Chapter 27 Being Laid Off
Unexpectedly, they were going to the same place—the only five-star hotel in the city.
"What a coincidence." said Xu Qingsong.
Wenxi asked him with a mischievous smile: "What friends are you meeting? Why do you have to go to a hotel?"
Xu Qingsong sat in the back seat, jerked off, glanced at Liu Wangxue secretly, and said with a smile: "He is both a friend and the boss. The boss asked to stay in the hotel. What can I do?"
Liu Wangxue glanced at the rearview mirror and asked, "Aren't you freelance now? How come you still have a boss?" She thought for a moment and asked, "Is it the studio that developed "The 21st Case of Dazhao"? "
"Yeah," Xu Qingsong said jokingly, "It's because the boss is too appreciative of talent and can't bear to let me go, so I'm just taking a long vacation in name only."
When the three of them arrived at the hotel lobby, Xiao Zhao was already waiting there. Liu Wangxue felt that it was inappropriate for her to be present while they signed the contract, so she asked Wenxi to go upstairs with Xiao Zhao first, and she waited for her in the coffee shop next door.
After Wenxi got on the elevator, Liu Wangxue asked Xu Qingsong: "What about you?"
Xu Qingsong pointed to the coffee shop next to him and said, "I'm going there too."
The two of them were talking as they walked towards the coffee shop.
The girl at the hotel front desk was on the phone, and she was very anxious when she saw them walking in with the dog, but she couldn't hang up. Just then a colleague came over, and she quickly pulled her colleague's sleeve, signaling her to help.
So, they were stopped in front of the coffee shop, and the girl said politely: "Excuse me, two guests, please follow me to the front desk to register first."
Liu Wangxue explained: "We are not checking in, we are just waiting for someone here."
The girl had a professional smile on her face: "I'm sorry, guest, our hotel has a rule that anyone bringing a pet in must register at the front desk."
"Okay." Liu Wangxue handed the leash to Xu Qingsong and followed the little girl to the front desk. Pengpeng was unwilling to stay where he was and followed Liu Wangxue. Xu Qingsong had no choice but to pull the leash and follow.
After completing the registration, Liu Wangxue took the leash again and took Pengpeng and Xu Qingsong into the coffee shop.
Liu Wangxue asked: "After meeting your friends, do you have anything else to do?"
Xu Qingsong shook his head: "Probably not."
Liu Wangxue asked him, "Wenxi and I are going to the flower and bird market later. There is a film crew shooting there. She signed a contract with me today and she wants to take me to see it. If you are free, do you want to go with us?"
"Okay, I haven't seen what the crew is like yet." Xu Qingsong readily agreed, and then said sadly, "I forgot to close the window when I went to bed last night, and a wild cat from somewhere came and grabbed my fish. I just happened to buy a few by the way."
Liu Wangxue expressed sympathy.
After ordering coffee at the counter, Xu Qingsong chose a seat by the window. Just as he was about to help Liu Wangxue pull out a chair, Liu Wangxue smiled and said, "I won't disturb you from meeting your friends. I'll go over there."
Without waiting for Xu Qingsong to react, he took Pengpeng to a seat farther away.
Xu Qingsong had no choice but to sit down and send a message to Du Yunkai: [I'm here, in the lobby cafe]
After a long while, Du Yunkai replied: [Coming soon]
Not long after, Du Yunkai appeared with a girl wearing sunglasses and a mask. A black nanny car drove to the lobby door. He first sent the girl to the car, said a few words, and then walked towards Xu Qingsong.
Du Yunkai and Xu Qingsong were roommates and classmates in college. After graduating from college, Du Yunkai went abroad to study and received an offer from an internationally renowned game company. Xu Qingsong was admitted to graduate school at his own school and joined a major domestic game company, Lumin Technology. He later became a department manager and became well-known.
After Du Yunkai became a manager, he felt that the company's philosophy was increasingly leaning towards extreme political correctness, which was also caused by the general environment, and he was unable to refute it. Coincidentally, his family also began to urge him to get married, so he returned to China.
However, he himself was against arranged marriage, so he made a bet with his family on the grounds of career, that he would produce a game with revenue of over 100 million within two years, otherwise he would accept the arrangement.
Du Yunkai asked a few of his friends who had money but nowhere to spend it to invest, and then recruited a few more people to set up a studio. He also found a good script that no one was interested in on a certain drama platform.
At that time, Lumin Technology's performance declined, and internal factional struggles continued. Xu Qingsong, the department manager, was left out in the cold, and many headhunters came to him one after another. But when he received the olive branch from Du Yunkai, he refused because he had signed a non-compete agreement.
Du Yunkai was not short of money, so he said, "As long as you come, I will pay for the liquidated damages."
Before Xu Qingsong made a decision, Lumin Technology was acquired. He was the first to be laid off in the personnel adjustment.
Everyone under him was in disbelief.
"I originally thought that with Manager Xu's ability, he could at least move up one level."
"That's right. If not promoted, at least transferred to the same position. How could he be laid off? What do the higher-ups think?"
After coming out of the HR department, Xu Qingsong was called to the office by his master, who handed him a document bag. He opened it and saw that it was the non-compete agreement he had signed.
His master said with embarrassment: "I don't have the ability, I can only help you up to this point. Go out and find another company. With your ability, you will have no worries about finding a job."
However, the headhunters who had previously approached him seemed to have disappeared.
When Du Yunkai went to find him again, he realized that there was a reason why he was fired.
Du Yunkai said: "I found out that it was acquired by the Xu family. Do you know who the CEO who was parachuted in?"
"who?"
"It's that jerk Xu Han!" Du Yunkai laughed, "He went to a fake university abroad and thought he was a gold nugget! He messed up his small company and now he's trying to bully a big company."
Xu Han is a descendant of the second branch of the Xu family. He is of the same generation as Xu Qingsong, but a few months younger. Logically, he should call Xu Qingsong "cousin".
Xu Han, Xu Qingsong and Du Yunkai were in the same school, major and class as each other in college, but he was admitted on the cutoff line due to the expansion of enrollment.
Xu Han took notice of Xu Qingsong the first time he saw him, because he thought this person looked very similar to the photo of his great-great-grandfather hanging in the living room of his home, and for a time he thought he was the illegitimate son of someone in the Xu family. After going back to check, he found out about the past connection.
As the youngest son, Xu Han was spoiled since childhood. He couldn't compare with Xu Qingsong in academics, so he wanted to crush him in other aspects, but Xu Qingsong didn't take it seriously at all. During the four years of college, he was always in a state of jumping around, getting angry and embarrassed, but unable to do anything.
After returning from studying abroad, his family gave him a small company to practice. He didn't achieve any results, but got into a lot of trouble. He accidentally learned that Xu Qingsong was working at Luminance Technology, and his father was planning to acquire it. Xu Han almost threw a tantrum and persuaded his mother to let his father take over the CEO position.
Afterwards, Xu Qingsong went to Du Yunkai, who directly gave him some technical shares.
(End of this chapter)
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