After Trying To Pursue The Cold, Elegant Beauty. I Ended Up Being Flirted With Instead - Chapter 3

Wen Zhu is Still the Same Wen Zhu.

Wen Zhu carried her suitcase, found a hotel, and slept until noon. Her head wasn’t as dizzy as before.

She couldn’t help but smile bitterly. She truly had a destiny of relentless toil such a severe cold was almost gone after just one sleep.

After lunch, she contacted a real estate agent and started looking for a house.

Yancheng was the place where she grew up and lived. If it weren’t absolutely necessary, she wouldn’t want to leave here.

She had expected to feel sorrow or sadness after leaving the Pei family.

But in fact, she felt none of these emotions while viewing houses. On the contrary, she was even faintly looking forward to it.

She could finally have a home that was entirely and completely her own.

Ultimately, Wen Zhu settled on an apartment with excellent lighting.

The security was good here, and more importantly, when the sun rose, the sunlight could stream through the windows and illuminate the entire living room.

Wen Zhu loved the sun.

She even specifically checked which company owned the land of this residential area. After confirming it had no connection to the Pei family, she signed the contract without hesitation and paid a year’s rent.

Fortunately, when Pei Xiubai was good to her in the past, she had given her a decent salary. She had saved quite a bit over the years.

She did want to buy the house outright, but she was a little hesitant to spend that much.

After seeing the agent off, Wen Zhu called the hotel and asked them to send her luggage over.

She leaned against the balcony, basking in the sun. Before long, her phone rang again.

Wen Zhu thought it was the hotel’s number and answered, but the voice that came through was cold and deep: “Wen Zhu, who gave you the guts to resign? Haven’t you made enough of a scene? I’ll give you half an hour, get back to the company immediately!”

Pei Xiubai’s temper had always been bad, as Wen Zhu remembered.

But in the past, no matter how angry she was, when facing Wen Zhu, she was always gentle and affectionate, often hugging her and cooing: “How could I bear to be fierce to my Qingqing?”

“What if I upset Qingqing and she won’t marry me later?”

Pei Xiubai always knew what she liked to hear and what words hurt her the most.

She had forgotten all the past promises.

Only Wen Zhu still remembered them.

What was more terrifying was that Wen Zhu realized she had also gotten used to Pei Xiubai’s current coldness and irritability.

She touched her chest. Her heart had gone from the initial knife-like pain to the current numbness.

Perhaps seeing Wen Zhu’s lack of response, Pei Xiubai’s voice grew colder: “Also, you’re resorting to running away from home now? Wen Zhu, can you just settle down and stop playing games? I don’t have that much patience to humor your tantrum.”

“It was President Pei who personally told me to get out of Yu Pei.” Wen Zhu spoke every word, clutching her clothes tightly, her voice unusually calm. “I have already submitted my resignation application. President Pei, if you have any orders, please address your secretary, not me.”

The words Pei Xiubai hadn’t finished were choked in her throat, leaving her feeling indescribably irritated and frustrated.

Has she grown so bold as to dare to order her around?

She told Wen Zhu to leave, and she actually dared to leave?!

It seemed her mother was right; Wen Zhu was an ungrateful wretch! She raised her for more than ten years, and now she dared to get angry with her?

Relying on that little bit of past kindness, did she really think the Pei family was a place she could come and go as she pleased?

It wouldn’t be that easy for Wen Zhu to walk away scot-free!

Pei Xiubai felt inexplicably furious, unbuttoning the top button of her shirt: “Secretary Wen, have you forgotten the company regulations? Resignation must be applied for one month in advance. According to the rules, you are still an employee of the company.”

Wen Zhu fell silent.

Yu Pei did have such a rule, but if the position wasn’t short-handed, immediate resignation was usually permissible.

Besides her, Pei Xiubai had two other secretaries serving her.

Now that Pei Xiubai refused to let her go, she clearly didn’t intend to let her leave so easily.

Just as Wen Zhu was about to speak, she heard Pei Xiubai continue: “Since you are still a company employee, you must continue to work for the company. Since Secretary Wen is so unwilling to stay in Yancheng, for the next month, you will go to Tongcheng to be in charge of the project there.”

Was she being exiled?

Having worked at Yu Pei for so long, Wen Zhu certainly knew that Tongcheng was underdeveloped, and the project there was not only difficult but also involved many complicated and miscellaneous tasks.

Given a choice, no Yu Pei employee would want to be responsible for the Tongcheng project.

Pei Xiubai stopped speaking, clearly waiting for Wen Zhu to apologize and beg her for mercy.

But unexpectedly, Wen Zhu heard her out, gave a bitter laugh, and quickly agreed: “President Pei, don’t worry, I’ll go tomorrow.”

No matter how much trouble Tongcheng had, it was better than staying in Yancheng.

It was only one month.

After one month, she could officially resign.

Hearing that Wen Zhu actually agreed, the fingers gripping the phone handle turned white.

This Wen Zhu, she really has some nerve!

She had indeed spoiled her!

Her temple pulsed with anger. She sneered and said directly: “Why wait for tomorrow? Get over there right now!”

With that, a “beep-beep…” sounded on the phone, and Pei Xiubai hung up directly.

The phone was heavily tossed onto the bar table by Pei Xiubai. The people around looked at each other. Since Pei Xiubai was angry during the middle of lunch, none of them dared to say anything more.

Someone respectfully poured Pei Xiubai a glass of wine and then started cursing Wen Zhu: “President Pei, if you ask me, a disobedient dog needs a good lesson, lest she forgets who her master is!”

The person next to him immediately chimed in: “Isn’t that the truth! As I see it, your secretary is just trying to use these methods to get your attention. She has no sense of proportion, and she’s not afraid of overplaying her hand!”

“She doesn’t consider how many opportunities you’ve given her over the years, President Pei. How could an ordinary person climb to her level? Not only does this Wen Zhu not appreciate it, but she dares to turn around and anger you…”

Pei Xiubai tilted her slender, porcelain-like neck and drank the large glass of wine in one gulp.

Putting down the glass, her eyes were as dark as ink, turning somewhat gloomy due to her anger, “Of course she’s doing it on purpose!”

A dark light flashed across Pei Xiubai’s eyes, and her cold expression gained a few degrees of knowing disgust and mockery, “You wait and see, she won’t last a week in the neighboring city before she comes crying and begging me to let her come back!”

After all these years, hasn’t she gotten tired of this push and pull tactic?

Does she really think she can force her to compromise and drive away Jiang Xin Xin with methods like running away from home?

She’s simply dreaming!

Since Pei Xiubai had spoken, Wen Zhu couldn’t refuse to go.

Once her luggage arrived, she immediately started packing.

Thinking of something, she sent a message to the HR department, asking if she could change today to a leave of absence.

The HR manager replied quickly, with an apologetic tone: “I’m sorry, Secretary Wen, President Pei gave the order. You were absent today and delayed a lot of the company’s progress. Not only can we not approve your leave request, but we also have to deduct half a month’s salary and all your bonuses from the first half of the year…”

Seeing this, Wen Zhu didn’t know whether to cry or laugh for a moment.

She wanted to cry because she had suddenly lost so much salary, and she laughed bitterly because she truly held no status in Pei Xiubai’s heart.

It was one thing to dislike her, but how could she deduct her money so brutally?

Yet, she was powerless to resist and could only accept her fate.

Just as she was about to exit the chat, another message from the HR manager popped up: “Oh, and one more thing, Secretary Wen. Secretary Sun asked me to inform you that tonight is the seventy-fifth birthday banquet for the Old Madam of the Li family. The Old Madam specifically requested your presence, so don’t forget.”

Only then did Wen Zhu recall that this event was indeed scheduled.

Half a month ago, she accompanied Pei Xiubai to an event and accidentally witnessed an old lady having a heart attack.

She had learned first aid and rushed forward to give the old lady the medicine she carried with her. Later, she learned that the old lady she saved was no ordinary person.

It was the Old Madam of the Li family.

This was not a big deal originally, but the Old Madam treated her as a lifesaver and often sent people to bring her gifts.

Wen Zhu sighed, put down the thought of packing, and said, “Okay.”

Since she had to go to the banquet, Wen Zhu certainly couldn’t go by herself.

She opened the chat with Pei Xiubai, hesitated for a long time, and finally phrased it in a very formal manner: “President Pei, I will accompany you to the Pei family’s banquet tonight. I will rush to Tongcheng tomorrow.”

After confirming there were no inappropriate words, she clicked send.

Pei Xiubai was busy with work all afternoon, and it wasn’t until evening when she was about to change into her dress that she saw Wen Zhu’s message.

She was surrounded by several makeup artists, and a faint sneer played on her lips as she stared at the screen.

What did she say?

Wen Zhu was still the same Wen Zhu. One moment she was saying with great conviction that she would resign, and the next moment, wasn’t she obediently coming to her, wanting to accompany her to the event?

Because of this message, Pei Xiubai’s mood inexplicably improved a lot.

She left Wen Zhu hanging for another half an hour before replying briefly with an “Mhm.”

After the message was successfully sent, Pei Xiubai raised her right hand toward Secretary Sun next to her.

Secretary Sun didn’t react for a moment, suddenly taking a step back, her eyes anxiously looking in the direction Pei Xiubai was looking. She picked up a random cufflink awkwardly: “Uh, President Pei, are you… are you asking for this one…”

Pei Xiubai lowered her eyes, and a cold aura emanated from her.

Secretary Sun’s face turned paler and paler, and cold sweat dripped down: “President Pei, could you please give me an explicit indication?”

She really wasn’t like Secretary Wen, who could tell what President Pei wanted with just a look!

Pei Xiubai’s gaze was deep and cold, clearly having thought of Wen Zhu.

Undeniably, Wen Zhu was indeed the one who understood her the best.

With Wen Zhu gone, the comfort level in all aspects of her life had decreased significantly.

Pei Xiubai shifted her gaze, and her frown slowly relaxed.

“Forget it.”

She abandoned the one she had looked at earlier, instead picking up a dust-covered cufflink from the corner, and slowly put it on.

This one was a gift from Wen Zhu.

When Wen Zhu saw her wearing the cufflinks she had given her, she should calm down.

When she apologizes, she will give her another chance.