Translator: TNTG Editor: alteringviews
Since this was supposed to be an Urban Literature, it’s impossible that there is only Chen Xiao Yan, a single heroine.
As such, this Yuan Jia in front of him now was meant to be another one of the protagonist’s “concubines“.
Given the progress of the storyline, this heroine had yet to make too many appearances. The crux of the matter here was she had gotten involved with Young Master Song in an unspeakable incident when she was introduced for the first time.
Earlier, it was mentioned that Young Master Song and Chen Yi Zhu had developed interest over the same female university student and had gotten into a fight over her. At that time, it was regrettable that just when Young Master Song had taken off his trousers, Ye Tian had managed to sneak in just in time to play the role of the “Hero saving the damsel in distress.” The person sitting right in front of him now was exactly that female victim.
In any case, this was another one of the “bad debts” his predecessor had left him. At this moment though, Song Shi Cheng couldn’t help thinking about the quote “enemies often cross each other’s path.”
“How come you are…” Song Shi Cheng had wanted to ask why Yuan Jia was here. After all, she had taken the initiative of entering the enemy’s territory. This was no different than walking right into a trap. However, he had stopped mid-sentence when the answer crossed his mind.
That night, Yuan Jia was a part-timer whose responsibility was promoting alcohol sales. Coveting the beautiful Yuan Jia, Young Master Song had naturally used his wealth to help him create an opportunity. Ultimately, he had managed to successfully slip drugs into Yuan Jia’s drink when she was not paying attention. All this had happened without both parties knowing each other name.
Off course, Ye Tian did tell Yuan Jia Young Master Song’s identity after the whole incident had passed. It was just that Song Shi Cheng had instructed the recruitment agency to keep the hirer’s identity confidential. Thus, Yuan Jia had remained oblivious right till the moment she entered the Song family’s mansion and saw Song Shi Cheng. Only then did Yuan Jia attempted to flee.
In the end, aside from being forced by Manger Wang, Yuan Jia had still dared to enter since the incident had long pass. She was telling herself there’s no way the other party will know of her background and had totally forgotten about her insignificant existence.
Sadly for her, how could Song Shi Cheng possibly forget one of the heroines?
However, Song Shi Cheng would have to keep everything at the back of his mind for the time being because there were just too many people present at the moment. He just said, “Chui Zi, just keep close eyes on her for the time being. There’s no need to make things difficult for her if she’s well behave.”
Abruptly, Song Shi Cheng had thought of another matter. After pausing momentarily, he waved his hand to summon Manager Fang and Uncle De and whispered a few words into their ear.
Listening to the instruction, both Manager Fang and Uncle De nodded while eyeing Yuan Jia with surprise.
“All of you listen closely! Make sure you watch over this girl closely. If there’s any mishap, I will each of you accountable for it!” Manager Fang warned the other job applicants as he left Uncle De. It was obvious they have a task to complete.
Yuan Jia could only silently look at the other job applicants who had cooperated to surround and watch over her. Although she was both worried and nervous, this girl still held true to her novel’s personality. She was tenacious. For the time being, she can only remain patient while looking for an opportunity to escape.
Song Shi Cheng stopped paying attention on Yuan Jia and started to checked out the other job applicants before quickly coming to a decision. “Regarding your salary package, I’m too lazy to discuss it. I believe all of you had a figure in mind anyway. As long as you can show result, you wouldn’t have to worry about proper compensation. Right now, I’m lacking a professional manager. Those who are interest to apply for this position, please take a step forward.”
Several male and female applicants immediately took a step forward. Each of them looked smart and competent.
“I will pose a question. The position will go to the first person who can give me a satisfactory answer.” Song Shi Cheng then pointed at the garden and said, “Within this garden, each of you will select three items and immediately come up with a business proposal how I can profit from it.”
Those job applicants who were all rather earnest were instantly stunned. The interview test was outright unconventional!
Nonetheless, the job applicants had started looking for suitable items since their future employer had given his instruction.
“Young Master Song, this flowerbed had been cultivated nicely. We could open a florist. Instant delivery once and order has been placed. We can guarantee the freshness…”
“This flowerbed is my mom’s hobby. Do you want to end up being buried as fertilizer?”
“Young Master Song, the dogs at the back is nicely raised. We could open a pet shot catering to the high-end market.”
“Those are all my beloved pets. Do you want to be turned into pet food?”
“Young Master Song, I have something good to propose…”
“Young Master Song…”
As Song Shi Cheng listened to one bad idea after another, he just couldn’t help rolling his eyes and bit his lips. Sure enough, this group was a bunch of bogus elites which can’t be employed.
No doubt Song Shi Cheng’s test was a difficult one. How could anyone easily come up with a good business proposal when they are limited to items in this small area and in such a short amount of time?
Nonetheless, Song Shi Cheng had no intention of lowering his benchmark. If he had hired the wrong team lead, the whole team whole suffer. He was just an amateur when it comes to doing business, if the candidate he hired was mediocre as well, it was no different than walking down a path of self-destruction when he launch the Online Healthcare Mutual-Aid Fund later.”
After a while, a youngster with a buzz cut hairstyle and savvy eyes had approached him and spoke servilely, “Young Master Song, can I borrow your tablet and beloved dogs. Rest assured, I won’t hurt them.”
“Sure, go ahead.” Song Shi Cheng passed over the tablet on the table. He had a slightly impression of this youngster’s resume. The youngster name should be Dou Bin. Unlike the other candidates with top-tier academic credentials and vast working experience in major corporations, this fella had only graduated from a third-tier college. He had worked for a short period of time in Ma family’s Internet Company before leaving to start his own business. However, just like most start-up, he was back to square just after a short period of time.
Dou Bin didn’t immediately turn on the tablet when he received it and just cautiously asked, “Young Master Song, one last request. Can I borrow a person to help me out?” He then looked at Yuan Jia who was still being surrounded before adding, “I would like that girl to cooperate with me and take a few photos.”
Song Shi Cheng’s curiosity was greatly piqued. On one hand, he was curious what business proposal this fella was trying to pitch. On the other, he was wondering why he would choose the plain looking Yuan Jia when there were so many other women here who were fashionably and immaculately dressed.
He simply agreed since he was curious to get the answer.
Yuan Jia on the other hand had no intention to cooperate. She just indifferently said, “I don’t want to cooperate with shady people.” When she saw the expression of Chui Zi and the others turned dark, Yuan Jia quickly added, “Hey, please don’t make the wrong assumption. I’m actually talking about that fella there!”
Song Shi Cheng felt that this girl had intentionally caused the misunderstanding but just drank his tea before asking her in a teasing manner, “Oh, why would you say that?”
Dou Bin was ineffably surprised and could only bitterly said, “Miss Yuan. We don’t even know each other. So, I’m not sure how I have offended you. I am just trying to fulfill Young Master Song’s instruction. So would you please cooperate with me?”
“You don’t recognize me? You had actually interviewed me twice before this.”
Thus, Yuan Jia smiled and began to explain in details Dou Bin’s about start-up, “At that time, you were still running your start-up. The first start-up was a foreign movie pirated video-streaming website. You had posted a recruitment notice for foreign language translator. When I went for an interview, you had asked me to translate a line of foreign language on the spot. You asked me to leave and wait for news once I was done translating. After waiting for more than half a month, there was still no news from you and the recruitment notice was still active. The notice had remained active for months. Tsk… Tsk… If there are five or six interviewees like me every day, you can just repeatedly get your translation without paying a single dime.”
“On the second time, you had started a local online dating website. In order to attract users, you had thought of a ploy and posted two marriage notices in the newspapers. One was a notice from fiancée of a tall, handsome and wealthy man while the other notice was from the fiancé of a fair, beautiful and wealthy woman. This had quickly attracted a lot of single’s application to your website. Again you posted another recruitment notice. You scammed me and the other applicants off our personal information and consolidated it into a database before posting it on an online platform. Then, you send text messages to all your single members to promote this platform. This had quickly generated a lot of web traffic for your website and I heard you managed to earn some money from charging membership fees. Due to the small profit, you sold the whole platform for a larger sum of money. Oh, I also heard that you have resold the membership database to many groups including those involved in scams.”
When Song Shi Cheng heard the detailed start-up story of this fella, he nearly spewed out the gulp of black tea he just drank.
Fuck!
Compared to this very business savvy job applicant, his interview test was just child’s play to him!