Chapter 93: Protest (Please add this book to your shelf so you won’t lose track of it)

Luo Hui stopped in mid-step and looked at Hua Tianyu suspiciously, waiting for him to continue.

“It’s like this, then, about giving me a raise!” Hua Tianyu said with perfect seriousness.

“You want a raise? Why should we give you a raise?” Luo Hui asked, puzzled.

Hua Tianyu held up his fingers and began counting. “I’m the head of the security department, right? So I should get the salary of a security department manager. I’m the president’s driver, right? So I should get a driver’s salary.”

“Third, I’m the president’s bodyguard, right? So I should get a bodyguard’s salary. Fourth, I’m the personal chef of your bio-lab director, Shu Yue, so I should get a chef’s salary. Fifth, the burden on my shoulders in the future won’t be light, so I should get a salary for carrying a load.”

Luo Hui: “……”

I can understand the first three, but what do the chef’s salary and the load-carrying salary mean?

What do you mean, Shu Yue’s personal chef?

What do you mean, the burden on your shoulders won’t be light in the future?

What kind of nonsense is this?

Cui Quan immediately gave Hua Tianyu a thumbs-up. In the whole group, the only people who probably dared to talk to the human resources manager like this were the president and Brother Tian.

As for those five salaries, Cui Quan said he didn’t get it. Not at all. But the less he understood, the more awesome Brother Tian must be!

Luo Hui pondered for a long while before replying, “I know you’re Mr. Wei’s driver and bodyguard, but according to company policy, no one has ever received multiple salaries. Among your three roles, the company currently uses the highest-paid one, the head of the security department, as the basis for calculating your pay. That is in line with our regulations.”

Speaking from the standpoint of human resources, Luo Hui answered Hua Tianyu’s question as carefully as she could.

“If you can’t pay five salaries, then you ought to compensate me in some other way,” Hua Tianyu protested.

“What kind of compensation do you want?” Luo Hui suddenly felt that Hua Tianyu was setting some kind of trap and became even more cautious in her words.

“Right to speak,” Hua Tianyu said.

“Right to speak?” Luo Hui didn’t understand and looked at him in confusion.

“The right to speak my mind!”

“Who isn’t letting you speak?” Luo Hui found this utterly baffling.

“You are! Every time I go to the human resources department to talk about something serious or discuss work, you always find all kinds of reasons to chase me away. Isn’t that stripping me of my right to speak?” Hua Tianyu said with an innocent look.

On hearing this, Luo Hui drew a deep breath and thought: You call that discussing work? Talking about serious matters?

Every time, you’re just there chatting up pretty girls, joking with Wang Hong until she’s blushing red enough to bleed.

If that counts as discussing work, then could you please tell me what you call idle chatter?

She steadied herself and said to Hua Tianyu, word by word, “I have decided: you do not get this right to speak.”

“I protest!”

“Protest denied!” Luo Hui stomped into the elevator in a huff and pressed the door-close button, truly not wanting to say another word to this guy.

Hua Tianyu felt secretly amused. Would your “protest denied” have any effect?

After Luo Hui shut the elevator doors, Hua Tianyu decided that when Lu Siyuan came over to discuss cooperation, Wei Xueying absolutely had to be prepared in advance.

From the way Lu Siyuan had appeared today, he did seem genuinely sincere. Since that was the case, Hua Tianyu was quite willing for Swan Group and Lu Group to cooperate this time.

As for Lu Siyuan’s little scheme of pursuing Wei Xueying?

Heh. With Brother Tian here, you can give up on that dream.

Wei Xueying did not look up when she heard Hua Tianyu come in.

The thick stack of documents she had prepared for him earlier still had not been finished, and was piled on one side of her office.

Wei Xueying had asked the secretary to move the materials into the adjoining lounge, only for Hua Tianyu to carry them back again. He insisted that if he was to read them, then without the right environment he could not take in a word. And the most suitable environment, he claimed, was the president’s office, with Wei Xueying in it.

What nonsense. Wei Xueying was helpless, and in the end did not bother with him.

So now, when Hua Tianyu came and went from her office, she had long since grown used to it. If he did not come, she would actually find it strange.

“Xueying, Lu Siyuan is here again,” Hua Tianyu said as he came in, sitting directly on the sofa and admiring her breathtaking beauty and fiery figure all the while.

“Oh, no need to mind him. Let him wait,” Wei Xueying replied without lifting her head.

“Today, though, he’s here to talk business. He didn’t bring all that random junk with him this time; he brought a contract and two business staff,” Hua Tianyu said.

“Oh?” Wei Xueying finally raised her head, a little surprised.

This was not quite the Lu Siyuan she remembered. But since he was not here to cause trouble, she was still very willing to enter into talks with the Lu Group. If they could reach a partnership, it would also be welcome news for her father lying in a hospital bed.

“Where is Lu Siyuan?” Wei Xueying asked.

Hua Tianyu smiled slyly. “I had them wait in the lounge. When you have time, you can go talk business with them. After all, they’re the ones coming here to ask us for something.”

Wei Xueying was slightly taken aback, then understood the meaning behind Hua Tianyu’s arrangement.

She nodded lightly and said, “Then don’t let them wait too long. Once I finish the little bit of work on my desk, I’ll go talk to them.”

“Oh, right, come with me too!”

Wei Xueying suddenly added, without any context at all. Even she did not know why she wanted Hua Tianyu to go with her; perhaps after the incident with Hongwei Security, she had unconsciously come to regard him as an indispensable assistant.

“Xueying, without adding any grass, you’ve milked the cow for quite a lot more milk,” Hua Tianyu sighed.

On top of being the president’s driver, the president’s bodyguard, the head of the security department, and Shu Yue’s personal chef, he was now about to have the title of presidential assistant added to the pile.

What he had said to Luo Hui in the morning had truly, without his meaning to, come true.

Wei Xueying rolled her eyes at him. You call yourself a cow? A cow like you, who loafs around every day and never does a proper day’s work?

Too lazy to bother with you.

Compared with Hua Tianyu’s treatment, Lu Siyuan had to wait in the lounge for two full hours before finally seeing Wei Xueying.

While in the lounge, Lu Fang had pleaded with him again and again, with every possible persuasion, asking whether he might represent the company in the upcoming negotiation with Swan Group and fight for the greatest possible interests for the Lu Group. Lu Siyuan had reluctantly agreed.

So when Wei Xueying appeared in the conference room accompanied by Hua Tianyu, Lu Siyuan forcefully suppressed his excitement. After greeting Wei Xueying, he took his seat.

Then came Lu Fang’s performance. As a professional manager, he had actually begun with the international situation and analyzed the business climate of Shangjiang City, speaking for nearly an hour.

“Mr. Lu, I think Manager Zhao has spoken long enough. Could we begin the substantive negotiations as soon as possible and discuss the matter of our two groups cooperating on a new project?”

After enduring Lu Fang’s seemingly professional but in fact useless PowerPoint presentation for nearly an hour, Wei Xueying could no longer bear it and finally spoke.

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