Return to 88: Starting from Marrying My Sister-in-law

Pengcheng.

In the CEO's office, Xu Si, having just hung up the phone, pouted, looking somewhat sullen.

Turning to Wei Shu, who was bent over signing a document, he said, "President, our boss still refuses to come back. He says it's just a topping-out ceremony, nothing more than a few hardships, and that... he feels at ease with you around."

Upon hearing this, Wei Shu looked up and said, "I guess he won't come back. Given his personality, he won't come back to join in the fun unless it's an occasion that absolutely requires him. But I'm the group president, and he's the group chairman. Even if I know he won't come back, I still have to send this greeting."

"Oh, oh!"

Xu Siqi nodded somewhat disappointedly.

The chairman is not here.

As a chairman's secretary, she clocked in and out at work every day from nine to five, but she always felt empty inside.

Perhaps they could also tell that she was in a low mood.

Wei Shu suddenly brushed her bangs aside and said with a smile, "How about this, I'll give you a task too, you go on a business trip, how about that?"

Xu Siqi's watery eyes lit up at the question, "Where are we going? To the capital?"

Wei Shu shook her head.

Xu Siqi looked disappointed. She said "Oh," and then lowered her head dejectedly.

Wei Shu smiled and said, "Although we're not going to the capital, if you're lucky, you might be able to meet your boss on this trip."

This girl is a bit clingy.

But as long as it's not her who gets stuck there, she's happy to see this joke.

Anyway, the boss has plenty of debts and isn't afraid of being burdened by them.

I owe too many emotional debts.

Still? Who knows what the boss is thinking.

Xu Siqi looked up: "Really?"

"Of course it's true."

Wei Shu rummaged through the pile of documents on her desk, pulled out a file, opened it, and handed it to the other person. "Look, this is the invitation to Wan Yan Electronics' annual shareholders' meeting this year."

Xu Siqi took the invitation from her hand.

She leaned back in her executive chair, her arms clasped together in front of her chest, and said, "Our CEO Lu and CEO Jiang of Wanyan Electronics don't get along. They can't even see eye to eye. Now, CEO Jiang doesn't take our CEO Lu seriously either. He's been acting arbitrarily at several shareholders' meetings. And now our CEO Lu doesn't bother to flatter him anymore."

"They originally wanted me to go there."

"As for me, I don't want to go there and become a parasite. Anyway, I can't control Wan Yan Electronics' development path, so let him run rampant like a brute."

"The headquarters building is about to be topped out, and I can't get away. You can go on behalf of President Lu as the chairman's secretary. It will be polite and won't make people think we're looking down on them."

"But I remembered it."

"Just go, and keep your mouth shut. No matter what nice things this Mr. Jiang says, don't respond, and don't make any promises."

"Mr. Lu is right. Let's just stand by and watch: watch him entertain guests, watch him have a full house of friends, and watch his building collapse. If we endure this for another three to five years, someone will naturally hand over this mess to us."

"what?"

Xu Siqi didn't quite understand.

Since it's already a mess, why bother with it? Why can't we just take it and not have it?

Wei Shu smiled and said, "You don't need to worry about that. The boss has a plan in place. All you need to know is that this time you only bring your ears with you. Keep your mouth shut. Whatever you hear, come back and tell me or your boss exactly what you hear. Understand?"

The task is simple; as long as no one is deliberately causing trouble, they should be able to complete it successfully.

Xu Siqi nodded. "Oh, but isn't the boss in Beijing? If I go to Xincheng to attend Wanyan Electronics' annual shareholders' meeting, will I really be able to run into him?"

Wei Shu looked inscrutable and said, "That's hard to say. Just go ahead and do it."

Some things are better left unsaid. If they were, the girl on the other side would probably be even more disappointed.

Lu Yang has been very careful about his whereabouts in recent years, with professional bodyguards like Xiao Jiu and A Long by his side. He can keep his secret from others, but he can't hide it from her, the president of Century Group.

Give the simplest example.

Lu Yang loves to shop.

Wherever they go, they buy several buildings in that city.

If you don't have much money.

Of course, I'll pay for it myself out of my own pocket.

However, if it's a luxury villa, and he buys several at once, often for tens of millions of dollars, even if Lu Yang is not short of money, he will usually go through a company account for such large sums of money, because going through a company account can reduce or exempt some taxes!
This is why many CEOs or their sons, the rich second generation, own dozens of cars, but these cars are all registered under the company's name. This way, they can offset part of the value-added tax and reduce part of the corporate income tax. So they buy cars every year, which is equivalent to using money that should have been handed over to the country, and then paying a little more themselves, to get a luxury car or a mansion that they like for free.

Moreover, this is not a case of killing two birds with one stone. In addition, the company has acquired a number of luxury cars or mansions, which is equivalent to increasing the company's fixed asset investment.

If one day you owe money to the bank, or the company encounters any difficulties, you can use these cars and houses as collateral to mortgage the bank or creditors.

Lu Yang owns many houses in Shenzhen, Shanghai, Beijing, Changsha, and even Chengdu. These include detached villas, townhouses, and most commonly, commercial apartments of about 100 square meters in an entire building.

Some of the properties were bought for family vacations, while others were purchased as fixed asset investments for the company.

To manage these properties across the country, the group even established a dedicated housing rental company.

He rents out, maintains, and manages the assets of some of the properties owned by Lu Yang that he himself doesn't like or would never live in.

Wei Shu has been the female president of this group for quite some time now.

She was there as soon as the group was established.

Therefore, whenever there are large sums of money flowing in or out of the group, she, as the female president, is definitely fully aware of it.

Of course, if that's the case, she couldn't possibly know exactly how many women were around Lu Yang.

The key is Lu Yang's villa in Xingcheng.

I was in a hurry when I bought it.

Because his father-in-law was hospitalized in the provincial capital due to a cerebral hemorrhage, and his family needed a place to stay in the provincial capital, and Lu Yang had originally planned to give his father-in-law the villa for his recuperation when he was discharged. However, his wife couldn't bear to leave her father alone in Xingcheng, so she just abandoned him.

When the whole family moved to Shenzhen.

Lu Yang then used his connections to arrange for his father-in-law to stay in a retirement home for retired cadres not far from his villa in Pengcheng.

However, at the time, the villa was registered under the company's accounts, and it happened to be connected with Wei Shu, the then female president of the group, and Du Lingling, the newly appointed deputy head of Xincheng Tianfu District.

It was Du Lingling's connections that helped Lu Yang quickly acquire this large villa, which was considered a luxury residence in 93.

When Du Lingling was on temporary assignment in Zhaoxian County, Lu Yang benefited greatly from her connections, securing many stalls in the Zhaoxian Small Commodities Wholesale Market and the open-pit coal mine behind the village. If it weren't for Du Lingling's support, Lu Yang, a small private business owner who lacked both official connections and capital compared to state-owned enterprises, would definitely not have been able to compete with her.

Afterwards, Du Lingling was transferred to the city to serve as the first director of the Economic Development Zone.

In return, Lu Yang immediately went to the other party's territory, bought a large piece of land, and built the Little Genius Electronics Factory.

After the Little Genius learning machine became a huge hit and sold nationwide, it directly revitalized the entire Economic Development Zone.

To help someone get promoted.

Of course, if things had only progressed to this point, it could be understood as a mutually beneficial tacit understanding between businessmen and local leaders.

However, it is clear that their relationship went beyond that.

Less than two years later, Du Lingling was promoted to the provincial capital and became the deputy head of Tianfu District in Changsha City. At the same time, Lu Yang's next big project, Wanyan Electronics Group, with an investment of over 100 million yuan, was also poached by Lu Yang from the neighboring provincial capital and settled in Tianfu District Science and Technology Park, which was under Du Lingling's jurisdiction shortly after she took office.

It's hard for outsiders to imagine such things. Only Wei Shu, who has been working alongside Lu Yang since graduation and holds a key position, would know all about it.

Because she participated in every single investment, except for the initial one where Lu Yang used the money he earned from treasury bonds to buy a stall in the county's small commodity wholesale market—a transaction in which she did not participate.

So if you say that these two people are completely innocent and have no romantic relationship whatsoever, whether others believe it or not is none of Wei Shu's business, but she doesn't believe it at all.

There is another very important piece of evidence.

Every time Lu Yang goes on a business trip, if he goes to other cities, the signal is always clear. But whenever he goes to Xingcheng, there will always be a week or ten days when his phone is unanswered.

To get in touch with the chairman of the group, one must first contact his personal assistant or bodyguard and have them relay the message.

Even she, the female president of the group, was no exception, which shows how much the group chairman kept her itinerary secret during those days.

But the more this was the case, the more Wei Shu, who knew all the core secrets, saw it as a cover-up, full of loopholes.

Of course, she never thought of interfering in her boss's personal life. A man who isn't a bit of a playboy in his youth is wasting his youth, especially a man as capable as her boss. Once a man becomes capable, women will flock to him like butterflies drawn to pollen.

The difference is that some people only choose a few that they like.

Some people welcome everyone.

The boss is considered good; he only selects a few he likes, adhering to the principle of "better to have none than to have bad ones," and doesn't really mess around. He accepts any woman who pounces on him.

As far as she knew, everyone in the company could probably see the love that Secretary Xu had for her boss in her eyes.

But the boss seemed completely oblivious, a total chauvinist.

Is it because the boss is blind?

surely not.

That can only mean it was intentional.

Secretary Xu has a great figure, a beautiful face, and a high level of education. She is also very young, and as far as she knows, her family background is definitely worthy of the boss.

It's said that rabbits don't eat the grass near their burrows.

But the boss is putting this into practice too well!
later……

Wei Shucai gradually learned that Secretary Xu and Sister Du, who was now the deputy district head in Xingcheng, were actually relatives.

So I began to feel some sympathy for Secretary Xu.

Why did you have to fall in love with a married man, who is also your aunt's secret lover?

Xu Siqi was unaware of the situation and couldn't understand the sympathy in Wei Shu's eyes. However, since it was a task assigned by the president, even though she was the chairman's secretary, she had no choice but to do it since the chairman was not in the company.

"Well, then I'm leaving."

She stepped back while holding the documents.

“Go ahead, you’ll see when you get there. If it doesn’t work out, just treat it as a business trip or a vacation. The boss won’t stay in Beijing for long; he’ll have to come back sooner or later to personally oversee the group’s headquarters. Besides, once our Century Tower is topped out, the interior decoration will start quickly. I estimate that we’ll move in to work within the year, or at the latest, early next year.”

Xu Siqi thought it made a lot of sense!
If we wait until then, the boss can't possibly stay in his courtyard house in Beijing and refuse to come back, can he?

So she said happily, "Sister, you know so much. No wonder the boss always tells me to learn from you. I will definitely ask you for advice whenever I have time. You mustn't refuse to teach me."

She's been spending a lot of time at the group's headquarters lately, and given her somewhat special status, she's gotten quite familiar with Wei Shu.

They've taken advantage of the situation and stopped calling him "CEO," now they call him "sister."

Wei Shu stood up to see her off, saying, "Alright, as long as you want to learn, I will definitely teach you. Besides, in terms of academic qualifications, you graduated from Peking University, while I only graduated from Guangzhou University. You are the graduate of a prestigious university. All I can teach you is some business negotiation experience. If you study hard, I believe you will be able to master it soon. Then I will give you my position as president."

It was a joke.

Xu Siqi was so frightened that she waved her hands repeatedly, "No, no, I can't be the CEO, sister, please spare me. If you say that, then I won't study anymore."

Her adorable appearance made Wei Shu cover her mouth and laugh. "Just kidding. Alright, hurry up and go. Book an afternoon flight so you can land in Xingcheng before dark, get a good night's rest, and recharge for this treacherous shareholders' meeting."

"Yes."

Xu Siqi stood with her legs together and saluted, saying, "I guarantee I'll complete the mission. The trap isn't a big deal. I'm only bringing my ears. Even if that President Jiang is fierce, I... I'll just pretend to be asleep, hehe..."

Wei Shu patted her shoulder encouragingly, "Keep it up. When you come back from this trip, I'll ask the chairman to promote you."

Xu Siqi immediately looked distressed, "Sister, can we make a deal? I... I don't want a promotion, I'll just stay as the chairman's secretary."

As she spoke, she blushed and lowered her head in embarrassment.

Wei Shu shook her head.

There's nothing more to say. Why be so infatuated? (End of Chapter)