"Manager Wu, long ti no see," Director Cai entered the conference room to greet first.
Wa Zicong heard the voice, turned his head to see the visitor, and then handed the docunts to his assistant to handle before going up to exchange pleasantries with Director Cai, "It’s been a long ti indeed. I’ve been to Changda several tis but haven’t managed to see you."
The two shook hands perfunctorily.
Gu Nuan followed behind Director Cai, and it seed like Wa Zicong hadn’t noticed her. Therefore, Director Cai stepped aside and said to Wa Zicong, "Today, it just so happened that an old friend of Manager Wu is here. Hearing that Manager Wu was here, and having not t with Manager Wu for a long ti, she wished to co to see Manager Wu."
Wa Zicong’s gaze swept over Gu Nuan by Director Cai’s side with a seemingly indifferent chill.
Gu Nuan’s eyes, which were levelly raised, t his gaze.
The others in the room were sowhat clueless, so skeptical and curious, but one thing was certain—the atmosphere between this man and woman didn’t quite resemble that of strangers eting.
Being too composed, too generous, isn’t that just another form of being on guard?
A thud went through Director Cai’s heart, Could it be true? Did these two really know each other before?
"Old friend?"
"Yes," Wa Zicong may have realized that his own silence had made it sowhat suspicious, so he simply admitted, "We were schoolmates at the sa college."
Director Cai seized the mont, "She said that she once interviewed with you at MM."
A flash crossed the depths of Wa Zicong’s eyes, "She’s co to Changda to—"
Actually, there was no need for further guesswork, for Director Cai was from the HR departnt; there was no need to guess. Besides, for a recruitnt interview of Changda’s scale, how could Wa Zicong have not heard anything about it?
The only unexpected thing was, she actually ca to Changda for an interview?
How could she possibly co for an interview at Changda? After all, their school was a second-tier finance college, a type that a large conglorate like Changda wouldn’t even look twice at. Back in the day, the fact they were even asked to interview at MN was sheer luck. It was commonly thought that sending a resu to MN’s HR departnt was akin to a stone sinking into the sea.
Of course, back then, he had found a backdoor at MN, and as such, he was sowhat confident about interviewing at MN. But he never expected that she had also gotten into MN’s interviews.
Could it be because the person he sought out knew about his relationship with her and thus pulled so strings for her? But no matter what, at that ti, MN was ready to hire her, not him.
This secret was known only to a very few people, including himself and her.
As he listened to Director Cai’s subsequent words, which were laden with implications, "Manager Wu must be very familiar with this old classmate, after all, the two of you previously interviewed together at a big company like MN."
Wa Zicong almost revealed nothing, "At that ti, I wasn’t even a formal employee of MN. As for their recruitnt processes and judgent criteria, I had no knowledge. Moreover, this classmate I rember as—"
It looked as though her ex-boyfriend was on the brink of spouting the insulting words ’deaf and dumb.’
The situation seed to have beco interesting, but in reality, it was predictable. An ex-boyfriend, a Chen Shii who had dumped the woman himself, how could he be willing to admit to anything he had done before, much less acknowledge that he was worse off than her!
Director Cai, like everyone else, had anticipated such an outco. Regardless of the facts, with the person concerned refusing to admit anything, Gu Nuan, even with her seventy-two transformations, would find it hard to argue her case, dood to be a self-degrading dead end.
This wasn’t because Director Cai had not given Gu Nuan a chance; it was because Gu Nuan herself had no sha.
Watching Director Cai adjust her gold-rimd glasses, appearing as if she was declaring sothing, what could she, Gu Nuan, do now? Cry and kneel in front of Wa Zicong to make a scene? Or slap this ungrateful Chen Shii right across the face?
No, these were moves Director Cai could not permit.
How to make a scene? One simply could not create a scene here at Changda. If there was to be an outburst, it had to be outside.
Gu Nuan had to swallow this humiliation herself!
Wa Zicong’s eye corner caught his assistant, who, with a look of confusion, was tidying up the docunts. He said, "Xiaoliu, go ahead and start the car. I’ll be leaving after I finish talking with Director Cai."
"Yes, Chief," Assistant Xiaoliu picked up the black briefcase and walked out of the conference room, casting a glance laden with confusion towards Gu Nuan as he passed her.
One might say her ex-boyfriend was cautious enough, facing his forr girlfriend with such prudence and guard, showing that he practically placed no value on their past decade of relationship, knowing only where his interests lay.
Gu Nuan’s lips coldly curled up, and as Xiaoliu was about to step out of the door, she said, "I haven’t seen Mr. Jas for a long ti now. He is at MN, and I heard he got promoted."
Xiaoliu truly paused in his steps, turning back to look at her in surprise.
Director Cai was almost ready to take off her glasses to make sure she hadn’t misheard.
Jas, the Administrative Director of MN, who often exchanged courtesies in the battle for recruitnt and talents with big companies and conglorates—Director Cai was, of course, aware of this influential person.
Now that Gu Nuan brought him up, it was unclear whether she spoke the truth.
However, Wa Zicong’s complexion did change slightly, before he regained his composure to say, "You’ve t Jas before? I had no idea."
"Of course I did. He was one of the interviewers. Afterwards, we even exchanged email addresses. He told it was a pity, and that he would like to stay in touch with if there were ever another opportunity. When he got promoted, I sent him an e-card to his email, and I got a reply. He said that this year’s MN recruitnt was quite late, in the fall, but he would like to reserve a spot for —"
The best cards are always played at the most opportune mont.
Gu Nuan’s card was perfectly tid to hit the faces of both people present, one belonging to Wa Zicong, and the other to Director Cai.
One was an ingrate, the other enjoyed making things hard for her fellow won—both were the kind of people Gu Nuan despised the most.
Director Cai’s cold sweat trickled down her forehead. This entire scene had surely been captured by soone through the surveillance.
"Is that so, Manager Wu?" Director Cai steadied her spirit, prepared to shift the bla onto Wa Zicong.
Wa Zicong looked at the woman before him, no, he almost couldn’t trust his own eyes, couldn’t believe his own ears. Was this person the girl he had been in a relationship with for ten years?
All he rembered was that she was considerate, willing to sacrifice everything for him—a kind-hearted girl. Thus, he took her for granted, exploited her willingness to sacrifice everything, thinking it was all her own doing.
Now, whose fault was the current situation?
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