Chapter 1432: Refusing to be Balanced (7)
Tang Shichu had just finished dinner after returning to his dormitory when he received a call from Zhou Zhan: "The keyboard set you gave me is not cheap. You have been spending all your time preparing for the postgraduate entrance examination recently and have no time to work part-time. Do you still have living expenses? Don't spend all your money on gifts."
The question was not polite or tactful at all. If it were a sensitive person, wouldn't he be depressed for a few days after being asked this question?
However, Tang Shichu's heart has always been harder than steel, and Zhou Zhan's words could not hurt her at all, so she replied carelessly: "Don't worry, I won't give you a gift that I can't afford. I have some savings before, and I also made some money by helping people tell fortunes online. You don't have to worry about me having no food to eat."
"You can tell fortunes?" Zhou Zhan was so shocked that his voice became louder. "Are you scamming people online? Be careful not to get caught."
Tang Shichu was speechless for a while, resisting the urge to roll his eyes, and said, "Of course not. I'm a college student after all, and I won't break the law knowingly. It's called fortune-telling, but in fact it's similar to being a psychologist. I just comfort people who are in a bad mood online, and I use psychological comfort and some numerology to strengthen my persuasiveness... The effect is not bad, and the customers who have come to me are all very satisfied with me."
"..." Zhou Zhan never expected that Tang Shichu could expand such a business, so he could only remind her, "Don't fool people too much, be careful."
"Yeah, I know." Tang Shichu made assurances again and again, and finally got rid of this worried big brother.
As soon as Zhou Zhan hung up the phone, another call came in.
When Tang Shichu took a look, it turned out to be Li Manyan. Li Manyan had been very busy since she went to her boyfriend's company for an internship, and naturally her contact with Tang Shichu became less and less. The two of them now had different goals, and it was inevitable that they would drift apart, and Tang Shichu was happy to see this.
But I don’t know why Li Manyan looked for Tang Shichu this time. Shouldn’t she be busy dating her boyfriend and deepening their relationship?
"Hey, Manchu, what do you want to talk to me about?" Tang Shichu asked.
"Shichu... wuwu..." As soon as Li Manyan heard Tang Shichu's voice, she started crying and sobbed, "I'm so sad. Why is it so difficult for me to come here for an internship..."
Tang Shichu paused, feeling impatient. Didn't the internship go well? Lan Jigao, the biggest boss in the company, was her boyfriend. Even if her colleagues and superiors didn't give her face, they would give her face. Who would dare to embarrass her? What was wrong with her?
"Wow... My colleagues here are not friendly at all. They deliberately bully me and always push their work onto me. I have to do even trivial things like changing the water, mopping the floor, and cleaning the tea room... If I make the slightest mistake at work, they ridicule me and scold me... Wow, Shi Chu, why are there such bad people..." Li Manyan cried very sadly.
Tang Shichu was very puzzled: "Don't they know that your backer is their biggest boss? How dare they bully you?"
"I... I didn't reveal my relationship with Ji Gao in the company... I, I want to be competent at my job through my own efforts, and don't want people to look down on me..." Li Manyan replied weakly.
Tang Shichu couldn't help but roll her eyes this time. She didn't understand why she had to hide it. When she accepted Lan Jigao's invitation to do an internship, she was not shy about it. She was quite happy and proud. Why did she suddenly not want people to know that she got in through the back door when she arrived at the company? Once her identity as the boss' girlfriend was revealed, she would be able to work as comfortably as possible.
So she asked directly: "You hid your relationship with Lan Jigao while interning at the company, but encountered workplace bullying. Do you want to continue hiding it? Is the opinion of others so important?"
Li Manyan sighed in confusion, "At first, you didn't know that Ji Gao's mother was very unhappy when she knew that I had joined the company for an internship. She said that I had to rely on Ji Gao to join the company, and that I had no skills and could not help Ji Gao at all, and would even drag him down... I just wanted to prove myself that I was not useless, so I wanted to gain his mother's recognition through my own efforts... Of course, I also didn't want others to think that Ji Gao was a person who couldn't distinguish between public and private..."
Lan Shichu was really convinced and said expressionlessly: "In this case, then you should rely on your own efforts to resist the oppression of your colleagues. Come on, I believe in you."
"But at the beginning... they were so fierce, I didn't dare to resist..." Li Manyan was confused and at a loss.
"Then what should we do? If you don't dare to resist, then just endure it. Maybe when you have achieved good results at work and proved yourself, they will not bully you anymore." Tang Shichu said casually.
"Shi Chu, it would be great if you were also in the company. I wouldn't feel so uncomfortable with you as my companion." Li Manyan said while choking.
Tang Shichu couldn't help but sneer in her heart. She remembered that in the original owner's previous life, there were also colleagues who thought Li Manyan was easy to bully and made things difficult for her everywhere. Li Manyan couldn't stand it and complained to the original owner. The original owner was silly and naive. When she heard about it, she immediately stood up for her good friend and confronted those workplace seniors who bullied Li Manyan. She was like a newborn calf who was not afraid of a tiger and openly cursed at them.
The consequence of acting impulsively was that the original owner replaced Li Manyan and became the thorn in the eyes of her colleagues. Everyone's fire was directed at her, causing her to suffer a lot afterwards and she was in a very difficult situation. On the contrary, Li Manyan successfully became invisible and was unharmed.
It was not until the original owner and Cheng Wu openly started dating that she was able to use the power of Cheng Wu to bully others and get rid of the overt and covert attacks.
When the original owner married Cheng Wu, Li Manyan successfully became the boss's wife. These old colleagues secretly mocked the original owner for being Li Manyan's running dog, who could do whatever Li Manyan pointed at her and was very useful...
The original owner was shocked when she heard this. She had never known that others viewed her this way. She thought she was defending her good friend out of loyalty, but others thought she was a lackey, fawning over the boss lady, and that she had seen Li Manyan's "potential" long ago, so she performed so hard...
The original owner wanted to explain that she was not trying to please Li Manyan, but at that time she had already resigned and returned home to become a full-time housewife. Cheng Wu was promoted and got a raise, and he needed her to maintain a good relationship with Li Manyan, so she had to endure all the grievances and continue to maintain a friendly relationship with Li Manyan.
In this life, the original owner will not be the scapegoat to protect Li Manyan. Li Manyan has to rely on herself. I wonder if she can still be safe and sound like in her previous life?
Of course that's impossible. Tang Shichu felt that she should either just endure it or go to Lan Jigao to complain after the outburst, and both of these situations were obviously not a good way to deal with it.
(End of this chapter)
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