KC | Chapter 94

September 15, 2023 was absolutely a day that Chen Xi and Lin Yiran could each enter the history books for separately.

Chen Xi had stayed at Lin Yiran’s place for a week. During the day, the two of them each stayed busy with their own things, and at night, the connection between the two of them turned into one.

Key clients were hard to sign, hard to maintain, and even harder to execute, and those with ideas changed their minds at the drop of a hat, while those without ideas just kept dragging things out… Every day, Chen Xi’s emotions rose and fell along with the key clients, like riding a roller coaster. Now he finally understood why Lin Yiran never seemed anxious about anything, because just as he had hurried to finish a task, the client’s requirements would change again.

Chen Xi had not been a person with strong desires to begin with. Maybe because there were a lot of key clients this week, leaving him overwhelmed and in a mess, it stirred up his urge to vent; or more likely, once he had broken the戒, his feelings could no longer be controlled, like eating coarse grain for 25 years and then suddenly getting white flour, he would definitely want to eat a few more bites.

During the day, he smiled and accepted the client’s unreasonable demands. At night, while doing it, he thought about the client, his temper so bad he wanted to fuck through the bed board and screw Lin Yiran to death.

“Look, it’s fine if you’re thinking about someone else in bed, but you still go and torment me to death. You’re not hurting me, I am hurting. Can you go a little easier?”

Lin Yiran’s resistance was unsuccessful, and he was pinned down and squeezed continuously. The next day when he got up to wash up, he found a few white hairs.

“…”

Huge work pressure needed an outlet, and sex was a way to relieve stress. Their bed activities were completely influenced by the client. If the client did not cause trouble, the nights were tender and lingering; if the client went crazy, they did it until they were twitching; if the client did not act like a human being, the nights were all beastly…

The bed seemed like a huge transformer. The two beasts spoke shameless words at night, and during the day they did not speak in order to avoid suspicion.

After fooling around for a whole week, both of them were a little unable to take it. Looking at how the weekend was about to come, if they kept going, they would definitely be ruined, but each had their own stubbornness, and neither was willing to give in.

The dog men were glued together, fooling around, both wanting to cling to each other, but each one was more dead set on saving face than the other, and no one knew what exactly they were insisting on.

Maybe it was because the top KA team member had a heavier dark side in his heart after being tormented by the damn clients during the day, so he had to compete with each other at night to find some balance.

In the morning, Lin Yiran said he was going back to Lanhai for a meeting, and Chen Xi said he was going back to Lanhai to handle Aolai’s tender documents. Neither of them mentioned that they wanted to go back to the company together with the other, only saying, “There’s work today.”

But a middle-management meeting was not the same as a senior leadership meeting. Lin Yiran had been absent for more than two months before, and this meeting could be pushed if he wanted to push it. Handling the tender documents could be done anywhere, and he could even sleep a little longer at home, but Chen Xi insisted on getting up early to work.

If asked again, he would say, “To drink free coffee.”

“…”

Someone who was not used to coffee forced himself to drink a few days of sauce-flavored Moutai and felt a little sick, so today’s coffee all went to Lin Yiran.

Lin Yiran’s tone was teasing. “Didn’t you say you specially came to the company to drink coffee?”

Chen Xi: …

If I give you coffee again, I’m a dog! [○｀Д′ ○]

The KA team was used to Chen Xi coming into the office, and the partition had not been lowered again, but no one dared to look inside anymore.

Maybe the words Lin Yiran had posted in the group chat before had worked, because after Tuesday, KA payments gradually started coming in. Today was the last day of the coffee incentive, and the KA group chat was full of good news.

Chen Xi had just finished delivering the coffee and was about to leave the office when Lin Yiran said, “The competition for the incentive this week is pretty intense. The tenth place in KA collections is already 110,000.”

“Is Brother Lin putting pressure on me?” Chen Xi stopped and raised an eyebrow. “Now that KA is first, how much are the collections?”

“490,000.” After Lin Yiran answered, he added, “Still me.”

The word “still” was used very cleverly, meant to emphasize that he had led KA in collections for two consecutive weeks.

Before he had rolled around in bed with Lin Yiran, Chen Xi thought he was the lowest-key leader in Lanhai, only coming to the company a few times a month, with employees hearing his name but never seeing him. Now he felt that Lin Yiran was like a peacock displaying its feathers, frantically shaking them down at him.

Before, when they were in Bingchuan Ditch, Lin Yiran had already shown off his performance. Now he was showing off again, like he was making every effort to seize every chance, constantly shouting in Chen Xi’s ear, “I’m the KA performance boss, the backbone of Lanhai, Yucheng’s performance all depends on me…”

Other than Lin Yiran, Chen Xi had never told anyone about signing Gu Lin. These past few days, he had always been holding a stubborn energy in his heart, and Lin Yiran had blown it up.

Chen Xi came back and rested one hand on Lin Yiran’s desk, provoking him. “Only 490,000, I thought it was 4.9 million.”

The two of them, one standing and one sitting, Chen Xi looked down from above with a contemptuous gaze. “What’s so impressive about that? Once Gu Lin’s collections come in later, it’s still hard to say who wins.”

Lin Yiran grabbed his tie and pulled him toward his chest. Chen Xi straddled the desk, and half his body was already on top of the table.

“Boss Chen has been a little hot-tempered lately. Want to vent some fire on the office desk?”

Chen Xi’s fair face gradually turned red, and all the hardness from earlier was gone. He stammered, “Wait until nighttime when there’s no one.”

At 11:18, Xu Dongxu sent over the finance transfer receipt. Gu Lin’s collection came in at 1.8 million!

KA was delighted to hear it, Lanhai was encouraged by it, and the advertising circle was shaken by it.

If Lin Yiran was the backbone of KA, then Chen Xi was KA’s central air conditioner. He would go all out to help Zhang Yuanji with procedures, steel himself to sign for Li Hua, and take the risk of helping Wang Dan make fake proof…

Chen Xi’s success was absolutely no accident. It came from dozens of days and nights of unremitting effort, based on his understanding of the renovation industry and his sharp insight into client needs. The good news about the signed order spread quickly through Lanhai, drawing the attention of every salesperson. Chen Xi’s name echoed in every corner, and the once quiet central air conditioner had never thought that one day it would be admired by the masses.

“Bro, that’s NB ! Keeping it quiet and making a fortune, you even managed to get Gu Lin!” Zhang Yuanji originally wanted to sling an arm over Chen Xi’s shoulder, but halfway through he felt it was inappropriate, so he patted his back instead, patting Chen Xi until he coughed nonstop.

Li Hua glanced at the office. Seeing that Lin Yiran was not there, he let out a breath and said, “I heard from a friend at Jingmei before that Gu Lin had some connection to Lanhai. When the public recruitment opened in July, I didn’t even dare to apply. I never expected… Xiao Chen is truly a model for all of us!”

“A 30 million advertising framework contract, with a 1.8 million down payment. Xiao Chen, nice!” KA’s big brother Ma Longfei was better at praising people than the two younger ones, and he said it straight to Chen Xi’s heart. “I just went through the data from the past three years, and aside from President Lin, you’re the only one whose first payment exceeded one million!”

He had fantasized about this in his dreams, that his name would appear in the same sentence as Brother Lin’s, and now it had come true!

Haha, besides Brother Lin, it’s me (*^▽^*)

Most salespeople were wary of comparisons, and KA people with edges were even more extremely confident, but Chen Xi was different. The original intention behind him becoming a salesperson was to create value for clients, and the reason he came to Lanhai was only for Lin Yiran.

Chen Xi only worried about how to move a client forward, and where he had not done well enough. He had never been jealous of others, and even less had he ever snatched clients from anyone else.

The sales market in the advertising industry was full of all sorts of people, and there were quite a few who would stop at nothing to achieve their goals. Chen Xi kept his original intention amid the chaotic environment, never being disturbed by the outside world, and steadily forged ahead step by step.

He had always been doing the right thing.

The story of signing Gu Lin was passed around as a good tale within the industry, and became a case used by Lanhai in onboarding training to motivate new employees, the driving force inspiring countless salespeople to strive.

Chen Xi’s name was stamped with positive labels like determined, decisive, and wise, becoming his brand and stirring up huge waves within the advertising circle.

The force of the rising tide could not be underestimated, and KA’s top salesperson rose to fame.

The corner of Chen Xi’s lips could not help lifting. Compared with other people’s praise, he wanted more to get Lin Yiran’s affirmation.

No one was in the office, Brother Lin should have gone to a meeting, but even if he was in a meeting, he should have seen the good news of my signed deal, right? Could it be that he was jealous of the talented and pretending to be a turtle?

Hmph, only allowing you to show off and not allowing me to show off, that won’t do!

「晨曦: Brother Lin, Gu Lin’s collection came in at 1.8 million, happy (*^▽^*)」

Less than two minutes after sending it, Chen Xi withdrew the message. When he got to the 19th floor smoking area, he was preparing to call Lin Yiran.

Hehe, after you read the message you’ll pretend you didn’t see it, I have to call you and tell you, humiliating you with my performance!

“It’s been half a month, and I still haven’t signed a single order, I’m almost dying from worry.” The person speaking beside him was wearing a white shirt that was somewhat transparent, probably one bought on Taobao for 19.9 yuan. He looked very young, and should be a salesperson who had just joined Lanhai not long ago.

“Mom, I’ve got an evaluation this month, so I won’t go home this weekend. Tomorrow I need to work overtime to find clients.”

Chen Xi lit a cigarette and strolled in front of the person, smiling. “What problem did the client run into? I have a little bit of experience talking to clients, I can help you analyze it.”

The young salesperson looked at Chen Xi as if he had grabbed a lifesaving straw, his eyes full of admiration. “Ah, the good news in the group chat just now was about you. You’re Chen Xi!”

Sales was never easy. In the hardest times, if there was no teacher to guide you, you very likely could not keep going.

The young salesperson from back then, who did not know how to talk deals, could now already answer questions and clear up confusion for newcomers. He was no longer what he used to be.

Chen Xi listened patiently to the young salesperson’s client situation, occasionally chiming in with guidance, just like Lin Yiran had helped him three years ago, helping newcomers grow.

Lanhai KA passed its torch from one generation to the next.

Looking at the young salesperson, Chen Xi could not help thinking of his former self, of the afternoon on the first day of the training period after passing three rounds of interviews, when he saw Wang Jingjing.

8-centimeter high heels, a straight and tall figure, an extraordinary aura, and a professional demeanor that revealed the bearing of a business elite from head to toe, as businesslike, professional, and confident as Lin Yiran.

Chen Xi could not figure out why they got divorced, and had long wanted to ask Lin Yiran, but he also felt that he should not care too much about those past events.

He wanted the future, wanted them to be good, and wanted them to never separate.

After giving the young salesperson some advice, Chen Xi could not wait to share the joy of signing the order with Lin Yiran, and at that moment, he urgently wanted to hear his voice.

After the call connected, Chen Xi said, “Brother Lin, Gu Lin signed the 30 million framework, the down payment is 1.8 million, it just came in.”

Praise me, praise me, praise me quickly! (*^▽^*)

The background noise on Lin Yiran’s side was very loud. He said, “Baby, congratulations. I really want to laugh with you, but I truly can’t laugh.”

“I just drank two cups of sauce-flavored Moutai, and got checked for drunk driving, and my driver’s license was confiscated.”