During that period of time, she got through it by gritting her teeth.
Ji Wangyu was a playboy who flirted with women everywhere and didn’t even spare those around him.
He even tried to make a move on her.
So she beat him up.
Literally beat him up.
She was only able to hit Ji Wangyu because he was drunk and not fully conscious.
If he had been sober, she wouldn’t have been able to.
She had already prepared herself to be fired.
Who would have thought that the next day, Ji Wangyu would apologize to her—his attitude was even very sincere.
“Secretary Li, I’m sorry. I was drunk last night and mistook you for someone else. You can forgive me, right?”
Li Mai forgave him.
She needed this job.
After that, Ji Wangyu never did anything inappropriate to her again.
She believed that night he had truly been drunk and mistaken her for someone else.
…
The sound of high heels clicking came closer.
Li Mai came back to her senses.
A woman barged in aggressively.
She was wearing ten-centimeter high heels, with long, wavy curls and a tight red dress.
She had a good figure.
Most likely another woman Ji Wangyu had provoked.
Li Mai sighed.
Sure enough, a leopard can’t change its spots.
Her peaceful days were over again.
The woman shouted loudly, “Where is Ji Wangyu? I’m looking for him. Tell him to come out!”
This was the first time Li Mai had seen someone so arrogant.
The woman headed straight toward the general manager’s office. “Is Ji Wangyu in his office?”
As Ji Wangyu’s secretary, Li Mai was very experienced in handling situations like this.
She walked forward with a polite smile and blocked the woman’s path.
“Ma’am, I’m sorry. President Ji is not in the office.”
The woman frowned. “I don’t believe you. He must be in his office!”
As she spoke, she tried to barge in.
Li Mai stepped forward to stop her. “Ma’am, you can’t force your way in.”
“Get out of the way!”
The woman shoved Li Mai aside.
Li Mai barely kept her balance and was about to step forward again.
She was a responsible secretary.
At that moment, the office door opened.
Ji Wangyu first glanced at Li Mai, then looked at the woman in the red dress, his gaze turning cold.
“What are you here for?”
Ji Yunshan looked at him with disdain. “Ji Wangyu, who told you to come back? Get back to Su City!”
“This position belongs to my eldest brother. You’re just an illegitimate child—what right do you have to sit here?”
Besides Li Mai, there were two other assistants in the secretary’s office.
They looked at Ji Wangyu nervously.
They all knew Ji Wangyu was born to Chairman Ji’s second wife.
In other words, an illegitimate child.
But no one dared to mention it to his face.
The legal wife’s side was afraid Ji Wangyu would seize the company, so they sent him to the Su City branch.
It was only because Ji Wangyu’s elder brother had an accident that Chairman Ji called Ji Wangyu back to Beijing.
This woman in the red dress must be the youngest daughter of the legal wife’s side of the Ji family—Ji Yunshan.
Rumor had it that Ji Yunshan was hot-tempered and willful.
Judging by this scene, the rumors were true.
Since this involved family matters, outsiders like Li Mai couldn’t really interfere.
Ji Wangyu’s usually flirtatious peach-shaped eyes were now frighteningly cold.
He looked like he wanted to hit someone.
Li Mai noticed the veins bulging on the back of his hand.
He was clearly holding himself back.
Ji Wangyu said calmly, “Dad told me to come back.”
Ji Yunshan shouted, “If he told you to come back, you came back? If he told you to eat shit, would you eat shit too?”
“Ji Yunshan! Don’t go too far!”
“I am going too far—so what? You illegitimate child, do you have the right to stand here?”
Ji Wangyu took out his phone and made a call.
Soon, Ji Yunshan’s phone rang.
When she saw the caller ID, she glared fiercely at Ji Wangyu before answering.
No one knew what was said on the other end, but Ji Yunshan left angrily.
Ji Wangyu then took another call and left as well.
When he came back, he looked at Li Mai as if he wanted to say something, but suddenly changed direction and said to an assistant, “Pack up. Come with me to Rongzheng Group.”
Rongzheng Group.
The Zhou family’s company.
Li Mai froze for a moment.
Had Ji Wangyu been about to call her along just now?
Why did he suddenly change his mind?
Forget it. Don’t try to guess the boss’s thoughts.
She didn’t want to go to Rongzheng anyway.
If she ran into Zhou Songyan, it would be awkward.
…
Rongzheng Group.
Secretary Sun Yuanjie walked into the office.
“President Zhou, people from Ji Group are here.”
Zhou Songyan paused for a moment, then continued signing the documents with bold strokes.
“Have them wait in the reception room.”
“Alright, President Zhou.”
Ji Wangyu and his assistant waited in the reception room for more than ten minutes before Zhou Songyan finally arrived.
As he entered, he glanced to the side of Ji Wangyu.
His expression seemed to turn a little colder.
Ji Wangyu felt uneasy.
He couldn’t figure out what this young heir was thinking.
After Zhou Songyan took a seat, Ji Wangyu handed him a folder.
“President Zhou, this is Ji Group’s proposal for the Nancheng Resort project. Please take a look. If there’s anything inappropriate, I’ll take it back and revise it.”
Zhou Songyan took it but didn’t read it, placing it directly on the table.
Ji Wangyu paused, then talked about some of his ideas regarding the Nancheng Resort.
Zhou Songyan responded casually a few times, clearly not very interested.
After just a few minutes, Zhou Songyan stood up and left, saying he had a meeting to attend.
Ji Wangyu: “…”
It was the first time he had met such a cold response after showing goodwill.
He felt a bit irritated.
Sun Yuanjie looked thoughtful as he picked up Ji Group’s proposal and escorted Ji Wangyu and his assistant out.
After returning to Ji Group, the assistant talked about what happened at Rongzheng.
“That young heir was extremely aloof. He didn’t even look at our proposal and left after just a few minutes.”
Li Mai listened quietly without saying anything.
The next day.
Li Mai was called into Ji Wangyu’s office.
He tossed a folder to her.
“This is Ji Group’s revised proposal for the Nancheng Resort. Take it to President Zhou.”
Li Mai: “…”
“Didn’t we already deliver it yesterday?”
Ji Wangyu’s expression darkened. “They said some parts need revision. This is the revised version.”
Li Mai didn’t want to see Zhou Songyan.
“President Ji, can someone else deliver it?”
Ji Wangyu turned his back to her. “Am I unable to order you around now?”
“It’s not that… fine, I’ll deliver it.”
…
Li Mai arrived at Rongzheng Group with the documents.
The Rongzheng Group building stood in the most prosperous area of the city center.
Grand and imposing, towering into the sky.
Li Mai walked up to the front desk. “Hello, I’m from Ji Group. I’m here to deliver documents to President Zhou.”
There were two pretty young women at the front desk.
They looked her over.
“Please wait a moment.”
One of them made a phone call.
Before long, a man came downstairs.
Li Mai recognized him.
He was the man who had been with Zhou Songyan that night.
“Secretary Li, I’m President Zhou’s secretary, Sun Yuanjie. President Zhou is in a meeting. I’ll take you upstairs.”
Li Mai didn’t move.
“Secretary Sun, can I give the documents to you, and you pass them on to President Zhou?”
Sun Yuanjie smiled. “I’m afraid not. You should hand them to President Zhou personally.”
Although Sun Yuanjie didn’t know what his boss was planning, this whole arrangement was clearly meant to get Miss Li here.
He couldn’t let her leave.
With no other choice, Li Mai followed Sun Yuanjie upstairs.
“Secretary Li, President Zhou will finish his meeting shortly. Please wait in the office.”
Bang.
The office door closed.
Li Mai stood in the luxuriously decorated office that felt cold and austere everywhere, feeling a little dazed.
She had the strange feeling that Secretary Sun was afraid she might run away and had hurried to lock her in here.
She didn’t dare touch or look around.
She walked to the sofa and sat properly.
They said it would be quick, but Li Mai waited for twenty minutes.
When she checked the time again, the door opened.
Zhou Songyan’s tall, straight figure appeared at the doorway.