Volume 7: Mr. Love, Elite Lawyer, and Two Conjectures about Marriage Chapter 450 Yuan Xudong invites Luo Yue to drink in the middle of the night
After squeezing on the bus and subway for more than an hour, Luo Yue finally arrived at the Shangri-La Hotel where she had applied for a job online.
The HR manager of Shangri-La Hotel smiled after reading Luo Yue's resume and the recommendation letter from Scitech Hotel:
"Ms. Luo, your recommendation letter is very good. You are a talented person. You studied abroad at such a young age, and you chose to work in China. The group attaches great importance to you for this reason!"
“Thank you, manager!”
"But now there is an emergency, I have to tell you!"
When Luo Yue heard the word "but", her heart skipped a beat. According to the Chinese speaking habits, the words before the word "but" are basically nonsense and empty words to comfort people. The words to be said next are the highlight.
Luo Yue had been abroad for several years and didn't like beating around the bush like she was doing now, so she just smiled and said:
"I'm afraid to hear the word "but" now. If we really have to say it, can we not lay the groundwork?"
Hearing this, the HR manager smiled and said:
"Xiao Luo, as the saying goes, after a piece of bad news, there is usually good news."
Luo Yue also smiled and said:
"Then I'll leave the sweet dates behind, and you can give me a slap now."
"Haha, Xiao Luo, you have a good personality, straightforward, and have a good sense of humor."
The HR manager laughed dryly twice before saying:
"It's like this. Before, according to the resume and recommendation letter you sent me, you were supposed to come..."
At this point, the HR manager lowered his voice a little embarrassedly:
"I'm offering you the position of front office manager, but the position was taken last night..."
"How can there be such people as you?"
When Luo Yue heard the HR manager say that the agreed position was gone, she stood up from her chair and said angrily:
"Since we have already made an agreement, how can you recruit people at short notice?"
"Xiao Luo, why are you in such a hurry? Calm down, come on, sit down and talk."
The HR manager was shocked by Luo Yue's temper. If she hadn't been a returnee, he wouldn't have indulged her temper like this. After calming Luo Yue down, he explained in a low voice:
"This is not a temporary recruitment, it's an assignment from above. The new front office manager is the niece of our chairman. Do you understand?"
Hearing that the new front office manager was the niece of the group chairman, Luo Yue felt a little uncomfortable, but she had no choice but to ask the next best thing:
"What about the good news?"
"The good news is that the group particularly values you as a talent who studied abroad, so we have specially adjusted your job position and asked you to serve as the executive bar manager of our hotel, specifically in charge of the executive bar on the top floor!"
"Do you really think I'm a hotel rookie?"
After listening to the HR manager, Luo Yue found it a little ridiculous:
"From being the front office manager to being the manager of the executive bar, isn't that just a high-level public relations person who passes cigarettes and drinks and smiles?"
"Xiao Luo, what you said is not nice to hear!"
Hearing Luo Yue's harsh words, the HR manager frowned and said:
"The administrative manager is in charge of more than a dozen people. Besides, the hotel itself is a service industry, and we have arranged the best vacant position for you because we value talents like you. Don't feel wronged. To be honest, there are so many college students and many returnees nowadays. Our hotel has no problem finding suitable talents!"
These words made Luo Yue lower her head. She had just returned from abroad and her last job was as the reserve lobby manager of the Sete Hotel. It was inevitable that she would be a little arrogant and naturally looked down on a small administrative manager. But what the HR manager said was also true: don't take yourself too seriously in dealing with people, unless others really need you. But the reality is that it is becoming increasingly difficult to find a job, but more and more people are looking for jobs.
After all, Luo Yue was only in her twenties, a beautiful young girl who had studied abroad. According to traditional Chinese culture, the HR manager, as an older man, would not argue with a young girl. Seeing her dejected, the HR manager comforted her with a smile:
"We also know that you have just returned to China and your home is not in Beijing. You must have difficulties in all aspects of life, so we will find a way to reduce your pressure on renting and commuting. The group has decided to provide you with housing and transportation subsidies!"
"Really?"
I didn't expect that domestic hotels would stop providing accommodation, especially in a big city like Beijing. This is a huge expense. Luo Yue was overjoyed and said:
"That group is really thoughtful, thank you!"
"You're welcome. Happy cooperation?"
"Yeah, happy cooperation!"
…
On the other hand, after fully understanding the preferential policies for college graduates to start their own businesses, Yuan Xudong decided to leave professional matters to professionals. He found a service company with a good reputation to help register his own company. He only needed to pay the other party a commission of a few thousand yuan to save a lot of time running around and complicated and tedious registration procedures. With the time saved, he could carefully select a suitable office space, purchase office equipment, recruit company employees, and so on.
The World Financial Center in Chaoyang District, Beijing, is a 275-meter walk from the subway station. This is the office space chosen by Yuan Xudong for the future Tengfei Capital. The World Financial Center is 24 stories high, with bright floor-to-ceiling windows. It is a modern international top business complex located in the Beijing Business Center, surrounded by supporting banks, shopping centers, five-star hotels, etc.
Although it is a bit expensive to open a company in such a high-end office building, it is easy to give customers a high-end feeling, which is conducive to making customers believe that the company has strong capital strength. Of course, it is only for ordinary customers with average backgrounds. Besides, it is also very face-saving to say it out. Some young and beautiful girls are ignorant. The more high-end the company looks, the more blindly they worship it. Yuan Xudong wants to use this to fish. No matter whether it is a gold digger or a green tea girl, as long as she is young and beautiful, he likes her. Instead of letting them go out to harm those honest people, it is better for them to harm himself, a young and rich scumbag.
A green tea girl and a gold digger are paired with a scumbag. It is unclear who is punishing whom, who is fishing for whom, or both?
Yuan Xudong made an appointment online to view the house. A middle-aged woman in a black business suit was waiting for him at the entrance of the World Financial Center. After a brief greeting, the other party took Yuan Xudong directly into the World Financial Center. The office that Yuan Xudong wanted to rent was on the twelfth floor of the World Financial Center. The office area was 500 square meters, and the annual rent was about 1 million yuan. The rent was paid in advance for three months, and the deposit was also three months. The minimum lease period was twelve months, and the rent-free period was three months. The price was fair and Yuan Xudong could accept it.
Under the guidance of the agent, Yuan Xudong took a tour of the office to be rented, and when he felt it was okay, he decided to rent it directly. After bargaining, he signed a lease contract. The final lease price was one million per year, paid quarterly. From then on, this 500-square-meter office on the twelfth floor of the World Financial Center in Chaoyang District, Beijing, became the first official office location of Tengfei Capital. At the moment of leaving the World Financial Center, Yuan Xudong turned around and looked at the high-end business center shining in the sun, and a sense of ambition rose in his heart. One day, he would buy it as the headquarters of Tengfei Capital.
After securing the office space, Yuan Xudong immediately found a decoration design company and commissioned them to design and construct a new renovation of the office, making sure it met the high-end and classy style of a financial investment company.
After all these were done, he began to post job openings on major job search websites. For Tengfei Capital, Yuan Xudong's positioning is to invest in unlisted companies with the potential to go public, as well as listed companies with certain development prospects, good asset quality, annual profits, and long-term stable high-ratio dividends. He will also allocate a portion of funds to invest in those companies that are on the cusp of the trend, such as new energy vehicles, etc., so as to balance stable profits and growth potential to increase the company's risk resistance.
On this basis, the company uses its financial advantage to do some intraday high-frequency stock turnaround trading and so on. In short, it is to make money, use existing money to make more money. The company does not produce any actual products, it only makes money itself.
Yuan Xudong posted positions such as human resources manager, stock trader, company receptionist, software engineer, financial director, etc. online. Before the company officially started operating, he first built the most basic framework. Zhang Mingyang and Cheng Hao's dental clinic was the company's first offline investment project, with an estimated project value of around 5 million yuan, which was just right for honing in the company's business processes and capabilities.
Just when Yuan Xudong was busy, night fell and the whole city gradually lit up, with traffic and lights everywhere. Such a beautiful city night view, the office workers who were busy all day had no time to appreciate it. Such a beautiful night view day after day, year after year, they were tired of it. People outside wanted to come in, and people inside wanted to stay. In the end, some people were forced to leave, leaving this city full of dreams with frustration and exhaustion.
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The Shangri-La Hotel girls' dormitory was about half an hour's drive from Yuan Xudong. In a dormitory with four girls, a WeChat ringtone suddenly rang out, and the dark environment immediately exploded:
"Whose phone is this? Are you going to sleep or not?"
"Press it quickly, it's too noisy!"
"You're still calling me in the middle of the night. Are you still asleep?"
Hearing the complaints from her three roommates, Luo Yue hurried to press her mobile phone, but it accidentally fell off her bed. She hurriedly got up from the bed, but her foot slipped and she fell from the upper bunk again, screaming in pain.
“I’m sorry!”
"Are you going to work tomorrow? I'm so annoyed!"
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry!”
After apologizing repeatedly to the three roommates who were woken up by her cell phone ringing, Luo Yue endured the pain and got up from the ground. Then she quickly took her cell phone and walked out of the room and closed the door. Only then did she breathe a sigh of relief. She leaned against the wall in the corridor with a tired face, relaxed a little, and then called her mother back. The WeChat ringtone just now was a video call from her mother. Her mother didn't know that she had returned to China. Because of the time difference, it was daytime in Belgium at this time.
Because the living environment is not very good, Luo Yue did not make a video call with her mother as usual, but chose WeChat voice:
"Hello?"
"Why don't you answer my video? Is there something wrong?"
Mother Luo's voice sounded a little anxious and worried.
"No, I'm fine. I'm on my way to a birthday party with some colleagues. It's not convenient to video chat with them. If you have anything to say, just say it now."
Luo Yue made up an excuse at random. When she finished, Luo's mother on the other side actually sobbed softly. Luo Yue thought she was worried about herself, so she said:
"You can talk on the phone if you have anything to say. Don't you feel happy when I sound like that?"
"Mom thought you were feeling sad today, so I called you. To be honest, I was quite surprised to hear that you were hanging out with your friends."
"What day is today?"
Luo Yue asked casually in a daze. As soon as the words came out of her mouth, Luo's mother opposite was stunned.
Feeling that the atmosphere was a little off, Luo Yue shuddered and became much more sober. She couldn't help but have a bad feeling in her heart. She asked blankly:
"What day is it today?"
"The 21st is your father's death anniversary. Poor girl..."
As she spoke, Luo's mother started to cry. Luo Yue felt extremely guilty. She had even forgotten her father's death anniversary and told her mother that she had gone out to play with her friends. At this moment, Luo Yue was so ashamed that she could only reluctantly explain:
"I'm sorry, I'm jet lagged..."
"My poor girl, you lost your father when you were so young, and your mother remarried. It was because of this that you went abroad to study in college. You were away for five years. Every time I think of this, I feel sorry for you and for making you suffer..."
"Mom, let's just put this matter aside."
"Okay, I'll listen to you. You should be fine by yourself. I'll hang up first so I won't waste your time."
"Okay, bye!"
"Bye-Bye!"
After the call ended, Luo Yue curled up at the edge of the corridor, holding the phone in her hand, hugging her calves with her arms, burying her head between her knees, and cried silently...
After crying for a long time, a new WeChat message notification sounded. Luo Yue raised her head, wiped her tears silently, and took a look at the new WeChat message. It was a message from Yuan Xudong:
"Are you asleep? You're so bored, why don't you come out for a drink?"
Following this text message was an emoticon of a laughing, silly and cute cartoon emoticon. Luo Yue couldn't help but burst out laughing when looking at the silly and cute cartoon emoticon. Her tears turned into laughter in an instant. There was a mixture of crying and laughing on her face, which made people feel distressed. If Yuan Xudong saw it, he would definitely comfort Luo Yue and make her happy and worry-free.
After a slight hesitation, Luo Yue replied:
"I'm going to sleep. I have to go to work tomorrow!"
Yuan Xudong quickly replied:
"It's only half past ten, it's still early. Where are you? I'll pick you up."
"Well, wait for me on the steps in front of the Shangri-La Hotel. See you later!"
"Okay, see you later!"
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More than half an hour later, Yuan Xudong waited for Luo Yue on the steps in front of the Shangri-La Hotel.
As far as the eye can see, her hair is all tied up and rolled up behind her head, which looks quite neat and tidy. She has light makeup on her face, a layer of light red lipstick, no jewelry on her body, only a black shoulder bag, a black and white vertical striped off-shoulder dress, and relatively loose light blue jeans. The whole person looks very fresh and clean, giving people a refreshing feeling.
Yuan Xudong walked towards Luo Yue, who was obviously a little different, and smiled:
"Luo Yue, you are so beautiful tonight!"
"Don't come on, I don't believe your nonsense!"
After rolling his eyes at Yuan Xudong, Luo Yue said directly:
"Let's go, I want to have a drink, do you know of a quiet bar nearby?"
"I actually know this. It's nearby. Let's go!"
Yuan Xudong took Luo Yue to a Porsche Panamera parked in front of the Shangri-La Hotel. Seeing this black luxury car, Luo Yue couldn't help but curl her lips and said sourly:
"Only wealthy people would buy this kind of car. Is it a big deal to be rich?"
"That's right, what's so good about the Porsche Panamera? I just like driving the BMW 7 Series!"
As he spoke, Yuan Xudong walked around to the back of the Porsche Panamera, pushed out his electric donkey and said:
"Come on, sit in the back and remember to wear a helmet, or you'll be fined!"
"Your battery car?"
Seeing Yuan Xudong riding an electric scooter, Luo Yue was a little stunned. She thought that the cool-looking Porsche Panamera was Yuan Xudong's car. She didn't expect it. Are rich people nowadays so stingy?
"What happened to the battery car?"
Seeing that Luo Yue dared to dislike his beloved car, Yuan Xudong smiled proudly:
"Thinking back to when I was unemployed, I made money by delivering food. When you become rich, don't forget me. Do you understand?"
"I know you, you idiot. Have you ever delivered food?"
"You're underestimating me, aren't you? Not only have I delivered food, I've also been a designated driver, driven an online ride-hailing car, and worked in sales. Isn't that impressive?"
"Are you kidding me?"
Giving Yuan Xudong a blank look, Luo Yue took the helmet from him and put it on, then sat on the back of the electric bike and said with a smile:
"Come on, hurry up!"
"Okay, sit tight!"
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Ten minutes later, Yuan Xudong rode his electric scooter and brought Luo Yue to the door of a bar. There were Porsche Panamera, Lamborghini, Maserati, Ferrari, etc. in front of this bar called Yuejie. All the cars were parked except Yuan Xudong's, because other people's cars had four wheels, but his electric scooter only had two wheels.
Parked among a row of luxury cars, he looked like a scammer, but there were no idiot rich second-generations or villains who took advantage of their connections to step on Yuan Xudong. Even his second-hand electric scooter that stood out from the crowd was not even glanced at. Yuan Xudong couldn't help but sigh that urban novels are all lies. Where's the promise of pretending to be cool and then getting slapped in the face?
Seeing Yuan Xudong calmly park the electric bike and lock it, Luo Yue glanced at the luxury cars around him and rolled her eyes speechlessly.
"Yuan Xudong, did you do this on purpose?"
"What on purpose?"
"You are surrounded by luxury cars and supercars, but you are the only one riding an electric bike. Are you trying to show off that you are different?"
"You're so smart. You figured this out?"
Yuan Xudong rolled his eyes and smiled:
"I have a luxury car worth tens of millions at home, but I rode this second-hand electric donkey to attract your attention. Are you satisfied with this answer?"
"Bah, I don't want to bother with you!"
After rolling her eyes at Yuan Xudong and waiting for him to lock his electric bike, Luo Yue walked into the bar with him and asked curiously:
"Didn't you buy a car? I mean the one with four wheels, not your electric bike."
"I really don't have that. I'll talk about it after the company is set up. I plan to buy a car under the company's name. The more money I can save, the better!"
"You are such a stingy person!"
“Is this called reasonable tax avoidance?”
"Capitalist face, you haven't bought a house yet, are you planning to buy one in the name of the company?"
"Wrong, I plan to rent an apartment in the name of the company. I've already picked one. It's a large apartment with 420 square meters of fine decoration. The rent is only 60,000 yuan per month. Compared to buying a house, isn't it a good deal?"
"Bah, what a bargain!"
Rolling her eyes at Yuan Xudong, Luo Yue walked to the bar and sat down. Yuan Xudong sat down beside her, looked at the waiter at the bar and said with a smile:
"Two glasses of champagne, thank you!"
" Yes sir!"
