Chapter Ninety-Nine: Praising You for Passing the Buck?

What’s this?
Why has the attitude suddenly turned so mild?
Could it be that Director Ruan is trying to save face for the team leader?

Wang Yue was a little slow to react as well. Then she looked at Ruan Mianmian and asked, “What is it? Are you interested in these tasks too, Director?”

“That’s not impossible.”

Ruan Mianmian blinked, her gaze soft and alluring, so captivating it could make anyone stare in a daze.

Yet the more she was like that, the more dangerous she seemed, like bait on a fishing line, waiting for the fish to bite.

Wang Yue’s expression turned wary. With a light laugh, she said, “What do you mean by that, Director?”

Ruan Mianmian slowly stood up and looked at Wang Yue. “I remember there’s a separate printer in Team Leader Wang’s office, isn’t there? It seems Team Leader Wang’s eyesight isn’t very good. Would you like me to go in and point the way for you?”

“You!”

After hearing Ruan Mianmian’s breezy, lightly mocking words, Wang Yue’s face immediately darkened.

The atmosphere in the office turned strangely subtle all at once, and no one dared make a sound.

Everyone merely watched the situation unfold in silence.

“Me? What me? I know where the printer is!”

Ruan Mianmian looked innocent, blinking her large eyes as if she were truly trying to help.

Wang Yue was at once both exasperated and amused.

“Director Ruan, are you joking?”

“No, I’m not!”

Ruan Mianmian raised her brows and replied, “I’m serious. What is it? Does Team Leader Wang not need it anymore?”

“...”

Wang Yue fell abruptly silent. Her face flushed red, then turned pale under the sting of the mockery, an expression of remarkable color.

“Since you don’t need it, then please take it back yourself, Team Leader Wang.”

A sweet, innocent smile on her face, Ruan Mianmian simply held the document out again toward Wang Yue.

Wang Yue’s fingertips went white. She stared at Ruan Mianmian, her composure forgotten, her frosty expression as ugly as it could be.

“Hmph!”

Unable to find a retort, Wang Yue simply snatched the document from Ruan Mianmian’s hand and stormed back to her own office.

Bang!

The sound of the door slamming shut made everyone’s hearts jump.

They looked at one another, then secretly glanced in Ruan Mianmian’s direction, but none of them dared show even a trace of hope now.

Seeing their reactions, Ruan Mianmian’s red lips curved faintly before she slowly sat back down.

Xiangkai stared wide-eyed, not daring to say a word, but the look she gave Ruan Mianmian was full of boundless admiration.

She took out her phone and quickly typed a long string of exclamation marks.

The person on the other end soon replied with a string of question marks.

Little sister, what happened this time? Is someone bullying you again at work?

Xiangkai replied: No. Starting today, my goddess has changed!

Who?

Our director!!!!!

...Don’t start having a crush so early.

She’s a woman! Our director is a woman!

...I’m not particularly concerned, but you should think about our father and mother.

...

Xiangkai quietly put down her phone. Her sister’s train of thought really was unusual.

At that moment, Ruan Mianmian was also holding her phone, though she was using it to claim credit.

She sent Jian Yanzhi a message: I hope you can handle this.

Jian Yanzhi replied: I’ve already heard about Mu Xueying’s matter.

He’d already heard about it, this quickly?

As expected, there were no secrets in the company.

Still, Ruan Mianmian pressed her lips together and secretly smiled to herself. The matter with Wang Yue probably hadn’t reached Jian Yanzhi’s ears yet.

Ruan Mianmian continued: “And also.”

Jian Yanzhi: ???

After that, Ruan Mianmian did not reply again. But not long after, Jian Yanzhi’s relentless chain of messages came in.

Ruan Mianmian hung up the phone, then walked out of the design department with proud, haughty steps. She took the elevator straight up to the thirty-second floor.

The moment she entered the thirty-second floor, Ruan Mianmian sensed a very subtle atmosphere.

It seemed the incident in the design department had already spread here as well.

But since she had already obtained Jian Yanzhi’s permission, then in the end, the result should naturally be borne by Jian Yanzhi!

“Go get her over here! Forget it, I’ll go myself!”

Just as Ruan Mianmian reached the office door, she heard an irritable, furious voice from inside.

She pushed the door open at once and leaned against the doorframe with a soft laugh. “I’m here.”

“...”

Jian Yanzhi looked at her with a face full of dark lines.

Seeing this, Duan Lingyue seemed to have been granted a pardon and fled at once.

Before leaving, she did not forget to invite Ruan Mianmian inside and shut the door behind her.

Ruan Mianmian folded her arms, looking utterly innocent. “I was only following your instructions. You can’t blame me.”

Jian Yanzhi lifted the corner of his eye. “Did I ask you to make Mu Xueying and Wang Yue look bad like that?”

“Isn’t that exactly what you meant?”

“Is that what I meant?”

Jian Yanzhi was so angry he could almost laugh.

Mu Xueying had become the design department’s star for a reason; she had real talent. So many clients chose Horizon Group because they were drawn to her designs.

And Wang Yue had worked her way up step by step from an intern to the position she held today. One could say that all the honors in the design department had something to do with her.

On her very first day, Ruan Mianmian had offended both of them at once and made them suffer such humiliation.

If they were not properly soothed afterward, she might end up completely alienating these two employees.

Ruan Mianmian was fearless. “Anyway, the idea was yours. Why are you getting mad at me now?”

“I’m not mad at you.”

Jian Yanzhi looked helpless as he said calmly, “I just didn’t expect you to have so little restraint.”

“Heh.”

Ruan Mianmian gave a cold laugh and said on her own, “What restraint or no restraint? What a waste it would be if you weren’t a cook.”

“Hm? A cook? What do you mean?”

Jian Yanzhi would never think that was praise.

Ruan Mianmian said, “I’m praising you for being good at passing the buck.”

“...”

As expected.

Ruan Mianmian then said in a haughty tone, “I’m not the worm in your stomach. How far I take it is naturally up to me. Besides, you told me to do it. Now stop coming here to trouble me.”

With that, she pulled a face and prepared to leave.

Jian Yanzhi hurried out from behind his desk and quickly seized her wrist.

“All right, all right, it was my fault for not making myself clear, okay? Why are you angry? Haven’t you already vented enough in the design department?”

With indulgent amusement in his expression, Jian Yanzhi looked at her, and Ruan Mianmian was instantly thrown off.

“Let go of me! Why are you always grabbing and tugging at me?”

Ruan Mianmian shook off Jian Yanzhi’s hand and continued, “In any case, I’ve already made enemies with them. Besides, I already disliked that Wang Yue to begin with, and have you really not realized what was wrong with this?”

Senior employees may have their qualifications, but should new employees be denied even the most basic respect?

Try putting yourself in their shoes.

Ruan Mianmian did not feel like saying any more.

Jian Yanzhi raised a brow. “I know you don’t like it, so I didn’t say anything either. But Wang Yue has worked extremely hard for the company, so be magnanimous and don’t keep arguing with her.”

At that coaxing tone, if Ruan Mianmian had not already been clear-minded, she might have nearly been bewitched by him by now.

“My business with her doesn’t need your concern.”

Ruan Mianmian answered coldly.

“How can I not worry? You’re all my people, of course I can’t just ignore it.”