Chapter 40 But I just hate Chu Yan
Yuan Xi went to the bathroom and vomited for a long time. After rinsing her mouth and touching up her makeup, she returned to the interview meeting room. Before she entered, she heard Gu Hanchen's voice.

"Just let it be sweet, no need to say more."

"Brother Hanchen!" Yu Xiaoxiao said, "I want to be your secretary too."

Gu Hanchen said: "There are already enough secretaries, you should go back, Michen is not a place that is easy to enter."

Yu Xiaoxiao was full of dissatisfaction, "Why? How am I inferior to this woman?"

Gu Hanchen: "You are not as pretty as Ren Tian. Being my secretary means you need to be my female companion to attend banquets. That's it. Let's just settle on Ren Tian."

Yuan Xi glanced at Ren Tian beside him, then looked at Gu Hanchen, "You decided on her without asking any more questions?"

After all, she is the secretary of the president's office, so Gu Hanchen was a bit too arbitrary.

Gu Hanchen whispered to Yuan Xi: "It has to be better than Yu Xiaoxiao, right?"

Yuan Xi: “…”

Yu Xiaoxiao saw Gu Hanchen and Yuan Xi talking to each other in low voices. She frowned and walked up to Yuan Xi, "Just wait for me!"

Yuan Xi looked at Yu Xiaoxiao innocently.

Ren Tian walked up to Yuan Xi, showing her slightly yellow teeth from smoking and smiled softly, "Boss Gu, when do I go to work?"

Gu Hanchen said: "Tomorrow."

Ren Tian was stunned, "Isn't tomorrow the weekend?"

Gu Hanchen said: "Weekend? Who is Weekend? I don't know Weekend."

Yuan Xi said to Ren Tian, ​​"You don't have to listen to Mr. Gu. Our company's working hours are from 9:30 to 5:30, and we have weekends off. You can just come to work on Monday."

Gu Hanchen frowned: "What do you mean you don't have to listen to me? Yuan Xi, do you no longer have me in your eyes?"

Yuan Xi said: "The secretary's office of the president's office has always had two days off a week."

She was the only one who didn't have a two-day weekend off, but now she has it.

On Friday night, Yuan Xi worked overtime until nine o'clock. After instructing Zhong Xiaoyi on her work process, Yuan Xi went down to the underground garage. As soon as she got in the car, she saw Huo Shiyan taking a nap with his eyes closed.

"Sorry to keep you waiting."

"Isn't Monica here? Why are you still busy?"

Yuan Xi smiled lightly: "Isn't it the weekend tomorrow? I just worked a few more hours overtime. Monica can accept my work, but Gu Hanchen is in need of a secretary who can patiently manage him. Today, a young secretary, Zhong Xiaoyi, came. It took me some time to teach her, but she is very smart and got it right quickly."

Huo Shiyan looked at Yuan Xi and said, "It seems that you are very satisfied with the new secretary?"

"Seeing her reminded me of myself when I just graduated from school. I was very confused at that time, and my future was uncertain. Many fresh graduates did not have high salaries, and most of my classmates chose to take postgraduate entrance exams. I was also afraid that I would not be able to find a suitable job."

Huo Shiyan asked: "Why don't you take the postgraduate entrance examination?"

Yuan Xi was helpless. "We had no money at that time. After my adoptive parents passed away, my grandparents' relatives took away all the inheritance left by my adoptive parents. My grandmother's family also had some problems at home and could not take care of themselves. It was not easy for me to finish four years of college."

Huo Shiyan frowned slightly, "Shi Lei and Liang Suisui's families are not bad, didn't their families help you?"

Yuan Xi said: "We can't always rely on their family for help. Even if they are our best friends, we can't keep borrowing money from them with a clear conscience.

I usually pay them back when I make money from my part-time job. They are indeed not short of money, but the income from the cloth factory is not very good. It was all earned by Uncle Liang and Uncle Shi through hard work. I am also afraid that I owe too much and cannot pay it back. "

"Working part-time was tiring at that time. I was busy with schoolwork during the weekdays, and it was not easy to earn fifty dollars a day working part-time. I could earn more by tutoring children during the winter and summer vacations, but it was barely enough to cover tuition and book fees. If I continued to study for a master's degree, I don't know how many more cups of milk tea I would have to shake, and how many favors I would owe them. I don't want to shake milk tea anymore..." Yuan Xi didn't expect to mention the past that she didn't want to recall in front of Huo Shiyan.

She was really poor at that time, but fortunately, all the people she knew were good people.

Her roommates never looked down on her because of her poverty. When they learned that she was an orphan, they took the initiative to suggest that she spent less time in the dormitory and only needed to pay a small amount of electricity bill.

When he saw Yuan Xi wearing the same clothes for a long time, he would deliberately buy clothes one size larger and say that they couldn't fit into them. He used coupons to get a very cheap price, but he was too lazy to return the goods, so he gave them to her.

Huo Shiyan looked at Yuan Xi: "Don't you want to ask Brother Zhuangzhuang for help?"

Yuan Xi said, "Him? I don't even have his contact information, and he hasn't contacted me either. Besides, we haven't seen each other for more than six years. How could I have the nerve to ask him for help? He would have to pay me back for the help he gave me."

Huo Shiyan drove onto the overpass and gripped the steering wheel tightly. He could never have imagined that Yuan Xi would stop studying because of poverty.

It is also unimaginable that she would have such a period of poverty.

It's not that he didn't come back to look for Yuan Xi. He hadn't been able to contact Yuan Xi since his first year of high school, so he flew back in a hurry. At that time, Yuan Xi lived on campus and the school did not allow outsiders to enter.

Huo Shiyan finally waited until the weekend, and what he saw was Yuan Xi and a boy walking side by side, and he heard Yuan Xi's classmates say that they were a couple.

At that time, Huo Shiyan thought that Yuan Xi didn't want to contact him anymore, but he still didn't ask his family to change the landline phone. Nowadays, few people still have landline telephones at home.

But Huo Shiyan still did not allow the family to remove the telephone. He thought Yuan Xi would call him when she needed him.

Later, when Huo Shiyan was 20 years old, he returned to Huxi Village once. At that time, Shi Lei and the others were not there.

Huo Shiyan went to Yuan Xi's home, and was told that Yuan Xi had moved away, and he didn't know where. Because he was in a hurry to go back to school, he didn't continue looking for her.

Huo Shiyan thought that if he had continued looking at that time and found where Yuan Xi was, or even just met her once and learned about her situation, she would not have almost been unable to graduate from college because of money during her four years.

"sorry."

When Yuan Xi heard Huo Shiyan say the word "I'm sorry", she was a little puzzled, "Why are you saying sorry to me?"

Huo Shiyan said: "I'm sorry that I didn't meet you when you needed help the most. If I had met you when you were in college, you wouldn't have had that difficult time in your life, and you wouldn't have been unable to continue your studies."

Yuan Xi was stunned, then she smiled slowly, "Mr. Huo, if I had met you in college, we would never have been together. At that time, I would have felt that you were like a star in the sky that was out of my reach."

Huo Shiyan also chuckled and turned on the music in the car, "That was a very sad time, right?"

Yuan Xi listened to the soothing music and said, "It's actually not that bad. Life is not that hard. I know that even if I don't work, Shi Lei Sui Sui will always be there to support me.

My roommate is a very nice person, and my part-time boss is also very nice. In fact, there are still many good people in this society. When they learned that I was an orphan, many people treated me kindly.

Only... the only time I felt wronged and collapsed was after a rain. It was raining heavily that day and business was slow. We still had a lot of snacks and tea, so we waited until very late before closing. On the way back to the dormitory, Chu Yan, who was driving a Bugatti, splashed mud all over me.

At that time, I was thinking, this world is really a shithole. I shook Chu Yan's Bugatti so hard that my hands cramped and I couldn't get it out. I had obviously tried very hard to live, but she still splashed me with mud.

My roommate couldn't stand it, so he helped me post a confession wall to accuse Chu Yan, but other people's comments on the confession wall said that our dormitory was jealous of Chu Yan's wealth, jealous that Chu Yan was the daughter of the richest man in Jiangcheng, and that there were ugly people in our dormitory who were misbehaving, and that it was not uncommon to be splashed with water, but she was still so hypocritical...

Even though they knew that those were most likely Chu Yan's minions, a group of snobs still flattered Chu Yan.

But at that moment, looking at the clothes splashed with mud and water, the grievances, depression and fatigue of more than two years made me completely collapse. Later, I convinced myself that Chu Yan was just lucky and there was no need for me to collapse. I should just continue to work hard to live my life well.

I just didn’t expect that God would play such a big joke on me. I am the daughter of the Chu family…”

Yuan Xi laughed and placed her hand on her belly. "It's hard for me to get along well with Chu Yan. I feel hypocritical if I say I'm not jealous of her. Even if she is a fake adopted daughter, I hate her. I know that if it were a novel, a real daughter like me who hates the fake adopted daughter would not have a good ending, but I just hate Chu Yan..."