Chapter 4 WeChat

Chapter 4

After Cheng Yuan's wedding, Mu Jia looked much more haggard.

She has the appearance of a pure and innocent little white flower. After suffering from emotional pain, she looks even more pitiful, and I feel sorry for her.

After the holiday, Mu Jia returned to the company to resume work.

A male colleague came up to me and said, "Mu Jia, 'The Mountain' is coming out tomorrow night. Do you want to go see it together?"

"The Mountains" is a recently popular urban romance film that tells the story of a hero and heroine who ignore family opposition, break through worldly constraints, and finally bravely stay together.

Mu Jia only glanced at the plot summary on his phone, and his heart felt like it was being gripped by an invisible hand.

The sour feeling spread instantly.

——Break free from family constraints? Bravely be together?

She even couldn't help but wonder if Chu Zhao had heard something and deliberately chose such a movie to test her.

Her fingertips tightened slightly, she suppressed the wild thoughts surging in her heart, and shook her head gently: "No, I'm a little tired recently, I want to rest early."

Chu Zhao was about to say something else when the female colleague next to him suddenly tapped the keyboard and said sarcastically, "Chu Zhao, you've got the wrong guy." She chuckled softly, "Everyone in the company knows that our Jia Jia only dates rich second-generation men. How could she be interested in ordinary working-class people, right?"

Mu Jia glanced at the other person, ignored him, and just put the Hermès bag in her hand on the table.

When she was in a relationship with Cheng Yu'an, they didn't go the AA route.

With her salary, she couldn't afford those expensive outfits on her own if she didn't accept Cheng Yu'an's gifts. But in their circle, face was paramount. When she went out for social events, her clothes, bags, and jewelry all represented his reputation. She could save money, but he wouldn't allow it.

Mu Jia is very traditional. She wants to get married and have children, but she is not opposed to relying on men.

Although she now earns a good income and works in the financial industry, investment banking is a job for young people, and her salary is far from enough to live a comfortable life in Beijing.

The female colleague's face turned from red to green, and from green to blue. After a while, she looked away from her bag and said, "Mu Jia, the company just posted in the group that we're not allowed to show off your wealth. Are you deliberately going against your boss?"

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Mu Jia didn't expect that she would be called to the senior management's office in the afternoon on some pretext.

On the top floor, when the elevator door opened, cold air wrapped in pressure hit me in the face.

The entire floor was silent, with only the echo of high heels tapping on the marble floor, like a countdown before some kind of judgment.

The black door at the end is the office of the new executive director of KIC Asia Pacific.

Mu Jia pushed open the door.

In front of the huge floor-to-ceiling window, a woman with neat short hair and a white business suit stood with her back to her.

She turned around.

"So it's you."

——She was the woman who had a blind date with Xie Siyan that day.

Mu Jia sighed in his heart: Xie Siyan is a dog that has done so much harm to people!

She still maintained a proper smile on her face, "Director Teng."

The woman was an airdropped executive who had just taken office a few days ago. She was not someone a small-time follower like her would usually see.

Just before going upstairs, she searched for the other person's photo on the company's intranet.

KIC is a Sino-foreign joint venture financial institution that mainly engages in securities brokerage, underwriting, mergers and acquisitions and other businesses.

In the financial industry, background is everything.

To be able to be parachuted into such a top-level organization as an executive, Yu Muga must be either rich or noble, probably at the level of the third generation of players.

Mu Jia thought Song Mingxi's popular science was quite reliable, but it was a pity that it was a little late...

She is a little nervous.

"It's normal for people from Si Yan to be a bit high-profile."

Teng Zhi chuckled and pointed at the bag that Mu Jia had placed aside.

Hermès Himalaya, platinum buckle, limited to three pieces worldwide.

"There's a salary cap in the industry right now," she said in a gentle voice, as if giving her a warning. "For the sake of team harmony, it's better to put these little toys away."

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Mu Jia returned to his seat.

Her workload tripled that week.

I worked overtime at the company until 3:30 for ten consecutive days, then took a taxi back to the apartment, and punched in at 8:00 the next day.

Mu Jia sighed: High-end players kill without shedding blood.

Seeing Teng Zhi's reaction that day, she thought the other party was going to let her go.

It was the eleventh day.

At noon on the eleventh day, Mu Jia could no longer hold on.

She made an appointment with Song Mingxi to meet at the bar on the top floor of Financial Street.

Outside the window was Beijing's most expensive skyline, but she couldn't even finish a glass of iced American coffee.

“…She said that if I quit, I would be unable to continue in the industry.”

Mu Jia stared at the water droplets condensing on the wall of the cup. "Mingxi, is she really that capable?"

Song Mingxi tapped his fingertips lightly on the goblet, thought for a moment and said, "It's not Teng Zhi who is making things difficult for you."

"Who is that?"

"Xie Siyan's sister.

——The second daughter of the Xie family, now Cheng Yuan’s fiancée.”

Mu Jia's back suddenly tensed.

She suddenly remembered the girl she passed by in the corridor at the engagement party that day - gentle and shy, even speaking in a soft voice.

It turns out that Xie Siyan is not the bad guy.

She is playing pitiful.

"What should I do now?" Mu Jia curled up his fingers, and his nails left several red marks on his palms.

Song Mingxi's gaze stayed on her face for a moment, then slowly moved down -

Porcelain-white skin, slender collarbones, and below that, exquisite curves that even a well-tailored shirt couldn't hide.

"or……"

She suddenly smiled, a meaningful arc on her lips: "Can I help you contact Xie Siyan?"

Mu Jia suddenly had a bad feeling.

She recalled the details of the car ride: his casual look, the topic he asked, right in front of Zhou Xu... She suddenly closed her eyes, shaking off the chaotic thoughts in her mind.

"They are a family, how could he help me?" she whispered.

"That's because you don't understand Xie Siyan."

Song Mingxi opened her phone and casually pushed Xie Siyan's WeChat to her. "He's been in the circle for a long time. His sister doesn't understand, but he naturally knows how to be a good wife of a wealthy family - don't make a move on the other person's white moonlight, so that the marriage will last."

Mu Jia sighed in his heart.

I thought to myself, how could there be a white moonlight who was dumped like her.

Looking at the WeChat message sent by Song Mingxi, her fingertips hovered above the screen, hesitating for a moment. After a long while, she entered her name in the message bar and clicked the friend request.

It wasn't her who did anything wrong.

Song Mingxi is right, he should indeed be held responsible for this.

But the facts proved that the other party was completely ruthless and unkind.

Ten o'clock in the middle of the night.

Mu Jia looked at the WeChat message board which was still empty, not knowing what he was expecting.

Her blind date partners are all executives of top financial institutions like KIC, with similar family backgrounds and looks. But what does she have?

Apart from a diploma and a resume that puts her half foot into the industry, all she has is her face and figure.

Mu Jia felt that his rank was probably too low compared to Xie Siyan.

He was too lazy to deal with it and was not interested.

She thought about it and sent a WeChat message to Song Mingxi: [Xixi, the other party didn’t add me at all.]

Song Mingxi replied to his WeChat message quickly.

Come over now, we are together.