At this moment, inside the private room, Shi Nan had already drunk the last glass of wine.
Her hand holding the wine glass trembled slightly, and a faint smile appeared on her pale face.
Shi Nan looked at President Liu and turned his wine glass upside down in the air to prove that he had drunk every last drop.
The last glass was placed down, leaving ten empty glasses in a row.
"Clap clap clap..." General Manager Liu clapped his hands.
"Good! I admire Miss Shi's straightforwardness!"
Shi Nan brushed her hair behind her ears, reached into her bag, took out the contract, and handed it to General Manager Liu.
Without saying a word, Mr. Liu reached out and took it, then signed his name directly.
After putting the contract away, Shi Nan could no longer hold back. Her stomach churned, and she suddenly stood up and rushed out of the private room, heading straight for the restroom.
Qiu Mang was a little worried, so she followed.
As soon as she entered the bathroom, Shi Nan eagerly lay down on the toilet, her whole body tensing up, but she couldn't vomit anything.
A resolute glint flashed in Shi Nan's eyes. She put her hand directly into her mouth and forcefully tried to clear her throat.
Once, twice, and finally, the contents of my stomach poured out like a flood bursting its banks.
After vomiting, Shi Nan felt better, as if a part of the burden on her body had been lifted.
Qiu Mang followed him in.
She immediately noticed that Shi Nan seemed to have lost her last bit of strength, her body swaying precariously, almost collapsing to the ground. Qiu Mang quickly reached out to support her.
"Sister Nan, are you alright?" Qiu Mang's voice was full of concern.
Shi Nan turned around and saw Qiu Mang. She was taken aback at first, but then she relaxed.
"It's nothing, what are you doing here?" Shi Nan asked as she walked unsteadily to the edge of the pool.
Heather supported herself on the marble countertop with one hand and reached under the faucet with the other.
"Whoosh..."
Water was flowing from the faucet.
Qiu Mang looked at Shi Nan's pale face in the mirror, her lips pressed tightly together, her heart filled with tenderness.
"President Zhou brought me here for a business dinner, I didn't expect to run into you here."
Shi Nan bent down, rinsed her mouth, and reached for a tissue to wipe her hands.
“Aren’t you in the technical department? How come…” Shi Nan frowned and glanced at Qiu Mang.
As if he had thought of something, he let out a meaningful "Oh".
"Sister Nan, what do you mean?" Qiu Mang asked, somewhat puzzled.
Shi Nan crumpled the tissue into a ball, threw it into the trash can, and took out her lipstick to touch up her makeup.
"He probably thought you were pretty, so he planned to have you do the business." Shi Nan touched up her lipstick, her eyes becoming complicated.
"Can you make a lot of money by bringing in business?" Qiu Mang couldn't help but ask, recalling the scene of Shi Nan drinking heavily in the private room earlier.
Shi Nan put the lipstick into her bag, sighed softly, and continued, "If you don't have connections, education, or skills, the fastest way for an ordinary person to make money is, of course, sales. You could say that sales is the most people-friendly job, with low barriers to entry and high potential."
Take my day for example. I drank ten glasses of wine and earned 150,000 yuan in commission. You know, the department heads in our company only make 20,000 yuan a month. My ten glasses of wine are worth half a year's salary for them!
In sales, sometimes you have to be willing to go all out. For those substantial commissions, you have to grit your teeth and persevere no matter how difficult it is.
Every time I attend a social event, I tell myself that every drink I have brings me one step closer to my goal.
Shi Nan's voice became a little hoarse as she continued, "Do you know how difficult it is for someone with only a high school education like me to gain a foothold in the company? From the moment I entered the company, I knew I had no way out."
My highly educated colleagues started from a higher point than me, and I can only rely on my own efforts to make up for that gap. Fortunately, I'm good at socializing and have a decent alcohol tolerance.
Most of my money comes from drinking at dinner parties! Every time I'm at a dinner party, I have to read between the lines and try my best to please the clients so they'll be willing to work with me.
Sometimes when I drink too much, I feel terribly unwell, but for the sake of survival and to have a place in this city, I have to grit my teeth and bear it.
As Shi Nan spoke, a tear silently rolled down her cheek. She gently wiped her eye and continued, "I don't want to go back to the countryside, I don't want to work in the fields all day, and I don't want to face the gossip of my relatives every day."
In rural areas, people have very traditional views. Wearing shorts in the summer will be considered indecent, and if a woman is nearly thirty and still unmarried, she will be called an old maid who will never get married.
But it's different in Guangcheng. Nobody cares about these things here. The perfect distance between people in the city makes me feel comfortable. I can be myself freely, without worrying about what others think.
Shinan wants to settle down in this city and own a house of her own.
However, she had calculated that if she didn't eat or drink for the rest of her life, her monthly salary would obviously not be enough.
To achieve this goal, she had to work tirelessly and seize every opportunity to make money. No one knew better than her how difficult it was for a girl from the countryside with no education or connections to survive in this fiercely competitive city.
"Sister Nan, are you alright?" Qiu Mang asked softly, looking at Shi Nan's forlorn eyes.
Shi Nan turned to look at Qiu Mang, her eyes softening. "Mang, to be honest, I didn't want to tell you all this now, but since we've already run into each other, you'll find out sooner or later anyway, so I might as well lay it all out on you now."
After finishing speaking, Shi Nan smiled at Qiu Mang, patted her on the shoulder, and then turned and went back to the private room.
Once seated, Heather transformed back into that vibrant social butterfly.
Outside the private room, Qiu Mang took out her phone and saw a message from Zhou Haitao.
[Qiu Mang, that's all for today. You can go home now. Think carefully about what happened today. If you don't want to socialize in the future, I promise to transfer you back to the technical department.]
That night, Qiu Mang lay in bed, tossing and turning, the words Shi Nan had said constantly swirling in his mind.
The next day happened to be Saturday. When Qiu Mang got up in the morning, Zhao Xiaoya and Li Peng had already gone to work overtime.
Shi Nan's door was tightly closed, and seeing that her usual shoes were still on the shoe cabinet, she knew that she had not yet gotten up.
Qiu Mang didn't dare to disturb her. She changed her clothes, went to the supermarket, bought some food, and a few bottles of wine.
When I got home, I saw that Shi Nan was coming out of the room.
"Where did you go?" Shi Nan yawned and asked with half-closed eyes.
Qiu Mang put the supermarket bag on the table, looked at Shi Nan, and said earnestly, "Sister Nan, teach me how to drink!"
Upon hearing this, Shi Nan instantly sobered up. "You... what did you say?"
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