Why is This Troublemaker So Damn Rich?

Li Feng apparently felt the same way. She sighed and said, "Xiaotang, maybe I should just apply for a sales associate job at your store. I’m getting green with envy just hearing about the pay and benefits."

Xiaotang just smiled, not taking the bait.

Li Feng added, "Don’t laugh, I’m serious. You should recommend me. If the compensation is really what you say it is, I might as well become a sales associate."

Xiaotang didn’t want to bruise her ego, but Li Feng kept pushing, so she had no choice but to say, "Ma’am, our store has... certain requirements for height and looks."

Li Feng’s face fell instantly. Her appearance really wasn’t her strong suit, but she was born with it, what could she do? ’Sigh, Yanghe Commerce is a great company, but it’s just not in the cards for me,’ she thought.

After Xiaotang’s explanation, Li Feng completely gave up the idea of poaching her. ’With benefits like these,’ she thought, ’I’ll have to go back and tell Wang Hua to stop trying to headhunt their people. We won’t get any of theirs, and all of our own employees will leave. Then, the good-looking ones who try to join Yanghe Commerce and get rejected will just complain about our own company’s poor compensation, and it’ll affect everyone’s morale.’

Xia Jie felt the same way. However, aside from the poaching angle, she was also quite interested in their store’s management policies. She asked Xiaotang for more details, after which both she and Li Feng were once again left speechless and disheartened.

’We can’t copy this. We really can’t. Yanghe Commerce’s standards for their sales staff are incredibly high. Every single detail of customer service is meticulously defined and must be executed perfectly. The philosophy of ’treating customers like family’ seems to be engraved in their very bones. No wonder their stores have such a high closing rate.’

Yang Hui watched Xia Jie return, looking completely dejected, and he had a good idea of what happened. ’Going to find out about Yanghe Commerce’s employee benefits? Wasn’t she just asking to be miserable?’

"Xia Jie, let’s go. I’ll take you back to the office."

"Okay," she replied, her mind heavy with worry. She was thinking about how she was going to report this to the company and how to proceed with her work.

The LED headlights of the Mercedes-Benz E-Class sedan sliced two amber ribbons of light across the underground parking garage. As Yang Hui pulled open the driver’s-side door, Xia Jie slipped into the passenger seat. The hem of her floral dress brushed against the edge of the leather, revealing fifteen centimeters of pale skin above her knee, its cool white tone almost dazzling against the black interior.

After what had happened yesterday, Yang Hui didn’t stand on ceremony. He reached over, his large hand squeezing her delicate, smooth, and supple skin, molding it into different shapes.

"Stop worrying," he said. "Give me a kiss, and I’ll tell you how to break this stalemate."

Xia Jie wasn’t worried; she was just flustered, unsure how to react to his hand on her thigh. All she could do was turn her head toward the window and pretend nothing was happening.

But now, at his words, she subconsciously turned to look at him. An instant later, his mouth was on hers.

She felt a little awkward, her eyes darting nervously toward the front windshield. Yang Hui’s large hand wasn’t idle either, already searching for the soft hills he had explored so thoroughly the day before.

Yang Hui cupped the back of Xia Jie’s head, his fingertips sinking into her slightly damp hair as he pulled her closer. His kiss was deep and urgent, carrying a force that was impossible to resist.

’Why does Manager Yang always like these sneak attacks? Ever since that day, he seems to have gotten more and more practiced at this. Has it become a habit for him?’

The fabric of her long floral dress crumpled under his hand, bunching up at the top of her thigh and revealing even more pale skin. When his thumb pressed against the tender flesh of her inner thigh, Xia Jie suddenly shivered. The air conditioner was blasting cold air, but it couldn’t disperse the heat rising inside the car.

"I really wish I could take you back to Yuzu Xuan right now."

He sat up, buckled his seatbelt, and started the car. Xia Jie, of course, understood his unspoken meaning. She turned to look out the window, her face flushed, her mind still replaying his aggressive, wild kiss.

「Futong Commerce, Dan Biao’s office.」

Zhang Li was there with Xia Jie, but it was mainly Xia Jie who reported on her findings regarding the salaries and other benefits for the sales staff at Yanghe Commerce.

After hearing her report, Dan Biao was on the verge of depression.

’What is the boss of Yanghe Commerce thinking? If he pays them this much, how is he making any money? Did he drink too much water from the Yanghe River and get delirious? It’s one thing to offer a high salary, but this is a retail business! You have them working half-days and give them an extra eight days off per month on top of that? If you don’t want to be a capitalist, why are you in business at all? Wouldn’t it be better to just run a charity?’

’I really can’t let our people keep trying to poach their employees. We’re not going to get any of them, and we’ll lose all of our own. Looking at Xia Jie right now, it seems like she’s already getting ideas.’

He didn’t realize that Xia Jie was actually thinking about what Yang Hui had said to her on the drive over: "Xia Jie, if you think Yanghe Commerce is so great, why don’t you go work there?"

At the time, she’d been so dazed from his kiss that she hadn’t responded. She only recalled his words later and found them a little amusing. ’Is that really a place I can get into just because I want to? Manager Yang can smooth over anything at Futong Commerce and has our clients wrapped around his finger, but surely his influence doesn’t extend to Yanghe Commerce, does it?’

She assumed Yang Hui had just been joking, so she didn’t bring it up again.

Her distraction led Dan Biao to mistakenly believe that she was having second thoughts after hearing about the benefits at Yanghe Commerce. He quickly forced a smile and said, "Xia Jie, your efficiency is just top-notch. I asked for a report by the end of business tomorrow, and you’ve already gotten to the bottom of it today. If all the supervisors on our team were like you, we wouldn’t have to worry about improving our performance."

"Alright, Xia Jie, you can get back to your work. I need to chat with Manager Zhang for a bit."

After she left, Manager Zhang’s expression soured. "President Shan, did you hear that? Look at their compensation package, and then look at ours. You want us to recruit people who meet Yanghe Commerce’s standards? Is that even realistic?"

"If the company could offer the same kind of package as Yanghe Commerce, then we could deliver on that."

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