Chapter 56p2: Online Dating a Bad Beta
The aircraft arrived in front of the company on time. Xi Congshuang looked down from the aircraft window.
The Future Pharmacy headquarters covered a large area. From a distance, it looked like a steel giant lying on the ground.
“Destination has been reached.” The aircraft slowly landed on the flat floor in the center of the tall building, which was more convenient for going to the office.
The car door opened, and the two people in the car got out and entered the company.
Until this time, the two betas had not realized the seriousness of the problem.
On the way to the elevator, Glorie mentioned something. “The things you asked me to prepare last night are in your office.”
Xi Congshuang then said, “Then let’s go to the office first.”
The meeting had started a long time ago, but the person at the head of the table had not appeared. After fifteen minutes of overtime, the people at the conference table couldn’t help but raise their wrists to look at the time on their smart devices.
The person who had been called to ask Xi Congshuang to come had run back and forth several times, each time returning with a helpless expression and saying the same thing, “She said she’s coming.”
The conference room was silent for a while, then a burst of quiet discussion sounded, with no lack of shaking heads and sighs.
The middle-aged man sitting on one side of the main seat stood up and said, “Since the executive hasn’t come yet, she probably has her own things to do. Let’s start first.”
Since things had come to this, that was the only way.
The weekly meeting began after a half-hour delay. Everyone quickly got into the mood and reported their work one by one.
“Bang!” The door to the conference room was suddenly opened by someone. Before they could see the person clearly, the alphas and omegas present smelled a fresh and domineering pheromone.
Fresh referred to the smell, and domineering was the feeling this pheromone gave people. It was the smell of an alpha.
Seeing the person standing in front of the door clearly, it was Xi Congshuang. She was a beta, and the alpha smell on her could only have been picked up from somewhere else.
Seeing her tired eyes and the dark circles under her eyes, which could be seen even with rimless glasses, she was indeed a profligate.
Xi Congshuang, who was full of disinterest, arrived late. Without looking at the silent high-level executives, she directly sat down in the empty main seat.
She looked around at the faces with different expressions and lifted her chin. “Continue. I’m watching.”
“…”
With her idle posture, who would believe that she would watch? It was another matter whether she could understand.
The meeting, which had been forcibly terminated, continued again. No one was so blind as to stand up and accuse Xi Congshuang of being late as the company’s CEO. They all put their minds on the main points of the meeting.
In fact, whether she was incompetent or not did not make much difference to the high-level executives. If Xi Congshuang did not start a business recklessly and was not aggressive, it meant stability and conservatism.
Besides, Future Pharmacy was a well-known pharmaceutical company in the entire galaxy, with a wide range of business, including the supply of medicine to the military, and had close and deep cooperation.
In short, as long as Xi Congshuang did not do anything stupid, the company would not fall no matter what. Just the line of supplying goods to the military was enough to guarantee a lifetime of wealth and honor.
In front of the light screen, the high-level executive of the marketing department who was reporting was about to talk about the plan for the next quarter when he was interrupted by a voice.
“You’re still asking me? Isn’t it because you usually give Xi Yanjun too little money? She just pestered me for it. I was late because I was trying to make money for her.”
The quiet discussion came to an abrupt halt, and everyone turned to look.
The person who spoke was Xi Congshuang. She was talking to the vice president beside her.
Xi Lianghan, who had started the topic, was stunned. “What?”
Xi Congshuang seemed to be in the mood to say it again. She even sat up a little straighter. “I’m saying that Xi Yanjun came as soon as I got to the office and said that last time I…”
In fact, it was difficult for Xi Congshuang to sit crookedly. She was long used to sitting in a proper manner, always meticulous.
Xi Lianghan noticed everyone’s gaze and had to speak to stop her. “Did Yanjun really say that to you? I’ll teach her a good lesson when I get back. She’s already such a big alpha. How can she still ask you for money? You shouldn’t have given it to her.”
Xi Congshuang: “Then should I return it?”
“…” Xi Lianghan smiled warmly. “She should have her salary deducted.”
Xi Congshuang: “Isn’t her salary very low? She told me yesterday that her salary was not enough to pay the bill for renting the spaceship and asked me to pay for her. She was annoyed that I didn’t give her face. I remembered what you said, not to indulge her, so I didn’t give it to her and left.”
Xi Lianghan: “………”
Xi Congshuang raised her hand, and Glorie handed over a stack of paper bills and placed them on Xi Lianghan’s desk. “Please take a look.”
In this era of paperless office work, there were still two things that remained in paper form: one was bills, and the other was important documents.
Xi Congshuang: “I also wanted to deduct it from Xi Yanjun’s salary, but she spent too much. At her current salary level, she would have to work at Future Pharmacy for at least a thousand years to pay it back.”
“…”
The disadvantage of arranging a low-level position for his child for the sake of a good image had appeared. Although it had avoided exposing Xi Yanjun’s unreliable and forgetful image, her money was also greatly insufficient.
In the name of playing with her cousin, she had specialized in tricking Xi Congshuang into being a sucker. No matter who asked, it was always Xi Congshuang who took the lead.
In the end, they only felt that Xi Congshuang was a profligate. Who would notice the Xi Yanjun in the shadows?
The point that Xi Congshuang couldn’t figure out the most was why Xi Lianghan was so thankless and always wanted to ruin Xi Congshuang’s image.
As long as the person in power did not affect the corporate image, whatever she liked to do would not affect the company’s operations and the public’s image.
Who in the business world cared about real face and was a real good person?
If you loved face-saving projects and delved into them blindly, you would be eaten until not even your bones were left.
Xi Congshuang’s fingertips tapped on the desk, and a stack of bills was pushed over. “She said I didn’t give her face, and I was not happy. This is the real not giving her face.”
“Uncle, you can take it back to her and let her see what it means to not give face.”
For some reason, everyone present always felt that Xi Congshuang was alluding to something.
But thinking of her past style, it was not surprising that she would say such childish words. She had been spoiled by the old CEO since she was young and was willful regardless of the occasion.
Xi Lianghan’s face also darkened. He grabbed the bills and looked at them one by one. “This bastard, she actually made you spend so much money on her. I was wondering why she was staying out all night every day. I can’t even scold her.”
Xi Congshuang: “Yes. Just by saying ‘put it on CEO Xi’s tab,’ the bills will naturally come. You should really talk to her. She can’t always be a good-for-nothing. A person has to have ambition.”
“…”
It would be normal for anyone to say this, but it was the most abnormal for Xi Congshuang to say this.
No matter what everyone was thinking, the expressions on their faces were one more beautiful than the other.
Xi Lianghan nodded in agreement. “You’re right. I should have a good talk with her when I get back and not let her ask you for money to play anymore.”
Xi Congshuang: “Uncle.”
Xi Lianghan felt that he had developed a disease of his scalp tingling whenever he heard Xi Congshuang call him “Uncle.” “Yes.”
Xi Congshuang’s fingertips tapped on the fountain pen. “Sign it. She said I was not good, and I was in a bad mood, so I don’t want to help her pay it back.”
A high-level executive couldn’t stand it anymore and spoke to smooth things over. “Oh, these are all small matters. Why don’t you two, uncle and niece, sit down and have a good talk? This is not good.”
Xi Congshuang looked up and pointed to the bill. “I remember you have a good relationship. You’re family friends. Do you want to help pay it back?”
That person: “…”
The bird that stuck its head out was severely punished. The number of people who spoke next would only be less, because Xi Congshuang would only say one sentence, “Do you want to help pay it back?”
“If you want to help pay it back, how many bills do you want to split?”
“You want to help pay it back too? Then come and pick a few.”
So no one spoke again, for fear of helping to pay the bill.
Xi Lianghan looked at the stack of things in his hand. He loved face and reputation. If he didn’t sign in front of so many people, it would sound bad if it got out.
After being a good person for so many years, he wouldn’t ruin his image in front of this money and become a bloodsucker who instigated his daughter to go to his eldest brother and sister-in-law’s house to ask their child for money.
These bills, the year, the amount of consumption, and the location of consumption were all different. It was clear that they had been accumulated for several years.
The accumulated amount was also very considerable, but not to the point where he couldn’t afford it.
But there was no place that would let you owe money for so long. It was only possible that they had all been paid, and he was now being asked to pay them all back at once.
Did he treat him as a bank for lump-sum deposits? Xi Lianghan’s temples throbbed.
It wasn’t until Xi Lianghan flipped to the first bill, which was from October three years ago.
That was the third month after Xi Congshuang had been unable to accept her parents’ death and was in great pain. It was also the month when Xi Yanjun had rekindled their sisterly love, had gone to her sister to resolve her inner turmoil, and had become both a sister and a friend.
She had coaxed Xi Congshuang into buying her a bag. It wasn’t expensive, just 800,000.
A perfectly good weekly meeting had turned into a notarization meeting. The company’s high-level executives were all sitting together, watching the vice president sign the bills one by one.
Glorie was a qualified lackey. She didn’t need to care about a rigorous and cold elite image like other CEO secretaries. She read out the amounts one by one.
Xi Lianghan wanted to tell her to stop several times, but who knew that Glorie would look at her innocently and say, “I’m sorry, Vice President Xi. I’m not a qualified accountant. I like to read and add the amounts at the same time…”
“Where was I?” She glanced at the bill on the table and said with understanding, “It’s the Crown Bar’s VIC consumption of three million. The details are: ome…”
Xi Lianghan: “Alright, you can just read the money.”
Even if he was so angry that his head was about to burst with veins, he still had to write his name in the blank space of the bill stroke by stroke.
One bill after another, all were debts he had to repay. To say that he had not gained a single bit of benefit from it was impossible.
Xi Yanjun was the only daughter in the family and often brought home some novel things. But she had spent Xi Congshuang’s money. Who would mind filial piety that was effortless and cost no money?
Xi Congshuang sat on the side, resting her head on her hand and watching.
How could she give the heroine the chance to join forces with Xi Lianghan and drive her out of the company?
As the company’s top leader, if she didn’t say the meeting was over, no one would dare to leave now.
Everyone was also puzzled. What on earth had Xi Yanjun said to make Xi Congshuang so angry that she had gotten up from an alpha’s bed and gone straight to the company to cause trouble for her uncle?
The strong alpha pheromone on her was definitely from spending a whole night with an A-grade alpha.