“At the previous Smart Robot Industry Conference, our company’s response was very good. Of course, that couldn’t have happened without everyone’s efforts. There will also be a national tech expo in Shenzhen in December, which will count as the finale of this year. By then, everyone will need to put in all your energy to wrap up this year and make a good start for next year.”
“As long as we do our best on this project, I believe everyone will reap rewards by the end of the year.”
On the first day back at work after National Day, she heard the big boss painting a rosy picture.
Anyone would have a hard time not zoning out during a meeting.
Only today, the one zoning out was Meng Chu.
She held a pen in her hand, originally intending to take some meeting notes.
Although she had her own assistant, Jiang Xinya mostly belonged to the Operations Department and only concurrently served as her assistant.
So Meng Chu didn’t rely on others for many things.
Usually, during meetings, she took notes herself.
“Director Meng, why don’t you say a few words too?” When Gu Ting looked toward Meng Chu on his left, he saw her constantly drawing back and forth in her notebook with the pen in her hand.
Gu Ting couldn’t help but speak up.
Meng Chu looked up blankly and saw everyone in the meeting room looking at her.
She said calmly, “Oh, I don’t have anything to say. Isn’t it the first day back at work?”
After being caught slacking off, she still looked so brazen.
Not only did it make the others want to laugh, but seeing Gu Ting’s obviously displeased expression, they didn’t dare actually laugh out loud.
Fortunately, Gu Ting was also reminded by her words about the first day back at work, and the meeting ended quickly.
As everyone left one after another, Gu Ting couldn’t help stopping Meng Chu again.
When only the two of them were left in the meeting room, Gu Ting couldn’t help saying, “Meng Chu, what have you been busy with lately?”
“Hm? What’s wrong?” Meng Chu asked in return.
Gu Ting: “You didn’t come for several days before National Day. Many people in the Engineering Department worked overtime during National Day. You usually always join them, but you only came for one day and then disappeared again. I sent you messages yesterday, and you didn’t reply to a single one.”
“Or did you not see them?” Gu Ting asked suspiciously.
Meng Chu nodded: “I saw them, but I didn’t want to reply.”
Her direct and cold attitude stunned Gu Ting.
“Yesterday was the last day of the holiday. I didn’t reply to your messages because I felt that the issues you mentioned could be answered when I came to work today.”
Meng Chu’s tone was actually quite calm.
But after she said that, Gu Ting’s expression only worsened.
Meng Chu sighed slightly and said softly, “Something happened to me, so I couldn’t reply to your messages in time.”
When it came to work matters, Meng Chu had always handled them promptly.
She had never had a situation where she didn’t reply to messages.
It was just that yesterday’s situation was truly special. After encountering something like that, even Meng Chu needed some time to recover.
She was also an ordinary person. She couldn’t really recover immediately like a robot.
“What happened?” Gu Ting pressed.
Meng Chu said vaguely, “A small matter at home.”
Gu Ting frowned: “Your husband is sick again?”
He looked at Meng Chu suspiciously. If Meng Chu was married, she acted exactly the same as before.
He had never even seen a wedding ring on her hand.
Actually, not just him. No one else in the company had ever seen this so-called husband of hers either.
Meng Chu: “It’s my own matter.”
Gu Ting was about to press further, but Meng Chu had already said, “Didn’t you ask how my talk with Hualin Group went? Actually, I was just about to prepare to visit their company.”
When it came to serious matters, Gu Ting’s attention was diverted.
“Your previous Project Proposal was indeed well done. Is there news from Hualin Group?” Gu Ting clearly brightened up.
Meng Chu: “They are indeed very interested, so I plan to contact them today. I’ll see if I can visit in person tomorrow and introduce our company’s product face to face.”
Gu Ting completely relaxed.
Actually, deep down, he had been somewhat worried.
After all, many women inevitably began to slack off at work after getting married.
In his mind, Meng Chu should have been the kind of person who didn’t believe in marriage.
He had known Meng Chu for so many years.
In university, a place full of hormones, she had been single-mindedly focused only on studying, doing projects with them, and participating in competitions.
As a result, Meng Chu suddenly got married, which really caught him off guard.
Gu Ting was very worried that she would be tied down by marriage.
“Good. I’m very reassured leaving these matters to you,” Gu Ting nodded.
Meng Chu added, “Also, didn’t you say before that our news reach isn’t wide enough and our marketing isn’t strong enough? I was wondering whether we should contact some geek bloggers and shoot some dialogue videos or vlogs. Actually, this format, compared with traditional media interviews, is more suitable for a tech company like ours.”
Although the reach is wide, it’s too rigid.
It’s an extremely spreadable format, and it will better integrate young people’s preferences.
Although their current product still hasn’t…
But awareness alone can differentiate Xingyuan from other companies.
After that, Meng Chu began working, and…
She personally called the Miss Jiang Xiayan she had met last time. At first, the call didn’t go through.
Meng Chu waited patiently for quite a while, and finally someone answered.
“Hello, who is this?” A voice came from the other end, sounding both angry and aggrieved.
Meng Chu was startled, then said gently, “Excuse me, is this Miss Jiang Xiayan?”
“I am. May I ask who you are?”
Jiang Xiayan on the other end seemed to have collected herself, and her tone became official.
Meng Chu said mildly, “I’m Meng Chu from Xingyuan Technology. I previously sent the Project Proposal to Hualin. You told me on WeChat that your company was very satisfied. I wanted to ask when it would be convenient to have a meeting together?”
“Oh, it’s you,” Jiang Xiayan’s originally low voice suddenly rose.
She said, “Sorry, I didn’t have your number saved in my phone, so my tone just now was a little bad.”
Meng Chu hadn’t expected her to recognize her own problem so quickly.
She couldn’t help but feel favorably toward the girl.
“It’s nothing. If it’s convenient, you can save my number later.”
“Oh my, I’m younger than you. You keep saying ‘you’ so politely that I’m embarrassed,” Jiang Xiayan said quickly after hearing Meng Chu’s overly polite words.
“Okay,” Meng Chu smiled.
Jiang Xiayan added, “The company is indeed very interested in your Smart Robot, but it has to wait for… General Manager Wei to make the final decision. I need to confirm the schedule with General Manager Wei.”
Seeing her actively push this matter forward, Meng Chu couldn’t help but relax.
After all, the King of Hell is easy to see, but his little ghosts are hard to deal with.
Sometimes, if you want to meet the big boss, you have to go through the people around him.
After all, important people’s schedules are too busy.
If someone close to him can actively push the meeting forward, then progress should go smoothly.
“Okay, you confirm first. I’ll wait for your news.”
Meng Chu said, then hung up.
Twenty minutes later.
Jiang Xiayan actually sent her a message on WeChat.
Jiang Xiayan: [Miss, Wei Yuan isn’t free before Wednesday. I put the meeting on Thursday.]
Meng Chu was used to logging into WeChat on her computer while working, so she saw Jiang Xiayan’s message immediately.
She was about to reply, but unexpectedly Jiang Xiayan retracted it.
So Meng Chu waited for a while.
Finally, Jiang Xiayan’s message came again.
[General Manager Meng, I have confirmed General Manager Wei’s schedule. No meeting can be arranged before Wednesday. So I have scheduled the meeting for Thursday at 10:00 AM. Please come to the 27th floor of Hualin Group’s headquarters for the meeting.]
Meng Chu looked at this extremely official and formal wording and couldn’t help being amused.
But before long, Jiang Xiayan sent another message.
Jiang Xiayan: [Wei Yuan just said the message I sent sounded like the stupidity of someone who has never worked a day in her life.]
Meng Chu had always been very businesslike with clients, not close at all.
In the past, she would definitely have politely brushed it off.
But when she thought that Jiang Xiayan was probably Cheng Jinyu’s friend, she couldn’t help softening.
Meng Chu: [I prefer your first message.]
Jiang Xiayan: [Right? There’s no need for us to be so polite with each other.]
Jiang Xiayan: [Actually, I’m not this familiar with just anyone.]
Meng Chu: [Yeah, me neither.]
Meng Chu: [The line above is true. I don’t say it to everyone.]
Jiang Xiayan held her phone, and for a moment she actually blushed.
She found that Meng Chu was truly charming. The first time she met her, she had thought she was so cool and dashing.
Now, with just one simple sentence, she had made her, a girl, blush.
At that moment, Wei Yuan happened to walk out of his office and saw Jiang Xiayan in the public office area, holding her phone with a smile all over her face.
She was smiling so happily that it didn’t look like it was about work.
“Did you settle the appointment with General Manager Meng from Xingyuan?”
Wei Yuan walked to the side of her office and knocked on the partition beside her.
Jiang Xiayan looked up, and her face immediately fell.
Anyone who had just been criticized by their boss first thing in the morning wouldn’t be happy.
She said stiffly, “General Manager Wei, it’s arranged. This Thursday at 10:00 AM, General Manager Meng will come to the meeting.”
“Mm,” Wei Yuan nodded and turned to leave.
But as he was leaving, he glanced at Jiang Xiayan and said meaningfully, “During work hours, don’t always play on your phone.”
Jiang Xiayan: “…”
Before long, Meng Chu received another message.
Jiang Xiayan: [In this world, is there any boss who isn’t annoying?]
Meng Chu pursed her lips.
Meng Chu: [Based on my own experience, probably not.]
Jiang Xiayan: [Right? How can there be such an annoying person? He wears a sour face all day, like everyone owes him several million. If he really is owed, I’ll help pay it back for him.]
Meng Chu was amused again.
Fortunately, the girl had a good sense of boundaries. She only complained a little occasionally.
She didn’t disturb Meng Chu’s work.
After five in the afternoon, while Meng Chu was still working at the company, she suddenly received a message from Cheng Jinyu.
Cheng Jinyu: [Are you coming home for dinner tonight?]
Meng Chu pursed her lips. She suddenly really wanted to go home.
But Xingyuan had a lot of overtime. On the first day back at work, it wasn’t good to leave right on time.
Meng Chu: [Probably a little late.]
Cheng Jinyu: [Okay. I have a business dinner tonight too. Want me to pick you up on the way?]
Meng Chu: [Is it convenient?]
Cheng Jinyu: [Is there ever an inconvenience in picking you up?]
Meng Chu was instantly amused by his words. She immediately sent a voice message: “I’ll wait for you.”
Then she sent Master Liu a message, telling him he didn’t need to pick her up after work.
Perhaps because she had something to look forward to, Meng Chu found that even working overtime made her this happy.
Just after 7:30, Cheng Jinyu called: “Can you come home now?”
“Of course I can,” Meng Chu said.
Cheng Jinyu: “Wait twenty minutes. I’ll be downstairs.”
Meng Chu had just said okay when she heard him say, “Don’t come down early to wait.”
He rarely spoke in such a domineering tone, and Meng Chu was instantly amused.
Cheng Jinyu hummed in response and then asked, “What’s wrong?”
“Nothing. I just thought what you said just now was quite like a domineering CEO,” Meng Chu said with a light laugh.
Cheng Jinyu’s tone suddenly became lazy: “You like that kind?”
Meng Chu quickly denied it: “Of course not.”
Cheng Jinyu: “The TV drama you watched that day was also that type.”
Meng Chu: “…”
She felt a helplessness of having denied it but being unable to deny it away.
“If you really like it,” Cheng Jinyu chuckled lowly, and as if revealing deep helplessness, he drawled slightly, “I can try too.”
“Huh?” Meng Chu froze.
‘No.’
‘Don’t try hard. 1’
But at that moment, Meng Chu’s mind felt as if it had suddenly been struck by something.
He said that if she really liked it, he could try too.
The key wasn’t the trying.
But
—that she liked it.
Meng Chu suddenly felt her heart start pounding again.
Everyone said women’s intuition was accurate, but Meng Chu felt she didn’t seem to have that kind of thing.
But now, she felt she might have a little of it after all.
Cheng Jinyu’s feelings for her probably weren’t just responsibility.
Not just because she was Cheng Jinyu’s wife.
Maybe he did have feelings for her…
Not just feelings, though.
After hanging up, Meng Chu could barely work.
She kept checking the time on her phone, and then couldn’t help spinning her chair to look out the window.
Compared with how fully absorbed she had been in work just moments ago, she was completely distracted.
Finally, Cheng Jinyu sent a message saying he was downstairs.
Meng Chu grabbed her bag and her laptop bag and left the office directly.
She was so eager that it was like when she was in school, packed up and just waiting for the second the dismissal bell rang.
When she got downstairs, Meng Chu spotted Cheng Jinyu’s car at a glance.
At that moment, Cheng Jinyu also opened the car door, seemingly about to pick her up.
Then he saw her jogging over.
“So fast?” Cheng Jinyu was slightly surprised.
Meng Chu: “If you’re not eager to get off work, there’s something wrong with your thinking.”
Cheng Jinyu raised an eyebrow: “And yet you worked overtime until now.”
“No choice. In a small company, one person has to do the work of two, especially someone like me with a bit of a position. I have to lead by example,” Meng Chu added.
Anyway, she always had a reason.
After getting in the car, Meng Chu was about to put the laptop bag in her hands on her lap.
But Cheng Jinyu reached over and took it, then placed it in the back. 1
After the two got home, Cheng Jinyu carried her laptop bag for her and took a bag down from the back seat.
It looked like a takeout bag.
But it was packed very beautifully.
When they got home, Cheng Jinyu put her laptop bag on the sofa and turned to ask, “I didn’t eat much at the business dinner just now. Want to eat together?”
“Sure,” Meng Chu nodded.
She hadn’t eaten much dinner anyway.
When Cheng Jinyu took out the packed food, Meng Chu realized how lavish it was.
After the two finished eating, Meng Chu suddenly received a voice call from Song Yumian.
She quickly answered and heard Song Yumian say, “Chuchu, my parents asked me to bring you some things. I was busy all day today and didn’t have time to drop them off.”
“Things for me?” Meng Chu was surprised.
Song Yumian: “Just some food. I’ll come to your place tomorrow.”