Chapter 42: The Starving Clan

  "There's a bit of a situation on the road, I couldn't just give up and go back?" She surprisingly blurted out this sentence, even she herself didn't dare to believe that it was her own words, looking at the girl beside her who was panting and had several pimples on her forehead.

  The city is stressful, and being overworked has left me exhausted. People are constantly toiling for a living, and gradually forgetting their original intentions.

  "Also, but aren't you dressing too casually? That female tiger is notoriously fierce!" The girl's name was Fu Xiao Yi, which was the clearest from her work badge. She had just graduated two years ago and had been struggling to make ends meet at Rui Mei Na Lu. She never had any hopes of becoming a leader, she just wanted to survive and send some money back home, that was always her way of thinking.

  From the front desk to the manager's assistant, it's a qualitative leap, and the salary has also increased a lot. These little sisters, if they follow the right master, that's happiness. But what about her? She was assigned to the marketing department as Wen Li's assistant, keeping 24 hours online every day, running all over the city.

  Both body and mind are a bit overwhelmed, often dizzy just sitting. This time it's really bleeding in the elevator, today finished dealing with some contracts and just rushed back, don't know what kind of devil training to face later? CEO's First Love: Ah, don't be too bad 42

  Day after day, when will it end? Fu Xiao Yi looked at Gu Xi Wang and started thinking about how she used to be, innocent and lovely, signing a five-year contract. She had sold herself to innocence, sold herself to naivety!

  "Is that so, it doesn't matter anymore. I didn't have much hope anyway, are you okay?" Gu Xi asked as he looked at her dazed expression.

  "Old problem, take a break and it'll be fine. I've arrived! Not talking to you anymore, good luck with your interview!"

  Fu Xiao Yi furrowed her brow, trying to move the documents to the left side a bit more, and stretched out her right hand to pat her forehead. With a "ding", the elevator opened.

  Gu Xi watched her hobble and limp in high heels into the inner office, from the elevator entrance was a large hall, very spacious, this layout is similar to the one she visited at Fan Yu company last time.

  In a large office, thirty employees sat working busily, the sound of keyboards covering up the footsteps of high heels walking by.

  Gu Xi walked over to the front desk and asked the receptionist, "Hello, I'd like to ask if there are still any interviews going on now?"

  "Are you here for the interview? Isn't it 3:30? Why are you just arriving now? Our manager said that if you're late, we won't wait, thank you!" The receptionist was a tall and slender girl with a pale complexion, vastly different from Pei Xiao Yi earlier. Her big eyes were beautiful to look at individually, but as a whole, her face looked a bit strange. Her facial features weren't bad, perhaps it was just that her eyes were too sharp. Every sentence she spoke, she avoided eye contact, her gaze darting around.

  "Sorry, I'm late due to a traffic jam!" As soon as she said that, Gu Xi started to feel like giving up and felt even more uncertain. Looking around quickly, he realized that he had been negligent - such a large company should have been prepared for, or else it would be a miserable end.

  "That's it then, we have rules here, never made an exception, you can leave now!"

  Gu Xi looked at her and started to ignore her, lowering her head to continue entering data. She really wanted to scold someone, but remembering that she was wrong first, her attitude was also understandable.

  Then, an unprecedented sense of loss surged up in my heart. What was the point of all these years of accumulation? I didn't even have the chance to take the first step through that door.

  She left the Dongge Building and started walking aimlessly. This wouldn't do, so she returned to the original place and got on the bus. No matter what time it was, the buses here seemed to be a noisy area, making her mood even more irritable. The phone rang, a landline number, and she answered without thinking, only to hear a familiar voice, "Xiaoxi, come over early tonight and have dinner with the team at home."

  Her gentle voice always made her unable to refuse, Ling Mu was a kind and approachable mother. Even sometimes, calling her "mom" felt so natural.

  "Oh... uh... I see." Gu Xi hesitated, wanting to refuse but swallowed his words instead.

  "Ah, good boy."

  Team member dinner? She just remembered that Lin Xiaorong asked her to go shopping for gifts together. If it's his birthday, she should also buy some things to be polite when going to the Ling family home. Thinking of this, she felt a bit down.

  Nowadays, after finishing a meal, I still can't think about the next one. The days without work are getting longer and longer. The phone is ringing non-stop like it's out of control, and every time I glance at it, it's "Ling Haoyu" calling, no less than ten times already.

  Looking out the window, the tree shade is illuminated by the bright sunlight, making the leaves appear even more glossy, as if they were born for the sun. The phone has been held in her hand all along and never put down, ringing non-stop, with others staring at her, "Hello? I said! I'll go, don't call me again!"?? CEO's First Love: Ah Nuo, don't be too naughty 42

  "Wow, how did you know I was going to invite you over?" A magnetic and sexy voice came from beside her ear, she looked around in confusion to see if someone was really speaking. After hesitating for a long time, she finally looked at the phone screen, "Ye Kaiwen", the little boy who played music in the park last time.

  "Oh, what's up? You're looking for me?" Gu Xi felt a bit awkward, mistakenly thinking that it was Ling Haoyu on the phone with her. She thought to herself, "Gu Xi, you're overthinking this."

  "I received a singing gig at an exhibition that requires harmonization, I don't have any acquaintances here, can you come and help out? How about we split it 70-30?

  Ye Kaiwen had been missing for some time, ever since the last fight in the bar. He urgently needed money, so he went to a restaurant to make deliveries, living a sweaty life every day, but finally managed to save up some money.

  Just as he was buying a music box, he saw a recruitment poster on the bus, and all he could see was Gu Xi's figure."

  "What song are you singing?" Gu Xi heard him say this, and her mind started racing. Not being able to find a job temporarily was also for the sake of making a living, she had always loved playing music, but didn't have the conditions to study it specially.

  "They are all KTV's popular duet songs, I believe you can definitely do it. Remember last time when you hummed the song alone, I secretly heard it and you sang it super well!"

  "Is that so? Then I'll head home first and meet you at 5 o'clock!" Gu Xi didn't refuse or ask any questions, she was always like this with her friends, having no boundaries.

  She returned home to find Shangguan Yiyin lounging lazily on the sofa. Unexpectedly, she hadn't eaten anything, and gazing at the smooth, clean floor with a hint of dampness, it was probably her who had mopped it herself. The several bags of snacks on the table were all gone. A day without food was a painful thing for a foodie like her.

  "Back already? Got an interview so soon?" Hearing the knock on the door, he immediately jumped up and looked in the direction of the door.

  Shangguan Yiyi stared at her blankly, ignoring the discontent in her heart, and added a sentence, "Hey, I'm asking you something!"

  "No!"

  Gu Xigang happened to push open the door, heard Shangguan Yiyi's ear-piercing cry, turned his head coldly and responded, and fell onto the bed motionless with exhaustion.

  "What's wrong with her! Severe princess disease combined with overbearing syndrome, what a big deal!" Shangguan Yiyi kept muttering to herself, staring at Gu Xi's door, really wanting to rush in and glare at her fiercely.

  "Ahh!" In a fit of rage, he stuck his chopsticks into his mouth and bit down hard, making his teeth creak. So stupid, he propped up his chin with his left hand, and with his right hand, he made a few fake punching gestures towards the door. Bored out of his mind, he flopped back onto the sofa again.

  Two hours later, Gu Xi came out of the room door, wearing a single-shoulder pure white lace hollow short top, paired with a large bell-bottomed jeans. The sound of her walking out made me realize that she was wearing a pair of high heels underneath. The short top matched the long pants, and the waistband of the pants sparkled brightly, with two chains hanging down from the front of both pant legs.

  Looks extremely tall and slender, with perfect proportions. Wearing a few strands of pearl cuffs on her hands, if she were to go on vacation wearing a cute sun hat, it would be stunning! "This outfit is both cool and elegant, where are you going?" Shang Guan Yi kept chattering away.

  "Encore!"

  "Resident singer, you're going to a bar, it's not quite suitable for a singer!" Shangguan Yiyi got up from the ground, this girl has a bold personality, and is most suited to fashionable and sexy leather pants. This outfit is stylish and slightly restrained, suitable for a date at a bar.

  "Not going to a bar, going to Ximo's exhibition." Gu Xi replied with a cold smile.

  "Hey, can I talk to you about something?" Officer Yu saw her preparing to close the door and leave, but her rumbling stomach kept urging her to bring up the matter.

  "What?" Gu Xi had anticipated that her previous words were just a prelude and glared fiercely at Shangguan Yiy.

  "Give me 100 yuan, I haven't eaten yet, and I'll pay you back when Fang Jie gets back!" After saying that, her face turned bright red all the way to her ears. Another girl who came out together with them, also unemployed, but her stomach was growling loudly, couldn't bear it anymore.

  "Is this what you call discussing? Here! Stop saying 'Fang Jie' this and 'Fang Jie' that. She's suffering too, can't rely on her for a lifetime, handle it yourself, I'm leaving!" Gu Xi looked at her innocent eyes, which gradually became moist. Her expression was terrified, then she pulled out 100 yuan from her bag.?? CEO's First Love: Fang Jie, don't be too bad

  She couldn't help but sigh, if she didn't work, she would have dozens of dollars on her body. After closing the door, she sighed repeatedly, while Shangguan Yiyi stared blankly at the 100-yuan bill.

  "Money, money, my money! Never mind, I'll just order a KFC family bucket." Muttering to herself nonstop, she turned on the TV and happened to see news about someone winning the lottery. She started taking out her computer from the room to begin researching.

  An hour later, the knocking sound came again and again, very gentle. She got up with some doubt, "Who is it?" The moment she opened the door, she almost fainted.