328: I dragged you into this for your own good

"Where have you been? You're late for the meeting!"

Team leader Gao Sheng ran into Hua Bin when he came back from outside.

"I, I went out to eat with some friends..."

"Let's go to the meeting room."

Hua Bin didn't think much about it and waved him away.

Gao Sheng rushed to the meeting room, and sure enough, everyone had already started discussing the situation. Xu Yao had a short filming schedule today and was unable to attend the product selection meeting, but Gao Sheng knew that all products that passed the cross-review would still be subject to Xu Yao's final review.

Gao Sheng cheered up and finished the product selection meeting. After everyone left, he called another team leader, Ding Jiajia, to go downstairs to smoke together.

"Are you okay?"

After going downstairs, Gao Sheng was concerned about Ding Jiajia.

Ding Jiajia's brows were a little tired, both because of work and because of the troubles at home.

Gao Sheng came to the studio first, and Ding Jiajia came later.

Originally, the two were just ordinary colleagues. When the studio went to the island for team building, Gao Sheng found out that Ding Jiajia and he were from the same hometown. Since then, the two became closer. Xu Yao's studio does not allow office romances. If two employees are in a relationship, one of them has to resign voluntarily. So even though Gao Sheng and Ding Jiajia had some feelings in that direction, neither of them wanted to lose this well-paid job, so they tacitly agreed not to break the window paper.

Being from the same hometown is a good protective color. Gao Sheng did not hide his care for Ding Jiajia from others, and everyone thought it was normal.

The two of them did not show much contact in the studio, but they kept in touch frequently after work. As a result, Gao Sheng knew a lot about Ding Jiajia, including the troubles she had encountered recently.

Ding Jiajia's brother is sick and needs a kidney transplant in the late stage of uremia.

At the beginning, the Ding family asked Ding Jiajia to donate a kidney to her brother, and Gao Sheng was very opposed to it when he found out.

Ding Jiajia is still so young, and missing a kidney will affect her for the rest of her life.

One kidney cannot support Ding Jiajia to continue working in such a high-paying job, and one kidney will also greatly affect Ding Jiajia's future marriage and love.

Without a good job and a good body, which man with good conditions would accept Ding Jiajia?

Gao Sheng said Ding Jiajia's parents were selfish and favored sons over daughters, and urged Ding Jiajia to think more about herself and not be held hostage by her family. Intellectually, Ding Jiajia knew Gao Sheng was right, but emotionally, it was difficult for her to completely ignore her parents' hostage-taking.

After Ding Jiajia refused to donate a kidney to her brother, the Ding family took a step back and asked Ding Jiajia to pay for her brother's kidney transplant surgery!

Ding Jiajia has good business skills, but because she joined the studio later than Gao Sheng, she received less bonus.

If you add up your half-year bonus and all your previous work savings, it's enough to pay for the kidney transplant surgery... But Ding Jiajia feels wronged to have to empty her savings to pay for her brother's kidney.

Her brother is older than her and started working before her. In her hometown, her parents bought a car and a house for her brother early on, and her brother also got married and had children.

Her parents had long said that they were unable to support her in buying a house in South City, and she had to rely on herself if she wanted to own her own house.

Now that her brother is seriously ill, it’s not that Ding Jiajia doesn’t want to help, she just feels that she shouldn’t have to bear all the costs of the surgery.

——At least, brother should bear part of the responsibility himself, right?

Which is more important, a house or your life?

The house can’t be sold easily, and the car can’t be sold for emergency use?

The brother doesn't want to lose anything, but he wants to drain all of Ding Jiajia's savings since graduation.

These hundreds of thousands of dollars were used for her brother's medical treatment, and buying a house in South City became a distant dream again!

Ding Jiajia has been very troubled these days. She receives numerous calls from her hometown every day, which really affects her work state. Hearing Gao Sheng's concern, Ding Jiajia's eyes reddened:

"I don't know what to do. I won't donate my kidney. My brother needs another kidney donor for surgery, and the surgery will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. My parents asked me to pay for it, but—Gao Sheng, I'm such a selfish person!"

But why?

She didn't care that her parents gave all their family fortune to her brother, but she also had to give away all her own savings, and Ding Jiajia was reluctant to do so.

Ding Jiajia feels that she is a selfish person.

She was reluctant to spend hundreds of thousands of her savings to save her brother.

Neither her brother nor her parents have the ability to pay back this money!

Gao Sheng looked at her with a distressed expression: "How are you selfish? Each of us should consider ourselves before considering others. If you have the ability, of course you should help your relatives. How can you help if you don't have the ability? You gave hundreds of thousands of dollars away. How long will it take to save up hundreds of thousands again? Can you afford to wait? Will the housing prices in South City wait for you? Unless you can easily earn the next hundreds of thousands or even more!"

Ding Jiajia frowned, "That's hundreds of thousands, not tens of thousands or thousands of yuan!"

Is money so easy to make?

After graduation, she changed several jobs with varying salaries. Finally, she came to a rising internet celebrity studio, and only then did Ding Jiajia's earnings and savings speed up.

If the business doesn't do well in the future, she won't be able to get such a high bonus, and it will be too difficult for her to save hundreds of thousands again!

Gao Sheng looked around to make sure no one noticed him and Ding Jiajia, then lowered his voice and asked, "If there was an opportunity to make hundreds of thousands of dollars right now, would you be willing to try it?"

A chance to make hundreds of thousands?

Ding Jiajia sensed something was wrong and asked, "Gao Sheng, what do you mean?"

"I don't mean anything else. I just don't want to see you in such a difficult situation for a few hundred thousand..."

Gao Sheng's voice was full of temptation, like the whisper of a devil: "Jia Jia, don't underestimate the little power you have. As long as you use it well, hundreds of thousands of dollars can be easily earned! You also know how many manufacturers are lining up to ask Xu Yao to help promote their products. Xu Yao is very strict in selecting products, and those manufacturers can't impress Xu Yao even if they offer money. Xu Yao can be noble. She is popular and earns a lot of money, so rejecting those manufacturers will not have much impact on her! But we are not qualified to be noble. We are outsiders with no one to rely on, and we all need money!"

Ding Jiajia panicked, "You want to—"

"Someone did find me."

Gao Sheng admitted: "My first reaction was to pull you along so we can make money together!"

Ding Jiajia shook her head in panic: "No, no, we can't do this. You know how much Sister Xu Yao values product selection. If the product selection goes wrong because of us, we will definitely lose our current jobs!"

Ding Jiajia is very satisfied with her current job.

It’s a bit tiring, but you earn a lot!

If you quit your current job for a few hundred thousand dollars, isn't that like picking up sesame seeds and losing watermelons?

As long as she continues to work hard at this job, she can easily earn hundreds of thousands of yuan in salary plus annual bonuses.

Gao Sheng held Ding Jiajia's shoulders. "What if I tell you it's more than just a few hundred thousand? Even if we get caught, we've already taken the bribes and moved elsewhere. This industry is so big, we can definitely find a new job with our abilities. Xu Yao's studio doesn't allow office romances, but other influencers' companies do! Jiajia, I'm saying this not only to help you through this difficult time, but also for our shared future... I like you, and I want to be with you!"