20 years of restarting life

Chapter 3787 Betting a Month's Salary

For a woman, a beautiful face, a graceful figure, and fair skin are certainly important physical attributes. However, beyond these physical attributes, a woman's knowledge, talent, personality, eloquence, temperament, confidence, intelligence, and emotional intelligence are equally important.

For successful people like Zhao Chang'an, beautiful women are no longer a scarce or sought-after resource. If he wants to have fun, he can party every night and be a groom from the beginning to the end of the year without ever having the same woman twice.

He'd be more interested in a woman who, in addition to being beautiful, has an interesting soul, or who comes with unique attributes and a compelling backstory.

For example, there are Shan Qiang and Shan Cai, Su Rongrong and Ju Han, Zhang Xiaowei and Zhang Qinying, Hu Qian's love for women and her disdain for her husband Xiao Zhou, Xu Mei's middle-aged appearance and how much her daughter resembles Li Shiya, and Qi Xiaoqin's lightness as if she could dance on his strong palm—

Just like Qiao Yan, who is only of average appearance, but as a woman in her twenties who is still breastfeeding, this attribute makes Zhao Chang'an willing to take time out of his busy schedule to test her depth and background.

Lin Xiaojie in front of me seems to have a vague sense of this. If it were an ordinary girl, being tormented and bullied like this by Zhao Chang'an, a man she still doesn't know, no matter what she thinks in her heart, her tender face would make her deliberately tense up and appear very serious and angry, needing Zhao Chang'an to appease and coax her.

The problem is, how could Zhao Chang'an possibly have the time and energy to please and coax a woman who is actually insignificant?

Therefore, sometimes a clear and well-defined positioning, and doing things that align with one's identity and logic within that positioning, is the only way to stand out among many women.

In contrast, there are foolish women like Song Jing and Xue Yunzhu. Every time they do something, Song Jing acts as if she is being forced by Zhao Chang'an, glaring at him resentfully. Xue Yunzhu, on the other hand, is wary of Zhao Chang'an in this and that, and only now does she seem to have a little bit of a clear understanding.

"Are you taking me to Zhengzhou?"

Lin Xiaojie was somewhat hesitant and not entirely convinced.

“I can’t not take you. Do you really want to stay in Jiangcheng for half a month, with the rain drizzling down like the plum rain season?”

Lin Xiaojie gritted her teeth and didn't reply.

"We arrived in Zhengzhou in the evening, so we stayed at a hotel near the airport. We'll leave the next day, and you can stay here. The hotel is very close to the Zhengzhou No.1 Nano headquarters in the Airport Economic Zone, which will make it convenient for me to visit you. After we've settled things, I'll take you around Zhengzhou when I have time. I don't think there's a more suitable position for you in Jiangcheng, but there's a huge shortage of manpower in Zhengzhou. You don't need to learn any secretarial skills or computer document operation; that's too low a starting point."

Zhao Chang'an said to Lin Xiaojie, "You should start as an assistant. You're so smart and quick to learn. We don't expect you to be quick or outstanding at first. Just observe and learn slowly, consider it as training talent for Yi Nanmi Zheng Shiqun. What do you think?"

Lin Xiaojie knew, of course, that Zhao Chang'an genuinely wanted to help her, and said to him earnestly, "Thank you."

"It's not a matter of thanks. I think your abilities are quite good, so I'm willing to use some resources to cultivate and reserve talent for the company. This is a two-way street, helping and supporting each other. For a company, technological advantages, a reasonable and scalable corporate structure, and the correct direction of senior management are all very important and have high barriers to entry."

When Zhao Chang'an talked about work again, he was still quite composed: "For example, Siemens' technological leadership in the chip field is a competitive advantage that not just any company can possess. The characteristic collective enterprises in Nanjie Village represent a type of corporate structure they chose. Xinfei Refrigerator Factory was on the verge of bankruptcy, and they made a desperate move by building a refrigerator production line—this was a directional choice made by the top management. These things place high demands on the people who implement them. However, for the middle and senior management employees within the company, as long as there are no technical barriers or thresholds, basically as long as they are smart and can control their emotions, they can handle most leadership positions. The difference is just that they perform averagely, well, relatively well, or poorly. So you have absolutely no need to worry that you cannot be competent."

"I'm going to Zhengzhou to see him."

However, Lin Xiaojie suddenly said this.

"What good would it do to see him? Question him about why he lied to you and acted like an ingrate? What's the point?" Zhao Chang'an wasn't surprised by Lin Xiaojie's words. It was only natural. If she really let this matter go and suffered this loss after arriving in Zhengzhou, then her personality would be far too weak.

Lin Xiaojie was silent for a moment before saying, "A man like that, no matter how many reasons he has, are just excuses for his selfishness and being forced into it. I want to ask that woman, is a man like that really worth her going to such lengths to steal him?"

"Do you know which woman he was with?"

"I'm not sure, but I came here once when he was a sophomore. I shared a room with one of his female classmates for those two nights. She was very pretty and rich. In her dorm room, there was a computer worth over 10,000 yuan, a laptop worth over 30,000 yuan, and a cell phone worth over 10,000 yuan. She also had a network cable in her dorm room, which she installed herself. She was from Muye and I heard she had many relatives in Zhengzhou."

Lin Xiaojie seemed reluctant to mention that girl's name. When she spoke of it, there was no resentment in her voice, but rather an envy that she herself was unwilling to admit.

"I just want to ask her, is a guy like that worth her fighting with me for?"

"I think you've misunderstood. I'd bet you a month's salary that this woman and that ingrate you're talking about are definitely not in that kind of relationship."

"why?"

Lin Xiaojie was clearly unconvinced.

"Just tell me if you dare to bet."

"I'd bet, but I don't have the money."

"Then you can pay off your debt with your body, I won't mind."

Lin Xiaojie clenched her fists, feeling an urge to smash Zhao Chang'an's head, which was sticking out from behind the driver's seat, like playing whack-a-mole.

"She's beautiful, rich, lives nearby, has relatives in Zhengzhou, and most importantly, she has the ability to get an internet connection installed in her dorm room—something money can't buy. Even if she's a little slow on the uptake, her family and parents aren't stupid."

Zhao Chang'an and Lin Xiaojie explained.

As a negative example, there was Zheng Xi back then. She was beautiful and her family was wealthy, but she went to school in Jinan. She was a lonely girl who didn't know much and was very naive. Zheng Wenzheng was just a scholar who made money by selling calligraphy. He had some money but no power.

So during his daughter's first winter break, he took Xu Songlin to Zhengzhou to transfer trains back to Runing Prefecture. They stayed at her house for one night. Although Zheng Wenzheng, who was rich but not powerful, had already sensed that something was wrong, he was not capable enough to threaten or warn Xu Songlin and his parents in a small town in Runing Prefecture, let alone warn Xu Songlin in Quancheng.

Therefore, Xu Songlin brazenly seduced Zheng Xi little by little at school, tried to find opportunities to force himself on her, and then fattened her up to become an obese woman during their university years.

Zheng Wenzheng understood the situation perfectly well, yet he was utterly helpless.