333: Chapter 333, Project 3

Before she even finished speaking, Liu Hui understood what Shen Yan meant.

"So you're going back tomorrow, right?"

Shen Yan nodded, his face full of apology.

"I'm sorry, A Hui, I broke my promise. This is my fault."

Liu Hui lowered her gaze.

"Saying sorry isn't enough. Don't you have any other actions?"

Shen Yan pursed his lips and said, "Besides saying sorry, I don't know what else I should say. Tomorrow... I have to go back tomorrow. If I don't go back, I'm afraid the company will stir up some other trouble."

As his voice faded.

Liu Hui let out a heavy sigh.

"Shen Yan, I find you quite boring."

Shen Yan didn't know how to comfort Liu Hui, so he remained silent.

Seeing his continued silence, Liu Hui became even angrier. She pursed her lips and stomped hard on Shen Yan's foot.

"Ow!"

Shen Yan cried out in pain, tears welling up in his eyes.

Seeing this, Liu Hui felt better. She clicked her tongue and said:

"I don't discuss things with you or tell you anything, acting like I don't consider you one of my own. But you don't treat me as one of your own either! You can't be so double-standard!"

Shen Yan blinked and replied, "I don't... I do treat you as one of my own..."

Liu Hui glared at Shen Yan and said, "If you truly considered me one of your own, you wouldn't have apologized to me!"

"I was already very happy that you could spend these two days playing with me."

"Having to go back to work overtime isn't something you can control. I really want to keep playing with you, but I'm not an unreasonable person."

"After you finished the call, you immediately apologized to me. Do you really see me as one of your own? You never once considered that I might understand you!"

After hearing all this, Shen Yan finally understood why Liu Hui was angry.

The reason Liu Hui was angry wasn't that he had to go back to work, but that after announcing his departure for work, he immediately apologized to her without considering that Liu Hui would understand and respect his decision.

From that perspective, he was indeed a bit arrogant.

Thinking this, he sincerely said to Liu Hui, "I'm sorry. I realize my mistake and promise I will never repeat it."

"If I do it again, you can step on me again! No, two times!"

As soon as he finished speaking.

Liu Hui burst out laughing, tossing her head back as she did so.

"Fine! Next time you do that, I'll stomp on you two or three times until you realize your mistake!"

"Alright, let's stop talking about this. Let's go eat noodles!"

Shen Yan smiled and nodded.

...

Two o'clock the next afternoon.

Shen Yan and Liu Hui's plane landed.

"Old Shen! Sister-in-law!"

As soon as they walked out of the airport, they saw Chen Guangke waving a sign and shouting at them.

"Why did you come to pick us up?"

Hearing Shen Yan's question, Chen Guangke chuckled and replied, "The company has been quite slow lately, so I came to pick you up since I had nothing else to do."

After speaking, he looked at Liu Hui and asked, "Sister-in-law, I heard you went gambling on stones? How was it? Did you have fun?"

Liu Hui smiled and replied, "All the stones we bought contained jade. Your Brother Shen made quite a bit of money. We'll let him treat you to a meal later."

Chen Guangke's eyes widened in surprise.

"Really?"

"How much money did he make?"

Shen Yan handed the suitcase in his hand to Chen Guangke.

"Enough to treat you to some Shaxian snacks."

Chen Guangke pouted, resignedly took the suitcase from Shen Yan, and started dragging it while leading the way for them.

"I drove over. Do you want to go home first or eat first?"

Hearing the question, Liu Hui replied to Chen Guangke, "We already ate the in-flight meal. Take me home first, and then let A Yan go back to the company with you."

Chen Guangke glanced at Shen Yan and asked, "Aren't you going back to rest?"

Shen Yan looked at his phone while replying, "You said it was an urgent matter, how can I rest? Alright, stop looking at me and hurry up and drive!"

Two hours later.

Shen Yan, covered in dust after dropping off his luggage, rushed to Wu Ya's office at the Branch Company.

"How did the matter go?"

Wu Ya picked up the documents from the desk and stood up to walk towards him.

"I have already used your method to clean out all those parasites."

Those old Employees who liked taking kickbacks were worried that Wu Ya already knew about their illicit gains and would use the excuse of layoffs to dismiss all of them. Every one of them was terrified.

Under the tense atmosphere, Wu Ya successfully used a sting operation—having another person contact these old Employees, claiming they wanted to buy the confidential files regarding 'Prosperous Appointment' at a high price—to lure out those old Employees, and then used this incident to force them to resign themselves.

Not only were the company's parasites eliminated, but they also successfully saved a considerable amount in compensation fees.

"You did a very good job."

Shen Yan praised while looking at the documents.

Although he was praised, Wu Ya was not very happy. She opened her mouth and asked in a hoarse voice, "I heard you... you went out to play. How was it?"

Shen Yan reached up to rub his neck and casually replied, "It was alright."

Then, he switched the topic back to company matters.

"Since the HR structure and internal issues of the Branch Company have been handled, we should discuss Gu Hui's project next."

Hearing this, Wu Ya's expression turned serious. She frowned and said to Shen Yan, "Before we discuss Gu Hui's project, I must report a problem to you first."

Shen Yan: "What problem?"

Wu Ya walked to her desk, opened her computer, and handed Shen Yan the documents she had compiled over the past two days.

"This is the financial report and transaction records of the Branch Company for the past few months that I compiled."

"If I haven't miscalculated, the profit made by the 'Prosperous Appointment' software is no longer enough to maintain the operation of both companies."

Shen Yan looked at the content on the computer while asking, "So what do you mean?"

Wu Ya took a deep breath and replied, "I think besides those two projects, we can develop a third project of our own."

As her words fell.

Shen Yan did not reply for a long time.

Only after he finished reading all the content in the file did he close the computer and say to Wu Ya, "I understand. Call Old Chen and ask him to come up. The three of us will have a small meeting."

Wu Ya: "Okay."

Ten minutes later.

In the conference room on the second floor of the Branch Company.

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible! I don't agree!"

Chen Guangke slammed the table and stood up.

Wu Ya pressed him relentlessly.

"You've seen the files, and you've heard the reasons. Why don't you agree?!"