“General Manager Meng, our entire team spent a month making this creative proposal. If you think it’s not good enough, you can raise your opinions. But if you say we copied the previous proposal, we are truly wronged.”
Meng Chu didn’t bother saying anything more to her.
She said directly, “If you can only produce a proposal of this level, I think I need to reconsider our partnership.”
Yang Hui suddenly stood up. “General Manager Meng, I think you’re going too far saying that. Although we are the vendor, we have always served you sincerely.”
No one expected this meeting to end so unhappily.
After Kairui’s people left, everyone in Xingyuan’s Operations Department looked at each other.
Someone didn’t know who spoke first: “My god, are vendors this arrogant now?”
“Exactly. Who’s the boss here?”
“This is my first time seeing such a cocky vendor.”
“All right, let’s discuss internally first. Regarding the Kairui matter, I’ll discuss it with CEO Gu again,” Meng Chu said softly.
But she hadn’t expected that in the evening, she would welcome an unexpected guest in her office.
“Miss Shao,” an anxious voice came from the door.
But Meng Chu’s office door had already been pushed open directly.
Shao Yunjia stood at the door in a rage, staring at Meng Chu in the office.
Meng Chu sat calmly in the chair behind her desk and looked up. “Miss Shao, CEO Gu’s office is to your left. But he probably isn’t in the company right now. If you find him, you can call him directly.”
“I’m not looking for him. I’m looking for you,” Shao Yunjia said directly.
Previously, the two of them hadn’t gotten along. Jiang Xinya had personally seen them confront each other.
Now with Shao Yunjia looking so aggressive, she wasn’t going to start a fight, was she?
Jiang Xinya didn’t dare let Shao Yunjia in, but she also didn’t dare truly offend her.
After all, this person was big boss Gu Ting’s girlfriend.
Outside, employees in the open office area all saw Shao Yunjia come in aggressively and rush directly to Meng Chu’s office. They all looked up toward this side.
Everyone didn’t exactly want to watch a show; they were purely curious.
Some were also worried. Shao Yunjia had come to the company a few times before.
Although she had treated the whole company to afternoon tea, her innate arrogance was obvious to anyone at a glance.
Naturally, the company colleagues were more worried about Meng Chu.
“Let Miss Shao come in,” Meng Chu said calmly.
Although she was still sitting in the office, she knew people outside must be watching this side.
Meng Chu didn’t want to affect the company’s normal work order, but she said to Jiang Xinya, “No need to pour water. Miss Shao probably isn’t used to things here.”
“Indeed,” Shao Yunjia walked in and said with a cold laugh.
Jiang Xinya could only quietly close the door, then hurried to call Liu Jia.
Gu Ting wasn’t in the company today; he had gone out to meet a client. She could only tell this matter to Gu Ting’s assistant, Liu Jia.
Inside the office.
Meng Chu still sat calmly behind her desk, with no intention of exchanging pleasantries with Shao Yunjia.
She didn’t even ask why she had come.
She wasn’t anxious, because Shao Yunjia was clearly the one who couldn’t hold it in more.
“Meng Chu, who do you think you are?” Shao Yunjia came aggressively to settle scores with Meng Chu, but hadn’t expected that even now she would still sit there calmly.
Meng Chu suddenly raised her hand and gently pushed the nameplate on her desk.
At first, she had thought it was funny to have a nameplate on the desk these days.
Unexpectedly, now it was actually useful.
She pushed the nameplate toward Shao Yunjia. “Co-founder and Operations Director of Xingyuan Technology.”
Shao Yunjia was instead stunned, so angry she stood in place staring at Meng Chu.
Meng Chu reminded her, “If you break anything in my office, I will call the police immediately. You’ll be the one embarrassed then. Think carefully.”
It had to be said that Meng Chu’s words made Shao Yunjia’s foot, which she had been about to lift, suddenly stop.
“What do you amount to? You deliberately targeted my cousin. Do you know she was so angry at you that she had a threatened miscarriage when she went back? She’s in the hospital now.” Shao Yunjia looked at Meng Chu with hatred.
This time Meng Chu was truly surprised.
After a while, she asked seriously, “May I ask who your cousin is?”
She also didn’t know how she had offended such a person.
“Don’t play dumb. Yang Hui from Kairui Media is my cousin,” Shao Yunjia sneered again.
Meng Chu was stunned.
She finally nodded belatedly. “No wonder.”
Two months ago, Gu Ting suddenly replaced their previous company on the grounds of poor promotion, and then brought in Kairui Media.
Their startup company didn’t need to go through any voting process to change partners.
Gu Ting had a lot of say in the company. If he wanted to change people, Meng Chu and the others had no reason to oppose.
The previous partner company indeed had shortcomings.
Later, after Kairui came in, they brought the Nanjing sports event opening ceremony cooperation project.
Although the other company’s employees’ execution ability wasn’t great.
Especially the person in charge, Yang Hui. She didn’t seem like that kind of sharp, capable senior media person.
Meng Chu hadn’t said much, thinking it was probably because they had just started cooperating and hadn’t adjusted yet.
Now it seemed that the various unpleasant moments when working with Yang Hui earlier were more like her own dissatisfaction.
But Meng Chu had never connected it to herself. After all, she had never had contact with Yang Hui before, so she never expected the other party was truly coming for her.
It seemed Shao Yunjia had complained about her in front of Yang Hui, so Yang Hui had been hostile to her from the beginning.
“I truly didn’t know about your relationship,” Meng Chu nodded.
Shao Yunjia looked at her coldly, as if guessing whether Meng Chu’s words were true or false.
Meng Chu said softly, “If I had known, I wouldn’t have agreed to work with Kairui from the start.”
Shao Yunjia hadn’t expected to hear this, and the anger in her heart completely exploded.
“Who do you think you are? If not for my sake, would my cousin have worked so hard to help your Xingyuan? Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.”
Shao Yunjia was furious.
Meng Chu raised an eyebrow. “So plagiarism was also for Xingyuan’s sake?”
“I find you really naive. Do you think it’s enough to just make a good proposal? This industry relies on resources. If not for my cousin’s connections, do you really think Xingyuan could have won the opening ceremony of that Nanjing sports event? So what if your product is impressive? Without connections and resources, you’re nothing.”
After Shao Yunjia said all this, the pent-up anger in her heart seemed to completely disappear.
She looked down at Meng Chu, as if waiting for Meng Chu to apologize.
Meng Chu finally looked at Shao Yunjia. “I actually feel sorry for Gu Ting. It turns out everything he did means nothing in your eyes.”
Shao Yunjia was stunned.
Obviously, she also realized she had misspoken.
“Miss Shao, you don’t need to threaten me. Before you appeared with your so-called resources, Xingyuan already existed. And in the future, if you really take your resources and leave, you can also watch. Xingyuan won’t be as you say, nothing without you.”
Meng Chu remained calm toward Shao Yunjia throughout, not angry at all because of her attitude.
“All right, I still need to continue working. If you only wanted to vent your emotions, you should have vented enough by now,” Meng Chu gave the order to leave.
Shao Yunjia still stood in place, seemingly not planning to leave easily.
But Meng Chu had already lowered her head and continued working, completely uninterested in paying attention to her anymore.
Seeing Meng Chu’s attitude so arrogant, Shao Yunjia said viciously, “Don’t regret this.”
Only after the office door was fiercely opened and then heavily slammed shut did Meng Chu not even raise her head.
It was only after Shao Yunjia completely left that she leaned back in her chair and looked up.
From the first day Xingyuan was founded, she had been prepared to face everything.
But many times, ideals were always too beautiful. What she truly had to face were countless intricate relationships, and handling them was more complicated than anything.
Just before getting off work, Meng Chu had Jiang Xinya sort out several new agency companies.
She didn’t stay at the company, but went straight home.
But not long after she got home, Gu Ting’s call indeed followed.
Meng Chu answered the phone and said softly, “Did Shao Yunjia complain to you?”
“Meng Chu, sorry. I did hide her cousin’s matter from you,” Gu Ting said softly. “This is my problem.”
Meng Chu said mockingly, “Seems you still remember our original agreement.”
Back when they founded the company, in order to make the company go further.
They absolutely would not involve their family in the company.
They would not let Xingyuan become a company of nepotism.
Over these years, they had indeed kept their word.
Even though Wang Luoran’s girlfriend was in the professional field, he hadn’t let his girlfriend enter Xingyuan.
“But listen to my explanation. The reason we switched to Kairui back then was indeed because Yang Hui has resources. She is Shao Yunjia’s cousin, yes, but Yang Hui’s family has promotional resources. Last time’s Nanjing sports event was led by her.”
Gu Ting explained.
Meng Chu only felt very tired. She said, “Gu Ting, you know once a person’s bottom line retreats, it will change again and again.”
“Meng Chu, we can’t spend our whole lives clinging to those so-called principles. We need to know how to adapt. Xingyuan is exactly at the stage where it needs strong promotion and brand building. I can’t give up such a good opportunity.”
Meng Chu said, “So what does Shao Yunjia want?”
She asked directly.
“Don’t worry, I’ll handle this. I’ll soothe Yunjia,” Gu Ting said softly.
He explained a lot more. Meng Chu sat on the sofa, directly put her phone on the coffee table, turned on the speaker, then lay back on the sofa.
She pressed the back of her hand over her eyes.
In her ears were Gu Ting’s words still trying to persuade her: “But Meng Chu, about Yang Hui, why don’t you come over?”
“I’m definitely on your side. I think you’re not wrong.”
“But Yang Hui is pregnant after all. After all, she did leave our company and then had a threatened miscarriage and was hospitalized. Even if you go to the hospital out of morality to see…”
“She’s not going.”
A cold voice sounded.
Immediately after, all sound disappeared.
Meng Chu moved the back of her hand from her eyes and saw Cheng Jinyu in a dark blue suit with subtle stripes, slightly bent over, his fingertip still pressed on Meng Chu’s phone.
After saying that sentence, he directly hung up the phone for Meng Chu.
Cheng Jinyu looked at her. “Sorry for disturbing your work.”
Meng Chu stared at him blankly.
Cheng Jinyu slowly walked over. He didn’t sit beside her, but walked in front of her and bent down close to her.
“I just want the things that make you unhappy to disappear.”
His voice was terribly gentle.