She stood up and said solemnly to Chen Xiao, "Thank you, Chen Xiao! Let's work hard together. I'll prove with my actions that I, Feng Feifei, will not let you down!"
'You talk a good game, but your actions are screwing me over! Your words just cost me 4,000 yuan a day!' Chen Xiao wanted to cry but had no tears. He looked at the stunningly beautiful and incredibly sincere face before him. The image of the flower-like beauty and stacks of cash flashed back and forth in his mind. A war was raging within him!
Back at his desk, Chen Xiao was in a terrible mood. 4,000 less a day meant over 1.3 million less a year. 'Feng Feifei, oh, Feifei... making you pay me back with your body wouldn't even be going too far, would it?' His mind started to wander into inappropriate territory again...
The company was essentially starting over from scratch, and the handover for existing personnel began today. As he was in the sales department, which currently had no business to follow up on, Chen Xiao actually had it the easiest. There wasn't much for him to hand over.
Yuan Kai and Wang Jing returned from the finance office. They knew Chen Xiao had chosen to stay, and both of them looked at him like he was a lunatic.
Wang Jing even joked, "Chen Xiao, don't tell me you think that with Manager Yuan and me gone, you can stay behind and seize the opportunity to get promoted, do you?"
'Are you kidding me? Only an idiot would want a promotion here. What's so good about it?' Chen Xiao shook his head.
Yuan Kai said with a disdainful look, "Good that you're not thinking that way. Otherwise, you'd be disappointed. The company is already recruiting for a sales supervisor on job sites! But I guess you know your own limits. Even if I don't want the position, it's not like it would ever go to a rookie like you!"
Chen Xiao said with a perfectly straight face, "I'm not a fucking idiot. Why would I want to sit in that position?"
"What the fuck, what did you just say, Chen Xiao?! You think I can't do anything to you just because I'm quitting, is that it?"
Yuan Kai flew into a rage. Wang Jing quickly grabbed him. 'Dude, you think your 165cm frame can take on his 178cm body in a physical fight? Calling you a fucking idiot wouldn't be wrong.'
The reason Chen Xiao was unfriendly toward him was purely because he couldn't stand Yuan Kai's character. When Chen Xiao first joined the company, he had politely asked to learn from him.
At the time, Yuan Kai had bullied him for being new and said bluntly, "Teach you? Teach the apprentice and the master starves!"
From that day on, Chen Xiao had labeled him a fucking idiot. A person like that was never cut out to be a leader; his narrow-mindedness was plain to see.
"Keep talking trash and I'll slap you straight across the face! Your name is Yuan Kai, not Yuan Shikai! You're a nobody with a bit of power, but you act like you were some top leader!" Chen Xiao pointed at him, and Yuan Kai actually didn't dare to make a sound.
"Fine, Chen Xiao. You've got guts. We'll see about this!"
"See what? There's nothing about you worth seeing!" Chen Xiao said with utter contempt.
Yuan Kai snorted coldly, pushed Wang Jing aside, and walked toward the general manager's office.
In the afternoon, Chen Xiao heard that Yuan Kai had given up his plan to leave and had expressed his desire to stick with the company through thick and thin. He had also accepted the company's salary adjustment for the marketing department. Apparently, his salary was also cut in half, with his base pay dropping from 12,000 yuan to 6,000 yuan a month.
'No wonder he had a sour face all day. The look he gave me was one of 'mutual destruction at last'.' Chen Xiao was unimpressed. 'That little loss of yours? You're small fry. Do you have any idea how much *Grandpa* here loses in a single day? You want to play a war of attrition with me? Are you even worthy? Are we even in the same league?'
Wang Jing, however, left decisively. Before he went, he told Chen Xiao to be careful. Yuan Kai was only staying out of spite. Having lost so much, he would definitely try to get back at Chen Xiao.
Chen Xiao grunted in acknowledgment. "Good. I've also lost a lot and have nowhere to vent my anger. It's good that he's staying. He looks like a perfect punching bag to me!"
The next morning, at eight o'clock sharp, Chen Xiao received a notification: "An amount of 8,000.00 yuan has been deposited into your Huaxia Bank Card ending in ..... Balance: ....."
'Huh? Didn't my salary get cut? Why is the daily basic stipend still 8,000?' Then it hit him—the salary adjustment would start next month. That meant he could still receive the 8,000 yuan daily basic stipend for the remaining 20-some days of this month. Chen Xiao's mood instantly improved.
Seeing his bank account balance hit five digits, he laughed maniacally for five minutes until his neighbor started pounding on the wall, forcing him to quiet down.
He'd gotten a bit carried away. But this was the first time his balance had ever reached five digits. Who could possibly understand the joy a spendthrift felt at this moment!
Whistling a tune and singing a song, 'I'm just a happy brick-mover!'
"Well now, Chen Xiao! In a good mood today? Did you win the lottery?" the breakfast stall owner joked with him.
"Uncle, four big meat buns and a bowl of spicy paste soup!"
They say when you get rich, you should buy two bowls of spicy paste soup—drink one and pour one out. He wondered if he should experience that kind of "baller" move.
Hearing the owner's joke, he replied, "What's so great about winning the lottery? That's small fry!"
"Alright, Chen Xiao, you're playing it so cool! If you really won the lottery, I bet you'd go crazier than Fan Jin passing the imperial exams."
'Who are you looking down on? I'm already using a treasure of primordial chaos; who'd still be interested in some common magic weapon?' Chen Xiao scoffed.
The owner brought over the spicy paste soup and meat buns. "You're glowing today, kid! Looking good!"
Chen Xiao laughed. "Hard work brings true happiness!"
The owner just thought he was joking. 'Happy my ass! I move bricks every day until my kidneys are sagging, and I can't even get it up for the happiest thing a man can do!'
Chen Xiao didn't go to the company in the morning. He had a client meeting. After a month of training, he was finally getting into a real battle, and he was looking forward to it. After all, commissions would definitely be his biggest source of income in the future.
On his way to the Jiangzhou Transportation Design Institute, he got another text notification. A quick glance showed it was the 200 yuan phone bill subsidy from last month. 'Not even worth looking at, such a small amount.'
DING! "Diligence Reward settled. 200 x 2 = 400 yuan reward. Reward has been deposited into the Host's Huaxia Bank account!"
'Huh? This gets a reward too? Does this mean any subsidy outside of my base salary counts as a bonus, not just commissions in the narrow sense like I thought?'
What a pleasant surprise. He never expected this, he really never expected this!
The client Chen Xiao was visiting today was a general manager's assistant at the Jiangzhou Transportation Design Institute. The institute had a testing division, and this Assistant Bai was in charge of equipment procurement.
Chen Xiao mused that his company's drone R&D was heading in the wrong direction. The main problem was a lack of understanding of customer needs and industry pain points. As a result, the products they spent so much to develop couldn't improve the productivity of existing technical methods, leading to a lack of market demand.
However, this "lack of market demand" was a general statement. It meant their products couldn't replace existing technical equipment or achieve an industry-wide innovation that would have everyone scrambling to use them. It didn't mean there was zero demand. If a testing unit needed to purchase equipment, there was still room for discussion.
Chen Xiao entered the design institute's main gate. The guard asked his business and let him pass. He had just started walking through the entrance when he saw a Mercedes-Benz C-Class sedan hurtling toward him!
'Fuck! My system just activated, and I haven't even had a chance to enjoy life yet!'