Chapter 493 Taking a Risk? Direct Hire
"Lingcui, has something happened to you? Did the company do something wrong, or is someone bullying you? Tell me and I'll help you solve it."
"No, Director Zhang, it's my own fault."
Han Lingcui shook his head. "Thank you for your care during this time. I will do a good job of handing over the work."
Director Zhang wanted to keep her, but looking at Han Lingcui's determined eyes, he knew it was useless to say more and could only sigh.
"Okay, since you've made up your mind, I won't stop you. But you have to think it through. Xuanyuan Company is a great platform. It would be a shame if you left."
"I've thought it through, thank you."
After Han Lingcui finished speaking, he turned and left the director's office.
As soon as she returned to her workstation, she saw Xuanyuan Ge walking towards her, holding a folder in his hand and smiling.
"Lingcui, I didn't see you at lunch and thought you forgot. Oh, this is..."
Before he could finish his words, he saw the cardboard box on Han Lingcui's desk, and his smile froze instantly.
"What are you...going to do?"
Han Lingcui raised her head and looked at Xuanyuan Pavilion. The tenderness in her eyes was gone, and only alienation remained.
"President, I'm planning to resign. The project will be finished soon, and I'll handle the subsequent handover work with my colleagues."
Xuanyuan Ge's heart sank suddenly. He quickly walked up to Han Lingcui and grabbed her wrist.
“Why do you want to leave?”
He looked at Han Lingcui's haggard appearance and suddenly thought of the noise he had heard in the office before.
"You heard everything that happened in the office this morning, didn't you? I can explain..."
"President, no need to explain."
Han Lingcui pulled her wrist back forcefully, her tone cold, "I know you and Miss Lu are planning their engagement ceremony, and I also know that your kindness to me is just treating me as a substitute."
"I don't want to delay your important matters, nor do I want to stay in the company and bother you, so leaving is the best option."
"Substitute?" Xuanyuan Ge was stunned. He didn't expect Han Lingcui to think so.
"Lingcui, please listen to my explanation. My marriage with the Lu family was not my wish..."
"President, you don't have to explain this to me."
Han Lingcui interrupted him, "Your personal affairs have nothing to do with me. I'm just an ordinary employee. Now that the project is over, it's time for me to leave."
"Thank you for your 'care' during this time. I wish you and Miss Lu a happy marriage."
After she finished speaking, she picked up the cardboard box on the table and turned to leave.
Xuanyuan Ge tried to hold her back, but she dodged him. He looked at Han Lingcui's resolute back, and his heart ached as if being cut by a knife.
He knew that Han Lingcui must have heard his conversation with Jiang Shutong and misunderstood his silence.
He wanted to chase after her to explain, but Han Lingcui's steps were so fast that he disappeared at the end of the corridor in the blink of an eye.
Xuanyuan Ge stood there, still holding the folder in his hand. Inside was the project bonus application form he prepared for Han Lingcui, as well as a plane ticket to her hometown.
He originally wanted to wait until the project was over and take her back to see if he could help her recover her memory.
But now, everything has come to nothing.
When Han Lingcui walked out of the Xuanyuan Company building holding the cardboard box, the sun was shining brightly, but it could not penetrate the haze in her heart.
She looked back at the towering building, her heart filled with reluctance and sadness.
She knew that once she left, she might never come back.
But she also knew that she could no longer indulge in illusory feelings.
Jiang Shutong was right, she had more important things to do.
She took a deep breath, turned and walked towards the bus stop, her back looking particularly thin in the sunlight.
…
When Han Lingcui returned home, the setting sun was squeezing in through the gaps in the security windows, casting tiny spots of light on the floor.
She put the cardboard box in the corner, not having the energy to take out the tablet and succulents inside.
The things that once made her feel secure now only pierced her eyes. She slumped down on the sofa, pulled out her phone, and opened her bank app. The "52,368" in the balance column was particularly glaring.
She spent half an hour calculating the number: the rent was 2,800 yuan per month, and the water and electricity bills were more than 300 yuan.
Investigating Shen Hanxing requires visiting suppliers and checking old files. The printing of materials and transportation costs alone cost more than a thousand yuan per month. If you hire someone to help adjust the surveillance, this amount of money will not last more than three months.
"We can't just sit there and wait for death." Han Lingcui stood up holding his phone and glanced at the recruitment software on the table.
She had applied to several design companies before, but either the salary was too low or she was required to work full-time, leaving her with no time to investigate Shen Hanxing's affairs.
Until his finger ran across the recruitment notice of "Qi Group".
"Project Audit Specialist, accepting part-time positions, must be familiar with design project processes." Her heart skipped a beat.
Qi is Qi Moxun's company, and many of Shen Hanxing's current projects are in cooperation with Qi.
If you can get in, you can get a salary to support the investigation, and you can get close to Shen Hanxing's project data, which is simply "near the water tower".
But the risks are also obvious: Qi Moxun and Xuanyuan Pavilion are business rivals. If she goes to Qi's immediately after leaving Xuanyuan Company, will she be regarded as a "spy who has jumped ship"?
Not to mention that Jiang Shutong had said before that Xuanyuan Pavilion was using her to deal with Qi Moxun.
What if Qi Moxun takes advantage of her?
Han Lingcui stared at the screen and hesitated for ten minutes, then finally gritted his teeth.
"Chen Hanxing caused me to lose my job. Even if it's a dangerous place, I have to go through it once."
She revised her resume overnight, focusing on the projects she participated in at Xuanyuan Company as "process review" and "data verification", hiding the details related to Xuanyuan Pavilion, and clicked "Submit" early the next morning.
Unexpectedly, Qi’s HR responded very quickly and called me in the afternoon to arrange an interview on the 12th floor of Qi Group’s headquarters.
Han Lingcui went over wearing her only formal suit and skirt. When the elevator door opened, she happened to run into a familiar figure, Chen Hanxing's assistant Han Mu.
He was holding a stack of documents in his hand. He was stunned when he saw her, then walked away with a frown.
Han Lingcui clenched the strap of her bag and told herself not to panic. She was now "an ordinary job applicant" and not "Manager Han of Xuanyuan Company."
The person who interviewed her was the manager of the audit department, whose surname was Zhao and was in his thirties. After reading her resume, he did not ask too many professional questions, but instead focused on her alma mater.
"Are you from the Design Department of Qingcheng University?"
"Yes." Han Lingcui nodded, wondering in her heart, it was written on her resume, but what does this have to do with the audit specialist?
"I'm from Qingcheng too," Manager Zhao smiled, his tone becoming much more friendly.
"The year you graduated, I happened to give a lecture in your department. By the way, do you know Lin Wanqiu? She used to work in administration in your department."
Han Lingcui was stunned. The name Lin Wanqiu sounded familiar, but she couldn't remember what kind of person she was.
"I have some impression of him, but I'm not very familiar with him," she said truthfully.
Manager Zhao didn't ask any further questions, but asked a few more questions about the project process, and finally said.
"You can start work tomorrow. Your salary will be increased by 10% as you requested. Your office will be next to Sister Lin. She will help you get familiar with the job."
Han Lingcui could hardly believe his ears.
So smooth?
She thought there would be at least two or three rounds of negotiations, and she might even be interviewed by Qi Moxun himself. But now there wasn't even a second round of interviews, and she was hired directly?
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