Chapter 47 Resignation
Hua Jingjing was holding a plate with a piece of cake cut into triangles on it. She finally found me and came to me and shouted: "Where did you go just now? Why didn't you say hello? I've been looking for you for a long time!" I forced a smile and said: "Mr. Hua, I feel a little uncomfortable. Can you take me away from here first?" Hua Jingjing was surprised and touched my forehead with concern, saying: "Why is it numb? You don't have a fever. Did you have a stomachache?" I couldn't give her a specific answer, so I had to say "um" vaguely. Hua Jingjing suddenly realized and said: "No wonder I couldn't find you just now, but I didn't see you eat anything in the evening. What did you eat for lunch?"
Since she misunderstood and I couldn't explain, I just accepted it. I whispered, "I really feel uncomfortable. Anyway, you have already won the boyfriend competition with your classmates. There is not much point for me to stay here. How about you ask the driver to take me home first?"
Hua Jingjing said, "No, that won't work. How can I let you go alone? Wait for me." She put the plate in her hand on the long table and ran quickly to Xu Shu who was receiving blessings from everyone. She whispered to Xu Shu for a while, and Xu Shu listened with a smile, while looking in the direction where I was standing with his eyes shining like lightning. I knew that she was warning me not to forget my promise to her.
After Hua Jingjing came back, she held my arms with both hands and said, "I have greeted the birthday boy, so I'd better take you to the hospital. You look very sick, and it seems that your condition is really serious!" I smiled bitterly and said, "Go to the hospital? No need. It's a minor illness and can be cured by taking two pills. Don't make a fuss, okay?" Hua Jingjing insisted, "No, even if it's a minor illness, you have to go to the hospital, otherwise I will be worried. Come on, I'll help you." As she said that, she carefully helped me walk out of the hall as if she was helping a 90-year-old man cross the street.
Compared to Xu Shu's indifference and rudeness to me just now, Hua Jingjing's concern and warmth for me made me feel much better, but I was very confused. When did Hua Jingjing, my mortal enemy, the willful and capricious young lady, treat me so well? Did I have a mental problem after being provoked by Xu Shu? But I felt it very clearly? And looking at her expression, it didn't seem fake.
I felt something in my heart. But I didn't have the energy to think about it. Besides, how could a grown man like me let a little girl support me to walk? I quickly broke free from her hand and said, "It's not that serious. You make me look like a dying person. I can walk by myself." I didn't wait for her and walked forward by myself. Hua Jingjing pouted and whispered, "I'm just concerned about you! You are a blockhead who doesn't understand girls' hearts at all!"
When she saw me walking out of the door, she hurriedly shouted, "Hey! Don't walk so fast, wait for me...that Tang Qian!"
When we arrived at the parking lot, we saw the driver still sitting in the car. He felt strange seeing us coming back so early, and couldn't help asking, "Miss, is the party over?" Hua Jingjing got in the car, closed the door, and said, "Mr. Tang is not feeling well. Ah Xi, drive the car to the People's Hospital."
I hurriedly said, "No, I'm fine now. Besides, it's an exaggeration to go to the hospital for such a minor illness!" Hua Jingjing said, "Whether it is a minor illness or not, we have to go to the hospital for a check-up to know. Ah Xi, don't worry about him, drive!" The driver nodded and started the engine.
I'm actually not sick at all. Wouldn't it be ridiculous to go to the hospital for a checkup? I became anxious and told Hua Jingjing several times that I was fine and didn't want to go to the hospital. But she rejected my answer every time and insisted that I go to the hospital for a checkup. I had no choice but to lean on the car seat and worry. Thinking that I had already promised Xu Shu to leave Hua Jingjing, although it was a little early to say it now, it was the best way to get rid of this embarrassment. I was silent for a while, then coughed and said solemnly: "Mr. Hua, there is something I have to ask you to agree to."
Seeing that I was very serious, Hua Jingjing didn't know what I was going to say. She was stunned for a moment and said, "I will agree to anything else you ask, but you can't not go to the hospital."
Her words stifled me, but since I had already started, I could only continue: "Boss Hua! I have done what I promised you, and you can do what you promised me, right?"
Hua Jingjing said, "You mean Cheng Jia? Don't worry! I'm not that petty. As long as she doesn't make any mistakes at work, I won't touch her."
After getting her personal promise again, I nodded with satisfaction and said, "Very good! Then I can leave with peace of mind."
Hua Jingjing asked curiously: "Go? Where are you going?"
I said seriously, "Boss Hua! I am now formally submitting my resignation to you. I don't want to continue working in the company."
Hua Jingjing was obviously surprised. She was stunned for a long time, then suddenly smiled and said, "You still don't want to be my secretary? Okay, okay, then don't be my secretary. It's ok for you to do planning work, right?" I shook my head and said, "No, I don't want to work in the company anymore. I want to go out and try my luck, train myself, and find a path that suits me better, so I want to resign!"
Hua Jingjing was even more surprised. She subconsciously reached out to touch my forehead again to see if I was having a high fever and talking nonsense. I pushed her hand away unhappily and said, "Don't move. I'm very sober."
"Are you clear-headed? Do you know what you are doing? You are giving up a well-paid, easy and comfortable job to venture out into the complex society on your own. Do you know how many people who have the same idea as you have been beaten to a pulp? Do you know how many people regretted their decision? Don't you know how capable you are? With your bad temper and poor appearance, how can you survive in society? Please wake up!"
"How do you know I can't survive? I haven't tried, so how can I be sure that I will get hurt?"
"Do you even need to try? Look at your previous record in the sales department! You were ranked last in the company for six consecutive months! With this level, you still want to survive in society? Please! You are not a child anymore, stop being so naive!"
I was choked up and speechless. My record in the sales department was a disgrace to me. But it was a reality that I couldn't avoid. I really had no way to deal with it.
Hua Jingjing said a few words to me, and then persuaded me kindly: "Okay, I know you are very talented. You feel that doing these boring things in the company is unfair to you. It doesn't matter. Now I am the boss, I will make use of you! I know you are not good at dealing with customers. Then don't fight. You can quit if you don't know how to plan. But you can develop products! You are best at producing and researching beverage products. It must be your favorite job, right? Then let you show your strengths. Oh, by the way, you said that the head manager of the R&D department had a conflict with you. It doesn't matter, just let him go. You will be better than him as a supervisor. Under your leadership, the R&D department will definitely make great contributions to the company. I will not be wrong about you. I have confidence!"
If he had said this to me a few days earlier, I would have been as excited as a thousand-mile horse meeting a good horse trainer, and I would have died for her. But I have been fighting with her for the past two days. How could I not know what kind of character she has? When has she ever taken me seriously? Didn't she try every possible means to bully me and make me look bad? I just couldn't believe that a boss who wanted to drug me a few days ago would suddenly think highly of me and act as if the company couldn't do without me. Hasn't she bullied me enough? Is she reluctant to miss the opportunity to bully me? But recently I have doubted this myself. Since she was discharged from the hospital, she has never tried to harm me again. Of course, forcing me to be her fake boyfriend doesn't count, but this can't be considered as her wanting to harm me. At most, she wants to harm Cheng Jia. On the contrary, I often feel the care and warmth of a woman from him from time to time. Although I can't adapt to it all at once, I do feel that this unruly rich girl has a gentle side.
Thinking of my girlfriend Qiu Jieqin's comment: Your boss! He must like you! I was shocked and thought: This can't be so funny? Hua Jingjing likes me? This... is simply a joke!
Seeing that I didn't respond for a long time, Hua Jingjing thought that I was thinking about it, so she added fuel to the fire, "Don't worry, as long as I'm here, no one in the entire Watson Group will dare to do anything to you. I won't work in the Green Lady Company for too long. After a few years of training, sooner or later I will enter the company's board of directors. If my brother is useless, then I may be the future chairman of the Watson Group. If I become the chairman, will I treat you unfairly? Think about it carefully?"
I looked at Hua Jingjing and thought to myself, although she was willful, savage, vicious and mean when we were fighting, she was actually very ambitious, or should I say career-oriented. At such a young age, she wanted to control this super-large group company with an annual profit of 20 to 30 billion. If it were me, I wouldn't know what to do!
I asked her, "Why? Don't you hate me? Now that you talk about it, it seems like you've been really good to me?"
Hua Jingjing blushed a little when she heard that. She looked out the window and said faintly, "Yes! I hate you very much, and I hate you to the extreme. Can't you feel it? Anyway, don't even think about escaping from my palm in this life. I will hold you forever... and let you be oppressed by me for the rest of your life!"
Although I don't understand women's psychology, I'm not stupid. When a woman says "forever" or "forever" to you, there must be something wrong. And when Hua Jingjing said this, her face was clearly feminine, happy and shy. Where is the slightest bit of viciousness in the words ?
I was very surprised. For the first time, I felt and realized that Hua Jingjing's feelings towards me were really complicated and not as simple as I had imagined!
Hua Jingjing and I fell into a long silence. We each had our own thoughts, but we couldn't or didn't dare to ask clearly. This silence was interrupted by the driver, A Xi. He stopped the car and turned around and said, "Miss, we've arrived at the People's Hospital."
"Oh!" Hua Jingjing reacted and held my hand and said, "Go check it out first. We'll decide whether to resign or not later."
I also reacted, broke free of her hand, and said, "I really don't want to go to the hospital. To tell you the truth, I'm not sick. I can't stand the socializing with those high-level celebrities at the party if I come out so early. Besides, I really want to resign. No matter if I have the ability or not, no matter what will happen to me in the future, I want to give it a try. After all, I won't be willing to do it unless I do it myself. Tomorrow, I will officially hand you the resignation letter."
Hua Jingjing saw that I still wanted to resign after she had said so many nice things to me and revealed some of her feelings for me. She was really mad and started to lose her temper: "No! I don't agree, so I don't agree. You'd better save your energy. I won't read your resignation letter. If you write a hundred, I will tear them up."
I also started to get stiff: "I am speaking to you in a nice way now. I respect you and the company. If you are unreasonable, I will just not collect my salary and bonus and not come to work tomorrow. What can you do to me?"
Hua Jingjing said angrily: "You... Tang Qian! What's wrong with you? You were fine during the day, what happened? Are you stimulated by attending a celebrity party? You actually made such an irrational decision! You really need to go to the hospital for a check-up!"
In fact, half of me didn't want to rely on the Hua family and make a living, but the other half was forced by Xu Shu. How could I, who was very concerned about my reputation, be looked down upon by others! They actually thought I was that kind of man and wanted to give me money to get rid of me, thinking I was a beggar? In order to fight for my dignity, I not only didn't want a penny, but even if I had to lose a lot of money, I had to leave the Watson Group and Hua Jingjing! Otherwise, I would never be able to swallow this breath in my life!
