Chapter 1631 - 1629: Past and Present Lives 67
Chapter 1631: Chapter 1629: Past and Present Lives 67
Chapter 1629
"As long as you get it!"
"This is called using our strengths to attack their weaknesses!"
Zhao Junyao spoke with complete confidence, and even Xia Ruqing felt her blood boiling with excitement as she listened.
"So that’s what you were thinking!"
"No wonder you were being all mysterious and didn’t want anyone to know!"
Zhao Junyao pinched her cheek.
"There’s a mole in the team, we can’t let our guard down!"
"Next week when I go over, we’ll give them a taste of their own medicine!"
"I’ll slack off for two days first, then pretend to fly into a rage and fire a few people, and finally tighten our team’s strings again!"
"No matter what, we have to make them believe I’m desperately trying to catch up!"
Xia Ruqing was so stunned she could only stare.
She had no idea what this guy’s brain was made of; this was way too devious.
Are all former Emperors this terrifying?
She suddenly leaned in close to him and asked.
"Hey, can I ask you a question?"
Zhao Junyao looked at her gently.
"What is it?"
"Back in your Great Chu, did you ever kill anyone?"
Zhao Junyao furrowed his brows and thought for a moment, then nodded.
"I have!"
"Hiss—" Xia Ruqing couldn’t help sucking in a breath of cold air.
So he really had killed someone; no wonder his methods were so practiced!
Seeing the kaleidoscope of expressions on her face, Zhao Junyao couldn’t hold back a laugh.
"Alright, that’s enough!"
"Hungry? Come on, let’s go eat!"
Right on cue, Xia Ruqing’s stomach gave a loud growl, and she flipped herself up from the bed in one motion.
"Okay!"
"I know a newly opened little lamb chop place nearby, the food is amazing!"
"Let’s go try it!"
Zhao Junyao dotingly tapped her forehead.
"You really don’t aspire to anything beyond food, do you!"
Xia Ruqing patted her chest proudly.
"Of course. I’ve got a boyfriend to support me, what do I have to be afraid of?"
Zhao Junyao: "..."
Fine, fine, you’re pretty so you’re always right.
...
That night the two of them ate until very late before leaving.
When they came back, Wenwen and Xiaoxiao started teasing them.
"Xiao Qingqing, we all thought you weren’t coming back tonight!"
Xia Ruqing was puzzled.
"If I didn’t come back, where would I go?"
Wenwen and Xiaoxiao exchanged a mischievous look, but neither of them said anything.
Xia Ruqing’s face flushed; she grabbed a throw pillow and chucked it at them.
"What on earth goes on in those heads of yours every day, huh?"
"Hurry up and go to sleep, sleep, sleep!"
With that she went thump-thump-thump up the stairs, washed up and went to bed.
Wenwen and Xiaoxiao pressed their lips together in a wicked smile.
"I think it’s going to happen soon!"
"I think so too!"
The two of them sprawled on the sofa watching TV.
Since they didn’t have work the next day, they could properly binge a show tonight.
Wenwen focused on her drama, while Xiaoxiao sat beside her scrolling on her phone, her face flushing now and then.
Wenwen went around behind her, stared at her screen for quite a while, then gave an evil grin.
"So you’re about to be off the market too, huh?"
"You really hid this well!"
"Hurry up and confess!"
Xiaoxiao jumped in fright and hurried to cover her phone, but it was already too late.
"I saw it all, so you’d better tell the truth!"
Xiaoxiao was a little flustered and a little shy.
"Why are you snooping through other people’s stuff!"
Wenwen retorted, "Hey, hey, hey, you were the one scrolling right in front of my face!"
"It was so obvious even an idiot could see!"
After she finished, she leaned over to Xiaoxiao’s ear and whispered.
"Is he handsome? Is his family rich?"
Xiaoxiao kept her head down, blushing for ages, then got up and ran back to her room.
"We’re not even at that stage yet, I’m not talking to you about it!"
Wenwen felt a little melancholy and slumped back on the sofa.
"Sigh! Guess I’m the only one left!"
...
The wonderful weekend passed in the blink of an eye, and Monday arrived.
Xia Ruqing got up early to go to work.
When she arrived at the department, she suddenly noticed that everyone was tense and acting like they were working extremely hard.
Xia Ruqing: ’Huh, who are you trying to fool? Who doesn’t know how lazy you were before!’
She stepped through the door and looked carefully, and sure enough, Zhao Junyao was pacing around the office.
She walked slowly to her workstation and sat down, and then she heard Zhao Junyao furiously chewing everyone out.
"My father’s only been sick for a short while, and the performance has already fallen this much!"
"What the hell have you all been doing?"
"I hear some people quit, some transferred, and some even helped other teams with their work. Great, just fantastic!"
He rarely lost his temper.
But nobody had known that when he did, he could be this frightening.
Everyone fell completely silent; you could have heard a pin drop.
After scolding them for a while, he deliberately slumped into a defeated pose.
"I never thought that I, a堂堂 young board member, would actually lose to Zhao Junqi!"
"From now on, every single one of you has to work your ass off. In short, if I lose, you’re not going to have a good time either!"
With that, he stormed off into his private office.
...
Over the next two days, all sorts of sounds and smells came from his office.
There were sobs, the smell of alcohol, and the sounds of chairs and files being slammed.
Judging by the situation, he seemed to have taken a massive hit.
He also temporarily put his work aside, and everything was still being handled by his assistant.
The employees felt disappointed once again.
’Even the leader’s like this now; looks like our chances really are slim...’
So one by one they resumed their previously unfinished little moves.
The ones wanting to jump ship kept looking, the ones planning to betray started preparing to act, and the ones who’d already betrayed continued their actions.
This team looked united on the surface, but behind the scenes...
He’d originally said he would mope for two days, but Zhao Junyao dragged it out for a whole week.
You have to cast a long line if you want to draw all the fish in, right?
Another Monday came around.
As soon as work started that day, he called out a few names, his expression icy and calm as he said.
"Starting today, you people no longer belong to my team."
"If you want to resign or transfer, do whatever you want!"
"I just don’t dare use you here!"
His words were completely ruthless, and those few people instantly felt their backs go cold and their hearts sink.
’Why this all of a sudden? We hid it so well—did he find out?’
Everyone fell silent again; some people even felt secretly relieved that they’d decided to wait and see.
Otherwise, once they offended the young board member, they’d end up just as screwed.
Those few people had just been too impatient.
...
That Monday, Zhao Junyao spent the entire morning berating people in the office.
This time he wasn’t as lenient as before; this time he called people out by name.
"After observing for a week!"
"I’ve already found the reason our team’s fallen behind! You few ingrate traitors are truly disgusting!"
"And the rest of you, don’t get cocky either!"
"If you’ve gone half a month without any performance, even if you resign I’ll still give you a negative performance score!"
"In short, no pain, no gain! You’d all better behave yourselves!"
When he finished, he went back into his office.
This time, the office exploded.
Some people started swearing under their breath while writing their resignation letters, some cursed out loud but didn’t actually do anything.
But there were a few people who never said a word the whole time.
Those were the ones Xia Ruqing took note of one by one.
The more it was a time like this, the easier it was to see who was loyal!
Zhao Junyao, I hope you can stand out in this dirty little competition.
Don’t worry, I’ll definitely give you my all.