Chapter 2 Encountering an Old Acquaintance
Wang Qianqian poked Chen Yanxi's forehead and said, "Use your brain and think about it carefully. Why would such an outstanding man have his girlfriend cheat on him?"
"That just means that woman is blind."
Wang Qianqian shook her head: "This means that Xu Qingmin has a strong outward sex appeal, but he's definitely not good in that area."
Song Yilin spat out all the tea she was drinking.
Wang Qianqian and Chen Yanxi looked at Song Yilin with suspicion.
Song Yilin gave a stiff smile: "The tea is too bitter."
Xu Qingmin was so good in that area that she still remembers him vividly.
Song Yilin, as if possessed, searched for the name Xu Qingmin.
The first few pages of search results are filled with profiles and news about Xu Qingmin. With his current achievements, he can indeed be considered a prominent figure in Jianghai City.
However, saying that the Xu family can do whatever they want in Jianghai City is a gross exaggeration. Rumors often exaggerate to create news value. He also has quite a few scandals, several involving female celebrities.
Xu Qingmin was born into a wealthy family, so his success in his career was to be expected. What's surprising is that he hasn't gotten married after all these years.
Is it really because of her that he hasn't gotten married for so many years?
Thinking about it now, I feel like I've been deluding myself. More than ten years have passed, and the cells in a person's body have been replaced several times. She has even forgotten the pain of her husband's death, let alone the love she had in her youth.
He still vividly remembers the look of utter despair on his face when he found out she was pregnant with another man's child.
Given Xu Qingmin's vengeful nature, she should be grateful that he hasn't retaliated against her all these years.
An hour after the general manager's transfer order was issued, the transfer order for the new director of the Yishi store was also issued.
Wang Qianqian rushed into her office.
I usually have a good relationship with her, and sometimes I don't care much about how I address her or how I greet people when I come in.
"Yilin, what do you mean? Why is Chen Wenjie the new sales director? You know I don't get along with Chen Wenjie."
After Song Yilin became the sales director, she divided the team into two sales groups, with Wang Qianqian and Chen Wenjie as the team leaders. In order to maintain their aggressive sales style, Song Yilin intentionally or unintentionally created competition between the two groups. Over time, the two became very antagonistic.
Song Yilin pretended not to know Wang Qianqian's subtext: "Chen Wenjie isn't a bad person; he'll be a great sales director in the future."
"Chen Wenjie's group's sales performance was mostly not as good as mine; it wasn't me, and it couldn't have been him."
"His performance and business skills are not as good as yours, but he has a wife, children, car loans, and mortgages. You have nothing, only a boyfriend you're about to marry. If I could decide on the appointment and dismissal of this position, I would choose you. But this time, the boss made the decision directly on the appointment and dismissal of the sales director."
Wang Qianqian was aware of the unspoken rules of the workplace, so she didn't press the matter further.
"If you want to leave, take me with you."
"Aren't you afraid I won't be able to get the general manager position in Jianghai City?"
"With your abilities, there's no way you won't get the job. I'm sticking with you, and even if you don't get it, I'll accept it."
"Wait for me for three months. If I become the general manager, I'll take you with me."
With a smile on her charming face, Wang Qianqian said, "It's settled then."
When going to a new store, she always brings her own people. Even though Boss Zhou offered Wang Qianqian the position of sales director for the Yishi store, she was unwilling. She wanted Wang Qianqian to be the sales director for the Jianghai store.
In the workplace, genuine feelings may exist, but self-interest always comes first.
Yilan City has a permanent population of only 700,000 to 800,000, but because it is a city suitable for wintering, housing prices are very high.
Song Yilin's house in Yishi is a three-bedroom, one-living-room house. Her husband bought it when house prices weren't so high back then, and she only finished paying off the loan in the last two years. In her female-dominated family, she and her daughter sleep in one room, her mother and mother-in-law sleep in one room with bunk beds, and her child's great-grandmother has another room.
In Jianghai City, she owns a house, and her mother-in-law also owns a house. The two houses face each other, so they will have more space to live in and it will be easier for them to take care of each other. The education in Jianghai City is also much better than in Yishi City.
So I've been wanting to go back to Jianghai City for the past few years, and it would be even better if I could come back for work.
As for those people from the past, they are already in two different worlds. How could they possibly meet in such a large city like Jianghai?
After completing the handover of her work in Yishi, Song Yilin returned to Jianghai City first. The two houses had been renovated after the fire years ago and had been rented out for years. After receiving the personnel change notice, she refunded three months' rent to the tenants, who moved out without saying a word.
She hadn't returned to this house for thirteen years since the fire.
Time flies, and there is no trace left of that fire from back then.
She came back and hired a cleaning company to give it a thorough cleaning, replacing all the furniture and appliances with new ones.
Originally, Song Yilin wanted to look at some good public schools near her home, but time was too tight. So, she gritted her teeth and enrolled her daughter in an international school, hoping that her daughter's English would improve.
A week before their daughter Bai Guanqun started school, the whole family officially moved back to Jianghai City.
She adapted to the work and life rhythm of Jianghai City within a month of arriving. The automotive industry in Yishi was already very competitive, but Jianghai City was even more competitive. In Yishi, there was only one 4S store for a car brand, while in Jianghai City, there were three or four 4S stores for a car brand. In Yishi, she only needed to compete with competitors, but in Jianghai City, she also needed to compete with the same brand.
She continued working as the sales director at the Jianghai City store. However, since both she and Wang Xiasheng, the after-sales director of the Jianghai store, were management trainees, the general manager of the Jianghai store would take her and Wang Xiasheng to learn about management in addition to their regular sales director duties.
She didn't like to take on too much responsibility, so she delegated authority to two managers. However, the sales consultants at the Jianghai store had a habit of requesting prices that exceeded the managers' authority.
But thinking about it, it's understandable. The market environment in a city is too competitive, and it's not easy for a sales consultant to sell a car, so they are used to retaining customers with the lowest possible price.
Previously, car prices in Yishi were kept quite good. In Jianghai City, however, dealerships were trying to sell cars at the lowest price offered by the car manufacturers. But Jianghai City's car accessories and loan businesses were doing well, so they were able to make up for the losses.
While in a meeting that day, the police station suddenly called to say that her daughter had bullied a classmate. Song Yilin quickly wrote a report to Shao Min, the general manager of the Jianghai store, and went out.
Given her position, she doesn't need to report where she goes, but she's new and still getting to know the general manager of the Jianghai store, so she needs to show some respect.
My daughter is a little tyrant wherever she goes. She's been fighting since she was little, but she's never bullied any of her classmates.
Schools nowadays are quite strict about student bullying; they will call the police immediately if there are any signs of it.
When they arrived at the police station, the daughter looked at the two children of the same age in front of her with disdain, while two parents sat next to her.
One of the two parents was someone she knew—her high school classmate, Mu Yunzi.
She thought she had given birth early, but she didn't expect Mu Yunzi to have given birth so early too.
But Mu Yunzi's figure and temperament really don't look like someone who has given birth.
Song Yilin wasn't sure if Mu Yunzi remembered her, so she didn't greet her.
"Officer, what's going on? My daughter is being bullied?"
The police officer glanced at her and asked, "Are you Bai Guanqun's sister?"
"No, I am her mother."
“It’s not that your daughter is being bullied, it’s that your daughter is bullying others. Those two in front were hit by your daughter.”
Her daughter fought two boys all by herself?
"Officer, could there be a mistake? My daughter, a little girl of twelve or thirteen, beat up two male classmates?"
During puberty, the power disparity between boys and girls is already obvious; even girls who have undergone special training cannot beat boys.
A slightly chubby boy said, "She's the one who hit us. She deliberately cornered us at the toilet door and beat us up."
The tall, thin boy immediately said, "Bai Guanqun didn't hit me. I was just passing by and got hurt by mistake."
Song Yilin knew that although her daughter was domineering, she wouldn't hit people for no reason, so she squatted down in front of her daughter and asked, "Tell Mommy, why did you hit them?"
Bai Guanqun tilted his head back and looked at the boys with disdain: "They harassed a female classmate, they deserved to be beaten."
The slightly chubby boy immediately retorted, "How did I flirt with a female classmate? Don't talk nonsense."
"You pulled on my deskmate's bra strap."
The parent of the slightly chubby boy immediately grabbed his ear: "You dare to flirt with female classmates?"
"No, no, Dad, it's a misunderstanding. I was trying to stop that girl, and I meant to grab her clothes, but I accidentally grabbed her bra."
The parent understood what was going on and grabbed the boy to apologize to Bai Guanqun.
Bai Guanqun immediately said, "No need to apologize to me. He grabbed my deskmate's underwear. He should apologize to my deskmate."
The parent immediately said, "Yes, I will make sure my child apologizes to your classmate."
He then gave Song Yilin a thumbs up and said, "You're such a young girl, you have such a chivalrous spirit at such a young age. I admire you."
Then, without pursuing the matter of Bai Guanqun beating his child, he left with the slightly chubby boy.
Song Yilin gestured for Bai Guanqun to apologize to the other boy.
Bai Guanqun reluctantly got up.
"Xu Yijing, I'm sorry, I accidentally hurt you just now."
With a bandage on his forehead, Xu Yijing said with an admiring look, "It's okay, how about we become brothers from now on? I'll be your little brother from now on."
Bai Guanqun always has a group of brothers wherever he goes, and Song Yilin is used to it.
However, it is also a fact that Bai Guanqun hit someone. He said to Mu Yunzi, "I'm sorry, it was my child who hurt your child. I'll pay for the medical expenses and nutrition costs."
After all, the daughter broke someone's head.
"No need for medical expenses, Yilin. It's been a long time. How about you buy me a cup of coffee?"
Song Yilin was taken aback for a moment, then nodded.
Inside the coffee shop, the two children who had just fought were now playing together again.
Song Yilin and Mu Yunzi reminisced about the past, chatting casually.
Mu Yunzi secretly sent Xu Qingmin her location and a message: "Yi Jing is injured. Could you come and pick us up?"
"Yilin, you haven't changed at all over the years."
"You too, your child is so big and you're still so beautiful."
Mu Yunzi just smiled and did not directly reply to Song Yilin about the child.
They weren't that close to begin with, and since Mu Yunzi didn't like talking about children, they chatted about trivial things.
In high school, I wasn't in the same class as Mu Yunzi. I got to know her because of Mu Yunzi and her older sister Mu Yuncheng. I boarded at Xu Qingmin's house during high school and had a misunderstanding about their relationship before.
Mu Yunzi can be considered a fallen princess. She is the daughter of Xu Qingmin's mother Xu Ming's friend. She used to be a daughter of a noble family like Xu Ming, but unfortunately her family fell into decline. When she was in high school, she was so destitute that she had to rely on the Xu family to survive.
Mu Yunzi touched her face: "I'm old now, unlike you, who are still so spirited."
Song Yilin was sitting facing the entrance of the coffee shop.
The coffee shop's greeter called out, "Welcome!"
Then came Xu Qingmin, whom she hadn't seen for thirteen years.
Over the years, Xu Qingmin's face hasn't changed at all; his aloofness is even stronger than before.
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