New Client in the President’s Office - Chapter 38

Fan Mingxu listened to Zhou Xing’s words and sneered, “Zhou, I’m not joking with you.

With this attitude of yours, it makes me think that the entire work style of the President’s Office is problematic.”

Zhou Xing felt his face was about to crack.

How did it end up involving the work style of the entire department?

Shen Yan had just felt that Zhou Xing’s words were too disadvantageous for her.

She was afraid that Fan Mingxu would give her a pile of materials to write, and honestly, writing materials wasn’t an easy task for her.

But she never expected that Fan Mingxu would pull the conversation towards their department’s work style. What did her writing skills have to do with their work style?

She started to suspect that Fan Mingxu had just learned a new word and was randomly using it.

With the bigger external conflict involving Fan Mingxu, the conflict between her and Zhou Xing suddenly became an internal one.

Then, she heard Fan Mingxu continue, “You completely misunderstood my point.

Xiao Shen’s speech draft is indeed excellent, with beautiful phrasing and a great use of parallel sentences, but our work, especially in the President’s Office, is more important for being practical.

We need to be down-to-earth and serious about the work, rather than writing fancy but empty things.”

Shen Yan: ???

She had just been minding her own business, not expecting the gossip to land on her head.

She had already thought that Fan Mingxu’s request to revise the speech draft was unreasonable, but now she realized that the old man was praising her while secretly criticizing her.

What did he mean? Why was he saying her work was “empty”?

Their office’s job was to write materials, right?

Didn’t they just refine and package the “practical” materials from the business department?

If he wanted things to be more “practical,” why not just let them work on the materials?

And where was her report “fancy but empty”?

She thought back to the past week. Except for Monday, when Zhou Xing made her leave work on time, the rest of the week had been filled with early departures and late returns.

When she got home, she just slept, and there was no time to even look at her phone.

She was living like she was in prison, and now this old man didn’t recognize her work, but also wanted to criticize her?

Criticizing her was one thing, but now he was using her to put a label on their entire department?

This was too ridiculous.

Shen Yan’s anger surged up, and she suddenly stood up from her seat and said to Fan Mingxu:

“President Fan, I don’t understand what you mean.

This speech draft, I indeed worked on it several times, polishing the wording, but I acknowledge that my work in the project team this week has been solid.

The colleagues in the project team made sure to provide food and drinks and took care of logistics, and I also carefully recorded every meeting, all of which are saved on my computer.

Every day, I diligently compiled the daily reports from each department, and you are in the project group chat, so you can see that I was still sending out the daily reports late at night, at ten or eleven.

Furthermore, I also revised numerous reports this week, including the market department’s research report to the board of directors, which I also participated in.

I don’t agree that the work I’ve done is ‘fancy but empty.’

What’s more, even if you think my work has problems, you can’t generalize.

Without hearing from other colleagues, you can’t make a sweeping judgment about the work style and attitude of our department.”

Shen Yan felt like she had never spoken so logically and fluently before.

As soon as she finished one sentence, the next one came to her mind.

It wasn’t like before when her mind went blank.

After speaking, she realized what she had just done.

For the first time in her life, she had clearly expressed her thoughts in front of everyone.

Anger.

She only realized afterward, once she had finished speaking, that her heart was racing and she felt a bit flustered.

She was indeed a little afraid of offending Fan Mingxu, but more than that, she felt quite happy.

Could it be that she finally managed to speak out loud in front of others?

She had just spoken so much, yet managed to express herself clearly, logically, and with distinct opinions.

It turned out that she wasn’t completely incapable of speaking in front of a crowd.

Was this what they meant by

“you can’t teach people directly, but you can teach them through experience one time is enough”?

Shen Yan felt quite happy.

The others in the small meeting room were shocked by Shen Yan’s speech.

Cheng Rong frequently glanced at Zhou Xing.

A few weeks ago, when they discussed holding weekly meetings, Zhou Xing had explained that it was to train Xiao Shen.

She was somewhat socially anxious and didn’t dare speak in front of a large group.

So, by holding weekly meetings, they gave her a chance to practice speaking.

But with Xiao Shen’s performance just now, she didn’t need any training she was already ready for the job.

And she even stood up to President Fan brave, really brave.

Zhou Xing didn’t expect that Fan Mingxu’s influence would work so well.

This was the first time he had heard Shen Yan speak so loudly in front of others since he’d known her.

The effect was quite strong.

Looking around, they had always known that Zhou Xing had a good temperament and that he had been patient with President Fan.

But just when they thought the meeting was over, Shen Yan suddenly exploded.

Fan Mingxu was also stunned.

He remembered how timid and submissive Shen Yan used to be when reporting in the office.

How had she changed so much today?

He was someone who usually took a softer approach.

Facing the aggressive Shen Yan now, he felt a little guilty.

He had indeed deliberately made things difficult for them.

Shen Yan, however, still felt a bit scared when meeting Fan Mingxu’s gaze.

She quickly lowered her head.

Then, Fan Mingxu coughed lightly, signaling Shen Yan to sit down, and his tone softened.

“The research report on work clothes I asked you to write…”

He paused halfway through, his eyes flicking to Cheng Rong, and then he remembered, “Oh… that… Lao Cheng, you were there too.

What work did I assign Xiao Shen again…?”

Cheng Rong: “…Boss, are you referring to the matchmaking event?”

“Yes, yes, that’s right!”

Fan Mingxu finally remembered and raised his voice again.

“The matchmaking event.

Did you write the plan for it?

Why isn’t it in your summary plan?

Are you really working hard?”

Shen Yan: …

She had been so angry and aggrieved earlier, that she ended up saying all those things.

But now, when Fan Mingxu asked her again, she couldn’t speak.

In fact, she felt a bit guilty.

This task, she had been avoiding doing.

Her attitude had been that if Fan Mingxu didn’t ask, she wouldn’t bring it up either, so she had kept putting it off.

She thought of what Zhou Xing had said to her: “Progress 0, progress 99 both are the same, still in progress.”

She wanted to try and talk her way out of this with Fan Mingxu, but when she looked up at him, she felt guilty again.

At that moment, Zhou Xing spoke up: “President Fan, this wasn’t in Xiao Shen’s weekly summary or plan for this week.

I had her go to the project team, and she’s heading back to school this week to pick up her graduation certificate.”

“Really?” Fan Mingxu wasn’t satisfied with Zhou Xing’s answer.

“Then what about the progress of this task?”

Zhou Xing replied, “I already asked Xiao Shen to send it to me, and I’ve reviewed it.

But with everything going on with the LINK project, I haven’t had time to look at it.

You know how important the LINK project is.”

Fan Mingxu thought for a moment, Zhou Xing had brought up the LINK project.

He indeed knew how important that project was.

and compared to the LINK project, his work attire task seemed insignificant.

Fan Mingxu nodded,

“Alright, then hurry up and review it. Afterward, send me the report.”

Zhou Xing replied, “Okay.”

When Shen Yan heard Zhou Xing helping her out of the situation, she felt that she could forgive Zhou Xing for his earlier comment about her writing materials “easily.”

Moreover, he even took the responsibility for not reporting the issue to President Fan.

Shen Yan couldn’t help but admire Zhou Xing , he was really a good person.

However, President Fan seemed like a paper tiger.

She had just said such a long string of words to him, and he didn’t even argue.

Could he be planning to secretly make things difficult for her behind her back?

When Fan Mingxu heard Zhou Xing’s “okay,” he finally changed the subject, letting Jian Hong begin with her weekly report.

After everyone had spoken, Fan Mingxu didn’t say anything further.

After the meeting adjourned, Shen Yan was about to quickly slip away when she heard Fan Mingxu call her.

Zhou Xing, hearing Fan Mingxu call Shen Yan, slowed down his pace of packing up, preparing to listen to what Fan Mingxu wanted to say.

Fan Mingxu spoke, “Xiao Shen, there will be a shareholders’ meeting in mid-year.

Your writing skills are so good, you should be able to write a work summary for me ‘easily,’ right?”

Shen Yan: …

On the other side, Zhou Xing, slowing down as he packed: …Why did he stay?

He should have just left.

He had misspoken earlier.

Shen Yan pulled at the corner of her mouth.

“Okay, President Fan.”