Chapter 106 Come out here!
Chapter 106 Come out here!
Ye Xinghe returned to Hua Qingmeng's office and found the door locked. She could only go to Group C's office area first, only to find that her things had already been placed at her workstation.
She started tidying up her things, and just then, the person at the next workstation returned.
Ye Xinghe looked up, about to greet him, when she realized it was Hua Qingmeng.
"What are you doing here?" Ye Xinghe leaned closer and asked in a low voice, "You're not going to work here, are you?"
Hua Qingmeng tidied her things by herself. "Yeah. Didn't you say you liked working with the boss the most? So I moved in."
Previously, although they were in the same office, the space was large, with more than ten meters of space between the two desks. Now, however, the two of them are in a cubicle, sharing a single desk.
Ye Xinghe muttered under her breath, "If Shen Yan sees this, she'll cause me trouble again."
Hua Qingmeng tilted his head and said lazily, "Then let her try to cause some trouble."
In the afternoon group meeting, Hua Qingmeng assigned the first assessment task: designing the main lobby of the group's headquarters. This could be done in pairs or individually.
Li Nana wanted to team up with Ye Xinghe, but Ye Xinghe refused.
Ye Xinghe completed the design during her senior year of college, and now it just needs some further refinement. She plans to use this design to participate in the Jinsha Cup, the most prestigious international environmental art design competition.
After the meeting, Hua Qingmeng returned to the chairman's office.
A moment later, Shen Yan knocked on the door and came in, her face beaming with joy.
"Qingmeng, why did you summon me here...?"
Hua Qingmeng turned his back to her and looked out the window. "Shen Yan, for the sake of our two families' generations of friendship, I'll give you face this time and call you to my office to make things clear."
"I don't like you, I never have."
Every word Hua Qingmeng uttered was like a sharp knife, piercing straight into Shen Yan's heart. She bit her lower lip tightly, trying hard to hold back her tears, "Is it because of Ye Xinghe?"
Hua Qingmeng turned around, looking at her with a slightly cold gaze. "Not because of anyone. Please don't gossip about our relationship outside in the future. Otherwise, I won't consider Grandpa Shen's feelings. You know how I do things."
Shen Yan met Hua Qingmeng's gaze, and tears instantly streamed down her face. "What's so good about Ye Xinghe? Do you know what kind of person she is? That kind of woman can't enter the Hua family! Your grandfather will never agree to it!"
Hua Qingmeng sat in the chair, her eyes slightly closed. "What kind of woman she is is none of your business. I have my own eyes and I can see for myself. I've said everything I need to say. You may leave now."
Shen Yan knew Hua Qingmeng's temper; continuing to pester him would only make him dislike her more and more.
The only solution now is to get rid of Ye Xinghe!
She turned her back to Hua Qingmeng, wiped away her tears, and calmed herself. After unbuttoning her skirt and blouse, she deliberately buttoned two buttons incorrectly before walking out of the office.
Shen Yan walked back to the office area with a graceful stride, finally stopping in front of Wang Yu's desk. "Deputy Team Leader, while I was away, was any new message released?"
Wang Yu looked her up and down. "No news. What have you been up to?"
"I didn't do anything. I just came out of Chairman Hua's office." Shen Yan deliberately spoke loudly so that Ye Xinghe on the other end could hear her.
"Oh~~" Wang Yu looked at her with interest, then covered his mouth with one hand, "Beautiful Shen, let me remind you, the buttons on your shirt are undone."
"Ugh! How annoying!" Shen Yan returned to her workstation with a shy expression.
Li Jing, who was sitting at the same table as her, witnessed everything that had just happened and quickly came over to ask, "Shen Yan, you're not having an affair with the chairman, are you?"
Shen Yan quickly covered her mouth, "Keep your voice down, don't talk nonsense."
"We haven't made it public yet, and we don't want too many people in the company to know."
Li Jing nodded and promised not to tell anyone.
However, in the following period, the other group members were noticeably more attentive to Shen Yan.
Li Jing is such a blabbermouth. By that afternoon, almost everyone in Group C knew about Shen Yan and Hua Qingmeng, and rumors even circulated that the two were already engaged.
Shen Yan was very satisfied with the result.
Shen Yan planned all night and sent a message to Li Jing before going to bed to arrange to do makeup together at the company the next morning. She brought the latest limited-edition cosmetics.
A company's restroom can be both a haven for slacking off and a breeding ground for gossip.
At 8:10 a.m., Shen Yan said to Li Jing while applying eyeshadow, "Jingjing, I'm so angry! That Ye Xinghe, she's only been here one day and she's already started flirting with Hua Qingmeng. It made me have a huge fight with her last night!"
Li Jing looked completely surprised. "Huh? She's quite pretty, how could she do something like this!"
Shen Yan stopped what she was doing and leaned closer to Li Jing. "You can't judge a book by its cover. Look at Lin Hao and Wang Yu in our group, aren't they all sidling up to her?"
"It's said she's very shrewd. She got her spot in the Hua family by sleeping with a professor in the department."
Li Jing stared at her with wide eyes. "That matter was trending on social media before, I saw it, but it was all denied, wasn't it?"
Shen Yan snorted coldly, "You're still too naive. There's no smoke without fire."
"Jiang University recently fired a professor who slept with female students, right? He was from Ye Xinghe's college, and he was even one of her professors. Isn't that a coincidence?"
"Why is Ye Xinghe the only girl from their school to get into Huashi? The rest are all boys, right? It's because she's willing to take risks! It takes two to tango."
Just then, the sound of flushing water came from the cubicle behind Li Jing, startling both of them into turning around at the same time.
Shen Yan looked completely bewildered. "Su Xiaotong! What did you just hear?"
Su Xiaotong walked between the two, turned on the tap, and slowly began to wash her hands. "I heard everything. From beginning to end."
Shen Yan clenched her fists, feigning composure, and said, "It's no big deal if I heard it. Since she has the nerve to do it, why should she be afraid of what others say? You go and tell her."
Su Xiaotong shook the water off her hands, some of it splashing onto Shen Yan. "I'm not as free as you, all you do is gossip behind other people's backs all day long."
With ten minutes to go before work, Ye Xinghe walked gracefully to the work area of Group B, wearing 8-centimeter high heels.
When Wang Yu saw her coming, he happily went up to her and struck up a conversation.
Ye Xinghe ignored her, cleared her throat, and said emotionlessly, "I'm sorry to take up a little of your time."
By this time, most of her colleagues had already arrived at the company. Ye Xinghe opened her phone's recording app, and immediately, the conversation Shen Yan had just had in the restroom was played back clearly.
Ye Xinghe paused the program after the last line, "It takes two to tango," was played.
"Shen Yan! Come out here!"
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