I will never give in to Miss Death

Ouyang Xue looked at me as if I were a child. "It's not that scary actually. But the performance of that computer company was not very good before I went there. It was a small company with no reputation. When the contract company arranged for me to go there, they didn't think I could accomplish anything big, and the price they offered was very, very low."

"Then I don't know if it was because the virtual idols they hired had good-looking suits or something, but the response was pretty good after a few months of broadcasting. Many people who don't know much about computers often came to the live broadcast room to ask about the laptops here, and if there is a problem, can they be repaired or returned? I patiently answered their questions, and slowly over the months, their company's poster girl account gained more and more followers. In addition, it was close to 618 and the college entrance examination was over, so many people wanted to buy computers, and the sales in the store suddenly increased."

"oh oh."

I pretended to listen carefully: "What happened next?"

"Then in October, the computer company held a celebration party. The leader asked me, the 'foreign aid', to speak on stage and asked me if I had any suggestions for the company's future. I spoke boldly and said that we could launch a new ACG-related product during the Double 12 shopping festival, using the image of this poster girl. I didn't expect that the company's leaders adopted my suggestion and used the money they earned in the past few months to bet on ACG users. They ordered new molds for laptops, developed new shell colors, and launched corresponding poster girl water-cooled cases for desktop computers..."

"During the product launch, they specially created a virtual idol holographic projection and asked me to control it from behind. The number of viewers of the launch event exploded that day. In the following days, I would promote this notebook and online store in the poster's live broadcast room every day. As a result, starting from Double 12, our company's notebook sales ranked second on the online shopping platform for more than days."

"People outside are saying that I bring millions of dollars in benefits to this computer company every month. In fact, it's not that much. I just do what I should do."

Ouyang Xue, who was lying on the hospital bed, smiled bitterly and said, "At first, I just wanted to be an idol. Although I later became a company poster girl, my mission has not changed much. I always show my talents on the stage and bring happiness to the audience in front of the screen. Selling computers is just a side job. I don't think it's anything to be proud of."

"But Sister Ouyang did save the company."

I exclaimed: “This is already very remarkable.”

"Anyway, it's definitely not as exaggerated as what's being said outside."

Ouyang Xue smiled shyly, and the look in her eyes when she looked at me changed from "How can you, a stupid little girl, be so curious?" to "I have told you so much about my dark history, you should be satisfied now, right?" -

"Then the company that signed me saw that the computer company was making a lot of money after I went there, so they became jealous and wanted to raise the price. They said that if I didn't get a commission, they would not let me continue working there. There was a lot of unpleasantness between the two sides. My contract was due to expire in a few months, so I didn't sign any more contracts and left the virtual idol industry."

I subconsciously asked, "What about the virtual idol that Sister Ouyang managed?"

"Let someone else run the business."

Ouyang Xue couldn't help laughing: "Nuo'er, you are really like a child, so innocent. If it weren't for me being inconvenient right now, I would probably eat you up here like Yin Xiamo did."

"What the hell did you eat!"

"That's what it means on the surface, huh?"

Ouyang Xue looked mysterious: "Sister, I actually like little girls the most, especially innocent little sisters like Nuoer..."

"Alas!"

In a panic, I subconsciously said, "I...I...this is not allowed."

"I see. Nuo'er is disgusted with me, a 30-year-old old woman."

"No!"

Seeing that Ouyang Xue was not as depressed as before because of chatting with me, I secretly breathed a sigh of relief: "Sister Ouyang is so beautiful and has a good figure, I..."

As she spoke, the cell phone in her skirt pocket began to ring.

"Sorry, pick up the phone."

I took out my cell phone, swiped the screen, glanced at the number on it, turned around and walked out of the ward, closed the door, and pressed the answer button in the corridor outside the ward.

"Noel!"

Li Chen's words came from the other end of the phone. The man seemed to be climbing the stairs, panting: "Which room is on the fifth floor?"

"You know everything about the fifth floor?"

I glanced at the door number behind me: "Ward 511."

"Okay, I'll be there soon!"

When Li Chen said this, I could already hear dull footsteps coming from the corridor ahead.

Immediately afterwards, with the sound of "bang bang bang" running, Li Chen, who had just come out of the stairs in front, ran towards this side quickly.

The huge noise made the nurse at the nurses' station stick her head out and say, "Sir, please don't make such loud footsteps."

"I'm sorry I'm sorry."

Li Chen apologized while slowing down his pace, panting as he came in front of me, lowering his voice: "Where's Ouyang?"

I pointed to the ward next to me: "Inside."

"woke up?"

"woke up."

Hearing this, Li Chen directly opened the door of the ward——

"Ouyang!"

As soon as he entered the room, the young man, who looked to be about 27 or 28 years old, gritted his teeth and angrily shouted at Ouyang Xue on the bed: "Are you going to die?!"

"What's wrong with you!"

Ouyang Xue glared back in dissatisfaction: "Why are you yelling so loudly!"

I walked in silently and gave an apologetic look to the young man who was woken up in the next bed.

The young man opposite first looked at Li Chen and Ouyang Xue in confusion, then his eyes fell on me who was wearing a maid outfit, and nodded to show that he didn't care.

"How many times have I told you not to go to work if you have a cold, and to eat on time! You work in a restaurant, and you can't even eat on time?"

Li Chen sat down on the small chair next to Ouyang Xue's bed, looking very disappointed: "The doctor told me that you have gastric bleeding. Do you know what gastric bleeding means? Huh?"

Ouyang Xue felt a little guilty because of Li Chen's words, but she still looked unconvinced: "What do you care..."

"If I don't take care of you, who else will? huh?"

Li Chen gritted his teeth and said, "Even if you don't think about yourself, think about me, right? You're sick and don't take good care of yourself. If you fall ill and are hospitalized, who will take care of that crappy coffee shop? Isn't it just me? Are you counting on... counting on someone else, little sister Nuo'er?"

As he spoke, Li Chen also gestured to me behind him: "You are lucky this time. You fell outside, and Nuo'er and Xia Mo happened to be by your side. What if you fainted in the bathroom or some corner, and half an hour later there were more customers in the store, and Nuo'er and the others were busy, and no one paid attention to you, what would you do? Who would save you? Who would notice you?"

In order to avoid being accidentally injured by Li Chen's anger, I quickly turned my head away at the door of the ward and didn't look in the direction of the two people.

"Also, I've told you many times that if you encounter an emergency, such as feeling dizzy or having a headache, press the power button on your phone five times in a row. That's my emergency call. Press it five times and the phone will automatically call me. My phone is on 24 hours a day. Did you press it?"

Eh?

Li Chen’s words reminded me of Ouyang Xue’s hand holding the phone under the scorching sun just now.

It seemed like...she was carried into the ambulance by the doctors and nurses and was released only after the examination.

"Who would count on you, you lunatic? It was you who set up the emergency number for me without my permission. It's my freedom whether I press it or not!"

Facing Li Chen's accusations, Ouyang Xue became even more unconvinced: "Why do you control me? I have hands and feet and can make money by myself. I am an independent woman of the new era. You are not supporting me!"

"you……"

Li Chen blushed and held back for a long time: "You mean if I support you, I can take care of you, right?"

"..."

These words made Ouyang Xue stay in bed for a long time.

"You...what did you say?"

"You guys are making too much noise."

At this time, the door of the ward was pushed open, and a young nurse walked in: "Please don't disturb the patient's rest!"

Li Chen quickly apologized: "I'm sorry, I'm a little emotional."

"Nuo'er, send this man back. I don't want to talk to him."

Ouyang Xue turned her head on the bed and said, "I'm tired. I want to sleep."

Li Chen blushed again: "Ouyang you..."

"OK OK……"

I quickly went over and pulled his arm: "Go out first, I'll tell you about Sister Ouyang's general situation."

"Tsk..."

As if he felt that he would lose his temper if he waited here, Li Chen finally walked out the door with me.

"I asked the doctor on the way here and I know her condition."

On the bench in the corridor outside the ward, Li Chen took a deep breath and said, "She has always had stomach ulcers. I just can't believe she can push herself to this extent and not even want to live."

"Why is Sister Ouyang so obsessed with the coffee shop?"

I asked tentatively, "Didn't she say that after she finishes her job at the coffee shop, she will return to Tongmeng.com to continue working in logistics management?"

"After she returns, she will also get a certain commission from the coffee shop's revenue."

Li Chen covered his head and said, "Ouyang is very stubborn. She is just... because of some things that happened before, she is unwilling to miss any opportunity to make money."

"What exactly is it?"

I continued to ask: "Just now I talked to Sister Ouyang about her being a virtual idol, but she didn't tell me why."

"This may have something to do with some of Ouyang's experiences. Her parents divorced when she was a child, and she ended up living with her father. But her father was a jerk and loved gambling. When he lost, the debt collectors would come to Ouyang's house to ask for money. If she didn't have money, they would beat her."

As if narrating some ancient story, Li Chen's voice was a little low: "At that time, his father said that he could go to the town's trash cans to pick up some bottles and sell them for money. Ouyang would go to pick up bottles every day after school. When the debt collectors came, Ouyang would give them a few cents and ask them not to beat her father. The debt collectors were also somewhat humane. Seeing that Ouyang was a little girl, it was difficult for them to take action. They would usually take a few dollars for travel expenses, threaten her a few times, and then leave."

"Ouyang had a fever that day and was resting at a neighbor's house. He didn't go to pick up the bottles. The debt collectors arrived at her house and saw that the little girl was not at home today, so they didn't have to be too cautious. They were a little heavy-handed. Since that day, Ouyang's father's legs have been a little unsteady."

"A few months later, her father got drunk and fell into a ditch on his bike. He died. The neighbors said that if he had not been so weak, he would not have fallen into the ditch. Ouyang felt very guilty, thinking that it was because she had a fever that day and did not go to pick up the bottles that her father was beaten and died."

"Later, when Ouyang signed a contract with a virtual idol, she raised a stray cat that ran into her rental house. She had raised it for almost a year. At that time, it was very popular to play with other people. Male anchors with good skills would operate the computer, and female anchors with good looks and good voices would chat with customers. Many customers would place orders. Ouyang felt that this was cheating customers and didn't do it. The company asked her to move to another department with a very low salary. Every month, she spent all the money on cat food except for her own food and rent."

"Then one day... the cat fell ill with feline infectious peritonitis, which is similar to a terminal illness in humans and can only be cured with a very expensive medicine."

Li Chen bit his lip. "At that time, I told Ouyang that I could pay for it, but she didn't want to. She said she was going to work as a companion animal to earn money. But the companion animal area in their company was already full, and Ouyang's voice wasn't that cute. We couldn't get any orders, so we had to put off the treatment of the cat. The cat died in the hospital. Ouyang was still begging her boss in the company to give her the order. When the pet hospital called, she went to the bathroom and cried for a long time."

"It was a similar situation later on. In her hometown, besides her parents, Ouyang also had an uncle. At the time, her uncle was also ill and needed a lot of money for treatment. Ouyang had been bought by a computer company at that time to run their virtual idol, which was quite popular. I don't remember whether it was Double 11 or Double 12, but there was a big promotion. The company gave Ouyang a lot of computer data and asked her to memorize as much as possible, saying that such a big event must not be neglected."

"At that time, how could a girl like Ouyang know so much about computers? She often caught colds, which resulted in fever and blurred vision. Many friends advised her that it would be fine if she did not learn the basics, as no customer would ask such tricky questions. Ouyang did not bother to memorize the parameters of some unpopular computers. As a result, a big customer came on the day of the event and said that since your company focuses on the second dimension, he wanted to test the poster girl. If she could tell the parameters and detailed values ​​of these computers on the spot, they would sign a contract. At that time, the order was worth more than 20 million yuan. If it was successful, Ouyang could get at least hundreds of thousands of yuan."

"And then there's this bloody plot..."

Li Chen on the chair smiled bitterly, "Ouyang was not well prepared, and couldn't explain it. He lost the orders and didn't get the share. He could only use some cheap medicine to treat his uncle. As a result, his only relative passed away half a year later. This girl always thought it was her fault. The idol company that signed Ouyang that month wanted a higher commission because Ouyang had become popular. The computer company saw that Ouyang had ruined a big order of theirs and disagreed. The two sides were very unhappy. Later, when Ouyang's contract expired, he didn't continue to sign as an idol and went to Tongmeng.com to apply for a logistics management job."

"Her problem started around that time. She had to do her best in everything she did. Even if she was tired, sick or hungry, she would force herself to finish everything. She was particularly afraid of similar situations. She felt that if she didn't seize some opportunities, she would regret it for the rest of her life."

After saying so much in one breath, Li Chen looked at me and said, "So if Ouyang is occasionally very strict with you, don't take it to heart."

"She's just... so insecure."

"..."

……

No. 131 We are alive

Through Li Chen's description, the image of Ouyang Xue in my mind gradually became fuller.

When I first applied for the job at the coffee shop, I thought she was just a rigorous, mature adult woman who had a deep understanding of young people's culture. Later, I found that she seemed different from most bosses and leaders. Not only did she not put on airs at work, but she also did not bother employees with many things in the store if she could. She also had a good relationship with us and almost never lost her temper. She didn't act like a store manager at all.

Later on, I gradually learned some things about Ouyang Xue's past from Chef Wang, and also saw the hard work of this store manager in the coffee shop.

Maybe because she has been exposed to this kind of things since she was a child, the biggest difference between Ouyang Xue and other store managers is that...she basically does everything herself and is very strict with herself.

I used to think that Ouyang Xue looked at my young age and didn’t believe in my ability to get things done, or that she was too kind and didn’t want a new employee to do so much. But now, after hearing Ouyang Xue’s story, I very much agree with Li Chen’s opinion - Ouyang Xue really has no sense of security, both towards the world and herself.

According to my work experience from graduating from college to growing into an uncle, today's bosses can be roughly divided into three types. The first type is what people call a black-hearted boss, who usually has a sullen face. It's up to you to do the job or not, and there are plenty of people who will do it if you don't want to. When you come to the company, they will do their best to exploit you, and they won't approve you for leave when you are sick. Anyway, they treat people like animals. They think they are the boss and have a high status, and they also have a condescending attitude when talking to employees.

The second type of boss is the most common in today's society. When you talk to them, you will feel that this boss is particularly elegant and easy-going, and seems to be easy to talk to. He often keeps a smiling face. When he has nothing to do, he will talk to you, invite you to dinner and drinks, and preach to you, making you feel like "I found such a good boss, I can devote myself to the company". Then, whenever there is something happening in the company, the boss will let you do it with a smile. Your salary has not increased for several years, and when you ask, he will say that young people should suffer more. If you ask again, he will say that the company's performance is not good, and we should advance and retreat with the company. Young people should have ideals and dreams.

Anyway, everything can be negotiated except money. If you talk to him about money, he will talk to you about dreams.

The third type of boss is a pragmatist like Ouyang Xue, but I didn’t work in such a company for more than three months because those companies all went bankrupt.

"When you go back, remember to take the medicine I gave you just now, and also rest and eat on time as usual. Don't stay up late again, okay?"

While Li Chen and I were chatting in the corridor, a young man in his twenties and wearing glasses seemed to have recovered and was ready to be discharged from the hospital. He was wearing loose clothes and carrying a large backpack.

"Okay, okay, I won't do that anymore."

Facing the doctor, the young man, whose face was obviously not very healthy, looked timid and said, "Do I need to come back for a follow-up check?"

"It's best to come back for another checkup in half a month or a month."

The doctor glanced at the large bag on the young man's back and asked, "Did you drop anything?"

"No no……"

"..."

Watching the young man passing through the corridor outside the ward, I was silent for a few seconds and stood up from the chair: "Then Li Chen... Ahem, Brother Li Chen, Sister Ouyang is in your hands."