"You?"
The clerk couldn't quite believe it; the woman seemed to be no more than twenty-three or twenty-four years old. How could she possibly understand jade? It was widely known that those proficient in the jade industry were at least middle-aged, and in recent days, all the interviewees had been around that age. And now this woman was claiming to know about it?
The clerk subconsciously wanted to reject her, but after locking eyes with the woman, who said simply, "Isn't there an interview process? Whether I'm qualified or not, we'll know after trying."
At that, the clerk was at a loss for words.
Indeed, whether one is suitable for the job must be determined through an interview. However, the main examiner for their position was none other than the biggest boss of this building. With that in mind, it wouldn't hurt to let her lose hope.
So, she actually picked up the internal phone at the reception desk, "Hello? President's office? There's another person here to interview for the president's assistant..."
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Fifteenth floor—
In the bright and clean office, with its grey and white furniture and the all-black crystal glass desk sitting in the light streaming through a wall of floor-to-ceiling windows, the space exuded simplicity and luxury, monochrome yet elegant.
Xiaochen came in with the last resume which had been turned down, and seeing the man in the white boss chair still busy, he felt even worse: "Young Master, the last candidate was no good either. You see... could we maybe show them a stone of a lower grade? It's just for an assistant; do they really need to meet the high standards of identification in this field?"
"Do you think I am looking for something like you?"
Xiaochen immediately clammed up!
What's wrong with him? He was competent, wasn't he? Look how well he managed everything for him, up and down?
Feeling aggrieved, Xiaochen nonetheless had to yield, taking what he had in hand and turning to leave. But just then, the outside assistant Xiaochen called him at the door, "Secretary Gao, there's another person downstairs here for an interview, a twenty-three-year-old woman."
A twenty-three-year-old woman?!
Secretary Gao instinctively turned his head to look at the man in the office: "President..."
"Gao Ziyang, do you really not want to work anymore? If you don't want to, I wouldn't mind having a twenty-three-year-old woman as my secretary!" The man inside said this without even raising his head.
Secretary Gao was on the verge of tears, "President, I was wrong. I'll send her away right now..."
What did this have to do with him? He hadn't asked for the woman to come for an interview; he hadn't even heard there was such a young woman involved. Had he known, would she have even made it through Oushi Building's doors?
Seething with frustration, he saw Xiaochen at the secretary desk of the President's office and immediately snapped, "Where's the woman?"
Xiaochen quickly stood up, "I've asked her to wait in the reception room."
"Tell her to leave!"
"Ah? Why?"
"Why so many questions? Just tell her to leave. Here, do we need a reason to send someone away?"
Xiaochen: "..."
At that moment, from the reception room in the corridor, the young woman who had been waiting inside for quite some time stood up and walked out, having seen that no one had come to interview her. Seeing this scene, she paused and frowned slightly, "Indeed, you don't need a reason, but at least, you should know how to respect others."
Her tone was neither cold nor heated, showing no signs of annoyance, but her words were enough to infuriate everyone present.