Chapter 86 The man lowered his arms...
"I'll bring it to the ground floor for you later. With this heavy rain, the underground parking garage might already be flooded."
"No need, just put it down for me up ahead."
The water level is already quite high. If Bai Can drops himself off in front, he can still drive home.
If she were to be taken home before leaving, Lin Chaoyue was afraid she would get stuck on the road.
The car happened to drive near Juntian Liangmu.
Lin Chaoyue pointed to the law firm building: "Just park over there. It's raining too hard today, you should go home first. We can talk about fixing the car another day."
When she hit the gate, she scratched the front of the car. Bai Can had just called to arrange for repairs on the way.
"Okay, I'll have the driver take it to Xiu when the weather clears up."
But Bai Can was still a little worried: "Boss, it won't be easy to get a taxi if you get off up ahead. How about I take you home?"
"It's not far from Tianhe City from here."
"It's okay. My law firm is just ahead. There's not much food at home. I'll go to the cafeteria for a meal before going home."
"Don't worry, don't worry."
Looking at the huge law firm sign in front of me.
Bai Can suddenly remembered that his boss had indeed been sent to work at a law firm by Boss Zhong as soon as he returned to China.
Seeing that Lin Chaoyue insisted, Bai Can didn't say anything more and drove up to the front to drop her off.
After getting off the car, Lin Chaoyue ran towards the law firm in the rain, her upper body soaked and her lower body wading through puddles.
Her clothes were completely soaked.
Fortunately, to save herself the trouble, she had left a business suit in her workstation cabinet so she could go up and change later.
"Oh, the admission notice just came out and Lawyer Lin is here. He's been very proactive lately."
"Feng Xiao... Feng Lu?"
Feng Xiao, unusually, changed her usual capable style today and wore casual clothes.
Lin Chaoyue's vision was somewhat obscured by the rain, and she almost didn't recognize him at first glance.
"Why are you so surprised to see me? All those jobs I made for you before, although they were done by me, were all at Pei Shuwen's behest."
"We'll be working together later, so don't be prejudiced against your new boss."
"The new boss?"
You said you're my new boss?
Lin Chaoyue quickly caught the word and her eyes lit up.
Feng Xiao: "Didn't you see the announcement? I just posted it. I was just saying you wouldn't come all the way here on the weekend for something like this."
Lin Chaoyue held up her phone, which was off: "My phone was dead, so I came up to check on it since I was passing by the law firm."
"Alright, don't leave just yet. I have a hairdryer. Dry your hair first, and dry your clothes too. It's not good for a girl's health to have her clothes so wet."
Feng Xiao led her to his office, handed her a hairdryer, and then went back to doing his own thing.
Lin Chaoyue took the hair dryer back to her workstation.
While drying her hair, she casually opened her company email.
There was indeed an email that had been received ten minutes earlier lying inside.
"Announcement of Recruitment of Temporary Project Team for the Acquisition of Simei Biotechnology".
The list of admitted students is as follows...
"let me see."
Lin Chaoyue scrolls the mouse wheel.
Skipping over the contents of the announcement, she directly clicked on the admission list table.
Scanning through them line by line.
She saw her name in row 22 of the table.
Lin Chaoyue.
Did they actually get recorded?
Why does it suddenly feel so unreal?
Although she had been getting Pei Shuwen to tutor her privately and had recently put in a lot of effort, she didn't actually have high hopes.
After all, she is quite self-aware.
No connections, no backdoors.
When compared to other members of the law firm on her own, her competitiveness is really limited.
"You don't even feel hot when you blow-dry your hair like that."
Feng Xiao came down to this floor to get something, and as soon as he came down, he saw Lin Chaoyue there, blow-drying her hair, her soul seemingly already elsewhere.
If the hairdryer gets any closer, it'll be practically touching my scalp.
Lin Chaoyue said "Oh" twice, then, as if remembering something, unplugged the wire and quickly followed.
"Attorney Feng, I saw in the email that I can get the basic preliminary documents for the acquisition of Simei Bio from you. Can I get them now?"
"Sure, but it's your own company, my basic information isn't enough for you to see, is it?"
Several of the company's senior executives were fully aware of Lin Chaoyue's background.
Having known Feng Xiao for a long time, Lin Chaoyue didn't hold back and smiled a little shyly when the topic of her family came up: "I don't know much about my family. My parents thought I was still too young before."
"Oh, I see."
Feng Xiao snapped his fingers: "Your family couldn't bear to do anything to you, so they handed you over to Pei Shuwen for reformation."
"The transformation was quite successful. You performed exceptionally well in yesterday's leaderless group discussion. Keep up the good work!"
After praising Lin Chaoyue, before she could even speak...
Feng Xiao suddenly changed the subject, becoming somewhat gossipy: "But lately, Pei Shuwen probably doesn't want to make a move on you anymore."
"Female protagonist in recent hot gossip on the forum"
"It's me." Lin Chaoyue: "..."
But who says he can't bear to part with it?
In the last few nights, she noticed that Pei Shuwen had been quite lenient, even stricter than before.
Otherwise, she wouldn't have been able to get in so easily with Feng Xiaolu.
Speaking of admissions.
Lin Chaoyue's alarm bells rang: "He didn't give me special treatment this time, did he?"
"No, this time it's completely fair, just, and transparent; we don't want anyone with connections."
"Don't worry, if I really did give you preferential treatment, I would warn everyone on the first day of the project meeting that you are the client's mother, so that no one would feel resentful."
"That's good."
"Alright, Mom, come with me to get your company's documents. If you want them, I'll show you all the documents from our previous collaborations. Lots of them, you can have as much as you want."
"Yes! I want to see all the law firms that are related to Simei."
“That’s a lot.” Feng Xiao pondered, gesturing: “At least this tall stack.”
Her gestures weren't exaggerated.
It's true that the portions are large and filling.
Lin Chaoyue was genuinely shocked when she saw the mountain of documents.
"Has Simei entrusted all its legal-related business to our firm?"
Feng Xiao: "I guess so. Take your time looking at it, but you can't take it with you."
According to Juntian Liangmu's rules, preliminary materials provided by Party A cannot be taken out of the law firm.
I know I definitely won't be able to finish reading it in a short time.
I can't finish watching it, and I can't take it home.
Seeing that it was still raining outside, Lin Chaoyue simply changed her clothes, took her meal card, went to the cafeteria, ate a bowl of wontons, and went back to her workstation to work overtime in the afternoon.
Lin Chaoyue didn't move an inch all afternoon.
She rarely paid attention to her family's company before, and she heard most of the news about her family from outsiders.
Only after careful consideration did she realize this.
The current situation of Simei Biotechnology is far worse than she imagined.
Most other companies' mergers and acquisitions are due to the company's good operating conditions and its desire to further expand its business segments.
But Simei Bio is not.
From her perspective, at least, this acquisition was primarily due to the business reaching a bottleneck.
Simei Biotechnology's main business is related to medical aesthetics.
While high-end medical aesthetics services generate high revenue, the customer base is limited and highly susceptible to public opinion.
Similar to the previous public opinion battle with 'LiuLiuJiang'.
The fermentation period was very short, but the stock price still dropped by several points.
Although the beauty and skincare sector has a large market share, its development over the years has not been healthy.
Many of its brands are owned by Simei Holdings, and the second-in-command of the branch offices manages them.
Not only were the business results mediocre, but there were also selfish motives involved.
If you encounter someone like Zhao Nanping, who seizes any opportunity to become independent, no matter how much you invest in R&D or how good your products are, you're likely to end up doing all the work for someone else.
Faced with this situation of being blocked from both sides, Simei had no choice but to acquire a mature beauty and skincare brand, integrate its technology and channel resources, and then gradually develop its business.
However, due to some unexpected events, during the critical period of the merger and acquisition, Simei's cash flow encountered significant problems.
"Disaster."
"It's really difficult."
Lin Chaoyue really didn't know how her mother and aunt had managed to get through these past few years.
For the first time, she had deep doubts about her decision to study law; she felt she should have studied business instead.
Even with her awareness from a few years ago, she might not have learned it very well.
But at least you won't be worried about those reports anymore.
Lin Chaoyue sighed deeply and leaned back in her seat helplessly.
Some people feel they have no will to live.
It was during this brief moment that she noticed it was completely dark outside, and that the people who had come to work overtime on the weekend were gradually going home.
The entire office floor was empty except for her.
She was actually hesitant between staying to work overtime all night and going home.
She only looked at a quarter of the information Feng Xiao gave her. Given the rainy weather, she went home and probably wouldn't come back tomorrow.
Then we'll have to wait until a weekday to continue.
Standing by the window, I looked at the entire city swallowed up by the heavy rain.
Lin Chaoyue thought that since the law firm had electricity and internet, she might as well stay up all night tonight.
She took her phone and went to the vending machine, intending to buy some snacks and drinks for a late-night snack.
The vending machine was next to the stairwell, and she had just heard some noise nearby.
Once they got closer, the 'tap-tap' sound became clearer.
"who?"
No one answered.
Lin Chaoyue, clutching her phone, nervously took a few steps back.
Who's there?
"Oh my, I knew there were people on this floor."
It turned out to be the old man from the law firm's logistics department and the cleaning lady.
Lin Chaoyue breathed a sigh of relief.
"Young lady, you're still working overtime? The floodwaters outside have just receded a bit. You should hurry home, or you won't be able to leave if you stay any longer."
Lin Chaoyue: "I still have work to do, and I might have to stay up all night tonight."
"Then don't take the elevator later. The elevator on the basement level is flooded. With this rain, it might not be fixed until tomorrow morning."
"Has the law firm been flooded?"
She remembered that the street where Juntian Liangmu lived was located on higher ground, and there was a small uphill climb from Huazi Street.
Even this area is flooded?
"What a disaster! This rain is a real natural disaster. My old friend's house in the South Third District is flooded up to the second floor. Young lady, please be careful."
Lin Chaoyue nodded: "Thank you, Auntie. I'll take the stairs if I need to later."
Before leaving, the cleaning lady gave her two candles and a box of matches.
"Power outages are common on rainy days, here you go, little girl."
Lin Chaoyue originally wanted to say that if there was a power outage, her phone could turn on its flashlight.
But after thinking about it, I decided not to refuse my aunt's kindness.
The floodwaters in the South Third District have reached the second floor?
Lin Chaoyue had been busy all afternoon and only now remembered to check her phone.
99+ group messages popped up
She received a huge number of private messages.
The heavy rain in Ningcheng caused an uproar in various group chats.
She randomly clicked on a few, and they were all broadcasting real-time reports on the disaster situation in various districts of Ningcheng.
She's doing fine.
The South Third District is low-lying and was indeed severely flooded. Li Wei sent her a message at 3 o'clock.
[Luckily you were quick-witted, Yueyue. I bet the first floor of your branch's factory building is flooded.]
The ground floors of all the factory buildings near my house are flooded.
Thankfully, the goods from the Yushi branch were shipped ahead of schedule, otherwise I wouldn't have had time to go there and handle them these past two days...
Yulin City?
It looks like there's a lot of rain over there.
Lin Chaoyue thought about asking Pei Shuwen how he was doing.
Open the pinned dialog box.
A screen full of unread messages popped up.
Lin Chaoyue was stunned at first.
Then he thought to himself: Oh no!
She was so busy she was completely overwhelmed!
Last time, Nie Shanshan kept an eye on her, making sure she blocked Pei Shuwen's messages and calls, and she forgot to let him out.
She didn't check her phone all afternoon today.
So he never prompted Pei Shuwen to contact him.
There were over twenty messages and six missed calls.
Scrolling through the messages one by one, Pei Shuwen sent a message almost every hour.
Send me a screenshot of your detailed contact information.
Call me back when you get home.
How do I turn off my phone? Is it out of battery?
[Heavy rain warning for Ningcheng, please be careful.]
There are groceries in the refrigerator on the fourth floor; please don't go out for the next two days.
[Lin Chaoyue?]
Are you asleep?
The building manager came to my door and said I wasn't home. Where did I go?
[Lin Chaoyue?]
[I can't get through to Aunt Wen's assistant either. Please reply as soon as you see this message.]
Why isn't she answering the phone? Lin Chaoyue?
...
Pei Shuwen's worry almost leaped off the screen.
While Lin Chaoyue was happy, she was also thinking about quickly replying to him and telling him not to worry.
Lin Chaoyue typed a long message explaining the reasons why she hadn't replied to the message for so long.
I just clicked send when the network suddenly stopped working.
The phone card had only one bar of signal left, and the message kept getting sent but never went through.
She tried several times without success.
I was thinking about the unlimited network for even a law firm.
Lin Chaoyue got up to look at the password posted on the wall.
Just halfway there, a bolt of lightning streaked across the sky, followed by a deafening clap of thunder. Suddenly, all the lights in the building went out, leaving only the emergency lights on either side of the corridor still dimly lit.
"Is there a power outage?"
Lin Chaoyue looked out the window and saw that the lights in the neighboring buildings were also off.
It looks like there really is a power outage.
She was wondering whether she should go down and ask.
Someone in the building shouted through a megaphone, "The law firm will be without internet and power tonight. Those working overtime, please go home early."
A short while later, I heard the sound of people coming downstairs.
Listening to the conversation in the hallway, it seems that everyone who was still there tonight is preparing to go home now.
The power is out, so I can't access the documents.
The all-night plan was forced to be interrupted.
Seeing this, Lin Chaoyue also packed her things and prepared to go back.
We're ready to leave once we've packed our things.
Lin Chaoyue turned her head and suddenly froze on the spot.
Pei Shuwen, who was supposed to be on a business trip in a neighboring city, was standing right in front of him.
What are you doing here?
The indoor lighting was dim, and she almost thought she was seeing things.
"Hmm." Pei Shuwen's voice was a little hoarse.
"Didn't you have a full day of meetings scheduled? Wasn't the cooperation with Kehui supposed to be finalized today? Why are you back?"
Lin Chaoyue was quite surprised.
Even the usually composed man in front of her looked quite disheveled.
His hair was disheveled, and he was soaked. Besides his wrinkled coat, even the watch on his wrist was dripping water.
"you……"
Pei Shuwen didn't give her another chance to speak.
They would pull anyone they saw over and examine them thoroughly.
Only after finding her alright did the man lower his arm and reply casually, "Just passing by."
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