KA | Chapter 12

Chapter 12, Deceiving East and West, Full of Lies

The parents of a client who was studying out of town fell ill. I took the initiative to volunteer and brought the two elders to see a doctor. After the client returned to Yucheng, he bought a performance package;

The client bought a chair but didn’t know how to assemble it, so I immediately drove to the client’s home and spent an entire afternoon being a carpenter. The client didn’t ask much about promotion, then bought a performance package;

Teacher Sun from Tianlai said there would be enrollment plans next quarter, so I proactively made an enrollment planning proposal. A few days later, Teacher Sun said the proposal had been shown to the principal, the principal was very interested, and arranged to meet me next month to talk…

I had been suppressing myself for too long, and finally caught the chance to harvest clients. Following the principle of “if I can flatter, then flatter, if I can’t flatter, then create opportunities to flatter,” I provided clients with service that exceeded expectations. In less than 2 months, I won 6 orders, with gross profit over 80,000, and successfully kept my position. According to this trend, completing the assessment was just around the corner, and if I was lucky, maybe I could even get promoted!

Thanks to Shen Yuesheng, I, this hardship-case in performance, was finally going to hold my head high.

Although Shen Yuesheng had quite a few flaws, I had used his connections to sign so many orders, so I had to show some kind of appreciation.

So, for the 800th time, I opened his Moments.

During Labor Day, Shen Yuesheng’s Moments showed a location in Hokkaido. He was standing on a skateboard backward, smiling freely and unrestrainedly. Along with this post were photos of him soaking in hot springs with foreign friends.

I heard that Black people were big and strong, could he, being so narrow, handle it?

Damn, why was I thinking dirty again.

A dirty-minded person saw everything as dirty.

I slapped the yellow trash in my head away and checked Shen Yuesheng’s latest Moments.

「High-end beauty course now on sale, unlimited class hours, learn until you master it, tap to enroll below ↓【图片】」

Pisheng had opened beauty and hairdressing courses?

Usually, when a school opened a new course, it definitely had to do promotion, and promotion definitely couldn’t do without advertising. This was a gift from heaven, it looked like this seat really had the effect of turning luck around!

Last time Shen Yuesheng complained that the skateboard I gave him was too low-end, so this time I spent 700 to buy a HITABAY skateboard.

Even Gu Zheng could shamelessly sleep with Shen Yuesheng, if I sat in the same seat as him, I definitely could also sleep… ah no, I definitely could also get him to sign me in!

So, on a sunny afternoon, I brought the skateboard and once again came to Pisheng.

A beauty was standing at the office door, looking to be in her twenties, probably his assistant. Since she was waiting at the door, it meant Shen Yuesheng had come today, and he must be inside right now.

I looked at the 8cm sky-high heels and couldn’t help thinking of the clicking sound of high heels on the tiled floor, and that sinful office desk.

Maybe because she saw me holding a skateboard, the assistant treated me as Shen Yuesheng’s friend and didn’t ask me, like a security guard would, “Do you have an appointment?”

“President Shen has some matters to deal with. After he’s done, he still has to coordinate with me on teaching affairs. This afternoon probably…”

I interrupted, “I’m just here to deliver him a skateboard, beauty, let me cut in line. It’ll definitely be done in 2 minutes.”

The assistant thought for a moment and said, “Alright then.”

The office was very soundproof. I didn’t know what Shen Yuesheng was doing inside. Since I was闲着 anyway, I might as well try to get some information out of her.

My current identity was Shen Yuesheng’s friend, I couldn’t call him President Shen, I had to switch to a more familiar way of addressing him.

“Beauty, do people often come here looking for Ah Sheng?”

The assistant blinked rapidly a few times, and the drooping outer corners of her eyes immediately lifted. “I’m Shen Xiaoyu, you can just call me Xiaoyu. President Shen’s business is all discussed in the West District, almost nobody comes here looking for him.”

Why did she suddenly become so warm?

I was flattered, “Ah, Xiaoyu, I’m Zhiyong.”

Xiaoyu couldn’t help laughing, “Your name sounds really reliable, unlike…”

I pressed, “Unlike who? Nanfeng Gu Zheng?”

“You know…” Xiaoyu was first surprised, then her expression eased a little, and she muttered, “Right, you’re already together with President Shen, how could you not know.”

I hadn’t even slept with him yet, how could I already be together with Shen Yuesheng?

Why were you suddenly speeding up the progress?

Xiaoyu knew who Gu Zheng was, which meant he had also come here to look for Shen Yuesheng; mentioning Gu Zheng, Xiaoyu automatically defined my relationship with Shen Yuesheng as lovers, which meant they really had dated; Xiaoyu compared my name with Gu Zheng’s, which meant Gu Zheng seemed unreliable in her heart.

Then why did she think Gu Zheng was unreliable?

“Why did they break up?”

“I don’t know either.”

I pretended to look solemn and sighed, “I see…”

Seeing my expression like that, Xiaoyu added, “President Shen and Gu Zheng grew up together. If nothing serious had happened, they definitely wouldn’t have broken up so easily. But with a relationship like theirs, once it’s over, it’s truly over. You can rest assured about that.”

Huh? I had thought Gu Zheng was like me, just a random passerby waiting in line to get on the bus, but I never expected they were actually childhood sweethearts!

So looking at it that way, Gu Zheng coming to Lanhai for work was because he had committed some mistake, and he used sales and deal-making as a pretext to come see Shen Yuesheng!

Going to this extent just to chase someone, he was pretty stubborn.

I felt irritated inside and pressed on, “How many times did Gu Zheng come here looking for Ah Sheng?”

Xiaoyu said, “Gu Zheng only came once, 3 years ago. That day President Shen was in a meeting and didn’t see him; the next day President Shen pushed aside an afternoon’s work, but he still didn’t come. Back then it was Pisheng’s transition period, involving teaching affairs rectification and shareholder fundraising. President Shen was so busy his head was spinning, sometimes he didn’t even have time to eat lunch…”

“After they broke up, President Shen didn’t come out of it for a long time. In all these years, only two people have called President Shen that, one is you, and the other is Gu Zheng.”

“Gu Zheng isn’t reliable, you have to treat him well.”

Xiaoyu suddenly changed her attitude toward me, thinking that I and Shen Yuesheng were lovers, because of the way I addressed Shen Yuesheng.

Since no one had been around Shen Yuesheng for a long time, Xiaoyu saw me like she was seeing a nationally protected animal, so she told me so much.

Shen Yuesheng was so busy he didn’t even have time for lunch, yet he still left an entire afternoon for Gu Zheng.

Looks like he really liked Gu Zheng.

*

After about half an hour, Xiaoyu said Shen Yuesheng had finished being busy and told me to go into the office first.

The monitor emitted a cold metallic sheen, and the surface of the filing cabinet beside it was smooth like a mirror. I could clearly see my own reflection. A red Chinese knot hung in front of the floor-to-ceiling window. Its bright red, tacky style clashed with the highly technological office.

I had come without being invited, and before Shen Yuesheng could send me off, I hurriedly put the skateboard on the desk, “President Shen, thank you for introducing clients.”

Shen Yuesheng should have been busy with something important just now. When he saw it was me, the tightly strung look on his face instantly relaxed. He glanced at the skateboard and said indifferently, “You spent a lot on a gift, looks like you swindled quite a bit of money.”

I corrected him, “The principal only had enrollment needs before he’d cooperate with me, I didn’t swindle money!”

Shen Yuesheng put away the skateboard, the corner of his lips lifting with a smile, “The gift’s been delivered, you can leave now.”

He didn’t refuse this time, which meant a gift worth nearly a thousand yuan was worth his attention.

“The skateboard gift is light.” I smiled ingratiatingly, “I saw that Pisheng opened beauty and hairdressing courses. In order to repay your kindness in recognizing talent, I can provide enrollment planning for free.”

Shen Yuesheng crossed one leg over the other, “So this is how you repay kindness?”

“I didn’t…”

Shen Yuesheng spoke briefly and to the point, “We have our own enrollment channels, we don’t need advertising for now.”

“Uh, really not considering it?”

“No.”

He exposed my real intention in an instant, and after accepting the gift, he was still utterly cold and unfeeling. He was really smart and annoying!

Giving a gift wasn’t the goal, making the deal was the goal. We hadn’t even talked about the real business yet, how could I leave right after delivering the gift!

The carefully prepared proposal had gone down the drain. I stood there, racking my brains for a topic.

Shen Yuesheng said coldly, “You’re not leaving, are you still trying to lick?”

He clearly knew what I wanted to talk about, yet deliberately changed the subject and wouldn’t talk to me about advertising. He was truly detestable!

Since you deliberately twisted my intention, then I’d use magic to defeat magic!

I said unhappily, “You always do this, aren’t you afraid you’ll get sick?”

Shen Yuesheng thought for a moment and said, “I’ve already been sick for a long time, wanting to sleep with you is just to infect you.”

Damn, clearly he wasn’t this kind of person, so why did he belittle himself like this?

Maybe he had been hurt by a scumbag, which was why he had become like this now, making everything seem like it didn’t matter.

My chest tightened. I swallowed, and followed his line of thought to continue, “Then if you’re sick, your family doesn’t care about you?”

“They don’t, if I die then so be it.”

“Nonsense!”

Shen Yuesheng raised an eyebrow.

“The Chinese knot hanging by the window doesn’t fit with the office’s technological vibe, it must’ve been a gift from your family. If you’re sick, how could they not care!” I said, “You’re just trying to end the conversation quickly and casually brushing me off.”

Shen Yuesheng’s expression paused slightly, his eyelashes flickering rapidly, as if saying: You found out.

“I’m not sick, my family treats me very well, when I came out to them, they were all accepting.”

“Chatting with you is kind of interesting, but I really don’t have time today, let’s talk another day.”

I left Pisheng, my heart in utter confusion.

Shen Yuesheng said chatting with me was interesting, because he had to make a lot of decisions every day, and in order to save time, he rarely said anything unimportant. The people he interacted with were all talking about work, and over time, he lost the fun of socializing.

No one could understand his true intention, no one understood him.

He had achieved accomplishments that people his age should not have achieved, and at the same time he also bore loneliness that he should not have borne.

With a temperament like his, where he hid everything deeply, if he wanted to pretend, there was no need at all to come out to his family, unless he had settled on one person and wanted to make their feelings public.

That person should be Gu Zheng.

Shen Yuesheng had paid a lot for that relationship, but in the end he got no return, his self-esteem was hurt, so he used lying to hide his deep feelings.

That little fox deceived east and west, full of lies, baring its fangs and brandishing its claws, covered all over with spikes, but in fact he was kind of pitiful.