Xu Zhilin furrowed his brow, this sneaky underhanded business, and he, a distinguished B University alumnus, was expected to do it?
"Do you still think being from B University is so impressive?" Qiu Wenduo was not afraid to speak brutally, "Don’t you know, the thing she is writing, it’s said to be commissioned by the chairman—"
Xu Zhilin’s eyes widened in shock. ɪꜰ ʏᴏᴜ ᴡᴀɴᴛ ᴛᴏ ʀᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴏʀᴇ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs, ᴘʟᴇᴀsᴇ ᴠɪsɪᴛ 𝘯𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭⚫𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘦⚫𝘯𝘦𝘵
Could it be that the person she met earlier was not just an ordinary senior executive of the company.
Xu Zhilin felt as if his breath had suddenly stopped.
Seeing him almost breathless, Qiu Wenduo gave him a hard slap on the back and said, "Team leaders and department heads have never even spoken a word with the chairman. Tell me, aren’t they more upset than you are?"
Xu Zhilin finally exhaled the breath he felt was choking him.
"Get to it quickly," Qiu Wenduo whispered fiercely into his ear, "If you don’t want her to soar to the skies, you can’t miss this opportunity. This is your only chance. Just so you know, if you fail, from now on, you will forever only be able to watch her back within this company."
Each word, especially the last sentence, struck Xu Zhilin’s heart like an arrow.
"I’m from B University, and she’s from E University, it will always be her looking at my back," Xu Zhilin coldly replied to Qiu Wenduo and turned to leave.
Qiu Wenduo looked down at the cup of coffee left on the table that Xu had forgotten to take, which was supposedly for Team Leader Jiang, only to shrug his shoulders: People are all the same; who would flatter if it weren’t for climbing the ladder?
Xu Zhilin returned to the Business Development Department and from afar, saw Gu Nuan focused on typing at her computer.
Withdrawing his gaze, the tip of his pen gently twirled between his fingers.
In the workplace, there’s no difference between men and women, only competitors. To him, this wasn’t a weak woman, or a deaf person but a crocodile aiming to overtake him. If she overtook him, there would be no meal left for him up front, and he would starve to death.
Unaware of how Qiu Wenduo had diverted her and Tang Qingzhong, Xu Zhilin watched as Qiu Wenduo returned from the pantry, carrying the coffee that seemed to be the one he had made for Team Leader Jiang, which made Xu Zhilin pause in confusion.
Qiu Wenduo didn’t deliver the coffee to Team Leader Jiang’s desk but walked directly to Tang Qingzhong, striking up a cozy conversation, "Qingzhong, we joined the company at the same time, didn’t we? Look, now it’s only you and I left in this office area."
Xu Zhilin was unaware that Qiu Wenduo and Tang Qingzhong were contemporaries and was taken aback when he heard this.
Gu Nuan seemed not to hear anything, just focused on her typing.
Qiu Wenduo glanced at Gu Nuan’s back, then squeezed his eyes at Tang Qingzhong and said, "Really deaf, don’t you find it troublesome?"
"Don’t look down upon people from our team. Did you not hear what our team leader said in the canteen last time?" Tang Qingzhong’s tone was one of warning.
Qiu Wenduo seemed to recall Fang Yongxing’s shouting in the canteen, adjusted his collar in feigned fear, and placing the coffee in Tang Qingzhong’s hands, said, "Sorry, I apologize. This coffee, consider it an apology. Please do me the favor of drinking it."
Tang Qingzhong was forced to take the coffee from his hand, looking somewhat helpless.
Qiu Wenduo patted him on the shoulder again and said, "I really mean no harm, you know that."
Tang Qingzhong glared at him, "You have the nerve to say, when your team has been hiding—"
"It’s your team leader who didn’t want it, remember? Just when we were about to hand over the other materials to your team leader, he said—he didn’t need it—"
Of course, Tang Qingzhong knew what was going on; it was because Group One had been too much, deliberately dragging their heels during the handover until Fang Yongxing lost his temper, bluntly saying they didn’t need anything anymore.