“So, how are the interns performing?”
“Eh, about average. I always have to make quite a few corrections!”
“Actually, I think that Xia Bai girl is pretty decent. Last time when I was overwhelmed, I had her help me with some work… and the results were quite good.”
“Really?”
“Not really, just mediocre!”
Wu Meitong’s tone carried a hint of dismissive denial.
It was unclear whether she was afraid others would recognize Xia Bai’s competence, or worried about losing her free labor source to others.
Su Lingyu glanced at Xia Bai, who was hanging her head like a bullied victim. Perhaps it was both.
“In that case, I’ll try assigning some of my troublesome tasks to them too.”
“Wouldn’t that be too much?”
“What’s wrong with that? Didn’t the company meeting emphasize letting interns learn more? We’re actually giving them learning opportunities! Regular company interns wouldn’t even get to handle such tasks.”
“That’s true…”
So that’s why the company would assign such documents to interns.
Seeing Xia Bai turn to leave, Su Lingyu quickly followed.
“Are you angry?”
“Why would I be angry?”
“Don’t you think they’re being excessive? Slacking off themselves while dumping all the work on you.”
Su Lingyu recalled that Wu Meitong had previously offloaded work onto the female lead before, and judging by her tone earlier, this wasn’t just a one-time occurrence.
“It is quite annoying how they take credit for my hard work as their own.”
Xia Bai stopped walking, particularly irritated that Wu Meitong had denied her capabilities behind her back, even though she only ever gave the work a cursory glance before submitting it.
But what could she do?
She was just an intern without any connections.
All she could do now was learn more and work harder to strengthen her position for becoming a regular employee.
“Don’t you want to fight back?”
Such meek endurance – truly fitting of the innocent heroine!
“Fight back? How? Report to the team leader or manager?”
Xia Bai glanced at her and whispered, “Don’t say I didn’t warn you – Wu Meitong has some connections.”
It wasn’t that she hadn’t considered resisting before. Among their batch of interns, someone who tried that ended up getting fired instead.
If she wanted to keep this job, she couldn’t act recklessly.
“I know.”
She wouldn’t commit such a workplace taboo as openly reporting to management.
However…
Su Lingyu suddenly remembered this was the early stage, not long after the story began.
At this point, the female lead hadn’t yet revealed her hidden talents or background, her personality was still soft, and she needed to endure some hardships early on to set up for later reversals and character development.
“Don’t worry, just wait and see.”
Su Lingyu raised an eyebrow – she would stand up for the female lead and earn some favor!
Several days later, in the supervisor’s office.
“Is this the market research you prepared?”
Supervisor Qian threw the document onto the desk.
“What’s wrong, supervisor?”
Wu Meitong’s heart sank as she put on an ingratiating smile.
“Look at these data values in your report – the numbers are inconsistent and don’t match up. Is this how you work? How could you make such obvious mistakes?”
“This…”
Wu Meitong’s face darkened with embarrassment as she gritted her teeth.
It’s all because Su Lingyu submitted it late, and I was too busy at the time. I just skimmed through it as usual without looking closely—how could I have known there’d be such a huge mistake?
This Su Lingyu is really not as reliable as that Xia Bai!
“What are you thinking about? Why aren’t you saying anything?”
“Supervisor Qian~ Actually, actually this document wasn’t done by me. It was done by that intern, Su Lingyu.”
“She did it?”
Supervisor Qian looked at her doubtfully: “How come you had her do something I assigned to you?”
“It’s just that the department manager mentioned during the meeting that this batch of interns has been too lax. I happened to see her with nothing to do all day, so I thought I’d let her learn and try her hand at some work. Who knew she’d mess it up like this…”
“Go call that intern in here.”
“Okay!”
Seeing that she had successfully shifted the blame, Wu Meitong’s smile became much more genuine.
“Supervisor, you wanted to see me?”
Soon after, Su Lingyu knocked and entered.
“You’re Su Lingyu?”
Supervisor Qian secretly sized her up.
“Yes.”
“Take a look at this market research you did.”
Supervisor Qian lit a cigarette and pointed at the document on the desk.
Su Lingyu picked it up and flipped through a couple of pages, pretending not to understand: “Is there some problem with it?”
“Of course there’s a problem! Not just a problem, but a major one!”
“I thought I did quite well? I’m not sure exactly where the problem is?”
“Quite well? Open your eyes and look at these data entries—the values don’t even match up! How dare you say you did quite well with something like this?”
“Oh, sorry.”
Su Lingyu slapped her forehead, pretending to suddenly realize: “That day Wu Meitong just gave me the document and left. I’m just an intern—I’ve never done this kind of work before. After finishing it, I forgot to verify the accurate data. I’m really sorry, supervisor. Can I take it back to make corrections?”
“Hmm, be more careful in the future.”
Seeing her good attitude and quick recognition of her mistake, Supervisor Qian didn’t pursue the matter further.
Instead, he secretly felt that this Wu Meitong wasn’t very proactive in her own work and didn’t explain tasks clearly!
“Okay, supervisor. Besides the data issues, are there any other areas I need to correct?”
“Nothing else.”
He had looked it over carefully earlier—aside from the data problems, the rest was actually quite well done. For an intern to reach this level was acceptable.
Knock knock knock—
Just then, there was suddenly a knock at the door.
“Come in.”
Supervisor Qian put out his cigarette butt as he spoke.
“Hey, Xia Bai, are you here to submit Wu Meitong’s document too?”
Su Lingyu spotted Xia Bai at the door and Lu Jiuyan who happened to be passing behind her, quickly speaking up.
Xia Bai was momentarily stunned, then noticed Supervisor Qian didn’t look too pleased. Although she hadn’t planned to respond, after seeing Su Lingyu’s signal, she thought for a moment and said:
“No, I already gave her that document this morning. The team leader asked me to bring some other documents for Supervisor Qian to sign.”
“Oh, okay. I won’t disturb your work then—I’ll go back to my tasks.”
“Go ahead!”
After Su Lingyu left, she thoughtfully closed the office door behind her.
Not far outside the door, Lu Jiuyan stopped to survey the surroundings. Hmm, it seems everyone is working quite diligently—though it feels like something’s missing.
“General Manager Lu.”
Su Lingyu saw there was no way around it and honestly gave a greeting.
“Mhm.”
Lu Jiuyan casually responded, then suddenly had a flash of insight—wait, what was he doing on the employee floor?