Chapter 1619 Could I have had my soul stolen too?
After Shang Bin heard Li Ye say "Xiao Zhuo misses you" on the phone, he remained silent for at least ten seconds.
Then he said calmly, "Xiao Zhuo is a very smart and studious child, but she has a bit of a temper. Deputy General Manager Li has always valued talent, so if there's anything he's dissatisfied with, he won't hold it against her too much, right?"
"I don't mind! But she's unhappy with me now!"
Li Ye protested, "Today, Xiao Zhu publicly accused me of abusing my power, saying that I didn't arrange a suitable job and a two-bedroom apartment for her."
But isn't working right next to you the most suitable job for her? And as for housing, forget about it; according to regulations, I haven't even been allocated housing at the factory!"
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Shang Bin remained silent for five seconds, then said in a deep voice, "A country has its laws, and a family has its rules. Without rules, nothing can be accomplished. Tell her not to use my name to do anything that violates the rules."
"Okay, okay, I'll definitely tell her."
Li Ye hung up the phone with satisfaction, then said to Zhuo Minglan, "Deputy General Manager Shang said you are not allowed to do anything against the rules under his name. If you don't believe me, I'll call you back now."
Zhuo Minglan stared at Li Ye in shock, her voice hoarse as she asked, "When did I break the rules? Besides, whether there are rules or not, isn't it all up to you to decide? How many people has the First Factory given special treatment over the years? Wasn't it all approved by you, Li Ye?"
Li Ye said with a half-smile, "I approve these requests because they've provided exceptional value to the group. So where is your value? Are you taking public funds and accompanying Deputy General Manager Shang on inspection tours everywhere? Then you shouldn't be asking me to approve these requests."
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Zhuo Minglan was stunned.
Li Ye's behavior of subtly mocking Shang Bin in public is not in accordance with industry "rules".
Shang Bin is, after all, a high-level person, and rumors about him should not be openly uttered by Li Ye.
But Li Ye said that to deal with extraordinary people, you have to do extraordinary things. If you, Zhuo Minglan, insist on making a scene in public, then I, Li Ye, can also be unconventional.
After Li Ye finished speaking, the entire room fell silent.
Moreover, everyone followed Li Ye's gaze and looked at that young Lu.
Lu Junyi's heart immediately began to panic. Before he accompanied his newlywed wife Zhuo Minglan to Jingnan Group today, Zhuo Minglan had told him that she didn't get along with her superiors and that her sycophantic colleagues might spread some unpleasant rumors, so Lu Junyi should never believe them.
Lu Junyi agreed immediately.
Zhuo Minglan was good-looking in school, and her "independent and straightforward" personality led many female classmates to point fingers at her. Therefore, Lu Junyi believed that these colleagues were just jealous of his goddess.
After arriving at Jingnan Group, Zhuo Minglan was indeed "targeted" by her colleagues. She lost her previous job and the promised wedding house was also gone.
In particular, the wedding house was the living condition that Lu Junyi looked forward to the most and needed the most. In fact, if Zhuo Minglan hadn't promised to provide a wedding house, the two of them wouldn't have gotten their marriage certificate so quickly.
Therefore, when Zhuo Minglan was rejected, Lu Junyi was convinced that Zhuo Minglan was "jealous of others".
But now, Lu Junyi suddenly felt something was off.
Because the way people looked at Lu Junyi was so strange and complicated.
Mockery, pity, doubt, anger at their lack of ambition, sorrow for their misfortune—Lu Junyi had only seen such a complex look in his eyes once in his life.
That was last year. An honest man from the village next to my hometown went to Yunnan Province and spent 10,000 yuan to buy a wife. Then, a few days later, his wife ran away.
Even though the honest man was the victim, everyone around him looked at him with mockery and pity.
The consequences were very serious. The honest man became dull and dazed from then on. Lu Junyi's mother said that he had been "soul-stole" and had become a fool.
[Oops, have I been bewitched too?]
Just a month ago, Lu Junyi, who had graduated and been working for a year, suddenly received a call from Zhuo Minglan.
On the phone, Zhuo Minglan tearfully asked Lu Junyi if he could come to the police station to pick her up. She said that she was being wrongly investigated by the police because of something at work, and now everyone was avoiding her. She was also sick with a fever and felt dizzy and unsteady on her feet.
Lu Junyi had a crush on Zhuo Minglan when he was in school, and he mustered up the courage to confess his feelings to a girl for the first time in his life.
Zhuo Minglan only politely said "You are a good person", which made Lu Junyi feel regretful and couldn't forget it. Now that the Goddess of the Nü'er is in trouble, isn't this an opportunity?
The classic trope of a hero rescuing a damsel in distress and then repaying her with his body is deeply ingrained in people's minds from movies and TV dramas in the 80s and 90s.
Lu Junyi hurriedly went to the police station to pick up Zhuo Minglan, and then the opportunity really came to him. After taking care of Zhuo Minglan for several days without taking off his clothes, Zhuo Minglan tearfully untied his clothes.
Making something out of nothing was a very serious matter in the 1990s. As a grown man, Lu Junyi always had to take responsibility. In addition, the police confirmed that Zhuo Minglan was innocent, which dispelled Lu Junyi's last concerns.
But after arriving at Jingnan Group today, Lu Junyi realized that things might not be so simple.
When lust takes over, one might not care about anything else, but once a former girl is won over, one's intelligence will return.
Students who were able to get into undergraduate programs in the late 1980s were not necessarily unintelligent. Moreover, Lu Junyi had already been working for a year, and the harsh realities of society had worn away the naivety he had in school.
In other words, Lu Junyi is not so easily fooled.
In particular, when Lu Junyi noticed that everyone's eyes were inadvertently glancing at Zhuo Minglan's lower abdomen, Lu Junyi's heart suddenly skipped a beat.
Zhuo Minglan graduated a year ago and has gained a lot of weight. She says it's because the food is better than when she was in school. But if the food is better, does that mean she only gains weight in her belly and not elsewhere?
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Lu Junyi spent the whole morning with Zhuo Minglan at work, and finally agreed to temporarily take a position as a regular staff member in the group's liaison office. As for the housing issue, it still needs to be studied in detail.
After all, in Beijing, where land is incredibly valuable, setting aside an entire dormitory room for employees to get married is a significant undertaking.
After finishing all that, the newlyweds finally came out for lunch.
Zhuo Minglan had tear stains on her face, but she had a good appetite. Lu Junyi added two more dishes for her before she was full.
But because of this "adding dishes" incident, Lu Junyi was scolded by Zhuo Minglan again.
"Can't you be a little more generous when ordering food? Are you even a man? When I was arguing with them at work today, why didn't you say a word? Look at other husbands; when their wives are bullied, they fight back."
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Lu Junyi stared blankly at Zhuo Minglan, his heart filled with mixed feelings.
"In front of so many people, you want me to fight someone to the death? You want them to kill me, right? Are you only satisfied if I risk my life?"
After finishing his meal, Lu Junyi took Zhuo Minglan back to her temporary residence before returning to work.
He was still a new employee at his company and only took half a day off.
After arriving at his workplace, Lu Junyi hesitated for a moment before making a phone call back to his hometown.
"Hey, village chief. Could you please call my mom? Just my mom, don't call my dad."
"Hey Mom, I have a question for you. When you were pregnant with me, in which month did you start showing? What? Three and a half months?"
Lu Junyi counted on his fingers and realized that he had only been reunited with Zhuo Minglan for a month.
The police investigation into Zhuo Minglan began two and a half months ago.
Lu Junyi gritted his teeth, first made a phone call to a classmate, and then went straight to Zhuo Minglan's residence after get off work.
"Minglan, you haven't been feeling well lately. A classmate of mine has an older sister who's a doctor. Let's go get her checked out tomorrow."
(End of this chapter)
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