Zhang Ling had just signed the last document and handed it over to the secretary who sent it.
The secretary did not leave after getting the documents, which caught Zhang Ling's attention. She looked up again and asked the hesitant secretary:
"Xiao Jin, do you have anything else to do?"
Xiao Jin looked embarrassed and said:
"Mr. Zhang, I have been with you for three years. I know your character best. But... there is something I don't know whether to say or not."
Xiao Jin usually has a straightforward character, but today she seemed to be in a difficult situation. She put down her work and asked curiously:
"Xiao Jin, if you have any difficulties, just tell me and I can let someone else do it. This squeaking is nothing like your usual self."
Xiao Jin bit his lower lip, made fists with both hands, and mustered up the courage to say:
"No, Mr. Zhang, it's not about work."
"That's a private matter." She always kept a clear distinction between public and private affairs. She subconsciously glanced at the time on her watch and saw that it was already a quarter past twelve noon. "Okay, what's the matter? You tell me."
"I know this is related to your privacy. But I still want to ask you, did you ask a man to drive you to work in a million-dollar sports car this morning?"
"Who said that?" Zhang Ling asked, suppressing her panic.
She thought she was very careful. Why was she still seen?
"It looks like it's true." Xiao Jin lowered his head slightly, looking a little anxious. He muttered to himself first, then suddenly raised his head and said very worriedly, "Mr. Zhang, someone took a photo of you getting off the car and posted it.
On the company forum, everyone under the post is calling you a fake noble but a real mistress."
After Zhang Ling listened, she said nothing. She immediately opened the company forum and found the slanderous post.
After browsing for about ten seconds, I didn't show any anger. Instead, I laughed out loud.
This made Xiao Jin, who was standing in front of him, tremble all over and asked with some doubts:
"Mr. Zhang, are you okay?"
Zhang Ling pointed at the post with one hand contemptuously, looked up at Xiao Jin, and said with a mocking tone:
"The person who posted this post has no basic common sense at first glance. The official price of this sapphire blue BMW M2 Coupe only starts at 599,000, and here you are bragging about a million-dollar sports car. I think these people who scold me are all out of their minds.
It’s all flooded.”
"Yes, that's how I explained it to them. But they just want to believe the facts they want to believe. No one listens to my explanation at all. It feels like someone is deliberately setting the pace." Xiao Jin immediately expressed his position.
"Really?" Zhang Ling's eyes returned to the forum posts, and she started browsing again with a solemn expression.
Xiao Jin continued: "They also argued that it doesn't matter how many dollars you get out of a sports car. What's important is that it's enough that you get out of a man's car."
Zhang Ling looked at the post and saw that the photo was taken very skillfully. Only her front face was covered with Li Xiang's back.
Listening to Xiao Jin's narration again, I couldn't help but cursed in my heart, what kind of bastard logic is this?
It's simply gangster logic created to create rumors for the sake of gossip.
"Xiao Jin, thank you for telling me this."
Zhang Ling looked up again and was very pleased to see Xiao Jin, who had a sense of justice.
Xiao Jin reminded with some worry:
"Mr. Zhang, you are currently competing for the position of the vice president of the group. Posts like this suddenly appear on the company forum, it must be a competitor..."
"Okay, Xiao Jin, I understand your concerns." Zhang Ling tried her best to act calmly, but did not forget to comfort Xiao Jin and said, "Look, it's already lunch time, you'd better go to eat first. Don't worry, this
I will definitely handle the matter properly."
She watched Xiao Jin leave, staring blankly at the computer screen, recalling in her mind that after joining X Joint Venture Technology Company, she worked her way from an ordinary clerk to become the company's intelligent manufacturing project manager.
Every frame reveals endless heartache and blood and tears.
You must know that a group like this will have a complex network of power relationships.
It is not easy for a person who has no background and does not belong to any force to achieve her position.
Although the top management of the group cannot be all idiots, they will definitely consider the future interests of the group when selecting the vice president.
Even if all things considered, she, Zhang Ling, is the best candidate for vice president, it is even less likely that the senior management would go out of their way to investigate the truth of the rumors for her own sake.
The reason is that she is a woman. At her age, it is normal to consider getting married. She will also take maternity leave in the future, which will affect the company's operations.
Therefore, many companies generally allow women to have a lower chance of competing for jobs.
In the end, the group's senior management is likely to consider maintaining internal stability. A person who is involved in a topic that arouses public excitement like her will definitely be considered detrimental to the unity of the company, and will usually take the initiative to cancel her candidacy.
Thinking of this, Zhang Ling realized that no matter how she handled the matter, there was a high probability that she would lose the qualification to be the vice president of the competing group.
The man behind the rumors and trouble is definitely a master at playing with people's hearts.
In this case, Zhang Ling can completely ignore it?
Of course not!
If she ignores it, she will not only lose her qualifications to compete for the vice president position of the group, but she may also lose her current job.
As a person who only handles work, she was flipping through her phone's address book in distress and panic to see if there were any connections she could seek help from.
My father is old and in poor health. Hearing this will definitely affect his health;
Yan Yuan, this guy can talk a lot, but with her IQ, I'm afraid all of her IQ is spent on how to seduce men.
When she saw the phone call of her ex-boyfriend who had been unable to get through for several years, she looked slightly sad for a moment, her eyes seemed to be filled with crystal clear eyes, and her fingers hovered over the red "Confirm Delete", but in the end she still did not click.
She seemed to still hold a trace of expectation for her ex-boyfriend in her heart.
She hopes that one day he will suddenly appear and explain to her the reason why he has been missing for several years.
Continuing to slide the address book, Li Xiang's name flashed in front of her eyes. She clicked on the green button without hesitation, just like the days when her ex-boyfriend was by her side.
It seems that subconsciously, Li Xiang had already taken the place of her ex-boyfriend.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Suddenly, a familiar voice came from the other end of the phone:
"My grandson, it's me, grandma! I didn't bother you, did I?"
She didn't even dial Li Xiang's number, but answered a call from his grandmother.
Is it fate or just coincidence?
None of this matters anymore.
When she heard her grandma's voice, she felt a little excited for no reason, as if she had received a call from her mother, and she felt a lot more at ease.
"No!" There were tears in his eyes as he spoke.
"You heard me, I just said that calling at this time will not disturb my granddaughter-in-law."
Grandma was on the other end of the phone, as if she was arguing with another person, her voice was very low.
Zhang Ling was a little confused and asked:
"Grandma, what are you talking about?"
"Listen quickly, your granddaughter-in-law is asking you something."
On the other end of the phone, another woman was vaguely reminded.
Grandma continued:
"Oh, granddaughter-in-law, grandma misses you. I called just to talk to you."
"Okay, I just want to talk to grandma for a while."
Zhang Ling felt a little choked up.
The keen grandma heard something was wrong and said in an increasingly excited tone:
"Daughter-in-law, from your voice, it sounds like you have been wronged. Did that bastard Li Xiang bully you? Don't be sad. Grandma will help you teach him a lesson."
Listening to grandma's tone of voice that she was devoted to her, I felt warmly moved in my heart.
But he didn’t want to selfishly let Li Xiang suffer unreasonable disaster, so he quickly defended:
"No, no, it's really none of Li Xiang's business. It's just that work is a little unsatisfactory. Now that I can talk to grandma for a few words, I feel a lot better."
"Oh, it's a matter of work. Although grandma doesn't understand, granddaughter-in-law, please don't embarrass yourself. If you have anything to do, you can come to grandma at any time. If necessary, grandma will go out of her way to get one for you.
justice."
This instantly took her back to her childhood, the kind of child who made a mistake and suffered a loss, and her close relatives rushed to the front to take the lead, fighting for three points even though they were ignored.
At this time, hiding behind us, we feel extremely happy and secure.
"Okay, grandma, I've written it down." Zhang Ling put a smile on her face and looked at the unfinished documents at hand. She suddenly felt motivated to work. She asked tentatively, "Grandma, please call me."
Did you just come here to have a few words with me?"
Grandma heard Zhang Ling's intention to hang up the phone and felt it was time to reveal her true purpose.
"My granddaughter-in-law, it's my grandma's birthday in two days, and I wanted to invite you to have a meal with me."
In fact, Li Xiang had already been with grandma’s birthday two months ago.
"this……"
If Li wanted to mention this request, she might agree directly because they have a "cooperative relationship."
But grandma skipped Li Xiang and asked her directly, but she didn't seem to have sufficient reason to agree.
Grandma heard Zhang Ling hesitate, and then spoke in a dull and sad tone:
"Oh, grandma like me doesn't have a few days left to live. Granddaughter-in-law, if you feel embarrassed, it's just a birthday."
"Go, I'll just go. Grandma, please don't say that."
The kind-hearted woman felt sad for a while and couldn't help but agree to her grandma's request.
"Granddaughter-in-law, it's settled! If you have anything to do, go ahead and I won't disturb you. When it's your birthday, I'll ask Li Xiang to pick you up in person. Goodbye!"
After listening to grandma's cheerful expression, she hung up the phone before she even had time to say "goodbye."
She vaguely felt as if she had been kidnapped.
Of course, this is not physical kidnapping in the conventional sense.
However, she seemed to like this kind of kidnapping very much.
The bad mood caused by the rumors on the forum disappeared instantly.
Of course, she would not deal with this matter passively. Instead, she actively used her lunch time and used professional information technology to try to check the poster.
The person who posted the message was too cunning. He chose a public network in a shopping mall that was far away from the company. Combined with comparing the posting time, it was basically certain that the person was not in the company during working hours.
After learning this information, she breathed a long sigh of relief, and the corners of her mouth curled up in a graceful arc.
Time passed quickly, and it was already time to get off work in the afternoon. She did not go home immediately, but went to the shopping mall to explore on the spot...
She returned home after repeated urging from her father's phone calls.
As soon as she entered the door, she called her father as usual but there was no response. She thought that her father must have gone out temporarily for something.
After a busy day and not having lunch, her body was really tired. She just wanted to take a bath to relieve her fatigue.
When she opened the bedroom door, she saw a few men's clothes thrown on the bed. Without thinking much, she thought they belonged to her father, so she put them away and sent them back.
She walked lazily to the bathroom door in slippers, and opened the bathroom door naturally as usual. A white mist hit her face, and she could vaguely hear a man talking to himself.
"Dad, why didn't you lock the door when you took a shower?" She immediately exited the bathroom and shouted at the door.
"Sorry, I forgot!" The man's voice sounded nervous.
She suddenly felt something was wrong and thought that a bold and evil thief had come to her home.
With an attitude of vowing to capture the evil thief alive, he picked up the small solid wood bench placed at the door and pushed the door open menacingly.
"What a bold little thief. If you fall into my hands today, you won't be able to escape!"