diskusbooks #411 - Mother-in-law's Little Secret (2 in 1 order)
#411 - Mother-in-law's Little Secret (2 in 1 order)
"Indeed, indeed."
Other Youyi executives echoed, standing up as Lu Yu proposed a toast.
Lu Yu said half-jokingly, "I hope you seniors can really take my words to heart and improve the working environment for the employees."
Lu Yu's lips curved into a smile.
After all, if the overall environment of this world could change even a little, then it would be even easier for him to reap Origin Points, wouldn't it?
...
After a banquet filled with fake pleasantries and real power struggles, Shi Yi saw that Liu Lan seemed to have some personal things to say to Lu Yu, instantly understood, and quickly led his subordinates away.
At this moment, only Liu Lan and Lu Yu remained in the private room.
Liu Lan took out a cigarette from her wallet and was about to light it when she saw Lu Yu and hesitated.
"Please, go ahead and smoke. I don't mind."
Liu Lan then lit the cigarette and exhaled a puff of smoke.
"I want to thank you for taking care of Yuanyuan during this time,"
Liu Lan said,
"If you hadn't taken her in and started a business with her, who knows what kind of life she would be living, drifting around on her own..."
Lu Yu listened to these words, pondered for a moment, and then said firmly:
"Chairwoman Liu, I think... you might not understand Yuanyuan very well... She's not as useless as you think."
"Hmph!"
Liu Lan smiled, thinking to herself: This brat, he hasn't even married my daughter yet, and he's already protecting her?
So she retorted, "I don't understand my own daughter?"
Lu Yu thought for a moment and replied seriously:
"Actually, in this world, how many parents truly understand their children and deeply understand their inner world?
Of course, I'm not criticizing you. My own parents aren't much better."
Lu Yu chuckled dryly twice and continued:
"Through my interactions with Yuanyuan during this time, I feel that she is not as useless as you make her out to be.
She has many shining points, but from childhood to adulthood, she has received more criticism than praise..."
Liu Lan flicked the cigarette in her hand and replied:
"That's how the Liu family's upbringing and traditions are. For a descendant, doing well is what you should do. After all, you are the heir to a large family and should be held to high standards. How can we praise you for every little achievement? Wouldn't that make her complacent every day?"
Lu Yu nodded:
"What you said makes sense, but... people need positive feedback.
I think traditional families in our country often lack the habit of praising others...
Ahem, of course, this is just my perspective as a junior, so it may not be comprehensive..."
"Alright, alright."
Liu Lan exhaled a puff of smoke. "You don't need to hedge your words. I understand what you mean."
She then carefully sized Lu Yu up and down.
How should she put it? When she first heard that her daughter had been tricked into running away from home by a brat, she was very dissatisfied.
But this kid's career is actually quite impressive, and he takes good care of her daughter. She can temporarily consider him as a prospective son-in-law for evaluation...
Thinking of this, she suddenly said:
"I did some investigation, and your company is very good at poaching my people..."
"Ah?"
Lu Yu was taken aback.
Liu Lan continued:
"I mean, many of your company's successful project producers, such as Mo Xiaoxuan, Zhang Fan, Yao Jun, and your HR director, Li Hongmei, all came from Youyi."
Lu Yu chuckled dryly twice:
"It seems you know our Peach Blossom Village very well. I'm really ashamed...
But please allow me to defend myself. I didn't poach Liu Group's talent. These people were all fired and optimized by your company. Even if they didn't come to me, they would at most go back to their small hometowns."
Thinking of this, Liu Lan couldn't help but feel a myriad of emotions.
From a young age, she had learned various business management skills from the elders of her family, especially the art of controlling people, which she considered to be mastered to perfection.
The wolf-like cultural system of the Liu Group could be said to be a system that she believed she had perfected.
But she didn't expect that this system would have problems in front of this brat, Lu Yu.
What magic did he have that could make this group of people wholeheartedly create so many successful products for him...
Could it be...
She remembered the five-four-three work system and reduced efficiency and increased costs that Lu Yu had mentioned earlier, and couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
After that, Liu Lan continued:
"Oh, right, and Xia Shangyu, is she doing well over there with you?"
Lu Yu had long heard that Xia Shangyu was Liu Lan's best friend, so he smiled and said:
"Don't worry, I take good care of Sister Xia. I should say, she often goes out on headhunting missions, running around all over the world, appearing and disappearing without a trace..."
Liu Lan nodded:
"I often see her posts on social media. That girl is living quite well over there with you."
Lu Yu clicked his tongue. Of course, Xia Shangyu was living well with him!
In fact, when he looked at the income records of the Leisure Points, he could see that many times this girl would work for one day and rest for thirty, using business trips as an excuse to travel and play.
The intensity of her retaliatory travel seemed to make up for all the hard work she had suffered in the Liu Group before.
But Lu Yu couldn't be happier!
No, it should be said that Xia Shangyu is the model employee of Peach Blossom Village!
...
"In that case, why don't you recruit one more person?"
Liu Lan said, clapping her hands.
After that, the window suddenly opened, and a nimble female bodyguard in a tight-fitting suit rolled in from outside the window.
A gust of wind swept in from outside the window, and then a figure as nimble as a swallow rolled in from outside the window!
It was a shapely woman with short, neat black hair scattered messily over her shoulders, exuding a heroic and unrestrained aura.
She was wearing a well-tailored black tight-fitting suit, outlining her curvy figure.
Under the black skirt were a pair of long, straight, and muscular thighs, with a faint hint of black silk.
She had one hand on her hip and the other in her pocket, with a nonchalant expression, but still revealing a calm murderous aura in her lightly powdered phoenix eyes.
The whole person was like a clear and cold chill, tense yet with a deadly seductive allure.
Lu Yu couldn't help but stare blankly. This was no ordinary bodyguard, but a killer queen who had come to assassinate him!
Liu Lan smiled: "This is Wang Su, our group's security director. Let me lend her to you for a while. You can arrange a job for her."
Liu Lan's purpose was simple. She wanted to send her most trusted confidante to further investigate Lu Yu's character.
Wang Su felt complicated when she saw Lu Yu.
Because for a moment, she remembered the scenes of being tricked by this brat in various ways before—
Spiders, fish, mice...
Thinking about it was unbearable.
Thinking of this, she subconsciously covered her chest.
Lu Yu looked at her, feeling a little familiar, and subconsciously said:
"Miss Wang Su, please forgive my offense, but you and the fortune-telling witch, Taoist nun, and waitress I met before look quite similar..."
"Hehe, Mr. Lu is really joking. You must have mistaken me..."
Wang Su chuckled dryly twice.
Taking advantage of the gap between the two shaking hands, Wang Su whispered: "Heh, don't think I've forgiven you for the bugs and animals before..."
"??????????"
Lu Yu was stunned.
Are the employees of the Liu Group all so mentally unstable?
...
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Liu Lan waved her hand: "See the guest out."
Lu Yu nodded and then got up to say goodbye to Liu Lan. Just then, a small interlude occurred.
As he brushed past Wang Su, he accidentally bumped into Liu Lan's handbag on the table, and a pink, rod-like object rolled out of the bag and fell to the ground.
Lu Yu was stunned, then his face turned slightly red, and Wang Su was so frightened that she covered her mouth, her whole body stiffened on the spot. Liu Lan was also stunned when she saw the situation was not right, and her expression became stern.
The three fell into an awkward silence in an instant, and only silence remained in the air.
The pink rod-shaped object lay quietly on the ground, innocent and seductive.
Its round and smooth shape, as well as the drooping zigzag thin line, plus the softness and luster of the material.
Lu Yu swallowed hard and subconsciously looked away, secretly praying that it wasn't what he thought it was. And Wang Su's usually lively face was now full of indescribable panic, because she saw that there were still crystal droplets on the object.
Only Liu Lan's face remained as usual on the surface, but her brow furrowed slightly, as if she also felt an unspeakable embarrassment. Soon, she recovered, trying to hide the panic in her heart, bent down and picked up the strange object and stuffed it back into her bag.
"Ahem, it's nothing, it's just a fascia gun I use to relax my shoulders," Liu Lan explained calmly, her phoenix eyes looking directly at Lu Yu, as if to confirm that he believed it was true.
Lu Yu nodded as if waking up from a dream:
"Ah, yes, a fascia gun. The shape is indeed a bit strange, but it's normal for this kind of massage product to be inconspicuous."
The situation finally did not continue to ferment. The three said goodbye as if they had a tacit understanding, rejoicing that this little episode had finally ended.
After leaving the hotel, Wang Su and Lu Yu walked towards the car.
Lu Yu sighed: "Sister Su, your chairman, must be... quite lonely, right?"
Wang Su rubbed her red face and sighed: "Probably... You must never tell anyone what you saw and heard tonight, or I will hunt you down for thousands of miles."
"I definitely won't."
Lu Yu shook his head like a rattle.
Recalling the artist man he had seen in the streets of Tokyo before, Lu Yu sighed:
Pei Yu, ah, Pei Yu, you have harmed this mother and daughter so much.
...
"Pei Yu, ah, Pei Yu, look at your wife and the precious daughter you bore!"
At this time, in a hotel in Tokyo, Pei Shengnan, a competitor of the Liu Group, was raging in the hotel because of the disastrous defeat at the Tokyo Game Show.
Inside this luxurious suite, Pei Shengnan was sitting on a luxurious black leather sofa, his eyes closed tightly and his brow furrowed. His silver hair was messy and fluffy, and his dark face was covered with hideous anger.
The table was scattered with a mess, expensive cloisonné porcelain turned into rubble, red wine stained the thick Persian carpet, and the bouquet of roses that was still white and fragrant a few hours ago was now scarred and dilapidated.
The secretary sitting in a corner of the sofa tried to stop him, but the silver cup and plate in his hand were smashed to pieces in Pei Shengnan's rage.
"Young Master Pei, I beg you to calm down!"
However, Pei Shengnan turned a deaf ear, with only boundless anger burning in his eyes. He strode to the French windows, rudely opened the curtains, and glared at the night scene of Tokyo City.
The dazzling lights of thousands of homes and the dazzling streams of light had now become the object of his stinging anger. He slammed hard on the hard French windows, his hands almost oozing blood, and roared incessantly:
"Those shameless villains! They dare to humiliate our Longteng Company! I almost exhausted the strength of the entire company for this game show, and countless efforts have been in vain!"
Growing up, he prided himself on being the most outstanding junior of the Pei family, and it could even be said that becoming the next head of the family was a certainty.
According to his original plan, the business war with Liu Lan was just the last coronation ceremony before the new king ascended the throne.
Unexpectedly, everything has now been messed up, and even the elders of the Pei family, who originally trusted him, have begun to show hesitation.
The servants were so frightened that they collapsed on the carpet, trembling like frightened lambs, watching Pei's total rampage with horror.
Just then, the door of the room suddenly opened, and Pei Shengnan's confidant, the number one think tank member, Jin Zhongbo, walked in.
He was wearing a well-tailored black suit, with a pair of fox-like shrewd eyes under his high nose.
"Young Master Shengnan, please calm down."
Jin Zhongbo stepped forward and gently touched Pei Shengnan's shoulder, his tone low and comforting, "Although we were defeated this time, you must also see that the strength of that Peach Blossom Village company is not simple, and there must be a shocking conspiracy behind it."
Pei Shengnan then turned his head, and the rage in his eyes seemed to gradually subside. He said in a gloomy face, "Speak, what is the conspiracy?"
Jin Jiongbo added fuel to the fire in a timely manner: "You think about it, young master, why has his Peach Blossom Village risen so quickly in the past two years, it's almost like he has divine help? It must be that the Liu Group is secretly helping him.
That is to say, Lu Yu is just Liu Lan's front man, using such a despicable trick to suppress our company. What are we going to do? Are we just going to accept our fate like this?"
"Don't even think about it!" A raging fire was burning in Pei Shengnan's eyes. He slammed his fist on the French windows, shaking the hard tempered glass with a crack. "When have we ever suffered such a loss! Jin Zhongbo, what countermeasures do you have?"
Jin Jiongbo smiled slightly, mysteriously and兮兮地 said:
"Although Lu Yu has developed the somatosensory warehouse technology one step ahead of us, we may have another way out.
I heard that a new method has emerged in the field of brain science. This method can use the somatosensory warehouse to directly invade the nerve center of others, manipulate their consciousness and perception, and allow people to experience any terrible torture and nightmare with empathy."
"What?!" Pei Shengnan widened his eyes in disbelief. "There's such a perverted and illegal technology?"
"Since we can't do it openly, let's do it secretly. If we use this technology on Peach Blossom Spring's products..."
"Hmph, that sounds somewhat reliable." Pei Shengnan snorted coldly, his eyes regaining some of their sharp brilliance. "Let's do it that way. Since they want to play dirty, let them taste the backlash of the dark forces!"
Jin Zhongbo nodded with satisfaction, knowing that the prey had taken the bait. He then began to whisper even more vile and filthy tricks and schemes into his master's ear. "Young Master, besides this, we have many other methods. For example, have you heard? Recently, Pei Yu has reappeared, and he's in Tokyo..."
Pei Shengnan's pupils suddenly contracted.
"Are you saying that my good-for-nothing brother didn't disappear?"
"Although it was reported as a missing person, anything is possible. We can find a way to locate Pei Yu, and then we can do this..."
He whispered into Pei Shengnan's ear, like a demon's murmur.
"What an insidious tactic! But I like it!"
A fighting spirit reignited in Pei Shengnan's eyes. He clenched his fists tightly, and let out an invigorating roar. A sinister sneer finally twisted across his face.
He would never allow anyone to hinder his grand undertaking of ascending to power!