"Alright, Xiaoyu, please escort Secretary Shen out."
In the office of Minister Ling Weiwei from the General Affairs Department of Mu Group, Ling Weiwei, seated behind her desk, signaled that her secretary could leave.
After Ling Weiwei's secretary and Shen Xuan had left, only Ling Weiwei and Lin Fei remained in the spacious office.
While Ling Weiwei was organizing some files, Lin Fei began to scrutinize her.
Honestly, after seeing the many female employees in the General Affairs Department, Lin Fei had guessed as much. The department's minister was mostly likely a woman too.
However, Lin Fei hadn't expected that a high-ranking executive at such a major company as Mu Group would be such a stunning beauty in her twenties. From Lin Fei's estimation, her true age couldn't be more than twenty-eight—probably just twenty-six or twenty-seven.
Her long black hair was neatly bun up, and under her quivering eyelashes were eyes clear as autumn waters. Her beautiful oval face was fair and rosy, and her lips were tinged with a captivating shade of red.
Ling Weiwei stared at the man standing in front of her, her brows slightly furrowed, "Are you Lin Fei?"
While appraising the beautiful minister, Lin Fei nonchalantly sat on Ling Weiwei's desk, "Yes, we'll be working together from now on. Has Minister Ling prepared any welcome gift for me?"
Ling Weiwei was stunned. Once she regained her composure, she fixed her gaze on Lin Fei, biting down on her teeth and articulating every word, "What did you say?!"
Ling Weiwei even wondered if she was hallucinating. A subordinate asking for a welcome gift upon meeting his superior? In Ling Weiwei's mind, it wasn't that Lin Fei was insane; it was the whole world that had gone crazy.
For a moment, Ling Weiwei even forgot to query why Lin Fei was sitting on her desk. Since her promotion as the head of the General Affairs Department at Mu Group, Lin Fei was definitely the first person bold enough to plant his bottom on her desk, and likely the last.
"Minister Ling, that's not right of you," Lin Fei said with a look of displeasure, "I'm the General Affairs Assistant assigned to your department by the president. Logically and morally, you ought to have prepared some sort of welcome gift for me. Don't tell me you're unaware of the unspoken rules of the workplace?"
"Workplace unspoken rules?" Ling Weiwei repeated blankly, and after a long while, she finally understood what Lin Fei meant.
Typically, when a senior is reassigned to a department, sensible subordinates would present gifts and flatter their superior. However, these gestures are mostly made quietly behind closed doors. Someone like Lin Fei, who outright demanded a welcome gift, was certainly one of the most shameless types.
Ling Weiwei fought the urge to slap Lin Fei away, and scoffed with a cold sneer, "A welcome gift, is it? Well, the toilet on our floor is clogged. Why don't you go and unclog it?"
Now it was Lin Fei's turn to be confused, not even caring to check out the woman's cleavage anymore, "Unclog the toilet? You want me to unclog the toilet?!"
Seeing the dumbfounded look on Lin Fei's face, Ling Weiwei's tender red lips curved into a meaningful smile, "I guess President Mu didn't tell you what being a General Affairs Assistant entails, did he?"
Lin Fei frowned and said, "Isn't it just to monitor your General Affairs Department, Supreme Emperor?"
"Supreme Emperor?" Ling Weiwei's smooth forehead was marred by a few strands of black lines as she tried to contain her laughter, "You have quite an imagination. Here, this is what your daily work entails; have a look for yourself."
Ling Weiwei took out a folder from her drawer and tossed it lightly onto Lin Fei.
Lin Fei, setting aside his grievances with Ling Weiwei for the moment, picked up the folder and started flipping through it.
Responsible for logging information on strangers entering the General Affairs Department, maintaining and repairing common office equipment like water dispensers and air conditioners, acting as a temporary driver when senior management and above need transportation...
As he read through the document, Lin Fei's expression grew increasingly ugly, and after finishing, his face was grim.
Slap!
Lin Fei smacked the folder down on Ling Weiwei's desk, gritting his teeth, "This is a General Affairs Assistant? It's nothing more than a security guard!"
The file Ling Weiwei gave Lin Fei detailed the role of the General Affairs Assistant. Putting it nicely, he was responsible for this and that, but in reality, he was just a security guard sitting in an office. The job duties weren't much different from a security guard. Frankly, the General Affairs Assistant was just a fancier title for a multitasking security guard.
This was nowhere near the job scope Lin Fei had imagined, similar to that of an executive assistant—it was completely unrelated!
Obviously, Lin Fei had been trapped by Shanshan Mu.
After calming down a bit, Lin Fei roughly understood what Shanshan Mu was scheming. Due to the pressure from Hong Mu, keeping Lin Fei out of the company was definitely not an option.
Shanshan Mu didn't want to give Lin Fei a high-ranking position. Giving him a low position was equally problematic if Hong Mu were to inquire about it later.
By giving Lin Fei this seemingly prestigious position that scarcely differed from being a security guard, even if Hong Mu inquired later, Shanshan Mu would not be left without an excuse.
"Truly worthy of a president," Lin Fei remarked internally, admiring Shanshan Mu's cunning play. With Hong Mu abroad, Mu Group was essentially at Shanshan Mu's control. Lin Fei, despite his anger, couldn't do anything against Shanshan Mu.
"It's okay, we haven't officially signed a contract yet. If you don't want the job, you can leave; there are plenty of people waiting to apply for this position."
Ling Weiwei was not boasting. With the high ratio of good-looking women among the female staff in the General Affairs Department of Mu Group, indeed, too many men were eager to apply for the position of General Affairs Assistant.
"I'll take it, why not!" Lin Fei wasn't stupid; it was clear that Shanshan Mu was setting him up to step into the trap. If Lin Fei, in a fit of anger, left, it would exactly suit Shanshan Mu's wishes. Even if Hong Mu, his cheap father-in-law-to-be, returned to the country and found Lin Fei absent from the company, Shanshan Mu could easily lay all the blame on Lin Fei.
Having witnessed firsthand the capabilities of his future wife, who managed to double the turnover of Mu Group in her twenties, Lin Fei was thoroughly impressed.
Seeing that the matter of Lin Fei's employment had been settled, Ling Weiwei, who had secretly heaved a sigh of relief, now noticed Lin Fei's posture and where his eyes were wandering, "Asshole, where are you looking?!"
Ling Weiwei was instantly infuriated; sitting on her desk was one thing...