KC | Chapter 102

KA assessment was a deadline, performance was dignity.

The end-of-quarter DDL for Q3 of ’23 was crazy and thrilling, tormented and long.

Every time the KAs who had gone out to visit and close orders returned to Lanhai, the colleagues who stayed behind would always ask, “Is there anything you need help with?”

Lanhai’s sales system was well established, contracts had to match the collected payment amount, and both Li Hua and Yang Bin’s clients had had their policies changed temporarily today, involving re-signing contracts. For key clients, there were very few cases like Pinsheng where they could directly sign a template contract. Customized contracts had to be initiated by sales and approved by the contract department before they could be collected. Time was tight, and in order to confirm performance before the DDL, the KAs who were fighting outside sent their contract needs into the group, and the colleagues staying behind were responsible for handling Lanhai’s contracts and process matters.

The KA team changed from their usual lazy attitude and worked together with one heart. When gathered, they were a ball of fire, when scattered, they were stars all over the sky.

Facts proved that Lin Yiran had been right, sales potential always came out if you pushed a little.

Good news kept coming in the group. Yu City KA created the highest sales peak since the department was established during this DDL, and the single-day payment collection was more than an entire month in the slow season.

The air was thick with tension, stretched to the limit so that a slight touch would explode. Every time a colleague collected payment, cheers would ring out from the desks. The marketing experts found themselves again, after a long absence, today. Their desire for performance made them want time to freeze at this moment.

「Yang Bin: Yang Bin, Daoxiang Foods collected 90K gross profit, KA remaining target today: 10K gross profit.」

Zhang Yuanji shouted, “Brother Yang, awesome!”

Li Hua kept repeating like a broken recorder, “Only 10K left, just 10K, only 10K!”

Ma Longfei dug through everything looking for his savings, then called an old client from a handwritten address book from 15 years ago: “Brother Wang, how have you been lately? I’m calling you today with some good news. You and Lanhai have worked together for 15 years and have never enjoyed any benefits. Today our company is doing an event…”

With only one step left before completing the team plan, the KA director kept the data in mind at all times.

「Miss Wang: As of now, KA has completed 4.99M in sales gross profit this quarter, task completion ratio 99%. Today completed 490K gross profit, 5 people have passed the assessment, only 2 have not yet crossed the line.」

It was time to get off work, but no one in KA left.

The 5M task, 4.99M had already been completed, how could they be short by 10K?

KA had 20 people, 18 had passed the assessment, how could they be short by 2 people?

For team honor, for the assessment, everyone was like machines wound up by a spring.

The KA desks rarely heard phones ringing, but the marketing experts’ negotiation pressure was surging like a rainbow, their fingers flying across the keyboard, their eyes burning as if they wanted to pierce through the computer screen, the fighting spirit that had been sealed away for a long time was reignited at this moment.

The setting sun was not the end, but the overture to KA’s final push for orders,

「Wang Dan: Wang Dan, Qiwang Education collected 10K gross profit, KA completed the quarterly plan!」

Cheers rose from the desks

17:42 「Brother Lin is my male god: Collected 30K gross profit, successfully crossed the line, assessment completed!」

18:53 「I am also a Cadillac owner: Collected 50K gross profit, successfully crossed the line, assessment completed!」

Today, KA had all gone red-eyed. Who cared about performance assessment, as long as there was performance, confirm the order if there was an order, sign it. Yu City had held the top spot for 3 consecutive years, no one wanted a defeat to be ruined in their own hands, now team honor was the most important thing.

「Miss Wang: Congratulations to all KA staff for successfully crossing the line! As of now, Yu City KA has completed 5.08M in sales gross profit this quarter, task completion ratio 102%, only 3% behind North City KA.」

Yu City KA’s quarterly task was 5M gross profit, a 1% gap was 50K in sales gross profit, and now it was already past 7 p.m. Even if they worked to death, they still could not squeeze out 150K in sales gross profit.

Everyone had more than enough heart but not enough strength, all of them were complaining and regretting. If they could have charged performance earlier, with a bit more time, maybe it would not have ended like this.

Just when they were at a loss, the backbone of KA spoke in the group, ,

「Easy to ignite and explode: Everyone, you’ve worked hard, go home. Leave the rest to us.」

A6 circled twice in the Ole parking lot before finding Li Ying’s car. This corner was different from the last time, but the environment was about the same, no surveillance.

The two men sat in the car keeping watch, chewing bread in their mouths. Chen Xi snorted with laughter, “I made up for the performance, and you are saying what for me. The words were all said by you, the credit was snatched by you too, the leader really made a good move.”

That dog of a leader must have done plenty of credit-snatching, and said calmly, “You can even go travel for me, so why can’t I speak for you?”

“You just snatched credit too obviously. I was just too kind. If I had poked at you a couple more times, you would have been unable to save face.” The bread was too dry, Chen Xi unscrewed a bottle of Nutritional Express and leaned his head against Lin Yiran’s shoulder, “To snatch credit, first you have to make the PPT well. Your PPT isn’t even as good as a primary school poster; second, you have to spread positive energy. Every time you hold a meeting, you pressure us; most importantly, you can’t do it in front of the real person. If the real person brings out evidence, you would overturn the boat.”

For the first time, the leader was educated by an employee. Lin Yiran snatched his bottle of Nutritional Express and, as if taking revenge, finished more than half the bottle in a few gulps.

Chen Xi frowned and said, “I just bought that for you, and you said you didn’t drink sugary stuff. Why are you drinking mine again? Go away, go drink your Oriental Leaf.”

Lin Yiran drained the remaining bottom of the bottle too.

Chen Xi flared up, “You used a work account to fleece money, and the one surnamed Shen got fooled badly. You kept babbling at me without end, when you do dirty work in the future, can you stop making me take the blame?”

The greasy man did not blush or even breathe hard, “Isn’t a darling meant to be spoiled?”

Chen Xi: yue

“That sentence makes my scalp tingle and my hands and feet go cold. Don’t misunderstand, I’m not saying you are disgusting, it seems like gastrointestinal poisoning. Right, after hearing that sentence I seem to have gastrointestinal poisoning, and I really want to vomit.” Chen Xi wanted to hear sweet words, but also could not stand something this greasy, so he carefully said a string of vague words.

Lin Yiran wrapped an arm around his waist, casually tugging at the waist chain through the shirt. Chen Xi was made a little itchy by it and bit his chin to show protest.

Inside the cramped car, the two of them traded words back and forth, sharing the air they had breathed.

“My father had gastrointestinal surgery yesterday, during the National Day holiday I have to go to North City to look after him. I can’t stay with you this vacation.” Lin Yiran brought up his family situation for the first time, “When the next vacation comes, let’s go travel again, okay?”

Chen Xi smiled so his eyes curved, just about to think about where to go play, when he saw Li Ying walking over from a distance.

The conjoined pair, glued together just a second ago, split into two at once and, without any discussion, quickly pushed open the car door and rushed out like arrows leaving the bow.

Four long legs moved with the wind, four pairs of leather shoes struck out with force, and the night at the Ole parking lot was about to stage a grand hunting show.

Two men over 1.8 meters tall stood in front of the Audi A4. Li Ying sensed something was wrong and turned to slip away. Lin Yiran, with quick eyes and feet, took two or three steps and leaped in front of Li Ying, blocking her path.

“Manager Li is working really late after getting off work, so dedicated.”

Lin Yiran’s voice was highly recognizable, and with his outstanding build as well, Li Ying immediately recognized him, “You are Huanyu’s Wang Mingyu?”

Chen Xi’s heart thudded. Seeing that things were about to be exposed, he jogged forward and said, “Hello, Manager Li, I am Lanhai KA Chen Xi. Our company won Ole’s bid and the ads have already been fully launched. The bid document states that the payment date is within three working days after acceptance, and the closing report was completed a week ago already, but Ole has been delaying payment, so today we came to see you without proper notice.”

The experienced old fox Li Ying instantly figured it out, pointing at Lin Yiran and saying, “Oh, so you aren’t from Huanyu, you are all from Lanhai!”

“Last time you were wearing slippers and a cheap shirt, looking all poor and shabby. This time you dressed up very neatly. So Lanhai sales use this kind of despicable bid-disrupting method to make money to buy clothes, huh.”

Chen Xi could not stand outsiders talking about Lin Yiran, and frowned, “Lanhai has already fully launched the ads according to Ole’s needs. Please also have Ole fulfill the client’s obligations and settle the payment on time.”

Li Ying had a sharp tongue. Brother Lin had definitely taken the anger from disrupting the bid last time, this time they absolutely could not let him suffer again!

“Hah, you don’t follow the bidding rules at all, Ole has no need to fulfill its obligations.” Li Ying said awkwardly, “I’m more curious how thick your faces are, after winning the bid you don’t show anything, but when it comes to asking for money, you are quite diligent.”

Just as Chen Xi was about to speak, the fast-talking Lin Yiran spoke first, “Because we sent the gift late, so Ole won’t settle the bill?”

The two of them had practiced the order-pushing talk in the car just now, but now what Lin Yiran said was obviously different from before.

Li Ying sneered, “Other companies showed sincerity before the bid even opened, Ole only has so much money, why should it be given to those who don’t understand things.”

Lin Yiran said, “Last time I saw your car trunk was full, Manager Li didn’t bring anything today. Is it because it’s almost a holiday and you need to avoid suspicion? We were just afraid you needed to avoid suspicion, so…”

“Heh heh, slick-tongued, all the words were said by you, if you want to give a gift, there is always a way to give it. If you don’t give it, there will always be an excuse.” Li Ying said disdainfully, “I’ll tell you, bid disruption counts as malicious competition. This bid is ruined, and Lanhai won’t get a single cent.”

Chen Xi: “You…” Lin Yiran gently tugged at the hem of his clothes, Chen Xi fell silent, and Lin Yiran said, “Because Lanhai didn’t give gifts, so this bid is ruined?”

Li Ying nodded, “Yes.”

The corners of Lin Yiran’s lips rose slightly, and he said with a cold laugh, “Manager Li has an A8, so why do you usually drive an A4? Is it because the A8 was obtained through dirty means, and you don’t dare drive it?”

Li Ying did not want to waste her breath with him, turned around and wanted to leave, but Chen Xi blocked her from behind. The two of them stood in front and behind, clearly not letting her go, and Li Ying said impatiently, “Why do you care what car I drive, I have already said everything I needed to say, if you keep blocking me I will call security.”

“Not only do I know you have an A8, I also know your parking space is in the VIP area but you never park there. Your home is in Fuhai Lanyan, your husband works at Chemical Factory No. 1, your child studies at Seventh Middle School, and often goes to Pinsheng for tutoring.”

What Lin Yiran said was the information Chen Xi had extracted from Wang Xin’s mouth. With every sentence he said, Li Ying’s face went paler by a point.

“I have lived so many years and never understood how to behave.” Lin Yiran’s gaze was sharp and his voice cold, “Pinsheng’s Li Chai’s physics class teaches pretty well. A large class of 50 students tutoring together, it is inevitable that some disputes will happen. If you blow this dispute up, it may even become campus violence.”

Chen Xi froze. No wonder Shen Yuesheng had mentioned “Li Chai” on the phone in the afternoon, so Brother Lin had already been prepared.

Although using a child as leverage was dirtier than disrupting the bid and posing as a competitor, it was indeed effective. Li Ying’s arm trembled slightly as she cursed, “If you dare touch my son, trying to intentionally create campus violence is illegal!”

“I only said it casually. Without evidence, intentionally spreading rumors, the police also could not file a case for you.” Lin Yiran smiled as he took out his phone and pressed off the recording end marker, “Manager Li just admitted to receiving gifts and asked us for a kickback, damaging the fairness of Ole’s bidding. Tell me, if this recording reached Ole Group’s inspection headquarters…”

“Don’t!” Li Ying immediately panicked, “Our finance department hasn’t gotten off work yet, I’ll have her transfer the payment to Lanhai immediately, you delete the recording.”

Li Ying had clawed her way up from the grassroots for more than 10 years, and only after great difficulty did she finally work her way up to store manager. It seemed her son really was not as important as her career.

Brother Lin first used the “son” to threaten her, then used the recording to coerce and tempt her. His thinking for getting money was clear, and his methods were as dirty as ever.

Li Ying was also really unlucky. She had talked with so many key clients, yet the two dirtiest times both landed on her alone.

The empty parking lot, the corner with no surveillance, two men over 1.8 meters tall blocking a middle-aged woman front and back. They looked like two extremely vicious kidnappers, and for the sake of getting money, they would not stop until they got what they wanted. They knew her address, her family situation, and held her leverage in their hands. If Li Ying was not sensible, there would be a risk that they could “kill the hostage” at any time.

20:45, Ole received 510K, gross profit 290K!

A key client, five battles walking on thin ice.

「Easy to ignite and explode: Chen Xi, Ole Real Estate collected 290K gross profit! Yu City KA task completion 108%, Yu City first across the three provinces, Chen Xi KA top man first!」

The KA福利群 exploded, countless message tones ringing, but Chen Xi paid no attention.

A6 drove out of the Ole parking lot and stopped beside the overpass leading into the city.

Chen Xi grabbed the back of Lin Yiran’s head and kissed him fiercely.

The joy of the payment collection, the excitement of completing the plan, through the sprawling nervous system, turned into hormones, wantonly invading, interacting, possessing.

They shared victory, kissed passionately, hugged and bit, kneaded into each other’s bodies.

On the beautiful moonlit night, the two people resonating at the same frequency became one, entwining and circling, until the sun rose, and only then did they slowly separate.