Soft-centered strawberry cake

Chapter 21 What's the use of being handsome!

As the company's situation gradually improved, competition between the Product Planning Department and the Planning Department 1 and 2 resumed.

"Two tigers cannot share one mountain." As they passed the fork in the road leading to the planning department, Li Anwen said in a sarcastic tone, "You know, people need a bit of luck. The kids in our department all have some talent."

This was clearly meant for Su Qian, the head of the second planning department. Su Qian turned around and walked towards Li Anwen without showing any weakness.

"He has talent, it's a pity..."

Susie wore a black and white striped casual suit, and her burgundy short hair accentuated her flamboyant personality. The six-pointed star diamond earrings she wore perfectly matched her aura.

"What's a pity?" Li Anwen asked with a displeased expression.

Susie sneered, "It can only be understood, not explained..."

The people in the second department could tell at a glance that a war between the two supervisors was about to break out.

However, just then, Cai Haiyun walked into the product planning department. As soon as Li Anwen saw Cai Haiyun, he quickly walked up to her with a fawning expression.

"Uncle Cai, what brings you to our planning department?"

Cai Haiyun wasn't buying Li Anwen's act. "Please invite your General Manager Fu over here. I have something to convey."

"Okay, okay..." Li Anwen nodded repeatedly, and then he scurried off to Fu Baiqing's office.

At the fork in the road, only Cai Haiyun and Su Qian remained. Su Qian politely looked at Cai Haiyun and asked, "Secretary-General Cai, did President Pei have a new task to assign you since you came to our planning department in person today?"

Cai Haiyun nodded slightly. Susie's sense of boundaries was much better than Li Anwen's, and Cai Haiyun's attitude towards her was relatively better. "This is not good news for you."

Susie frowned slightly. Could it be that the planning proposal that the Planning Department II had worked so hard on was doomed?
"What wind blew you here in our planning department today, Uncle Cai?"

Following the voice of the person speaking, Cai Haiyun turned around and looked at Fu Baiqing.

When Fu Baiqing walked up to her, Cai Haiyun said politely, "President Fu, I came to the planning department to tell you that the proposal for the new product has been cancelled. President Pei has his own ideas."

"Cancel?" Fu Baiqing was the first to be dissatisfied with Pei Ming's approach. He knew how much effort and dedication went into planning a proposal.

"Yes, it just so happens that the core members of your product planning department are all here. You all heard me correctly." Cai Haiyun's expression was very calm. He knew that the product planning department would be unwilling to give up.

"What is President Pei's idea? As the secretary-general of Ming Dong, are you just going to let President Pei arbitrarily halt our planning department's proposal?"

Cai Haiyun knew that Fu Baiqing was deliberately bringing up Minghui, so he calmly replied, "Now President Pei is the highest decision-maker in the entire Ming Group. He has the final say in everything. Besides, he is doing this for the company's benefit."

"Uncle Cai, our planning department works so hard every day, and now the project has been halted. President Pei has to give us all an explanation!"

Li Anwen deliberately raised his voice so that most of the people in the planning department could hear that Pei Ming was going to cancel all the hard work they had put in over the past few days.

"Do more, question less, and we'll see in a few days." Cai Haiyun left with these few words and then walked away.

Watching Cai Haiyun leave the planning department, Fu Baiqing could only swallow his anger, and he also had to appease everyone in the planning department on Pei Ming's behalf.

Upon hearing the news, Mingwei remained remarkably calm, while Qifei, who was sitting next to her at her workstation, was furious.

"I worked so hard on this project proposal, and President Pei just canceled it like that! What does he mean by that?! Why is he causing trouble so soon after he arrived?!"

At this moment, no matter how handsome he was, it didn't matter. Qi Fei just felt that CEO Pei Ming was really annoying!
"I've been losing clumps of hair working on this project, and now they're telling me it's canceled! I'm just..."

Mingwei also joined Qi Fei in criticizing Pei Ming, and this criticism came from her heart.

"Because of this proposal, I even canceled my movie date with my girlfriend. I should have just gone on a date!" A colleague sitting not far away chimed in. Currently, the entire planning department is filled with complaints about Pei Ming.

"I'll never say he's handsome again. What's the use of being handsome if he's so heartless!" Qi Fei was so angry she was practically fuming.

"Alright, alright, stop being angry. Let's order some milk tea to calm down," Ming Wei said, taking out her phone and opening the food delivery app.

Qi Fei blurted out without any hesitation, "I want a bold gardenia melon drink, with ice! To cool down!"

"Come on, everyone, order whatever you want to drink. Everyone, calm down..." Ming Wei said, then handed her phone to the other colleagues.

The group usually orders milk tea for each other, so Mingwei's actions today didn't raise any eyebrows among her colleagues.

However, Ming Wei herself was overthinking it.

Pei Ming, you heartless person! If it weren't to comfort the poor folks in our planning department, I wouldn't have bought milk tea for everyone!

You just wait until dinner tonight!

At the Ming family mansion, after seeing off the Pei couple, Ming Chengze was alone in his studio, holding a palette and painting an unfinished oil painting.

There was a knock on the door. Ming Chengze thought it was Aunt Wu and replied gently, "Come in."

The footsteps didn't make Ming Chengze turn around; he assumed it was Aunt Wu bringing him juice.

"Young Master Ming, I apologize for disturbing your creative process."

The slightly familiar voice made Ming Chengze turn around, and he saw that not far behind him was Pei Ming's assistant, Du Lian.

"Young Master Ming, do you remember me? We just met this morning."

Ming Chengze recalled what had happened that morning. The person in front of him had brought Pei Ming to the Ming family home with the suit that Pei Ming needed to wear to work, and then drove Pei Ming to the company.

“You’re Pei Ming’s assistant,” Ming Chengze put down his paintbrush and palette. “Did Pei Ming send you to find me?”

"Yes, Mr. Pei said he hopes you can cooperate with him for company matters."

"How do we cooperate?" Ming Chengze casually sat down, then pointed to the chair next to him, indicating that Du Lian should also sit down.

Du Lian was not at all reserved. He moved a high stool and sat down next to Ming Chengze. "Now open your short video app, then open the second most popular video, and reply to the girl with the most popular comment that you will give her the painting you drew."

"Pei Ming wants to continue using me to generate buzz, right?" Ming Chengze said, but he still did as he was told.

That's roughly the idea.

"Then he asked you to contact this girl privately in the company's name, find out her home address, and send her my painting, right?" Ming Chengze's gaze fell on his painting; he quite liked the one he was going to send.

The painting depicts several children playing together in a garden under the bright sunshine, with each child's face beaming with a happy smile.

"Young Master Ming, you're really smart!" Du Lian casually flattered Ming Chengze.

"Stop calling me 'you' and 'young master' all the time. You're a few years older than me, it sounds really awkward."

Du Lian thought that Ming Chengze's easygoing and approachable nature made him think that this young master of the Ming family was not a bad person. He couldn't help but think that it would be easy for Pei Ming to win over this brother-in-law.

(End of this chapter)