Ā Chapter 3
** No Longer Calling Them**
Jiang Zhe was one of Feng Tingshen’s personal secretaries.
Seeing her resignation letter, he was very surprised.
He was one of the few people in the company who knew about the relationship between Rong Ci and Feng Tingshen.
Anyone familiar with Feng Tingshen knew that his heart wasn’t with Rong Ci.
After their marriage, he had been very cold toward her and rarely came home.
To get close to and win over Feng Tingshen, Rong Ci had chosen to join the Feng Group.
Her original goal was to become Feng Tingshen’s personal secretary.
But Feng Tingshen wouldn’t agree.
Even the family patriarch’s intervention couldn’t make Feng Tingshen nod.
In the end, Rong Ci had settled for second best and stayed in the secretarial department, becoming one of Feng Tingshen’s many ordinary secretaries.
At first, Jiang Zhe had worried that Rong Ci would cause chaos in the secretarial department after joining.
But the result was beyond his expectations.
Although Rong Ci used her position to get close to Feng Tingshen, she knew when to do it and never went overboard.
On the contrary, perhaps to make Feng Tingshen see her in a new light, Rong Ci worked very diligently and performed excellently. Whether she was pregnant, raising a child, or at any other time, she followed company rules and never asked for special treatment.
Over the years, Rong Ci had become the team leader of the secretarial department.
He had always seen how deeply Rong Ci felt for Feng Tingshen.
To be honest, Jiang Zhe had never imagined that Rong Ci would resign.
He also didn’t believe that she would willingly take the initiative to leave.
Now that Rong Ci was resigning, it was probably because something had happened between her and Feng Tingshen that he didn’t know about, to the point that Feng Tingshen had ordered her to quit.
Rong Ci was quite capable at work. Although it was a pity, Jiang Zhe still handled it professionally: “I’ll accept the resignation letter. I’ll arrange for someone to take over your work as soon as possible.”
“Okay.”
Rong Ci nodded, turned around, and went back to her desk.
After working for a while, Jiang Zhe reported to Feng Tingshen online.
When they were almost done talking, he suddenly remembered Rong Ci’s resignation: “By the way, President Feng, regarding ā”
Although he had told Rong Ci that he would arrange for someone to take over her work as soon as possible, he still wanted to sound out Feng Tingshen’s intentions about when exactly to let Rong Ci go.
If Feng Tingshen wanted Rong Ci not to come to the company starting tomorrow, then he would make the arrangements right away.
But just as the words reached his lips, he remembered that when Rong Ci first joined the company, Feng Tingshen had said that all matters concerning Rong Ci at work should be handled according to company policy. There was no need to report to him specifically.
He would not get involved.
And that had indeed been the case.
Over the years, Feng Tingshen had never once taken the initiative to ask about Rong Ci at the company.
When he saw Rong Ci at the office, he treated her like a complete stranger.
Over the years, Rong Ci had performed outstandingly. Two years ago, before they planned to promote Rong Ci, considering Feng Tingshen’s dislike for her, they had specifically mentioned it to him.
The implication was ā if he didn’t like it, they would drop the matter.
At the time, Feng Tingshen had frowned and impatiently reiterated that he would not interfere and that they should follow company policy.
He said not to ask him about anything concerning Rong Ci at the company again.
Seeing that Jiang Zhe was hesitating to speak, Feng Tingshen frowned: “What is it?”
Jiang Zhe snapped back to attention and quickly said, “Nothing.”
Since Feng Tingshen already knew about Rong Ci’s resignation but hadn’t brought it up himself, it meant that in Feng Tingshen’s eyes, this matter was completely unimportant.
On his end, he should still do as before ā handle it according to company regulations.
With that thought, Jiang Zhe said nothing more.
Feng Tingshen ended the video call.
ā¦
“What are you thinking about?”
At noon, a colleague suddenly patted Rong Ci on the shoulder.
Rong Ci snapped out of it and smiled, shaking her head: “Nothing.”
“Don’t you need to call your daughter today?”
“Mm, no need.”
She usually called her daughter twice a day.
Once at 1 AM, and once around noon.
Her colleagues in the office all knew this.
What they didn’t know was that her daughter’s father was none other than the big boss of their company.
After work that evening, Rong Ci went to the market and bought some vegetables and a few potted plants for her apartment.
After dinner, she went online to check for news about the technology exhibition.
After reading, she made a phone call: “Save me a ticket for next month’s technology exhibition.”
“Are you sure?” The voice on the other end was cold. “You asked me to save you tickets twice before, but you didn’t come either time. Tickets that countless people dream of, and you wasted them like that.”
The annual domestic technology exhibition was a major event in the tech industry. Not everyone could get tickets to the exhibition.
Their company had also secured a few exhibition slots, and many of their top talents wanted to attend.
For them, every slot was extremely valuable.
“If I don’t show up this time either, I will never ask you again.”
The person on the other end said nothing and hung up.
Rong Ci knew that meant he agreed.
She smiled.
Actually, what she hadn’t said was that she wanted to return to the company.
As a partner in the company, she had chosen to get married and have children just as the company was starting out. She had stepped back from the company and focused on her family, completely disrupting their company’s development plans and causing them to miss many opportunities.
Everyone had been both angry and frustrated with her.
Over the past few years, they had hardly kept in touch.
It was true that she wanted to return to the company, but after marriage, her focus had always been on her family.
She had been out of the loop for too long.
She was worried that if she went back to the company now without any preparation, she wouldn’t be able to keep up with their pace.
So she planned to spend some time thoroughly understanding the current state of the industry before making specific decisions.
Over the next few days, Rong Ci worked diligently during the day and busied herself with her own matters after work.
She didn’t initiate contact with her daughter or Feng Tingshen.
And of course, they didn’t contact her either.
She wasn’t surprised by this.
Because as early as half a year ago, contacting them had already become a one-sided arrangement on her part.
They were merely passive recipients.
ā¦
Country A.
Feng Jingxin had developed a habit of calling Lin Wu every morning after waking up.
That day, as usual, she called Lin Wu first thing after waking up.
But before she could talk to Lin Wu for long, she burst into tears.
Because Lin Wu had told her some terrible news.
“Aunt Wu Wu is going back to the country!”
Feng Jingxin was heartbroken. After finishing the call with Lin Wu, she immediately called Feng Tingshen: “Daddy, did you know about this?”
In his office, Feng Tingshen was flipping through documents: “Yes.”
“When did you know?”
“Some time ago.”
“Youā¦ Daddy, you’re so meanā¦” Feng Jingxin sobbed, hugging her little pink pig plushie and crying uncontrollably. “Why didn’t you tell me? I don’t want Aunt Wu Wu to leave. If Aunt Wu Wu isn’t here, I don’t want to go to school here either. I want to go back home. Waaahā”
Feng Tingshen’s tone was indifferent: “It’s already being handled.”
Feng Jingxin didn’t understand: “Wh-What do you mean?”
“We’re going back home next week.”
