Unexpectedly, they were going to the same place - the only five-star hotel in the city.
"What a coincidence." Xu Qingsong said.
Wenxi smiled narrowly and asked him: "Why are you meeting friends and why are you going to the hotel?"
Xu Qingsong sat in the back seat, rubbed his hands, glanced at Liu Wangxue secretly, and said with a smile: "I am both a friend and a boss. The boss asked me to stay in the hotel. What can I do?"
Liu Wangxue glanced at the rearview mirror and asked: "Aren't you free to move bricks now? Why do you still have a boss?" She thought for a moment and asked: "It's the one who developed "The Case of Da Zhao 21" room?"
"Yeah," Xu Qingsong said as if he was joking: "It's not because the boss is too cherished and can't bear to leave me, so I'm taking a long vacation in name."
When the three of them arrived at the hotel lobby, Xiao Zhao was already waiting there. Liu Wangxue felt that it was not appropriate for her to be present when they were signing the contract, so she asked Wenxi to go up with Xiao Zhao first, while he waited for her in the nearby coffee shop.
After Wenxi got on the elevator, Liu Wangxue asked Xu Qingsong, "What about you?"
Xu Qingsong pointed to the cafe next to him and said, "I'll go there too."
The two of them said that they were going to the coffee shop.
The little girl at the front desk of the hotel kept answering the phone. She was very anxious when she saw them walking in with their dogs, but she couldn't hang up. A colleague happened to come over, and she quickly pulled his sleeve and motioned for her help.
So, the two of them were stopped in front of the coffee shop, and the little girl said politely: "I'm sorry, two guests. Please come to the front desk to register with me first."
Liu Wangxue explained: "We are not checking in, we are just waiting here for people."
The little girl had a professional smile on her face: "Sorry about this guest, our hotel has regulations that require pets to be registered at the front desk."
"Okay." Liu Wangxue handed the leash to Xu Qingsong and followed the little girl to the front desk. Pengpeng was unwilling to stay where he was and followed Liu Wangxue. Xu Qingsong had no choice but to pull the leash and follow.
After registering, Liu Wangxue took the leash again and took Pengpeng and Xu Qingsong into the coffee shop.
Liu Wangxue asked: "After meeting your friends later, do you have anything else to do?"
Xu Qingsong shook his head: "Probably not."
Liu Wangxue asked him: "Wenxi and I are going to the flower and bird market later. There is a crew filming there. She signed the contract with her today. She wants to take me to see it. If you are okay, please Don’t you want to go together?”
"Okay, I haven't seen what the crew looks like." Xu Qingsong agreed happily, and then said sadly, "I forgot to close the window when I went to bed last night, and a wild cat came over and caught my fish. I just happened to stop by. Buy a few."
Liu Wangxue expressed sympathy.
After ordering coffee at the counter, Xu Qingsong chose a seat by the window. Just as he was about to help Liu Wangxue pull out a chair, Liu Wangxue said with a smile: "I won't disturb you to meet your friends. I'll go over there."
Without waiting for Xu Qingsong to react, he took Pengpeng to a seat farther away.
Xu Qingsong had no choice but to sit down by himself and send a message to Du Yunkai: [I'm here, at the lobby cafe]
After a while, Du Yunkai replied: [Coming soon]
Not long after, Du Yunkai appeared with a girl wearing sunglasses and a mask in his arms. A black nanny car drove up from the entrance of the lobby. He put the girl in the car first, said a few more words, and then walked towards Xu Qingsong.
Du Yunkai and Xu Qingsong are college roommates and classmates. After graduating from college, he studied abroad and then got an offer from an internationally renowned game company. Xu Qingsong, on the other hand, was a postgraduate student at the same school. He entered Lumen Technology, a major domestic game company, and later became a department manager, gaining a good reputation.
After Du Yunkai became a manager, he felt that the company's philosophy was becoming more and more extreme in political correctness. This was also caused by the general environment, and he was unable to argue. It happened that his family also began to press for marriage, so he returned to the country.
However, he personally rejected marriage, so he made a bet with his family on the grounds of career. He would create a game with a revenue of over 100 million within two years, otherwise he would accept the arrangement.
Du Yunkai attracted a few dandy friends who had money but nowhere to spend it to invest, and he recruited a few more people to set up a studio. He also found a good script on a certain drama platform that no one was interested in.
At that time, the efficiency of Lumen Technology was declining, and internal factional struggles continued. Xu Qingsong, the department manager, was on the bench, and many headhunters came over one after another. But when he received the olive branch from Du Yunkai, he refused because he signed a non-competition agreement.
Du Yunkai was not short of money and said, "As long as you come, I will pay the liquidated damages for you."
Before Xu Qingsong made a decision, Lumen Technology was actually acquired. During the personnel adjustment, he was the first to be laid off.
Everyone under his command was in disbelief.
"I originally thought that Manager Xu's ability could at least be improved."
"That's right. If you don't get promoted, you should at least be promoted. How could you be laid off? What do you think above?"
After coming out of the personnel department, Xu Qingsong was called to the office by his master and handed him an information bag. He opened it and saw the non-compete agreement he signed.
His master looked embarrassed and said: "I have no ability, so I can only help you get here. Go out and find another company. With your ability, you won't have to worry about running out of jobs."
However, the headhunters who were looking for him before seemed to have disappeared.
When Du Yunkai went to look for him again, he realized that there was a reason why he was laid off.
Du Yunkai said: "I found out that it was acquired by the Xu family. Do you know who the airborne CEO is?"
"who?"
"It's Xu Han's little brat!" Du Yunkai laughed and said, "I went to a foreign university to study at a pheasant university. I really thought I was a nugget of gold! The small company made a mess, and then I came to the huge company."
Xu Han is a descendant of the second branch of the Xu family. He is the same generation as Xu Qingsong, but is a few months younger. Logically speaking, he should call Xu Qingsong "cousin."
Xu Han, Xu Qingsong and Du Yunkai were in the same school, the same major, and the same class when they were in college, but he entered through the expansion of enrollment.
Xu Han paid attention to Xu Qingsong the first time he saw him, because he felt that this person was very similar to the photo of his great-great-grandfather hanging in the hall at home. He once thought he was the illegitimate son of someone in the Xu family. After I went back to investigate, I found out about the past relationship.
As the youngest son, Xu Han was spoiled since he was a child. He couldn't compare with Xu Qingsong academically, so he wanted to crush him elsewhere. However, Xu Qingsong didn't take this into consideration at all. During the four years of college, he had been in a state of jumping up and down, angry and angry but unable to do anything about it.
After going abroad for gold plating and returning, his family gave him a small company to practice. The results were not achieved, but a lot of bad things were done. When he accidentally learned that Xu Qingsong was working at Lumen Technology, and his father was about to acquire it, Xu Han almost acted like a fool and pried his father's mouth from his mother to get the CEO position.
After that, Xu Qingsong went to Du Yunkai, and Du Yunkai directly gave him some technology stocks.
