I Became Super Rich After Resigning-Chapter 40 - But I Just Despise Chu Yan

Chapter 40: Chapter 40 But I Just Despise Chu Yan

Yuan Xi had gone to the restroom and vomited for a while, gargled, and reapplied her makeup before returning to the interview meeting room. She hadn’t even entered when she heard Gu Hanchen’s voice.

“Just settle on Ren Tian, no need to say more.”

“Brother Hanchen!” Yu Xiaoxiao said from the side, “I also want to be your secretary.”

Gu Hanchen said, “We have enough secretaries already, you should go back. Mi Chen isn’t that easy to get into.”

Yu Xiaoxiao was full of dissatisfaction, “Why not? In what ways am I inferior to this woman?”

Gu Hanchen: “You’re not as pretty as Ren Tian. Being my secretary requires attending banquets as my companion. That’s settled then; we’re going directly with Ren Tian.”

Yuan Xi glanced at Ren Tian standing beside her and looked at Gu Hanchen, “You won’t ask further and just settle on her?”

Being the president’s secretary, Gu Hanchen was being somewhat too arbitrary.

Gu Hanchen whispered to Yuan Xi, “She has to be better than Yu Xiaoxiao, right?”

Yuan Xi: “…”

Yu Xiaoxiao saw Gu Hanchen and Yuan Xi whispering and talking softly to each other, and she furrowed her brows and approached Yuan Xi, “You wait!”

Yuan Xi looked innocently at Yu Xiaoxiao.

Ren Tian walked up to Yuan Xi, revealing her slightly yellowed teeth from smoking and smiled lightly, “Mr. Gu, when do I start working?”

Gu Hanchen said, “Tomorrow.”

Ren Tian was startled, “Isn’t tomorrow the weekend?”

Gu Hanchen: “Weekend? Who’s Weekend? I don’t know Weekend.”

Yuan Xi said to Ren Tian, “Don’t listen to Mr. Gu. Our company’s office hours are from 9:30 to 5:30, with weekends off. You can start on Monday.”

Gu Hanchen frowned, “What do you mean by ‘don’t listen to me’? Yuan Xi, am I invisible to you?”

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Yuan Xi said, “The president’s secretarial office has always had weekends off.”

Only she did not have them, but now she did too.

On Friday night, Yuan Xi stayed at work until nine, briefed Zhong Xiaoyi on her work processes and then went down to the underground garage. Just as she was getting in her car, she saw Huo Shiyuan taking a short nap.

“Sorry for making you wait so long.”

“Didn’t Monica come? Why are you still busy until now?”

Yuan Xi smiled lightly, “The weekend is coming up, so I worked a few extra hours. Monica is okay with my job, but Mr. Gu lacks a secretary who has the patience to handle him properly. A new junior secretary, Zhong Xiaoyi, joined today, and I spent some time training her. She’s quite smart and caught on quickly.”

Huo Shiyuan looked at Yuan Xi, “It seems you are quite satisfied with the new junior secretary?”

“I see a bit of myself when I first left school in her. I was very confused then, uncertain about the future. Many of my classmates who just graduated weren’t earning much, and most of them chose to pursue further studies. I too was scared I wouldn’t find a suitable job.”

“Why didn’t you pursue further studies?” Huo Shiyuan asked.

Yuan Xi helplessly replied, “I had no money back then. After my adoptive parents passed away, relatives on my grandparent’s side seized all the inheritance they left behind. My maternal grandmother’s family was also facing some troubles at the time, hardly able to fend for themselves. It was already quite a feat for me to finish four years of university.”

Huo Shiyuan’s brows lightly knit, “Shi Lei and Liang Suisui come from well-off families, didn’t their families help you?”

Yuan Xi said, “I couldn’t always rely on their families’ help, even though they are my best friends. I couldn’t comfortably keep using their money.”

“I usually paid them back whenever I earned money from my part-time jobs. It’s true that both families weren’t short of money, but the income from the textile factory wasn’t very good either, and it was all built up through the hard work of Uncle Liang and Uncle Shi. I was also afraid of owing too much and not being able to pay it back.”

“Back then, working part-time was exhausting. With a busy school schedule, earning fifty a day from part-time jobs was already not easy. Tutoring kids during summer and winter vacations could earn a bit more, but it was barely enough to cover tuition and book fees. To continue with my graduate studies, I didn’t know how many more milk teas I would have to make, or how many more favors I’d owe. I didn’t want to keep making milk teas anymore…”

Yuan Xi hadn’t expected to talk about her past—which she never wanted to recall—in front of Huo Shiyuan.

She had been really poor back then, but fortunately, she knew good people.

Her roommates had never looked down on her for her poverty; learning that she was an orphan, they had even taken the initiative to cover most of the electricity bill since she spent little time in the dorm.

When they saw Yuan Xi wearing the same clothes for a long time, they would intentionally buy clothes a size too large and give them to her, claiming they were too cheap to return because of a coupon and were too lazy to do so.

Huo Shiyuan looked at Yuan Xi, “Won’t you ask Brother Zhuangzhuang for some help?”

Yuan Xi replied, “Him? I don’t even have his contact anymore, and he hasn’t reached out to me either. Besides, it’s been over six years since we last met. It wouldn’t be right to ask for his help now, and if he helped, I would need to pay him back.”

Huo Shiyuan drove onto the highway, grasping the steering wheel tightly, he couldn’t imagine Yuan Xi had quit her studies because of poverty.

Nor could he imagine she had experienced such a tough time.

He hadn’t failed to come back looking for Yuan Xi. Since his first year in high school, he couldn’t get in touch with Yuan Xi. When he hurriedly flew back, Yuan Xi was living at school, and outsiders were not permitted to enter.

Huo Shiyuan finally got the chance during a weekend and saw Yuan Xi walking side by side with a boy; her classmates said they were a couple.

At that time, Huo Shiyuan thought Yuan Xi didn’t want to contact him, but he still didn’t let his family get rid of the landline phone. Nowadays, not many homes still have a landline phone.

But Huo Shiyuan still didn’t allow his family to remove it; he thought if Yuan Xi ever needed him, she would call.

Later, when Huo Shiyuan was twenty, he visited Huxi Village again. That time, neither Shi Lei nor Suisui were there.

Huo Shiyuan went to Yuan Xi’s house, only to learn she had moved and no one knew where to. Due to needing to return to school urgently, he didn’t continue searching.

Huo Shiyuan thought, if he had continued searching then and found where Yuan Xi was, even just seeing her once and knowing her situation, would’ve spared her almost not graduating because of money during her four years at university.

“I’m sorry.”

Hearing Huo Shiyuan utter those three words of apology, Yuan Xi was a bit puzzled, “Why do you say sorry to me?”

Huo Shiyuan explained, “I’m sorry, for not being there when you needed help the most. If I had met you during your college years, your life wouldn’t have included those tough times, and you wouldn’t have had to abandon your studies.”

Yuan Xi paused, then smiled slowly, “President Huo, if I had met you during my college years, we definitely wouldn’t have ended up together. Back then, I would have thought you were as unreachable as a star in the sky.”

Huo Shiyuan also chuckled lightly and turned on the car’s music, “That time must have been tough, right?”

Listening to the soothing music, Yuan Xi said, “Actually, it wasn’t too bad. The days weren’t too difficult. I knew even if I didn’t work, anyhow Shi Lei and Suisui would support me. My roommates were also kind, and my part-time job bosses were good people. Actually, society still has more kind people. Knowing I was an orphan, many people treated me kindly.”

“Only… The only time I felt aggrieved and broke down was one day after a rainstorm. It had rained heavily, business was bad, and there were still many leftover drinks. I had to wait until very late to close. On the way back to the dorm, Chu Yan, driving a Bugatti, splashed me with muddy water.”

“At that moment, I thought the world was really shitty. Chu Yan’s Bugatti, I couldn’t shake milk tea fast enough to afford it, and even though I was living my life as hard as I could, I still got splashed with muddy water by her.”

“My roommate couldn’t stand it and posted a complaint about Chu Yan on the confession wall, but other comments on the wall said our dorm was just jealous of Chu Yan being rich, jealous that she was the Daughter of the Richest Man in Jiang City, saying our dorm was ugly and making a fuss over getting splashed with water, which is a common occurrence…”

“Even though I knew those could very well be Chu Yan’s lackeys flattering her and seeking favor, in that moment, looking at the muddy clothes and feeling all the grievances, oppression, and exhaustion accumulated over more than two years, I just completely broke down. Later, I convinced myself, Chu Yan was just born luckier, no need for me to be upset, just continue to work hard and live my own life.”

“But I never expected Heaven would play such a big joke on me—I am actually the real heiress of the Chu family…”

Yuan Xi gave a hollow laugh, placing her hand on her stomach, “I find it hard to get along well with Chu Yan. It feels hypocritical even saying I am not jealous of her. Despite the fact that she’s the adopted fake heiress, I still despise her. I know in the novels, real heiresses who despise adopted fake heiresses like me typically don’t have happy endings, but I just despise Chu Yan…”