NOVEL NEXT Chapter 78
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"Come in!"
Entering the office, Li Yan casually closed the door. He saw Hai Fu, dressed in a black suit and wearing black-framed glasses, busy behind the computer.
"What do you want?"
As soon as the question was asked, Hai Fu finally looked up. Her initially inquiring gaze already carried the impatience of being interrupted. Upon seeing it was Li Yan, her eyes instantly became several times sharper.
With Li Yan's mental resilience, Hai Fu couldn't create any pressure on him at all, but at this moment, he exaggeratedly trembled more than any normal person would, even using moves like dodging bullets from the "Matrix."
"An idle person from the sales department! Are you so idle that you come here to perform tricks?" Hai Fu slammed the desk, and her already strong aura became even more imposing when she stood up.
Li Yan was experiencing this for the first time, feeling a sense of novelty rather than fear. He walked straight over and said honestly, "They say that President Hai's gaze is as sharp as Li Xiaofei's flying knives, so when meeting you, we should dodge the blades first, to avoid falling."
Why not say my gaze can kill? Hai Fu sneered, "Are you here to play dumb? I'll have security send you to psychiatry!"
"No, no, President Hai, actually, I'm here to apologize to you." Li Yan, worried he couldn't act flustered, directly lowered his head.
"Why are you apologizing to me?" Hai Fu wasn't buying it.
"Well... I bumped into you this morning. President Ye is afraid you'll misunderstand that he instructed me to bump into you, so he sent me to apologize..."
"Hmm? What's it got to do with Ye Jiahong?" Hai Fu stared fixedly at him, "Raise your head! Are you playing tricks on me?"
Li Yan quickly raised his head for a moment, then lowered it again. He swiftly corrected himself, "It's nothing to do with President Ye. The CEO asked me to explain to the leader. It was President Ye's decision to let me apologize to you..."
"That's not what you said earlier!"
"I'm nervous, too nervous, that's what I meant."
Li Yan's deliberate concealment only made Hai Fu more suspicious, especially since she never really got along with Ye Jiahong.
"Not gonna tell me? Think I can't have you packed off with just a word?" Hai Fu's tone was quite arrogant, and as Xu Ping said, she had the clout for it.
"As the saying goes, 'For the king's grant, loyalty to the king's cause!' I've already come to apologize; even if you fire me, I won't confess!" Li Yan closed his eyes, raised his head, and stood straight, looking like a certified fool.
Seeing his reaction, recalling his silly behavior dodging the blades, and knowing his useless idle identity, Hai Fu had already made some calculations. If no one had guided him in the morning, how could he be so composed? She glanced at Li Yan with disdain and said dismissively, "I couldn't tell you're so loyal! But don't forget, your loyalty should be to the company, not your boss! If your boss harms the company, will you still be loyal?"
"That…" Li Yan lowered his head again to hide the smile on his face, he 'mournfully' said: "President Hai, I'm just a small clerk with no achievements, anyone among you has the power to dismiss me, and I'm in a tough spot, the pressure is immense."
"Hmph! Spineless! Then let me ask, just nod if yes." Hai Fu sat back down, "Is it because Ye Jiahong is dissatisfied with me?"
Li Yan hesitated a bit before nodding.
"Is it because I don't like him, and I've ridiculed him?"
"How do you know?" Li Yan feigned surprise.
Hai Fu, sitting firmly in this position, is familiar with the thoughts and details of the top brass, and she has no position or business conflict with Ye Jiahong. The only thing that could make him displeased with her, she could quickly think of.
Looking at Li Yan's face, she was already convinced. "With everything like this, you still won't say?"
"It was your guess, not me gossiping." Li Yan continued his scared act, then looked around carefully and whispered: "President Ye says he's the company's top bachelor, only he's worthy of CEO Zhang. He says you've mocked him several times, either because you're interested in him or interested in the CEO, and either way, he can't tolerate it. Since he's also senior management, he can't do much to you, so he asked me, if I get the chance, to trip you up. Saying I got in through connections and have no abilities, you wouldn't bother with me, so… you see I'm just trying to make a living. Now I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place, the CEO might even personally fire me... I've got an old mother at home and a..."
"Enough!" Hai Fu snapped, cutting him off. Playing the sympathy card too poorly, even bringing up his eighty-year-old mother!
"President Hai won't fire me, right?"
"Hmph! You know you're just a pawn, am I going to bother firing you?" Hai Fu scoffed.
"That's true, but will you tell President Ye..."
Seeing him cowering, Hai Fu despised him even more, "Don't worry! I'm not like Ye Jiahong. I'll remember this in my heart, I won't sacrifice you. But you have to gather information for me! If Ye Jiahong has any ill intentions, I expect you to report to me!"
"In...form...er? No! It's true I look like someone handsome as Liang Chaowei, but I can't act. Also, Shady has shown how to spot undercover agents... I'm not up for this." Li Yan pleaded.
"Will you do it?" Hai Fu sternly threatened.
"You said you wouldn't fire me..."
"I won't fire you, but I can transfer you to the administration department, and keep an eye on you every day!"
"..." Li Yan tried to squeeze out some pitiful tears, but he couldn't, "If it's like that, then I guess I'll have to comply…"
While Hai Fu was proud of her authority on one hand, she was also a bit saddened and muttered inwardly: Damn, transferring under my supervision is worse than dying? Am I like some demon?
"Go back to work! Keep your head up, don't let Ye Jiahong notice anything. Remember, I'll have your back, the CEO supports me too!" Hai Fu scolded as if she were teaching her subordinates.
Hearing her assertive words, Li Yan was a bit speechless. When a woman holds a higher position, has a louder voice, a firmer attitude, worse temper, and coarser language, it indeed places great pressure on ordinary small employees.
Everyone's just trying to make a living, does it have to be so intense? Consuming too much "duck pears" might not be easy to digest, either.
The last sentence left him a bit suspicious.
"The CEO really... supports... you?"
Noticing the change in his eyes, Hai Fu angrily said, "I'm loyal to the company, of course, the CEO supports me! Get back to work!"
Li Yan thought, that's more like it, otherwise, acting as a scapegoat for his wife while also letting a girl-gang tough woman cozy up, that would be quite a deal.
As he walked out, most of the administration department's eyes turned to him.
Xu Ping was cautious as he came over and asked, "Jing Ke, you actually made it back alive? No internal injuries, right?"
Amid the admiring gazes of everyone, the silhouette of a true man walking away looked so mighty...