Chapter 70
A few days later, in the evening, Cheng Shi got off the subway halfway home and then easily made his way to Candy's house.
Starting today, Candy is on her annual leave, but she told Chengshi that she has no travel plans. Her roommate Apple is not staying at home recently, so Chengshi can go to her house to see her every day after get off work.
Although he hadn't seen Candy all day, Cheng Shi didn't particularly want to see her tonight. However, it was precisely because of this that he felt this was a good opportunity to confront Candy. Cheng Shi understood that he should break things off with Candy as soon as possible, since his status would soon change—An Zheyuan had already promised him a title that would command respect, so he had to quickly and cleanly deal with this "accident" that didn't suit his status.
To be honest, every time Narumi and Candy went to a hotel, he felt an unusual sense of satisfaction, which made him cherish the pleasant times he spent with Candy. However, as the old saying goes, "Hesitation leads to trouble," and Narumi didn't want Candy to cause him any trouble in the days to come. Besides, people change, and as one's circumstances change, the pleasures one needs naturally change as well.
Chengshi now enjoys a different kind of "pleasure"—recently, he suddenly feels a sense of ease and fluency in everything he does. For example, he's becoming increasingly adept at creating the copy for the "Talking" series of mini-programs. Now, he can basically produce a complete piece of copy every day, covering topics such as sales analysis, cost settlement, salary management, and KPI assessment. More importantly, these completed pieces of copy have already been presented as a satisfactory test version of the mini-program and sent to An Zheyuan's phone.
“Sit down, Frankie. These mini-programs are really well done. I noticed you’ve made quite a few optimizations, and these charts are very intuitive,” An Zheyuan said to Cheng Shi yesterday while scrolling through his phone. “I’m very satisfied. Also, I have some good news to tell you today.”
Cheng Shi watched An Zheyuan silently. Sure enough, just as he had predicted, An Zheyuan's grand plan was about to officially launch. According to An Zheyuan, the first "informal evaluation meeting" would be held next Monday in An Zheyuan's private conference room on the top floor. At that time, Cheng Shi would work with his new colleagues to "formulate work goals." After that, Cheng Shi would no longer need to see himself as Ban Jianhua's follower; in a sense, he would be on equal footing with Ban Jianhua. At the same time, An Zheyuan also indicated that it was time for him and Cheng Shi to "sit down and talk about salary and benefits."
This time, Cheng Shi's shirt was no longer damp with nervous sweat, and the shadow of his father, Cheng Xinhua, did not linger. This time, Cheng Shi no longer judged An Zheyuan's office decor with a critical eye, because he understood that they were now discussing purely business matters, and that it wouldn't be long before he would also have his own independent office with a completely unique aesthetic style.
In the end, when An Cheol-won and Cheng Shi said goodbye, Cheng Shi already knew clearly that he would receive nearly 300,000 more in salary each year, not counting bonuses! Of course, he would also have a private office not on the 15th floor!
Cheng Shi didn't expect that the internal recruitment would offer such generous terms, and she was even more surprised that An Zheyuan would be so generous.
Earning an extra 300,000 yuan a year is certainly a very satisfying figure, one that Cheng Shi wouldn't even dare to dream of. This amount is more than enough to raise a child or to find Huang Ruoyu a top-notch psychologist.
“Not bad,” Huang Ruoyu said coldly when she heard the number. “This is what you’ve always wanted, isn’t it?”
"More or less," Cheng Shi deliberately ignored Huang Ruoyu's tone, "Isn't this good enough?"
"Um."
Now that Chengshi has sorted out his work matters, he can focus all his energy on his personal affairs. Of course, these are all things that urgently need to be dealt with. Because a few days ago, Chengshi's marriage was once again on the verge of collapse: Huang Ruoyu had moved back to sleep in the downstairs living room. If this had happened in the past, Chengshi would definitely have been furious, but things are different now. Chengshi's changed status has made him much more peaceful. More importantly, this time he and Huang Ruoyu weren't sleeping separately because of an argument, and Huang Ruoyu didn't show any particular resentment or dissatisfaction towards him.
“I haven’t been sleeping well lately,” Huang Ruoyu told Chengshi on the first night she moved to the living room. “I think it will be more comfortable to sleep alone.”
“Okay.” Cheng Shi replied magnanimously, but he didn’t think that he should give the bedroom to Huang Ruoyu, who was pregnant, and sleep on the sofa in the living room himself.
When Chengshi found Huang Ruoyu still fiddling with her pillows and bedding on the sofa in the living room the next evening, he couldn't help himself.
"What exactly do you mean?" Cheng Shi leaned against the frosted glass door of DK, holding a wine glass in his hand, watching Huang Ruoyu slap his pillow, and asked in what he thought was a gentle tone, "Do you have a problem with me?"
"I just wanted to get a good night's sleep, I didn't mean to make you angry."
Cheng Shi didn't immediately retort this time. He lazily swirled his wine glass, took a sip, and as he moved away from the frosted glass door, he said, "No, I'm not angry. I just think it's not right for you to be sleeping so poorly."
Chengshi noticed a significant change in his attitude towards the matter: he wasn't as angry as he seemed. Frankly, he was a little unhappy, but definitely not angry. What did he have to be angry about? After all, it was Huang Ruoyu's own problem; isn't everyone primarily responsible for their own actions?
Chengshi felt this was a truly beneficial new discovery for his physical and mental health, a discovery that made him feel much more at peace. Now, Chengshi felt he was able to see the two of them as two different individuals—that's your problem, your business—he found that the foreigner's detached attitude was indeed quite stress-relieving.
Cheng Shi felt that the pressure of the past few months had brought him and Huang Ruoyu through a crisis, and now was the time to let it dissipate: the best and most natural way out was for the two of them to create some distance and not pay so much attention to each other. As the old saying goes, "Distance makes the heart grow fonder" and "It's better to forget each other than to cling together in hardship." Cheng Shi felt that although the two of them didn't need to "forget each other," there was indeed no need for them to "breathe and share the same fate" all the time.
So, that's your business.
Ultimately, Cheng Shi still sympathized with Huang Ruoyu. He knew that such a change in her plans would be especially difficult for her to accept; she would become more emotionally unstable, suffer from insomnia, loss of appetite, and mood swings—all of which he could completely understand. In any case, Cheng Shi knew the best course of action was to help her get through this as soon as possible. Next week, he would consult a reputable psychologist. He had even already planned how he would explain Huang Ruoyu's symptoms to the doctor. He was confident the doctor would say, "Mr. Cheng, I believe your analysis of your wife's problems is quite accurate. Although we cannot yet determine the intensity of the treatment plan, I can assure you that with the cooperation of her family, I believe your wife will recover quickly."
However, at the same time, Narumi faces another, more pressing task: it's time to make a clean break with Candy.
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