Daily life of working as a substitute bride for a wealthy family

Sheng Yang returned home and Xiang Ran just came down the stairs.

I saw Xiao Chen moving in two boxes of things.

"What is it?" Xiang Ran asked.

Sheng Yang: "Peach!"

Xiang Ran walked down the stairs and bent down to look at the packaging: "Oh, it's peaches?"

"Don't you like peaches?" Sheng Yang asked.

"The peaches are so soft."

Xiang Ran once bought peaches at a supermarket that were half price. But after eating them, she found that the peaches were juicy but too soft, and not as delicious as the crisp peaches from her hometown.

Sheng Yang smiled and said, "This is a Hujin peach, the last type of peach to ripen, the sweetest and crispest."

"Then I want to try one!" Xiang Ran said with a smile.

"Go to the room first and wait for me. I'll bring it up later." Sheng Yang touched her head. "Peaches have hairs on them, so they can easily cause allergies."

Tsk, Xiang Ran thought, I never peel peaches before eating them.

In the past, when we picked wild peaches in the mountains, we didn’t even wash them.

And she wouldn't get allergic reactions like Sheng Yang.

But can this be said?

No.

Because she is now playing the role of Su Yiqing.

"Okay, thank you, husband." Xiang Ran walked upstairs slowly.

After walking to the corner and making sure that Sheng Yang couldn't see him, he skipped back to the room.

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Not long after, Sheng Yang came in with a big peach and a plate.

Xiang Ran reached out and took the peach, weighing it in her hand: "It's so heavy."

"Is it heavy? But today, a girl like me can carry two boxes at once!"

"Is she the proprietress of Taoyuan? Oh! By the way, in ancient times, when handsome men were riding in cars across the street, people would throw peaches into their cars."

"You have a very vivid imagination. She's Song Nan's secretary," Sheng Yang said. "The peaches were given by Song Nan."

Xiang Ran compared the peach to her face and blinked: "Honey, which is bigger, my face or the peach?"

"You're so generous!" Sheng Yang picked up the knife from the plate and said, "I'll peel it for you."

He emphasized: "This is the first time in my life that I'm peeling a peach."

Xiang Ran propped up her chin and watched the man peeling peaches intently.

"Honey, do you have a female secretary?"

"No." He looked up. "And there won't be any in the future."

"Tsk——" Xiang Ran laughed.

“You don’t understand—” Sheng Yang just shook his head.

"What don't I understand?" Xiang Ran asked.

"You don't understand the complexities of business and social situations, nor do you know—" Sheng Yang tossed the peach peel onto the plate, "because you've never worked before. Different professions and different companies are very different. For example, some jobs don't require interacting with people, while others require interacting with people all day long. And women in the workplace face more challenges than they do."

"Tell me more about it?" Xiang Ran really liked listening to him talk about things in the workplace.

"There's nothing much to say." Sheng Yang smiled as he peeled a peach. "You don't need to deal with those things."

The person who doesn't need to be dealt with is Su Yiqing.

Xiang Ran thought, when I go far away in the future, won’t I still have to work hard in society?

"Tell me." She raised her head and looked at him with her deer-like eyes.

Sure enough, Sheng Yang smiled and told Xiang Ran about what happened to Tracy today.

After hearing this, Xiang Ran felt indignant for Tracy: "How could Mr. Song do this?"

Sheng Yang just stared at the knife in his hand and said nothing.

Seeing that he didn't respond, Xiang Ran continued to ask: "Is the secretary sister very beautiful? Otherwise, how could she be favored by the secretary?"

"Whether it looks good or not depends on personal aesthetics. For example, there are so many beautiful flowers in the world, but I just like the ones at home," Sheng Yang replied.

Xiang Ran was amused by him.

A dog man always flatters himself.

Sheng Yang then continued, "But to be fair, the reason Secretary A noticed Tracy today wasn't because of Song Nan's instigation, but mainly because she had just come from a foreign company and hadn't adapted to the culture of a local company yet.

At American companies like M Group, we encourage our employees to be ambitious and open-minded.

But in a company like Haiyue, in today's social gatherings between officials and businessmen, if Tracy showed this quality, the effect might be beyond her imagination."

Seeing Xiang Ran seemed to be digesting what he said,

Sheng Yang poked a piece of peach with a knife and held it to her lips. "Let me put it simply. The domestic workplace is unfair to women. If an ordinary male employee uses positive words and full emotions to please the higher-ups, he might be slandered as a toady. But for a woman, doing so is very likely to be slandered as a sexual relationship."

Xiang Ran nodded immediately: "I understand - if a young and beautiful woman wants to show herself off in the occasion you mentioned today, 'get the limelight', she will probably be hunted by a big boss and become his little white rabbit to be pampered."

Sheng Yang smiled, surprised at how appropriate her metaphor was.

But he only asked her, "Are Lakeview peaches delicious?"

Xiang Ran: "Don't change the subject. What would happen if the female secretary drove the secretary home?"

Sheng Yang handed the plate to his wife: "Actually, this is just a compliance test. Song Nan wants to test Tracy's bottom line.

If Tracy chooses to obey today, as long as there is a first time, there will often be a second time, and Tracy may become a link between officials and businessmen.

Even if Tracy didn't want to do this at first, she was too young and inexperienced. As a well-behaved girl who had studied and gotten to graduate school, it was easy for her to obey her boss's instructions and go for it without thinking. In fact, this was a hunt.

When Sheng Yang spoke, there was no emotion in his eyes.

Xiang Ran pinched a piece of peach with her hand and put it to his mouth: "But husband, you still helped. You are a hero saving a damsel in distress."

Xiang Ran teased him.

"I knew Tracy's former boss before, and when I first returned to Wings Bank, I faced the same dilemma as she did - the clash of different corporate cultures.

But if Tracy really doesn't want to, Song Nan won't make things difficult for her. It's just that she might not be able to do her job. If Tracy insists on refusing, the situation will probably be awkward.

If speaking out can solve three problems, then it is necessary to speak out, what do you think?

Xiang Ran nodded, walked over and patted him on the shoulder: "I was just joking, Mr. Sheng, you did a great job."

Sheng Yang held her hand and nibbled on her fingertips: "It smells so good."

Xiang Ran's mind was still on poor Tracy, so she asked, "What happened to the secretary?"

Sheng Yang: "Because Tracy didn't obey Song Nan's instructions tonight, when she left, Song Nan deliberately treated her like a man and asked her to move two boxes of peaches to my car alone.

Actually, this peach is not light, right?

The gift box is heavy too, isn’t it?

But no man present offered a hand to help her.

I don’t have one either.”

"Wow, you men are all so cold-blooded." Xiang Ran pointed at Sheng Yang and said.

Sheng Yang hugged her: "Why? Do you really want me to be a hero and save the beauty?

Let me tell you - sometimes you can only help once. If you help twice, there is a problem. Helping others is actually very difficult.

So, most of the time I choose not to help.

Besides, Tracy can insist on doing something by herself, so why should I deprive her of this right?

Perhaps she was also trying to tell Song Nan that it was just moving peaches. If a man can move it, a woman can do it too.