After Black Moonlight revealed her true feelings, everyone panicked.

Xia Youyou looked up and tugged at Zhu Jinming's sleeve. "Brother Jinming, let's forget about it."

Lu Sijian thought about it for a moment, and decided that she could tolerate Zhu Jinming, that filthy bastard, just to watch the show.

Manager Yuan smiled and smoothed things over, "Mr. Zhu, let me toast you and Miss Xia, wishing your love to last forever!"

After he finished toasting, several male employees under him seemed to receive a signal and raised their glasses to toast Zhu Jinming as well.

The female employees drank with Xia Youyou.

The atmosphere quickly became lively.

Zhu Jinming raised his eyebrows at Lu Sijian across the crowd, his eyes full of disdain.

That woman is so petty. So many years have passed, yet she still clings to it. She's utterly clueless.

Lu Sijian met his gaze without flinching.

"Miss Lu, please have some food. You must be Baolin's good friend, right? We're all Baolin's colleagues, so please don't be shy," Manager Yuan greeted her.

Lu Sijian turned her head to look at the manager.

The man was probably in his forties. Unlike those pot-bellied men, he was very thin, with a smiling face, and looked very approachable.

Half of his employees are women, and the team atmosphere in his department seems to be quite good.

[This must be the smiling tiger. Although he doesn't look like Uncle Shen, they do have a similar air about them.]

It's no wonder Shen Baolin fell for this kind of person.

Shen Baolin was very unhappy that she had slandered her respected manager like that.

Although Manager Yuan is a man, he has a gentle personality and no prejudice against women. He is often willing to give female subordinates more opportunities at work.

As he himself said, he has three daughters, and every time he sees these young girls, he thinks of his own daughters and hopes that the workplace environment will be fairer to women so that his three daughters can also benefit from it when they grow up and start working.

Whenever Shen Baolin sees Manager Yuan, she is reminded of her father.

When she was little, she was ignorant and only cared about being close to her mother, but as she grew older, she became more and more understanding of her father's hard work.

Her parents fell in love freely. Her father came from a poor family, but he was undeniably outstanding. With her mother's help, he started his own business and built the Shen Group into what it is today.

It can't compare to the Lou family's century-long accumulation, but my father has done his best.

But his mother was never satisfied. She was domineering and controlling. Despite being just a vice president, she tried to control his father and interfere with every decision he made. She wanted to turn the company into her personal fiefdom.

My father's hair has turned gray prematurely in recent years, and he looks much older, all because of my mother's anger.

He said that if he didn't want to keep an eye on the company for his daughter, and was afraid that his wife would make a mess of it and leave a mess for his daughter, he would sometimes think that he might as well just retire.

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When no one was paying attention, Manager Yuan winked at Shen Baolin, and the two went outside.

Lu Sijian thought for a moment and, since she had nothing else to do, decided to go and see what was going on.

She followed so openly that Shen Baolin had noticed long ago, but Manager Yuan, who was walking at the front, didn't.

Shen Baolin was speechless. Why did she enjoy doing such despicable things?

However, she might be disappointed. Manager Yuan was never the bad person she described, and she didn't hear anything negative about him.

Manager Yuan walked to a corner and stood there, smiling as he asked Shen Baolin, "Baolin, what's the deal with your friend?"

Shen Baolin: "Manager, I'm sorry, she had a minor disagreement with Mr. Zhu many years ago, I shouldn't have brought her here."

Manager Yuan hurriedly waved his hand, "No, no, since we're friends, it's fine to invite her over for dinner. I was just worried that if Young Master Zhu continued to make things difficult for her, she would suffer."

He paused, then added, "When we're done, should I send a few men to take her home?"

So it turns out Manager Yuan was secretly concerned about me.

Hearing the whispers behind her, Shen Baolin thought coldly, "Otherwise what? Do you think everyone is as dark-hearted as you?"

"Manager, no need, I'll give her a ride home."

"Oh, that's good. Be careful on your way, and call me if anything happens."

Manager Yuan paused, then asked, "And what's going on between you and that Miss Xia?"

Shen Baolin was taken aback.

"I can tell you two know each other, but you both look a bit off. You two probably aren't friends, are you?"

Shen Baolin lowered her head: "No, I'm sorry, manager, I have a bit of a grudge against Miss Xia."

She felt a little guilty. Xia Youyou was riding high at the time, and what if she used her influence to ruin the cooperation?

Manager Yuan was taken aback for a moment. "Hey, what are you blaming yourself for? If Miss Xia is really targeting you, we can just cancel this order. I'll also talk to your colleagues to talk to them about it."

Shen Baolin was somewhat surprised, not expecting that the manager, who always valued performance, would actually be willing to give up an order that had already been secured.

"Although I always tell you to let your performance speak for itself, I'm not the kind of person who would abandon all principles for the sake of performance."

Lu Sijian watched as someone deceived a naive child and sighed silently.

[Of course you don't care about this order. As long as you keep Shen Baolin happy, the Shen family's resources will be yours for the taking. Then you'll have as many orders as you want.]

[You think you have any bottom line? Not only do you want to steal the Shen family's business, you practically want to ruin the entire Shen family.]

The emotion that had just welled up in Shen Baolin's heart vanished without a trace.

She knew it; Lu Sijian would never say anything nice!

Manager Yuan had been observing Shen Baolin's expression. When he saw her suddenly turn cold, he wondered if he hadn't performed well enough.

He knew that Shen Baolin, as a daughter of a wealthy family, had always looked down on women who tried to marry into higher social classes.

He was also quite dissatisfied with Xia Youyou. When he went to offer her a toast, she put on airs and refused to drink, thinking she was something special.

“Baolin, you’ve always been averse to evil, so it’s perfectly normal that you had a grudge against that Miss Xia. I also can’t stand women who don’t respect themselves.”

Manager Yuan considered for a moment and said, "She clearly has hands and feet, but she only thinks about taking shortcuts by relying on her looks and making money off men. What ability does this kind of woman have? She won't understand how hard you normal career women work to gain a foothold in the workplace. She will only laugh at you for having to work so hard."

"Letting these gold diggers get away with it will only corrupt social values. I don't want my daughter to cry and tell me in the future that she doesn't want to work and just wants to marry a rich man."

[Hilarious! That indignant tone makes it sound like Xia Youyou stole his money.]

[And does he think rich people are all fools? At least Zhu Jinming isn't. He pretends to be generous, but he only spends money on himself. Just wait and see; Xia Youyou will most likely be the one paying the bill today.]

You eat and drink what others provide, and then you gossip about them behind their backs. How wicked you are!

Shen Baolin frowned. Xia Youyou would be willing to pay the bill? No way!

Manager Yuan looked at her expression and felt confident that the deal was in the bag.

Aren't all women like this? They love hearing men elevate themselves and belittle other women.

To be honest, if Shen Baolin weren't the daughter of the Shen Group, he might have actually made a move on her.

She's young, beautiful, and adores me; it's not like I could just snap my fingers and get her.