Chapter One Hundred and Sixty-Seven: The Person in Control I (1/2)

“Hey bro, why did you arrive so late? Was there something urgent?”

Nan Wei looked at the person speaking to him and replied with a question, “Who are you?”

“My name is Wu Zuoling.”

“I’m Nan Wei. The traffic was a little packed, so I arrived late.”

Nan Wei casually threw out an excuse.

“Oh I see…” The other person did not probe further.

On the same day, Human Resources gave a detailed explanation to the group of new recruits about the company’s policy concerning their job confirmations and the relevant employee benefits. At the same time, they got everyone to sign on their internship contracts.

When it was Nan Wei’s turn, the HR lady hesitated for a moment but proceeded to give him the same contract that everyone else had.

In fact, the contract given to Nan Wei was the official contract drafted for him. Although his salary could not be compared to Xiao Yu’s, he was nevertheless highly paid. However, just earlier that morning, Xiao Yu specifically instructed her to give Nan Wei the normal internship contract and let him fairly compete with the rest.

And so, here comes the question…

Should she follow Chairman Yan’s instruction and offer Nan Wei the official contract, or follow Xiao Yu’s instruction and offer him the normal contract? To follow, or not to follow, that was the question.

On one hand, Xiao Yu was YL’s heavyweight designer whom they had hired with their VIP contract. In the few months since he had arrived at YL, they had received countless offers from large enterprises from other cities and many companies from the industry had also been eyeing this designer. If they were to offend him just because of such a small matter and cause him to leave YL for other companies, it would be a big mistake.

On the other hand, regardless of how successful Xiao Yu was, a family business like YL would still take the chairman’s instruction to be the final decision. A capitalist’s viewpoint was surely broader than the average person’s. The current YL’s board of directors had ceased to exist in any form except in name, which meant that Yan Jin’s words were like the imperial edict – even if he were to shut down YL and sell it, no one could overturn his decision.

As a tiny, tiny HR person, the thing she feared most was getting stuck between two leaders’ decision. If she were a normal HR person, she would definitely cry and look for her manager for help – even if her manager could not find any solution.

Thankfully, the person in-charge this time was a little different from the rest. Coincidentally, she chanced upon a very interesting group of people via YL’s employee group chat and was successfully sold on the idea of the Yan-God couple.

Even though fangirling was a very interesting hobby, the excitement from over-imagining cannot be compared to seeing the actual thing.

There were far too few employees who could interact face-to-face with both Xiao Yu and Yan Jin. As a result, despite the group’s firm belief that these two had something going on, none of them could present any solid evidence to prove it.

It was therefore an unexpected surprise.

The HR lady took out her mobile and waved at Xiao Yu as she stared at the little spots of marks that could not be covered by the high collars.

Xiao Yu was confused.

“Chairman Yan’s instruction should not be overturned no matter what. But, I’m your fan. How about this, take a picture with me, and I’ll open the back door for you for once?”

“Sure, no problem.” Xiao Yu answered with joy.

Just like she promised, after Xiao Yu had left the office, she began redrafting a new contract and was accidentally seen by her colleague.

“Qin Xi, what a bold move you’re making. That’s the designer which Chairman Yan specifically instructed was to be given special treatment.”

The person who spoke was called Zhang Yuji. She was always passionate when jesting with everyone but was not as meticulous with her own work despite her good interpersonal relationships.

“Oh really,” Qin Xi replied calmly.

“How could you do this? Aren’t you afraid that Chairman Yan will fire you?”

“Chief Xiao gave this instruction.”

“That’s still a no. He is just a designer no matter what, but Chairman Yan is…” Zhang Yuji stopped her speech halfway.

“Is what?”

Qin Xi adjusted her spectacles as her tone turned cold.

Her employment with YL was extremely normal – she had graduated from university, handed in her resume, completed her internship, received confirmation, gotten a promotion and salary increment, right up till she was in-charge of handling the new recruitment process.

However, the longer she had been with YL, the clearer it was to her that there was a group of weird people among them. These people stood out from the masses, yet they all had the same characteristic that was hard to describe.

Almost every department at YL had these few people that were very aggressive with other female employees. They did not care about their own work progression, nor their bonuses, much less their salary.

Once Qin Xi overheard someone from the Finance department complaining during a lunch gathering. It turned out that there was a female employee whose bank account had two levels of password security. Before she would make any confirmation, the money that was transferred to her account would be frozen at a third-party platform. This meant that the employee could only receive the money after she gave the confirmation. In the end, when the Finance department had received the money transfer rejection for three consecutive months, they finally approached the female employee in person to notify her. The female employee who carried a handbag worth thirty-thousand dollars with branded accessories from head to toe, panicked like a fearful rabbit and apologized with teary eyes for the inconvenience she had caused.

The Finance personnel was speechless while she studied this young, naive lady who god-knows-which rich family had brought up.