Marrying a wealthy family for the second time, being spoiled by a paranoid childhood sweetheart

"It's my treat today, order whatever you want!"

In order to thank Gu Chen for taking care of her before, Jiang Ru specially ordered a large table of dishes to treat him to a meal.

Today is my first day at Jiang's, so of course I have to be generous.

"We have so many dishes now, but we're short of some wine. Why don't we have a few drinks?"

Gu Chen did not refuse, knowing that Jiang Ru could still afford this amount of money, so he ordered some things to give Jiang Ru enough face.

"Okay, since we're celebrating, of course we have to drink. Waiter, buy two bottles of high-end red wine."

Both of them ate with gusto. It seemed that the meal together was particularly enjoyable. In addition to being happy, they drank some wine to celebrate.

Jiang Ru's alcohol tolerance was not very good. After drinking a few glasses of red wine and before she finished her food, she felt dizzy.

"You can't drink anymore. You'll get drunk if you drink any more. Let's go home."

Originally, Jiang Ru wanted to continue drinking, but was stopped by Gu Chen, who said that Jiang Ru could no longer drink.

"Okay, let's go home and I'll pay the bill!"

Jiang Ru felt dizzy and didn't want to get drunk, so she took the initiative to pick up the things and pay the bill. Unexpectedly, she stood up too quickly and fell into Gu Chen's arms.

"Ah!" Jiang Ru's panicked voice came to my ears.

When Jiang Ru felt the warmth in his arms, she realized that she had accidentally bumped into someone.

For a moment, Jiang Ru couldn't help but push away the warm embrace. Damn it, how could she be attached to such a comfortable feeling?

After reacting, Jiang Ru pushed him away immediately but accidentally used too much force and Gu Chen almost fell.

"I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to bump into you. Did I hurt your waist?"

Realizing that she had made a mess of things, Jiang Ru regretted it very much and apologized quickly, fearing that she would pull his waist that she had bumped into last time.

"My waist is fine, don't worry. The ointment is very effective. I'll be fine after one application."

Gu Chen's expression suddenly changed just now. It was obvious that the wound had split open and there was some tearing pain, but Gu Chen insisted that it was fine and he didn't say a word even though it hurt.

"I'll walk you home."

After dinner, Gu Chen took the initiative to send Jiang Ru back, and the two said goodbye.

After returning home, Jiang Ru fell asleep easily because she had drunk a little wine, and slept until she woke up naturally the next day.

Knowing that there would be a meeting today, Jiang Ru came to the company early in the morning to attend the meeting on time.

In order to set a good example, Jiang Ru came to the meeting more than ten minutes early and waited for them to arrive.

Jiang Ru had already issued a strict order in the group chat: if anyone didn't attend the meeting, they would be treated as absent from work. Even though everyone was dissatisfied, no one dared to be absent.

Everyone arrived at the meeting room on time, of course, except Chen Qi.

"You're all here, right?"

Jiang Ru saw that people from her department had gradually arrived at the conference room. She had thought that the time limit had expired, but she found that there was still a vacant seat. "Who hasn't come yet?"

"Chen Qi..."

Everyone stammered and said her name.

Jiang Ru's expression changed quickly. She didn't expect that Chen Qi was so bold. Did he really dare not to attend the meeting?

She stared at her watch and saw that the meeting had already passed. It was scheduled to start at 9 o'clock sharp. "Forget it if she doesn't come. I'll take note of her name and treat it as absenteeism."

Jiang Ru didn't take it to heart at all and directly deducted one day's wages from Chen Qi as punishment. She always did what she said and would not wait even for a minute.

"Please all introduce yourselves."

Before the meeting started, Jiang Ru asked them to introduce themselves to each other, and Jiang Ru finally got to know the people in the publicity department formally.

"Each of you should take responsibility and report on your work."

Then when Jiang Ru asked them to report their performance, no one said a word and still looked unconvinced.

Seeing this situation, Jiang Ru didn't take them seriously at all and warned them directly and coldly: "I know you all are dissatisfied. I am a new acting director, but you must understand that even though I am a newcomer, I am still your boss. I hope you can understand your position clearly."

Jiang Ru directly used her status as a superior to put pressure on them. Many people were dissatisfied with her, but because of her position, no one dared to do anything.

Everyone could only report their own performance honestly. Seeing the reports they submitted, Jiang Ru felt a headache. Jiang Ru found that the performance of the Propaganda Department was very poor to the point that the Propaganda Department's work was always not done well.

After reading it, he reported it directly. Jiang Ru's face turned pale. She analyzed and weighed the pros and cons directly: "I have seen your respective performances. Some of you are very outstanding, but you have no chance of promotion. However, I know that many people in the department are slacking off, causing motivated people to slack off as well. I'm sure you have a lot of opinions about this, right?"

Jiang Ru put down the report in her hand and questioned them with this question, which touched their hearts directly.

It is true that there are many people in this department who are just fakes. As long as you are employed in this department, you can get a guaranteed salary even if you have no performance. Everyone relies on the performance of those hard-working employees to get their guaranteed salary. Everyone unanimously chooses to lie down, which leads to the laziness and lack of attention in this department.

No one dared to respond to Jiang Ru's words. Jiang Ru didn't mind directly stating her plan. She said seriously, "I don't care how you worked before. When you come here, you have to listen to my arrangements. I will implement a last-place elimination system. The basic salary will remain the same, but the work intensity will be increased. If you don't meet the standards, there will be no performance bonus. If you meet the standards, your bonus will be doubled!"

When this news came out, those employees with good performance were of course happy to exercise self-control, but most of the people in the department got in through connections and had no real skills. When they heard that they might be eliminated, they became terrified.

"You're just an acting director. Why do you think you can eliminate us?"

They felt that Jiang Ru's appearance had disrupted their interests and became even more dissatisfied. Some people even raised questions in the meeting room.

"As long as I'm your boss, I have the right to fire you. The company doesn't need newcomers, nor do we need idlers. Anyone with poor performance will be fired!"

Jiang Ru felt that there was no need to explain too much to them. What the company valued was naturally profit. As long as one was excellent, he would of course be promoted. After the implementation of this elimination round, there were more opportunities for promotion, but one could not slack off, and many people complained bitterly.

Jiang Ru didn't care about them and just issued it. Then she turned around and left for a while.

Unexpectedly, those employees were not satisfied with Jiang Ru at all. They gathered together privately and secretly complained to the Human Resources Department.