Chapter 6: Narrow Road of Enemies!

  Another day passed by, and it was almost time to get off work when Zhang Ziheng was called into the office by Director Xu.

  "Director Xu, you're looking for me?" As soon as I entered the office, I saw Director Xu looking at the design drawings in his hand with a serious expression.

  Xu nodded and gestured for him to sit down, then said: "Ziheng, I think you should have seen the notice posted at the entrance today? It's written very clearly that everyone in our department needs to submit a design drawing today. Why didn't you?"

  Zhang Ziheng was slightly stunned and said: "Sorry, Director Xu, I really didn't notice that notice when I came this morning."

  "Even if you don't see it for yourself, someone will tell you, won't they?"

  "Somebody told me that I'm still a newcomer and shouldn't be qualified to compete for the spot. Besides, even if I submit my design, it definitely won't be selected," Zhang Ziheng said.

  "Whether or not you are selected is not up to you, it's up to me and the board of directors. This is a task assigned by the company, now that one person is missing, how can I explain it to my superiors? Our company has rules and regulations, even if you've never studied design, as long as you're in this department, you have to follow the leader's arrangements, do you understand?" Xu was visibly angry, his voice raised.

  Zhang Ziheng was left speechless, and could only nod his head in understanding.

  "No matter how you say it, you've just arrived at the company for a short time. Let's forget about this incident. Hurry up and do one copy, hand it over to me tomorrow morning." Xu said with a shake of his head.

  This was the first time Zhang Ziheng had been scolded by Director Xu, which made him feel very uncomfortable. Maybe it was because the person who scolded him was Director Xu, or maybe it was because this was his first time being scolded. But after all, he was a young man, and feeling a bit unbalanced in his heart was also normal.

  After returning home, Zhang Ziheng didn't even cook dinner and directly boiled a packet of instant noodles to eat. He had to work through the night to finish that design draft. Although he was certain he wouldn't be selected, Zhang Ziheng was a very diligent person who required himself to do everything to the best of his abilities.

  Two hours had passed, and Zhang Ziheng was exhausted, leaning back in his chair, thinking that he didn't have any inspiration at all, what to do. At this time, a QQ chat dialogue box suddenly popped up on the computer desktop, a female netizen named Jiajia gave him a shaking window.

  Zhang Ziheng took a closer look and found that this netizen was someone he had met in the chat room two days ago, but they hadn't exchanged more than a few words. To be exact, Zhang Ziheng hadn't said anything to him. Since breaking up with Yu Jie, he hadn't chatted with his online friends much anymore. Even when others tried to talk to him, he would just casually respond with one or two sentences.

  Zhang Ziheng's online name is "One Life With You", and after Jiajia shook the window, she came over with a sentence: "Who is 'one life with'?"

  "It's not clear what you're writing, is it?" Anyway, Zhang Ziheng didn't have the heart to do design drawings now, and it was better to chat with her, which would also ease his mood.

  "Hehe, who is the 'you' you're referring to?" Jiajia replied.

  "It's just 'you', a simple 'you', no one else." Zhang Ziheng smiled slightly, answering cleverly.

  "You're quite poor, aren't you? I'm sure you have a lot of girlfriends, young man?"

  "I'm a match without a head, a single stick of incense."

  "Really? Is it true or false?" Jiajia said with a questioning QQ expression.

  "I don't need to lie to you, no means no. How about you, do you have a boyfriend?"

  "I'm divorced and now single," said Jiajia.

  "Oh, sorry." Divorced? Zhang Ziheng was slightly stunned and opened Jiajia's personal profile. Thirty-one years old, from B city, in the same city as himself. But it was immediately denied by Zhang Ziheng, generally speaking, not many people write true information online.

  "It doesn't matter, since the feelings are gone, being together is useless. Why don't you have a girlfriend? Are you very ugly?" Jiajia seemed very calm and didn't care that she was already divorced.

  Zhang Ziheng was slightly stunned, picked up the mirror beside him and took a look at himself in the mirror, then wrote: "It shouldn't count, do you women all pay so much attention to appearance?"

  "Mostly, but I don't pay attention to that much anymore. By the way, since you don't have a girlfriend, do you have someone you like?" said with a smile.

  Zhang Ziheng thought for a moment, and suddenly Director Xu's face appeared in his mind. Why did he suddenly think of her? In that case, "I like the head of our department, she is my superior." Anyway, everyone didn't know each other and hadn't met before, so even if he said it, nothing would happen, and whether the other person believed him or not was uncertain.

  Obviously Jiajia was very surprised by this reply, first coming over with an astonished expression, then saying: "What do you do? You actually like your own leader."

  Zhang Ziheng thought for a moment and said, "I work in a real estate company. The reason I like her is that she gives me a very special feeling, a feeling that can't be put into words, but it's just very special."

  Is she pretty?

  "She's very pretty, I fell in love with her at first sight. I liked her the moment I saw her for the first time. Do you believe in love at first sight?"

  "Uh-huh."

  "Have you ever met?"

  "No, but I just believe."

  "By the way, what do you do?"

  "I opened a clothing store myself and became my own boss, haha."

  "Oh, really? Then if I have a chance, can I go to your place to buy clothes?" Zhang Ziheng said, but he knew in his heart that he definitely wouldn't go.

  "I'm so sorry, you're going to be disappointed because I sell women's clothing, haha. Don't mention me, let's talk about your general manager instead. If she's that great, there must be many people chasing after her?"

  "This... I'm not very clear either, because I rarely even have the opportunity to talk to her." Zhang Ziheng said frankly.

  "You'd better work hard then. If such a good girl is snatched away by someone else, you'll regret it." Jiajia said with another mischievous expression.

  Zhang Ziheng smiled slightly and glanced at the time, now it's already 10 o'clock, if he didn't hurry up, there wouldn't be enough time to finish the design drawing.

  "Sorry, I can't chat with you anymore, I have a plan that I need to finish immediately, let's talk next time."

  "Hehe, are you going to start building a house? Alright, won't disturb you then, 88."

  “88。”

  He turned off the chat dialogue box, Zhang Ziheng lit a cigarette and started working again. He worked on this design until 3 am before finishing it. Looking at the sky outside the window which was already brightening up, Zhang Ziheng yawned, stretched his waist, fell onto the bed and fell asleep.

  Just as Zhang Ziheng felt he had just fallen asleep, his mobile phone alarm went off. No choice but to get up, wash his face, brush his teeth and simply tidy himself before heading to work.

  Due to not sleeping well, Zhang Ziheng actually fell asleep on the bus and was woken up by someone at the terminal station. When he realized he had passed his stop, he was already late. Without thinking much, he jumped off the bus, hailed a taxi, and rushed to the company.

  Zi Heng arrived at the company panting, and Zi Wen had already been waiting for him at the door. As soon as she saw him, she walked up to him and said: "What took you so long? President Xu has been looking for you since early morning and is now in a bad mood in his office."

  "I didn't sleep well last night and I overslept this morning," Zhang Ziheng said as he walked.

  "Go quickly to Director Xu's office and cleverly give a good explanation."

  Zhang Ziheng nodded and quickly walked into the office, hastily apologizing: "Director Xu, I'm really sorry. I was up all night working overtime yesterday and didn't sleep at all. When I came today, I fell asleep on the bus and missed my stop, so I arrived late. Sorry about that."

  Xu was organizing files at this time and saw him coming in, didn't say much, "Where is your design drawing? Is it done?"

  "Here it is," Zhang Ziheng hastily handed it over.

  Xu took it and glanced at it roughly, then nodded and said: "It's not bad, how about this, I'll give you a chance to redeem yourself?"

  "Director Xu, you said as long as I can do it, you will definitely agree with me."

  "Ziwen's hand is injured and can't hold too many documents. I'm about to go to the conference room for a meeting, can you help her take these design drawings to the conference room?" Xu said as he handed a large stack of design drawings to Zhang Ziheng.

  "No problem, Director Xue. By the way, what's wrong with Ziwenn's hand?"

  "I don't know, I heard her say it's a sprain, ask her when you turn back. Alright, now come with me to the conference room."

  The two of them walked out of the office while talking, and Ziwen was already waiting outside. Director Xu walked ahead, Zhang Ziheng deliberately slowed down his pace, and whispered to Ziwen: "Sister Ziwen, I heard from Director Xu that your hand is injured, what's going on? Is it serious?"

  Zi Wen playfully gave him a glance, then whispered in his ear: "You fool, if I didn't say that, you wouldn't have the chance to redeem yourself."

  It was like this, Zhang Ziheng finally understood, "Thank you, Ziwen sister, you are really good to me."

  The conference room was on the 19th floor. When Xu and his two companions arrived, there were already a group of people there. Sitting in the center of the conference table was Wang Dongcheng, chairman of Feiyu Company, sitting to his right was Gao Yang, general manager of the planning department, and Xu sat down on the left side of the chairman.

  Originally, Zhang Ziheng was not qualified to attend this meeting, but due to a series of unexpected events, he ended up staying and sat behind President Xu with Ziwen.

  Seeing Zhang Ziheng, the chairman was slightly stunned and asked: "Xiao Xu, who is this young man..."

  "Oh, he's a new employee in our department and was also involved in this design, so I brought him along." said Director Xu with a smile.

  "Hello Chairman, I am Zhang Ziheng." Zhang Ziheng hastily stood up and bowed.

  The chairman smiled and nodded, thinking to himself that the young man was quite polite. The meeting was about to start, and the chairman saw that everyone was ready, so he smiled slightly and said: "Before the meeting begins, I'd like to introduce someone to you all. Wang Xue, come in."

  As soon as the chairman's voice fell, a beautiful girl walked in. The girl was dressed in a professional attire, with light makeup on her face, looking elegant and refined.

  This girl looks so familiar, I think I've seen her somewhere before. Where have I seen her? Suddenly, Zhang Ziheng was stunned, wasn't this the girl who ran away without paying at the restaurant last time? And he even saw her again at a market afterwards. How did she end up here? Is she also an employee of this company? What a small world indeed.