Lin Yao stopped stealing vegetables and kept turning his head back and forth. He thought it was more interesting to watch beautiful women bicker.
Xiang Honglian was delicate and frail, possessing a sickly beauty reminiscent of Lin Daiyu, with an oval face, large eyes, a pointed chin, and fair skin that evoked a sense of pity and tenderness in men.
At this moment, in front of her well-known colleagues, Xiang Honglian is not like Lin Daiyu. She speaks very bluntly, which is completely opposite to her delicate and frail mannerisms that have become an instinctive habit. This makes people feel conflicted, unsure whether to deal with her based on her appearance or her language style.
Fortunately, over time Lin Yao got used to Xiang Honglian's style and started ignoring her appearance at the company, treating her directly with words.
Just as he stepped out of the company gate, Lin Yao couldn't help but admire this woman. The sickly aura emanating from her very bones made Lin Yao want to care for her. Every time, he had to constantly remind himself, "This is fake, this is fake," before he could suppress the urge to care. He would then stand aside and watch the spectacle as those fly-like successful people fawned over and cared for this sickly beauty.
Everyone in the company knows about Xiang Honglian's materialistic attitude. In her own words, she borrowed the popular saying, "I'd rather cry in a BMW than laugh on the back of a bicycle." She's always thinking about marrying a rich man, which is probably her life's ideal.
Xiang Honglian also commented on Lin Yao, saying that it was a pity he had such a good-looking face. If he had some money, he would be an excellent marriage prospect. She would even be willing to be his mistress. It was just a pity that Lin Yao's job as a sales clerk was not good enough for her.
Even the head of the office is still an office worker.
Even if Lin Yao didn't do much work, could be late whenever he wanted, or leave early whenever he wanted, it still wouldn't arouse her interest. Besides, Lin Yao was dressed in cheap clothes from street stalls and wasn't the kind of person who would pretend to be cool to experience life, so he was completely unqualified to be her reserve.
“These days, even a pretentious person can be identified by their clothes and how they eat. A true gentleman dressed simply cannot hide his demeanor and pickiness about food. Only fools can’t see through someone’s pretentiousness,” Xiang Honglian said.
The partitioned areas further inside are for the internal staff of the International Trade Department, including Ming Xinyue, the head of the internal staff.
These office workers in the international trade department all have at least a CET-4 level of English proficiency. The most important thing is that they need to be able to speak and listen fluently, and their professional English needs to be even more proficient. Therefore, their base salary is relatively high, reaching 5,500 yuan a month, which is why Xiang Honglian is indignant.
We're all just office workers, we all just know a few words of gibberish. What's with the attitude? Who knows who's married to someone richer?
What Xiang Honglian was really resentful about was that she had even less money left each month to buy clothes and cosmetics. She didn't have any particular aversion to Zhu Youmei, since they wouldn't have any contact after many years anyway.
Zhu Youmei wouldn't be considered a beauty in China, but she couldn't resist the cravings of foreigners.
She had a long face, dark skin, deep-set eyes, a straight nose, and thick lips. She wasn't considered beautiful by any standard, but foreigners liked her. This made Lin Yao realize that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and he understood why some unattractive domestic actresses were considered great beauties by foreigners.
Zhu Youmei was aware of her situation, so she made good use of her resources to plan her life. Her goal was to marry a foreigner, and he had to be a rich one.
This is the same as Xiang Honglian's, except that Zhu Youmei never admits it. Instead, she claims that foreigners have better temperament and knowledge, and that foreign men with status and position are more gentlemanly.
Heaven knows how she linked gentlemanly manners with money; Lin Yao admired Zhu Youmei greatly.
Being an office clerk is really great. Lin Yao is very glad that he chose Hongyuan Company, and even more glad that he chose the office clerk position when Yang Lihong asked about the work arrangements, because this place is just so satisfying.
Three women make a drama, which can encapsulate the affairs of the entire society.
There are six women in the company's office, which is like two dramas. If you arrange them in different ways, who knows how many dramas are being staged.
In just a month and a half, Lin Yao felt that he had gained a new understanding of society and life, and his mentality had also changed. His previous attitude and concept of life, which was either right or wrong, had changed.
The words and actions of these men and women struggling in society are a true reflection of human nature.
The decision to take a job was absolutely the right one!
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Chapter 281 Seventh Sister's Advice
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"Xiaoming, I need to go upstairs in a bit. Do you want me to take something to you?"
While watching the commotion, Lin Yao caught a glimpse of a beige figure appearing beside him out of the corner of his eye, presumably trying to bypass him and reach the inner room.
The office space for internal staff consists of two adjacent partitions separated by aluminum composite panels, with a layer of transparent acrylic glass on top, allowing colleagues to see each other.
The partitions had five seats in each row. Lin Yao sat in the second one by the door. The copier, shredder, printer, and fax machine were all located to Lin Yao's left rear. The fax machine and printer were placed on the desk in the partition to Lin Yao's left.
The first seat in the partition on the opposite side was also empty. Ming Xinyue was sitting in the partition furthest away from Lin Yao. It was like two senior staff members were in charge of three "junior" staff members. Lin Yao was in charge of external affairs, and Ming Xinyue was in charge of internal affairs.
Lin Yao would change how he addressed Ming Xinyue several times a day: Xiao Ming, Xiao Xin, Xiao Yue, or Mingming, Xin Xin, Yue Yue, or even A Ming… and so on. He kept changing his methods until Ming Xinyue developed a conditioned reflex to it. Whenever she found that her name didn't match anyone else's in the office, it was definitely Lin Yao calling her.
The shameless Lin Yao persisted in his unreasonable demands, and in the end, Ming Xinyue had no choice but to acquiesce to this nonsensical form of address. However, this only led to further harassment from him.
Fortunately, everyone trusted Lin Yao, so no office romances or scandals came out. Everyone knew that Lin Yao was all talk and no action, so they were more relaxed and allowed him to quickly integrate into the group and become a popular member.
Even Ming Xinyue would occasionally joke with Lin Yao, which was quite a strange thing in the company. After all, almost all the wolves in the marketing department wanted to get the attention of the beautiful Ming but failed, but they didn't expect that Lin Yao, this lazy bum, would get the benefit.
Perhaps it was because of his handsome, dashing, and debonair appearance that Lin Yao secretly admired himself.
"No need, I'll deliver it myself. This information is very important. If you lose it, I'll lose my job too."
Ming Xinyue had already passed Lin Yao. She turned back and smiled, her soft voice almost making Lin Yao collapse onto the table.
"She truly has a smile that can captivate a hundred hearts!"
Lin Yao murmured, his voice neither too loud nor too soft, just loud enough for everyone in the office to hear, but his tone suggested that he was speaking from a state of blissful intoxication, and that he had spoken involuntarily.
Ming Xinyue chuckled to herself, muttering "You're such a smooth talker," before returning to her seat. She began stapleing the documents together.
Despite her gentle and soft demeanor, and her soft, floating manner of walking and speaking, Ming Xinyue is surprisingly efficient when it comes to work.
If you didn't see her movements, you would think she was busy and nervously binding something just by listening to her voice. But once you see the work scene, time seems to slow down, as if she is gently raising her hand and slowly lowering it. Her gentle movements don't make you feel that she is busy at all.
This was quite an anomaly. Ever since Lin Yao discovered this phenomenon, he often stood at his desk watching Ming Xinyue work, and even went directly to her desk to observe, calling it learning. Heaven knows there are people in this world who don't know how to use a stapler.