to the Railway Bureau?"

The contract contained the company transfer details with the Railway Bureau; Ling Shen had already signed it.

For some reason Ling Shen lowered her head again, nodding silently, and said, "The Railway Bureau sent someone yesterday, a young man named Mu Pu. He discussed these matters with me. I thought, the company is operating with great difficulty now; better to sell it at once so the losses will be smaller. The Railway Bureau seems to plan to make this place a branch office, and large-scale railway construction is apparently going to happen nearby as well. That counts as a good thing, I suppose — at least it benefits people."

After his surprise, Bai Mulin also gradually calmed down.

These past two months, how the company was doing he knew perfectly well. Although a cooperative relationship had been reached with Jiang Wenyu, that couldn't save the company's initial losses; lasting over two months was already no easy feat, but now it finally couldn't hold on any longer.

He understood this deeply, so he could only fall silent.

But Ling Shen's eye rims suddenly reddened; with a slightly thick nasal voice, she said softly, "Blame me... blame me for being too greedy. If I had taken it step by step from the start, the company wouldn't have ended up like this. If I had been a bit more shrewd, it wouldn't have come to this..."

Hearing this, Bai Mulin could no longer suppress the surge in his heart. He looked up seriously and said, "Miss Ling, let's keep working hard. Don't sell the company. I believe if we keep at it, one day we'll surely turn the tide!"

Ling Shen covered her reddened eye rims, smiled bitterly, and said, "It's not that easy, Mulin. From the start you followed the wrong person. I'm neither an ambitious woman nor a clever one. I'm destined to fail. If... if I had talent and ability like Jiang Wenyu, I wouldn't have ended up like this. Continuing would only make things more miserable for both of us."

"But—"

Bai Mulin was about to say something more, but Ling Shen cut him off first: "Mulin, you haven't owed me anything for a long time. From now on do what you want to do. I really am a bit tired. It's time to go home and see my parents. Finally... the company's employees, I'm entrusting them to you."

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Seven days later, Chema City.

Li Chen was busy calculating the total repair costs over these past days. It must be said that after Jiang Wenyu's training, these employees' skills had improved markedly — not that they'd reached Jiang Wenyu's level, but they weren't far off.

"Impressive! In just half a month they've already repaired seven hundred units!" Li Chen was both pleasantly surprised and deeply moved. This speed was unprecedented, and the quality of the repaired products was also excellent.

Although compared to 69,000 units these seven hundred are just a drop in the bucket, even so the speed is staggering.

And every day Jiang Wenyu would also take part in it. Inside the company only Li Chen handled all kinds of affairs; only at noon did he have a little time to rest.

It happened to be during a rest period that the company unexpectedly had another visitor!

"Mr. Li, there's a man named Bai Mulin outside looking for you."

The receptionist downstairs came upstairs. Hearing this name, Li Chen shot up from his seat and hurried downstairs without hesitation.

Reaching the first floor, he indeed saw a young man with a dazed expression sitting on the sofa waiting quietly.

"Hahaha, Bai Mulin!"