After Yun Xiyue went to her bedroom to rest, only Su Yang was left in the large living room, filled with grievances and a deep sense of powerlessness.
He couldn't understand it!
Every word he said was true!
Why didn't she believe him?
Besides himself, was there anyone else present who could invite Lu Cheng?
Or was it that in Yun Xiyue's heart, he was so worthless, a complete and utter good-for-nothing?
He even felt an impulse!
He wanted to rush into Yun Xiyue's room immediately, disregard everything, and reveal his true identity as a 'War God'.
He wanted to tell Yun Xiyue all about his past glorious military achievements, his powerful background and connections that could make the entire Magic City tremble!
To let her know that her husband was a peerless hero.
However, unless absolutely necessary, he really didn't want to do that.
This was also why he had hidden his identity and come to the Yun Family in such a humble way for the past two years.
He didn't want Yun Xiyue's feelings for him to be tainted by any impurities related to identity, status, or power.
What he wanted was a pure, ordinary life and love.
This time, asking a friend to help solve the Yun Family's factory order problem was also because the Yun Family's financial situation had reached a critical point of survival.
But even so, he didn't directly expose his identity or his trump card; instead, he painstakingly went through various channels to ask for help, because he didn't want to break the current peaceful, albeit ordinary, life.
What he wanted was to solve his family's problems through a few connections, and at the same time change his image in Xi Xi's heart, so that she would genuinely fall in love with him, Su Yang, as a person.
Just as he was lost in thought and self-doubt,
his old, outdated phone, which his father-in-law had discarded, suddenly vibrated.
The caller ID showed an unremarked, unfamiliar landline number.
He answered the phone with a puzzled look.
A somewhat familiar voice came through the receiver:
"Excuse me, is this Mr. Su Yang?"
"This is Lu Cheng."
The moment Su Yang heard the name "Lu Cheng," he sprang up from the sofa!
Young Master Lu actually called me personally?
On the other end of the phone, Lu Cheng's tone was friendly and natural:
"Mr. Su Yang, thank you for your hospitality at Miss Yun's birthday banquet."
"I called mainly to ask..."
"Besides the factory order issue, is there anything else the Yun Family needs my help with?"
"After all, if you're going to help someone, you should help them all the way."
Listening to Lu Cheng's incredibly righteous words, Su Yang was so moved that tears almost welled up in his eyes!
He excitedly wanted to take his phone to show Yun Xiyue, to prove that he wasn't lying.
However, Yun Xiyue, exhausted both physically and mentally, had already gone to sleep, and her door was locked from the inside.
He tried knocking a few times, but there was no response from inside... At this moment, a brilliant idea, a 'win-win' solution, quickly formed in his mind.
He knew that Yun Xiyue had been having a very rough time at the company recently!
There was an old hag of a director at the company who constantly found ways to make things difficult for her!
Several times, he had seen Yun Xiyue come home from work with red eyes, clearly having suffered grievances at the company!
So, he quickly exaggerated Yun Xiyue's "miserable experiences" at the company to Lu Cheng over the phone.
"Young Master Lu! Do you think you could help Xi Xi resolve this small work trouble of hers?"
He felt that his suggestion was simply perfect.
It could both help his wife solve her work problems and allow him to tell her this news in advance, to prove that Lu Cheng was indeed a connection he had brought in... In the Lu Family's study.
After hanging up Su Yang's call, Lu Cheng's lips curled into a playful, cold smile.
"Mr. War God, you've personally pushed your beautiful wife into my arms."
He dialed the Huanyu Group's representative, his tone resolute and devoid of emotion:
"Acquire Star Brilliance Media within one day, at any cost."
...The next day, in Star Brilliance Media's conference room.
The company's director, a middle-aged woman around forty, corpulent and heavily made-up, slammed a performance report down in front of Yun Xiyue with a 'thud'.
She pointed at Yun Xiyue's nose and began to criticize her in a nearly insulting tone, in front of everyone in the conference room.
"Yun Xiyue, look, just look!"
"Among all the business departments in the entire company, your broken team is at the bottom in performance!"
"Last place for three consecutive months!"
"Do you still have the nerve to sit here? If I were you, I'd be too ashamed to face anyone and would just find a hole to crawl into!"
Hearing the director's reprimand, Yun Xiyue's heart was filled with indignation, because this was not her problem at all!
All the promising and profitable internet celebrities and top agents in the company had long been completely taken by the "insiders" who had good relationships with the director!
And those assigned to her, Yun Xiyue, were all "rotten apples" who couldn't make money and caused trouble every day.
Even if a subordinate she led showed even a little improvement, they would immediately be transferred by the director to other teams... She clenched her fists, stubbornly raised her head, and tried to retort:
"Director Wang, this isn't fair! My team..."
However, before Yun Xiyue could finish her sentence,
Director Wang, seeing that she dared to talk back, immediately exploded like a mad dog!
She slammed her hand on the table, her voice sharp and piercing.
"Unfair?"
"If you don't have the ability to lead a team well, to boost performance, then you just make excuses!"
"I see that pretty face of yours is quite good at seducing people! Why don't you use that skill in your work?"
Her words grew increasingly venomous, practically a naked personal attack!
"If you were willing to go all out! To spend more time with those top-ranked big brothers and rich bosses, to have some 'offline interactions,' would your performance still be this terrible?"
In the conference room, some other colleagues, though equally hating the director's tyrannical behavior,
at this moment, not a single person dared to stand up and speak a word of justice for Yun Xiyue.
Their gazes were sometimes gloating, sometimes tinged with pity and sympathy, but more often, they were indifferent, as if it had nothing to do with them.
Yun Xiyue was trembling all over, furious at her foul language!
Her face was ashen, and her eyes instantly reddened.
But she bit her lip tightly, not letting her tears fall easily!
She felt that her personality and dignity were, at this moment, brutally trampled underfoot and crushed to pieces by this fat, vicious old hag!