Chapter 98

Chrysanthemum Garden.

At that moment, Chu Xun directly turned and walked to Manager Tang. He didn’t act behind other people’s backs and asked, “Who are you talking about?”

In fact, Manager Tang had quite a simple and honest face. He had a square face, thick eyebrows and big eyes. He looked very simple and earnest, with a pleasant face. When he spoke, however, his eyebrows revealed a harsh and jealous feeling, which mostly reflected his inner emotions. This kind of person, who was used to being lowkey and not naming names, would actually become frightened when confronted face to face. Manager Tang panicked and asked, “What are you doing, blocking my way?” 9tEiIl

Chu Xun said, “Someone was insulting me; I would naturally take notice.”

Manager Tang said, “Did I say it was about you just now? Aren’t you just projecting your insecurities and taking things too personally?”

Chu Xun said, “Oh, so you’re admitting that you were insulting me? I’ll tell you seriously right now that I have a proper relationship and am legally married. My husband and I are loving and harmonious and registered a marriage certificate. There’s nothing to gossip about; it’s my business and if I want to publicize it, I can. We’ve done everything properly, and at the end of the day, we can face heaven with a clear conscience.”

Being called out so confidently, Manager Tang was unable to retort. After a while, he stammered and said with difficulty, “Homosexuality… is not legal in our country.” Xd9alo

Chu Xun said, “In our country, homosexuals can’t get married, but that doesn’t mean it’s illegal. Unless you can find a law to prove it’s illegal?”

Manager Tang suddenly found a breakthrough point. “Oh, you married abroad, but you live in China. This is illegal. Homosexuality is very dirty. You better stay away from me; it’ll be disgusting if saliva from when you’re speaking lands on my face. I don’t know if there’s HIV in it.”

Chu Xun laughed angrily. “No, I’m very healthy. My husband and I love each other and are loyal to each other. First, I don’t cheat. Second, I don’t visit prostitutes, and third, I don’t sexually harass my employees. But for you, going to a massage parlor to find yourself a prostitute is illegal and also very dirty. I saw a rash on the back of your neck recently, and you’re always scratching it. Could it be that it’s infected with some virus? You better go to the hospital to check.”

Before he had finished speaking, the staff who had been watching the bustle suddenly moved further away one after another. UgsxqB

Manager Tang subconsciously touched the back of his neck before his face flushed. He was shocked and afraid. How did Chu Xun know? Was he really sick?

Bewildered, he asked, “How did you know? You… you… It’s against the law for you to do that.”

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Chu Xun ended up sneering and walking away with pride.

As he went back, the small employees applauded Chu Xun with rosy cheeks and admiring comments.

“Manager Chu, you’re so powerful.”

“I want to become as powerful as you in the future, capable at work and won’t be bullied.” dcCozp

Chu Xun said with a smile, “It’s just my lung power, don’t randomly learn from me.”

Lin Yanchen was his strength.

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He was well aware of who didn’t like him at the office and who spoke ill of him behind his back.

Especially the middle-aged man with the surname Tang and his faction. Last time this guy asked someone to follow him, he also wanted to drive a wedge between Chu Xun and his mentor, but the plot failed. It seemed that he was still as selfish as ever, always looking for opportunities to step on Chu Xun’s promotion, as if he had obtained it through shady methods. 1ypmI2

Chu Xun wasn’t a herbivore either, and struck back a few times. According to his mentor, however, Tang wasn’t the one who told him that he was dating Lin Yanchen. At that time, he warned Tang not to do anything illegal, so Manager Tang still thought until now that President Liu only valued Chu Xun’s work talent and thus persuaded Chu Xun to stay… so Chu Xun seemed even more unpleasant in his eyes.

Chu Xun didn’t like him either, but he didn’t have time to deal with this fool making trouble all day long. He still had to work and would obviously put work first. Manager Tang being so flustered like this meant that sooner or later, his work would suffer and he would be swept out of the door… Anyway, Chu Xun wasn’t in a hurry. His salary after his promotion wasn’t bad, and regardless, he just liked this job.

Lin Yanchen sent two big boxes of wedding sweets to the company.

Company colleagues may not be invited to attend the wedding, but the wedding snacks would always be sent. q2xvBn

The beautiful gift box contained expensive and famous brand sweets, and there was enough for everyone. Even the auntie who cleaned the company’s bathrooms could take two bags.

The gift box had been specially designed for the couple. Lin Yanchen had already found someone to design these small things before he even proposed to Chu Xun. Printed on the box in flowery calligraphy were the letters L&C, and they looked very fancy. Others could guess from looking that Chu Xun’s other half had a surname starting with L.

President Liu took four boxes: for him, his wife and his twin daughters. Of course, it wasn’t that he was greedy for sweets, but this gesture showed how close they were. When the time came, he planned to take his wife and children with him to the wedding banquet. He never thought that Chu Xun would have such fortune… Fortunately, he was kind-hearted, never treated this little apprentice badly, and always helped him. Wasn’t this what good people got? To be good to others was to be good to yourself.

But he really didn’t expect that Xiao Tang would be so jealous of Chu Xun because of the latter’s promotion. Recently, the company was a little restless. Despite Chu Xun’s ugly words, President Liu knew that he was still soft-hearted. He scolded Xiao Tang to the face, but wouldn’t harbor a revenge grudge for the future. He probably hadn’t told Lin Yanchen about it at all, otherwise this younger President Lin would have come to take care of Manager Tang a long time ago. This little President Lin always looked kind and amiable, but he was in fact the same as his father. Before, there was that actress who wanted to use him to stir up a sex scandal and blow up overnight in the news. First, all her jobs were thrown out. All kinds of scandals broke out all over the Internet, and they spread very quickly. Originally, her company wanted to protect her, but last month, that company declared bankruptcy. nZOlHP

President Liu thought about it and just felt that things were anything but reassuring. Chu Xun also didn’t depend on this job to live. If he got angry again, he might leave. This child had always been stubborn… Seeing him again after more than a year, President Liu felt that his character had changed. Chu Xun used to swallow his anger. Now, he was usually gentle and kind, but if provoked, he would explode.

Would President Liu actually abandon Xiao Chu in order to protect Xiao Tang? Xiao Tang’s business sense and skills weren’t good enough for that. Interpersonal skills were also an important part of their work, and his private life wasn’t very clean. Although his private life had nothing to do with his work, it was still important…

If he protected Manager Tang and Chu Xun left, Xiao Lin might check to see what happened. Perhaps he might become cannon fodder, just like that little actress’s company. Chu Xun had his love and Xiao Lin wasn’t familiar with President Liu, who wouldn’t be able to rely on old friendship; to put it bluntly, Manager Tang wasn’t worth protecting; how did he make such an error in judgement when he recruited him?

And there was one matter he cared about a lot. 03J1qE

Liu Zong went to Chu Xun privately. “I want to ask you something about Xiao Tang.”

Chu Xun’s face was expressionless. “I’m not familiar with him.”

Liu Zong said, “I know. I also know you had a fight today, but I still want to ask you something. You said you have never sexually harassed employees. There was something I felt wasn’t quite right… Has Tang ever done such a thing? And you found out?”

Chu Xun thought about it and felt that there was nothing to hide. “Yes; if I saw it, I would put a stop to it… If I think about it now, maybe he wasn’t happy with me because of that, so he has always tried to make trouble for me.” lB5zUY

President Liu went, “Oh.” Truly clueless, he then asked, “Do you know which girls he has harassed? Have them come over.”

Chu Xun somewhat understood; this was to rectify the company atmosphere. He had never run into this kind of thing in his old company. Ordinarily, his mentor would even encourage the girls to feel free to drink juice rather than alcohol during work meals at a restaurant, as it wasn’t always easy to control when they would run into perverted clients. Everyone should try to keep a clear head.

Chrysanthemum Garden.

President Liu had figured things out at the bottom of his heart. This time, he had a good reason to kick that person out. It was pretty good, and a great time to publicize how fair and just their company culture was. Perfect.

Two days later. h0sdPv

The company issued a statement that some employees had reported that Tang so and so used his power to sexually harass female employees, which was harmful to their corporate culture and ethics, so he was dismissed.

Because of such a good company culture, there was actually a strong businesswoman who changed jobs to come to the company later. But that is a story for later. Let’s not mention it for now.

Chu Xun had no sympathy. He had known for a long time that Mr. Tang would be screwed over sooner or later.

But his schadenfreude was over in half a minute; he had no time to bother with others given how busy he had become recently. kOhpdr

After getting the certificate, they had to prepare for the wedding.

Chu Xun’s idea was very traditional. He felt it was decent enough for the ceremony to be held in a five-star hotel.

Lin Yanchen brought several plans over and Chu Xun looked at them; they were blueprints for a house.

Lin Yanchen’s eyes lit up as he spoke, looking for praise. “How is it? Let’s just build a villa to get married in? I think this theme is the best. You are Xun, I am Yan, and we are water and fire. I told the designer about this theme. He designed this villa; it even comes with a garden, and when the time comes, we can have the wedding planner decorate it for the ceremony. I’ve already made an appointment.” ul2tb7

Chu Xun was silent for a long while. “A new villa? Doesn’t your family have a manor? I remember you said you also ran a hotel?”

Lin Yanchen said disdainfully, “Other people have stayed there before. How can we use that to hold a wedding? A hotel is too banal.”

Chu Xun: “…” Well, he was just a banal person.

Lin Yanchen said sweetly, “Ah Xun, don’t you think it’s very good? Later, this villa will be very unique. When you see it, you’ll just think of our wedding. I think it’s very commemorative. Our wedding is a once-in-a-lifetime event. I want it to be unique so that it can be worthy of you and me!” 8B7Kmp

Chu Xun’s ears turned red; this rascal was too good at saying these sappy words. “How long will it take to build the villa?”

Lin Yanchen said, “It’ll take one or two years, rushed or not. Are you so anxious to have a wedding with me?”

Chu Xun replied, “You’re the one in a hurry!”

Lin Yanchen saw his blush and knew that he liked it deep in his heart, but was just embarrassed to say it, so he held him, gave him a kiss and said, “Then don’t worry; when the time comes, we’ll make the preparations. I want to give you the very best, but I also won’t have you wait too long.” kEaAY

Chu Xun’s face turned even redder.

Money really couldn’t equal feelings, but if that person was willing to spend on you, and however much they had was however much they would spend on you, that must mean that they loved you very much.

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