Chapter 36 "I'm really sorry, Lin Jing..."
"I'm so sorry, Manager Lin, Mr. Li has something to do today and can't come, so he had to send me to talk to you in detail."
After speaking, Huang Shiyu saw that the other party had no intention of shaking hands, so he cleanly withdrew his hand, sat down directly, and looked at the person opposite him with a generous smile on his face, with a faint smile on his face.
Lin Xinyu took a sip of coffee, her movements casual, but her words contradicted her actions: "You probably know how important this project is. Li Xingzhou trusts you by sending you here, but I don't."
"Whether you trust me or not is your business, but it's my ability to gain your trust. Let's take a look at the cooperation proposal that Sunac has brought, Manager Lin."
Huang Shiyu placed the cooperation proposal he had prepared on the table and pushed it in front of Lin Xinyu.
Lin Xinyu's hand holding the coffee almost trembled because of the first half of her sentence; this person really had a big mouth.
She finally looked at him properly, but before she could even scrutinize him, she was drawn to Huang Shiyu's arrogance. "This guy's pretty cocky," she thought, giving a disdainful smirk. "Wait, no rush." She sniffed the air a few times, finally realizing something. "I didn't realize, darling, you also love Jacques Henri's perfume balms. You have such good taste; most people don't have such refined taste."
His words, which sounded like praise, were actually full of teasing undertones, a fact that Huang Shiyu himself was well aware of.
She unconsciously sniffed a few times and indeed there was a faint fragrance, a citrus scent, which was Li Xingzhou's perfume balm.
She took the trench coat from the sofa when she left the house. Yesterday, when she took the trench coat out of her suitcase, she accidentally got some water on it. Thinking that she would wear it tomorrow, she just left it there. This morning, she was in a hurry to take it, and now that she thinks about it, there seems to be a short-sleeved shirt under the trench coat. She guesses that's when the water got on it.
"Oh, I don't know anything about these things. Well, I just think it smells nice, and it's alright. I forgot to tell Manager Lin. I know she's very knowledgeable about fragrances and loves collecting them, so I took the liberty of bringing you a bottle that I think is pretty good." As she spoke, she seemed to have just remembered, pulling a simply packaged gift box from her trench coat pocket. "They say that the older the perfume, the better it becomes. I wonder what the atmosphere will be like in the air, and what kind of surprise it will bring us."
Huang Shiyu opened the simple outer packaging box, revealing a white glass bottle containing a grapefruit-yellow liquid perfume, with a glittering gold cap that was very eye-catching.
Seeing the perfume Huang Shiyu handed her, Lin Xinyu's expression softened slightly. "It's Fragrant Vine."
"I knew you really knew a lot about perfume." She smiled gently, but without sounding obsequious.
On her way here, she had Wang Ping send her all of Lin Xinyu's information, including her recent preferences, her past social network, and the content she posted online—it was incredibly detailed.
It was only through her recent blog posts that Huang Shiyu managed to glean her fondness for this perfume. She even had to use Wang Ping's connections to get her hands on this discontinued perfume in such a short time – a true race against time.
Lin Xinyu picked it up and examined it carefully, then said with a slight smile, "It's really hard to buy these now, you must have spent a lot of money."
"How could that be? This perfume was a gift from a friend. I don't know anything about perfumes, so it would be a waste for me to keep it. I've never run into anyone who knows about them. But then I met Manager Lin, and it just so happens that I can use it to my advantage."
It's often said that you need IQ to go to school and EQ to work, and this is certainly being demonstrated in this moment.
"That must be a very special friend. To be so thoughtful in choosing such a heartfelt gift, I certainly wouldn't dare accept it casually."
Despite saying that, Lin Xinyu was still fiddling with the perfume bottle and had no intention of returning it to Huang Shiyu.
Huang Shiyu glanced at the other person, taking in her actions, and said, "Please don't. If you really give it back to me, my friend will be angry. My friend's biggest dream when she was in school was to intern in the Cube R&D department. If you can accept it, my friend will be very happy."
Life is a stage, and everyone has their own script for this play. When it's your turn to perform, don't be shy, just act.
Lin Xinyu became interested upon hearing this, stopped playing with the perfume in her hand, and asked, "Really? Male or female?"
“A woman,” she replied.
Lin Xinyu: "If there's a chance, we can introduce ourselves and go out for coffee together."
"Definitely, Manager Lin, please try it." She gestured for Lin Xinyu to try the perfume.
Huang Shiyu watched as Lin Xinyu uncapped the perfume bottle, gently sprayed it into the air twice, then fanned her nose a few times with her hand, sniffed it lightly, and commented: "Old perfumes really do have a different scent, just like wine. The traces of time are left in the past. It's a completely unimaginable scent, very sophisticated, giving people a sense of tranquility with a strong aura. Not bad, I like it very much."
Huang Shiyu felt relieved. "That really means he has a special connection with Manager Lin."
He smiled and said, "I also hope that this connection can continue into our collaboration with Cube."
To her surprise, after hearing this, Lin Xinyu put down the bottle of perfume in her hand, looked at her, and said, "Helen, do you know why I just said I don't trust you?"
She paused, looking into her eyes, which held emotions that Huang Shiyu couldn't understand, as if she were looking through her at someone else. Lin Xinyu's next sentence perfectly confirmed what Huang Shiyu was thinking.
"Your eyes and brows exude an air of confidence and certainty, much like an old friend of mine."
"And then?" she asked.
Because of her words, Lin Xinyu unconsciously took a deep breath, smelling the fading fragrance of the fragrant vines, her breathing became disordered, and she suddenly felt that the coffee shop she was in was completely silent.
Then she realized that it wasn't that the coffee shop was quiet at all; rather, the scene in front of her was that of the company she had interned at in Japan a few years ago, the Black Tower Group, and she was standing in front of the conference room door of the headquarters building.
Then another familiar voice rang out from inside; it was Silas.
"Hey Sam, are you dissatisfied with the chairman's decision? Why aren't you kneeling down yet?!"
"You should be grateful for this! This is all the punishment you deserve. Now kneel down, Sam. After all, you've caused the company to be burdened with billions in debt! So many people will be displaced because of you!"
She looked at herself from that time and pushed open the door, and the scene from many years ago appeared before her eyes again.
Silas pressed down on Sam's shoulders, trying to make her kneel down, but he couldn't succeed. Sam was resisting Silas's strength and trying to maintain her half-bent body. Her face could only be described as ferocious. Silas, who was pressing her down, was not much better off. He was covered in sweat. However, because he was facing away, no one noticed Lin Xinyu pushing open the door.
Seeing that she wouldn't kneel, Silas increased the pressure, gritting his teeth as he said, "You don't want to do it yourself, do you want me to take care of you?!"
"What are you doing? Let go, let go now!" After shouting this, she took off running over.
Everyone turned to look in the direction of the sound because of it.
Lin Xinyu darted over like an arrow in the blink of an eye, shoving Silas so fast he didn't even have time to react. Silas staggered back a few steps, then, after regaining his balance, stared wide-eyed, as if only now realizing that Lin Xinyu had pushed him away.
"Why should my master kneel!" Lin Xinyu looked up at the person sitting at the conference table who hadn't said a word from the beginning.
Before the man could even speak, Sam stopped her.
"Don't be silly," she said. "Sorry, President."
Her eyes widened in disbelief, as if she had misheard. She turned to Sam and snapped, "Didn't you say it wasn't your fault?! Sam, I'm so disappointed in you!"
Because of her emotional turmoil, she noticed that the scent of Sam's perfume gradually intensified, filling the air around her with that familiar fragrance. The perfume was like both a curse and a cure, pulling her back from that abyss.
She blinked, and Huang Shiyu across from her was still staring at her as if waiting for her to finish her sentence. "Then, she lost miserably. Now I hear she's a discarded pawn. Many people told her to switch tracks, but she refused. You can only say she was too stubborn. In this industry, once you make a mistake, all your previous achievements are meaningless. No one will remember your past glory; they will only see more ugly faces."
"You understand the simple principle of getting up from where you fall down," Huang Shiyu emphasized again. "Besides, she's an old friend of yours, so it shouldn't be difficult for you to lend her a hand."
From the perfume and vines just now to Lin Xinyu's outward emotions, Huang Shiyu knows who it all points to: that woman.
Sam.
The document stated that Lin Xinyu's internship company after graduating from university was Black Tower Group, and her direct supervisor was Sam. She had also investigated Sam when she was at Speed Technology and found that she particularly loved a perfume called Cinnamon Twig. This explained everything.
After a few seconds of silence, Lin Xinyu said, "She's my master, it's not that easy."
Huang Shiyu watched her forcefully twitch the corners of her mouth, and understood somewhat. He slowly said, "I think she will be very grateful to those of you who gave her advice when she was at her lowest point. I also think she doesn't want to be a deserter on this path. Although she may be labeled as a reckless person by her peers and even in the industry, I think she will tear that label off herself one day. It's just a matter of time."
"Honestly, you're different from a lot of people."
Huang Shiyu raised an eyebrow and asked, "Aren't they all human? What's the difference?"
“No.” She shook her head and said, “You know that everyone in our industry wears a mask, a very thick one, so thick that it almost homogenizes the real person inside. Everyone is just doing it for profit, but you are different.” She paused, as if sighing, “You are very sincere, more sincere than many people. Although I can see that you are very ambitious, in this cutthroat industry, ambition is a good thing.”
Judging from Lin Xinyu's exposed eyes, what she said seemed to make sense.
Huang Shiyu found it a bit funny. This person's change was too drastic. When she first met her, she said she didn't trust her, but now she said she was very sincere. She thought that Lin Xinyu was quite suitable for pyramid schemes; she was very good at conning people.
"This is our first meeting, isn't it?" Huang Shiyu's eyes flashed with a meaningful light. "You can see right through me? You're not simple either."
To her surprise, Lin Xinyu smiled and said, "Who said it's the first time? It's the second time."
"oh?"
Before Huang Shiyu could finish speaking, a voice interrupted her.
"What a coincidence, Mr. Huang, we've run into you here. Do you have a client with you?"
When Lin Xinyu saw the person approaching, her pupils suddenly contracted and widened.
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