20 years of restarting life

Chapter 3511 Xiao Zijie

Zhao Chang'an walked along the dark alley towards the main street, his mind filled with thoughts of Liu Dandan's charming appearance.

As the top five-star hotel in the province, its lobby staff, from the welcoming ladies at the entrance to the female front desk staff responsible for check-in, and the lobby manager in charge, are all carefully selected.

First, there's the physical appearance and height; they also need fair skin, a beautiful face, long legs, a full bust, and a good temperament. There are strict standards for emotional intelligence, IQ, and personality as well.

Any receptionist girl dressed in a uniform blazer, black stockings, high heels, and delicate makeup would easily outshine everyone else walking through the streets and alleys of the mountain city. Liu Dandan was an outstanding one among them.

Zhao Chang'an dared not say how he could make a man willingly become a brick or a screw in his machine.

However, he has a strong ability to control women, especially young women.

With the rapid development of nanometer technology, the demand for outstanding talent is huge, and relying on the company's own training and reserves is definitely not enough to keep up.

Therefore, the best approach is to find readily available talent from these outstanding large companies.

However, how to cultivate employees' identification with and sense of belonging to the company and improve team cohesion is a problem that needs to be taken seriously.

OneNanometer has always tried its best to do this well, providing five social insurances and one housing fund, family care, annual team building trips, and a lifetime employment system.

However, these are clearly far from enough to retain truly core employees, because they can easily achieve these conditions by changing jobs or starting their own businesses and using the increase in income.

Therefore, many of the core employees of Zhao Chang'an's One Nano Holdings are young and beautiful women.

For example, Tang Shuang, Xia Wenzhuo, Shu Mei, Bian Yingying, Jing Yongwei, and Zhou Kexin—some of these women were his women, won over by his handsome looks, gentleness, thoughtfulness, charm, and exceptional abilities, coupled with his gentlemanly conduct. Others were manipulated not through vulgar physical contact, but through a combination of spiritual and material influence, subtly shaping their behavior.

Women like these are more deserving of Zhao Chang'an's trust and even the right to grant them significant autonomy.

Just like with Tang Shuang and Xia Wenzhuo, although Xia Wenzhuo still maintains a strong sense of independence deep down, and perhaps some of the things she does do do not make Zhao Chang'an happy or satisfied, her purpose is ultimately for his own good, and she also knows that Zhao Chang'an's Achilles' heel is the beautiful women he likes to play with.

The fact that Liu Dandan was able to rise from a front desk customer service representative to a lobby manager in just two years speaks volumes about her skill and ability. Zhao Chang'an was willing to give her a chance to join OneNanometer.

However, if she wants to climb higher, besides demonstrating her abilities after taking office, she also needs to be "tested" by Zhao Chang'an to prove that what she implied in her words—that she doesn't have a boyfriend yet—is true.

At the entrance of the alley, Zhao Chang'an hailed a taxi and told Shan Qiang the name of a shopping mall near the upscale residential area where she lived.

As the car drove past the hotel's main entrance, Zhao Chang'an saw several people carrying long-range telephoto lenses and video cameras getting into a car with the name of a local newspaper written on it.

After driving for a while, the taxi arrived at the shopping mall near the residential area where Shan Qiang lived. At this time, the entire mall was already closed, but most of the shops on the street were still open, and there were quite a few people shopping.

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Zhao Chang'an dialed Yan Na's number on the roadside next to the residential area.

"Hey?"

"There's an internet cafe called Tulip on the left side of this road near the entrance of the residential area. Come pick me up."

"You weren't driving."

"No." "I'm not in the residential area, I'm in the provincial compound. Jiang Xian and I are in the car."

As soon as Yan Na mentioned it, Zhao Chang'an knew that Shan Qiang had gone to see Xiao Xuecheng.

"Okay, I'll go to the internet cafe and play for a while. Call me when you guys come back, I'll wait outside."

"You'd better not go in. The owner of that internet cafe is a fan of yours. The whole place is covered with your posters."

Given Yan Na's status, it's impossible for her to say, "I'll call Shan Cai and have her drive out to pick you up." However, she gave this information to Zhao Chang'an, letting him choose for himself.

Jiang Xian, who was standing nearby, said, "Boss Shan probably won't be out for at least two or three hours. Pei Pingjiang is also there, so it'll probably take several rounds."

Xiao Xuecheng doesn't have many hobbies, except for playing mahjong. However, he never plays for money; he plays completely without any stakes. In his words, playing mahjong for money isn't real mahjong; it's gambling. Real mahjong is about winning, and that's what makes it a hobby.

Others playing mahjong with him will feel less pressured, as they won't feel the need to deliberately avoid winning or feed him tiles just to avoid losing his money.

It's only a little past eight o'clock in the evening. Since Shan Qiang has just arrived at Xiao Xuecheng's house and Pei Pingjiang is also there, it's impossible for her to come out without playing mahjong for two or three hours.

"okay, I get it."

After hanging up the phone, Zhao Chang'an had nowhere to go for the time being, so he simply strolled around the roadside and saw a gold shop that was still open and had quite a few people browsing jewelry, so he decided to go in and take a look.

His bag always contained various small gifts, which he had used up quite a bit during this trip back to Shancheng. He decided to go in and replenish some so he could give them to Xia Wenzhuo, Qiu Jinhui, or other female acquaintances when he got to Xingcheng.

For them, these things bought in the country are actually more precious.

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"Wow~"

The sound of mahjong tiles clattering.

Xiao Xuecheng, Shan Qiang, Pei Pingjiang, Xie Yuan, and several others were playing mahjong and talking in a small room on the second floor that was specifically used as a game room.

Despite his young age, Xiao Zijie, being quite precocious, squeezed into the corner of the table between his mother and Shan Qiang. He pulled up a stool, watched the two players' hands, and subtly hinted to Shan Qiang what hand his mother wanted to win.

"Confused!"

Shan Qiang actually also likes playing mahjong that doesn't involve making money; it feels more relaxing. Otherwise, she would be tired of calculating who would win and who would lose. She smiled and pushed the tiles in front of her.

"If you give your aunt that kind of hint again, go to the balcony and look at the moon!"

Xiao Xuecheng smiled and said something to his son, then said to Pei Pingjiang, "This kid doesn't usually like watching mahjong games, but when his Aunt Shan comes over, he likes to watch and he even tells her everything."

“I held him when he was a baby. Back then, Xiao Xie didn’t have enough breast milk, and Shan Cai couldn’t eat much, so I fed him a lot. I was like his second mother.”

Shan Qiang said to Xiao Zijie, "Your sister Shan Cai is bored at home all by herself. Go over and keep her company. It's been a year since you two last met, right? The last time you met was last Spring Festival."

"I'll go to my aunt's house with my mom tomorrow to visit relatives. I don't care about playing mahjong; I mainly want to listen to you all talk. I've learned a lot from it."