Chapter One Hundred and Seventy-Two: Business Trip (1/2)
Nan Wei’s grip on his chopsticks became rather unsteady.
Looking at the noodles in front of him, he felt that the price for these noodles was a little too high.
Everyone around him felt the same.
The general mood that had only just been soothed became extremely awkward again. But that only applied to the other interns; Nan Wei himself didn’t feel any awkwardness. Instead, he felt relaxed from head to toe.
At this moment, Nan Wei realized that there had been another benefit in requesting Yan Jin to hire Zhou Mang.
It was too difficult to stay angry with such a blockhead around.
It was about time to bring an end to this. The final result was that Nan Wei and Zhou Mang would be converting to full-time. The others packed up all their belongings with all kinds of complicated feelings after receiving their internship certificates.
It was fitting that in the end, the month-long farce had an equally absurd ending.
……
“I have a business trip coming up soon.”
Yan Jin gently patted Xiao Yu, whose eyes were almost entirely shut.
Xiao Yu’s drowsiness instantly vanished.
In the past, Xiao Yu had been very disdainful of Yan Jin’s habit of holing up in the office all year round. At the same time, he felt very fortunate that Yan Jin didn’t like to socialize. If he had a personality like that of Zhou Jinrong’s, it would work well for his role as chairman, but not well at all for his role as Xiao Yu’s lover.
Nevertheless, when it came to their face-to-face farewell, Xiao Yu would have preferred that Yan Jin stay in the office from day to night.
“Where are you going?”
“Overseas. I might be gone for a while, but it won’t be for more than a month. It’s for… YL’s future development.” Yan Jin played with Xiao Yu’s curly bangs. He was extremely calm, not at all like someone who was lying.
Irritated, Xiao Yu swatted Yan Jin’s mischievous hands away. His unwillingness seemed like it was about to spill over.
“But what’ll happen here then?”
“I’m not worried about the company. I’m more worried about you.”
It was true that the company didn’t need worrying for. Yan Jin knew that this wouldn’t be his first time dropping the ball. Despite him abandoning his duties time and time again, YL was currently still fine. Shao Yue was probably already accustomed to taking over interim duties at a moment’s notice. He probably wouldn’t have any complaints this time.
“I’ve already arranged for several people to come take care of you. You already know one of them: Chu Ge. No need to be modest if you’re asking him for anything.” Yan Jin’s tone was like that of someone selling cabbages.
More accurately, it was like that of someone simply browsing around.
Xiao Yu’s mouth was raised into an unhappy pout.
There wasn’t anything that Yan Jin could do other than to think of a different way to console Xiao Yu. “It’ll just be this once, and I won’t be leaving immediately. It’ll probably be… after the end of the Summer Exhibit.”
“That’s this weekend.” Xiao Yu’s mind raced. “Hmph. Don’t try to trick me.”
“Okay, okay. I made a mistake,” Yan Jin admitted to a false wrongdoing.
“Forget it. Just go. Come back soon.” Xiao Yu wasn’t an entirely unreasonable person. Leaving was an inevitable occurrence. He was just throwing a small temper tantrum. There was no way he’d really ban Yan Jin from business trips.
“Great thanks to His Fishiness’ generosity.”
“…What’s that supposed to mean?”
Xiao Yu pushed Yan Jin away and got up. Grabbing his clothes, he headed for the restroom. “I’m going to go change. I need to talk to the human resources department in a bit about Nan Wei.”
Yan Jin gestured his assent.
……
Xiao Yu was quite surprised that only two interns were selected for full-time conversion. However, because he wasn’t in charge of the intern program and didn’t know their situation, he didn’t question the decision too much.
Plus, he was never someone to think too deeply, especially when it came to company matters. He still had his bad habit from SI of accepting decisions without question, even if they were quite negative for him.
But even if Xiao Yu didn’t explicitly raise any doubts, it didn’t mean he wasn’t curious. In a roundabout manner, he asked Yan Jin some questions somewhat related to the incident, hoping that Yan Jin would reveal something. He’d never heard of a company only converting two out of twelve interns to full-time, especially since one of them had already been predetermined. Yan Jin had frankly told him that he wasn’t too clear on the exact details. He’d only followed the reports given to him by the intern managers. The main reason seemed to be that most of the interns did not meet the hiring bar. In the near future, YL would reopen their recruitment applications with some adjustments.
As a result, Xiao Yu was very curious about the other intern with “astonishing talent” aside from Nan Wei.
On the second day after Nan Wei and Zhou Mang had finished moving their desks, Xiao Yu personally went to go pay Zhou Mang a visit.
“Mr. Mystery! Could you give me an autograph?”
Zhou Mang was pleasantly surprised to see Xiao Yu.
Xiao Yu calmly gave him an autograph. He’d long become accustomed to this sort of behavior.
“Haha, I need to go frame this. My classmates are going to be so jealous of me.” Zhou Mang celebrated for a while and then asked Xiao Yu, “Sir, you’re looking for Nan Wei, right? He just stepped out, but he should be back very soon.”