Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
This little restaurant was the closest to the Yueyang Building. The interior design of the restaurant was very simple, with white walls and wooden tables and chairs. Each table was covered with beige tablecloths, and the table itself was also covered with a white plastic tablecloth… very generic.
Although the interior design was simply and generic, it was still clean inside. The dining environment here, in Lin Yun’s eyes, was somewhat acceptable!
As for the unremarkable dishes on the table, for Lin Yun, they constituted a brand new life experience.
Lin Yun noticed that Lin Yao, on the opposite side of the table, seemed a little embarrassed to start eating first, so she reached for the chopsticks on the table and handed them to her.
Lin Yun ordered a table full of dishes but didn’t eat much herself. In fact, she simply tasted every dish, then put down her chopsticks and made comments one by one.
“Well, this sugar tenderloin is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, sweet but not greasy, and it’s pretty well cooked, you give it a try.”
“Dried bamboo shoots with duck meat, the soup is a little too thick, but the dried bamboo shoots taste pretty good, so you should try it.”
Lin Yao felt that every dish was delicious. At first, she was a bit cautious and tried to maintain her image, but after she started using the chopsticks to eat, she couldn’t stop. Only until she felt that her stomach was full did she finally put down the chopsticks in her hand with satisfaction.
At that moment, she was surprised to discover that although President Lin was extremely tall, her appetite was so pitifully small!
Lin Yao didn’t realize that the person with the abnormal appetite was actually herself.
Lin Yun was also shocked. Xiao Lin was so slim, so how could she eat so much?
However, as a connoisseur, Lin Yun began to appreciate or even envy the carefree foodie in front of her!
After returning to the company, Lin Yao discovered that what she did in the office was still the same as what she did in the morning. The telephone rang without stopping three consecutive times, and she immediately answered the phone without waiting for Lin Yun’s instructions.
“Hello, hello! This is Lingyun Industry.”
Seeing her get back to work so quickly, Lin Yun returned to her office with satisfaction.
“Yes, Stadium Road… the 26th Floor, Yueyang Building, Lingyun Industry, you are welcome to come to the interview!”
“These questions that you’ve asked, you can ask your son to come and discuss them with our president.”
“What you said makes sense. It is completely normal for parents to care about their child’s workplace environment! Is your son unwilling to come by himself?”
At 17:12, Lin Yao hung up her last call for the day. Finally, her work on the first day was finished!
This afternoon, she received a lot of wonderful interview calls, but there were also a few normal job applicants, and they all said they would come in for an interview tomorrow.
Lin Yao thought about how her hard work didn’t go in vain, and she didn’t waste money by letting President Lin pay for such a sumptuous meal!
Outside the window, the night sky had quietly descended, and her figure was vaguely reflected on the glass window.
“Xiao Lin, it’s time to get off work!” Lin Yun came out of her office, and when she passed Lin Yao’s desk, she suddenly stopped and asked, “Are you free after work?”
Lin Yao didn’t look up, and she answered as she organized her belongings, “Uh, I’m free!”
Lin Yun tilted her head and smiled at her, “Since you’re free, go shopping with me. Let’s go together!”
“!!!”
Lin Yao was so shocked that she almost dropped her phone on the ground. She thought Lin Yun was just asking casually.
Lin Yao had been in the workforce for more than a year, but she had never been friendly with her supervisors. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have been fired.
People like her naturally didn’t even dream that they would one day meet up with their supervisor, no, boss, for a shopping spree.
How should she describe this feeling?
Flattered?
Frightened?
Uneasy?
Nervous?
…
Perhaps all of these emotions, but they still weren’t enough to describe her ambivalent feelings.
“This restaurant’s food isn’t bad!” Lin Yun parked the car, and upon discovering that Xiao Lin was still in a daze, she urged her to leave. “Let’s go.”
“Alright!”
Lin Yao looked up and discovered that they had arrived in front of a classical architecture about five or six floors high. There were three big characters inscribed on the signboard: Cheng Shengji.
She has been in Hangzhou for several years now and passed by this place many times. She always wondered what this place was.
She didn’t know until today that this magnificent place was actually a restaurant!
Lin Yao followed Lin Yun and walked through some antique doors. She didn’t even get the chance to take a closer look before she was overcome by the splendid sight and dazzling lights in front of her.
This… is no restaurant, this is a palace, right?
“Welcome!”
The two rows of servers bowed as they expressed their welcomes in unison.
These servers were all tall and beautiful. Lin Yao also noticed that the fire red cheongsams they wore were of the utmost quality in terms of workmanship and texture. They made the already model-like servers appear like fairies.
Yet, due to the queenly aura of Lin Yun, those rows of fairies were outshone and instantly appeared like court ladies in comparison.
Lin Yao looked at Lin Yun, who was walking in front of her, then looked at the servers, and secretly clicked her tongue. She looked like a chambermaid, following Lin Yun step by step into this magnificent hotel.
At the entrance, there was a carefully designed fake mountain, which seemed to have a spring flowing out.
The long corridor looked lavish. Lin Yao felt that she started to understand what Lin Yun meant when she said earlier: “We don’t have much time at noon… so we can only eat some light food”.
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In their private compartment, Lin Yun had a somewhat solemn expression on her face. She took a few bites, then put down the chopsticks in her hands. She glanced at the silent phone on the table and secretly fretted over it for a while, but in the end, she didn’t pick it up.
Lin Yun took the ashtray on the dining table and placed it in front of her, then took one of her favorite Sobranie cigarettes and put it in her mouth.
She puffed out whiffs of smoke for a while, but unfortunately, her mood didn’t improve until… she saw the foodie sitting opposite her, gleefully stuffing down food. She suddenly burst out laughing at the sight!