”From your resume, you look excellent, our company is in great need of excellent talents like you.”
Hearing this, Lin Siya looked slightly relieved, the other party asked a few more questions, and she answered the other party with satisfaction, she became more confident of getting the job. In the end, both parties ended this interview happily.
She thought she would get an answer within three days, three days later, the company that interviewed her hadn’t contacted her, and she couldn’t help but dial the number to ask about the situation.
”I’m sorry, Miss Lin, our company is fully staffed, and as to why you weren’t hired, of course there is someone better suited for the job than you.”
After hanging up the phone, Lin Siya was a little frustrated and looked at the phone and smiled bitterly, it had been more than a year and someone still remembered her feud with Gu Yan. She didn’t believe that a company, in a short time, could find someone more suitable than her, for the other she didn’t have confidence, but on the resume, education, and work experience these, she still had confidence.
”Manager, that Miss Lin is excellent, the education, study abroad experience, or the few proposals she brought out, it’s exactly the kind of talent our company needs.” The HR person who had interviewed Lin Siya earlier was a bit puzzled, why did the manager asked her to refuse when she was obviously sure Lin Siya was the best. Honestly she felt a little pity in her heart, people with this kind of experience would rarely invest in their company, and with so many interviews, there was only one Lin Siya who made her very satisfied.
”Her name is Lin Siya, and she has a feud with the one from the Gu family,” the manager shook his head, “Gu family has already sent out a message to make Lin Siya unable to make it in this city, and I wouldn’t dare to use such a person no matter how good she is. If we offend that Gu family, our entire company will be finished.”
He couldn’t afford to gamble.
Lin Siya took several interviews in succession, the interviewer was very satisfied with Lin Siya, but each time she was told to go back and wait for news and nothing more. Lin Siya didn’t give up and dialed back one phone call at a time, getting similar answers, they have found someone more suitable. But when she was rejected by these company, she bit her lip with red teary eyes, what an excuse that they have found a more suitable person, obviously they were afraid of Gu Yan’s revenge.
In order to find a job, she even borrowed five thousand yuan from Yuan Xin, and her debt is getting bigger and bigger. A week has passed and she still hasn’t found a job. The rejection has once again, hit her self-confidence.
It was already dark when Lin Siya came out of a small noodle shop. It’s not far from the neighborhood, she couldn’t cook, she has been unable to afford to eat high class restaurant for so long, every day she could only come to this small noodle shop to eat some noodles, drink some congee in the morning.
She stepped on high heels, satchel, heavy steps, dragging her tired body, step by step to the location of her home. Looking at the lights around her, she looked a little confused, as if the city couldn’t accommodate her anymore, where should she go. Just when she wanted to pull herself together, no one was giving her a chance.
Lin Siya got to the entrance of the neighborhood and saw a familiar figure, who was wearing a leather jacket, leather pants, with burgundy hair, which was still very conspicuous in the dim light. This person was standing under the corner of the neighborhood entrance, leaning there lazily and casually, Lin Siya pursed her lips, what a coincidence, it was unlikely that the other person was waiting for her here.
”It’s late.” Ah Xin said, coming towards Lin Siya, “It’s dark, it’s not safe for a very pretty girl to be hanging out, come back earlier next time.”
Lin Siya gazed at the babbling woman in front of her, sniffled a bit, she felt warm, and asked, “Yuan Xin, you’re waiting for me here, right?”
”Yeah, I’m waiting for you.” Ah Xin was smiling, looking straight at Lin Siya, she looked at her a little bit warmer than the surrounding lights, warmer than the daylight, “You still owe me 6,220 yuan, as your creditor, it is necessary for me to make sure that you are safe.”
Lin Siya flattened her mouth, her expression became relaxed, walking quickly to Ah Xin, “I’ll pay it back, I’m just going to eat dinner, I won’t be wandering the streets.”
”Did you find a job?”
Lin Siya’s face fell and she shook her head, “No.”
“They say I’m good, but they just won’t hire me.” She lowered her head, “Yuan Xin, I offended someone, as long as he didn’t let go, but anyone who knows about my grudge against him won’t hire me, even if they hired me without knowing the truth, when they find out the truth, they won’t hesitate to let me go.”
”Yuan Xin, this city can’t accommodate me anymore.”
”After that day, I planned to pull myself together and live no matter what, but no one will give me a chance anymore.”
Lin Siya laughed bitterly, “Maybe only if I go inside the restaurant to wash the dishes and clean stuff, no one will reject me.” However that kind of life wasn’t what she wanted, she was unhappy, scrubbing plates and washing dishes… it was also a job, but she was afraid that one day she would become a person who was content and numb with earning a few thousand yuan a month to support herself to be able to survive in this city.
She cheered up because she still had breath in her heart, and… there was someone else telling her that she wasn’t abandoned by the world. If she can’t prove herself in this life, she might not be able to rest in peace until the day she dies.
Ah Xin gazed at the disheartened woman in front of her, her eyes narrowed and said, “My company is short of people, do you want to give it a try?”
”You started a company?” Lin Siya’s first reaction was, ‘Yuan Xin looks like she should be a big sister mafia boss who extorted money, right?… She actually owned a company? It’s incredible, talented people as bosses these days are indeed all kind of people.’
Ah Xin smiled and nodded, “A very small company will slowly get bigger in the future, making it the largest in the country is not impossible, you can still become a company senior if you join now.”
Lin Siya was amused, the other party’s words were as if they were bluffing a newly graduated college student. She wasn’t a recent graduate, and the other party wasn’t trying to fool her either.
”I… I really can?” She pursed her lips and said, “I’ve offended a very powerful man, and I can’t guarantee what they will do to you after I come to your office.”
”Since the man is very powerful, he must be very busy and has no time for such trivial matters.” Ah Xin spoke in a flat tone and asked again, “You were frustrated in your job search because of this person?” Of course Ah Xin knew, she just needed to confirm again.
“Well, any company that knows about my little feud with him won’t hire me.” She tugged at the corners of her mouth, “They’re all afraid of offending him.” After saying that, she looked at Ah Xin, “I don’t want to get you into trouble.”
“You also said that it’s those people who don’t want to offend him that tend to not hire you. Since he’s a powerful man, he won’t be idle enough to actively observe what you’re doing, and everyone you encountered were the people who wanted to please him.” Ah Xin’s smile faded, “I don’t need to please him or be afraid of him, so I ask if you want to join or not.”
Lin Siya looked at the face in front of her, which was covered by heavy makeup, and couldn’t see her original face clearly, but she still felt a sense of sincerity and encouragement, and at that time she didn’t even think about it, her voice was still a bit loud as she replied, “I’ll join, as long as you dare to use me, I’ll dare to join.”
Ah Xin laughed, “Then go home, go to bed early, you have to go to work tomorrow to confirm your position in the company.”
Lin Siya took a deep breath and followed the messy haired woman, trotting on her heels to catch up, walking by Ah Xin’s side, she swept her eyes over the big earring rings on Ah Xin’s ears and muttered in her heart, ‘I wonder what kind of company Yuan Xin runs, it shouldn’t be an extortion- ehm debt collection company, right?’
The next morning, Lin Siya woke up at seven o’ clock. She cleaned herself up, and remembered that she forgot to ask where Yuan Xin’s company was, and was about to call when there was a knock on her door.
She retrieved her phone and took a look outside through her cat’s eyes, a spiky haired woman was standing in front of her door, the corners of her mouth gently curled up, smiling, and her beautiful eyes seemed to have a bit of melancholy in them.
Lin Siya opened the door, smiling, “I was going to ask where your company is, Yuan Xin, are you here to take me to the office?”
”Mmm.” Ah Xin nodded and handed the soy milk and bun in her hand, as well as an egg, to Lin Siya, who was slightly startled and looked at the breakfast handed in the air, afraid that the other person would reach out for too long, and was a bit at a loss to take it.
“I can just go down and eat, no need to be bothered to do that.” Lin Siya was embarrassed, she sneaked a glance at Ah Xin and asked, “Have you eaten?”
”I have eaten.”
”Wait for me, I’ll go get my bag.”
Lin Siya squeezed the bag hard, didn’t put the breakfast down, flew in to get the bag, went out, and locked the door. They went downstairs together, and she was a little silent. When she was in school, her suitors used to buy breakfast for her.
Her first thought was that those boys were so ignorant, did they think they could chase someone by buying a few breakfasts? How naive.
Yet the feeling of being cared for this morning and that there was someone to remind her to eat breakfast and help her buy breakfast. The feeling of being taken care of, felt so good.
Lin Siya ate her bun and drank soy milk and slowly followed Ah Xin to the company building, and outside the company, she saw the name of the company: Huan Yuan Security LLC.
‘Not a debt collection company.’
The door of the company was open, and they walked in, could see eight computers on, and two male employees sitting in front of the computers, staring at the computer interface. Although the distance was still a bit far, Lin Siya could still see clearly that the small squares inside were all surveillance images of some stores.
Ah Xin brought her to the office, and when she finished her breakfast, most people from the company were here.
”Today, I’d like to introduce a new colleague to you all,” Ah Xin sat in the conference room seat, she smiled and looked at the somewhat apprehensive Lin Siya and spoke, “Lin Siya, from now on, you go to the marketing department with Xiaoyu.”