Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
The next day…
When Lu Chuan punched in to work, he was called to Human Resources.
Wang Guangji arrived early in the morning and had since been in the Human Resources Department, looking arrogant like a rooster during mating season.
When Wang Guangji saw Lu Chuan, he was like an infuriated stray dog. “Lu Chuan, you’re fired.”
Yesterday, Lu Chuan dared to publicly call him a pig and a fatty. How could he endure it? After work, instead of going home, he rushed to his sister’s house and started spinning an exaggerated story.
Unsurprisingly, the result could be imagined, with all that talk and the fact that Lu Chuan was just a small supervisor.
With his sister’s confirmation, Wang Guangji arrived at Human Resources early in the morning. He wanted to see Lu Chuan’s look of disappointment, unwillingness, anger, and regret.
After working with Lu Chuan for a year, Wang Guangji naturally knew about Lu Chuan’s family’s conditions. Wang Guangji kept tormenting Lu Chuan because he knew that Lu Chuan needed the job.
“Haha, didn’t you expect it?”
Before Lu Chuan could react, Wang Guangji broke into a loud laugh.
If he didn’t retaliate against someone that provoked him, wasn’t that disregard for his engineering director title?
Lu Chuan revealed a confused expression, staring at Wang Guangji in a daze.
The head of Human Resources wore an embarrassed expression, but she spoke formally. “Lu Chuan, you can proceed to the finance department to settle your salary for this month.”
Lu Chuan must be angry. It would be best if he punched him.
Wang Guangji narrowed his eyes and anticipated the punch from Lu Chuan. He would report it to the police, and that kid would be detained for 15 days. It would be a pain for him.
But…
Lu Chuan’s face returned to a calm and composed look.
Anger?
That was thinking too much.
If there wasn’t a crisis in the biochemical plant, Lu Chuan would do his best to handle the three customers before leaving. But now, the biochemical plant was in crisis. After weighing his priorities, Lu Chuan was actually coming over to tender his resignation.
Ten days was too little, and Lu Chuan couldn’t afford to be sloppy.
Even if Wang Guangji hadn’t been pulling his tricks, Lu Chuan would leave after handing over some work in the afternoon at the latest.
The reason Lu Chuan called Wang Guangji a parasite was because of the reasons Wang Guangji targeted him.
When he first joined the company, Wang Guangji was still caring toward Lu Chuan and had seemed like a good boss. Wang Guangji would also invite the supervisors in the company to dinner frequently.
After Lu Chuan had been working for more than a month and became familiar with his supervision job, Wang Guangji had a conversation with him. He wanted Lu Chuan to cooperate with him when loading the materials, to make a difference in the price, and he would give Lu Chuan some benefits.
For example, the price of a good plastic pipe is more than double the price of an inferior one.
After the company confirmed the material price with the customer, it would enter the market at this price, but as the engineering manager, Wang Guangji also worked in procurement. His method was to replace the good product with an inferior one, earning the difference in the price.
Don’t underestimate this method. After a house was renovated, it would not be a problem for him to earn twenty to thirty thousand.
However, the company had a system: the materials entering the site needed to be signed for and verified by the supervisor, Lu Chuan. This was the reason Wang Guangji wooed Lu Chuan.
But Lu Chuan rejected him.
From then on, Wang Guangji began having problems with Lu Chuan, and the previous care and concern became relentless targeting.
Now, it was apparent.
“What’s so funny?”
Lu Chuan smiled lightly, and on his face, there weren’t any of the expressions Wang Guangji had anticipated.
“This…” Wang Guangji was stunned, and he asked, “Lu Chuan, you’re not angry? Without this job, your parents will be very sad, right? It would be difficult to comprehend that after spending so much effort getting you through university, you ended up unemployed. This feeling… tsk, it hurts just to think about it.”
“Actually, I was going to tender my resignation today.” Lu Chun’s words shattered Wang Guangji’s dreams.
Wang Guangji didn’t believe him. “Lu Chuan, don’t be stubborn. You say that just because you’ve been fired?”
Wang Guangji felt a sense of disappointment when he didn’t see any of the “exciting” expressions he had anticipated.
It seemed as though his ruthless punch had landed on cotton. It was weak.
He spent so much effort but it wasn’t repaid with the desired outcome.
Lu Chuan shook his head, ignoring the petty man.
Lu Chuan went to the finance department to settle his salary. There wasn’t much since Lu Chuan had taken a week off and it wasn’t a full month yet.
Toward Lu Chuan’s dismissal, the colleagues in the company only showed a little sympathy and sad expressions. They were all making a living, who could care about someone else?
Lu Chuan was a supervisor and was based outside the office, hence, he wasn’t very familiar with the people in the office.
Naturally, Lu Chuan’s departure had little impact on them.
……
The morning sun shone, giving off a warm sensation.
“Brother Niu, it’s okay, I never liked that fatty.”
“All right, let’s meet up soon.”
A few phone calls were made by colleagues he was closer to. These colleagues were not employees based in the office, but supervisors like Lu Chuan.
Hearing that he was fired, they called one after another.
After hanging up, Lu Chuan called the three owners to explain and apologize. Thereafter, he finally allowed himself some peace.
Lu Chuan never thought about exposing Wang Guangji to his boss. It wasn’t because he wasn’t righteous, but purely because it would be a waste of effort.
Wang Guangji was the boss’s brother-in-law. Even if the boss was righteous, what evidence did he have?
In just a few seconds, Lu Chuan, who was walking on the street, had left all this behind and placed his mind on the crisis at the biochemical plant.
He glanced at Uncle Zombie following behind him and broke into a faint smile.
The zombies were the foundation to making a name in this world. With them, there wasn’t any difficulty that was too hard to handle.
……
Lin Hai District.
Lu Chuan was standing on the balcony. This was an exquisitely furnished five-bedroom and two-living room apartment facing the sea. When the wind blew, he could smell the sea.
“There’s no problem, let’s sign the contract.”
Lu Chuan fell in love with the place at first glance.
Linhai was a high-end residential district and was beside the sea, so it wasn’t cheap and could be considered one of the top ten districts in Handong City.
The real estate brother who had been following Lu Chuan had a relieved look on his face and gave a smile. “Sir, you have great taste, this is the best place we have.”
Lu Chuan smiled. He wouldn’t know if it was the best, but it was definitely the most expensive.
Five bedrooms and two living rooms, 177 square meters.
With Lu Chuan’s current financial ability, he certainly didn’t have the ability to buy it. Instead, he rented it through a middleman.
The rent was 9,000 per month, an amount Lu Chuan wouldn’t even dream about in the past.
Lu Chuan had his considerations when he chose this location.
The identity of the zombies was an issue. If he stayed in low-cost rental housing, the environment would be complicated as such places were often raided by the relevant agencies, which was extremely dangerous for the zombies who didn’t have a registered identity.
In contrast, there weren’t many inspections in high-end districts.
Lu Chuan chose a five-room in order to accomodate Uncle Zombie and the others. He had five of them now, but who knew whether he would have ten zombies in the future?
Hence, he decided to be prepared.
After going through the formalities with the intermediary, he paid one year’s rent and placed another month’s rent as deposit. Lu Chuan found that he had become poor again.
The move would be simple.
Lu Chuan informed his original landlord, and then took the zombies and his luggage from the old apartment he had stayed in for the past year.