Chapter 14 (1/2)
I am not confident in this chapter as there are so manyyyyyyy sentences that have idiom, slang and not idiom but flowery(?) sentences that are relatable in Chinese culture, which is something I'm not familiar with (I used Baike=chinese wiki). There might be some weird sentences structure, please don't kill me. To tell the truth, I'm not quite satisfied with this chapter but I believe it is readable and can be understood. (I had been correcting this chapter for days, hahaha, and my brain just went offline on me). I'm sorry for my incompetence. ( ˃̣̣̥ω˂̣̣̥ )
Just remember, Yan Lao San = Yan Old Third = San Shu = third uncle, the guy who throws teacup before, oh yes, he has appeared~
If you aren't reading this novel at shunraikitranslations, Yan Mu gonna ends up with Liang Deyou while Chengyu gonna be mine. If you want to stop this from happening, read it at shunraikitranslations okay?
Chapter 14: Wrist
In the evening, the whole department went to dinner together, but since they had to go to work the next day, they didn't stay up late. After the dinner, all of them went to separate ways. But before they separated, everyone told Lu Chengyu that they would call him if there were any gathering in the future.
Lu Chengyu smiles and agreed. He drove back and reach home before 10 p.m. After taking bath, he couldn't sleep so he lay on the sofa with his laptop. Chengyu surf the Cape Forum and he takes part in a thread. This thread's OP, who is a five-cent sockpuppet[2], loves to say that the foreign's moon is rounder [1]. Chengyu drives the OP to the corner for a while, and when the other party has already burned with a frenzy of rage, Chengyu calmly closes the forum.
[1] 马甲 mǎ jiǎ: sockpuppet (Internet slang); When a real person registers more than 1 IDs in the same forum and uses them at the same time, the commonly used or well-known ID is generally called the primary ID, and the other ID is called the sockpuppet ID.
[2] There is such an allusion that when a person returns from a foreign country, he feels that foreign countries are better than his hometown.
It's his usual style to throw his hand and walks away when other parties stomp in anger. Although this style makes some people in the Cape Forum mad at him, he is firm and unrepentant.
As usual, he goes to search online on the latest information about Liang Deyou. Then he saw a news story about Mr Liang stepping aside to the second line and gave his only son to take over Liang Company.
Liang Deyou's father, Liang Guoming is an example of an individual who starts from scratch before he becomes rich. In his early years, he was the workshop director of the state-owned enterprises. Later, he went into business in Shanghai. Fortunately, it was a good time to find gold. He earned a lot of money. Later, he began to invest in the real estate industry. He also encountered with the great opportunity of soaring houses' price. Now, he is a well-known big boss in the industry. He only has one son, Liang Deyou and for many years, there are no beautiful women from outside are able to enter his family.
“Liang family…” said Lu Chengyu while picking up the pickled chicken feet [3] on the table and slowly chew it. He points the mouse over the photo of father and son. From the top to bottom of Liang Guoming's body, he can be seen as nouveau riche. No matter how expensive his clothes are, one can see his origin from a glance. On the other hand, Liang Deyou looks like a rich family. After chewing the pickled chicken feet, Lu Chengyu looks painfully at the chicken's bone on his hand and then look at the trash can that's a few meters away from him. Then he gets an idea. He took two paper towels and placed them on the coffee table. Next, he tossed the bones on the towels and decided to throw them into the trash can after he had eaten the pickled chicken feet. His sitting posture on the sofa now is comfortable and he too lazy to move.
[3]
Since there is no other news on Liang, Lu Chengyu hacked Huangchuan's computer through the network to find out what he plans to do. He discovers that Huangchuan is planning to invest money into a film in the near future but he still lacks some funds.
Although there are a lot have changed in his life now, there are several things which are the same as his past life. For example, Liang Deyou begins to learn how to manage Liang Company and Huangchuan still planning to invest in films, but the most profitable film, 《Soaring Birds》 is in his hand.
After clearing all his tracks on Huangchuan's computer, Lu Chengyu opens a new pack of pickled chicken feet and continue to chew. Then he starts to watch a live men's football match online. When he saw the team has lost the game, he shook his head with a sigh. Maybe, no matter in this life or past life, the only thing that's guaranteed to remain unchanged is the □□ men's football.
After he closes webpage of the live football game, Lu Chengyu looked at his watch, it was almost eleven o'clock. He chews the pickled chicken feet on his hand, put the bones on the paper towels, roll them and threw it into the trash can. As for not to eat after you brush your teeth before going to bed, he had forgotten all about it.
Waking up early every day is a painful ordeal for Lu Chengyu. He changed his clothes and looked blankly at several dirty clothes in the room. Then, he walks calmly to the bathroom to wash his face. As usual, Chengyu drives to breakfast shop before he went to the company, he arrives at Huading exactly 15 minutes early before his work time.
When he arrived at the Secretarial Department to pack up his things, he saw that Cao Jingshen had arrived. After he greets Jingshen, Chengyu went to the elevator while holding a box. When he pressed the elevator b.u.t.ton to go to the 28th floor, he suddenly remembered that before this, Yan Mu seemed to have an a.s.sistant beside him, but this a.s.sistant disappeared shortly after he arrived at the company.
It seems that there may be some problems with the former a.s.sistant's status. I wonder if it's a business spy or someone else from Yan's family.
On the 28th floor, he found a room with an a.s.sistant room's sign above it, just right beside the president's office. When he opened the door, he can see that this room was clean. There was a pot of Narcissus [4] on his desk, two pots of magnificent flowers on his balcony and some company information' files on the bookshelf near the wall.
[4]
This flower is poisoning to people, as for why it places in his room is a mystery.
After settling his things in the room, he sat down on his chair. The chair's backrest and headrest were very comfortable and it was good to lean on when he was tired.
He looks at the new set of computers on the computer desk and the internal telephone, it seems that the office is carefully arranged. He doesn't know if it was Yan Mu's deliberate instructions or it was the Logistics Department's staff who give him face, or perhaps it was both?
The door of the office was knocked several times. He looked up and saw Yan Mu standing at the door.
“Boss?” He got up from his chair and said, “How can I help you? Is there any works?”
“Are you satisfied with the office?” Yan Mu handed him a folder and looked around the office surroundings. “This is the personnel details of the company's various departments. You should know more about it. Later, when I'm busy, I'll leave it to you to coordinate the work of all departments.”
Lu Chengyu nodded his head and took over the folder. From certain points of view, the president's a.s.sistant is more important than the president's secretary. If people in this position don't have the ability and flexible enough, they really can't do it.
Yan Mu's decision to let Lu Chengyu be an a.s.sistant has also been carefully considered. He has observed Lu Chengyu's style of conduct, as well as his manner of etiquette, and he is very satisfied with him. Perhaps there's nothing wrong with Chengyu except that he's younger. Most importantly, this person knows what to say on any occasion and how to deal with people, which is a more important aspect than anything for an a.s.sistant.
In this industry, there's are such thing as an a.s.sistant losing his business because he does look offensive. Sometimes, it's more prudent to choose an a.s.sistant than a secretary.
“The office is very good,” Lu Chengyu put the folder on his desk. “I will learn the works as soon as possible.”