Chapter 23: Mr. Meng's Dislike of Drinking Table Culture
Linda walked to Fan Shengmei's workstation in her high heels and knocked on her partition.
"Xiao Fan, Mr. Lin wants you to go to his office."
Fan Shengmei looked up and closed the document in her hand.
"Did you say anything?"
Linda smiled meaningfully, "Good thing~"
When I pushed open the door of the general manager's office, I saw General Manager Lin was on the phone. When he saw Fan Shengmei come in, he immediately waved to her enthusiastically and asked her to sit down.
"Xiao Fan,"
Mr. Lin hung up the phone with a smile on his face. "I have an important client tonight. Please come with me to entertain him."
Fan Shengmei frowned slightly, "Boss Lin, I work in HR. Socializing is not within my job scope."
"Isn't this a special case with special treatment?"
Mr. Lin interrupted her, "This client is from your hometown and also your senior in high school. He's very attached to his hometown. If you go, you'll definitely get twice the result with half the effort!"
Seeing that Fan Shengmei still wanted to refuse, President Lin began to use both soft and hard tactics, "The company is one, what's yours and mine? As a veteran employee, don't you have this kind of awareness? This quarter's bonus will be doubled, and overtime pay will be tripled. If this client is successful, I will put your name first on the promotion list at the end of the year."
Fan Shengmei clenched the pen in her hand, and finally, she took a deep breath.
"What time is it?"
When I returned to my workstation, Sister Zhang from the next workstation came over quietly.
"Xiao Fan, be careful tonight. Mr. Lin's alcohol tolerance is so high that he sent Xiao Li from the marketing department to the hospital last time."
She lowered her voice and said, "He only chooses beautiful girls to accompany his clients."
There was a whisper of discussion behind me:
"I heard that the customer likes her model..."
"He's thirty and still being singled out, he's got some pretty good tactics."
"If I don't seize these last few years, I won't have the chance to be a drinking companion in the future~"
“Bang!”
Fan Shengmei slammed the folder shut.
She turned around and walked up to the two gossiping female colleagues, looking down at them.
"Wang Li, what's with the Carrefour receipt in your travel expense reimbursement last month?"
"And you, Zhou Ting."
She sneered, "Do I need to remind Mr. Lin that your boyfriend's company is bidding against us?"
Both of them turned pale instantly.
Fan Shengmei leaned over, her red lips almost touching one of their ears: "If I hear one more word of gossip, your dismissal notice will appear on Mr. Lin's desk tomorrow."
At seven o'clock in the evening, when Fan Shengmei followed Mr. Lin into the hotel box, she found that there were already more than a dozen people sitting inside.
Only then did she realize that tonight was not an exclusive social event at all - there were representatives from seven or eight bidding companies sitting around the round table, all of them watching eagerly.
"Boss Wang, Xiao Fan from our company is from the same hometown as you. I just found out on the way here that we went to the same school. Isn't that a coincidence? This is the fate that brought you and our company together."
As soon as Mr. Lin entered the room, he pushed Fan Shengmei towards the middle-aged man in a suit sitting at the main table.
"Yeah"
Mr. Wang stood up happily and immediately asked the waiter to add a stool next to him.
Mr. Lin immediately followed Fan Shengmei to sit next to Mr. Wang and introduced him sheepishly, "Xiao Fan, Mr. Wang is the pride of your school. This ecological park project is a key project in the city, and the first round of financing has reached 500 million yuan!"
After three rounds of drinks, the atmosphere gradually heated up and some people started talking without thinking.
"Xiao Fan, this cup, this cup you must toast to your senior." General Manager Lin urged from the side.
Fan Shengmei's cheeks were already burning from drinking, but she still forced herself to drink another glass.
"Old Wang, this is not nice of you."
A bald man nearby started to make fun of it, "When you drink with a beautiful woman, you have to clink glasses!"
Everyone burst into laughter.
Mr. Wang obviously drank a lot, but he was still well behaved and kept the proper manners.
"That's about it. I have a meeting with someone soon, so I can't drink anymore."
"Xiao Fan,"
Another man with a greasy face squinted his eyes and said, "Your skin is so white, is it because of the climate and soil where you live?"
President Lin just smiled and didn't help. Instead, he poured her another glass of wine and said, "Our Director Fan can drink a lot. Come, let's toast to all the CEOs!"
At this moment, Mr. Wang's phone rang. He stood up to answer it, and Fan Shengmei also took the opportunity to go to the bathroom.
She smiled and nodded at Mr. Wang who was answering the phone, then asked the waiter where the restroom was and went straight there.
The bathroom mirror reflected her flushed cheeks.
Thinking about the triple overtime pay and doubled quarterly bonus, she finally just poured cold water on her face, put on some makeup, and went out with a smile.
The moment Fan Shengmei pushed open the door of the box, her fingers suddenly froze on the door handle.
A familiar figure suddenly appeared on the main seat.
Meng Yanchen.
The gaze behind the gold-rimmed glasses was cold and distant.
Meng Yanchen just heard Fan Shengmei asking about the location of the bathroom from the background audio of Mr. Wang's phone call.
The appointment with Mr. Wang to have tea after dinner turned into the business dinner we have today.
Their eyes met briefly in the air, and he quickly looked away, as if he was just looking at a stranger he had never met before.
The atmosphere in the box suddenly cooled down because of his arrival. The table, which had been noisy just now, suddenly became much quieter, and even the air became thinner.
Fan Shengmei returned to her seat with composure, only two seats away from Meng Yanchen.
She could even see his well-defined profile clearly with her peripheral vision, and the Adam's apple that rolled slightly when he spoke.
She didn't know if it was because of the alcohol or because of Qu Xiaoxiao's ridiculous words, but she suddenly felt inexplicably nervous.
Fine beads of sweat appeared on the palms of his hands, and the fingers holding the wine glass tightened unconsciously, and he somehow drank a glass himself.
"Mr. Meng, this is our company's plan..."
"Mr. Meng, we did a similar project last year..."
Flattering toasts rang out one after another.
Several CEOs rushed to toast Meng Yanchen and Mr. Wang, trying their best to promote their own companies.
Mr. Lin was also trying hard to encourage Fan Shengmei.
"Xiao Fan, give a toast to President Meng! Guokun is the largest investor in this eco-park project."
Just as Fan Shengmei was about to stand up, Meng Yanchen suddenly stood up.
"Mr. Wang, let's talk about this another day. I'm still not used to this kind of occasion."
After saying that, he left the table without even glancing at anyone present.
Qin Yu followed behind and said to Mr. Wang before leaving,
"Mr. Meng hates drinking culture the most."
He glanced at Mr. Lin meaningfully, "Especially when they ask female employees to attend social events. Guokun never cooperates with companies like that."
The whole room was in uproar.
Fan Shengmei froze in place holding the wine glass, and suddenly remembered Qu Xiaoxiao's solemn words, "Meng Yanchen is definitely interested in you." She almost laughed out loud - the man just now didn't even look at her.
The atmosphere of the dinner suddenly changed in the second half.
Mr. Lin looked like an eggplant hit by frost, and Mr. Wang kept looking at his watch.
Fan Shengmei, on the other hand, ate a full meal leisurely.
When the show was over, Mr. Lin was dejected and ready to get into a taxi and leave.
Fan Shengmei grabbed him and asked, "Do the triple overtime pay and double quarterly bonus you promised us still count?"
Mr. Lin responded impatiently, "Count it, count it!"
"Okay, I recorded it~"
The night breeze blew away some of the drunkenness, and she suddenly remembered Meng Yanchen's indifferent look just now, and couldn't help but curl her lips.
"Oh, this is called love? The bosses in those short dramas just walk in like this, pull the heroine up, and say to the whole room,"
She talked to herself and imitated the scenes in the skit.
"You actually let her drink?"
"Do you know who she is?"
"Who dares?"
"If she gets drunk today, I'll bury everyone in this house with her!"
After saying this, he bent over with laughter.
“Beep—”
Just as she was performing, the black Lincoln slowly stopped in front of her.
The car window was half-lowered, revealing Meng Yanchen's well-defined face.
"Get in the car."
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