Jiang You interjected, "Sis, doesn't he look a lot like the person you like? Why don't you have him accompany you on a few outings? It'll make that Yan Mingxuan furious."

"No need. From now on, he'll just be a star under your management. Don't get involved in my battleground; that's not his territory." Xu Linlang's own battleground is even more harsh and cruel.

"Sis, is that person you mentioned, the one who looks a lot like him, someone you like? Someone who can replace Yan Mingxuan in your heart?" Jiang You asked with some concern. Sister, once you enter the love-struck stage, it's terrifying.

"That person, even if he is someone I like, it's not romantic love. Besides, no one can replace anyone else. Everyone is an independent individual. Even if someone looks very similar, he is not the same person." Xu Linlang would never play the disgusting role-playing game.

Jing Ci whispered, "That person should be very nice."

"Yes, he's a good person, so good that he believes sincerity can fight evil. You're lucky to have a face like his. If it weren't for that face, I would have just glanced at you yesterday and wouldn't have noticed anything unusual about you. But just be yourself. If you need anything in the future, come to Jiang You. I don't have time to deal with your affairs."

Xu Linlang gave a concluding speech, saying that she had planned out the next ten years of her life, and that she really had no time left.

On Monday of the second week, Xu Linlang entered the branch's marketing department in a high-profile manner. She did not hide her identity. After all, she was not there to infiltrate and expose the dark side. She was there to understand the operational details. Her status as a young lady could save her from a lot of repetitive, complicated, and time-consuming work. She only chose to participate in areas that interested her. With her status as a foundation, no one would refuse her participation.

After a week at work, Xu Linlang didn't have her family staff deliver her lunch; instead, she went to a rather upscale restaurant by herself.

"Liu Qian? What are you doing here?" Xu Linlang asked the waiter in surprise. Shouldn't she be eating her lunch and preparing for her lunch break on a weekday? Is this much time enough for a part-time job? Besides, the original owner paid Liu Qian for surveillance work automatically every month, and she remembered that she hadn't canceled it.

"Sister Linlang? Why are you eating here?" Liu Qian was also surprised. This restaurant is located in an area with a high concentration of office workers. Although the prices are not cheap, its target customers are also white-collar workers in office buildings. Xu Linlang didn't need to make a special trip to eat here.

"Let me tell you first."

Liu Qian hesitated for a moment, and seeing that no one was paying attention to her, she lowered her body slightly while holding the menu and pretended to order, saying, "You haven't contacted Yan Mingxuan recently, have you? Even when you were abroad, you would take the time to send him messages every day. This is the first time you haven't contacted him for so long. I don't know where he heard the news, but he said that you recently used your status to suppress some big shots for a celebrity. He panicked and often appeared in front of me with Huang Yilan, but you still didn't show up. A few days ago, he asked my boss to find a reason to fire me."

The Liu family had heavy burdens, and she didn't have time to be angry or sad. Being fired from the Yan family's company tarnished her background check, and she couldn't wait any longer, so she had to find a simple waitress job to do first.

"Tch, what kind of brat did the Yan family raise?" Xu Linlang mocked mercilessly. "I've started working at a branch of the Xu family. Want to help me out?"

Xu Linlang sought her opinion, since from the outsiders' perspective, the young lady was just here to play at the grassroots level, and following her would only make her a follower forever.

"You went to work?"

"Liu Qian, how about changing your lifestyle? The income is high, but it will be very hard. You'll have to learn a lot and put in several times the effort of the average person."

"Are you going to do something big?" Liu Qian asked hesitantly.

"You're very perceptive. Are you going to place your bet on me?" Xu Linlang asked with a smile.

"Yes, I'll resign in a bit."

"Okay, tomorrow at nine o'clock, put on your business attire and wait for me on the first floor of the building across the street."

In an ordinary restaurant, Xu Linlang took on her first subordinate, a partner who would stay with her for life and accompany her to the top.

In the branch office's general secretariat, several secretaries watched as Xu Linlang led Liu Qian to the human resources department and began gossiping in hushed tones: "It's so good to know the young lady. Back in the day, we fought tooth and nail to get in, but she just casually said a few words and got in."

"Connections are more important than ability."

"If you ask me, it's all just fluff. The young lady is just here to kill time. Once she gets bored and stops coming, what matters most is whether she can establish herself in the company on her own."

"That's true. Can we really take the young lady everywhere she goes? What if she doesn't want to work anymore? We can't just assign her to be a personal assistant, can we?"

After Xu Linlang brought Liu Qian to the company, she said to the department manager, "This is my friend. Assign her some work, something practical and that she can learn something from, not some trivial tasks."

"Ms. Xu, I understand." The department manager replied with a smile. She had no dissatisfaction whatsoever. The only daughter of the group's general manager was here to experience life. She was not bossy or disruptive at work. She only listened to and participated in what interested her. She introduced her friends to work here because she wanted to learn something real. This was really not excessive at all. She was a new employee. What difference did it make who she taught?

After working in the department for a month, Xu Linlang felt she had gotten to know the department well enough and said she was tired of it and wanted to switch to another department.

Because of this, her adoptive father even called her and gave her a lecture.

"Xu Linlang, you've only been working here a few days, and you already want to change places? Is the company a place for you to play around? In your heart, is there nothing that can keep you going except men?"

"What's wrong with me having some fun? I don't go to work to earn money, I just want to kill time. Where else can I kill time?" Xu Linlang said nonchalantly.

"You, if you can go to this class, then go. If you can't, then go home and stay here. Don't keep running around the company."

"No way! If you stop me, I'll talk to Grandpa myself and see if he'll agree to my request," Xu Linlang threatened. Although the old man of the Xu family only saw male heirs as his own, he was good at pretending. On the surface, he doted on his granddaughter. As long as it didn't involve matters of principle, he would definitely agree. But her adoptive father was different. He was always scolded by the old man for not being smart enough, and he would instinctively protect his image, including this daughter, who was also included in his image management scope.

"Don't tell your grandfather. I can't bear the shame of you. Do whatever you want, but I'm warning you, don't disrupt normal work."

"Okay, Dad." Xu Linlang hung up the phone in a relaxed tone. She never wanted to disrupt work, and even now that she had discovered a drawback, she wouldn't say anything, but she would write it down in her little notebook.

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