Xiao Ya and another girl were standing at the reception desk, greeting the woman who had just entered in unison.
The newcomer was naturally Pei Lingsu and Zhang Xiaoman.
His mother was wearing a black suit today, which, combined with her efficient demeanor, also exuded an extraordinary temperament.
Zhang Xiaoman, on the other hand, was much more casual. Although he was only wearing casual clothes, his confidence was undoubtedly on full display.
Moreover, inheriting his mother’s excellent genes for appearance, just during the short walk to the front desk, the two young ladies there had already stolen several glances at him.
His current look, if seen by his former colleagues, would certainly be a big surprise. This temperament, this confidence, was completely different from his past self.
"Chairman, Mr. Sun has already arrived. He’s waiting for you in B16 right now," Xiao Ya said to Pei Lingsu, and she couldn’t help but curiously take another look at the young man beside the chairman.
His mother casually picked up the visitor registration book on the reception desk, glanced at it, and then headed straight for room B16 on the north side.
"Oh, right. Xiao Ya, come to my office in a couple of hours,"
As his mother and Zhang Xiaoman were leaving, they left behind these words, which made Xiao Ya, who had been wearing an expression of anticipation on her face, almost jump with excitement.
"Yay! Yay! Yueyue, I made it! The chairman just asked me to go to her office!"
It wasn’t until the two figures disappeared around the corner that Xiao Ya finally vented her excitement, pulling the round-faced girl next to her into a jump.
The girl named Yueyue at the reception, also wearing a face full of envy, was happy for her new friend she had just met a few days ago.
"Oh right, Xiao Ya, who was that boy who went in with the chairman just now? He’s so handsome, and so tall, but mainly it’s that temperament, which is just like the man of my dreams. Have you seen him before?"
Yueyue’s attention was clearly focused elsewhere. Hearing this, Xiao Ya also gradually calmed down and looked in the direction where the two had disappeared, a hint of puzzlement on her face.
"I don’t know, it’s my first time seeing him too. Do you think this handsome guy could be the chairman’s son? I feel like their eyes are similar."
"Exactly, that’s what I think too, not just the eyes, but their mouths are similar as well. It’s very likely that he is the young master of our company! Oh, if I had known, I would have dressed up nicely today. I didn’t even wash my hair this morning..."
Unaware of the two young girls fawning over him, Zhang Xiaoman and his mother entered the B16 room on the north side together.
It used to be a very large conference room, but now it had been transformed by his mother into the company’s research laboratory.
There were about a dozen people bustling about inside at the moment. In addition to seven or eight researchers dressed in white lab coats, there were also quite a few workers in blue clothes. They were placing various instruments into their designated spots.
"Hey! Be careful! Be more gentle! You’re being too rough! This is a polarization experimentor, it contains precision parts, and with your rough handling, it’s very easy to damage them!"
"Wait a minute! Wait a minute! What are you guys doing? Why did you put the adder here? How many times did I say that the adder cannot be placed here, it will generate radiation, affecting the measurement results of the light wave instrument!"
In the midst of the scene, a middle-aged man wearing glasses was scolding several burly men in blue clothes. Zhang Xiaoman had seen his photo and knew he was Sun Mingsheng, the top talent her mother had spent a lot of time and effort to poach.
Zhang Xiaoman had actually been eager to meet this man for a while now.
It wasn’t that he was very famous, although in the relevant industry he did have significant authority, but that was only among industry insiders, and of course, Zhang Xiaoman, a complete outsider, had never heard of him before.
Her keen interest in this man stemmed from the fact that her mother had indeed expended a great deal of effort to recruit him, and even she, often not at home, had heard quite a few of her mother’s complaints.
It is said that the man previously served as the technical director in a cell phone research and development enterprise, but later, due to sluggish sales of the company’s products, which left no surplus funds for research and development, his former employer had easily let him go.
According to her mother, Sun Mingsheng had a not insignificant reputation in the industry and had led his team to complete several research and development projects, creating products with a high level of adoption in the existing cell phone market.
He had even worked in a famous research lab abroad in his early years, and possessed deep expertise in photolithography machines.
But due to domestic market and technology reasons, after returning to China, he couldn’t use this skill and so started working on other areas of research and development.
Her mother’s ability to attract this man had indeed been a considerable feat.
Not only did she offer a salary package that was absolutely irresistible, but the working environment and other benefits were also very generous.
Even so, he was initially completely unwilling to join.
Later on, her mother contacted his wife and some of his apprentices, and through winning them over, persuaded him for over a week.
Additionally, given that Sun Mingsheng’s former company was truly struggling, with research funding almost at a halt, the timing, location and support lined up perfectly, and only then did she secure this great power known both domestically and abroad.
In this respect, Zhang Xiaoman highly admired her mother’s ability. One should know it wasn’t just Light Blue Starry Sky, but many renowned domestic cell phone manufacturers were also extending olive branches to him at the same moment.
And yet, her mother managed to achieve results competing amongst these rivals with Light Blue Starry Sky, a company barely a few days old—the difficulty of that was truly immense.
Bear in mind that scientific research is a huge money pit, and although Zhang Xiaoman now appeared to have substantial capital, it was only relative to the past.
The wealth he had in Star Alliance, to be honest, was not enough even to make a splash in the realm of scientific research at this stage.
If it weren’t for the fact that he already had mature products, which allowed for reducing research costs and time through reverse engineering, he would never have stepped into this domain under current circumstances.
Even so, their current lab was just a severely downsized version, with many pieces of equipment they couldn’t afford, not to mention something like the photolithography machines that cost hundreds of millions of dollars—just don’t even think about it.
With such conditions, to recruit this kind of top-level talent, was enough to show her mother’s strength. If it had been left to him to deal with, it would have been a sure failure.
Of course, compared to the current scientific research companies on the market, Light Blue Starry Sky undeniably had the greatest potential.
After all, what Zhang Xiaoman possessed were black tech gadgets surpassing the era.
If luck were on their side, and these people managed to tinker their way to some results and develop related products, the profits brought in would be unimaginable.