“Common practice. I used similar tactics to deceive my mother before,” she candidly admitted her inglorious past.
“I heard you’re looking for a job?” Pei Jiale’s goodwill increased, “I happen to need a housekeeper.”
“Me?” she looked disdainful, “Serving a troublesome guy like you? I’d need high pay.”
“How much?”
“100,000 per month, not a cent less.”
“100,000?” he laughed and shook his head, “A senior manager in some companies doesn’t even earn that much.”
“I knew you couldn’t afford me.” She asked the waiter to settle the bill and turned to leave, too lazy to argue further.
“Neighbor!” he called after her, “What’s your name? I’m Ah Lie.”
“I’m Ah Ting!”
Hmm, answering briefly, still coldly, sparing her words.
Ah Lie? Ah Ting? They sound like kindred spirits.
The next day, Pei Jiale was bored and decided to visit the company, lest the old guard start complaining about his absence.
The secretary was shocked to see him, exclaiming as if he were an alien.
“Vice President, what wind blew you back?” She remembered delivering important documents to his apartment yesterday, and there was no important meeting scheduled today.
“Missed you, so I specially came to see you,” he sat at the desk, demonstrating his multitasking skills by reading documents while chatting with the secretary.
“Missed me?” The secretary giggled, “If you’d spoken like this in front of Miss He, the blind date wouldn’t have fallen through.”
“Huh? You know?” How did this gossip spread so quickly?
“The empress dowager was furious and burst into the young master’s office to complain. The whole company knows now.”
“Mom’s too anxious. Why not wait to complain to my brother at home? She’s not giving me face!” He thought the company must now consider him a playboy again.
“Everyone knows the president is a workaholic, staying in the office day and night. Waiting for him to come home, the empress dowager lacks that patience.”
“Huh? Did my brother continue working normally after his breakup?”
“Vice President, you’ve heard about this too?
With her mother being a chatterbox, I could hear a thing or two. Pei Jiale was curious, “What kind of girl is she? Did she dump my big brother, or did he dump her?”
