Sweet Wife in a Warm Pet Contract

"President Shen, I've been with the company for two years now. I'd like to ask for a raise on my base salary, even if I don't get a commission increase." Xiao Zhang was holding back her anger. Everyone works hard to earn more money, and she felt she should become a veteran employee.

"I'll raise your salary based on your abilities. If you perform well, I'll try to help you. But if I can't get it, there's nothing I can do." She didn't say it outright, hoping that Xiao Zhang could understand her implied meaning.

"Mr. Shen, I need to support my family, and my current salary is really making it difficult for me to live." Xiao Zhang tried to gain sympathy and began to use his tactics.

“Everyone has difficulties, but the purpose of starting a company is to make money, not to do charity. Xiao Zhang, if you think the salary is too low and doesn’t meet your requirements, you can consider other options. We won’t force anyone to stay.” Seeing that Xiao Zhang was going to become the second Wu Qiuyan, Shen Menghan stopped being polite.

“President Shen, we’ve known each other for so long. If you could put in a good word for me with President Li, wouldn’t it be much easier to get a raise?” Xiao Zhang said unwillingly. She thought Shen Menghan would treat her differently, but she overestimated herself.

"I don't have that ability, Xiao Zhang. Think it over carefully before making a decision." Shen Menghan frowned. She didn't want people to confuse her with Li Zhicheng. Xiao Zhang had clearly touched a nerve.

"President Shen, I never expected you to be this kind of person!"

"I don't need others to judge me. I hope you can watch your words," Shen Menghan warned sternly, her authority not allowing her to be provoked.

"Ah."

After making a dismissive sound, Xiao Zhang turned and walked out. She would think about it carefully.

After she left, Shen Menghan reached up and touched her forehead. She really hadn't expected that Xiao Zhang would show no remorse at all. Since that was the case, there was no point in keeping her around. She hoped that Xiao Zhang would leave on her own initiative to avoid making things awkward for everyone.

Being a manager is really not easy. Besides reviewing documents, you also have to manage relationships with your subordinates. Although she doesn't directly manage personnel, she is quite familiar with these long-term employees. For example, if Xiao Zhang wants to get a raise through connections, she can't just give him a raise anytime; it all depends on his individual abilities.

She'll get a raise if she deserves one, but a small one. For someone who has no performance but expects a high salary, and can't even produce one design a month, it's good enough that the company hasn't fired her.

After Xiao Zhang left, she hung her head in dejection. A colleague sitting nearby came over and whispered to her. After that, rumors about Shen Menghan being fierce and disregarding past relationships spread like wildfire in the office.

Shen Menghan was unaware of all this, and even if she did, she wouldn't change her ways. Without her own principles, how could she accomplish great things?

She planned to invite their marketing department to discuss Li Zhicheng's earlier proposal, and it was time to get things moving as soon as possible.

After finishing her work, she arranged to meet with Manager Yang to see how his project proposal was progressing.

When she left work in the evening, Li Zhicheng came again. As soon as she stepped out of the office, he reached out and put his arm around her, placing his hand on her shoulder. When she looked up, he touched her head, making her extremely embarrassed.

"Take your hand away, I'm not a puppy," she growled, feeling like he was treating her like a child.

“You’re not a puppy, you’re my little darling,” he said, a charming smile spreading across his face.

Shen Menghan's face instantly turned bright red. This damn man, can't he control his words a little?!

Even after getting into the car, he remained unchanged.

She stared at the driver in the front seat, about to speak, when he suddenly leaned in and pressed himself against her. Thinking he was going to kiss her, she reached out and blocked him.

"Xiaohan, you have a pimple here, I'd like to pinch it for you." His gaze was burning, and his breath was on her face, leaving her completely dazed.

She watched as he pressed down on her, reaching out to touch her cheek, until she felt pain on her face, which brought her back to her senses.

"Look," he said, showing her a tiny bit of pus from a pimple, as if presenting a treasure. She was incredibly embarrassed.

Disgusting! Shen Menghan curled her lip, deciding not to lower herself to his level.

When they returned home, there was suddenly an extra person in the house.

At first, she thought the older man in front of her, who looked nothing like Li Zhicheng, was a business partner who had come to see him.

Until he spoke, "Dad."

Li Lei looks very young; he's already in his forties. If you don't look closely, you might mistake him for someone in his twenties.

Standing next to Li Zhicheng, he looked like an older brother.

Before Shen Menghan could speak, Li Lei's eyes were already scrutinizing her, his probing intent obvious.

Seeing this, Li Zhicheng calmly said, "Her name is Shen Menghan, and she is my wife. Xiaohan, he is my father."

"Hello," Shen Menghan said softly. She couldn't bring herself to say the word "Dad." She had never received fatherly love since she was a child, and she had never even called her own father "Dad." She didn't want to give her virginity to another man; that seemed unfair to her own father.

"Your father's surname is Shen?" Li Lei suddenly blurted out.

“I don’t have a father.” Shen Menghan suddenly disliked this man. Even if he was Li Zhicheng’s father, she didn’t want to give him a friendly look. She didn’t like others asking about her father.

"So you took your mother's surname?" Li Lei seemed unwilling to give up.

“Sir, you’re asking too many questions. I refuse to answer. This is my privacy.” Shen Menghan made her meaning very clear. She had an agreement with Li Zhicheng, but that didn’t mean she had to accept his questioning.

Seeing her instantly become like a hedgehog, Li Zhicheng immediately said to his father, "Dad, I'll talk to you about Xiaohan's matter when I have time. You didn't even tell me you were coming back."

His words carried a hint of reproach. He didn't know much about his father, and his relationship with his mother was very strained, but his father had never neglected to care for him.

"Your grandma called me and asked me to come back." It was to see his daughter-in-law. When he saw Shen Menghan, he was very excited, but he remained very calm and did not want to show his emotions.

"If Grandma doesn't let you come back, you won't come back?" he asked sarcastically. It turned out that this really was just a hotel for him, and he would never stay here for long again.

“Zhicheng, when I handed the Li family over to you completely, I said that I wanted to pursue my own real life. When your children grow up, you can be like me, and no one can blame you.” Li Lei said this as if he was very tired. If it weren’t for his son, he would not have lived such a humiliating life for nearly thirty years.

Lu Fen plotted against him, framed him, and made him a heartless and unrighteous man. His beloved woman has disappeared without a trace. Who should he hold accountable for this?

"I won't be as selfish as you, a man without responsibility." Li Zhicheng scoffed. So, in his heart, he was nothing more than a pawn.

Li Lei didn't argue. He didn't care how his son viewed him. He wanted to find that woman while he could still make amends.

Seeing the father and son about to clash, Shen Menghan couldn't help but swallow hard. Li Zhicheng was really strange; he didn't get along with his parents. Did he have no feelings for them at all?

"What's wrong with you two? Do you have to start a fight every time you meet?" Grandma's voice rang out from outside the door. As if she had a premonition that the two were about to argue, she scolded them from afar.